March 7, 2025

This time in March each year is always one that we find exciting and energizing while working with our students.  We collaborated with our school counselors this week to continue educating students about thoughtful decision making as they look ahead to next school year.  Next Monday, we have our final presentations regarding the registration process for the 2025-2026 school year during Community Time.  This will include time in class meetings and homeroom to share the logistics of the registration process, but more importantly, to provide opportunities for students to learn about the wide variety of course options from which they can choose.  Helping students chart their pathways as they work to make their academic dreams a reality is our favorite part of our jobs. Your daughter’s class counselor is a knowledgeable resource and invaluable part of this process as well.  

  

Linked here are the instructions your daughter received in class meeting on Monday to complete the registration process.  We hope you will take time to review the COURSE CATALOG and this process and sit with her as she chooses her courses for next year.  Along with the opportunity to talk to her counselor or dean of studies, your daughter’s current teachers will conference with her in classes on March 10 and 11. We are excited about looking to the future with your daughter! 

McAuley Honors Program Tea

Our McAuley Scholars attended “TEA” (Talking about Excellence in Academics) parties during RTI on Thursday and Friday of this week –a clever way to incorporate Irish culture experienced by Catherine McAuley with thought-provoking conversation. Several of our faculty and staff were scattered amongst small groups of Scholars, where they reflected on what academic excellence truly means, and how it can look different for each person. It was a great opportunity for students to sip, discuss, and challenge their thinking!

A McAuley Scholar is a student who enrolls in the highest level of high school curriculum in all core classes at Assumption. She commits to taking college credit classes through the Advance Placement program, and she is a serious student who engages in extracurricular activities which reflect her values. She is an intellectual leader who supports others in their pursuits through educational and cultural events, and she commits to developing her potential and encouraging the intellectual excellence of her classmates. By honoring these commitments, McAuley Scholars enrich the educational environment of the entire Assumption community.

LEAD & LEARN DAY – Friday, March 21: While our faculty and staff will be participating in a professional development day, our students will utilize this day from home as a LEAD & Learn Day.  As they were in December, students will be asked to identify how they can most productively utilize the day to achieve academic and co-curricular outcomes for the semester and may choose to engage in a variety of activities to accomplish these goals. These could include catching up on homework or working ahead on a project, including completing work for Day 3 classes, writing college essays or completing college applications, making a college visit, completing service hours, or engaging in standardized test prep. This could also include some time for rest, mindfulness, or exercise. As a final step in solidifying their purposeful use of the day, students will be required to submit their plans for the day by 12:00 p.m. via email through an Attendance Forms Survey. This survey will serve as their virtual attendance for the day.  

ASSUMPTION PARENT PRAYER: Our parent prayer group will meet on Tuesday, March 11 from 8:15-8:45 a.m. in the AHS chapel.  Please park in any open space and enter the school through the main entrance.  We will be praying for our Limerick family juniors and seniors.  Please join us! 

PRAYER INTENTIONS: All Assumption parents and alumnae are invited to share prayer intentions. Periodically, we will include the line of “prayer intentions posted online by AHS parents and alumnae” as part of our morning prayer over the P.A. Likewise, feel free to include the intentions you find there in your own personal prayer. To participate, please follow this link. 

We are celebrating the success of our 40+ students who attended our FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) competition this week.  Participating in 16 different events during this day-long competition, 24 of our students placed in the top three in their event and earned a place in state competition.  Additionally, our Speech and Debate team has been busy in competition the last few weeks, including earning fourth place in the state in Lincoln Douglass Debate with freshmen Ary Barlow and Chiagoziem Ibeawuchi both winning speaker awards.  Ary was a quarterfinalist in Novice Lincoln Douglas and Chiagoziem was a finalist in Novice Lincoln Douglas debate.  The Speech Team heads to state competition this weekend, and we look forward to their results!  We are so proud of the continued excellence our students display in their commitments.  

