This Week in Terrier Nation

What an amazing turnout at Back to School Night! We hope you all enjoyed seeing the school and meeting your children's teachers. Thank you all for attending!

This week's main takeaways are: 

1. Parent meetings hosted by the Counseling Center are coming up! 8th Grade parents, please join us for the 8th Grade Parent Meeting on Tuesday at 6:00 pm in the Kolb. 

2. As we kick off football season, please take a look at the flyer below about Terrier Athletic Club, consider joining us for our first home game pep rally of the year, and take a look at spirit dress guidelines! All available in this week's Hub.

3.  It's less than two weeks to Terrier Tailgate! It's not too late to purchase tickets at a discount, donate, or volunteer.

4. This is a significant week in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. We will witness the Episcopal Ordination and Installation of Bishop-Elect Simon Peter. Included below is the schedule of events for the week and important information relative to student attendance.

In Christ,

Dr. LeBoeuf

Rooted in Religious Values

Campus ministry is excited to offer class retreats for students to experience personal growth in their relationship with God and one another. All class retreats are mandatory. Please refrain from scheduling appointments on these dates. If a student is unable to attend a class retreat, he/she will need to attend an alternate approved faith experience during the school year. These events might be offered by Campus Ministry, the diocese, or a church parish and will often include a cost to participate. Please read the linked information below.

The Junior retreat is Wednesday, September 10, 2025. Permission forms are due Friday, September 5, 2025 and are available in the Forms folder in the Parent Plus Portals account.

The Sophomore retreat is Monday, Sept. 15.

The Freshmen retreat is Thursday, Sept. 25.

The 8th grade retreat is Monday, Nov. 10.

HOPE YOUTH FEST is being held on October 11, 2025 in Chatawa, MS from 9:00am to 9:00pm. The cost for attendance is $75. All students are invited to attend with St. Bernadette Church Parish. This one-day event will bring thousands of high school teens from the surrounding areas together to celebrate and encounter the Catholic faith. The day promises to ignite our hearts with music from The Vigil Project, along with talks and entertainment from Colin and Aimee MacIver, Kathleen Higgins, and Fr. Paul Gros. If that is not already exciting enough, the day will be emceed by Deacon Michael Parker! We will have confessions available, as well as adoration and will celebrate holy mass before Vigil Project takes the stage for praise and worship. Please email Katie Champagne at kchampagne@htdiocese.org to receive the unique registration link if your student would like to attend. *This event can count as a make up option if your student is unable to attend a class retreat.

Please see the information below regarding the Episcopal Ordination and Installation of the Very Reverend Simon Peter Engurait. It is a week of special events throughout the diocese, and we invite all of our Vandebilt family to consider attending some of the events hosted in Houma, including the Vespers reception, which is being held at VCHS in the Kolb on Thursday. 

Any student who misses school on Friday afternoon to attend the Ordination and Installation will be excused for the afternoon (6th-8th periods) as long as a parent note is provided PRIOR to the event. We anticipate taking a small group of students to the event with our Campus Ministry and leaving school during 6th period. If any students are interested in attending with this group, please email Mrs. Katie Champagne by Tuesday at 3 p.m.

We ask all students who attend the Installation on Friday to wear their full uniform. 

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"To Do"s

☐  All seniors will have the opportunity to take the District ACT during the school day on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. Students do NOT need to register for this test. However, any senior wishing to take this test should bring payment of $39.75 to the Counseling Center by Monday, September 8, 2025. All seniors have to report to school on this day regardless if they choose to take the ACT. This test will be the former version and include the science section at no additional cost. However, the composite score will only include the English, Math and Reading subscores.

☐  Junior parents, please complete the permission form for Junior Retreat on PlusPortals by Friday, September 5. From a computer internet browser (not a cell phone), click on the Forms button in the blue strip along the top of the page once you log in. See the first image below. 

The forms are NOT available on the PlusPortals App, but they may be completed on a browser. To complete the form on your phone, please go to our PlusPortals page, log in, click on the three horizontal lines on the top left to open the menu of options where you will see the "Forms" choice. See the image below.

☐  Did you receive a text message to let you know that this Hub update was ready? If you do not receive text messages from the school, please the word "yes" to the number 79041 to opt into our texting system. If you have done that and are still not receiving the alerts, please call the school office to check what cell number is on file for you.

☐  Interims will be posted in Plus Portals E-locker on September 5. Please review grades and assess your plans for the second half of the first quarter.

☐ 8th Grade parents, please join us for the 8th Grade Parent Meeting hosted by the Counseling Center on Tuesday, September 2, at 6:00 pm in the Kolb. 

