What's Up Cobras?

Week 8, October 14th- October 18th

We are Proud & Responsible CAS students

We come to school on time

We do not wear hoodies or hats inside the buildings

We wear our CAS Uniform

We are respectful to all

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome to our New Finance Manager

We would like to inform our community that we have hired a new Finance Manager. In this regard, we are happy to announce the selection of Mr. Mohammed Amrani Hannoudi who will be joining us as Finance Manager on November 1st, 2019. Mr. Amrani will work with the Business Office and Human Resources Office to prepare the annual budget, to administer the fiscal affairs and prepare monthly financial reports amongst many other duties. He has previously worked at Amideast and other international companies. Mr. Amrani is an Al Akhawayn University graduate.

We welcome Mr. Amrani to the team!

ACADEMIC NEWS

PSAT Testing completed!

This past Wednesday our grades 9, 10 and 11 have sat for the PSAT. We seek to challenge our students and for this reason we encouraged our 7th and 8th graders (based on their MAP test results) to sit for the test. The PSAT is a great primer (practice test) for the SAT and also an opportunity for students to be eligible for prestigious summer university programs offered by Duke University and Johns Hopkins University's Center for Academically Talented Youth, which CAS students use to attend annually in the past.

United Nations Day celebrated throughout the school

We are all children of the World and in keeping with the established custom at CAS, we will be celebrating United Nations Day on Thursday, October 24th, the anniversary of the 1945 signing of the UN Charter. United Nations Day is more than just sharing food and costumes. It is a mindset, a commitment to making the World a better place for all. In this regard, the Lower School is super busy raising awareness through classroom activities, and ‘we will be offering a Nobel Jr. Peace Prize to a class member who is the epitome of inclusion, cooperation, teamwork, and kindness.’ Ms. Phillips will be announcing the day’s event and the winner of the prize. In the Upper School, the Student Council members, as good global citizens, are taking the lead and planning their part of this event and we expect a solid Upper School participation. We, of course, are also looking forward to sharing some delicious food and enjoying the different colorful National costumes.

The LS Library in action for UN Day! Go check out books to read with your children

Athletic News

Celebrating our IPC Olympics unit:

Once again, for the 2nd consecutive year, we have the honor and pleasure to welcome, 1984 - 400m Olympic Hurdles Gold Medalist, Nawal El Moutaouakil, as our guest speaker for the Lower School kick off assembly on Monday, October 21. We are fortunate to have Ms. El Moutaouakil present at our event as we celebrate our IPC Olympics unit and its aim: Going for Gold.

Thank you again Ms. Hala and Ms. Fatiha for the initiative.

Alumni Association Games

The CAS alumni association has also been trying to put together a proper soccer team to play against other Alumni/Teacher teams. If you are interested in getting involved in extracurricular sports for yourselves (not as coaches), then please come out to this game, and/or let me know so that I may communicate with the other interested members. The games will be held on Sundays from 10 am -12 pm

UPCOMING EVENTS

College Visit on Oct 24th

CAS is hosting an information session next week about the University of Chicago and how to apply to highly selective colleges in the United States.

This event is open to all Upper School students and their parents. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP using this link (we only require ONE response per family).

SAVE THE DATE

HALLOWEEN Celebration by the PTC on NOVEMBER 1st

Pre-School will have a Day celebration- more communication will be sent out in the upcoming week.
School Wide celebration will occur at night from 6-9 Pm. More to follow!

Community News

Spot Light Magazine

We love our Lower School spotlight Magazine ! If you have a camera that you are not using anymore, we will take it and use it for our Spotlight magazine shots. Please Send an email to Ms. Imane Elkadiri at ielkadiri@cas.ac.ma or Ms. Blair Cochran at bcochran@cas.ac.ma

Our Students take ACTION !

"Fill the Boot"- help the Lower School fight against Breast Cancer

As a way to get our school involved in the fight against Breast Cancer, the Lower School Student Council has arranged a classroom fundraising competition to "Fill the Boot." Starting Monday, October 21, The class that raises the most money by November 1st wins a reward!

Lower School base teachers will be collecting donations from their base class for the remainder of the month, keeping track of how much money their class has raised by “filling” (coloring in) their pink boot. The class who has raised the most money by November 1st will get to choose one whole-class reward from their classroom’s cobra cash shopping list for FREE!

Upper School Spirit Week

The Upper School Student Council is organizing Spirit Week starting Monday Oct 21st until Friday Oct 25th.

Friday is PINK day linking it to Pinktober's Breast Cancer Awareness. T-shirts to help fund-raise to fight cancer will be sold next week. All donations will be given to Les Amis du Rubans Roses.

Art Spotlight

Lower School ART- Mixed Technique

By Carla Rodrigo Aubareda, 5A

KEY DATES

Wednesday, October 23rd

Student Early Dismissal

Thursday, October 24

UN DAY Celebration

Friday, October 25

Pink Out for Pinktober

Everyone is encouraged to wear PINK!

Wednesday, October 30th

Parent/ Student Conference

8:00 am- 3:00 pm

Good to know

Halloween

Halloween is the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (also known as All Saints' or Hallowmas) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on 31 October the full name of All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day).

*Source:https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Halloween