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Cougar Newsletter: Jan. 22, 2017
Posted by Marcial Guajardo on 1/23/2017
We had a four-day work week yet this week somehow, someway, so much occurred here on campus. Allow this list-serve to be evidence required to support my claim. Read on:
The Big Event
We are 650 strong for the Big Event in March. The first day of school I spoke with each grade level about several things. One of those was the importance of growing up to be good citizens and developing a giving heart. Educating our students will always be this school’s primary mission. However, ounces behind that should be and is teaching the whole kid.
I am proud of our students for embracing The Big Event. Connally High School has the smallest enrollment of the three Pflugerville high schools yet we have the most enrolled for this event of the other two high schools. Our kids have spoken loud and clear with their interest in not only this but other community service projects.
2017-18 School Calendar
District leadership has been working to finalize a recommendation to the board for the 2017-18 School Calendar. We anticipate that the first reading will be at the Feb. 2 workshop, followed by an approval at the Feb. 16 regular meeting.
The DAAC recently met and endorsed the attached calendar. It was agreed that getting public input on the proposed calendar would be valuable information for the board to have prior to its vote.
A webpage has been created and feedback form is being promoted through next Friday, Jan. 27: www.pfisd.net
This page includes important considerations and parameters that the DAAC considered as it reviewed different calendar options.
Spring Final Exams
It would appear that spring final exams are so far away for our students. In some ways they are but we wanted to outline our exemption process for our students, which is now attached.
We thought it was important for our kids to know right now what they have to do in order to earn the right to be exempted from a final exam. The administrative team has also worked ahead to develop the final exam schedule for those days and it is now attached. It will be added to our website.
Reverse Raffle Dinner
I am often reminded of the many positive differences within the CHS community. This is the third high school that I have been a part of and I often see things that do not exist anywhere else.
Yearly, the senior parents sponsor a highly successful fundraiser to support the senior lock-in. I grossly under-estimated this event last year and its fundraising significance to their funding goal. I have attached more information regarding this event and I strongly encourage your support.
Speech and Debate News
The Connally Speech and Debate team kicked off UIL season this past weekend at Blanco High School against 30 other schools, and with our captain taking the weekend off our short squad went and took care of business. Our extraordinary freshman, Sarah Raymond, won the whole thing in Lincoln-Douglas debate, going undefeated in both preliminary rounds and elimination rounds before being crowned champion of the tournament on a 2-1 panel decision late Saturday night!
In policy debate, our team of Simon Birk and Andrew Wissman advanced to semi-finals and finished in third place. And, Ms. Reliable Nicole Otutu made it to the final round in Poetry Interpretation and finished 6th.
Coding Recognition
Pflugerville ISD Technology last week recognized Connally High School students for their participation in the Hour of Code global introduction to computer science and programming. Led by campus computer science students, Connally had nearly full participation in Hour of Code earlier this school year.
District Technology representatives last week presented the school with four virtual reality headsets as a reward for student participation. Computer science students, on-hand for the presentation, tried on the headsets, as did I:
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