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Clovis High Football Crab Feed March 27, 2010 Dinner at 6:00 Rex Phebus Memorial Building Call 325-4112
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Pam Winter, Principal |
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STAR testing will be held on April 21st, 22nd, 28th and 29th for all 9th, 10th and 11th graders. CHS’s API state ranking has changed from 755 to 793 to 803 to 798 over the last four years. Our goal for 2010 is to reach 810. CHS appreciates all of the hard work that students and teachers do to prepare for these exams. In April, students will review their 2009 scores and, with their teachers, set English, math, science and social science goals for 2010. We look forward to receiving our results in August.
Advanced Placement (AP) Testing will be May 3 – 14 at CHS in Biology, Chemistry, Calculus, Statistics, European History, US History, American Government, English Language, English Literature, Spanish Language and Spanish Literature. CHS students in AP classes are doing college level work, preparing to take the AP exam and can get college credit. All students in AP classes are expected to take the AP exam in May. Students can be recognized as Advanced Studies Scholars of Distinction at Graduation by maintaining a minimum UC weighted GPA of 4.1 over five semesters (10th, 11th and first semester of 12th grade), pass at least two Advanced Placement exams, with a score of 3 or higher, by the end of their junior year, and complete at least five Advanced Placement classes in the high school years.
Parents please stay informed of your student’s grades. The six week progress reports were mailed home recently and parents can access Zangle Parent Connect for further information. If a student earns a D or F on their second semester grade in June, please call your student’s counselor to make sure that the summer school and next year’s schedule is correct. Counselors conducted individual meetings with sophomores and their parents. If you haven’t had your sophomore counseling appointment yet, please call CHS and set one up. Also counselors are currently meeting with each junior. If by May 15, your junior has not met with their counselor, please have the student go to the counseling center to set up an appointment.
Clovis High School is a great place. Get involved and support all Cougar activities.
Sincerely, Pam Winter |
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Steve Pagani, Deputy Principal |
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Clovis High would like to invite all Clovis High students, their families and our community members to our Open House - "Fusion" event on Thursday, April 8th. The purpose of this event is to combine Open House and highlight the visual and performing arts and music departments of Clovis High School, hence the name “Fusion”. There will be displays and performances by the drama and music groups. You can also visit CHS’s new Construction Technology Program. There will be a Food Fair with food sales benefiting the clubs here at Clovis High. Mark your calendars to attend and support Clovis High School. When: Thursday, April 8th at 5:30 PM Where: Clovis High School Amphitheater and various sites on campus Why: Meet with our teachers and enjoy an evening of performances, art and great food! |
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Dr. Pa Vue, Learning Director |
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Like the spring wildflowers, the Art Department students’ artwork is truly beginning to blossom. This is the time when the Clovis High art teachers get excited about the increased sophistication and craftsmanship of projects submitted by their students. Currently, the department is busy preparing many of these fine art pieces for public exhibitions and competitions. Clovis High’s “Fusion” will be taking place on Thursday, April 8th. Make sure you visit the Art Department’s display in the amphitheater area. The department will be exhibiting samples of student artwork and answering any questions you may have. The “Congressional Art Competition and Exhibition” is rapidly approaching. The department will be sending the best 2 pieces to this competition. The Photographic Society of America “Youth Showcase” competition deadline is in mid-April. Historically, the department has done very well in this competition and expects to continue our award-winning tradition. 2-D Art student, Alexandra Weaver, and Photography student, Claire Takahashi, currently have artwork being exhibited in the art gallery at the Performing Arts Center - Clovis North High School. Their work will remain on display through May. The last major exhibition will be the “All Clovis Art Exhibit” in May. Each teacher may exhibit the top 10 art pieces produced during the school year. These pieces then represent Clovis High at the Fresno Fair next fall. Congratulations and good luck to all of our wonderful art students. Continue to work hard and with pride to the end of the year! In the Social Science Department, Mr. Jim Lung and Miss Lindy Hash, are preparing to take several students to the County History Day Competition on March 20, 2010. They are hopeful that Clovis High School will receive some awards/recognition and advance to the state competition later in the spring. The World History and U.S. History teachers are gearing up for review sessions in preparation for state testing in April. We are hoping to continue to improve in our Social Science scores on this test. The department is excited to be welcoming another teacher to our ranks next year. We will be adding Mrs. Jennifer Linares to our department next fall. Jennifer is currently teaching at Pinedale Elementary School and will be transferring over to become a Cougar.
