Lumen News – February 3rd, 2002

Important Upcoming Dates:

Feb 4: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 7-11: Spirit Week (themes below)
Feb 11: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 12: There’s No Place Like Home ~ Fundraising Gala!
Feb 14: Valentine’s Day Theme Day (wear red, white, pink or hearts)
Feb 15: Lumen Spirit Wear Day
Feb 16: P/T Conferences (2:30-5pm)
Feb 17: P/T Conferences (4-7pm)
Feb 18: Inservice Day (No School)
Feb 21: President’s Day Holiday (No School)
Feb 18-20: 10th Grade retreat @ St. Therese’s Camp (St. Ben’s Winter Retreat) Feb 24: Lumen Spirit Wear Day (HS BB Senior Night vs BCS)
Feb 25: All School Mass at 7:45am
Mar 2: Ash Wednesday Mass at 7:45am
Mar 3: Synod Parent-Teacher Session, 6:30-8:30pm (sign up below)
Mar 3-5: BB Regions @ Lumen
Mar 4: Inservice (No School–start of Spring Break)
Mar 14: Return from Spring Break
Mar 16-19: BB State Championships
Apr 15: Good Friday (No School)
Apr 17: Easter Sunday! CHRIST IS RISEN!
Apr 18: Easter Monday (No School)
Apr 23: Spring Speaker Series
Apr 29: Last School Mass with Seniors @ 7:45am
Apr 30: High School Prom
May 4: Class of 2022 Baccalaureate Mass, 7pm
May 5: Class of 2022 Graduation Ceremony, 7pm
May 17-19: Finals
May 19: Last Day of Classes

Principal’s Update:

Thank you to all who joined us Tuesday evening for our 6th Annual State of the School. I apologize for the audio if you tuned in to the livestream on Facebook. We had it all set up to go beforehand and then, as technology is apt to do, it failed at the last minute. We have added the slide deck to our school website for your further review here:https://lumenchristiak.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Lumen-Christi-State-of-the-School-2022-1.pdf

For those not able to attend in person or virtually, we introduced our illustrious School Board and our parish and school staff. We reviewed our foundational documents, including our mission statement, our vision and Core Values, and our six Attributes of a Lumen Graduate. We highlighted some of the great things we have done over the past year, including a 30% increase in enrollment and strong performance by our Class of 2022 on the PSAT and SAT despite the challenges of COVID. While other schools and districts are discussing “learning loss” from online learning or lockdowns, we celebrated the learning and development accomplishments of our students. Four members of our Class of 2022 spoke about their experiences taking college classes while in high school, winning a state basketball championship and playing football for Dimond, participating in our Student Leadership Board and our rifle program, and working on critical thinking and speaking skills in our Senior Bioethics Seminar and debate program. Joshua, Brenden, Frankie and Jack, as well as the other 12 members of the Class of 2022, continue to make us proud and showcase the awesome things happening here at Lumen.

We celebrated and recognized our newest “And Then Some” Award recipient, Class of 2024 sophomore Kennedy Thimsen, who goes above and beyond to make Lumen a special place to be each day. We recognized the great accomplishments of our National Honor Society chapter and Mrs Loeffler’s tremendous work in faith formation through our active Campus Ministry program. We thanked all those who helped us achieve 108% of our goal through the LUMENary Drive last fall and our Director of Advancement, Anne Gore, provided an update on our annual Gala scheduled for Saturday, Feb 12th as well.

We ended the evening by highlighting where we are going in the future. I encourage you to review some of the things we are still planning on doing, including our COGNIA reaccreditation review on March 30-Apr 1, our math curriculum review scheduled for Apr-May, and the soon to be announced School Crest competition.

I covered a lot of ground in an hour on Tuesday and I know I left many things out. We just have so many good news stories here at Lumen to sing from the mountain tops. I hope you take time to review the slide deck and take pride in your school. I’m happy to follow up with any questions you may have.

We pray for victory, good sportsmanship, and safe travels for our high school basketball teams competing in Nenana this weekend as well as our middle school volleyball teams who will compete in a jamboree here at Lumen on Friday. May you have a wonderful weekend! God bless!

Campus Ministry:

The monthly theme for February is LOVE FOR NEIGHBOR. Below are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of Love for Neighbor at home: https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Love%20for%20Neighbor%20Parent%20P DF%202.pdf

• Join us February 4th (ton orrow) in classroom 107 between 6 and 7 p.m. to make sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter. Students have made almost 700 so far!
• Legion of Mary meets each Monday during 7th hour in room 120.
• Our 10th grade retreat is February 18-19.
• All Students are invited to the St. Benedict Winter Retreat February 18-19.
• St. Benedict Youth nights are Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. All are welcome!
• Each week our sports teams celebrate Mass together. Parents are invited! Each sports Mass is at 7 a.m. in St. Benedict Church. Schedule is as follows:
  • ○  Basketball: Wednesday, February 9
  • ○  Riflery: Thursday February, 10
  • ○  Volleyball: Wednesday, February 16

○  Riflery: Thursday, February 17

Last Friday students made 285 Sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter!! Thank you for all your donations; please keep sending meat, sliced cheese, and bread.

Front Office News:

TICK TOCK! NINE DAYS and COUNTING!

This coming Monday, things start to roll out and by next Saturday when we go live, we’ll be full steam ahead!

**REMINDERS**

**If you want to pre-order a meal from our community partner Bridge Seafood Restaurant, those orders are due this Saturday at noon! Don’t miss out on the chance to have dinner made for you on the night of the event. Head Chef Patrick Hoogerhyde will be on hand to help distribute meals if you have any questions about them.

**Set your alarms for 6:45p on the night of the event, that’s when the pre-show starts and when you can start registering for or whiz-bang fantastic door prizes!

**At last check there were 2 AK Airline Raffle Tickets left for sale but still lots of the (just released yesterday) “$250 worth of Gala-Cash” ones. Get’em while you can!

**Register here to do darn near everything! Purchase meals, buy raffle tickets, starting next week view and bid on items: https://lchsak2022.ggo.bid

Finally: Below is the schedule for next week, stay tuned on Facebook for more information as we’ll be pushing out news there every day. Oh – and curious about 2/10 – “Archangel Select”? All class projects and high end items fall into this category. Oooooh so fancy!

Spirit Week (Feb 7-11)

The Student Leadership Board has voted on holding a Spirit Week for the week of Feb 7-11 to show spirit for our upcoming Gala as well as the high school basketball tournament in Su-Valley (Feb 10-12) and the middle school volleyball jamboree on Feb 11. Theme days are:

Wonderfully Made: God’s Unique Gift of Femininity

National Honor Society (NHS)

Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe

The National Honor Society is organizing a “Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe” running January 24th- February 4th. Essential items will be collected by grade and boxes of these necessities will be assembled and delivered to Beans Cafe to help during the winter months. Students who donate the following items to their advisories will receive a spirit day and the grade with the highest percent participation will receive an ice cream party:

The Postal Service is delivering one shipment of 4 COVID tests per residential address. Enter your name, address and email at www.usps.com/covidtest. Note that we also have a robust supply at the school right now, so if you need some before your supply shows up in the mail, don’t hesitate to ask!

Come Support Two of Our Lumen Students!

On February 10,11,12, 18 and 19 Dimond High School Theatre will be presenting a musical based on The Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Kateri and Vincent’s Everard will be participating in this drama production! See flyer below for more information:

Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities

Synod Parent-Teacher Session

https://signup.com/go/tOhJQOF

Archangel Attic

http://rmd.me/K35tQofj0Vf