Jesuit education celebrates faith in personal and community prayer, worship and service. Prayer is an expression of faith and an effective way of establishing the personal relationship with God that leads to a commitment to serve others. Jesuit education offers a progressive initiation to prayer, following the example of our Lord Jesus Christ, who prayed regularly to His Father. All are encouraged to praise and thank God in prayer, to pray for one another within the school community, and to ask God’s help in meeting the needs of the larger human community.

2.    This Saturday, November 19, 2011, we will have two important activities to be done in school namely the Parents-Teachers’ Consultation Meetings (morning and afternoon) and the Sophomore Family Day which starts in the afternoon. Because of this, we will switch the usual schedules of year level Parents-Teachers’ Consultation Meetings  as follows:

•  From 7:45 A.M. to 11:45 A.M.:  Parents- Teachers’ Consultation Meetings for the second year and fourth year parents and subject teachers.
• In the afternoon, from 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. we will have the Parents-Teachers’   Consultation Meetings among the 1st and 3rd year parents and subject teachers.

              
All students are asked to tell their parents and guardians about this revision of the schedule. In addition, second Year class moderators who are also handling 1st or 3rd year classes must inform the parents of the freshmen or juniors under them to consult with  them in the morning (not in the afternoon) of Saturday, November, 19, 2011 because of the Sophomore Family Day activities in the afternoon.

3.    There will be a General Faculty Meeting on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 4:00 P.M., MPR.

4.    The LCLC Core Group will be conducting an overnight  Leadership and Spiritual Formation Workshop for all XUHS class and club presidents from November 18 , Friday to November 19, Saturday,  

5.    The schedule of the other meetings during the week is as follows:

a.    Monday, November 14, 2011

•  Meeting of the First Aid and Disaster Preparedness Team, 4 P.M. Conference Room 2

b.    Tuesday, November 15, 2011

• Meeting of the Budget Committee Members, 3 P.M. Conference Room 2
• Meeting of the Waste Management Volunteers’ Core Group, 12:10 P.M. 2nd Floor Lobby of the Blessed Faber Building.

c.    Wednesday, November 16, 2011

•  Meeting of all Budget Supervisors (Academic Department Heads, Heads of Offices and Activities-in-Charge), 4:00 P.M., AVR 1.

d.    Thursday, November 17, 2011

•  Meeting of the Principal’s Advisory Board (PAB), 9:30 A.M.PAASCU Room.
• General Faculty Meeting, 4:00 P.M., MPR

e.    Friday, November 18, 2011

•  Academic Council Meeting, 4:00 P.M., AVR 1

6.    This is our  schedule of other activities this week:

a.    Monday, November 14, 2011

• Glee Club Practice; also on Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 P.M.
• Medical-Dental Examination: 3-Pignatelli and 3-Gonzales; also on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
• IVAC Club Exhibit at the main lobby until Friday, Nov. 18, 2011
• MTAP Training c/o Math Department and Gaussian Circle – until Thursday, Nov. 17.
•  Debate Orientation for all 4th year debaters & representatives, 4:00-5:30 p.m., MPR
• Quiz Bowl Social Studies Competition, 1st year level, 2nd Floor Faber Building, 4:00-5:30 P.M.

b.    Tuesday, November 15, 2011

• Class Confession: 1-Kostka – the fifth period subject teacher is expected to stay with the class until the end of the subject period.
• Quiz Bowl Social Studies Competition, 2nd year level, 2nd Floor Faber Building, 4:00-5:30 P.M.

c.    Wednesday, November 16, 2011

• Class Recollection: 1-Kostka
• Medical-Dental Examination for 3-Pongcracz and 3-Garate – also on Thursday, Nov. 17.
• Promotions – c/o The Testing,-Admissions-&-Scholarships’ Office (TASO) - until Fri., Nov. 18.
• Quiz Bowl Social Studies Competition, 3rd year level, 2nd Floor Faber Building, 4:00-5:30 P.M.

d.    Thursday, November 17, 2011

• Class Confession: 3-Realino – the fifth period subject teacher is expected to stay with the class for the entire duration of the period.
• Quiz Bowl Social Studies Competition, 4th year level, 2nd Floor Faber Building, 4:00-5:30 P.M.

e.    Friday, November 18, 2011

• Overnight Recollection: 3-Realino – until Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011.
• Class Immersion, 3-Bobola – until Saturday, Nov. 19.
• Gaussian Math Concept Discussion c/o Gaussian Circle members and Math Faculty
• YCLC Overnight Activity – until Nov. 19, 2011.
• Debate Elimination for all 4th year representatives (the debate venue & time will be specified by the Social Studies teachers)

f.    Saturday, November 19, 2011

• Parents-Teachers’ Consultation Meetings (whole day)
• Second Year Level Family Day at the XUHS Covered Courts starting in the afternoon.
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7.    Based on the report from the Learning Resource Center (LRC) we congratulate the following classes for being the most frequent and outstanding users of the LRC from Nov. 5 to 11, 2011:

             Year Level                     Section                                        Homeroom Moderator
                  1st Year                    St John Berchmans                    Ms. Laila Puertos
                   2nd Year                  Fr. Pedro Arrupe                          Mrs. Anyl V. Dadole
                   3rd Year                   St. Roche Gonzales                   Ms. Anili Butcon
                   4th Year                   St. Thomas Garnet                     Ms. Genevieve Orque

8.    Congratulations to the following sections which observed the proper waste segregation for the period November 8-11, 2011:

First Year Level    :     Colombiere
Second year Level    :     Campion, dela Costa, Faber, Jerome, Pro
Third Year Level    :     Garate, Gonzales, Rubio
Fourth Year Level    :     Garnet, Hurtado, Jogues, Mayer, Regis, Sanvitores

We thank the class moderators of these classes for their close monitoring of the proper waste segregation procedure. This concerns falls within the thrust of our school as spelled out in the XUHS Mission-Vision.

9.    From the Prefect of Students’ Office: for the period November 7-11, 2011, the following classes need to remind their class members to follow the school’s code of conduct more consistently:

• 1-Loyola, Berchmans
•  2-Rodrigurez, Ricci
• 3-Pignatelli, Realino
• 4-Ogilvie, Regis

10.    English Language Alert !
   
New Words to be added in Your English Vocabulary List from Barron’s 1,100 Words You Need to Know.    
  
Last Week’s Words: First Week / 1st Day:    voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete
This Week (First Week, 2nd Day):

                               New Words:  paradox        realm       annals      compound        tinge

 It’s A Man’s World

How paradoxical that the world’s greatest chefs have all been men ! Cooking would clearly seem to be a field that lies exclusively within women’s realm, yet the annals of cookery are replete with masculine names: Savarin, Ritz, Larousse, and Diat. To compound the puzzle, there has rarely been a tinge of rumor or scandal casting doubts on the masculinity of these heroes of cuisine.  

paradox -    statement which at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true.
realm -  special field of something or someone; kingdom.
Annals - historical records
compound - to increase or add to
tinge - a trace, smattering, or slight degree.

Challenge: Fill-in the blanks with the new English word.

1)    His gloom was now ______ by the failing mark of his Geometry test.
2)    The ____ of sports are replete with the names of great black athletes.
3)    One of the ____ of American life is that though minority groups have suffered injustices, nowhere in the world have so many varied groups lived together so harmoniously.
4)    A ______of garlic is all that’s necessary in most recipes.
5)    The cruel king would not allow the prince to enter his _______ restricting him to the forest which abounded with wild animals.



Prepared by:
EMMANUEL G. GOMEZ
Asst Principal for Academic