FRIDAY FLYER Blessed Trinity Catholic School

February 3, 2017

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THANK YOU Parents, we thank you for your support of our Boosterthon fundraiser and our celebration of Catholic Schools Week. We appreciate all you do to support our school!

5 SE 17th Street | Ocala, FL 34471 Phone: (352) 622-5808 | Fax: (352) 622-1660

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IMPORTANT DATES

MIDDLE SCHOOL DANCE 6B and 6C – Please bring snacks

7B and 7C – Please bring drinks

8B and 8C – Please bring paper products

Admission is $3. We hope to see you there!

BT MORNING NEWS Did you know that parents can view our morning video news program? Tune in daily to follow all that’s happening here at Blessed Trinity School. https://vimeo.com/channels/btcn

CONGRATULATIONS We congratulate the following 2017-18 Trinity Catholic High School scholarship winners.

Art Band

Valerie Robertson - $3,000 Lucas Franco - $3,000

Bonnie Price - $1,000 Natalie Boring - $1,000

Valerie Lorenzo - $1,000 Jillian Whitler - $1,000

Annamaria Condon - $1,000

Congratulations to the following students that will be participating in the Regional Science Fair on Thursday, February 9th:

Sara Bouyounes Bryce Jarrell

Jennifer Blasko Miquel Toral

Natalie Boring Sarah Matychak

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Blessed Trinity School’s After Care program is looking for part- time help. If interested, please contact the school office at 622-5808 to obtain an application. EIG

IMPORTANT INFORMATION Coke Rewards Program is Changing

Thank you to all of the families who participated in the Coke Rewards Program. It has benefited our school in many ways.

The program will be changing soon. March 22 will be the last day that we can enter points into the current program. Therefore, please send in any and all points now as we are limited to the number of points that can be entered each week. Please continue to send in your points weekly until March 17. Codes can be found on Coke brand packages—check under the cap, inside the tear-off of 12 packs and inside the wrap of multi-packs. Products include all varieties of Sprite, Coke,

Barq’s, Minute Maid, Fanta, Fresca, Mr. Pibb, Fuze, Seagram’s and Mello Yello, Powerade and Disani water. Codes can only be used once. Please do not send in items if the codes have been previously entered. Remember to place the student full name, teacher name and class on the bags when submitting points. All family members are eligible to dress out so include any sibling names also.

We will plan a future dress out day after the program changes. Please remember only Coke products are eligible to earn a dress out day. Details will be available later.

If you donate your points through the Coke Rewards website, please email [email protected] with the number of points donated, student name, teacher name and class.

You may also email [email protected] with any questions. We will re-evaluate participation in the Coke Rewards program when the new program details are available.

Thanks for your participation in helping Blessed Trinity School earn cash.

8th Grade Parents – Baby Pictures Needed Thank you to all the parents who have submitted their child’s baby photo for the Graduation Slide Presentation. We still have not received photos for the following students:

Selaina Bojanowski Chase Colbert Tatiana Demcovich Maddison Folsom Robert Fox Casey Glorius Ashlyn Gray August Jasper Amelia LaValle Valerie Lorenzo Tanner Mims Victoria Ortiz John Penzel Mason Scroggie Francisco Tirado Grace White Carson York Amy Young

Low resolution photos cannot be used in the graduation presentation and I request that you please use the following guidelines when sending me your child’s baby photo:

 Student should be 0 – 18 months of age in photo  Photo resolution should be at least 640 X480 (the higher the better)  300 DPI Preferred (200 DPI Minimum)  Do not use your phone or tablet to take a photo of the photo  If you do not have a scanner, please send the photo in with your child. I will scan and return the photo the same day. o Please email me, [email protected], in advance if you choose to send the photo in with your child.

Annual Chili Dinner and Bake Sale The Sisters of Blessed Trinity are hosting their 10th annual chili dinner on Saturday, February 4th from 3-8pm. The dinner will be in the Parish Hall and is eat-in or take-out. Tickets will be sold at the door and are $7 for adults and $3 for children. The Sisters would like bake sale donations. Donations can be delivered to the Parish Hall on the day of the dinner.

Choir News Attention Elementary and Middle School Choir students: Choir practice is cancelled for Tuesday, February 7th. (Please mark your calendars) Elementary Choir will still lead the Mass on February 8th. We will resume practice for both choirs on Tuesday, February 14th. Thank you!

Mrs. Atkinson

Used Uniform Sale The last used uniform sale of the year will be held Sunday, February 12th from 10am to 1pm. The last day to turn in uniforms for credit is February 7th. Are you able to volunteer to help at the sale? Please contact Julie Cyrulinski at [email protected] or Amy Santa at [email protected].

French Boys’ Choir The French Boys’ Choir is “Bach!”

Mark your calendar for Les Moineaux, making a return appearance at Blessed Trinity on Wednesday, February 15th! More information to come. Please contact Liz if you would be interested in hosting at 352-629-8092 or [email protected].

