Middle School Principal’s Letter
Dear Parents,
Thank you for taking the time to read this week’s version of the News and Views. We are pleased to welcome you back after spending quality time with friends and families during the winter break.
I want to extend a special warm welcome to our new families in the CAC community. We are happy to have you here and look forward to continuing to grow our community together.
We thank our PTO and Booster club parent volunteers who helped us make the first-semester fun. We are looking forward to continuing the partnership during the second semester.
As a school, we pride ourselves on our commitment to service learning, and our Grade 6 students stepped up this year through various initiatives to raise funds and donate books for the African Hope students. They showcased their creativity, perseverance, entrepreneurial spirit, and competitive streak (you have no idea!). They did this through bake sales with roving sales units -even staying after school-a walkathon, a raffle, and book donations.
They also took part in assembling the gift bags and wrote beautiful Christmas card bookmarks. We aim to raise LE 34,500, hoping to make it to LE 40,000. The students surprised us, however, and managed to raise LE 57,000! We are very proud of their efforts and their strong sense of compassion, which motivated them to make sure that each student at African Hope could have something meaningful from us to bring them a sense of cheer before the end of the year.
Here is a video showcasing their efforts this semester, which includes the heart-warming reception of the African Hope students to our Grade 6 student ambassadors, who visited them to deliver the gift bags. Well done, Grade 6!
Thank you for your continuous support of the middle school.
In Partnership,
Courtney Bailey
The Middle School Principal
Announcements
CAC All Pro Dad – January Event
Calling All CAC Middle School Students and Parents:
Start the New Year right!
Join us for the next CAC All Pro Dad event!
January’s topic is Loyalty. Relationships, including with family and friends, are built on loyalty. Loyalty means standing with someone in the good and bad times. I’ve got your back and you’ve got mine. If you don’t have loyalty, you stand alone.
The next gathering is scheduled for 19 January at 7:00 am in Middle School Room 115 and we would love to see you there.
Breakfast, donuts, and juice will be provided.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 20th
Come and join the “Hope Run” on January 20th at Wadi Degla starting at 8:00am.
Sign-up HERE even if you are not a runner!
This run is part of Terry Fox’s continuing legacy. Would you like to know more about the story? Here is the information!
From the CAC PTO
From the MS/HS Library
The Battle of the Books 1st Elimination Round is coming on Wednesday!
Wednesday January 18th – Lunch Time, MS Hall, will be the BOB 1st Elimination Round. The top 10 teams will advance to the 2nd Elimination Round on January 25th.
Please remember to return your BOB books as you finish them!
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.
MS Activities & Sports
Semester 2 MS Sports Schedule
Soccer has begun but stay tuned in the Morning Announcements for sign up forms for Basketball and Volleyball.
- Soccer Season Dates – Jan 9th – Feb 16th – 6 weeks
- Basketball – Feb 19th – April 6th
- Volleyball – April 10th – June 1stIf you have any questions about MS Sports or ASAs, please talk to Ms. Ennis (mennis@cacegypt.org).
Three Cheers
Three Cheers to Ms. Spencer and Ms. Urbiztondo for supporting students with the schedule change.
Three Cheers to teachers for completing report cards, grades, and comments.
Three Cheers to Ms. Genidy for the restoration of room 115.
Three Cheers to Ms. Mona Abdel Hady and Mr. Bustamante for contributing to
the new parent orientation.