Middle School Principal’s Letter
Dear Parents,
Thank you for taking the time to read this week’s version of the News and Views.
Today, we are posting our first set of Progress Reports focused on the Approaches To Learning. All students with a “Rarely” mark and all new students will also receive a comment. We hope you invest some time to review the progress report with your child, looking at their strengths and stretches. Ideally, this conversation culminates with personal goal setting.
On Tuesday, September 25th, thirty-seven student council members participated in a retreat to make their plans for the remainder of the school year. The retreat’s goal was to reflect on the work they wish to accomplish and to put it in perspective alongside a timeline.
Grade 6 Parent Tea: On Monday, September 25, Grade 6 parents were invited to a well-attended “Afternoon Tea” with Ms. Harouny (the Grade 6 team leader and learning support teacher) and Ms. Spencer (the MS counselor) after school. The session provided valuable strategies, recommendations, and resources on topics such as the school-to-home transition, organization, study skills, habits and routines, and issues related to the social and emotional well-being of the students. Here is a link to the presentation slides for parents who missed the meeting and would like to explore the resources presented.
The high school will host the college fair on Tuesday, October 10th. Once again, they will be inviting all 8th graders to join. This is an excellent opportunity for our students to start thinking about the possibilities and learn more about what colleges offer. Here is the list of colleges from Europe, Canada, and the United States.
The seventh-grade classes are inviting parents from our community to come and speak to their class about the following topics:
- Map use within careers (public health, ecology, geology, etc.) — can be anywhere in the world.
- Renewable/nonrenewable energy sources: In particular, they are hoping to find someone knowledgeable in the topics of solar, wind, green hydrogen, or other Egypt-specific renewable energy options; as well as oil and gas.
- Climate change — Specifically looking for someone knowledgeable about the Sahel and climate changes that impact rural-urban migration in the Sahel.
- Space — Looking for someone who might know about asteroid and moon mining, issues of outer space sovereignty, space treaties (how humanity should manage space geography, space mining, space junk, testing of weapons in space, etc.)
- Population and Demography — looking for someone who can speak about how they use population data in their work, and hopefully someone who can give the kid’s problem/solution case studies connected to urban planning.
- Child labor in e-mineral mining (DR Congo focus) — Looking for UNICEF or Save the Children employees.
- Culture — business people who manage large numbers of international employees or whose business caters to different countries and how they consider culture in their decision-making, offerings, etc.
If you are interested, please contact Ms. Kremer (jkramer@cacegypt.org).
Thank you for your continuous support of the middle school.
In Partnership,
Courtney Bailey
The Middle School Principal
Announcements
Swim-A-Thon /Time Trials Fall 2023
On Thursday, October 12th CAC age group swimmers will be meeting for their first event of the fall season, the 25th Annual Swim-A-Thon at the CAC Pool.
Parents are needed as well, to help with this annual FUN event.
Schedule of the Swim-A-Thone and more infrmation are found HERE.
From The PTO
This week PTO held our second General Meeting. We were glad to see several community members. Participation in PTO events to this point has been wonderful
and we’re looking to maintain our momentum!
If you weren’t able to attend the meeting but want to stay informed, please find our detailed notes here.
We had another delicious bake sale on Tuesday afternoon. Please note that there will not be a bake sale next week due to the long weekend.
Halloween candy and non-candy donation boxes are positioned near the front gate and in the ES office. Have you seen them? The committees did such a beautiful job with them!
We understand that needing to come to campus to donate in support of the PTO is an obstacle to many of our community members. If an electronic method works better for you, please make note of these options we are now offering.
You can send funds to our Co-President Salma through Venmo or use the number 8328763386 to send via Zelle. For Egyptian accounts, you can send to our Head of Room Parents Rasha using her InstaPay @rashaak. Make sure to note whether funds are for a specific event or the PTO general fund.
We are grateful for your continued support!
CAC Middle School All Pro Dad Chapter!
We are excited to announce that the CAC All Pro Dad Chapter’s first event of the school year
is scheduled for 26 October.
All Pro Dad is a monthly gathering where dads get to intentionally engage with their kids!
This of course is not just limited to dads, but all children must be accompanied by an adult.
There will be fun activities and a character-based curriculum that helps parents start meaningful conversations with their kids.
Our first gathering is scheduled for 26 October at 7:00 am and we would love to see you there.
October’s topic is Communication. To communicate is to give and receive information—and it’s important to do that well. When we improve our communication, our relationships get healthier, and navigating tough situations starts to get easier.
If you would like to come, please RSVP here! https://allprodadchapters.com/chapters/13407
For more information or questions, contact our team captain, Craig Tippins, at this email: AllProDadCAC@gmail.com
If you would like to come, please RSVP here: https://allprodadchapters.com/chapters/13407
MS Activities & Sports
Season 1 MS Activities started! Check out the new CCA website which has information on activities and athletics in all CAC Divisions.
Three Cheers
Three Cheers to Mrs. Torky and Mrs. Fides for organizing the STUCO retreat.
Three Cheers to Mrs. Harouny and Ms. Spencer for organizing the Gr. 6 parent tea.
Three Cheers to Dr. Malak Doss, Mrs. Lakesha Davis, and Ms. Nouna Sawaf,
for sharing their expertise with our students during X-block.
Three Cheers to all teachers for completing Semester One Progress One Reports.