Our seniors who participated in the Fly Girls Dance tradition invite their families and friends to a re-scheduled Fly Girls Showcase of their dance on Sunday, March 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the AHS gym. This showcase was canceled because of snow, but we want to give parents an opportunity to see this fantastic display of teamwork and talent live! Please plan to join us.  

FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIP LETTER: Financial Aid and scholarship letters were emailed to families on March 3 via the email address in FACTS or on file with the admissions office. If you applied for financial aid or a scholarship, you hopefully have received your notification letter by now. If your daughter received a scholarship, the scholarship award was also included in the financial aid letter. Scholarships are awarded on an annual basis, and if your daughter did not receive a scholarship for the coming year, she has an opportunity to apply again for the 2025-2026 school year.  With over 1,000 applications for scholarships, it is always a difficult decision when it comes to making awards.  If you do have any questions regarding financial aid awards or would like to file an appeal for an additional award, please contact our Executive Director of Finance, Megan Whitler, at Megan.Whitler@ahsrockets.org or 271-2520. 

   

MID-SEMESTER PARENT/TEACHER/STUDENT CONFERENCE COMMUNICATION: This semester, teachers will be sending an email to the parents of any student whose grade in their class is a D or F as of yesterday Thursday, March 6.  We ask all parents who receive an email to respond in a timely fashion. Parents may request a conference virtually through Teams during the conference window of Tuesday, March 11 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. A link will be provided in the teacher’s email. Of course, any parent may request a conference call via phone or team or in-person meeting with a teacher at any time during the school year to discuss a student’s progress in a course.  We appreciate your shared commitment to our partnership to best help our students achieve academic success. 

ABSENCES BEFORE/AFTER SPRING BREAK: Please note that absences directly before or after Spring Break will count toward semester absence totals. If your daughter is sick before or after Spring Break, please submit a medical note to the Attendance Office so that this can be noted on your daughter’s attendance record. Full details about our attendance policies and procedures can be found in the STUDENT-PARENT HANDBOOK. 

DRIVER’S EDUCATION CLASSES IN APRIL: The Kentucky Driving School is offering classroom instruction and private driving lessons at Assumption on April 7-11.  Please click on this link for additional information: SPRING DRIVER’S EDUCATION CLASSES 

RPN EVENT: Parent/Student Night at TopGolf – Come join the Rocket Parent Network on Thursday, March 20 from 7-9 p.m. for a fun night of golf.  This event costs $20 per person and includes two hours of golf time AND a buffet dinner.  Space is limited, so if you are interested, you must fill out the survey using the link below.  No walk-ups on the day of the event.  The survey includes additional details about this event: TOP GOLF SURVEYTOP GOLF SURVEY 

2025-2026 SCHOOL CALENDAR: We are in the process of building the 2025-2026 school calendar. Although we have not finalized the calendar, we recognize that our families may need general calendar information in advance. To help with this need, the tentative key calendar dates for 2025-2026 are now posted on our website through this link: IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL CALENDAR 

IMPORTANT UPCOMING STUDENT REGISTRATION INFORMATION: In March, we will be starting the registration process for the 2025-2026 school year.  Below is important information:  

