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3/18/16 - Uwchlan Hill's Variety Show at 6:30 p.m.

3/23/16 - Spring Recess begins.  School reopens on 3/29/16. 

3/31/16 through 4/2/16 DHS West musical "Chittty Chitty Bang Bang"  Click here for tickets.

4/4/16 from 4 to 7 - Annual Prom Dress Sale at the Pulse Beauty Academy.  All gowns are $25.

4/7 through 4/9 Disney's The Little Mermaid at DHS East.  Click here for tickets.

4/6/16 - DCEF Student Art Gala and Auction to benefit DASD students. Purchase your tickets here.  
Congratulations! 

Congratulations to the 23 DASD elementary students who received medals at the Chester County Science Fair.  Congratulations to the Downingtown East Ice Hockey team for advancing to the Flyer's Cup finals!

DASD graduate Stacy Milone was inducted into the Georgetown University Hall of Fame for Women's Lacrosse.  She is the first female to earn this honor. 

The Uwchlan Hills community raised approximately $30,000 for the American Heart Association.   

DHS West Girls Swim Relay Team placed 4th in the PIAA state competition.

Thank you to DHS West student artists Morgan and Shannon O'Loughlin, Gillian Nanni,Maddie Kerns, Bridget Graham, Megan Porter Megeary, Hayley Nyce and Morgan Titus for exhibiting their artwork and giving demonstrations to WB students during Celebrate Art at WB

Wade Cummings, DHS East placed 5th in the state wrestling championships.

Philadelphia Classical Society Academic Award winners from DHS West: Hannah Black, Lukas Bradley, Ben Coates, Katie Halka, Annie Mulville, Sierra Nawalinski, Beth Patton, Maddie Shelley and Saahil Yechuri.  Artistic and Literary awards were won by Hannah Black, Catherine Byrd, Emily Kleaver, Paul Mento, Araiah Newkirk, Beth Patton and Emma Wagner.


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I hope you and your family have an enjoyable Spring Break.   Take some time together and enjoy the warm temperatures that are anticipated for the end of next week. 

If you remember back to the winter break, we gave our staff some time to enjoy their families in our "Turn Off and Tune In" weekend.   We are going to do that again and turn off our email server at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, 2016.  We'll turn it back on again at midnight on Sunday.  
During that short window when we "Turn Off and Tune In" to our own families, DASD staff will not have access to their DASD email account.  

Should you send an email to a DASD staff member during that period, don't worry, it won't get lost, it will just appear in the addressee's mailbox on Monday morning.  

We intend to keep our eyes on the sky on Sunday night and hope that the heralded spring snow storm moves on by us. I do not anticipate any closing of schools, but as a reminder, if our schools do need to close, the make up date would be Friday, May 27, 2016.  
 
Thank you for the nice comments about our Dr. Seuss video. Our staff and students really enjoyed Read across America Week.  And if you were wondering...the most selected book in the Dr. Seuss survey I posted in this column two weeks ago was  Green Eggs and Ham.
 
Kindergarten 101
DASD Administrators, principals and kindergarten teachers presented a program describing DASD kindergarten on 3/14/16.  The evening consisted of look into a kindergarten child's day. 
DMS students enjoy visit with support dogs

Autistic Support and Life Skills students attending the Downingtown Middle School in the Downingtown Area School District have the opportunity each week to touch, hug and play with two canine support dogs. The students work every Thursday with two dogs from Nellie's Schoolhouse, a non-profit organization that connects children with autism, depression and anxiety to well trained and well behaved dogs. Click here for more of the story.
Victoria alongside one of her drawings
DHS East junior Victoria Pan has earned national recognition in the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition.  Victoria has been named one of the most talented young artists and writers in the country.   Of the nearly 320,000 works of art and writing that were submitted to the competition, only the top 15 were recognized at the national level.   Victoria will be honored during a ceremony at Carnegie Hall on 6/2/16.  Victoria won two awards: a Gold Medal for "Fingers of Life and Death" Poetry and a Silver Medal for a critical essay titled "Not Your Average Disney Princess".  Former winners of this prestigious award included Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Robert Redford, Lena Dunham and Truman Capote.
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Fun Night of Science at Lionville
With robotics demonstrations given by FRC, VEX, and FLL, students could easily have spent the entire evening learning about robots, but time was needed to check out Pinewood Derby Physics and how to use vegetables to make a cool car. Students were busy using microscopes and having fun at more than 50 hands-on experiments.

STEM Academy 2016 Art Show
STEM Academy 2016 Art Show

DHS East Students attend Philadelphia Model United Nations
25 DHS East students represented a variety of nations within the UN, while discussing relevant and pressing international issues in a realistic simulation of the United Nations. 



LMS students speak LIVE to their Spanish Pen Pals
Students in Spanish II teacher Jennifer Meyer's class digitally connect with a class in Spain on 3/15/16. Half their discussion was spent speaking Spanish with the pen pals overseas, the other half gave the Spanish students the opportunity to speak in English.  They next plan to take their new Spanish friends on a virtual tour of their school.

DMS American West History Museum
DMS The American West Museum
 
Celebrating Art at West Bradford
Celebrating Art at West Bradford Elementary

 
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