Poor air quality from California fire impacts students and faculty

Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter

November 15, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News

WEB EXCLUSIVE Due to the unhealthy air quality index in the Bay Area caused by smoke from the Camp Fire in Butte County, winter sports teams have had improvised workouts this week, and school will not be in session tomorrow. The Camp Fire, which began at 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 8 on Camp Creek Road in Butt...

Award-winning poet visits campus

Madeline Thiara, Reporter

November 13, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE Poet and author Rowan Ricardo Phillips spoke to Convent & Stuart Hall students and faculty today about his writing career and experience as a sports journalist. “My main focus in the talk was to discuss and think about the importance of words and how words can create a bridge to ...

High school students volunteer at polls

Caroline Thompson, Senior Reporter

November 7, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE Convent & Stuart Hall students volunteered at the polls yesterday to encourage youth involvement in midterm elections. “I decided to be a poll worker because I turned 18 four days before the election and I had never been politically active before,” senior Sophie Mack, who v...

Students and parents discuss community goals

Jordan Russell, Sports Editor

November 7, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE Students from all four divisions met with the Parents Association today in the reception room to discuss the Goals and Criteria of Sacred Heart education and spiritual engagement at Convent & Stuart Hall. “A lot of eighth graders, juniors, and seniors including myself were aske...

People of Color Student Union host race awareness assembly

Sophia Aeby, Video Editor

November 5, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE The People of Color Student Union hosted a Convent & Stuart Hall assembly around the theme “Raising Our Voices, Claiming Who We Are” to discuss issues surrounding race. The assembly began with an Espacio lead by POCSU members who were dressed in black and linking arms in a circl...

Varsity volleyball team advances to NCS Championship

Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter

November 2, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE With their 3-0 win against The Bay School of San Francisco on Wednesday Oct. 31 in the semifinals, the varsity volleyball team is advancing to play against Bentley High School in the NCS Championship and fans are encouraged to provide support by attending the game and bringing encouragi...

Community celebrates All Saints’ Day

Grace Krumplitsch, Reporter

November 1, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE Convent & Stuart Hall High School students gathered at St. Vincent de Paul Church today to celebrate All Saints’ Day, a feast honoring the saints of the Catholic Church. “Saints are ordinary people who lived ordinary lives in the most extraordinary ways,” Musical Director and Accompan...

Community celebrates Halloween with first coed costume contest

Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter

November 1, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, Slideshows

Honoring the oppressed

Laura Mogannam, Managing Editor

November 1, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News, Sacred Heart

“I realized in the middle of saying those names that these were the first times their names have been spoken in 170 years.”

Winter sports commence

Madeline Thiara, Reporter

October 30, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE While fall sports volleyball and cross-country continue into championships, athletes began winter sports season yesterday with tryouts and preseason for soccer, basketball and wrestling. “Soccer has been the most popular winter sport in past years,” Athletics Director Elena DeSantis sa...

Día de los Muertos chapel honors loved ones

Amy Phipps, Reporter

October 29, 2018

Filed under Breaking News, News, Web Exclusive

WEB EXCLUSIVE Students gathered in the Chapel today to celebrate the Mexican holiday — Día de los Muertos —  and to honor dead family members and loved ones. “It is a rich tradition, not only in Mexico, but in the United States and Latin America,” theology teacher Bryan Lorentz said. “T...

Freshmen are given off-campus lunch privilege

Grace Krumplitsch, Reporter

October 25, 2018

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WEB EXCLUSIVE After completing the first quarter of the school year, freshmen are now allowed off-campus lunch. “It is a really exciting next chapter for them,” Freshmen Grade Chair Allyson Maebert said. “They have spent the last few months getting to know each other in a cohort, and they h...