Middle School Principal’s Letter
Dear Parents,
Thank you for taking the time to read this week’s version of the News and Views. It was another week of learning, exploring, and having fun.
In the spirit of Ramadan, our students in Mixed Media were making Ramadan lanterns.
Today we will post semester two progress reports two. This report will include academic grades and ATLs. Students with N’s and R’s will receive a comment. Please take the time to go over the ATLs and grades with your child.
I want to congratulate all our core values winners in grades 6, 7, and 8.
The PTO recently announced this year’s Grant recipient winner and it was Ms. Lisa Young, our Math/Science teacher. Ms. Young will be using the funds to start the first lego league program that competes internationally. This will be exciting for many of our students who are keen on becoming engineers.
In keeping with the spirit of Earth Day, we held a minute version of the Race to Clean the Air because it is an integral part of our environmental unit in grade seven social studies. Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd every year. The goal to raise awareness within our community about climate change and global warming. The day inspires us to act towards the protection of the environment and focus on the need for conservation.
This year, our students walked laps and got sponsorships to help maintain the midans around the school. The students also went out to collect trash in their advisory group.
While these are small initiatives, they still have a positive impact on our community.
The students were fantastic with their efforts today and we applaud them for their efforts.
Thanks for your continuous support of the middle school.
In Partnership,
Courtney Bailey
Middle School Principal
Announcements
Student physical requests for 2021/22
If your student will be entering grades 3,6 or 9 next school year, we ask that he/she is seen and examined by a doctor, and a physical form completed and sent to the health office on or before the first day of school in August.
We are more than happy to accept early completed physicals as of now, either by email or hand-delivered to security at the front gate.
https://www.cacegypt.org/PDF/Student_Physician_form.pdf
CAC Health Office
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://www.cacegypt.org/index.php/cac-withdrawal-request
Thank you
Registrar’s office
NESA Parents as Partners 2.0: Final Session 8 with Erma Anderson
Tuesday, April 27, 4:00-5:00pm (Athens, Greece GMT+3)
Promoting a Summer Stride, Diminishing the Summer Slide
As summer approaches, many parents are wondering what they can do to keep their child engaged in learning. Summer learning loss—the summer slide—in a ‘normal’ year has been well documented, with studies from a number of countries suggesting that in a ‘normal’ year, students can lose 25-50 percent of their school year gains in mathematics (with less dramatic overall losses in reading, writing, and spelling). The challenges of this unprecedented year, the many and varied disruptions in student learning, have produced additional concerns about student learning loss.
Studies suggest we can prevent summer learning loss by engaging our children in summertime reading, math games, and hands-on STEM activities. But the benefits depend on making sure children are truly stimulated — and having fun! Join us as we provide strategies and resources for engaging your child in a rewarding educational summer. With a little time, planning, and creativity, you can play an important part in making sure this summer matters in advancing your child’s learning, health, and well-being.
PLEASE NOTE
- There is no limit on the number of signups from your school. Parents/faculty who cannot attend live are welcome to view recordings on the Info Hub. Recordings will be posted the day after each session.
- Parents who have not previously registered or cannot locate their link may register with Zoom HERE. A personalized link to join the session will automatically be emailed to them. This link may be used to access all the webinars.
- We kindly request that you do not share the Zoom registration link or the recordings publicly.
ACCESS PARENTS AS PARTNERS INFO HUB
The NESA Team
Ready, Set, G-G-G-O! Coming soon…CAC’s Great Global Get Out!
As we all know, PTO was not able to put on the International (Foodie) Festival this year due to the pandemic. So…we’re flipping this around to STILL CELEBRATE CAC’S INTERNATIONALISM with a community-wide (virtual) race!
Represent your Country as a Team or Individual and enter our challenge! Start thinking about which distance you or your team may want to enter. You’ll be able to enter as a family team, group of friends, or individual! Note that teams can be international also – for example, one team can have members from a variety of countries…just make the name reflect your group!
Registration and entry fee details coming soon. (pssst…we’ve got some really impressive sponsored prizes for winners too, so you really don’t want to miss out!)
PTO Monthly Meeting
Join our monthly meeting at your mid-day break! We’ll get straight to business and wrap up quickly. We’ll discuss PTO Exec Board Vacancies for the next school year, the Virtual Art Auction, our upcoming International Race (CAC Great Global Get Out) in May, and present the PTO Annual Report.
PTO Monthly Membership Meeting
Apr 28, 2021 12:30 PM Cairo
Zoom Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/97208854547?pwd=bzRlWlZpUG5taDdiVVRFMUdWSnoxZz09
Meeting ID: 972 0885 4547 / Passcode: 661239
Virtual Art Auction
Coming up April 28 – May 1.
Details coming soon!
From the MS/HS Library
CAC Libraries Saturdays in April
The libraries will be open on April 10, 17 and 24. Here is a document with all the open Saturdays for the year.
Please note that all library materials must be returned by May 26 in order to be able to start summer checkout on June 3.
Sora is open 24/7
Our ebook and digital audiobook library is open 24/7 to our CAC parents, students, faculty and staff. Download the Sora app, find our school by typing “Cairo American College” and use your CAC single sign on to log in. Books are checked out for 2 weeks and automatically returned so you never have to worry about overdues.
Tutorial for accessing Sora is here. When you are asked for your Follett account, use the CAC single sign on.
If you have trouble with your CAC single sign when logging into Sora, please contact Ms. Amira Youssef, ayoussef@cacegypt.org.
Three Cheers
Three Cheers to Ms. Torky, and Mr. Kasal for the organization of Earth Day.
Three Cheers to Mr. McCuaig for guiding our musician in the celebration of Earth Day.
Three Cheers to all teachers for the completion of the Progress Reports.
Three Cheers to teachers who have been subbing in the absence of a colleague; your commitment to our students’ safety and each other is appreciated.
Three Cheers to Ms. Urbiztondo for her assistance with the Progress Reports.
Three Cheers to all teachers who are offering activities in season three.