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8th Grade Math & Reading Camp: Because of new Student Success Initiative requirements for this year’s eighth graders, we have restructured our after school at-risk programs to focus this semester exclusively on eighth grade. Attendance for these Wednesday tutorials has been great, and feedback from the students has been positive. These students will be required to pass both the math and reading portions of the TAKS Test in order to be promoted to the ninth grade. We want all of our students to be prepared and experience success. Beginning in January, sixth and seventh grade students in danger of failing the TAKS will join the eighth graders for after-school tutorials. At this time, reading will held on Tuesdays after school and math on Wednesdays in order to accommodate the increased number of students being served. Bus transportation is provided for all our at-risk after school programs. Both departments have seen very positive results in student achievement from these tutorials in years past. |
Choir Concert: The choir Christmas concert will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 18th at 7:00 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. This concert will include over two hundred of Chapel Hill’s finest vocal musicians from the middle and high schools. We hope you enjoy hearing some of the sounds of the season. This will also be the unveiling of the choir’s new “uniforms” so generously provided by our district. All-Region Band Contest: We had all-region band contest this past weekend at Rusk High School. Approximately 1300 middle school students auditioned for 240 seats in the all-region band. We had 31 students to win a chair. Chapel Hill will host the all-region clinic and concert Saturday, January 12. We are extremely proud of our band. The students placed very high in the trumpet, French horn and percussion sections. This is the most difficult individual contest in which the students participate. If they win an all-region chair, they earn 20 points toward their high school letter jacket. They must earn 100 points to win their school jacket and they begin earning points in the 6th grade. |
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Student Council: Student Council sponsored an Angel Tree again this year and it has been a rousing success! All 25 little angels sent from Wise and Jackson have been adopted, and we are anxiously awaiting the return of the gifts. The angels were chosen by individual families, office staff, teachers and school groups. This project is a rewarding experience for everyone involved and spreads Christmas cheer throughout the community. |
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National Junior Honor Society: In order to raise money to sponsor 20 Head Start children in our district, National Junior Honor Society members Kerri Toon, Logan Zeditz, Caleb Robertson, Haleigh Helms, Sadie McMahan, Kendrick Sammons and Michaela Washburn sold concessions at three CHMS basketball games this season. NJHS joined with the NHS this year in giving teddy bears to each Head Start child. Additional funds were used to buy Christmas gifts for two children from our campus’ Angel Tree. Members Kelsey Frazier, Andreah Liebel, Samantha Martin, Marisa Cates and Michaela Washburn met in Tyler on Saturday, December 8th to purchase those gifts. |
Sixth Graders Remember Our Soldiers: Each student in Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Duncan’s 6th grade social studies classes sent a Christmas card to “A Recovering Wounded Soldier”, going through rehabilitation at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. Since Walter Reed will not deliver any card to an unknown soldier (for security reasons), Fox News offered to hand carry the letters to the soldiers if we sent all of the cards to their station. Ms. Burford’s 6th grade English classes are also sending Christmas messages to soldiers who are actively serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the 5th year that her classes have sent cards to soldiers in the field. We are very proud of our military men and women. Our students wanted to express hope for their recovery and to ensure that these heroes were remembered at Christmas. |
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