In the English Department, all ninth through eleventh graders are in the process of taking the third district reading performance assessment. These assessments are standards-based and assist teachers in determining where their current students’ strengths and weaknesses are in order to provide focus for instruction. In addition, the department would like to congratulate Ms. Beth Lederach and her 3 students who took, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the 10th-12th grade American Legion Essay Contest! Jenna Belardinelli received 1st place. Lisa Hamel received 2nd place, and Gretel D'Souza received 3rd place. We are very proud of you!!! The Clovis High Forensics Team is coming to the end of its most successful season in many years. This was capped off by a great performance at the State Qualifying Tournament in Bakersfield in February. We sent seven students, far more than in recent years, and had two of our students do well. First off, senior Claire Takahashi placed second in the valley in the Original Oratory category and will be headed to the State Tournament in April. Claire has worked very hard all year and this was a great finish for her. Freshman Merel Dagher, while not making the cut to state finals in Original Oratory, finished 9th in the valley overall in her first varsity tournament in only her first year of competition. The team has been doing very well all year and the coaching staff is extremely proud of their accomplishments as we head to the National Qualifying Tournament on March 18-20. |
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George Alvarado, Learning Director |
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The Math Department is proud to share the success of their team which competed at the 39th Annual Math Field Day at CSU, Bakersfield. Coach Tosh Demsey reported, “The students enjoyed a good day of learning and solving a wide variety of challenging math problems in competition.” Congratulations to Chiara Ricci-Tam (Varsity 4th Place Individual Medley), Patrick Tran (Junior Varsity 2nd Place and 1st Place Individual Medley), Jason Dickie (Junior Varsity 2nd Place and 3rd Place Individual Medley) and Cynthia Huang (Junior Varsity 2nd Place and 2nd Place Individual Medley). Due to the success of our team, Clovis High School will be advancing to Division A next year. If you see any of these students and Coach Demsey, please congratulate them for their dedication and success. The CUSD Special Education Transition Team is sponsoring the Evening with the Agencies on Thursday April 8th from 4:30 to 6:30 at the CUSD Professional Development Building in room one. Local colleges and agency representatives will be available to provide information and answer questions for special education students as well as their families. Participants will be able to browse through the booths to learn about all of the available opportunities in the community. Students are encouraged to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to help plan for their futures. Special Education teacher Mr. John Duran and his students are excited to host the Annual Special Olympics Baseball tournament once again on May 16th. The tournament attracts schools from all over the local area and students have always had a terrific time. According to Mr. Duran, twenty-six teams participated in last year’s outstanding and fun tournament. The Physical Education Department has been focused on the Physical Fitness Testing during the month of March. Department Chair, Coach Peter Tragitt, has been pleased with the efforts of the students. He reported that thirty-eight male students in 7th period ran faster than the 85% time and one-hundred and eight female students exceeded expectations for the Healthy Fitness Zone. Students who have completed the testing will also have the opportunity to participate in the “Increase the Peace” event, which is a follow-up from activities that were held last semester. The students and staff are committed to finishing the year strong. |
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Kevin Cookingham, Learning Director |
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Please remember to swipe your SHARES Card each time you shop at SaveMart or FoodMaxx. Clovis High receives a 3% donation from your purchases when you swipe your card at the register. Last quarter, Clovis High received a check from SaveMart/FoodMaxx for over $1,700.00. Please come by the main office and pick-up SHARES Cards for your friends, relatives and neighbors. This fund raiser costs you nothing but results in much needed donations for our school. Thanks for your support. |
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Gina Dean, Stephanie Frazier, Tracy Fulton, Barbie Hansen, Karl Peterson, Gary Prentice, Billy Ware, Sonja Wilson |
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The CHS Counselors have been busy meeting and registering all the Cougars for next year. We also signed up students for summer school that have received D’s or F’s. These recommendations are based off the first semester grades. If your student gets a D or F second semester please contact their counselor about how to make any needed changes to their registration requests. |
