CAC High School Principal’s Notes
Happy New Year!
Student Magazine Covers – Digital Arts
Happy New Year to all of you in our CAC community! It’s great to see everyone back here in Cairo, and for our campus to be buzzing with student learning and activity once again. We hit the ground running with sports practices and activities in full flow as well as teachers passing back students’ semester exams, providing feedback and cracking on with the learning for semester two.
By the time you read this newsletter, you will have received notification that your child semester one report card is available in Skyward. Please do take some time this weekend to review your child’s grades and have a conversation with them about how their learning is going in school currently. If you should have any concerns or questions, of course, you are welcome to email teachers directly to set up appointments for conversations.
We know there’s a busy semester ahead. Excitement is building around our Week Without Walls trips which are happening at the end of February. Students will be heading off to various exciting locations around the world and here in Egypt, as well as engaging in meaningful, dynamic learning experiences on campus and around Maadi. We have a small group of students heading to the Netherlands to represent CAC at The Hague Model United Nations, an extremely prestigious MUN event which attracts students from all around the world to participate. We look forward to hearing updates from them soon. Students on sports teams will be looking forward to the upcoming CISSA tournaments hosted here on the CAC campus in February. And, of course, varsity teams will travel to Europe in March to represent CAC at the ISAA championships which conclude season two. On Monday, we had a very successful semester two activity fair. Students who are not currently involved in activities have been encouraged to sign up for the many new opportunities which exist in the semester two activities program.
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend ahead.
WWW Updates
Final payments for WWW activities are due January 15, 2023. The current prices for WWW trips may be found here, or on the verification form emailed to your family in November. Families of those students going on overnight trips will be invited to an online information session the week of January 29th. Specific meeting information will be shared with you in the coming week.
Questions about payments? Balance Due? Contact Dina Sadek in the Finance Department, dsadek@cacegypt.org.
Sincerely V – Spare App
Please note that Sincerely V will not be available on the spare app until further notice.
Dates for your Diary
• Sun 15 Jan: WWW Payments are due (100%)
• Mon-Tues 16 & 17 Jan: HS Photo Retakes/Senior Yearbook Headshots
• Fri 20 Jan: Hope Run (in Wadi Degla)
• 20-27 Jan: THIMUN Trip – The Hague
• Thu 26 Jan: Police Day/Revolution Day Holiday
• Tue 7 Feb: Grade 11 University Information Event (4:00 pm)
• Thu 16 Feb: Early Release Day. Students dismissed at 11:30
• Thu 16 Feb: HS Talent Show (evening)
• 26 Feb – Mar 2: Week Without Walls (note: some international trips depart ahead of this date, check your child’s individual trip information)
• 3-11 Mar: Spring Break
New banners outside HS promoting activities
Grade 9 learning softball skills
Andrew Buckman Rachel McCall
HS Principal HS Assistant Principal
Counseling Department Announcements
Week of January 12, 2023
Summer Programs
Immersing yourself in a summer program is one of the best ways to use your time away from CAC to gain valuable experience. There are thousands of summer opportunities and programs being offered around the world each year. Click HERE to check out a few we have come across.
Reminders for your senior students: Upcoming Applications: The next upcoming internal CAC deadline to have all applications ready to submit for deadlines between January 25th, 2023 through Feb. 1st, 2023 is January 16th, 2023.
Grade 11 University Application Kick Off for juniors and parents
February 7th – save the date!
Grade 11 Programing
Prior to the university application kick off evening, the counselors will meet all grade 11 students to review PSAT scores and prepare for the February 7th university presentation.
Grade 10 Programing
In late January the counselors will meet with all grade 10 students to review PSAT scores and prepare for course selections. The course selection process between grades 10 and 11 is important, therefore each student will be asked to complete a 4 year academic plan to help ensure they are on a suitable pathway to individual success.
Grade 9 Programing
Grade 9 seminars will continue throughout the second semester. Our first sessions will be in collaboration with the PE department as we work through the lens of health and wellbeing.
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.
Claudia Bean, Jody Stiles, Kasey Semler
HS Counseling
General Announcements
Community Core Values award – To honor our community’s involvement, the CAC Board of Trustees every year seeks to recognize members of our community through the CAC Community Core Values award. This award is presented to members of our community who exhibit the CAC core values by making exceptional and varied contributions to the CAC community through volunteering their time, expertise and love for CAC. The CAC Core Values are: Compassion, Creativity, Courage, Integrity, Perseverance, Respect, and Responsibility.
If you know of someone who has made a difference in the lives of our CAC community while exhibiting these core values, please nominate this person for the Core Values Award. The nomination form is available here. Forms can also be obtained from the Board Executive Assistant, Nawal Gamal, on the 3rd floor of the Admin Building or via email board@cacegypt.org. Nominations are due no later than 3:00 pm on February 2, 2023. All members of the parent community – not currently on the Board of Trustees – are eligible to be considered for this award. Faculty and staff can also be considered so long as they make contributions to the community that are above and beyond their regular, expected duties. Thank you for taking the time to acknowledge the contributions of outstanding members of our CAC community.
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.
Meghan Ennis
Library
Learning About Positive Discipline
Are you a parent? or a teacher that may be interested in learning about Positive Discipline? I am hoping to facilitate my second parent workshop at CAC in January. Once a week for six weeks. Each class would be an hour and 15 minutes. With an optional additional 15 minutes at the end for Q&A or sharing.
Please fill out the attached FORM if you’re interested. I’d love to have you join!
Bonnie Greene
NESA Parents as Partners Series
ON-DEMAND LIBRARIES OF WEBINAR RECORDINGS
2020-2021 / 2021-2022 / 2022-2023
You may access the libraries and their over 35 webinar recordings at this link.
Parents as Partners: Bringing Out the Best
WITH JOY MARCHESE
January 17, February 28, March 21, April 4, 2023
Four Sessions, Tuesdays 4:00-5:00pm (Athens GMT+2/+3)
VIEW INFOSHEET | VISIT THE INFOHUB
REGISTER NOW
Note: There is no cost to register. Register at any time before the session you wish to attend. You will receive a link to join in an email shortly after completing the form. You may use the same link to join all three sessions, or register again to receive a new link.
*Please note: Daylight savings time begins in Greece on March 26, 2023. This will affect local session start times in areas that do not observe daylight savings.
Recordings will be uploaded to the InfoHub after each session.
Bring Out the Best in Yourself, Your Child and Your Home
Continue to develop community practices within the home to increase your confidence as a parent and develop a plan for those (inevitable) challenging times. Learn practical tools and habits that anyone – a caregiver or not – can apply to their lives.
This 4-part series will explore effective communication, child development, wellbeing, behavioral psychology, and positive parenting as a way to create an environment where children (and adults) are encouraged and engaged, and feel a sense of connection, value and belonging.
Learn more »
About Joy Marchese
Joy Marchese is founder and director of Positive Discipline UK and co-author of Positive Discipline for Today’s Busy (& Overwhelmed) Parent. She runs a successful global educational consultancy and coaching practice, and develops SEL courses and products to teach social-emotional skills in homes, schools, and multiple organizations throughout the world.
Hope Run – January 20 (at Wadi Degla)