TCHS Carnival This year’s Winter Carnival will be held February 23 – 26th. Students from Trinity Catholic will be at each Mass during the weekend of January 14th/15th selling pre-sale VIP armbands and raffle tickets. Pre-Sale armbands are $20 and can be used for any one day during the event. Raffle tickets are $1.00 each or 12 for $10. Prizes include $1,000 cash, $500 gas cards and several store and restaurant gift cards. Sponsorships still available. Please call Penny at 622-9025 ext. 5110 or visit our website at www.trinitycatholichs.org/carnival.

Red and White - Save the Date! Blessed Trinity Catholic School will celebrate our 25th annual Red & White Night Saturday, March 25th at the Ocala Hilton. Tickets are priced at $75 per person and invitations will be sent out in February. We are currently blessed trinity catholic school’s seeking sponsors for this special event. Sponsorship levels range from Red & White Night $800 to $5,000 and include seating for 8 people, along with various levels celebrating 25 years of recognition at the event and at our school. Please see our Facebook page for more information.

This time-honored tradition has served the needs of Blessed Trinity School in many ways. This year, we are focusing on raising funds to upgrade our classroom furniture and create a more inviting, and secure, school office. We thank you in advance for your support and look forward to seeing you there!

Blessed Trinity CD Ministry Have you taken the time to peruse the CD’s available for sale in the Church and School office? There are some wonderful Catholic resources available at a small cost. See the following sample below:

Formed.org Why do I need to confess my sins to a priest? I like to just go straight to Jesus in personal prayer. Is the Sacrament of Confession even found in the Bible? Dr. Scott Hahn give a great talk answering these question & much more: https://goo.gl/XmkXRO This talk is on Formed.org & BT parishioners can sign up using the code below if you have not already created a log in. FORMED.ORG access information 1. Go to Formed.org 2. Click "Sign up free using Parish Code"

3. Input your Email & the Parish Code: 6ed568

4. Put in your information & create Password etc. 5. You will be prompted to find a link in your email, that you can click on to log in for the first time 6. The next time you want to log in, you just go straight to Formed.org & use your email/password to log in (the parish code is not used every time, just the first time you log in.)

HELP NEEDED 6C Advisory has come up with a way to put the Leader in Me Habit 3 into action! Loving God by loving others is definitely putting first things first. Blessed Trinity is hosting an “After Christmas Clothes Drive”. You can participate by donating used clothes that are in good condition. The 6th grade will be collecting these clothes during the month of February and all donations will be taken to Brother’s Keeper. Thank you for your generosity!

Box Tops We are continuing our New Year campaign. The goals are 500 per class for grades 1-8 and 400 per class for kindergarten. The deadline for this campaign will be February 10th. Keep clipping for our school! Thank you.

BLESSED TRINITY EDGE Upcoming Edge Events

Saturday, 2/11 – February Edge Meeting, 6:30-9, Community Center

February Social and March Dates – TBA

Saturday 4/8-Sunday 4/9 – Edge Spring Lock-In, 5:45pm-8am at BT

BT ATHLETIC NEWS Track Season will begin next Monday, Feb 13 from 3:00-5:00 and is available for students in 5th-8th grade.

Basketball Tournaments begin Monday. Please check the Athletics link on the BT website for each team bracket.

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Habit 4: Think Win-Win Everyone makes mistakes, and no one expects us to be perfect. When we make a mistake, the best thing is to own up and apologize. When we practice Habit 4: Think Win-Win, we know that apologizing make the other person feel better. What’s amazing is that it makes us feel better too –Win-Win!

RE-ENROLLMENT FOR THE 2017-18 SCHOOL YEAR All families that wish to re-register their children for the new school year must complete the following;

1. All fees for the current year must be paid in full. 2. All Step-Up families must have completed their applications. 3. All Stewardship families must attend a Stewardship Verification Meeting. 4. All BT families must attend a Re-Enrollment Meeting.

Stewardship Verification Meetings Tuesday, February 7 – 6pm to 9pm Friday, February 10 – 8am to 12pm Saturday, February 11 – 9am to 12pm All Stewardship families will be receiving information from the Church regarding their Stewardship Verification meeting. All Stewardship families must attend a meeting to verify their time, talent, and treasure commitments for 2017. At this meeting, a member of the Stewardship Committee will sign each family’s stewardship card. Appointment times will be determined by the Stewardship Office. If you have any questions, please call Melinda at 629-8092, ext. 208.

Re-Enrollment Meetings Thursday, February 23 – 2pm Thursday, February 23 – 7pm Saturday, February 25 – 9am All meetings will take place in the Church. At these meetings, you will receive information about re- registering your student for the next year. Registration fees for the 2017-18 school year will be $530 for K-5th grade students and $680 for 6th-8th grade students. The annual Capital Depreciation Fee will be $75 per child. We look forward to seeing you at re-enrollment!