Monday Messenger Week of November 16
November 17, 2009 by Sally Allen
Filed under Featured, Monday Messenger
MONDAY MESSENGER
Published at Clarksville Academy, 710 North Second, Clarksville, TN 37040
Week of November 16, 2009
Clarksville Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade twelve, college-preparatory school.
Our mission is to promote academic excellence, moral integrity, and physical and social growth.
Values: Scholarship-Honor-Character-Respect-Success
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Ben Zirkle, 3rd grade, who won first place in his age division for the first Planter’s Bank half-marathon. In addition, Ben placed fifteenth overall in the 5K race. Way to go!
Interview a Veteran Essay Contest Winner
Congratulations go to Katelan King who was the Grand Winner for the “Interview a Veteran” essay contest. Congratulations to Meg Askew who was an intermediate school winner for the contest.
Thanksgiving Break
The Thanksgiving Holiday break will be Wednesday, November 25 – Friday, November 27.
Cell Phone Recycling Program
The Spanish class Costa Rica trip participants are running a cell phone recycling fundraiser. The following items may be turned in for recycling:
- Cell phones
- Ink Jet cartridges
- MP3 players/ IPODs
- laptop computers
- digital camera
- digital video cameras
If you have any old (working or non-working) items lying around, please send them to support a good cause and help the environment. You may leave donations in the green receptacle in the main lobby or give them directly to Mrs. Rowlett for Key Club credit for high school students.
Parent Notice
Please do not park in the lower lot by the gym or on the hill. These spots are assigned student parking. Also, for safety reasons, no student is to be picked up anywhere but out front during regular pick-up times. The cars in the lower lot are creating a distracting and safety hazard. Your cooperation is appreciated.
Teacher of the Week
Titans Radio, The Tennessee Titans and American Paper & Twine Company strongly believe that America’s future depends on teachers educating our children, and we would like to applaud the exceptional teachers in the Titans Radio listening area!
The American Paper & Twine Teacher of the Year Program will recognize deserving public and private school teachers in grades Pre-K through 12 who consistently go above and beyond the call of duty and inspire their students to succeed in school and in life.
For each regular game during the 2009 Titans Football Season, one teacher will be selected as the Teacher of the Week. This teacher receives $400 in office supplies from American Paper & Twine Co. and Sanford, a commemorative award, and name recognition on Titans Radio during that week’s game.
At the end of the season, the Teacher of the Year will be chosen through a random drawing of all the Teacher of the Week recipients. This teacher will receive $800 in office supplies, a commemorative award, four tickets to the Titans-Chargers football game at LP Field on December 25, 2009, hotel accommodations, mention on the Titans video board, and name recognition on Titans Radio.
Students, parents, principals, colleagues, or anyone who knows and would like to recognize an outstanding teacher are encouraged to submit nominations. For more information and/or to download or fill out a nomination form, go to www.titansradio.com.
Our school is filled with outstanding, dedicated teachers. Please nominate them for Teacher of the Week.
Important Dates to Remember
November 25-27, Wed-Fri Thanksgiving Break
CA Musical Production
The Fantasticks is a family-friendly, critically acclaimed “perfect musical,” so it comes as no surprise that this musical is the longest running musical in the world. The show tells the story of a young man and the girl next door whose mothers have contrived to make them fall in love by pretending to feud. All goes as planned in the moonlit night, but the sun soon comes up and illuminates the flaws in their giddy happiness. The young lovers leave each other to see the world and return disillusioned but with a deeper understanding of love. Performances will be December 11th and 12th at 7:00 PM in the First Baptist Church Activities Building, Downtown Clarksville. Tickets are $5 and will go on sale December 1st in the CA Business Office.
Ronald McDonald House
The CA Key Club continuously collects and donates laundry supplies and pop-tops to the Nashville Ronald McDonald House. Please pick up an extra item on your next shopping trip for an excellent cause.
Intermediate and Upper School News
PowerSchool
Parents may access grades at any time using the Parent Portal for PowerSchool. The Parent Portal may be accessed at the bottom of CA’s website (home page). If you have misplaced your access codes, please call the office.
School Directory
This year’s directory was sent home with students on Friday, October 30. Please call the office if you did not receive one from your child.
Juniors
CA has scheduled a mandatory ACT testing date here at CA for ALL of our juniors. We will be paying the testing fees for them. The ACT will be administered on Saturday, April 10. Please mark your calendars now. For the most part, juniors should not take the ACT prior to this date as they have not yet had all of the course work that will be on the test.
This Week
Tuesday – Student Council will have a mandatory meeting
Wednesday – FCA, Middle/High will have their regular meetings
Thursday – Key Club Officers Meeting
Friday – Chess will meet from 3pm – 4pm in Mr. Neitske’s room
CAN – Check out the newest production of the newly formed broadcasting class (CAN – Clarksville Academy News) at cabroadcasting.com.
Key Club Corner:
Membership is now finalized. We have the largest Key Club in CA’s history with 92 paid members. That represents half of our high school! We will be ordering T-Shirts for our new members at no cost to them in the next few weeks. Existing members from last year may opt to order a new shirt for $5.00.
Please check out our Key Club Web Site (linked to the CA web site). We are now using the internet to send reminders, post forms, etc.
Ongoing collections of laundry supplies and pop-tops are donated to Nashville’s Ronald McDonald House. Members may turn in items for service credit.
Service Opportunities:
Recycling Team – CA daily/weekly opportunity, see Alex Styer.
Salvation Army Bell Ringing – Sango Wal-Mart:
Sat – Nov. 21
Sat – Dec 1
Sat – Dec 5
News from the School Counselor
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1st Semester
Deadline Scholarship
11-24 Tennessee Concrete Association Essay Contest $2000 www.tnconcrete.org
12- 1 Vanderbilt University www.vanderbilt.edu/scholarships
12- 1 MTSU Guaranteed Scholarship www.mtsu.edu/scholarships
ACT 26 & GPA 3.75 & Honors Scholarship ACT 25 GPA 3.5
12- 1 APSU Scholarships www.apsu.edu/scholarships
12-15 Tennessee Tech University Scholarships www.tntech.edu/scholarships
12-15 AXA Achievement Scholarship www.axa-achievement.com
12-15 Young Entrepreneur Foundation (YEF)
www.NFIB.com/YEA or www.goonline.cc Access key: NFIB
Scholarships/Financial Aid Websites
1. www.college-scholarships.com/tennessee.htm
6. www.military.com www.militaryscholar.org (military connected students scholarships)
7. www.cfmt.org
8. www.scholarshipadministrator.net
9. www.edsouth.org go to: Edscholar then to: Participating Schools
12. www.scarlettfoundation.org
14. www.scholarships4students.com
16. https://web1.ncaa.org/eligibilitycenter/common/
Test Dates
12-12 ACT Registration by Nov 6, late reg. Nov 20
For more information see Guidance
HELP OUR SCHOOL
Don’t forget to bring in your labels from Campbell’s products and Boxtops for Education you have saved over the summer. Please continue to save them and bring them to school so they can be redeemed for needed educational products.