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Goofiness takes center stage! Willum Gilbert has it all - a promising career as an architect, devoted friends, and hopefully a serious girlfriend. But then Rick Steadman, a bumbling oaf with no social sense, little intelligence and less tact, comes to visit and puts everything in peril. The action quickly escalates into a roaring, madcap farce as Willum and his friends try to “out-nerd” his sanity-destroying houseguest. Right now the Clovis High Theatre Arts Department is producing an hysterically funny production of Larry Shue’s THE NERD, at the Dan Pessano Black Box Theatre in the Clovis North Performing Arts Center. Our production opens Thursday, March 18th, with more performances on Friday and Saturday, March 19 & 20, and the following weekend Thursday – Saturday, March 25-27, as well. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $8 for students and $10 for adults. The tickets are currently available in the Yale office or on-line at www.cusd.com/tickets . THE NERD is an extraordinarily inventive, side-splitting comedy that you won’t want to miss. But, please remember, the seating is extremely limited with less than 140 seats total each night...buy early! |
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Congratulate our Clovis High Academic Decathlon Team The Clovis High School AcaDec team competed against other Fresno County school districts in the Academic Decathlon on January 30 and February 6, 2010. The Academic Decathlon consists of numerous exams, a prepared speech and an impromptu speech and requires two days to complete the competition. The Clovis High School AcaDec team studied hard and did well in the competition! Clovis High is proud to report that our team earned 21 medals at this year’s competition. Make sure to congratulate your fellow CHS students on their AcaDec accomplishments! They represented CHS well in 2010!
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Activities News Chrissy Prandini, Activities Director |
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“No Cussing Week” is a great program to motivate kids to be better people. It brings out the positive side of students and the effect it has on other people. A student from our school newspaper came to us and they said that they had heard how effective it had been over the news. We looked up the program and saw that it was started by a fourteen year old boy, McKay Hatch, who started the club with a couple of friends because they were tired of hearing the use of the foul language. The program has been growing progressively since 2007 and is now world-wide, used by different organizations and schools with the “No Cussing Club” curriculum. The club now has over 10,000 members’ world-wide. When members join, they take the “No Cussing Challenge” and make “the commitment to themselves to use better language” and to “leave people better then they found them” (McKay Hatch). Clovis High School is taking the challenge to make our school a better place. Our goal is to have students not cuss to make a healthy environment for us to grow up in for current and future years. “No Cussing Week” is a new start for us all to better our lives. Sincerely, CHS Leadership Students: Lindsay Spitzer, Lexie Glaser, Ryan Phillips |
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Athletics News Ed Schmalzel, Athletic Director |
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Clovis High Athletes Continue Athletic Careers In February, Clovis High Athletics hosted an early signing event for Cougars that have signed letters of intent to continue their athletic careers in college. Left to right: Desirae Gaytan - Fullerton/Gymnastics, Meghan Marvin - UCLA/Track and Field, Saylah Barserian - Fresno State/Track and Field, Trey Mitchell - Arizona Western, Football. Congratulations and thank you to these super Cougars for all their hard work and contributions to Clovis High. Good luck!! |
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A highlight of the Winter Sports Awards Program was the introduction of the sixteen athletes that have participated in two varsity sports during the 2009-2010 school year. Each athlete was introduced and presented with their Two-sport Varsity Athlete patch and a t-shirt commemorating their hard work and their commitment to being the best of the best. Congratulations Cougars! And we hope to see you on the stage accepting honors for being Three-sport Varsity Athletes in the spring!
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Anthony Arcelus Daren Barbo Lestee Ceasar Nicole Chapple Ryan Davies Paul Dedios Taylor Ferguson Beau Hine |
Justin Jue Alyssa Mejia Tara Mueller Zachary Nevills Korey Plummer Andrew Smith Joshua Thompson Donnell Vercher |
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The Summer Combine
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Attention girls basketball players. . . . Spring workouts will begin the week of March 22nd. If you are interested in being involved in the girls basketball program, attending these workouts will be very beneficial. Spring and summer leagues and tournaments are starting in May so we need to be ready. However, if you are involved in another sport at this time, you must attend those practice and game commitments. See Coach Perkovich for practice, league and tournament schedules. |
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To be cleared you need to have a completed athletic packet turned in to the athletic office before beginning practice. The packet includes an emergency card, student residency information, student and parent code of conduct information, a health history and a physical examination. Athletic packets are available in the CHS administration office and the athletic office.
