Head of School 11-08-2018
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| Head of School's Newsletter - November 08, 2018 | |||
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New Baby Tortoise! CAC’s Tortoise Tenders were VERY excited late last week to discover another baby tortoise. This is an Egyptian desert Tortoise (the previous babies were from the Greek Tortoise side of the enclosure) and is quite rare. You can see the little guy up close in the ES lawn during the school day.
Catch CAC Athletes in Action this Weekend! CAC’s season 1 varsity teams travel this weekend to ISSTs. Several of the tournaments will be ‘live-streamed’ and you can find the links below. Go Eagles!
Faculty Work on Student Wellness
Booster News: Spirit Cafe: We all scream for ice cream! Yes, it’s true, you can now get a soft-serve ice cream cone every Thursday after school at the Spirit Cafe! Come try one (they are legitimately delicious), and spread the word!
From the PTO: We’re here to help! Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of any assistance. Our email is cacpto@cacegypt.org The next big PTO event is the Book Fair Dec 9th-13th. It includes 7 book vendors, special visit by Alumni author Dina El Abd, Booster Club selling food throughout the week, Bookmark contest, Music, craft corner, and most importantly book donations for a charitable cause! It will also include a holiday market on the last day. To volunteer or for questions, email Andi Simiskey at simiskey1@aol.com or Yara Tatanaki at yaratatanaki@gmail.com. Signed up for the Heliopolis Trip but can’t attend now? please follow the link and change your RSVP to open up slots for other parents. http://whoozin.com/HUY-NYG-DK6H. If you are not signed up, but want to go, regularly check the link for openings. Other PTO Events: Sun, Dec 2nd—Book Club at Osana, 10 am. Book: The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups by Leonard Sax. This is an informal book club, having read the book is not an attendance requirement. Come have coffee. Tues, Dec 4th—PTO Meeting at 1:30 PM. All are welcome.
New on Facebook! Every Monday we will be having Merchant Monday! Facebook members can comment on the post with their own business, a local business recommendation, or an invite to an event they are involved with. Visit our Facebook page every Monday for more information and to see everyone’s businesses.
Parting Shots Elementary students competing in the lunch-time Cairo Challenge: Corn Hole. Thanks to the CAC Design Tech students for building all of the cornhole game boards! Fun for all! |
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CAC faculty met on Tuesday to discuss our student wellness program and some of the related issues. CAC has a strong support for many facets of student wellness, including an outstanding and very robust athletics program, excellent facilities for physical education, highly qualified counselors to support students emotionally, and a quality advisory program in our Middle School to support students’ social and emotional wellness at that critical stage of life. There are, though, other aspects of student wellness that we continue to discuss and hope to strengthen in the future. Specifically on Tuesday, CAC faculty reflected on student identity issues and the challenges of being TCKs, of being bi-cultural, of being ‘different’ when heading ‘home’ for college….challenges faced by most international school kids from around the world. The faculty will be working on a schoo-wide inventory of our wellness programs, and then looking for areas we need to improve. 
