St.

Augustine Academy
130 South Wells Road Ventura California 93004 805-672-0411 Fax 805-672-2365 e-mail StAugAcad@juno.com

www.SaintAugustineAcademy.com
Board of Governors President Louise Warnert Secretary Robert R. Orellana, Esq. Treasurer Michael C. Collins Members Thomas Ellis Abel Montiel Jeff Schuberg Michael F. McLean, Ph.D.

October 28, 2011 St. Simon and Jude

Dear Students, Faculty, Parents and Families:

REPORT CARDS TODAY! Please sign and return.

As we enter into the final weeks before our Gala, WE NEED YOU! Considering all the prep time required, we need to finalize all Auction items, Sponsorships and Advertisements this week. Please, all hands on deck to help with:
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Headmaster Michael J. Van Hecke, M.Ed. 2.

Board of Advisors Mr. John W. Blewett Wanderer Forum Foundation Hon. Jeremiah Denton Former U.S. Senator Mr. Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. President Ave Maria University Dr. Ronald P. McArthur Co-founder Thomas Aquinas College Mr. Roy S. Rohter, S.F.O. Founder St. Augustine Academy Fr. Michael Scanlan, T.O.R. Chancellor Franciscan University Mr. James Stenson Educator and Author

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AUCTION ITEMS - Please bring in the items you have been able to procure for the silent auction we are still quite light on items and need more. WINE - Please bring in a bottle or two of nice wines for our popular Wine Table (which we build through many donations of a bottle or two here or there sometimes a case.) SPONSORSHIPS IF anybody can help sell a sponsorship to a friend/company, it would be really good for our bottom line we need to do this right away in order to prepare advertisement. (Color flyers in office.) PROGRAM ADVERTISEMENTS- we need to print the program ahead of time, so need more ads pronto. Please try to solicit businesses and friendswe need their artwork or business card this coming week.

THANK YOU, EVERYONE!

JOG-A-THON RESULTS. Top pledge earners: Roland Ferrier ($2754) Nicholas Van Hecke ($2045) Alicia OConnor ($723) Top pledge earners: Lower School Gabriella Decaen ($1087) Most Pledges: Anna Maria Masteller with 59 pledges! Lower School: Adam Enriquez Most Laps: Girls Regina Orellana and Lily Abbitt (LS); Boys Alvaro Barrera and Benny Schuberg (LS) Top Class Seniors with over $7,000! 100% Participation Class 6th grade.AGAIN!

TOTAL - $33,819! Wow!

FOCUS ON LEANRING - Weekly WCEA/WASC Chapter 2 Expected Schoolwide Learning Results: This chapter describes the expectation of the school what we expect our students to get from the program of studies, the environment and the esprit d cors of SAA. See the attached for the listing of our schools Mission Statement and Expected Schoolwide Learning Results the marching orders for all of us at the school. Oct. 28th Oct. 31st Nov. 1st Nov. 2nd-3rd Nov. 4th Nov. 5th Nov. 6th Report Cards Home in Blue Envelope All Saints Day Presentations and Celebration NOON DISMISSAL NO SCHOOL All Saints Holy Day Parent-Teacher Conferences from 3-5PM Early Dismissal Teacher In-ServiceREC DAY (Recreation) Roller Skating, See Flyer Pro-Life Swing Dance (High School) 6:00- 10:00PM End of Daylight Savings Time Fall Back One Hour Sun 2 AM (Saturday night)

FREE FOOD COUPONS! Enclosed is an End-of-Quarter Gift. (See us in the office if you did not get one for each child we have extra for siblings.) And thanks to Jack-in-the-Box and Red Brick Pizza! Thanks for the Flowers: We want to thank Mrs. Toth-Fejel for helping the 7th Grade Science Class decorate the little triangle adjacent the Senior Patio. It was originally designed by last years 7th graders, and will be maintained by the 7th grade science classes in perpetuity! AP Environmental Science If any students might be interested in beefing up their science resume by taking an AP Environmental Science class in a club format, to prepare for the AP Exam, please tell Miss Dillon. PRO-LIFE CLUB NEWS: Regional Mass for the UNBORN November 6th at 10:30 AM by Bishop Curry Santa Clara Parish, Oxnard. ALL ARE WELCOME. Pro-Life Swing Dance (High School), Nov. 5th 6:00- 10:00PM, SAA. Enclosures: Parent/Teacher Conference YOUR TIME (if you signed up or a teacher is requesting a conference), All Saints Day Party Flyer, November Calendar, Roller Skating Rec Day, Mission Statement Sheet Ora Pro Nobis: Let us remember to pray for one another. For a special intention. For Anita Ramirez, great aunt of the Sandoval girls, who is battling cancer. For the soul of Anne Bassette of St. Monica Academy (and her brother who died the day before of cancer) we also pray for consolation for her husband and all her children, as well as the St. Monica Community. Let us pray for the health of David Caviezel, and Tom McLaughlin. Finally, remember to pray for our country, our soldiers, and for all priests and religious, especially our Archbishop Jose Gomez and Holy Father, Benedict.

WEEKLY GALA UPDATE NOTE: Many wonderful items are starting to show up in the office keep em coming! Most importantly, please RETURN INVITATION REPLY CARDS ASAP so we can start our planning. And PLEASE spread the word to others we want this to be a real banner year for our event. We need SPONSORS and PROGRAM ADS, so help push those items to friends, businesses, etc. The forms can be found on the St. Augustine Website under the Events Section.

Post Office Box 4506 Ventura California 93007 805-672-0411 Fax 805-672-2365 e-mail staugacad@juno.com

Mission Statement
In fidelity to the truths of our Holy Catholic Church, the mission of Saint Augustine Academy is to assist parents in their duty of fostering within their children growth in the theological, intellectual, and moral virtues. We strive in every task to inculcate in our students the profound insight of Saint Augustine: You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.

Expected Schoolwide Learning Results

Saint Augustine Academy students grow in the theological, intellectual, and moral virtues, pursuing Heaven, the Truth, and the Good by becoming persons who:

THEOLOGICAL
Cultivate the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity 2. Know, defend, and live the Holy Catholic Faith 3. Frequent Mass, the Sacraments, and traditional Catholic devotions 4. Show reverence to God and His Creation
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INTELLECTUAL
1. Attain the tools of life-long learning: the liberal arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric 2. Seek to understand what is true, desire what is good, and love what is beautiful 3. Explore the splendors of Creation through the precision of empirical science and mathematics 4. Examine, from a Christocentric perspective, human nature in history and in the master works of literature

MORAL
1. Form and inform a correct and Catholic conscience so as to better delight in the things one ought to delight in and to shun the things one ought to shun 2. Grow in virtue, which is the fruit and seed of morally good acts, making possible selfmastery, ease, and joy in leading a morally good life 3. Contribute to the common good of civil society by accepting the duties of citizenship, promoting the dignity and sanctity of all persons inherent in an authentic Culture of Life, and exercising stewardship over the natural world 4. Recognize the resounding call to life-long conversion of heart, thereby engendering compassion and forgiveness for our fellow man

Lower School Version

THEOLOGICAL
1. Live our baptism 2. 3. Live our Catholic Faith Pray

INTELLECTUAL
1. Are learners 2. Seek the true, the good, and the beautiful 3. 4. Explore Creation Study foundational stories

MORAL
1. 2. 3. 4. Form our consciences well Grow in virtue Are good citizens Convert our hearts

4. Are reverent

Post Office Box 4506 Ventura California 93007 805-672-0411 Fax 805-672-2365 e-mail staugacad@juno.com