updated 03/15/10

TUESDAY Rotation: Day 1, Periods A B C G F E

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Next HSPA Meeting—Budget Breakfast with Principal Jeff Shedd. Tue March 30, 8 am, HS Café.

Game Night Parent Volunteers Desperately Needed for next Tues, Mar 23. See details below.

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STUDENT MEETINGS/ACTIVITIES/NOTES:

Student Club Meetings:  Jewelry/Metalsmithing Club Tue Mar 16 2:30-4:30, Mr. Rothlisberger’s Rm.

CEHS Teachers Offer SAT Prep Courses—Your Keys to Success: See attached flyer/form. Each course has 4 evening sessions (6-8 pm) at CEHS, running end of March through April (except vacation week- on either Mon, Tue or Thu, starting Mar 29, 30 or Apr 1. Writing SAT with Matt Clemens (Mon), Math SAT with Tony Ghidoni and Roger Rioux (Tue), and Critical Reading with Matt Clemens (Wed). Cost: $125 for 1 course, $250 for 2, and $325 for all 3. Sign-up at CE Community Services.  FMI: Chris Hayward <chris_hayward@cape.k12.me.us>

From Theatre:  THE BIRDS: This year's Festival Show, has advanced to the state finals.  Come see this award-winning spectacle on Tue Mar16h or Wed Mar17 at 7:30 pm, CEHS auditorium.  Tech students will be featured at the Wednesday performance.

Special Theatre Event-Visiting Catherine McAuley High School: Will present their short play, WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD, a story of women in the Holocaust, in CEHS Auditorium on Thur Mar (18th) at 7:30 pm.  A performance of THE BIRDS will follow.

Student Bake Sale to Benefit Siddhartha School: Wed, Mar 17, outside Café. Kids can grab some green-frosted goodies during school!

De-stress Students With a Meditation Session: Thu, Mar 18, 2:25 pm, CEHS Library.  Lead by Khen Rinpoche, a Tibetan monk.

Prom Fashion Show: Thu, Mar 18, 5:30 pm doors open, HS Café. Free food, raffle prizes! Local vendors will provide information for your prom planning.  Admission $3; Raffle tickets $1 each/3$ for 5.

Game Night: Tue Mar 23, 6-9 pm, HS Café.  Organized by the Juniors, there will be “Super Smash Brothers” and poker tournament, DDR,  Guitar Hero, and Ping Pong.  Sign up for tournaments in Main Office.  Admission $3.  Tourney winners earn points for their class for Winterfest.

CEHS National Honor Society Charity Basketball Game:  Thu, Mar 25, 6 pm, HS Gym. Cheer on the senior basketball players as they tip off against the CEHS faculty team to raise money for Sustainable Harvest International. Halftime knockout competition for all ages, with prizes. This is the last chance to see the seniors play! Come support SHI and the players, and have some fun! $2/students; $3/adults.   FMI: Morgan Pillsbury <MorganPillsbury@cape.k12.me.us>

Winterfest Talent Show: Wed Mar 24, 6:30 pm. Presented by Emancipation Network. Food/jewelry/raffle tickets for sale.  Sign up now to share your talent!.  Contestants earn points for their grade for participating.  FMI, Ms. Trippe.  Proceeds go to Emancipation Network.

Blood Drive: Thu, Mar 25, 8 am-1 pm, Community Room in Fire Stations.  Students at least 16 years of age with parental permission may donate.  Students should sign up with Kelsey Barton in the ATM Room or on the Health bulletin Board.

Cape Elizabeth Babe Ruth Will Hold Registrations: Mon, Mar 29, 7-8 pm, CE Community Services. Cape Elizabeth residents born between May 1, 1994 and April 30, 1997 are eligible. Registration fee- $100.00. A completed registration form, player fee and copy of player’s birth certificate required at registration. Forms available at sign ups. FMI: Ken Pierce at KPierce@MonaghanLeahy.com

10th Graders—Free Rotary Youth Leadership Academy.  June 27-30, Camp Hinds, Raymond Lake.  Applications Due April 1. 4 days of fun and fellowship. Learn leadership and adventure skills while meeting some great kids from other HS’s in Maine.  See Ms. Newell for applications.

