UPCOMING EVENTS:
7TH GRADE RIVER TRIP RESCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 10
The 7th grade River trip has been moved to Tuesday, January 10th due to the conflict with the Winter Sports program on Thursday, January 12th.
MIDDLE SCHOOL SPELLING BEE
Friday, January 13, 9:00amThe Middle School Spelling Bee is on Friday, Jan. 13th at 9:00 am. Please arrive at 8:50 so that we can start promptly at 9. The first and second place winners of the bee will go on to the District Bee at the end of January!
RACE TO NOWHERE FILM SCREENING
Wednesday, January 18, 10:00am, DA Big Room
Last November Krista Agnello (parent of a 10th grader at Desert) and Isabelle Thiebaut brought the documentary
“Race to Nowhere” to Santa Fe (First Public Screening in New Mexico) to begin a different conversation about education. On Wednesday, January 18 at 10:00 am, we will screen the film for our Desert Academy high school students. Parents are also welcome to join us.
HONORS ASSEMBLY
Friday, January 20th, 9:30am
Desert Academy’s 2011-2012 1st Semester Honor Roll, High Honors, National Honors Society, and National Junior Honor Society Assembly will be held Friday, January 20th at 9:30am. Honor Roll students have received a 3.5 grade point average or better, with no grade lower than a C. High Honors students have received a 4.0 or above. (Please note, middle school students’ report card GPAs only reflect the high school classes that the student is enrolled in, and not their overall GPA, as middle school classes are not weighted. For the ceremony, however, we will calculate the full GPA of all classes).
National Honor Society (10-12th grades) and National Junior Honor Society (7-9th grades), have received a GPA of 3.4 or above, with no grade lower than a C, and have submitted a self-nominating form that includes the leadership and community service component of the nomination criteria. NHS and NHJS applicants are then reviewed by the committee and elected to the society corresponding to their grade. The full description of the NHS/NHJS nominating criteria and deadlines were sent in the e-minder in December and is posted on the website.
Parents and students will be notified of their Honor Roll status and the results of the NHS and NJHS. Everyone is welcome to attend this ceremony in honor of their students’ academic achievements for 1st semester. Please contact Tamara Rossi (
trossi@desertacademy.org) regarding the Honor Roll and Jocelyne Comstock (
jcomstock@desertacademy.org) regarding NHS and NHJS.
ACTING CLASS PERFORMANCE
Wednesday, January 25, 10:30am
On Wednesday, Jan. 25th, the Acting for the Stage class will present staged readings from four plays. These will be performed at a special assembly for the high school at 10:30am in the Big Room. Jasper Grossman and Gabby Medina will be performing a scene from Neil Simon’s, “Barefoot in the Park.” Marley Medina, Sarah Nuamah and Ariana Montez are presenting a cutting of “Cotton Girls.” It takes place at the top of a ferris wheel that gets stuck. Onima Heilbron, Forrest Sanchez, Cole Tolbert, Sophia Stroud, Luna Redondo-Campiglio, Valentin Traub and Jasper Grossman are doing “The Fox in the Fairway,” a farce by Ken Ludwig. This play takes place in the clubhouse of an upper-crust country club during a local golf tournament. And finally, Mellie Nolen is directing her original one-act play that she wrote last year. This has been a major component of Mellie’s IB Theater work. The play is excellent. The cast is Onima, Forrest, Sarah and Jasper. All this great theater in less than an hour! Parents are welcome to come.
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE HEADMASTER RESCHEDULED FOR 2/29/12
PARENT INVOLVEMENT: THE KEY TO EVERYTHING…REALLY.
Wednesday, 2/29/12 - 6:00-7:15pm – Big Room Come & learn more about how your involvement is the key to
your child’s education, motivation and much more….
- Involvement is taking an active interest in your child’s education
- Involvement is physical – attending, participating & contributing
- Involvement is emotional – expectations are as important as actions
We hope you can join us!
