CAC High School Principal’s Notes
If you were on campus for the Spring Music Festival yesterday, you would no doubt agree with me that it was a truly wonderful experience. The show was slick and professional and highlighted the wealth of musical talent we have here at CAC! Stunning performances and a great festival atmosphere. Well done indeed to all our student musicians and congratulations to music teachers Ian McCuaig and Alex Dzamashvili.
Take a break this long weekend
Students work hard and this can be an exhausting time of year. All students are encouraged to balance their working commitments with some downtime this upcoming long weekend. You can support your child by helping them to divide their time between schoolwork, socializing with friends, family time and self-care. Being balanced in this way is an important step toward feeling healthy and positive about their working commitments while maintaining their overall well-being.
To help you with this, the Skyward Gradebook will be open this week from Thursday 14 April until Wednesday, 20 April. This will give you a longer opportunity for checking your child’s progress and having conversations at home as we begin to approach the end of the semester, avoiding the need to have this conversation at the weekend if you prefer not to.
Dates for your Diary
• Sun 17 April: Western Easter Holiday (no school)
• April 20: Eco-Fair on campus 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
• April 21: Last day of classes for IB Seniors.
• Sun 24 & Mon 25: Eastern Easter and Sinai Liberation Day (no school)
• April 28: IB exams start
• May 1: Labor Day holiday (no school)
• May 2-5: Eid Holiday (no school)
• May 20: Prom
• May 27: PTO International Festival
Enjoy this longer weekend. Yours in partnership and learning,
Andrew Buckman Rachel McCall
HS Principal HS Assistant Principal
Counseling Department Announcements
Week of April 14, 2022
Grade 11
Teacher Letters of Recommendation: The majority of students will be in need of an academic recommendation(s) for university applications. This week, Class of 2023 students were emailed instructions and policies for requesting these letters of recommendation. Students are asked to request letters of recommendation from teachers by May 11th, by following the instructions sent in the email. Students should contact their counselor if they have any questions or concerns.
A reminder to please have your student schedule the individual university planning meeting that should take place during the students’ flex period before April 21, 2022. Those who were unable to attend the University Kick Off, you may find the recording of the session on the Home Page of our CAC HS Counseling Resources Webpage.
Additional resources available for Grade 11 students and families. Students and families exploring US or UK universities, you may find the following videos and resources:
• The University Process for Parents
• The University Search for UK Universities
• Financial Aid 101 for US Universities
CAC is now an ACT Test Center
CAC is pleased to announce that our campus is now an ACT Test Center. Registration for the June 11 offering is available.
For students who wish to register to take the ACT at CAC, please go to this site.
• Sign up for an account and then navigate to the International Test site page. Our center is listed under our test center number: 866070, location Maadi.
• Sign up for the Non Writing Option (there are only 5 universities in the US who require ACT writing)
• CAC is an open test site and capacity is limited. If your student plans to take the test, please book your seat ASAP before the spaces are filled.
Please talk with your counselor if you have any questions about registering for the ACT. You may also refer to the CAC Counseling Resources page under the ACT section for more information.
Claudia Bean, Kasey Semler, Cameron Simon
HS Counseling
General Announcements
Environmental Awareness Fair – Survey
The Freshman Class is in the process of becoming Agents of Change. As some may know, on Wednesday the 20th of April, CAC will be holding an environmental awareness fair, where students will present solutions to some of the world’s most significant problems relating to our environment.
Our group is focussing on the topic of factory farming and how our everyday diets may contribute to climate change. It would be great if any member related to CAC fill out our survey.
Grade 9 Group
HS Eco-Fair
Wednesday, April 20 – HS Field
Join us to celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday, April 20th. Learn how our community can implement eco-friendly practices. Enjoy our sustainable vendors & guest speakers. Contribute by donating, electronics, clothing & recycling paper. Don’t miss our Thrift Store!
We will be open for students, faculty & staff starting at 2 pm and for parents starting at 3 pm until 5 pm.
CLICK HERE! for more information
HS Green Team
Moving on from CAC at the end of the year?
We are in the process of finalizing plans for the next school year. If you already know that you will be moving on from CAC at the end of this year it would be much appreciated if you could let us know at this time. You can use the link below as a withdrawal notification.
https://cacegypt.org/index.php/withdrawal-request
Thank you very much for your help.
Registrar’s office
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THE NEXT AND FINAL SESSION ON APRIL 19!
April 19, 2022 | 4:00-5:00pm (GMT+3)
Reflecting on the Journey
Presented by Ellen Mahoney
CEO, SEA CHANGE MENTORING & THE CIRCULUS INSTITUTE
Reflect on the work we have done this school year around the inner work required of the adults in young people’s lives. How have we strengthened our mindsets and social emotional competencies? What insights can we glean from learning alongside our youth? Share with each other and provide social support around your insights this year and the next steps you can take in your Adult Social Emotional Learning journey.
PLEASE NOTE
To join this session, you don’t need to re-register. You may use the same link you used previously. Or, you may register again to receive a new email/link.
RE-REGISTER – ONLY IF YOU NEED A NEW LINK
IMPORTANT: Daylight savings time has begun Europe. The new GMT+3 time zone will affect your meeting start time if you are in a country which does not also observe daylight savings. Please visit this link to view your local start time.
From The Swimming & Aquatics
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cj7LQ7xvyPNcyjBu-KwiGzInKruZhc1SujteZ66H2zA/edit?usp=sharing
Aquatics Office
From the Library
The Free Little Library is back with a new look and some new books! It is now featuring a new sign made by our Design Technology students, Youssef Omar, Marwan El Nadi and Adam Shahkaram.
Meghan Ennis
MHS Librarian
*** INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ***
Parents, teachers and students! Mark your calendars for this year’s International Festival!
CAC’s annual International Festival celebrates our community’s diverse cultural background by sharing a love we all have in common – food!
We are so excited to meet as a community this year after a two year break due to COVID! Please join us on May 27, 2022, from 3-8pm on the High School field for a great afternoon together. The event will include our international country booths sharing sample size foods to try, cultural performances and music, and our biggest crowd pleaser the raffle!
If you would like to represent and showcase your home country please register for a booth. As of today we have several countries committed to operating their booths These countries are: Korea, Germany, Italy, India, Bangladesh, Libya, Palestine, Egypt, Ukraine, Japan, Canada, Brazil, United States and the Philippines!
Please contact the International Festival coordinator at 99elesiewicz@cacegypt.org to register for a country booth or with any questions. We are also looking for volunteers to help out in other capacities at the International Festival.
We look forward to welcoming all of our wonderful families to the International Festival.
PTO
Attention CAC Community!
As a part of the community outreach strategic plans, CAC is establishing a language exchange initiative. This year we will offer Arabic classes and we aim to offer more languages and training next year.
Are you interested in learning Arabic? Please consider supporting the CAC Language Initiative by participating in the trial opening!
We will hold 5 trial classes starting on May 8th. Each class is an hour long and will be from 3:30 to 4:30 at CAC.
Interested? email melbably@cacegypt.org to book your seat, and get further details.
We look forward to seeing you.
Mohamed El Bably
Arabic Teacher