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Upcoming Events
Dec. 11, 2015
DE: Winter Choir Concert @ 7:30 p.m.
DW: Holiday Choir Concert @7:30 p.m.
Dec. 14, 2015 - MC Band Concert @ 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 16, 2015 - BC: Winter Concert @ 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 17, 2015 - DW Winter Band Concert @ 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 18, 2015 - DM: 7th and 8th Gr. Orchestra Concert @ 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 21, 2015 - SM: Winter Concert at 7:00 p.m.
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Congratulations!
DHS West teacher Christine Meyers - Solo art exhibition at Danny and Fabio's Cafe, Wayne Train Station through December.
West junior Payton Bradley finished 4th in the OIAA State Girl's Tennis Singles Championship.
STEM Student James Armstrong placed first in Automotive Service Marketing at the DECA Competition. Ritika Bajpai, Olivia Williams, Payton Stong,Amanda Boileau, Claire Kennedy, Thayer Shesko
Matt Chapracki, Kyle Alek
& Jake Walter also qualified for the state finals.
Sarah Cotter, Hanna Mangiovillano, and Audra Fabrizio, Holiday Card Artists Addison Mulhern, 3rd grader at UH. Addison collected over 100 items to help shelter animals.
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FROM SUPERINTENDENT MUSSOLINE
On Wednesday night, we held our annual Organization Meeting as per the Pennsylvania School Code. That yearly December meeting marks the time where board leadership positions are chosen, some housekeeping items are dusted off, and new board members are sworn in. Returning school directors Jane Bertone, Colleen Cranney, Carl Croft, Jaime Mehler and newcomer Ted Rauth were sworn into office by Judge Jeff Velocchi. They joined fellow directors Barbara Albright, David Kring, Suzanne Simonelli, and Bob Yorczyk at the Board table. These folks are all volunteers, sharing their expertise, knowledge and time to better their school community.
Taking on board leadership roles for the next year will be President Colleen Cranney and Vice President Carl Croft. They step into the "hard to fill" shoes of outgoing President Jane Bertone and Vice President Bob Yorczyk. Meeting dates were set for the second Wednesday of each month (except for June - the meeting will be held on Monday, 6/6 due to graduations).
Leading to the upcoming winter holiday break and since the "Thanksgiving Turn off and Tune Into your Family" was met with great enthusiasm. I will ask again for the DASD email server to be off from Wednesday evening 12/23 at midnight through Sunday evening 12/27 ending at midnight. The district will be open for business December 28, 29, 30 & 31st so email will be open to all. We will shut down the server again from 12/31 at 5:00 p.m.to 1/3 at noon.
Wishing everyone productive days leading to the break and much family fun during these winter holidays.
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Surprise concert at board meeting
Members of the DHS West Blue and Gold band surprised arriving school board members and the audience with a performance in the parking lot of the Central Administration building on Wednesday. The band was being honored at the board meeting for their first place finish in the state championships last month.
"Hour of Coding" in our schools Anyone can learn to "code", and that includes both the youngest and oldest in our schools. Many of our elementary students had a chance this week to try coding in this annual, national event. Some of our teachers even took the time to learn the basics of computer programming. According to the code website ( https://code.org/) there are currently 604,689 open computing jobs nationwide while only 38,175 computer science students graduated into the workforce. DASD is helping to change that with its innovative curriculum.
Nike Cross Nationals
West junior Aislinn Devlin placed ninth in the nation at the Nike Cross Nationals in Portland Oregon. The West Whippet Boys (PA state champions) finished in 17th place.
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Headline News
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Art Goes to School
Art Goes to School is a volunteer art appreciation program in the Downingtown Area School District. Volunteers make fine art accessible to elementary students. In an impartial, instructive, informal presentation they encourage students to "look, listen and feel" art. Art goes to school uses over 900 different prints by over 300 artists in their presentation. Volunteers brought their presentation to Uwchlan Hills this week.
"The Experience"
The Downingtown Community Education Foundation's after school program in the STEM areas finished up another successful program. Below is a link to a video from one of the engineering programs. The spring session will begin on February 16, 2016. Parents will soon be emailed the program schedule for spring. C lick here for the video.
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East Ward principal taped to wall
On December 8, students at East Ward Duct Taped Dr. Argonish to a wall! This reward was offered because of students' fundraising efforts during the Boosterthon (just over $15000) for our playground project!
Lockheed Martin Invites STEM students
Lockheed Martin held its annual Women's Engineering Day. STEM was represented with over 2 dozen of its students attending.
Schools raise funds for Cure4Cam
The cure4Cam Childhood Cancer Foundation is an organization named after Cameron Evans, a Downingtown student, who lost his battle to leukemia in 2011. Cam was an inspiration to many, never giving up hope. The foundation raises community awareness and supports the development of new and more humane therapies for childhood cancer. SC, EW, BW, BH and DHS West helped raise $3429.79 in the first district wide coins4Cam challenge!
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