(*) Indicates new information

*The last day to purchase guest tickets for the homecoming dance is today. They can be purchased after school in room 133 until 4:00 p.m. Thursday, September 22 during lunches is the last day for FHN students to purchase a ticket to the dance. Tickets will not be sold on Friday and are not sold at the door. 9/22 Kearns

*All mentors need to report to their assigned Freshman Homeroom period on 9/21 for the topic of “Choices.” Please report to your assigned homeroom, take attendance and then proceed to your assigned area. Thanks. 9/21 Warner

*BOYS OF FALL HOMECOMING T-SHIRTS – ORDER PICK UP

If you ordered a Boys of Fall t-shirt, please pick your order up during lunch in the snack hallway. Orders will be available to pick up starting Tuesday, September 20. If you have questions about your order, please call Kelley Hurrell – 314 239-3716 or email [email protected] 9/22 Hurrell

Homecoming ticket sales dates (remember all fines must be paid to purchase a ticket)

Sept. 12-22 Regular Sales ($20) only for North Students @ all lunches

Sept. 19-20 Guest Ticket Sales ($20) before and after school in room 133.

Guest forms for the Homecoming Dance are now available in the main office and in the Stuco hall. They must me complete by today until 4:00 p.m. in room 133. Guest tickets can only purchased from Mrs. Wilkens or Mrs. Grimshaw . 9/20 Wilkens

*Our last day for Pictures is Tuesday, September 20. Pictures are taken for free for student IDs and the yearbook. All students are required to have a student ID. Herff Jones provides one free ID when you have your picture taken. If you did not have your picture taken during schedule pick-up or on our first make-up day on August 24 your last opportunity will be September 20. Please sign up in the main office to have your picture taken. Students who require a re-take because the pictures they purchased are bad can have their picture re-taken on this date also. You must turn in your old picture packet to the main office when you sign up for re-takes. Students please remember – you will not be called out of class to have your picture taken. You must go to class for attendance purposes and let your teacher know you are on the picture make-up list. Teachers will let you know what time you may go to the Auditorium. We will not be interrupting classes to remind students/staff each hour. Please remember your designated hour – Last names A to G 1st hour, H to M 2nd hour, N to R 3rd hour, and S to Z 4th hour. Only those students who have signed up will be allowed to go to the Auditorium. Any questions, see Mrs. Kearns in the main office. Picture packet order forms are also available in the main office. 9/20 Kearns

*Powder Puff Football Game – tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $3 for everyone. Because this is a fundraiser for Knights of Excellence we DO NOT accept sports passes, employee passes or Activity Passes/punch cards. 9/21 Kearns

*Buffalo Wild Wings Bracket Challenge

FHN Knightpride band has been selected to participate in the Buffalo Wild Wings Spirit Bracket Challenge sponsored by Cornbread and WIL93.2 FM.We need to get as many friends, family, old band families, etc out to the BBW St. Charles location this Wednesday 4-10pm to eat! We get 10% of the proceeeds and if we beat our first challenger, we will advance to the next round. Let’s go celebrate our wins the past 2 weekends!!In the first week of competition, FHN is up against Twillman Elementary School (St. Charles). Come out and show your FHN and FHSD spirt!!!Please print out and bring this flyer with you to Buffalo Wild Wings to be counted in the challenge.

The store where we are competing is located here:

Phone: 636-916-5353

1465 Bass Pro Drive

St. Charles, MO 63301-2467

Please tell your friends and family and join us at Buffalo Wild Wings tomorrow. 9/21 Moorman

*Student IDs from the picture make-up day are now available. Please stop by the main office to pick them up. You will need these for the football game Friday night if you have a sports pass and you will also need them if you are going to the Homecoming dance on Saturday night. 9/23 Kearns

 Freshmen Delegates – We will be meeting every day after school from now until homecoming. Even if you can’t come every day, just come as much as you can. We need as much help as we can get! Room 135. 9/23 Fingers

*Next week is Banned Books Week. We’ll celebrate freedom to read with a trivia question each day of the week in the library. Watch the announcements for each day’s question about a once-banned book, come to the library and answer the question correctly, and you could win a fabulous prize! There will be a prize each day, and all participants will be included in a drawing at the end of the week for a grand prize! 9/23 Gunnell

Sophomore Delegates – We will be meeting every day after school from now until homecoming. We need as many people as possible to make this hallway happen, so even if you can’t come every day, come when ever you can! Room 135. 9/23 Fingers

*Help Francis Howell North become one of 18 to share $1 million

U.S. Cellular is having a contest to help drive traffic into their stores. Beginning today, please go into a U.S. Cellular store to receive a voting code. Once you have received your voting code, go online daily to vote for Francis Howell North.The schools with the most votes will win $150,000 and the next 17 schools with the most votes will each win $50,000.We know that Francis Howell North has the best school spirit year after year. Help FHN be a part of the winnings. Please pass this information along to your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers. The U.S. Cellular flyer can be found here. Visit your local U.S. Cellular store or use http://uscellular.com to learn more.

