Panther Press
February 6, 2022
ICCS Mission Statement:
PRINCIPAL'S CORNER
What a wonderful Catholic Schools Week it has been! Kicking off Monday with student appreciation day by celebrating our wonderful, unique, and vibrant student body certainly set the tone for the rest of the week. Our students are the reason why we do what we do and they are the reason behind everything we strive to accomplish. Tuesday we celebrated our cafeteria and custodial staff members with a hearty breakfast to get their morning started and snack bags to get them through the day. On Wednesday we celebrated you, our loyal parents, with thanks for your commit-MINT to ICCS with Mentos treats in carline. We appreciate your support and dedication to Catholic education and are so grateful for your choice in Catholic schools, ICCS! Today, we celebrated our unbelievable faculty and staff members with a special lunch and take-home dinners to feed their families after a long day at school that will continue into our Open House event this evening. Tomorrow, we will wrap up the week with Mass at the Cathedral and a half-day so that faculty and staff may continue working on our Cognia accreditation site visit, which is coming up soon in the Spring.
For families that may not know, ICCS representatives spoke before last weekend’s Masses at the Cathedral. I would like to share one from a faculty member, Suzy Solari, and one from a current 8th-grade student, Camille Zeringue. Please click the links below to read what they so beautifully delivered to our Cathedral parishioners.
Click HERE for the CSW Address from Suzy Solari, ICCS alumna and teacher
Click HERE for the CSW Address from Camille Zeringue, ICCS 8th Grader
Happy Catholic Schools Week!
Blair Moses Tadlock
ICCS Interim Principal
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ICCS
In celebration of Catholic Schools Week, we ask Jesus to watch over and protect all of the members of our ICCS community.
God, our Father and Creator,
We thank You for the gift of Catholic education and we ask Your blessing upon our ICCS community. Bless our priests, Father Rommel and Father Bond, who lead us in our faith and the teachings of the Church. Bless our teachers and staff who guide us in knowledge and faith and who work tirelessly to help us become the person God created us to be. Bless our students, who are the future of the Church, that they may use their gifts of knowledge, faith, and love to serve others. Bless our parents who have given support and witness to the importance of Catholic education and for the sacrifices they make in order for us to attend ICCS. Bless our cafeteria staff, cleaning crew, Cathedral staff and parishioners, alumni, and all those who support our school. Together as one community may we continue to build up your kingdom and be examples of Your love and truth to the world. Amen.
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Pray for us.
REMINDER: EARLY DISMISSAL TOMORROW
SCHOOL MASS TOMORROW AT CATHEDRAL
**REMINDER: Boys must wear pants and girls must wear jumpers or skirts to Mass.
OPEN HOUSE EVENT TONIGHT
If you and your family will be attending the Middle School Basketball games, please welcome our Open House guests and extend your hospitality while they are on our campus.
**ICCS parents and basketball team supporters are asked to please reserve the parking spaces in front of the school building (Ryan Street) for Open House guests on February 3, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
**All basketball players, coaches, parents, and fans must enter the Gym through the Park Avenue parking lot door. The front entrance of the school building will be utilized for Open House guests ONLY the evening of Thursday, February 3.
HEART NOTES FUNDRAISER COMING SOON
It's February! That means the very popular "Heart Notes" fundraiser is near. The ICCS Student Council members will be selling Heart Notes next Tuesday, February 8, and Thursday, February 10. Heart Notes are 25 cents each and can be purchased and sent to fellow ICCS students, as well as faculty and staff members. If your child is interested in purchasing Heart Notes next week, please send money to school with your student in a ziplock bag or envelope. Proceeds from this fundraiser will benefit the ICCS Student Council and the ICCS Progressions program.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This year, the Heart Notes purchasing process is a little different than in years past. Buyers will be limited to 12 Heart Note purchases per day in an effort to get the notes processed and delivered to recipients in a timely manner. For more information, please reach out to the ICCS Student Council sponsor, Mrs. Aimee Romano at aromano@iccsweb.com.
BOX TOPS LABELS DUE FEBRUARY 18
If you have any BOX TOPS for Education paper labels at home or at the office, please send them to school with your student in a ziplock bag before Friday, February 18. All paper labels will be submitted to the program at the end of the month.
USE THE CONVENIENT BOX TOPS APP EVERY TIME YOU SHOP!
Don't forget to download the easy-to-use BOX TOPS for Education App and scan your grocery store and household item receipts within 14 days of purchase. ICCS receives quarterly earnings checks from this program.
SPECIAL ATRIUM DONATION
8TH GRADE FUNDRAISER NEWS
The ICCS 8th Grade "Class of 2022" would like to thank everyone who supported their recent school-themed t-shirt fundraiser. Over $2,000 was raised and will be used to help cover 8th Grade "end of the year" party and class activity expenses. All t-shirt orders have been processed and will be sent home with students soon. For questions about your order, please contact ICCS 8th Grade parent, Jodi Schlang at jschlang@iccsweb.com.
BISHOP'S SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR FACTS ACCOUNT
Step-by-step instructions are provided below. Please call (337) 433-3497 if you have any questions.
