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Latest News and InformationHeads Up Newsletter: Email and Online From this week forth, expect to receive Heads Up, our school’s bi-monthly newsletter, the first and third Fridays of the month via email as well as be posted to this website. If you do not also receive this first edition of Heads Up electronically by Saturday, September 4, or you’d like us to send it to a different email address, please notify Ms. Connie in the front office ASAP. NOTE: If you have not returned your updated contact forms to the front desk, please do so immediately! Thank you. Where's the Homework Blog?Its been moved to the CA Community Network, our new, collaborative, and dynamic online community for CA students, parents, teachers, alumni, board members, and friends. You can access the CA Community Network (CACN) on the home page but you'll first have to register. If you don’t register, you’ll only have access to a limited amount of necessary information. Please do so today and join our vibrant online community! Its quite simple. If you have any questions about the procedure, please contact Academic Dean Julie Keesee at 438-5575 or jkeesee@chesapeakeacademy.org. School supply lists may not include a Sharpie marker; however please buy one for your family and put your student’s name in every piece of uniform worn at school, especially those lovely navy blue blazers! Lost and Found items are so much easier to return with names on clothing! Students will be required once again to provide Ms. Connie with a canned good to retrieve items in Lost and Found. All canned goods will be donated to the local food bank. All Aboard for the All School Cookout Back by popular demand! E-invites went out in mid-August. If you did not receive an invitation, please know it was an oversight. Contact CAPPA President Kirsten Knull at 462-7089 or via email. Please don’t forget to e-reply regarding your family’s availability to attend. The Third Annual Chesapeake Academy All-School Family Pot Luck Cookout is Sunday, September 12, from 3 to 6 p.m. on campus. All students participating in school sports MUST have a physical fitness form filled out by a physician and returned to Ms. Connie before the first soccer or golf game! Contact Coach Walker with questions at 438-5575 or cwalker@chesapeakeacademy.org "Can My Child Wear Flip Flops?" Ever wonder what awards your student might qualify for on graduation day, how to drive to Aylett for a soccer game, why not to drop off your child before 8:15 a.m., what college your student’s teacher graduated from, or what happens to your keys if you vacate your car with the engine running on campus? Answers to all these pertinent questions and hundreds more can be found in the Chesapeake Academy Family Handbook distributed at Convocation and/or sent home with your youngest student on Thursday. Read on! Oh, What a Beautiful Campus We Have! Sincere thanks are extended to the many, many parent, grandparent, faculty, board, and alumni volunteers who appeared throughout the summer to haul, paint, weed, deconstruct, reconstruct, prune, and otherwise spruce-up the many classrooms, buildings, and beds of our beautiful campus, and especially to David Stinson and Taz and Johanna Carrington for helping to organize two consecutive weekends of work. These volunteers set for our students a wonderful example of selfless dedication, and we thank you. If you missed the fun, stay tuned for the next community wide clean-up scheduled for Thursday, October 14, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. An apple a day ... makes everybody happy! Supplementing “Wall-E,” our fabulous portable Apple MacBook cart (loaded with 20 fully charged laptops for student use,) Chesapeake welcomes “Eva,” an additional Apple MacBook cart (loaded with an additional 20 laptops as well. ) Eva will reside in the Middle School hallway with Wall-E in Lower School, providing our students with exceptional, up-to-date computer hardware and software for academic use. Additionally, each classroom in both divisions is outfitted with an LCD projector, which is great for projecting educational websites and videos onto white boards or screens for shared classroom viewing. The funding for all these essential updates supporting the school’s long-term technology plan came from a combination of support. Thank you to all of the people in the audience who raised their hands and bid on the Fund-an-Item for Technology at last year’s Annual Auction. Thank you to the Charles L. and Nettie Lokey Wiley Foundation and CAPPA. Renew, Reuse, and the Comes … recycle! In order to help create a school community that takes seriously its responsibility for environmental sustainability, Chesapeake is going to implement a no-trash lunch program. Adopting the forest service motto, “Pack it in, Pack it out,” students will take responsibility for (aka take home) all trash produced from their packed lunches- learning first hand the value of using reusable containers such as tupperware, baggies, thermoses, and refillable drink containers. Recycling is a good thing, but putting less in the landfill is an even better thing. Save the Date: October 16 - CA Oyster Roast This year's 9th Annual Community Oyster Roast will be held