Store locations near the school include:

U.S. Cellular – Mid Rivers

9001 Mid Rivers Mall

St. Peters, MO 63376

636-278-2445

U.S Cellular – Veterans & Mexico

3825 Veterans Memorial Parkway

St. Peters, MO 63376

636-922-3871

U.S. Cellular – Cottleville

6091 Mid Rivers Mall Drive

St. Peters, MO 63304

636-447-1394

U.S. Cellular – Mark Twain Mall

1457 Bass Pro Drive

St. Charles, MO 63301

636-474-0271

10/6 Jones

Seniors – don’t forget to go online to ezportraits.com to look at your senior pictures and choose your senior picture for the yearbook. Our class code is 12, school code is 3202 and you should have been given your sitting code when you had your picture taken. Any questions or problems, please see Mrs. Kearns in the main office. 11/4 Kearns

*Math Tutoring

Available BEFORE School

Monday through Friday

6:25 – 7:10

Room 205

Available AFTER School

Monday & Thursday Rm 224

Tuesday & Friday Rm 207

2:30 – 3:30

Spanish tutoring is available for the Fall semester.

Monday 2:30pm: Mossinghoff Rm. 203

Tuesday 6:45am: Heaton Rm. 222

Tuesday 2:30pm: Johnson Rm. 131 (Mac Lab) Wednesday 6:45am: Berberich Rm. 213 Wednesday Homeroom: Santos Rm. 227 Thursday 6:45am: Berberich Rm. 227 Thursday 2:30 pm: Johnson Rm. 131 (Mac Lab) Friday 6:45am: Santos Rm. 227 Friday 2:30pm: Mossinghoff Rm. 203

Students of the Week

*Congratulations to the following students as they have been selected students of the week for the week of Sept 19th.

Freshman – Collin Witte

Sophomore – Kelsey Schaffrin

Junior – Ashley Flerlage

Senior – Allyson Chiplery

9/19Johnson

Congratulations

*Please congratulate the students and staff of the Francis Howell North Knightpride Marching Band for their Grand Champion win at the 2011 St. Charles West Marching Festival.

On Saturday, September 17, FHN competed against 20 local and regional marching bands. In preliminary rounds, Francis Howell North had the highest score of all 20 schools and was awarded a divisional trophy for first place along with recognition for “Best Music”, “Best Visual” and “Best Auxiliary” in our division.The top ten schools in divisional scoring competed in finals. Knightpride Band won the Grand Championship with a score of 83.5 and was also awarded “Best Auxiliary”.

Please go FHNBands.com for pictures and video. 9/20 Moorman

Congratulations to our 2011 Homecoming Court :

For the freshman class, Daniel Bacon, Sean Pirrone, Marissa Watkins, and Shelby Wiebe.

Representing the sophomore class are Michael Beaver, Collin Toedtmann, Samantha Bauer, and Alissa Hale.

The junior class will be represented by Andy Bartell, Austin Wiedner, Sarah Creely and Marie Schumer.

And lastly, the seniors will be represented by Jake Hurrell, Charles Phillips, Zach Wood, Lauren Kopf, Erin Powelson, and Sarah Teson. 9/23 Wilkens From the office

Activities and Clubs

*Monthly Band Booster Meeting-Join us at our monthly Francis Howell North Band Booster meeting tonight at 7:00PM in the Band Room at Francis Howell North High School

*There will be a brief Spanish Club meeting tomorrow morning at 7:00 am in room 202. Thanks! 9/21 Johnson

Seniors in NHS will meet on Thursday September 22 at 7:00 a.m. in Com 1 to get a senior NHS toga picture. 9/22 Malkmus

Any student interested in attending the thespian conference needs to see Mr. Tandler as soon as possible. 9/22 Tandler

Attention Art Club members– There will be an Art Club meeting Thurs. after school in Mr. Leistner’s Room 160. A visit to the St. LouisArt Museum is being planned. 9/22 Leistner

Show your spirit during homecoming week! today is “Around the World” day, today is “Backwards” and Jr/Sr Powder Puff day, Thursday is “Black and Gold” and Senior Toga day, and Friday is “Class Colors” day (Fr. are green, So. are purple, Jr. are blue, and Sr. are maroon). 9/23 Wilkens

Juniors and Seniors in NHS are meeting before and after school to work on the NHS float before and after school everyday!!! 9/23 Malkmus

Francis Howell North Homecoming Parade

Friday, September 23, 2011

5:00 p.m. Start Time

Parade Route-Staging on the school lot, exiting onto northbound Hackmann Rd., turning right onto Diekamp Farm Trail/with an immediate left onto northbound Diekamp Farm Trails, right onto Wagon Master Dr. , left again onto northbound Diekamp Farm Trails, left onto Hackmann Rd., And back to the school. 9/23 Janes

FHN LADY KNIGHTS SOFTBALL TRIVIA NIGHT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011

7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE LODGE

2705 Veterans Memorial Pkwy.

St. Charles, MO 63303

(636)723-7794

$160 per table (table seats 8 people)

Mulligans available 3 for $10.00 (max. allowed per table)

50/50 Drawings!

