Updates

Students taking the entrance exam to enter the sizyem class (seventh grade) for the 2012/2013 school year, parents of the exam takers waiting patiently for their children on campus, Archbishop Guire Poulard with Deacon Moynihan and an altar server for the parish mission benediction Mass 

This weekend we took more steps toward the future.

First, we had the annual entrance exam for next year's incoming sizyem (seventh grade) class. This is a very exciting, high energy day. This year, we had 439 students take the exam:  229 girls and 210 boys.  From this group, we will choose 100 for personal interviews based on the exam results. From that 100, we will take 60.

Top Row: Staging for taking the Philo class pictures, Philo students leading clean-up and making good use of evening study hours.  Bottom Row: Philo students in an early morning meeting, in English class (reading 12 Angry Men) and having fun with their class picture

In the past few weeks, graduation for our Philo (Senior) students has kicked up some excitement on campus.

Perhaps one of the first tangible signs of the approaching graduation is the taking of the official Philo class pictures.

Thanks to Tom Brady and Camera Craft in Rockford, IL we are able to give our graduating class professional pictures of themselves and of their classmates wearing their caps and gowns as a graduating gift.  If you remember what a big deal your senior picture was when you graduated high school, it might give an inkling to how significant this gift is for our graduates. 

Photos 1 and 2: LCS Staff and Volunteers digging the new French Drains to help with the schools water maintenance.  Photo 3: One of the new planters for the continued beautification of campus.

Preventing water from pooling up after a heavy rainfall is nearly a daily task at this time of year.  Besides mud and yuck, pools of water are breeding grounds for mosquitoes. [Send us an email if you have a good explanation why God created mosquitoes?] So after each rainfall, we bring out our buckets and the school looks like the deck of a water-swamped ship.