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11:25 a.m. dismissal
1/2 Teacher Workday
*Monday, September 27
Board of Directors Meeting
6:30 p.m. at school
Parents welcome
Fall Social
students do not attend
Teacher Workday
*PTO Family Fund questions?
Contact:
Suzanne Huffman
*Clip and send in
*We are a nut-free school for 2010-2011. Questions? Call the office.
*PTO meetings are held monthly. The next meeting will be Tuesday, October 5 in the PTO room. All are welcome! |
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Every hour makes a difference! It is vital that we track these hours. Record your time on the sheet at the school or send your hours to mrscholarsacademy@
gmail.com. |
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The Eagle's Nest Update... |
...is a bimonthly e-newsletter that relies on YOUR submissions.
The next newsletter will be distributed on Monday,
September 27.
Send your submissions to: scholars.newsletter@
gmail.com
by Friday,
September 24.
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The Eagle's Nest Update
Newsletter of Metrolina Regional Scholars' Academy
A Charter School Serving Highly Gifted Students
September 13, 2010 |
Our Eleventh Year!
And not at all surprising. We have 34,000 additional square feet of learning space. Our enrollment increased by nearly 50 students. We have 14 new staff members - some of them filling vacant positions, and some of them in new positions. We added instrumental music to our school program this year. We reconfigured the foreign language program for students at the Apprentice Scholars level. Our media lab is ready for use. Students from the first floor have worked in the science lab. Four staff members are completing gifted certification classes. These are some of the quantitative changes we can cite about the Scholars' Academy at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. Qualitatively speaking, there is an aura of expansiveness, and general feelings of accomplishment that support more specific feelings of moving forward.
Strings Classes for Investigators II (4TH)
We will be offering string classes for students in Ms. Miller's class and Ms. Smith's class beginning Monday, September 20. These classes will be held during the Monday music period of each class. Mrs. Anna Swic, our strings teacher will be at school on Thursday, September 16 at 3:15 p.m. to talk with interested families and measure students for violins. Please come visit with Mrs. Swic if your family is interested in the strings program.
Substitute Teachers Training Sessions
Training sessions for members and friends of our school community who are interested in substitute teaching will be held Tuesday, September 21 at 8:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. If you wish to be added to our substitute list, please attend one of these sessions. If you are interested in substitute teaching but are unable to attend on this date, let us know in the office. If you have attended a session in previous years, please check in with me for any updates.
Duke TIP for Apprentice Scholars II (7TH)
We will be distributing the paper registration forms for the SAT/ACT administered through Duke TIP. For families who wish to register online, our school code is 562891 - BC.
Marie Peine, Ph.D., Director
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From The Desk Of Mrs. Cuneo
Dear students, parents, and staff,
I want to thank everyone for making me feel so welcome at The Scholars' Academy. I am so lucky to be part of such an amazing learning community. Starting at a time when MRSA has found a permanent home and has invited so many other staff members and students to join has allowed me to jump right in and be part of the growth. The sense of community and family is so strong at MRSA I cannot help to feel that I am part of something huge. The excitement and the energy that the parents, staff, and students share is contagious.
I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with people who go above and beyond in order to make MRSA what it is. I am eager to learn and collaborate with all of the exceptional community members. Thank you for inviting me to join the Scholars' Academy and I look forward to getting to know you all better.
Carpool/Pickup Information
If you have not received a carpool name tag (either group or individual), please e-mail me to let me know what last names need to be listed on the group name tags. For example, if you have three different last names in your carpool, list those last names for me. If you are just picking up your child/ren please e-mail me with just your last name. We would like for everyone to have a sign whether or not they are in a carpool group. At pickup time, we ask that you hold these signs up so that staff can quickly call your children from inside the school. I will send these signs home with your children so please ask them if they have received them. Thank you for your cooperation and patience, it definitely seems that the afternoon pickup is going more smoothly.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Jessica Cuneo, Associate Director
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Save The Date
Save the date for a special evening
presented by the Development Committee Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. More details to follow in the coming days. We look forward to seeing you there! |
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Scholastic Book Fair Coming Soon
We are in the process of designing a customized book fair for the unique reading interests of our students at the Scholars'  Academy. Please note that the book fair dates have been modified. The new dates are: October 5 through October 8.
Since we are expecting a high volume of traffic on the afternoon of Fall Social, more volunteers will be needed to help with book sales from 3:30 until 6:30 p.m. on Friday, October 8.
Please contact Kim Nees at 704-541-7696 or knees@carolina.rr.com if you would like to help during the Fall Social or any other time during the week. Look for more information concerning the book fair in your child's book bag during the last week of September.
Check out our Scholars' Academy book fair homepage here. |
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A Million Thanks...
