Week 9, October 21st- October 25th

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pre-School, Grades 1-12, Teachers & Staff

CAS goes PINK

Upper School and Lower School students have each taken steps this past month in regards to raising awareness for Breast Cancer. On Monday, Latifa Cherif, from Les Amis du Ruban Rose, joined the Upper School assembly to help raise awareness. Several seniors and juniors collaborated and joined efforts to create PINK t-shirts that were sold for the cause. Today, the entire school dressed in Pink and, at the end of the fire drill, we created the human pink ribbon to bring a CAS focus to Pinktober.

We appreciate all of our CAS family members who participated in helping us raise awareness. A special THANK YOU to the Y a Pas Photo team and to our wonderful supportive mom, Lina Tazi, for helping us create this beautiful image.

Rainy season and Flu vaccines

The rainy season has begun and it is time to open closets and drawers and get out our warm clothes. It is also the time when we can easily contact the flu. In this regard, our Nurse's Office has been proactive in addressing this illness and has sent out permission slips to parents who would like their children to be vaccinated right here at school. The Nurse, along with local doctors, will be vaccinating our students and some adults and this will take place Saturday, November 2nd, 2019. If you are still interested in taking advantage of this prevention measure, please contact Ms. Lekfy Mouna, the school nurse, at mlekfy@cas.ac.ma

The use of pictures and filming at CAS

Please make sure you read the letter that Mr. Randolph will be sending soon regarding unauthorized photographing and video taping.

ACADEMIC NEWS

VERY interesting Info Session with Dean Nondorf

Dean Nondorf, Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid of the University of Chicago, visited only 2 schools in Morocco and CAS was one of them! The University of Chicago is a prestigious institution! Many tips and sound advice was shared with all of those who attended specifically about applying to highly selective universities. Our students and parents had many questions for Dean Nondorf who thoroughly addressed each question. We sincerely thank our College Counselor, Ms. Rana Haroun, for organizing this and all of the other events so far this year

Athletic News

Track Meet 2019

This year the Track Meet will take place at GWA on Saturday Dec 7, 2019. Track and field practice will be held on November 4th at the Lydec Sport Center from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm every Tuesday and Thursday.

Age groups for Track & Field this year are: 10-12, 13-14, and 15-18

We would really appreciate your help on spreading the word! If students need more information they can always contact Mr Ghandi for clarifications.

Games Played

Varsity Volleyball Friendly Games

When: Friday, Oct 25

Where: Casablanca American school

Opponent team: George Washington Academy

Yesterday the American Academy Casablanca hosted soccer games for boys and Girls grades 6, 7 and 8

The games were held at the campus of American Academy Casablanca.

Busy week at CAS

Olympics: Veni, Vidi, Didici! "She came, she saw and she taught us!"

We extend a very special thanks to Ms. Nawal El Moutawakel for the time she graciously spent at CAS last Monday. It was an honor to have Ms. El Moutawakil come again this year to support our Olympics IPC Unit. She is a great source of inspiration and she tied our LS theme this year to her speech! Our students were very happy to ask her so many questions!

Kudos to our wonderful Lower School PE teachers, Ms Fatiha and Ms Hala, for their wonderful organization and efforts!

Evacuation Drill

It was a PINK evacuation Drill! All buildings were emptied in exactly 7 minutes. Students were in their best emergency behavior: no running, no talking and listening carefully.

UN DAY CELEBRATION

More than 32 nationalities present at CAS came together on Wednesday, Oct 24th, to celebrate United Nations Day. To name just a few nationalities amongst us: United States, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Moroccan, Portuguese, Indian, Canadian, Swiss, French, Egyptian, Bahraini, Tunisian, Lebanese, German, Columbian, Russian, British, Lithuanian and Slovakian families. CAS is a beautiful mosaic of different cultures, different nationalities and different beliefs that melt into one community all yearning for the same purposeful education.

