Wednesday's Announcements

NYC TRIP
The Social Science department is planning a senior trip to New York City for the next school year. If you are a grade 10 or 11 student and have already or are planning on taking a senior social science course, you are eligible for this trip. There will be an information meeting this Thursday at lunch in room 257. Space is limited, so if you are interested, please make sure to attend this important meeting. 

LASER LIPSYNC
Interested groups are to sign up on the sheets posted on the door to Rm. 253. Auditions will be taking place this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at lunch in Rm. 253.

UNITED FANDOMS CLUB

Reminder to fans of Otaku - that is anime and manga art styles - that a meeting regarding the STJ Otaku night, May 31st, is happening at lunch today in room 217

Also note that the Harvest Moon lip sync crew will be practising on stage during lunch tomorrow

SCHOLARSHIPS

Grads, with the school year quickly coming to an end, ScholarTree.ca has made a concerted effort to add as many scholarships to the platform as possible. In the last month, they have added 41 scholarships with a total value of $1,095,000. (one million and ninety-five thousand dollars).

Most of the deadline of these awards are in May and June, so there is still time for students who have put off applying to scholarships throughout the school year.  If interested, please complete a scholarship profile on ScholarTree.ca.

SHARE THE JOURNEY

Laser don’t forget to bring your toonies for Share the Journey. Collections will take place during period 4 thanks to Mr Gilberts Business Leadership class. Let’s all help put an end to the refugee crisis.

GRAD DISCLOSURE FORM
Graduates are reminded to please fill out the DISCLOSURE form on the graduation website. This is in addition to the information form that you filled in when paying your fee earlier this year. This will indicate what your plans are next year, and this will be read when you walk the stage. Please see Ms. Flynn or Mr. Hind with any questions about this.

STUDENT COUNCIL

All Student Council Members are reminded of our important meeting after school today. 

SENIOR GIRLS SOCCER

The senior girls soccer team lost last night to a very strong St Annes team in the quarter finals. Special mention to Miranda Iacoboni on outstanding goal tending as well as to the entire defensive team. Best wishes to our graduating seniors, Zoe Kepran, Taylor Ryan, Nicole Stenger, Katie McAnally and Harper Medved. You will be missed greatly next year and we want to thank you for your years of leadership and dedication to the team. Reminder to please return your washed uniforms to Mrs Mooney asap.

3 ON 3 LUNCH BASKETBALL

Attention Laser lunch ballers!

Today at lunch comes the battle we've been waiting for! The 3 on 3 junior tourney final will feature Eloi Ninganzi, Christian McBride, Ali Al Mousawi, and Chris Paul vs Jairus Mugenzi, Lance Calit, and Anthony Ivanovski. It should be a good one!!!

Also a heads up to seniors that we are supposed to start tomorrow...but SEVERAL teams still owe registration fees! Get money in to Mr Fuerth or Mr Gebrael ASAP.

WECSSAA

Day 1 results from WECSSAA track and field brought some great results for your Laser athletes! Several personal bests were achieved and your classmates are representing your school very well! Already earning their spot in next week’s SWOSSAA meet on the track are: Kathryn Rosete, Levi Johnson, Daniel Pahuyo, Vicky Mulumba, the junior girls relay team of Averie Burton, Hailey Meloche, Sophia Sladic, and Kathryn Rosete, and the junior boys relay team of Levi Johnson, Raffi Lavilla, Josh Maadi, and Daniel Pahuyo, plus our lone event champion Nicole Larue who defended her title in the 1500m race.

In the field events advancing to SWOSSAA so far are: Jasmyn Myers, Jon Lariviere, Alessia Bozzi, Oleyo Gobi, and Valentina Di Pietro.

More results to come today and tomorrow!!!

FRENCH IMMERSION HOODIES

Hey French Immersion students!  Would you like a St. Joseph French Immersion hoodie?  It is light grey with white lettering and a yellow logo.  The cost is only $30!  You can order yours cash online or if you cannot do cash online, you can pay $30 cash to Mme McKinnon in the Conference Room.  Don't wait too long, you have until Friday this week! 

GRAD DISCLOSURE

Graduates are reminded to please fill out the DISCLOSURE form on the graduation website. This is in addition to the information form that you filled in when paying your fee earlier this year. This will indicate what your plans are next year, and this will be read when you walk the stage. Please see Ms. Flynn or Mr. Hind with any questions about this. 

BOYS BASEBALL
Your boys baseball team finished their regular season with a win yesterday, beating the Sandwich Sabres 9-3. Stellar defense, eagle eyes and timely hitting allowed for a great late inning push.
With this win, your Lasers were able to leapfrog three teams and finish with the 7th seed in Tier 1.
Their next game is a play-down game,  aka Wild Card game, tomorrow against Belle River at 3pm.
The game is in Belle River so please dismiss the boys at 1:30.
Let's pray it stays sunny!

Black Student Cultural Club
To all black student cultural club members, there will be a meeting today in room 258 at lunch. We will be collecting money for club sweaters starting today until the end of the week and all of next week as well. If you cannot attend today’s meeting, please let Tina or Mariam know.