NHS-Sponsored Fun/Fund Raiser Rescheduled For April Vacation!: Galactic Bowling has been rescheduled for Sun Apr 16th from 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM at Yankee Lanes.  For tickets see Ms. Raspiller any time in the Achievement Center.  $12 per person (includes shoes).  Refunds available for anyone who can't make this rescheduled event FMI: <ginger_raspiller@cape.k12.me.us>

Juniors--SAT Prep at Achievement Center:  Juniors can use their "frees" to prep for the SATs!  The Achievement Center has one-on-one tutoring and Maine Prep materials for the Reading and Writing sections of the exam--at no cost to the student.  FMI:  Lisa_Melanson@cape.k12.me.us

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OTHER NOTES FOR PARENTS

MSPA Basketball Bonanza / Shoot for the Moon Raffle :  Thu Mar 18, 6:30 –8 pm, CEMS Gym. 8th Grade Boys/Girls Teams Face Faculty in this fun match-up. Great Raffle Prizes!  Buy your Raffle tickets today (or find them attached).!! Only $2 each; 6 for $10, full sheet for $25?  Tickets can also be purchased at the event.  See you there!

See Special Theatre Offerings Above for One-Acts- THE BIRDS Tue –Thu, Mar 18-20 at 7:30 pm, CEHS auditorium. Guest performance Thurs by McCauley Students of WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD preceded Thur Performance.
 
2nd Annual Baseball  and Softball Spring Dance at Camp Ketcha--Sat, Mar 20, 7-12 pm. Cash Bar, DJ/Karaoke with Aaron Filieo, Silent Auction!  Sponsored by Baseball Boosters. $35 at door per couple; $30 in advance.  FMI or to buy tickets in advance: contact Ken Pierce <KPierce@MonaghanLeahy.com>, Susan Garrity sgarrity@maine.rr.com, Jody Boyington <Jodyboyington@aol.com> or any booster member.

School Board Budget Workshops and Spring Town-wide Vote—Stay Informed. School Board Workshops will be held this Mon, Mar 15 and Thu Mar 18 in the HS Library @ 7PM.  All are welcome and encouraged to attend.  Be prepared for June 8 town-wide vote.

Winterfest Is Coming, and Some Parental  Assistance Is Needed.... with Game Night, Tue Mar 23, 6:30-9pm.  If  you can help out with this event, which provides an opportunity for our  students to gather in a safe, fun environment, please contact Susan Spagnola,  jspagnol@maine.rr.com or Trish  Brigham, pbrigham@maine.rr.com.    Even if you can help out for just an hour, we'd love to hear from  you!

Winterfest Talent Show: Wed Mar 24, 6:30 pm, CEHS Auditorium. Be entertained by our HS student stars or star wanna-be’s! Presented by/benefiting the work of The Emancipation Network, a student organization that helps support victims of human trafficking.  $3 for students; $5 for adults.  FMI: Jenni Hewes <jennihewes@yahoo.com>

Cape Robotics Invites You to Take the Night Off from Cooking!!  Attend their Home-style Dinner and Silent Auction Wed Mar 24 from 5 – 7pm,  CEHS cafeteria.  Adults $10, Kids $5. Tickets available at the door.  Robotics demonstration.   Dinner sponsors: Buttered Biscuit and Barber Foods.  FMI-- Kathy Barber at 767-1007, kbarber@maine.rr.com.

Next HSPA-Sponsored "Coffee and  Conversation with Principal Shedd" is scheduled for Tue, Mar 30, 8am, HS Cafeteria.  Please join us as Principal Shedd shares information about the proposed school  budget and how it will impact our students for the upcoming school year.   All are welcome!
  