  • TUITION AND REGISTRATION FEES FOR THE 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR: Parents or guardians of current freshman, sophomore, or junior students will be receiving an email in April announcing tuition for the 2025-2026 school year.  This year we will continue using Blackbaud Tuition Management (BBTM) for registration and tuition.  BBTM will automatically re-enroll your account in March for the 2025-2026 school year.  Once that process is complete, you will receive a verification email from BBTM with instructions on how to log in to your 2025-2026 account or call them directly to make any changes (payment plan, banking information, etc.)  Your registration fee will be included with your July payment.  If your daughter will not be returning for the 2025-2026 school year, please contact our registrar KATHY FLEISCHER.  If you have any questions about your account, please contact TAMMY FINCH.   
  • PARENT POWERSCHOOL LOG IN FOR 2025-2026 REGISTRATION: We began meeting with freshmen, sophomores, and juniors regarding decision making around next year’s schedule earlier this month, and we will meet with students during Community Time on March 3 and 10 to prepare for our online registration for the 2025-2026 school year.  This is a great time to have a conversation with your daughter about her classes for next year.  More detailed information will follow, but please make note that you will need to log into your parent PowerSchool account to register your daughter for classes next year.  If you have forgotten your parent username or password for PowerSchool, when you go to the login screen for PowerSchool, just click on the link “Having trouble signing in?” and follow the directions to obtain a forgotten username or forgotten password.  Please contact kathy.fleischer@ahsrockets.org or brent.miller@ahsrockets.org if you have trouble logging in! 
  • 2025-2026 COURSE SELECTIONS: On Monday, March 10 and Tuesday, March 11, our teachers will be conferencing with all current freshmen, sophomores, and juniors regarding their course selections for the 2025-2026 school year.  We encourage you to have a conversation regarding course selections for next year prior to March 10 and 11 so that students can have more productive meetings with their teachers.  Registration will open after school on March 11. 
  • 2025-2026 COURSE SELECTIONS & DEADLINES: Your daughter will consult with her teachers for class suggestions, meet with her parents/guardians to log into PowerSchool using the PARENT account, and make careful selections of courses for next year.  We ask that she print the selections and bring them to school to obtain teacher signatures and turn in the parent signed course selections no later than Wednesday, March 19.  
  • IMPORTANT COURSE REGISTRATION DATES IN A NUTSHELL: 
  • March 3 and 10: Community Time at school to discuss class registration 
  • March 6: Freshman parent info session 
  • March 10 and 11: Teachers meet with students individually during class to discuss class selections 
  • March 11 after school: Official class registration opens in PowerSchool using PARENT login 
  • March 11-18: Use this time to discuss class selections with your daughter, print the finalized form, sign the form, and have her return to school to obtain signatures from her teachers. 
  • Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18 and 19: Students may turn in their finalized class selection form to their deans in the atrium. 

SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES: Opportunities for the summer have been UPDATED. You can find these on our guidance department page by clicking here: SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES 2025. There are numerous opportunities available with many costing less than $1,000. Programs are grouped according to areas of interest like general/pre-college, leadership, STEM, etc. Many applications are due in March and require the assistance of guidance for transcript releases, recommendations, and other documentation. Please contact LEIGH JACKSON or KIM HABICH with any questions. 

TORCHPREP ACT SUMMER INTENSIVE CAMP: Thanks to the families who attended our college night last week. We have gotten requests for the information shared by Rhett Barbour about the TorchPrep session offered at AHS from June 9-12, 2025. The ACT will change significantly by September 2025, so this is the last year for your daughter to take the current version. It’s a great opportunity to achieve target scores for college admissions and scholarships. For details and registration, please follow this link: https://torchprep.com/louisville-act-test-prep/. TorchPrep is available to answer your questions and support your college access. 

AHS SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: We are excited to announce that registration for the 2025 camp schedule is now open! Assumption is offering over 35 stimulating enrichment and athletic summer camps for girls and boys in grades K-9. Click here to learn more. Please contact Lauren Lega with any questions.  

FROM THE ADVANCEMENT OFFICE:   

  • ROCKET MADNESS: Save the Date for Rocket Madness happening March 17-21, a family-participation fundraiser aimed at supporting the parts of Assumption YOU care most about! Your generosity allows all students to have the Assumption experience. More info here! For more information, contact ABBY MARTIN. 
  • ROCKETS AFTER HOURS: Alumnae are invited to a happy hour event at Atrium Brewing in Norton Commons on Wednesday, March 12, between 6:00-8:00 p.m. We will hear about the brewery’s history and services, plus those in attendance could win some AHS swag drawings! Please RSVP here. For more information, contact ABBY MARTIN. 
  • ALUMNAE DAY OF SERVICE: Spend a morning doing some good in the local community at our annual Alumnae Day of Service. AHS family and friends are invited to join this event at Blackacre Conservancy on Saturday, March 22, between 10:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Please RSVP here. For more information, contact ABBY MARTIN. 

GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS: It’s still not too late to order graduation announcements from Jostens. Click here for more information. 