on campus on Saturday, October 16th from 5 to 9p.m. Co-Chairs Dave Tambellini and Ryan Kent are working hard to make sure this is a stellar event you surely won't want to miss. Included will be all-you-can-eat local oysters, hot dogs, hamburgers, sweet potato fries, clam chowder, dessert, as well as beer, wine, soft drinks, and music for dancing! This is our only fall fundraising event and it provides critical and necessary operating capital for our school. Please come, sponsor, and/or volunteer. The Oyster Roast is a really fun adult event. FYI: Ten raffle tickets were sent home to your family on Wednesday that you are asked to sell or purchase, and two tickets to attend the event will be sent home next week for each family to either purchase or sell as well. Most Sponsorships include tickets as well as promotional opportunities for you. Join the team for this fun-filled Northern Neck tradition! Volunteers are needed to solicit sponsors, help set up on Friday and Saturday, help in one-hour shifts during the event and clean up after the event and on Sunday. Contact Catherine Emry at 438-5575 or cemry@chesapeakeacademy.org in the Development Office for more information and to volunteer! Helpful Hints Regarding Drop-off and Pick-up Speed limit is 5 mph (which is the speed achieved in an automatic transition car with your foot off the gas pedal), and need we say it- cell phones MAY NOT be in use while driving on campus. Dismissal is at 3:15 p.m. for all students. Please follow the procedures as outlined in the Family Handbook, which include arriving no earlier than 3:10 p.m. We want to avoid creating traffic jams on Steamboat Road and Route 200. It is also important that all cars are pulled as far forward as possible in the car pool line, and remember that there is only one line of traffic. Please do not go around cars unless directed to do so by a faculty or staff member monitoring arrival or dismissal. Note: cars do have the right of way over pedestrians during morning dropoff. We realize the routine will go more smoothly as we have more practice. Car Pool – Please help us help your child get safely into the car at dismissal time. It is safer for your child to load into the passenger side of your vehicle and it is easier for us to assist with belting if car seats are on the passenger side. Virginia law requires children through the age of seven to ride in a child restraint device in the car. While there is no law regarding forward riding children in the front seat of vehicles, there is a strong recommendation from the DMV that children under the age of 12 ride buckled or in a booster seat in the rear of the car. Children are always safer in the back seat, regardless of whether there is an activated passenger side airbag or not. Again, safety first, folks! Remember, the center part of the campus will be an automobile free zone between 8:30 a.m. and 3:10 p.m. All parents and guests visiting school during these hours are asked to park in the front parking lot and enter campus through the main lobby. Pre-Kindergarten students will be dismissed at noon from the front lobby. Back to School Nights are for parents only and are designed to increase your connection to your child’s life at Chesapeake. We think they’re vital. Back to School NIghts are: Thursday, September 16 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the gym for Early Childhood and Lower School, and Tuesday, September 21 at 6:30 p.m. for Middle School. Programs typically last two hours. Seventh and eighth grade parents will have an essential and mandatory update meeting on the Seacamp marine science field trip following their Back to School Night classroom visits. Art Teacher Nancy O’Shaughnessy wishes to announce that the Featured Artist bulletin board, located in the front lobby, is available for One-Student art shows! Parents, if your child is interested in participating in this program, please let Mrs. O know or drop off 6 to 8 flat works of art (photographs are acceptable) in the front office or art room. Please include a photo of your child. Art work will be displayed as space is available and all work will be returned. Mrs. O can be reached at noshaughnessy@chesapeakeacademy.org or 438-5575. NOTE: Please remind your students to drop off their art supplies (1 glue stick, 1 regular point Sharpie, and 1 piece of poster paper) to the Art Room asap. Student portfolios are made from the poster board at the beginning of each year. Art Around Town is a program that was initiated by a community volunteer interested in displaying children’s art work in area businesses. Chesapeake artists for the month of September include:
A special thanks is extended to parent Sandy Johnson who once again has volunteered to assist Mrs. O’Shaughnessy in the monthly hanging and replacement of student work around town. The Executive Board of CAPPA consists of the following parents who are more than willing to help with questions and receive your offers of volunteer support! They are: Kirsten Knull, President/Events Melinda Lewis, VP Fundraising Robin Honnick, Treasurer Susan Simmons, Secretary Sonja Smith, Osprey Nest Liz Silvernale, Room Parent Coordinator Hilary Scott, Immediate Past President |
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