Week 25 , February 10- February 14

I would like to share with our community members that my wife, Marie Randolph, who has been my friend, the love of my life and my close partner for fifty years is seriously sick. I will be travelling back to the States today to be with her in these difficult times. For any academic matters, please contact your respective principals; Mr. Sarhane for Upper School and Ms. Phillips for Lower School. In case of any other issue, please contact me at: jrandolph@cas.ac.ma

Please keep us in your thoughts.

Ordinary General Assembly Update

We thank the parents and the faculty and staff members who came to the Ordinary General Assembly last Tuesday, February 11th. The General Assembly took place as there was no need for a quorum. Association members approved the 2018-2019 Accounts after the accounts and the KPMG reports were presented. Thank you again for the support and for being our most essential partners in your child's educational journey.

Corona Virus Update

Please have a look at the statistics published by the WHO as of February 12th. It is important that we remain vigilant and alert in regards to the Corona Virus spreading.

Community News

Spirit Week

Teacher's Appreciation Week coincided with Spirit Week. Each day, students and staff dressed according to the themes agreed upon:

Pajama Day- Monday
Dress like your favorite Teacher, Administrator- Tuesday
99th day of school- Thursday
Valentine's Day- Friday

Students and staff were creative and some were extremely hilarious in their costumes and their creativity. For Dress Up like your favorite teacher for example, we had doubles, triples and even quadruples.

Teacher's Appreciation Week

We sincerely thank our wonderful CAS parents, PTC members and Student Council members who spent endless hours to prepare, organize and offer a wonderful week to our teachers. In return, the smiles on our teachers' faces throughout the week showed how much they appreciated their week including a complimentary relaxing massage performed by professionals.

This picture does NOT represent our current lost & found!

Lost...but not yet Found !!

During the Parent-Teacher conferences, we displayed our Lost and Found and invited the parents to look for their children's lost items. Thank you to those who stopped by to look for their children's clothes and personal effects. Please be advised that next week(Wednesday, Feb 19th) we will proceed to donating all remaining items to charity for Nawal El Moutawakel's caravane collection drive.

Vehicle Parking/Circulation Security Measures

For security purposes, the school is creating Car Stickers. We would kindly ask you to place on the front, right side windshield of all vehicles that would drive up to school or park. The purpose is to render the vehicle visible from far to our security officers. More information will follow.

Conscious Parenting Workingshop Series

Khadija Bennanis is coming back after our intro session to Conscious Parenting. She listened to our parents requests and has tailored a 4 part Workshop Series to provide longterm support into our conscious parenting journey.

The sessions will occur once per month starting Wednesday March 11th at 8:30 am.

If you are interested in signing up for this program please email Fatiha Sajid (fsajid@cas.ac.ma) for more information on dates & price. A minimum of 8 people need to sign up.

In case you have not watched....

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PTC News & Updates

We trust that our Teaching Staff have had a memorable week filled with love and attention coming from their students and parents!

We' d like to send the warmest of THANK YOU'S to all parents and students who have generously contributed in making this week possible.

A warm Thank YOU goes to Mr Alami for providing us with the American Style Donuts served on Monday morning. A huge Thank YOU goes to Mr & Mrs. Mouadib for providing free Pepsi Drinks served for teacher's room service and Wednesday's all day snack buffet. Another Thank you to all parents who have purchased and sent delicious homemade treats for our Wednesday Snack Buffet.

All of this would not have been possible without the help of our PTC members who have collaborated with students this week to make this week very special!

Students asked and PTC helped make things happen! On the last day of Teacher Appreciation day, we 've created unique socks that state "Teaching at CAS is a work of Heart" that have been packed as a rose by our super mom Olga Zadaki and distributed to our teachers by their students!

We are very grateful to have such a wonderful community and spirit !

If you haven't had a chance to follow all that has been going on this week and offered please follow our Instagram and Facebook pages to see

Thank you Tony Neuman!

On Thursday, our teachers were graciously offered 10 minute massages by a specialist in Japanese massage, Tony Neuman.

Tony has developed a special technique to help re-energize a person in only 15 minutes! He works with corporations to provide his services and agreed to come to school to provide massages to our teachers in regard to our eventful Teacher Appreciation Week.

If you care to know more about Tony, please visit his website. www.tonyneuman.com

Sign Up for Adult Evening Cooking Classes by our Parents or Teachers!

This has been a very busy week and we've unfortunately not received enough people to sign up for our first cooking class. We will postpone the Russian Cooking Class for after the break- the date will be announced later.

In the meantime, if you would like to sign up for the other sessions please email ptc@cas.ac.ma OR sign up on the PTC News Bulletin Board by Mr Randolph's office.

Used Book Sale postponed!

Thank you to all of those who have dropped off their used books in our collecting boxes. We will postpone the Book Sale until Spring Fair (April 5th). We will resume collecting books after the February Break, so please take advantage of your days off to continue your Spring cleaning ! Book collection will be ongoing until April, so please keep your books coming!

Key Dates

Semester II Tuition Fee Settlement

Kindly note that 2nd Semester Tuition Fee payment is due February 17th. Thank you for respecting this deadline.

February Break

February 24th- February 28th

March 3rd- March 10th

Seniors IB Mock Exams

Thursday March 12th

6:30-8:30 pm

please sign up

Academic News

College Corner

Upcoming College Counseling events

https://sites.google.com/cas.ac.ma/cas-college-resource/home

Athletic News

Grade 6,7 and 8 Girls Basketball Teams

Congratulations to our Grade 6,7 and 8 girls and boys basketball teams for their exciting and competitive matches yesterday against AAC. The Cobra girls were trailing and showed great effort to have their game finish in a draw with multiple scores in the final minute of the game. The Cobra boys used their strong defense and attacking play on offense to claim a 28-5 victory against the Pumas of AAC. Next week, both teams travel to GWA. Thank you for the continued support of Cobra athletics!

Grade 6,7 and 8 Boys Basketball Teams

ART Corner

Special Announcement from the

Art & Animals Club

Thank you from the Art&Animals Club

The current annual expenses to healthily maintain the unofficial dogs of CAS (Rodeo, Juliette, Marilyn and Cesar, are at a minimum 25,950 dh. Thanks to the efforts of the LS STUCO dance raising 4000 Dh and the A&A Club's Valentine bake sale raising 6,700 Dh - we are moving towards our goal. Thank you to our LS students of A&A and STUCO for advocating for animals and for so many in the CAS community that bought and showed that they also care about our four-legged friends and family.

thank you!

Ms. Gi and Ms. Leaderhouse

LS Winter Gallery on View

Now and especially for Student Led conferences on February 12, all students Pre-First - Grade 5 will be represented by one piece of artwork, hanging outside their base class room. We hope you take the time to see what our young creatives have been doing in LS Art and pass by all the bulletin boards in the Lower School.

Enjoy the Show,

LS Art Spotlight

Doily Heart Illustrations, Reda Bennani-Smires, 3A and May Lynn Benkirane, 3B

What's Up Cobras