Come find the treasure you have been waiting for!!!

Pass this date and time on to everyone you know.

Saturday, Aug. 21
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
At the Old Gym and Play Court areas in the center of campus, behind the Convent

Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon
4440 SW 148th Ave.
Beaverton, OR 97007

America Red Cross Blood Drive

Where: Valley Catholic Valiant Gym

When: Monday, June 7th 9am-2pm

Appointments are still available all day; walk-ins welcome.

To set up appointments or for further questions, call the high school office at (503) 644-3745 ir email Katie McAuliffe.

Danny Keagbine '08

This Saturday, Valley Catholic students have set up a fundraising concert for one of their own. This event is being held on Valley Catholic’s soccer field to support 2008 Alum Danny Keagbine and his battle with cancer.

The Beaverton Valley Times wrote two articles, one featuring Danny and his family, and another about the concert, the student organizers and the bands who are performing.

You can find the article: “Show of support fuels recovery” by Christina Lent here.

You can find the article: “High school rocks for a good cause” by Gail Park here.

“Groovin’ for a Cure” will be held from noon to 6 p.m. on the Valley Catholic High School soccer field on Saturday, May 15. Tickets are $6 a person.

The Valley Catholic School Board of Directors announced Tuesday, May 11 the appointment of Mr. Robert G. Weber as the school’s next President. He will assume his duties on July 16, 2010, succeeding Sr. Rita Watkins, SSMO, who is stepping down after eight years as President.

Mr. Weber comes to Valley Catholic from Blanchet Catholic School in Salem, Ore. serving students in grades 6-12. He has worked as the school’s Principal since 2000 and prior to that was its Vice Principal for three years.

The President of Valley Catholic is responsible for overseeing all management, fiscal, programmatic, and planning activities of the PreK-12 school. Mr. Weber will work closely with the school Board of Directors and supervise and support all school administrators. Major initiatives will be to strengthen the continuity of curriculum development across grade levels as well as to increase the visibility of Valley Catholic School in the Portland area.

Mr. Weber is not new to campus as he spent four years teaching and coaching at Valley Catholic High School from 1993-1997. Weber is a 1987 graduate of Central Catholic High School in Portland and holds a journalism degree from the University of Oregon. He also holds a master’s in teaching from Pacific University.
Read the rest of this entry »

Click here to see the Groundbreaking video and other great school moments on our Web channel www.valleycatholictv.com

Nearly 200 parents and friends of Valley Catholic and the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon attended the festive groundbreaking event for the new K-8 School Wednesday, May 5. The site where the school will be built was transformed into a Cinco de Mayo fiesta. Everyone gathered to eat, drink, celebrate and watch school representatives don hard hats and dig in the dirt with golden shovels.

VCES Principal Susan Friesen said, “You folks threw a fabulous party last night!!! Some of us are still shaking ourselves awake to the fact that it is really happening. Teachers are talking excitedly about having rooms that are actually big enough for 28 students per classroom, with sinks and more than just one or two outlets to boot, plus modern technology to assist us with our teaching.”

Students and teachers are excited that construction has begun as more space and newer facilities are a welcome change from being housed in the 1930s Convent and in portable buildings. Read the rest of this entry »

Valley Catholic High school students said goodbye to their beloved annex which has housed Physics and English classrooms for decades. With permission, the students went inside the building and were allowed to show their love for their classroom space and memorialize their old friend before its removal from the site of the new K-8 school. The “graffiti” happened on the inside of the structure so as much of the exterior wood as possible can be re-used and recycled.
Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to Valley Catholic’s phenomenal Information Technology Department, we have two live Web cams filming our construction site so that any time, day or night, you can tune in and watch the progress of the building. One camera faces the north end of the property and the other the east end.

While it will be interesting at any time to observe the activity, it will be especially noteworthy when major events happen such as the demolition of the annex, the felling of trees, and the raising of the walls on the actual building. The cameras are in real-time and will also make it possible for us to create a time-lapsed version of the K-8 School’s construction when the project is complete in the summer of 2011.

You can get to our Web cams any time from our home page at www.unitedwethrive.org. You can also see them here. Be sure to bookmark the site and visit often.

Tom Cleary, Valley Catholic School Board Chair and Senior Deputy District Attorney, received word that he has been accepted into the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Applied Leadership Network in Baltimore. He told campus administrators. “It was an honor to be nominated and considered with such a distinguished group of professionals from around the nation. I look forward to learning and working on issues of juvenile justice and child welfare at the national level.”

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization, dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States.

Tom expressed his gratitude, thoughts and prayers to his friends at Valley Catholic who encouraged him throughout the application process. Congratulations, Tom.

Thank you to everyone who came to “The Greatest Show on Earth” held April 17 in the Valiant Gym. The circus-themed evening drew 380 people in celebration of our PreK-12 school community. The evening successfully raised more than $255,000 for student programs.

Click here for a gallery of photos from the evening.

Join us for a legendary Concert and a free barbeque. On Thursday, May 13 at 7 p.m., the Yale Spizzwinks (?) will perform an hour-long concert in Valley Catholic’s auditorium. The Spizzwinks (?), all of whose members are Yale students, were America’s first undergraduate a cappella choir and are the oldest a cappella choir in the United States—they’ve been singing since 1913.

In the last year and a half, the Spizzwinks (?) have sung in Auckland, Bucharest, Fiji, Dublin, Cork, London, Oxford, Brussels, Istanbul, Alexandria, Cairo, Capetown, Port Elizabeth, Costa Rica, Melbourne, as well as dozens of American cities. This year they will sing not only at Valley Catholic but also in Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Brazil, Paraguay, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Burma, Malaysia, California, Nebraska, Missouri, and along the Eastern Seaboard.
Read the rest of this entry »