Art Spotlight: From The LS Art Room

Artwork inspired by... Our wonderful world!

In honor of UN Day, artwork inspired by art from around the world, created by grades 2-5, is on display. Please pass by the "pop-up gallery" next to the Lower School Principal's office.

Community News

Pictures Taken by Naznin Mojgani

When students take action

Naznin Mojgani (Grade 6) interviewing one of CAS' long term but now retired workers, Mr. Bouabid Mejrade, about a considerable wood project. One of our former parents graciously donated bookshelves to the Upper School Library. To make the bookshelves fit better within the space we have in our Upper School Library, we asked Mr. Mejrade to cut them down as they were too wide.

Here is the interview led by Naznin:

“What’s your Name?”

“My Name is Bouabid Mejrade.”

“How long have you been working at this school?”

“I started working in, I think 1991 as a carpenter and I think I've worked in this school for 30 years.” Mr. Randolph hired me.

“What are you doing now?”

“I’m cutting these shelves into halves to move the other half to another place to keep space or I cut some of them into 32 cm out of 47 cm to make the empty places at the edges full or some place next to the wall full.”

“How many shelves have you made or cut?”

“I’ve cut 15 so far, I still need to work on 9 more shelves. And there were shelves too big so I took parts of them and I stacked the remaining.”

“Hmm… Interesting, How long have you been working on this project of yours?”

“1 month? No, no, no it’s been 3 weeks so far.”

“Was there someone working with you?”

“No, I worked by myself.”

“Thank you, for all of your hard work.”

“It’s no problem."

Open to CAS community, families and friends! Spread the word!!

Halloween Celebration Details

Halloween will be celebrated on Friday November 1st in the EVENING from 6:00-9:00 pm. Parents, Students, Teachers, Family and Friends are invited to come disguised (in the EVENING) for a memorable gruesome moment!

There will be many surprises in store for you all!

Entrance Tickets are 50 dh

Food & Drinks will be sold: Hot Dog Taxi, La Frite, Mookies, Sophies Cupcakes, Churros and Oliveri and more!!

Tickets will be sold near Admissions office starting Monday at drop off and pick up time.

Pre-School Halloween Celebration

Pre-School will be celebrating Halloween during the day starting 8:30 am. PTC have decorated the pre-school and are organizing make-up, in class games , magnetic souvenir pictures and a trick or treat parade. Please send your pre-school children (Nursery, Kinder and PF) in their costumes on Friday November 1st to school. REMEMBER: No masks or weapons allowed.

Please NOTE: Pre-school will celebrate during the day, however they are welcome to come at NIGHT with the rest of the community.

CAS Spirit is back...

What a week!! Thank you to the Upper School Student Council for a very successful SPIRIT WEEK: The themes chosen are well targeted. Plannings with expectations are ways to pave the path to success. And you did it! Kudos to all the Upper School students for their good behavior as we celebrate Spirit Week.

Contact Information:

Taylor Webb

Email: twebb@cas.ac.ma

WhatsApp: 785-551-0857

Additional Information:

Any age/skill level accepted
30 min - 1 hour lessons
Lesson location flexible

Flute Lessons with Miss Webb

Hello CAS Cobras! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Taylor Webb and I am one of the new music teachers at CAS. I am very passionate about music in all different mediums and I would love to offer my expertise in the genre of classical flute. I graduated from the University of Kansas in the U.S. this year with my undergraduate music education degree which included a flute emphasis. In school, I spent time working with professional musicians all around the world, and had the opportunity to become an expert on my primary instrument. I have taught several students of a wide variety of ages, and have done so for 8 years now. Now that I live in Casablanca, I would love to offer flute lessons to the students here at CAS. Please contact me if you are interested.

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

KEY DATES

Wednesday, October 30

Parent/Student Conferences

8:00 am- 3:00 pm

Friday, November 1

Halloween at CAS

Open to CAS community, Friends and Families

Wednesday, November 6

No School in celebration of Green March

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