Cocurricular Activities/Clubs
Students are encouraged to get involved in co-curricular activities. By being active outside the classroom, students develop leadership skills and form bonds as they work toward common goals.
BAILE: Dance Appreciation Club
This club is all about relieving the stress of CJ student life by encouraging the student body to learn more about cultures, eras and the expression of dance itself, while having a LOT of fun. Baile plans on hosting various meetings where several forms of dance will be taught by instructors (hula dancing, Irish dancing, salsa, etc.). The goal of this club is to get more people involved in this school in a fun and relaxing way, while keeping an educational twist that will be useful for the rest of one's life. Baile welcomes those who dance, those who want to learn to dance, and those who appreciate dance.
Meetings: Once a month • Moderator: Ms. Tommy Nolan
CARE (Christian Action Reaching Everyone)
This is the service club for Freshmen and Sophomores. CARE members work to improve the community through service. Committees include: Katie's Krew (making sandwiches for St. Patrick's Center), Benefit Musical (senior citizen night at the musical), Almost Home (babysitting for single moms), Casey's Angels (tutoring at area grade schools), and Christmas and Easter drives, which collect gifts for those in need. CARE also sponsors dress-down days to raise money for charities and performs other service work as needed.
Meetings: On-site service opportunities • Moderator: Ms. Joann Korte
CORDE PLAYERS: Drama Club
This club sponsors the Fall Play and Spring Musical as well as takes field trips and has movie nights. Join to find out how you can be part of the Play and Musical!
Meetings: Tuesdays, once a month • Moderator: Mrs. Laura Bolt
CORDE PLAYERS: Speech Team
Informational meeting for interested freshmen will be at the first Corde Players meeting. The team is highly selective and competitive. There are four meets held on Sundays. Any interested Freshmen will shadow present members.
Moderator: Mrs. Laura Bolt
CORETTE: School Newspaper
Corette is open to anyone who is interested in learning how to produce a school newspaper. The staff learns news writing, interviewing, computer layout and photography techniques through the creation of monthly editions of Corette. Other club activities may include movie nights, after-school field trips, and workshops.
Workshops: Mandatory workshops held in September (dates to be announced)
Meetings: Meetings vary. General staff/assignment meeting once a month, but smaller meetings throughout the month for editors and layout staff.
Moderators: Mrs. Andrea Reynolds and Miss Michelle Otto
ECHO CLUB
This club, open to all students, explores career opportunities in health-related fields. Speakers from various health professions present career information during monthly meetings.
Meetings: Once a month • Moderator: Mrs. Kathy Grana
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CLUB
A few of the activities include recycling paper for the campus, beautification projects for the school, exploring the science of tie-dying and making ice cream. Other activities are based upon the interest of the members of the group.
Meetings: Once a month • Moderator: Mrs. Kelly Harfst and Ms. Olivia Reichert
IMPEL (Individuals Motivated by Prayer and Energized by the Lord)
This is the service club for Juniors and Seniors. In addition to the meetings, there are frequent opportunities to do service in the community.
Meetings: Once a month • Moderator: Ms. Carol Bauer
GLOBETROTTERS: Global Diversity Club
- Meeting to explore new ways of understanding world cultures and our shared human experience, as we gain new perspectives through speakers, programs, films discussions, and a wide range of thoughtful and fun activities;
- Sponsoring multi-cultural and diversity activities on campus, promoting global awareness and understanding and respect as alternatives to racism and other forms of bias;
- Organizing service projects that promote better understanding and cooperation among people (possible activities to include Big Sister program with a metropolitan middle school, international pen pals, and fundraising for mission and humanitarian causes);
- Celebrating holidays, food, travel opportunities, and artistic traditions from a variety of cultures.
Want to expand your sense of the world? Join us!
Meetings: 3rd Thursday of each month, or as announced • Moderator: Dr. Tom Curran
JSA: Junior State of America
Our own future stateswomen engage in research and debate current events and arguments pertinent to U.S., state, local, national, and international policy and law. Students also invite local policymakers to speak. Annual trip to either Jeff City or Springfield, IL, to meet lawmakers.
Meetings: Sporadic (to be announced) • Moderator: Dr. Tom Curran
LANGUAGE CLUBS: French, Latin & Spanish
Language clubs have one meeting per month, and sometimes and additional activity planned. Activities include parties at Christmas, Mardi Gras, and Saturnalia, and also field trips to local ethnic restaurants. Meetings also feature speakers and entertainment with foreign films and cartoons.
Meetings: Tuesdays • Moderators: Language Teachers
LITTERATAE / DIMENSIONS: The Literary Society of Cor Jesu
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Monthly meetings to discuss favorite authors and cultural topics in a friendly, fun, and supportive atmosphere.
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Attending lectures by literary scholars, readings by authors, films and plays.
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Editing and producing Dimensions, an annual literary and arts magazine
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Organizing service projects that promote literacy and provide books to people in need.
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Celebrating holidays and literary events in original ways that relate reading to life.
All students who like to read and/or write creatively are welcome to join.
Meetings: First Tuesday of the month, or as announced • Moderator: Ms. Kim Cowan
MOCK TRIAL Team: The “Legal Eagles”
Who may join: Returning Seniors will form the core of next year's Varsity Mock Trial team and will be coaching the new members. Cor Jesu also will be fielding a Junior Varsity team made up of new-to-the-team Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. if you think you like the law and the idea of being a lawyer, witness or investigator, and are a good organizer, writer, public speaker and /or actress, the Legal Eagles want YOU!
