CAC High School Principal’s Notes
Winter Concert 2022
Thank you to Senior parents and Booster Club
It’s that time of year and the holiday season is almost upon us! We must say a big thank you to our senior parents and the booster club for providing us with some wonderful holiday cheer this week. The booster club provided hot chocolate for all high school students earlier in the week and our senior parents provided a wonderful brunch for the Grade 12s.
Arts Assembly
Today, we enjoyed a fantastic arts assembly in the theater—the perfect way to wrap up the term before switching our focus to exams next week. A big thank you to our arts teachers: Mr Lazar, Ms Erica, Mr Alex, Ms Allinson and Mr McCuaig, who have been working hard with the students through the course of this semester and who collaborated to produce this amazing showcase of artistic talent at CAC. We enjoyed musical performances from the high school band, choir and strings ensemble. We were treated to an overview of the visual artwork that our artists have created this semester and a performance from the Theater Making class. All in all, it was a wonderful end to the week. Creativity is one of CAC’s core values and coming together in this way to celebrate the creativity and achievements of our artistic students is an important part of our holistic education.
Student Magazine Covers – Digital Arts Class
Exams update
Semester exams run from Sunday December 11 – 14, 2022, with make-up exams on Thursday, December 15. Students with off campus privileges are allowed to leave campus after their last exam for the day. For students who do not have off-campus privileges, their parents may approve temporary privileges to leave campus early during Exams Week. In these cases, parents should email the HS office to give temporary authorization, and the student should stop by the HS Office with his/her ID card.
Students must sit for their exams as scheduled. Only in cases of medical or family emergency may a student retake a missed exam. If a student is unable to attend school for these reasons, parents are asked to email the school by 9:00 am, and submit documentation upon their child’s return to school. Please feel free to email Ms. McCall if you have any additional questions about attendance during exams week.
We wish students all the best in their endeavors next week.
WWW Updates
• Payment may be made now through the cashier, or by bank transfer. Contact Dina Sadek in the Finance Department with questions. The price of the trip may be found on the Verification Form, which was emailed, along with the trip confirmation, last month. Trip payments are due January 15, 2023.
• Overnight trip leaders have created Google Classrooms for your information; please accept the invitation from your school’s Google Account, so you can stay in the loop! Packing lists and trip itineraries are posted now for your information. Local and day trip leaders will share more information in January. Contact Ms. Mona Abdelhady for technical assistance.
• This week is the “last call” for visa letters before January 2023. The HS Office will be closed December 16 – January 7th, so if you require any additional supporting documentation to facilitate your child’s visa for WWW, please contact Natasha Bagsair by December 13th.
• Any other questions? Feel free to contact Ms. McCall.
CAC Grade Cup comes to a dramatic close!
HS Grade Cup Final Line Up
A big congratulations to the Sophomore Grade Football Team who were crowned champion of the fist CAC Grade Cup event that has been organized by students these last three weeks. It was an intense and passionate match which the Sophomores scooped on penalties after a goalless tie at full time!
Sophomore Champions!
CAC Grade Cup Trophies
Winter Break and Holiday
At this point, we’d like to take the opportunity to wish you all a fantastic holiday. Although it is still a week away, that time will pass quickly before we know it will be in the holiday season. Wishing everybody a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year and we look forward to welcoming you back for semester two on Sunday, January 8.
Dates for your Diary
• 16 Dec – 7 Jan – Winter Break
• Sun 8 Jan: School resumes (Semester 2 begins; it will be an A day)
• Thu 12 Jan – Semester One Report Card Issued
• Sun 15 Jan – WWW Payments are due (100%)
G12 Chem students working on IB Internal Assessment
Gratitude Tree – Homeroom Activity at Thanksgiving
Andrew Buckman Rachel McCall
HS Principal HS Assistant Principal
Counseling Department Announcements
Week of December 8, 2022
Gr 9 Seminar – Stress Management
This week the counseling and PE departments collaborated and co-taught lessons about the importance of health and wellbeing through the lens of stress management. Specifically we discussed the differences between worry, anxiety and stress, along with coping/help strategies that students can add to their daily routines or as needed. We also introduced the Stress Performance Curve. Lessons were tied into exam preparation and the importance of everyday movement.
ACT Prep Course
CAC has partnered with Higher Ground Learning to offer a 2-weekend in-person ACT prep course at CAC in March. To learn more about registration and the cost, please click here. There must be at least 5 people enrolled for the course to take place.
ACT Test information:
Students may register for the upcoming 22-23 test dates at CAC, or other test locations in Cairo. Please go here to find out more.
Grade 12
Upcoming Applications: Students should continue working on applications for the later USA EA & RD submissions, The Netherlands, UC’s, and UCAS. The internal CAC deadline to have all applications complete and ready to submit through January 15th was Nov. 30th.
