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Announcements
1. Final exams are taking place Tuesday and
Wednesday, January 20th and 21st. Exams periods on
Tuesday are for periods C and A. Exams for periods D and
B will take place on Wednesday. The first exam each day will
begin at 7:25 and end at 9:35. Second exam each day is from
9:50-11:50. Students are to report to their exam periods
where attendance will be taken. Students will not be
dismissed from the exam until the end of the exam period. If
students do not have an exam during a particular period, they
should report to the assigned teacher for a quiet study.
Seniors carrying average of 93 or better in a particular
class, may, at the discretion of the teacher, be excused from
that exam. Buses will leave HKHS at 11:56 to transport
students home.
2. This year's Holiday Show was another huge
success. So far the show has raised over $14,000 for the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Ten students
representing ten different high schools contested for the
title of Shoreline Idol. Dane Paracuelles, the HK
representative, is the lone male in the contest. The winner
will receive a $1000 scholarship from Lenny and Joe's Fish
Tale and a one hour recording session at the Riverway studio
in East Haddam. I would like to thank all those businesses and
individuals who worked on or contributed to the success of the
show. The finals of Shoreline Idol will take place on
January 23rd at Haddam-Killingworth High School. Host of the
show will be Jon "Cadillac' Seville from radio station
WDRC-FM. Admission to the event will be a non-perishable
food item to benefit the Shoreline Soup Kitchens.
3. Our Jazz Band and Chamber Choir will
travel to the Berklee School of Music in Boston on January
31st to compete in the annual Jazz Festival. Both groups are
sounding exceptional.
4. The 10th grade advisees had a guest
speaker on Tuesday, Liz Sequenzia from Planned Parenthood in
Middletown to speak on the topic of dating and relationships.
I hope to have another guest speaker on April 28th to address
the issue of new teen driving regulations.
5. On Tuesday and Wednesday the high school
hosted Mr. Shi Zhaohai, Mr. Liu Zhixiao, and Ms. Fengying
Yuan, three visiting principals from Shandong Province, China.
The visitors spent two full days touring the facilities,
visiting classes and groups such as the International Culture
Club, and gathering information on our educational programs
and procedures. The guests were very impressed by all the
programs HK has to offer, especially in terms of "hands-on"
courses. They were equally impressed by the wonderful behavior
of our students and what they termed as the "love and care"
they could feel in the building.
On Friday, Mr. Shi, Headmaster of Liaocheng,
Water-city Middle School (which services high school
students), and I entered into a partnership agreement.
The partnership principles are:
have a close association between both sides
work for a better understanding between both sides
reinforce the friendship between both sides
achieve educational development of both
sides
The activities of the Partner School Program are
to:
A. Inform each other in a timely
manner to state the significant activities of both schools as
well as exchanging the works of teachers and students from
both sides through mail or
e-mail.
B. Provide students and
teachers from both schools with opportunities to exchange
correspondence and get to know one another by post or
e-mail.
C. Explore future
opportunities for students to visit the partner schools during
holidays and offer students from both sides an opportunity to
exchange information and to get a better cultural
understanding.
D. Carry out a long term
teacher-and-student learning program. Both schools can select
students and teachers to participate with the partner school
for Chinese or English learning, at the same time learning
from the culture of the other country.
I would
like to personally thank Isabelle Chen and Eugenia Huang for
serving as translators while our visitors were here. A special
thank you also goes out to Mr. Ernie Nagler for all his work
in helping to orchestrate the exchange.
6. A beautiful new Basketball Scorers Table
should arrive at the school this week, thanks to the
thoughtful generosity of the boys' basketball parents. The
new table will be padded and sport the Cougar logo and high
school name. Please come to cheer our girls and boys team
on and
"check-out" the new addition to the field house. UPDATE: In
my latest bulletin I had thanked the boys basketball parents
for purchasing the new scorers table for the field house, I
was informed yesterday that parents of the girls team also
participated in this purchase. I would very much like to thank
both sets of parents for your kindness and generosity.
7. If you attend our basketball games you are
no doubt impressed by the support coming from our student
section-the Cougar Den. A plaque has been placed on the wall
of the field house to honor the two founders of The Den - Jay
Barbuto and Kevin Peterson.
8. Shortly, 85 of our seniors will take the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The
test is the only nationally representative and continuing
assessment of what America's students know and can do in
various subject areas. Assessments are conducted periodically
in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics,
economics, geography, and U.S. history. Students were selected
randomly by the government to participate in this test. Any
student who takes the test will be entered in a raffle for a
$50 gift card and the chance to win the right to one of the
administrative parking places for one week.
9. PARENTS of 10th GRADERS: All 10th
graders must have a completed physical exam this year. It is a
state mandated requirement for continued attendance in school.
Please contact our school nurse, Ms. Grace Erhart at the
clinic (ext 344) if you have any questions.
HKHS Project Graduation's committee will meet on the
second Tuesday of each month. The next two meetings will be at
7:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium on February 10th and
March 10th. The committee would like to welcome Joan Cizek and
Stacey Grimaldi as the new Food Committee Chairs. Please
contact Stacey at ssgrimaldi@comcast.net if you are able to
volunteer time to pick up or deliver food the night of project
graduation. Project Graduation is also looking for a person or
persons to chair the Fund Raising committee for next year
after the retirement of two dedicated and hard-working women,
Lisa Weise and Cathy Cavanaugh. Please contact Kaycee
Blancaflor at kccallahan@uks.com to offer assistance.
10. The child development class went to Burr
Elementary School on January 14th to observe the elementary
students at work and play.
11. The 2009 Relay for Life of HK planning
Team would like to invite you to the 3rd Annual relay Kickoff
Celebration on January 22nd at 6:30 in the high school
auditorium.
12. GRAD Up-date. Adam Sousa, a
graduate of the Class of 2000 recently made his Broadway
conducting debut. He is currently conducting WICKED on
Broadway and will soon go on national tour.
13. The World Languages Department will be
have its world languages iPod lab set up and running.
14. All students will have an opportunity to
win either a $50 or $25 gift card for submitting the best
mnemonic (memory device) to help our students learn our
Expectations for Student Learning. The expectations are