☐ Due to a high volume of items being left on campus or mistakenly taken, we highly recommend labeling your children’s belongings. We do have a “Lost and Found” near the front office, and students are encouraged to always check here first  if items are lost on campus. VCHS is not responsible for any items lost or stolen on campus.

☐ Consider joining the Terrier Athletic Club. Information below.

☐ [repeat] Purchase Athletic Passes for students! They are are $50 and cover the cost for all regular season home games in all sports. Click here to purchase passes! 

☐ [repeat]  Download the new PlusPortals app! (Google Play Store / Apple App Store)

☐ [repeat]  Purchase tickets or sponsorships to Terrier Tailgate!

News/Information

8th Grade Welcome Tailgate: All 8th grade students are invited to a Welcome Tailgate hosted by the Junior High Student Government Association this Friday, September 5th at 5:30 p.m. in the main quad. Please contact Morgan Carrell at mcarrell@htdiocese.org with any questions.

Please join us on Friday at 2:30 p.m. for our first pep rally of the football season! Any time we have a pep rally schedule, seniors who have work at 8th period will be dismissed at 1:39 p.m., but we invite and encourage them to stay for the pep rally. If they would like to do that, they may report to the Kolb at 8th hour and wait until the pep rally begins.

8th grade inductions pictures were uploaded to CloudSpot and are available free of charge! Other photos are available for purchase throughout the year on this site as a fundraiser for Yearbook. 

TERRIER TAILGATE UPDATE

• Labor Day Special - $5 off General Admission Tickets with promo code VCBACKTOSCHOOL (expires on Tuesday, September 2 at 3pm) Click here to purchase tickets or sponsorships: 

• Want to donate to the silent auction?  We are still collecting items until Friday, September 5. Click here to donate.

• Want to volunteer?  Please check out the sign-up genius and consider working a shift. 

• Thank you for your support!

[repeat] Our Student Government has planned lots of fun activities this football season! Please take a look at our Spirit Dress Guide for this year! For Friday, September 5's first home game against Central Lafourche, "We Want a Terrier Win!" Students may wear USA shirts, red, white, & blue shirts, red, white, & blue jeans, light face paint (red, white, and blue dots), tennis shoes/boots, bandanas, and socks, and girls may wear red, white, & blue accessories (headbands, ribbons, jewelry). For the game, Terrier fans are asked to wear red, white, & blue to support Team Terrier! Details are available in the linked guide. 

[repeat] Additionally the Homecoming Dress Code is available for those beginning dress shopping for the October 18 dance. Please be thorough in reviewing these guidelines prior to making purchases as students not in compliance will not be permitted to enter the dance. These documents will continue to be available in the "Important Links/Files" folder at the bottom of this Hub. 

Previous Weeks in Terrier Nation

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Save the Dates

Upcoming Events:

8th Grade Parent Meeting: Tuesday, September 2, 6:00 p.m. (Kolb)

Pep Rally - Friday, September 5, 2:27 p.m. (Kolb)

Mid-9 Weeks - Friday, September 5

ACT Test Date - Saturday, September 6

9-11th Grade Parent Meeting: Monday, September 8, at 6:00 p.m. (Kolb)

Counselor's Connection

All seniors will have the opportunity to take the District ACT during the school day on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. Students do NOT need to register for this test. However, any senior wishing to take this test should bring payment of $39.75 to the Counseling Center by Monday, September 8, 2025. All seniors have to report to school on this day regardless if they choose to take the ACT. This test will be the former version and include the science section at no additional cost. However, the composite score will only include the English, Math and Reading subscores.

[repeat] Save the Date! The Counseling Center hosts informational meetings for parents each year. Topics covered in this meeting are listed below. Please mark your calendars to join us.

• Academic changes to the handbook (grading scale, quarter and semester grade calculation)

• Diploma and TOPS requirements

• Transcripts

• GPA

• ACT/PreACT/ PSAT

• College and Career Readiness

• Make Up Testing Policy

• Helpful Resources

8th Grade Parent Meeting: Tuesday, September 2nd at 6:00 pm in the Kolb 

9th/10th/11th Grade Parent Meeting: Monday, September 8th at 6:00 pm in the Kolb 

[repeat] Attention Junior and Senior Parents!

Please save the date for College Night which will be help on September 22nd from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the E.D. White Auditorium. 

[repeat] Please reach out to your student's assigned counselor with any questions or concerns via phone, email, or using the Counselor Request Form.

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Daily Announcements

Daily Announcements will be posted here each day.

Important Links/Files