Students should continue to check application portals on a regular schedule after an application is submitted, to see if there are any additional requirements or SRAR (Self-Reported Academic Record) forms to fill out.
Document Request Forms: Seniors submitting applications must be sure to submit a Document Request Form (DRF) to the counseling office. This form ensures we know exactly what documents are needed to send to each of the different institutions being applied to. If your seniors have not yet submitted the DRF’s for the UC’s and any earlier January deadline dates, they need to do so ASAP as those must be processed before winter break (students can still work on the student submission after Dec. 15th, but the CAC portion must be submitted to our office before winter break).
Claudia Bean, Jody Stiles, Kasey Semler
HS Counseling
General Announcements
Moving on from CAC before the winter break?
Please use the link below to let us know if you are withdrawing from CAC this semester so that we can prepare records in time for your departure. Please note that this semester’s middle school report cards and the final high school transcript which includes this semester’s grades will not be available until mid-January 2023.
A few days before your departure, a withdrawal form that includes several signatures must also be completed by middle and high school students in order to clear any outstanding obligations, and turned in to the Admission/Registrar’s Office to release records.
https://cacegypt.org/index.php/withdrawal-request
Registrar’s office
From The Aquatics/ SOFTIES
Softies season is OPEN!!!! For all swimmers in MS/HS, we would like to take part in the winter swimming season. Practices are Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday from 3:10-4:10. Please use the link.
Aquatics Office
HS Library
Introducing PressReader – free for you from the CAC Libraries!
PressReader offers hundreds of magazines and newspapers from around the world and in multiple languages!
Click here for directions on how to Sign-in to PressReader using your CAC Google Account – note you will need to click “Library/Group” on the sign-in page to access the subscription.
Stock up on books for the Winter Break – we are open Saturday!
We are open this Saturday! This is the last Saturday the library will be open until after Winter Break. Stop by and check out books for the holiday!
Read on the Sora App! CAC’s portal for E-books, Audiobooks, Magazines!
Don’t forget that no matter where you are, you have access to free Audiobooks, Magazines and E-books on the Sora App. Download the app and then sign in with your CAC Google Account!
It may be time to RENEW your CAC NY Times Subscription.
CAC’s Libraries offers a free subscription to the NY Times for all CAC email holders. However, this subscription needs to be renewed each year. If you want to sign up for the first time, or renew your subscription, use this link: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass/check
Meghan Ennis
Library
Let’s Make Art Together -December 10th
Create your very own Christmas Cards Art Workshop
Take your crafting skills up a notch and come join us with your kids in this creative art workshop.
Bring an open mind, your creative ideas, and be prepared to get messy with paint!
Students must be accompanied by parents.
Beginners are highly welcome and will be able to make beautiful art right away.
Saturday, December 10th from 11:00am – 1:00pm – Room L06 – MS Building
This workshop is free but pre-registration is required. Please register here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpw-26jeiYeT_aPlFEIpdpw1YlNnAb1RyptZu-viq4GMRsjA/viewform?hl=en
Nagla Genidy and Fides Urbiztondo
0100-819-2000
ngenidy@cacegypt.org
Help us to keep our watercolor palettes full for our students by donating watercolor supplies!
Nagla Genidy & Fides Urbiztondo
The Maadi Basketball Association (MBA)
The MBA is a basketball league for children in the Maadi community. The MBA includes boys and girls from age 5 through 16, and is played in the CAC gyms and outside basketball court. The season runs from Jan. 8 through March 18.
Register for the league at the link below:
MBA 2023 Registration Form
Parents, please consider supporting the league by being a coordinator, coach, team parent. For more information, contact the MBA Coordinator, Monte Davis, at: mdavis@cacegypt.org.
Monte Davis
MBA Coordinator
500 GIFTS to ABU AL REESH KIDS!
Dec.4 – Dec.14
Abu Al Reesh is the biggest public children’s hospital in Egypt in downtown, Cairo. The hospital provides FREE medical services for children from low-income families. Last year, ES students packed 450 GIFT BAGS adding a thoughtful message for their friends at the hospital. This year, we are hoping to make 500 GIFT BAGS to add a smile to those precious faces. You can drop off your contribution in the red donation boxes on campus between Dec.4 – Dec. 14. Click here to know more about the hospital & the Gift criteria!
If you have any questions, please contact:
CAC PTO – cacpto@cacegypt.org
Service Learning & CAS Coordinator – MS. Ereeny Gawdat (egergess@cacegypt.org)
HS SLEC Team (Service Learning Executive Committee) – Tia Fikry (25tfikry@cacegypt.org)
CAC PTO