Silent Auction!

Basket Raffles!

Heads or Tails!

Adult beverages, soda, and light snacks provided.

All attendees must be at least 21 years of age.

Cash bar available (no outside beverages allowed).

You may bring in your own appetizers or fast food, as no food will be sold.

Contact Cindy at (636)485-6446

for table availability, registration information, and payment instructions.

Registration and payment in full must be completed by November 1, 2011

No refunds for cancellations.

Checks payable to: FHN Softball

Parent News

September 12, 2011

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Soon we will be entering homecoming season. This is an especially fun time of the year for our students and staff. It is our hope that all of our students who choose to participate will have a great time with their friends and classmates. These social experiences provide a different type of learning opportunity, and we are glad we are able to host such events in Francis Howell.

While our kids face peer pressures all of the time, these types of social activities may present kids with additional peer pressure to be involved with alcohol and/or illegal drugs. By this time in students’ school experiences, they have been educated on the dangers and repercussions of such involvement; nonetheless, some will make bad choices. Such poor decisions can have both short term and long term implications. We are asking that you partner with us and reinforce a message of safety with your child. Your support will add additional credibility, and, hopefully, lessen the possibility of a bad choice being made.

We appreciate the opportunity to partner with you in the education of your child, and it is our hope that each of our students has a safe and drug and alcohol-free homecoming experience. If you have questions, or if you need some guidance on how to have such conversations with your child, please contact your child’s counselor or administrator.

Sincerely, Dr. Pam Sloan Dr. Darlene Jones

Superintendent of Schools Principal – Francis Howell North High School

*PAC: Promoting Positive Social Interaction-The FHSD Special Education Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) will be holding a special family event, Promoting Positive Social Interactions on Wednesday, September 28th from 7:00 – 8:30 PM at Central Elementary. Click here for more information. 9/28 Henry

Guidance News

College

Date

Time

Hour

St. Louis University

09/20/11

8:18 am

2nd

Millikin University

9/20/11

12:31 pm

6th

Drury University

09/20/11

1:28 pm

7th

Rockford College

09/22/11

8:18 am

2nd

Southeast MO (SEMO)

09/22/11

12:30 pm

6th

Rockhurst University

09/29/11

8:18 am

2nd

Lincoln College

09/29/11

12:31 pm

6th

Mizzou

10/04/11

12:31 pm

6th

Lindenwood

10/05/11

9:33 am

3rd

UMSL

10/19/11

9:33 am

3rd

William Jewell College

10/19/11

12:12 pm

6th

Benedictine College

10/20/11

1:28 pm

2nd

McKendree University

10/21/11

8:18 am

2nd

MacMurray College

10/24/11

8:18 am

2nd

Westminster College

10/24/11

9:15 am

3rd

SIU Edwardsville

10/24/11

1:28 pm

7th

Hannibal LaGrange University

10/26/11

8:04 am

2nd

University of Tulsa

10/26/11

9:33 am

3rd

Harris-Stowe State University

11/01/11

8:18 am

2nd

Missouri Baptist University

11/02/11

12:56 pm

7th

Western Illinois University

11/28/11

9:15 am

3rd

*The Guidance Department wants to encourage college-bound sophomores and juniors to take the PSAT. This test is a practice test for the SAT (a college entrance exam primarily required for admission to east and west coast colleges and universities). Tenth grade students can use the PSAT results to qualify for the Missouri Scholars Academy and Fine Arts Academy, two prestigious honors awarded at the state level. Eleventh grade students can use the PSAT to qualify for National Merit Scholarships. The National Merit Scholarship Program recognizes junior students who earn a score on the PSAT within the top 3% of all PSAT-takers, nationwide. Cost for the PSAT is $20.00. You must pay with cash and refunds are not granted. Register during any lunch period at the table located by the snack tables tomorrow through Wednesday, October 5th. If you have any questions, please contact your guidance counselor. 10/5 Vargas

*The scholarship deadline for the ACT Cambridge Review Program has been extended through September 26th. If you are interested in improving your ACT score, but need some help financing the $125 review class (offered for the December 10th ACT date), please pick up an application in the counseling office and return it with your Cambridge Review registration form by the new deadline (9/26). Contact Mrs. Vargas if you have any questions. 9/26 Vargas

*New Student Groups ~ College Career Room

Tuesdays are Freshman (new to public school) from 7:00 to 7:30 until Fall Break

Thursdays are Upper Classmen from 7:00 to 7:30 until Fall Break

Please remind students that they may drop in once or come every week. 9/26 Vargas