LETTERS FROM COLLEGES: Attention, senior parents! Please have your senior daughters submit ALL letters received from colleges regarding admissions decisions, scholarship offers, and admission to special programs and honors colleges to the Guidance Office. The majority of colleges DO NOT provide this information directly to high schools, so your daughter is often our only source of information about this.  Her timely sharing of this information is vital to the Senior Honors Celebration as we work to make sure we have all the correct information to celebrate your daughter and the Class of 2025.  These letters can be hard copies, faxes, or scanned copies and can be emailed directly to COLLEGE.LETTERS@ahsrockets.org.  We ask that students submit all of this information by Monday, March 24, 2025. 

SENIOR EVENT DATES & PARENT LETTER: An email will be sent out in late March to parents of seniors giving details about senior activities and graduation events that will be occurring in April and May. For now, below is a listing of important senior event dates to mark on your calendar: 

  • Saturday, April 12, at 9:30 a.m. – Mother/Daughter Breakfast at Crowne Plaza Hotel by the airport (830 Phillips Lane) 
  • Friday, April 25 at 7:00 p.m. – Pink and White Game at Trinity High School 
  • Friday, April 25 – Senior Celebration Day – 1:00 p.m. Dismissal for Seniors 
  • Friday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. – Senior Holiday (No School for Seniors) & Senior Prom at Mellwood Art Center – DaVinci Room (1860 Mellwood Avenue) 
  • Monday, May 12 and Tuesday, May 13 – Senior Exams 
  • Wednesday, May 14 from 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. – Mandatory Graduation Practice at Assumption (gym) 
  • Wednesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. – Senior Honors Ceremony at Assumption (gym) 
  • Thursday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m. – Baccalaureate Mass at St. Albert the Great Catholic Church (1395 Girard Drive) 
  • Friday, May 16 from 9:00 -11:00 a.m. – Mandatory Graduation Practice at Bellarmine University – Knights Hall 
  • Saturday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m. – Graduation at Bellarmine University – Knights Hall (2001 Newburg Road) 

DRESS CODE FOR SENIOR PROM: Seniors will receive information about their senior prom their upcoming class meeting. Senior prom will be held Friday, May 9, at the Mellwood Art Center from 6-11 p.m. Unlike other Assumption dances, the senior prom is a formal dance, and our Dean of Students, Kamaria Wesley, will review information about our dress code for a formal dance with the seniors; she will also email information about the dress code for the dance to all the seniors.  Ms. Wesley recommends that students ask parents for advice in following the dress code guidelines to make sure they are dressed appropriately for a Catholic high school dance. We are counting on you to help your daughter evaluate some of the current fashion trends.  As the dance gets closer, we will share information about our usual dance policies and expectations along with other specific information about senior prom in class meetings and with reminder emails and announcements. 

NATIONAL ACT FOR JUNIORS:  On Tuesday, March 25, all juniors will take the National ACT at Assumption at 8:15 a.m. Juniors will be dismissed at 12:45 on this day.  Just like in October, there is no makeup date for this ACT at AHS, no signup is needed on the part of each family, and this test fee is covered by your tuition dollars.  Please encourage your daughter to consult the link sent to them from Mrs. Fieldhouse:  Everything you need to know to prepare for the MARCH 25 ACT.  Encourage her to bookmark this link for ACT practice, information about making an account to see her scores, and to access TAKING THE ACT: A STUDENT GUIDE. This score can be sent to colleges and universities and used for admission and scholarship purposes.  Please contact JUDY FIELDHOUSE or COLLEEN MURPHY you have any questions.    

JUNIOR PROM: The Junior Prom will be held on Saturday, April 12 from 8:00-11:00 p.m. in the Assumption gym. The junior class moderators and class officers have been hard at work in the process of planning the details for the big semiformal event, and many juniors have already started shopping for the dance. With this in mind, our Dean of Students, Kamaria Wesley, will visit junior class meetings to review information about our dress code for dances with the students and answer any general questions they might have; she will email information about the dress code for the dance to all the juniors. Please take a few minutes to review the dress code with your daughter so you can help her know what is expected as she is deciding what to wear to the event. As you will see in the information, Ms. Wesley recommends that students ask parents for advice in following the guidelines to make sure they are dressed appropriately for a Catholic high school dance. We are counting on you to help your daughter evaluate some of the current fashion trends.  As the dance gets closer, we will share information about our usual dance policies and expectations along with information about the theme and ticket details in a class meeting and with reminder emails and announcements.  