Parent Login - Family Portal
Login (District Code: ICCS-LA)
From red menu, choose Family - Family Home
In the "Online Filing Cabinet" choose Family Demographic Form
Under Custodial Parents, update each Custodial Parent Form
ICCS PTO FUNDRAISER NEWS
PTO PANTHER RUN HUGE SUCCESS
We would like to extend a very special thank you to Race Director, Kelly Henderson for all of the time, thought and effort she put into the Panther Run event. The preliminary numbers are in. Over $20,000 was raised through this important ICCS PTO fundraiser thanks to Kelly's hard work and vision.
We are also extremely grateful for the supportive sponsors who helped make the fundraiser a huge success! Last but not least, thank you to the parent volunteers who "stepped up" to help with behind-the-scenes tasks, sponsorship solicitation, race day set up and clean up duties and so much more: Kathryn Blessington, Lauren Middleton, Kelly Serrano, Karlie Leonards, Brittany Brown, Lauren Mitchell, Chris Duhon, Emily McDaniel, Shane Foret, Jessica Liles, Kelly Hurt, Kathryn Bellow, Lauren & Brian Harrell, Patrick Tadlock, Tyler Henderson, Ryan Foret, and Lance Hurt.
Congratulations to the ICCS 3rd Grade students for having the most participation in the 1-Mile Color Run. The students got to throw color powder on Mrs. Tadlock following the race!
Click the link below to view scenes from the fundraiser or visit the ICCS Facebook page to browse through an array of race day photos.
AUCTION SPONSORS NEEDED
PEACE * LOVE * SPONSORS
The PTO Auction Committee is currently searching for sponsors for this year's big event. If you or your company are interested in supporting the 2022 PTO Dinner Auction, please contact Auction Chairpersons, Katie Devall and Kelly Serrano at iccsptoauction@gmail.com. A link to the official sponsorship form is provided below.
Thank you to the following businesses for officially signing on as sponsors of the 2022 ICCS PTO Auction this week:
JAM Custom Homes
Mudd Buchhaus & Keating, LLC
Christina Burleigh State Farm
PTO AUCTION GOLDEN TICKET DRAWING COMING SOON
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CLASSROOM AND SCHOOL NEWS
IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE....NO, IT'S JUST FATHER BOND
FRONT PAGE NEWS
100TH DAY OF SCHOOL COMING SOON
8TH GRADE BASKETBALL NIGHT
8th Grade Girls Basketball Game: 6:30 p.m.
8th Grade Boys Basketball Game: 7:30 p.m.
ICCS CAMPUS SCAVENGER HUNT
1ST GRADE RETREAT
8TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES FAIR
Over the past few months, our 8th Grade students have worked diligently on their Louisiana-themed Social Studies projects. The winners of the ICCS Social Studies Fair were announced Friday, January 28 during a special 8th Grade meal coordinated by Mr. Michael Higgins and donated by Tadlock Pipe in appreciation for all the time and effort the students put into their project. The following students have qualified to participate in the Region V Social Studies Fair at Burton Coliseum on Friday, February 25. Congratulations!
1st Place: Caroline Hankins
2nd Place: Rylee Keating
3rd Place: Madelyn Elliot
Honorable Mention: Noah Katoch, Owen Richert, Lizzie Austin, Grayson Hobgood, Natalie Obluda, Ava Borel, Julian Falcon, Joseph Devall, Cate Filo, A.J. Schlang, and Morgan Baron
SURPRISE APPRECIATION LUNCHEON
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK B-I-N-G-O
YEE-HAW
BEAUTIFUL ART WORK ON DISPLAY
SLC AMBASSADORS VISIT ICCS
THANK YOU CAFETERIA STAFF AND CUSTODIANS
BABY JOEY UPDATE
Kyndel and Timmy Heffer would like to thank the ICCS community for all the love, prayers, encouragement, and support they have received since Joey arrived. Please continue to pray for Joey's miraculous progress and healing in the weeks and months to come.
WELCOME TO ICCS
CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION NEWS
MORNING OF REFLECTION PLANNED FOR AREA MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
This inaugural event is sponsored by the Diocese of Lake Charles. The event is free of cost and will include Mass, talks by Father Ruben Buller, an opportunity for Confession, and time for conversation. All physicians, dentists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, EMTs, techs, healthcare administrators, and all other types of medical personnel are invited to participate.
Please RSVP by February 10 to marybenedicta.maier@lcdiocese.org.
DYC CONFERENCE MARCH 25-27
ATTENTION 8TH GRADE STUDENTS! DYC is the annual youth conference for high school teens and 8th graders hosted by the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry. It is a 3-day conference which includes live music, great skits, keynotes, teen witnesses, breakout sessions, Mass with our Bishop, Eucharistic Adoration & Benediction, confession, cajun dancing, a talent show, games and lots of fun and great food. Each day begins and ends with prayer and there is a prayer chapel with the blessed sacrament all weekend.
To register, log on to https://www.dolcyouth.org/events
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Email: kmorgan@iccsweb.com
Website: www.iccschool.org
Location: 1536 Ryan Street, Lake Charles, LA, USA
Phone: 337-433-3497
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