Activities: Mock Trial is a team more than a club in that, as in Scholar Bowl, each member of the "club" is responsible to the group to learn and master new information and skills for competition. In Mock Trial, we study the basics of the law, the basic of trial procedures and Mock Trial rules, and the case issued by BAMSL itself. We prepare our side of the trial two times, once as prosecution and once as defense. After we learn the basics of law and litigation, we will practice our new skills with a couple of "mock trials," like the trial of Jack (and the Beanstalk) Jones vs. the Giant! We plan to take a field trip to Jefferson City to see our state's Supreme Court in session and/or see county or federal courts in session. We are coached by attorneys who are often parents, but also by Mr. Raymond Meyer, an attorney working in the federal system. We also scrimmage against other teams: veteran vs. rookie, our school vs. another like SLUH or Priory or Visitation. Finally, we compete twice, presenting each side of the case in turn, once in January and again in February. If we succeed, we go on to regionals and then to STATE! Last year, Team Red took 3rd place at State!
Meetings: After school on many Wednesdays in the fall until November when we receive the case. After we have the case, we will meet Wednesdays and on other mutually agreeable evenings to compose our arguments and examination questions, and rehearse our roles. Beginning late December, we will scrimmage against other competing schools on various mutually agreeable evenings and weekends. In the third week of January and February, the team will compete in an area wide BAMSL sponsored Mock Trial tournament at the St. Louis County Court House
Moderator: Ms. Jennifer Ahrens
MUSIC: Women's Select Choirs
Chamber Singers (first semester)
This is an auditioned ensemble at Cor Jesu. Singers will sing a variety of advanced repertoire and must be able to hold their vocal part in a small group of 12-18 singers.
Show Choir (second semester)
Students interested in being part of the Show Choir will audition for both singing and dancing talent.
These ensembles will sing at community and school performances. Auditions will be held in September for Chamber Singers and in January for Show Choir. Students may audition for one or both ensembles.
Meetings: Mondays, 2:45-3:45 p.m. • Moderator: Mrs. Kathleen Pottinger
Instrumental Ensemble
New at Cor Jesu! Open to all students who have experience playing musical instruments and would like to play with other instrumentalists. Performance opportunities will be arranged at a later date. Instruments provided by students. Cost $150.00.
Meetings: Wednesdays. • Instructor: Sister Gail Buckman, SSND
NATIONAL ART HONOR SOCIETY (NAHS)
A program of the National Art Education Association. This program is designed specifically for high school students in grades 10-12 for the purpose of inspiring and recognizing those students who have shown an outstanding ability in art and to bring art education to the attention of the school and community.
Meetings: Second Tuesday of the month (check calendar) • Moderator: Mrs. MaryJo Clark
NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY (NHS)
The National Honor Society (NHS)is the nation's premier organization established to recognize outstanding high school students. NHS serves to honor those students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character.
For additional information, click here.
Meetings: See calendar. • Moderators: Ms. Jen Ahrens and Ms. Kim Cowan
PEN PALS
Pen Pals exchange letters with a group of 5th grade students at Rose Acres Elementary School to provide "real-world" writing experience. Admissions is limited but is available each year to all students.
Meetings: Listen to announcements. • Moderator: Mrs. Andrea Reynolds
PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
The Photography Club is open to any student who is interested in learning more about photography, from the use of the camera to improving photographic compositions. Students should have their own digital cameras and will be given photographic “assignments” that focus on a particular theme or subject matter. The use of photo editing software will also be addressed.
Meetings: First Monday of the month • Moderator: Mrs. MaryJo Clark
SCHOLAR BOWL
Scholar Bowl is a serious quiz team that competes against other schools, with the District Competition being the highlight of the season. Our goal this year is to be more competitive against our fellow schools and to participate in a newly-formed Private School League. This goal will be accomplished by taking a more serious approach to the preparation and practice that is necessary to form a team that is necessary to form a team that is highly competitive.
The practice will happen during our after school meetings when we play practice rounds with practice test questions. The preparation will occur when club members (alone, or as part of a study team) become "experts" in areas of their choice, such as mythology, current events, presidents, Civil War, WWI or II, Shakespeare, etc. The Scholar Bowl team is part of MHSAA (Missouri High School Athletic Association).
Meetings: Every third Monday, with practice on your own, most other Mondays. Some weekend and weekday tournaments with local (and not-so-local) schools.
Moderator: Mrs. Sue Flynn
SPIRIT & LIFE: Campus Ministry
The main purpose of Spirit & Life is to build and strengthen the Christian community within the school. There are three different committees that make up Spirit & Life: Liturgy, Pro-Life, and Paraliturgy. The Liturgy committee plans and prepares all school Masses; the Pro-Life committee organizes and prepares all pro-life activities for the school; and the Paraliturgy Committee plans all special spiritual events, including prayer services, Advent and Lenten services, Reconciliation, and May Crowning.
Meetings: Twice monthly. • Moderators: Ms. Colleen O'Brien and Mrs. Bonnie Goodwin
STUCO: Student Council
This is an organization whose purpose is to develop attitudes and practices of good citizenship, provide harmonious relations throughout the school, improve student-teacher relationships, and promote the welfare and spirit of the school.
STUCO members are elected by their class to represent the ideas and values of the class. Freshmen elect their officers and class reps in the second quarter.
Meetings: Check Calendar. • Moderators: Ms. Mary Steiger and Mrs. Sherry Everding
TREND: Turning Resources & Energy in New Directions
Trend is a peer support movement that promotes an alcohol/drug free lifestyle for teens. One of its goals is to offer a positive, socially acceptable alternative to the teen drinking scene. The four components of TREND include: drug-free alternatives, community service projects, leadership training, and educational programs.
Meetings: 2nd Thursday of each month. • Moderator: Mrs. Bonnie Goodwin and Ms. Laura Gantner