Monday's Announcements

GRADUATION SURVEY
All grade 12 homerooms have been provided with a link to an important survey regarding the location of this year's graduation. Please complete this survey by Wednesday for your response to be considered. Thank you!

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
Grads, the University of Guelph will be in the atrium at lunch today.  Check it out!

STUDENT CARD PHOTOS

Any student who has not been photographed for a student ID card. Lifetouch will be available at their studio on Saturday, November 16 between 10:00 am and 12:00pm. Students will be photographed on a first-come basis. Students are required to wear their uniform shirt. Lifetouch Studio is located at the University of Windsor in the CAW Student Centre Unit B-101. Phone number 519-561-1493  

FITNESS ROOM

Due to the staff meeting, the fitness room will be closed today after school.

BLOOD DRIVE

For all those that donated blood on Wednesday, your casual dress day will be this Friday, November 8. There will be a list posted outside of the Literacy office in the LCC, and you will receive a pass in your homeroom class. Thanks again for making the drive a success! 

SHAD

Gr. 10 and 11 students interested in learning more about SHAD.  There will be an information meeting in the conference room at 11:40 today. Please bring your lunch with you.

YMCA SUMMER YOUTH EXCHANGE 

Students, a representative from the YMCA Summer Youth Exchange will be in the atrium at lunch tomorrow.  This program provides opportunities for 16 and 17-year-olds to improve their second official language skills, and gain important employment experience through a work placement while on their exchange. For more information visit the information booth tomorrow at lunch.

CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to Jane Buckingham who competed at the OFSAA cross country provincial championship in Sudbury over the weekend. Although there was about 30 cm of snow on the ground, Jane ran a great race and finished in the top half of the 250 runners in her race. A reminder to all cross country runners to return their washed jerseys to Mr. Strong or Ms. Flynn. Also, if you ordered a long sleeve t-shirt please see Mr. Strong in room 205 before school to pick it up.

WRESTLING

Four of our wrestlers, along with 60 others from across Southwestern Ontario, had a really intense experience working with a multi Olympic and multi-world wrestling champion yesterday. It was awesome! We look forward to participating in more opportunities to learn from some of the best people this sport has to offer. A reminder that we are working out in the weight room today after school. Please be dressed and ready, and bring your student card to prove you have paid your school fees in order to participate.

SWIM TEAM

This message is for the new members of the St Joes Swim Team. Please see Miss Donais in room 254 at noon today for a very short meeting.

SENIOR BOYS BASKETBALL

Anyone who has signed up for the senior boy's basketball tryouts, please check your mytools2go email address for tryout information. The first tryout will be 7 AM on the date sent to your email. Please plan accordingly and do not miss your chance to try out. Any questions, please see Mr. Gebrael in room 262. 

SENIOR GIRLS BASKETBALL
Attention all members of the senior girls' basketball team: There is a mandatory meeting today at lunch in room 207. Attendance is required.

JUNIOR BOYS BASKETBALL

Would all junior boys interested in trying out for basketball meet with Coach Andheri This Friday Morning at 7:50am in the fitness room hallway.  This meeting will have information about the upcoming season and tryouts. The first tryout is scheduled for Monday Morning 7:15am.

FANDOMS UNITED CLUB

Attention all Fandoms club members - thanks for your efforts and participation in last week's Halloween event. This week there will be no Fandom meeting due to grade 8-day planning- be ready to share your original character stories and sketches next week - so reminder to all Fandom united people that there will be no meeting this Tuesday.

STUDENT COUNCIL

Attention all Student Council Members, permission forms for our upcoming Faith Day are now available in Campus Ministry. Please pick them up at lunch today. Please note, there are only 16 spots available, so be sure to return the completed forms to Mrs. Walls as soon as possible to secure your spot.

DANCE TEAM

A reminder for all choreographers to meet in the drama room during lunch today! For all grade 9 dancers interested in trying out for the dance team, auditions will take place Tuesday, Nov 5th after school on stage. Grade 10s, 11s, and 12s will audition next week. You will warm up and learn a combination to be auditioned in groups of 5. You will be asked to improve for 4 counts of 8 as part of your audition which you can prepare in advance. Once you have auditioned you are welcome to go home.  All dancers interested in auditioning must pick up an audition form to be filled out prior to auditioning. The Forms are by the drama room.