The PTO would like to thank San-Dee Keefner for providing food for the most recent PTO meeting. It was much appreciated.
A big thank you to Lisa Russell-Pinson, Audra Segovia, and Dimple Shah who helped to clean and set up the shelves in the media center. |
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Scholars' Athletics
Congratulations to the following students who made the 2010 Scholars' Academy Cross Country team:
Apollo Brown, Artemis Brown, Nathan Gantt, Alec Granger, Ceyda Guley, Alex Harrison, Evan Hemming, Navami Jain, Will Kallao, Auston Li, Devin McKillop, Tanisha Paul, Mary Steele, Sita Tayal, JP VanBuren, Mary Catherine VanBuren and Kyle Mitchell.
The first cross country meet is today, Monday, September 13 at Boyce Road Park.
Congratulations to the following students who made the 2010 Scholars' Academy Soccer team:
Michael Williams, Chris Deitch, Nicholas Lowell, Bailey Lewis, Ronak Bhagia, Hannah Spell, Nick Firr, Sunny Potharaju, Sofie Behdani, Charlie Rodgers, Megan Brickner, Ian Watkins, Ana Carolina Scott, David Scott, Rajan Tayal, Annelise Kempka, and Robert Gleason.
The Eagles had a great start to the season with two quick goals from the right side from Nicholas Lowell. Unfortunately, the Eagles weren't able to hold the lead and went into halftime with a 2-2 tie. After the break, the maturity and size of CIS took its toll and CIS ran out to a 6-2 lead. Scholars' pulled to 6-4 but CIS broke it open late for the final tally of 9-5! Coach Watkins expected the Eagles to have a potent offense this year but will work with the young Eagles on defensive play. If they can develop some cohesion on defense, this year's team could make a lot of noise in the CGAA!
The next soccer game is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14. It is an away game at Alexander St. Park. The next two Fridays are home games at Clanton Park Pavillion. Directions are on the Web site.
We hope you can come out and cheer for our players at one of their games this season. Please check our Web site for dates and times for the games. We are on the Scholars' Academy main Web site under "Athletics Program." LET'S GO EAGLES!
Also, if your child is in 5th-8th grade and is interested in joining the JV Basketball team, please send Noelle Zagorski, Athletic Director an e-mail at nzagorski@scholarsacademy.org with your child's name, teacher name, parent e-mail and phone number. We will have a girls' JV team and a boys' JV team. Basketball will begin with tryouts in October.
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This place is JUMPIN'!
Save the date...
What: Upcoming lower grades social
When: November 4 after school
Where: Monkey Joe's Pineville location
Who: Children 12 and under
Wear: Socks! Don't forget your socks!
Percentage of proceeds benefits Scholars' Academy PTO. Younger siblings are welcome! They can sign in under their sibling's teacher's name. |
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Books To Donate?
Do you still have new or gently used books to donate to our library? There is now a drop box in the media center where  you can leave your donations. Look for the orange sign in the front left corner. Please do not leave your books on the shelves in the library as we are beginning to organize/catalog the books on the shelves.
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Have You Linked Your VIC Card?
It's that time of year again to link or re-link your Harris Teeter VIC card. Harris Teeter donates money to our school each time you swipe your VIC card. If you linked your card last year, it is still necessary to re-link it again at the start of each school year. It's so easy, why not grab your card and do it right now! Our school code is 4075. |
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National Fruits & Veggies Month
Fruits & Veggies-More Matters™ has made September National Fruit & Veggie Month! Eat fruits and vegetables today and every day. More fruits and veggies in the morning, more for snacks, more for lunch and more for dinner. Whether it's fresh, canned, dried, frozen or 100% juice, it's never been easier to eat fruits and veggies today and every day.
America's More Matters Pledge: Fruits & Veggies... Today and Every Day! The pledge campaign was developed in support of Produce for Better Health's (PBH) national public health initiative, Fruits & Veggies-More Matters, and of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move childhood obesity initiative.
The pledge campaign officially kicks off in September during Fruits & Veggies-More Matters Month and will be ongoing. As a community, we all need to do our part to ensure that Americans have affordable, good tasting, healthy food to eat at home, work, and school. What can you do? Join America's More Matters Pledge: Fruits & Veggies...Today and Every Day! and learn how fruits and veggies can play a bigger role in your community and your family.
Take the online pledge and encourage others to do so. www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/ |
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Searching For Something? GoodSearch!
What if Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!
GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!
GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 30 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, eBay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause.
And if you download the GoodSearch - Metrolina Regional Scholars' Academy toolbar, our cause will earn money every time you shop and search online - even if you forget to go to GoodShop or GoodSearch first!
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