Seeking Jazz Cabaret Volunteers For Fri Apr 9, 7-9 om, Sun Apr 11, 2-4 pm. This year's Jazz Cabaret features CEHS and CEMS ensembles and combos. Volunteers are needed to manage food concessions, tickets, help decorate.  We also need donations of baked treats and other goodies. Can you help? Contact Dore Douty at 767-4727 or dore@doreseggs.com

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DONATIONS NEEDED

Contact volunteer coordinator Gail  Schmader,  799-7339 x345 or  gail_schmader@cape.k12.me.us.
Items needed: *** Used croquet sets *** Left-handed golf clubs***Laminator for Life Skills***Working Fishing Rods and Reels and Fly Tying materials for the HS Fishing Club

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Next Days Off—Fri April 16-Fri April 23 Spring Break
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If your student needs to be dismissed, send them with a note to bring to the office before the beginning of the school day

• The student brings a note from you to the office in the morning, before school (the next best option is to call at the beginning of the day, but it's not as good as a note because a call entails calling the student to the office, probably out of class, to get a dismissal pass)
  
• The student is given a dismissal note to show to the teacher before class begins
  
• The student comes to the office and signs out before leaving
  

• Secretary looks up student's schedule to figure out where s/he is scheduled to be, assuming they're not in the bathroom or nurse's office, or staying late to finish up a test/quiz in another teacher's room, or having a followup conversation with a previous class's teacher, or in the Assistant Principal's office or Guidance office, or any of a number of other perfectly legitimate places where the students may be when they are not in class.
  
• Secretary interrputs entire class by calling for student over intercom into classroom. Assuming the student is in a classroom where the intercom can be heard (e.g., not the band room, gym, industrial technology, and a few others), and provided the class is actually in the classroom and not in another place where teachers sometime take their classes (library; Achievement Center; outside to shoot off bottle rockets; or in hallway or stairwells doing all sorts of science experiments; on mountain bikes somewhere within a 3-mile radius of school; or outside taking photos or working on drawings; or in Portland at a Portland Stage Company theater production), and if the student has not started an activity that can't be interrupted (e.g., a test or quiz which the teacher wouldn't have had the student begin if they had known in advance about the impending dismissal), then the student will be sent up to the office. Usually, the parent has to wait several minutes for the student to actually get to the office, as the student either finishes up a test or quiz, stops at the bathroom or locker, chats with a friend who happens to be in the hallway, etc.
  
• If the class is not in the room or the class is but the student isn't, then the secretaries either launch a man (or woman)-hunt, sending Mr. Henninger scurrying all around the school, or do an all-call annoucement for the student, interrupting every classroom in the school. Meanwhile, while the hunt is on, the parent is getting increasingly frustrated, wondering "what kind of school we're running" because we don't know where students are every minute of the day. And, of course, the odds are increasing with every moment the hunt goes on that the student will be late for the appointment or the parent will be late for the next in a string of activities they have after this particular errand is complete.
  
• Eventually, the student is located, comes to the office and moves along to the appointment, hopefully not at such a high rate of speed (because they're now behind schedule) that they get stopped on route 77 for speeding by Officer Dorval or another friendly Cape Elizabeth police officer, causing them to miss the appointment altogether, which if the appointment is for a driver's test may disrupt the student's dream of liberation from parental oversight for another three months until the test can be rescheduled, meanwhile saddling the parent with three more avoidable months of chauffering the younger brother/sister to premier soccer practices, or friend's houses, all for the lack of a morning note...
  
• Of course, in this day of cell phones, the parent can attempt to short circuit this process by text messaging the student in the middle of the day. This might work, or it might result in the teacher's confiscation of the student's cell phone because students are not supposed to use phones during class because they are a significant disruption. Or if the student happens to be taking a test/quiz when the text message is received, the teacher may be understandably sensitive and confiscate the test/quiz, downgrading the student for suspected cheating (cell phone cheating is not an unknown occurrence in the 21st century). Or the cell phone may be in the student's backpack while the student is in the bathroom or at his/her locker. In either case, student is then in an irritable mood when s/he eventually arrives in the office, unhappy with parent for not making life easier by simply sending a note with him/her at the beginning of the day...