Stuart Hall High School | April 18

A Message from Convent & Stuart Hall

Welcome to another edition of Thursday Notes. Please find important school news and event information below.

Calendar

Please view the school calendar for the most up-to-date information about all school events. 

April
20 Miller’s Mile
25 IB Testing Begins
25–26 Gr. 6–12 Musical: Matilda, 6 p.m.
26 Visual Arts Exhibition Begins
27 Gr. 6–12 Musical: Matilda, 2 p.m.

May
2 Art Open House, 4–6 p.m.
6 AP Testing Begins
6 Instrumental Concert, 6 p.m.
8 Vocal & Dance Concert, 6 p.m.
14–15 Gr. 5–12 Book Fair, 8 a.m.–4 p.m.
17 Gr. 12 Last Day of Classes
18 Student Athlete Awards Ceremony, 3–6 p.m.
20 Senior Week Begins
22 Baccalaureate Mass, 5–6:30 p.m.
23 Commencement, 3 p.m.
27 Memorial Day: No Classes

Parent Community News

7th Annual Latin Lecture – Thank You for Joining Us: Thank you to everyone who joined us on Tuesday for this year’s fantastic Latin Lecture, “Disability and The Odyssey: Human Bodies, Heroic Minds,” with Professor Joel Christensen.

Miller’s Mile Is This Saturday, April 22 at 9 a.m – No RSVP Required! Join us for the 54th running of the Miller’s Mile race. This annual fun run on the Marina Green brings together K–12 students, teachers, parents, alumni, grandparents and family pets. Online sales for T-shirts have ended. Please visit the T-shirt sale table at the front of the Flood Mansion tomorrow, April 19, from 8–8:30 a.m. for in-person purchases while supplies last, and to pick up T-shirts ordered online.

Heart of Art Festival: Convent & Stuart Hall families are invited to attend the 4th annual Heart of Art Festival on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. on our Broadway campus. This interactive community art celebration will feature a variety of art-making activities, including art and theater workshops, face painting, games and performances, all accompanied by warm beverages and healthy treats! This year's Festival will serve as the  K–4 Spring Art Reception. Learn more and register here.

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Student Activities
Contributors: Mike Buckley and Paul Pryor Lorentz, High School Chairs of Community Life

Thank you to the student leaders and faculty members who made the prom last weekend such a memorable event. The lion’s share of the planning and execution for these types of social activities falls to the student government, especially the executive committee. (The student government consists of the executive committee of four officers from each division and a council of community representatives, each of which stands in for a key constituency within the school.) Our executive officers worked overtime scouting possible venues in person, negotiating with potential contractors, and ultimately designing the experience for their classmates. The positive energy and enthusiasm of the students in attendance spoke to the success of all this planning. Nearly every single junior or senior in our student body attended the prom, which also points to the camaraderie and fellowship in those classes. This is the second-to-last of the landmark social events on our typical calendar, the final one being congé. Sacred Heart schools all around the world surprise their students with a day of play once each year. Convent & Stuart Hall students are savvy enough to expect congé to fall in the spring (when the weather is most likely to cooperate), and the campus is buzzing with a great deal of speculation about when the day might arrive.

Parents of seniors, our students are committed to completing at least a hundred hours of community service in their four years at Convent & Stuart Hall. Mr. Buckley and Mr. PL (your correspondents) have been reaching out to those students who haven’t quite crossed that threshold. If your senior needs inspiration, guidance, or help of any kind in completing that important work, encourage them to check in as soon as possible with one of us.