CAC High School Principal’s Notes
The CAC HS Eco Fair
StuCo and NHS Clothing Sale
Plant Sellers at the Eco Fair
Ms McCall gets dunked
Green Team mural highlights a bottle refilling station
Grade 9 presentation
Design Technology Exhibition
Earth Day 2022
It was another busy and exciting week on the CAC campus. We saw the first very successful Eco Fair on Wednesday, followed up with a teacher Dunk Tank event at lunchtime today. These events were organized by the Green Team to raise awareness of environmental issues and to showcase some companies here in Maadi that are working in sustainable and environmentally responsible ways to run their businesses.
Our Grade 9s have been working on projects about sustainable energy and other environmental issues in their Science class and these were also showcased at the event yesterday. The students were deeply knowledgeable and passionate about the projects they have researched which ranged from wind energy, hydro-power, electric cars and plastic pollution to name but a few. Our Design Technology students also showcased their work at the DT Exhibition showing their creative solutions to design problems.
Today was the last day of regular classes for our Grade 12 IB students with their examinations beginning next week. We wish them all the very best of luck with these important culminating exams. For the non-IB students, classes continue for a few more weeks before finishing on May 29. And of course, we are all looking forward to this year’s Graduation Ceremony at the Pyramids of Giza on June 3.
This weekend, we are keeping the Skyward gradebook closed to encourage everyone to take some time away from thinking about grades in the hope that students can relax and recharge their batteries (as well as balancing that with some time completing work and studying as needed). The gradebook will open on Tuesday 26 April until Saturday 30 April, close again for the Eid holiday and then open from May 8 to June 5 in the final run up to the end of the year.
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful long weekend; and for those who are celebrating Easter, I wish you a wonderful celebration.
Dates for your Diary
• 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 16: High School Recognition Night 6:30 p.m.
• May 20: Prom (off site)
• May 27: PTO International Festival
Andrew Buckman Rachel McCall
HS Principal HS Assistant Principal
Counseling Department Announcements
Week of April 21, 2022
Grade 11
Teacher Letters of Recommendation: The majority of students will be in need of an academic recommendation(s) for university applications. Class of 2023 students were emailed instructions and policies for requesting these letters of recommendation and are asked to start this process ASAP. Students should 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.
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:
• Introduction to American Universities
• 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
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
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
Annual Booster Club Spirit Store Mega Sale
The Booster Club would like to announce the up-coming annual SPIRIT STORE MEGA SALE. Big discounts taken on many Store items! Come on April 28th to the MS Field from 1-5pm to shop till you drop! Hope to see you all at the sale supporting the CAC Booster Club.
Booster Club
*** 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? If so, 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 on campus.
Schedule:
1) Greetings and introduction. (First potential conversation in Arabic)
2) Small Talks (work, family, travels, etc)
3) Functional phrases (asking for directions, details, help, etc)
4) Introduction to decoding
5) Cultural flavors (acknowledging the Arabic Cuisine)
To book your spot or for further details please email melbably@cacegypt.org.
We look forward to seeing you.
Community Outreach Committee