CURRENT FRESHMAN REGISTRATION PARENT NIGHT: Thanks to those parents in the Class of 2028 who joined us for this information night on Thursday. During the event, Dean of Studies Theresa Schuhmann reviewed the information sessions covering the registration process that have been and will be shared with the freshmen. The first is designed to introduce students to the language of the registration process so that they can be active and informed participants in the process. The second covers the logistical details of the process including due dates and deadlines. If you were unable to attend, the PowerPoint that was used as part of this presentation is linked here. 

MISSION WEEK T-SHIRT ORDER FORM: Freshmen are invited to order a t-shirt created by members of their class for only $15! Use this link to order by Thursday, March 13

Members of FBLA (Future Leaders of America) club who competed in Kentucky’s Region 3 competition in downtown Louisville.  Twenty-four participants qualified for FBLA’s state competition by finishing in the top three of their event.  

Students qualifying for the state competition in mid-April include: 

  • Third-Place Finishers – Bailey Blair, Ava Cecil, Elizabeth Hammond, Kate Jarboe, Kelly Kleinholter, Ellie Lazarewicz, Madeline Lynch, Katelyn Machor, Reese McBride, Hayden O’Connell, Betsy Tatum, and Chloe Tigue. 
  • Second-Place Finishers -  Sarah Bartley, Gabrielle Bushmeyer, Meredith Elder, Anna Foster, Avery Lewis, and Ally Whitsell. 
  • First-Place Finishers – Addie Cronin, Hannah Hayden, Audrey Montano, Megan Oeswein, Emma Reck, and Leah Weiter. 

 Congratulations to all participants for their outstanding efforts and results!   

Our Speech and Debate teams have been busy the last two weekends at competitions.   

  • Last weekend, they competed at the Marshall University Tournament. Congratulations to the following students who placed in their events:  Mary Zabrocki, Ellie Martin, Aubrey Biggs, Breigh McFadden, Meredith Blair, Nikita Nair, Agnes Boyer, and Lily Barker.  Additionally, Breigh McFadden was a semifinalist in Impromptu Speaking, Ellie Martin and Aubrey Biggs were named Top Novices in Duo Improvisation, and Nikita Nair and Agnes Boyer won first place in Duo Interpretation.  
  • This past weekend, our Debate Team competed in state competition.  Overall, the team came in fourth place in the state! Ary Barlow and Chiagoziem Ibeawuchi both won speaker awards.  Ary was a quarterfinalist in Novice Lincoln Douglas, and Chiagoziem was a FINALIST in Novice Lincoln Douglas. 

   On Friday the team will travel to WKU for the state speech tournament, so wish them well!  Way to go, Rockets!! 

ROCKET PHOTOS: Be sure to check out Rocket Photos: https://mhaasphoto.gotphoto.com/jobs/ahs-athletics-event-2024-25

Congratulations to:

  • Both the JV and Varsity Lacrosse teams for starting their seasons with wins over Christian Academy

Next Week:

Sunday, March 9 

  • JV Lacrosse @ KCD 1:00 p.m. 

Tuesday, March 11 

  • Lacrosse vs Atherton. JV 5:30 p.m., Varsity 7:00 p.m. 

Wednesday, March 12 

  • Varsity Tennis @ Oldham County 4:15 p.m. 

Thursday, March 13 

  • Varsity Tennis @ South Oldham 4:15 p.m. 

Saturday, March 15 

  • JV Tennis vs Greenwood @ Seneca Park 3:45 p.m. 
  • Lacrosse @ Notre Dame. JV 12:30 p.m., Varsity 2:00 p.m.