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Sports Physicals Night Girls at 6:30 pm at 327-1000 |
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| Library News Laura Collins, Teacher Librarian |
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TEEN TECH WEEK 2010 – LEARN, CREATE, SHARE The CHS Library celebrated national Teen Tech Week by encouraging students and teachers to learn to use three free, easy Web 2.0 tools. At www.wordle.net, students learned to create “word clouds.” Using favorite song lyrics, a poem, synonyms for a particular word, etc., students created “clouds” on topics such as running, happiness, and diversity/tolerance. Animoto.com allowed students to use their favorite photos to create an animated slide show (vide0) set to music, and www.bighugelabs.com allowed students to create movie posters and magazine covers with a photo or graphic. All student entries were displayed in a showcase, held on March 18-19th in the library. Students who participated were also entered in a raffle, and the winners were: Leanna Peralta, Renee Valadez, Nicole Barber, Ryan Ditchfield, Mary Lawson, and Mayra Miguel. Congratulations! The library hopes both students and staff will see the fun possibilities these tools hold for student learning and assignments.
USE THE CYBRARY! NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINE, EBOOKS, AND MORE! Find excellent, reliable information, even when the library is closed. Remember your #1 source: the library’s website at www.chslmc.com! Go to the “Online Resources” tab to find links to our subscription databases and recommended websites. To access subscription databases, remember: USERNAME = clovishs PASSWORD = cougars. Click on the picture below to go there now. Also, never hesitate to contact your teacher librarian if you need help or have questions: Laura Collins – lauracollins@cusd.com, 327-1210.
APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH! Who says poetry is dead? The CHS Library LOVES National Poetry Month! Be on the lookout for Poem in Your Pocket Day and Give Us Your Best Two Lines, as well as other interesting activities during the month of April. Is it a coincidence that Shakespeare was born and died in April? We think not. To sign up to receive a poem a day, go to www.poets.org and sign up. It’s free! Subscribe to the Poets.org RSS feed, or add the Poem Flow app to your iPhone. You won’t regret it.
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For more information about AP Exams and the Advanced Studies program, please visit: http://cusd.libguides.com/chsasap .
Congratulations to this year’s AP Scholars and Advanced Studies Scholars of Distinction! To see a complete list of students who earned these designations, please go to: http://cusd.libguides.com/chsasap .
AP PREADMINISTRATION SESSIONS: MANDATORY! This year, we are holding preadministration sessions for AP exams. Students are REQUIRED to attend ONE session. During each session, we will bubble and label answer documents for the day of the exam. Doing this ahead of time will delay the required report time on the day of the exam by half an hour and will allow students to begin the actual exam sooner (no sitting through an hour of bubbling instructions for each exam). Preadministration sessions are scheduled for the times below. Students will receive reminders prior to each session.
Monday, April 19th – 7:30-8:30 AM Monday, April 19th 2:45 – 3:45 PM Monday, April 26th – 7:30-8:30 AM Monday, April 26th 2:45 – 3:45 PM
AP Exams start on MONDAY, MAY 3RD. Please see the table below (also on the back of your AP Bulletin) for testing dates and times. These times are established by the College Board. We are not allowed to modify them at our site.
Please read your AP Bulletin for Parents and Students prior to the exams (a PDF version is available at http://cusd.libguides.com/chsasap). The College Board expects you to do so and holds you accountable for the information within.
If you need a LATE EXAM please contact Ms. Collins immediately (lauracollins@cusd.com). Please note that the College Board charges an additional $40 fee for late exams (unless they are scheduled due to a conflict with another AP Exam).
In the last week of April, students will receive a letter through their AP classes regarding exam administration details. The following list highlights key information contained in that letter:
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| Printable Calendar | APRIL EVENTS: 1-5 – Spring Break |
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News in Brief |
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S.T.A.R. TESTINGApril 21, 22, 28 and 29For all 9th, 10th & 11th grade students.SENIORS: Will attend mandatory meetings in south gym during the S.T.A.R. testing schedule.*All students report to school at the regular time.
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Wednesday, April 14th 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM in the CHS NORTH GYM
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