UPPER SCHOOL NEWS
Friday, January 21, 2005

The SFCS Middle and Upper School Campus will be transformed into the Shakespearean Era when 6th – 12th Grade students enjoy SFCS Renaissance Day on Friday, January 28! Students may wear Renaissance attire for the day. Costume ideas will be modeled in chapel on Wednesday, January 26. Students will dine on smoked turkey legs, corn on the cob, rolls, apple cake and ginger ale in the Upper School Cafeteria that will be transformed into a castle. 4th & 5th Grade students and parents are welcome, if they pre-order lunches. The cost of the meal will be $5.00. There will be no Papa Johns ordered on this day. After lunch, students will report to 4th period classes and will gather in the Gymnasium with their class.

The Shakespeare Competition will begin at 1:45 p.m. Competing students have studied, memorized, and will perform a monologue from one of Shakespeare’s plays and one of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The SFCS winner will advance to the local English-Speaking Union Branch Competition. The Branch Competition winner will receive a weekend of theatre, workshops and sightseeing in New York City. They will also win the opportunity to compete on stage. The National Competition winner will be awarded a summer course in Great Britain. Following the 30-minute competition, Upper School Drama students will perform a 30-minute, humorous Reduced Shakespeare play.

Following the play, students will enjoy a Shakespeare, word game played in a game show format. Judges will return with the results of the Shakespeare Competition at the end of the day.

All SFCS students in 6th – 8th Grades are invited to attend the annual Valentine’s Dance to be held on Saturday, February 5, from 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. The dance will feature a D.J., snacks and sweets and a soda bar. It will be held in the Multi-purpose Room of Building 300 on the Lower School Campus. Parents will be required to drop-off and pick-up students at the start and end of the dance. No student is allowed to leave the campus without adult supervision. The attire for this event is dressy casual for girls and collared shirts with khaki pants for the boys. NO jeans are allowed. Please adhere to the SFCS dress code. For more information on how parents can help, please contact: Patti Wilusz/8th Grade: 234-7573 Denise Vaughn/7th Grade: 268-9789 Donna Favors/ 6th Grade: 414-6857

Any senior who is interested in submitting a drawing for the Senior Class Day program, must do so before the deadline on Tuesday, February 1.

SFCS and Heritage Community Services are once again working together to educate students about the importance of abstaining from sexual activity outside of marriage. Students in the 7th Grade will learn about setting values and goals, important information on reproduction, critical news on STDs and they will take part in rewarding character building exercises. Classes are divided by gender and taught by an instructor of the same gender. Abstinence Education Classes will be held from 2:15 p.m. until 3:15 p.m. on the following days: Thursday, January 20 Monday, January 24 Wednesday, January 26 Friday, January 28 Tuesday, February l Character building classes will be held on the following days: Thursday, February 17 Thursday, February 24 Friday, March 4 Thursday, March 10 Friday, March 18

Thursday, February 17, and Friday, February 18, SFCS will be administering the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Career Test to all students in 11th and 12th Grades. The test will take place in the following classrooms from 10:05 a.m. until 11:35 a.m..

Thursday, February 17, B day
Seniors - Room 104
Juniors - Room 102

Friday, February 18, A day
Seniors - Room 104
Juniors - Room 112

This test is a nationally normed, multi-aptitude test offered to students in 11th – 12th Grades. Each year, it is given to over 750,000 students in approximately 14,000 high schools across the nation. The career exploration segment of the ASVAB Career Exploration Program is based on John R. Holland’s RIASEC Hexagon and his theory that people search for work environments with the same characteristics as their personalities. During this segment, students are shown how to relate their aptitudes, interests and values to over 400 civilian and military occupations. The test is administered at no cost to SFCS and test results are returned within fourteen days.

There will be a Fine Arts Festival Competition at St. Joseph’s Catholic School on Wednesday, February 2. SFCS students displaying artwork will need to be there by 5:00 p.m. A dinner and judging will take place from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m

Enjoy A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Performers at Greenville’s Warehouse Theatre are offering a special performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for SFCS students and teachers. See Drama teacher, Brenda Stephens if you would like to take part in this evening of theater on Thursday, January. 27, at 8:00 p.m. The cost is $8.00 per ticket. Tickets will sell out quickly and must be purchased through Brenda Stephens. She may be reached by calling 678-5175.

A gift of love has been given in your honor to Shannon Forest Christian School And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13.

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