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THIS WEEK AT CENTER SCHOOL CSCA General Board Meeting Thursday, October 22 - 6:30 pm The Center School Gather and celebrate the start of a new year at TCS. Find out all of the things the CSCA is working on to give our students and staff all the support and opportunities they deserve. Our featured speaker for the evening will be TCS Principal Lisa Escobar. Principal Escobar will share TCS goals for the year and the ways parents can support the new positive behavior support system otherwise known as THE FOUR MANTRAS. Questions about how curriculum alignment and the new student assignment plan will affect The Center School? Bring them to the CSCA general meeting on the 22nd.
NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL Dragonwear! It’s what all Dragons want to wear!
The CSCA is sponsoring the Senior Class sale of “DRAGONWEAR”. Our own Gracie Peterson, class of 2010, won the senior class contest for art that best personifies The Center School. Her art will adorn sweatshirts, t-shirts and scarves! The sale of “DRAGONWEAR” will help the senior class pay for senior events. Hopefully every year the new senior class will be able to raise money by selling their own specially designed “DRAGONWEAR”.
The final art is being completed right now and will go into production VERY SOON. Watch for a special BLAST - featuring the design, clothing options and order form. Get ready to ‘get your Dragon on!’
Be in on the start of a new Center School tradition!
TCS Bike Jerseys For Sale Order by: Tuesday October 20 The jerseys feature a design by Center School student Grace Peterson and cost $65. Shirts are available in room 355 to try on for fit. Parents can also go to Race in JL at 3425 Stone Way N to get fitted. Sizes are standard but there are options to lengthen the torso, etc. Long sleeves cost an additional $7.50 and your name embroidered on the back is $5.50. With your check, please include your name, size and any extras (sleeves/name). Please contact Mr. Chipps (ngchipps@seattleschools.org) if you have questions. Satu Heiskanen and Adam Bell are also good sources of information. Shirts will be available for trying on afterschool for the next two weeks. I hope to submit the order on 10/21. It will take 8 weeks for the jerseys to be produced and shipped from California. Deliver checks and info to Chipps or to the front desk.
VOLUNTEER AT TCS Senior Events Needs You! The Senior Event Coordinator seeks individuals to help support Senior Events for the Class of 2010. Join us at Senior Brunch, Senior-Junior Prom, Senior Celebration, Graduation, Graduation Reception and Grad Night. In the past, a junior parent has shadowed the Senior Event Coordinator to learn the ropes for the following year. Junior parents and students support and volunteer for Graduation and Graduation Reception, leaving senior parents free to enjoy the festivities. They also build good karma for their own senior year.
I have been doing this for two years now and it really is a lot of fun! If you are interested please contact Laura Burns at lbsupler@comcast.net or 206-935-6229.
DISTRICT NEWS
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS SSIA Collaborative Community Meetings to Discuss Old Hay School Wednesday, October 21 - 6:30 to 8:00 pm Coe Elementary Cafeteria, 2424 7th Ave. W. Thursday, October 29 - 6:30 to 8:00 pm Catharine Blaine Elementary Library, 2550 34th Ave. W. Successful Schools in Action will host two Collaborative Community Meetings to discuss Old Hay K-5 program options and a new name for the school.
With the recently released assignment plan and proposed attendance boundaries, the School District has announced the reopening of several schools, including the Old Hay school located on Boston Street, the location until this year of the SBOC.
This school will be renovated and reopened in 2011 as an Options School to help ease the overcrowding in our neighborhood schools. For the 2010-2011 school year, students will be bused and the program will be located in Lincoln High School.
Options schools typically offer unique programs and are all-city draws, with attendance preference given to a small, local geographic area. The District has proposed this school become a Montessori K-5 school, but they are asking for our feedback.
Please invite your friends and neighbors to attend. This is our opportunity to work together and provide input to the district on our newest neighborhood school. Hope to see you there!
October Child Advocate Available Online As parents, deciding when to intervene in our children’s lives and when to let them act on their own involves a difficult balance. Get some hints to help you strike the right balance in the October 2009 edition of the Child Advocate, now available online at this link: http://www.wastatepta.org/resources/child_advocate/index.html.
Bastyr "Haunted Trails" Friday and Saturday, October 16-17 and 23-24 – 5:00 to 11:00 pm Bastyr University woods and campus 14500 Juanita Drive NE, Kenmore Complete with mad scientists, witches, ghouls and goblins, the Haunted Trails tour through the spooky forest offers scary surprises around every corner for guests 8 years of age and older. Cost: $12, or $11 with non-perishable food donation. For additional information on Haunted Trails, call (425) 602-3107 or nielsen@bastyr.edu.
P.E. OPPORTUNITIES
SERVICE LEARNING Remember! TCS students are required to complete 60 hours of community service before graduation. It's never too early to start! Fundraising Concert and Auction Sunday, November 15 Columbia City Theater Seeking mature students to work at a fundraising concert and auction. Contact Brenda Stuvek bkstuvek@yahoo.com.
Nightmare at Beaver Lake Scare Productions is seeking volunteers to build, act in and tear down this year's "Nightmare at Beaver Lake". Get approved volunteer hours, while scaring the pants of your friends and family. If any of you remember the old Haunted House down in Des Moines, these are the same people. Just on a bigger better scale. They have partnered with Sammamish Rotary and put on a 1 mile trek through the woods at Beaver Lake. Please go to www.scare.com to see their volunteer website and to check out pictures from the last several years. Training starts the second week of October, but you can get involved now by helping the build. See you all at the Haunt!
INTERNSHIP & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
COLLEGE & CAREER EXPLORATION College Reps Come To Center School The following Colleges and Universities will be coming to The Center School in October. Juniors and seniors are especially encouraged to meet with the representataives to begin their college search. We are scheduling college reps to come at lunch time to the commons so that students will not miss class time and will have plenty of time to gather information. October’s schedule so far: Wed, Oct 28th—U of Puget Sound—early release day, rep at 11:45 lunch time Friday, Oct 30th—Hampshire College All meetings with college reps will be in the Commons
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
COLLEGE TESTING SAT Test Dates
ACT Test Dates
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS FREE SEMINAR: How to Write “Dance” Saturday, October 24 - 2:00 to 4:00 pm Pacific Northwest Ballet 301 Mercer Street (Seattle Center) Attention high school and college students! This free seminar for aspiring young journalists, arts critics, dance writers, and reviewers is offered by the Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB).
PNB is presenting “How to Write ‘Dance’” seminar for both the aspiring arts critic who doesn’t know a perfect plié from a pair of pliers AND the dance student who can grand jeté like a grasshopper but trips over a typewriter. This entertaining and decidedly non-scholarly panel discussion will encourage both wannabe writers and budding ballerinas to overcome their fear of the pen (or keypad). All attendees will receive complimentary tickets to attend PNB’s upcoming DIRECTOR’S CHOICE program (and will be encouraged to write about it afterwards).
Seating is limited for this free seminar. To reserve a space, please e-mail gtucker@pnb.org or phone 206-441-2426.
Washington Aerospace Scholars Applications are due by November 6th Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) is an educational program for high school juniors from across Washington State. The WAS program emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math, and encourages students to consider careers in these fields. Thanks to the Washington Aerospace Scholars Foundation, the entire program is offered at no cost to participants; this includes the educational experience, travel, meals and lodging expenses.
The program is divided into two components - the online curriculum, which takes place during the school year, and the six-day summer residency hosted by the Museum of Flight.
Students from every legislative district across Washington State compete to take part in this exciting program. Participants must be:
Applications are due by November 6th. For more information, go to http://www.museumofflight.org/washingtonaerospacescholars.
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