Acta Equitum January 2022

Acta Equitum January 2022

The Newsletter of Franklin Classical School

IN THIS NEWSLETTER

Upcoming

Events

Reenrollment

Announcements

Open

Positions

Excerpt

from

Dr.

Grant

January

Birthdays

Happy

New

Year

Upcoming Events January 3 Financial Aid Applications open

January 4 All Classes Resume Presentation Attire Required for Grades 7 – 12

January 13 Rising 7th Grade Parent Meeting 6:30 pm - 2nd Floor Lecture Hall

January 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Observed Classes Dismissed Offices Closed

January 18 7th – 12th Grade 2022 – 2023 Advising Appointments open

January 31 Last day for current student reenrollment

February 1 Late reenrollment begins Application fee increases to $375 per student

February 8 & 9 Teacher Appreciation Days

February 12 Father/Daughter Dance 5:00 – 7:30 pm Third Floor Lecture Hall

February 17 Open House 7:00 pm - FCS Auditorium

February 21 Presidents' Day Classes Dismissed Offices Closed

Live 2021 – 2022 Calendar is available in RenWeb/FACTS - Resource Documents

ReEnrollment is open!

Reenrollment now their

open.

and

To

spots

new student applications

reenroll for

your

students

2022–2023,

and

follow

are

secure these

instructions: Log in to your RenWeb/FACTS Parent Portal.

Select “Apply/Enroll" from the green menu on the left.

Choose “Enroll/Reenroll” from the dropdown.

Select “Click here to open Enrollment.” Complete the reenrollment packet and submit it along with you $185 reenrollment fee.

Please update any information that has changed in the past year, including t-shirt sizes!

Please note: Siblings of current students must submit applications and go through the application process.

Please let Anna know if you plan to apply for another child.

Reenrollment must be completed by January 31, 2022.

Announcements

Iowa Testing Registration

Registration for spring Iowa testing is now open. This test is for 3rd through 9th

graders

students,

and

but

is

free

students

to

FCS

must

be

registered to test. Test dates are April 21

&

22.

available

The in

Resource

registration

form

RenWeb/Facts

Documents,

is

under

and

the

registration deadline is January 31st.

Development The FCS Community needs your support!

Please visit

Spelling Bee Winners!

bit.ly/fcsannualfund

to

make your gift or pledge. Together, we

can

fund

academic

enrichment,

Congratulations to Ellie Rose Grisham

fine arts, athletics, faculty and staff

(Grade 6) and Leah Metzger (Grade 5)

support, and

for winning the FCS Lower Division and

FCS

Grammar

options start at $29.00/month.

respectively!

School

Spelling

Bees,

tuition scholarships for

students.

Recurring

giving

Now that’s something to sing about!

FCS Open Positions Part-Time Classroom Assistant We are looking for a part-time classroom assistant for 2nd and 3rd grades. Interested parties should contact Miss for

Kelsey an

Tichenor

application,

at

ktichenor@franklinclassical.com

and

copy

Academic

Dean

Ms.

Melinda Mahand at mmahand1@franklinclassical.com.

Tennis Coach Spring

sports

registration

is

now

open

online.

Our

athletic director, Traci Harlow, is looking for someone to help coach tennis this upcoming season. It would require 2 hours a day on 2 – 3 days a week. The farthest travel would be Bell Buckle, Tennessee. If you are interested in learning more about this position, please contact Coach Harlow at tharlow@franklinclassical.com.

Cathedrals and a Sense of Place Dr. George Grant, November 2021

The emergence of cathedrals impacted culture perhaps the most.

Cathedrals were designed to give people a sense of rootedness and place.

Instead of isolation and scattering, they created a center of gravity, a sense of place, and a sense of identity.

They didn’t begin as tourist attractions. They were the adornment of the rooted traditions of communities. But soon people wanted to travel to see these marvels.

These cathedrals exhibited phenomenal innovation with soaring towers and beautiful architecture. The cathedrals had such a magnificent effect that stories were told of them to outlying areas, and people just had to come see them.

For people who lived in little villages with one baker, one cobbler, and one blacksmith, to know something like a cathedral was only fifty miles away made people want to emerge from their villages and travel to see it. What they saw changed the way they saw the world. A cathedral takes the breath away.

It’s hard to believe the world can be changed by travel, but anyone who travels overseas or to a cathedral suddenly gets it. That’s why a classical education has historically been capped by The Great Tour — travel.

"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert."

Isaiah 43:19

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January 1 John Schwieger

January 3 Kate Plachy

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January 13

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Lincoln Duckworth

January 15 Lundyn Sadler Abe Schwieger

January 5 London Kinnetz

January 16

Mac Monroe

Ed Ten Napel

January 6

January 17

Mrs. Michelle Cruise

Hunter Hatcher

Cailyn Davis Liliana Pfeffer

January 18 Maddox Parkerson

January 7

Sophia Swann

Vesper Lenox Aeryn Schafer

January 19 Dominic Lupescu

January 10 Mrs. Angela Raynaud

January 20 Ben Howell

January 27 Bella Doyle

January 28 Mrs. Jaclyn Hatcher

January 31 Chloe Jones

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