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Wednesday - January 5, 2011


From the School

2011-2012 Academic Calendar
2011-2012 Academic Calendar.pdfThe 2011-2012 Academic Calendar can now be found on the website or at the link above. Read MoreUS Community Service Newsletter
The January edition of the Upper School Community Service Newsletter is now available on the SFS website. Click here to access the Community service webpage. You will find the newsletter halfway down in the middle of the page. This newsletter highlights upcoming and recent community service events taking place at the Upper School. Please read this month’s publication if you would like to learn more, and/or get involved in the community service program at the Upper School.The January 29 Variety Show is Coming -- Are You?
Don't miss the 9th Annual Variety Show, when alumni in the performing arts return to SFS to bring us a fun-filled evening of fabulous entertainment and help raise money for financial aid. The Variety Show sells out, so get your tickets now for the show Saturday, January 29, 2010, at 8 p.m. in the Kogod Arts Center. SFS student tickets are just $10. Adults are $35 (2 for $60); teachers and young alums ('00-'10) are $25. While you're at it, why not purchase an extra ticket and donate it for a teacher? A variety of sponsorship opportunities also are available. All proceeds go to Events for Student Scholarships. To order tickets click here.
Read MoreAnnual Auction on April 16th
Events For Student Scholarships
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 16, 2011 for the All Hands on Deck themed benefit auction at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium. All auction proceeds go directly to student financial aid. This will be a fabulous event you won’t want to miss!
In the meantime, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. The Co-Chairs Mimi Reisner, Elissa Rubin, and Beth Wilkinson are asking each of you for your help. Do you have any special ideas, talents or connections that you could donate or help us to arrange? If so, please contact events@sidwell.edu. Read MoreGolf Tournament
If you are a golfer this is the perfect volunteer opportunity for you. We are looking for people to serve on the Golf Tournament committee. The chair, Margaret Krull, needs your help. There will only be one meeting and minimal work. Please contact the Events for Student Scholarships office at 202-537-8110 or by email at events@sidwell.edu if you are interested or for additional information. Also, save the date for the tournament which will be held at Kenwood Country Club on Monday, June 13.


PA Announcements

DON'T MISS ArtRageous 2011!
Join the Sidwell Friends School Community on Sunday, Jan 30, from 1-4 pm in the beautiful Middle School to celebrate the ARTS. Come and create your own IMPRESSIONS of ArtRageous 2011 - Blue Prints - as we celebrate our inspiring new architectural spaces of learning and doing. Design, build, and EAT a house; revel in an ice dance; enjoy our new club performance atmosphere as Sidwell students of all ages offer musical and theatrical "blues"; paint a collaboratively imagined mural; let your jaw drop at the multiple awesome visual art shows. . . This year's arts explosion offers you an array of opportunities to work with professional artists, AND the grand finale is a really terrific surprise.
Clue #1 - some of your very favorite Sidwell Friends School administrators and faculty will soar before your eyes and ears!
ArtRageous Needs Volunteers!
Friends, Parents, Patrons, lend us your love of all things Art! ArtRageous (Sunday, Jan 30 from 1-4) promises to bring out the artist or art lover in you if you'll help us bring out the RAGE in ART! This SCHOOL-WIDE day of COMMUNITY and ART is fabulously fun, and it CANNOT happen without YOU! We are excited by a new venue this year - the beautiful Middle School - and it's going to be exhilarating to celebrate the arts in ways old and NEW in the cool Black Box Theatre, the professionally designed Art Studios, the inspiring Instrumental and Choral Classrooms - BUT WE NEED YOU. Set up (morning), Clean up (4-5:30), Assisting Art Stops and other events (1-4) - we've got a place only YOUR SHOES will dance in! To reserve your place in making this happen, please contact Sarah Blake at sblakie@aol.com, and THANK YOU!
Parents, PLEASE pass this along to your gifted children!
ArtRageous is coming! CALLING ALL PERFORMERS! We still have time and space for you to perform, so please send your information to: maude.fish@comcast.net. Let her know the piece you will perform, the composer/author/choreographer, what grade you are in, your contact info, and if you need an accompanist, or back-up equipment. Maude Fish will get back to you. ArtRageous provides a GREAT performance opportunity for Sidwellians of all ages and talents, so seize the day, and GO FOR IT!


Other News

11th Grade Community Service Project
The 11th Grade Community Service Project kicks off this week, as the 11th graders bring in donated items to be included in toiletry bags that will be handed out on the day of the event (Sunday, January 23rd). The collection days conveniently coincide with this year's exam schedule, as follows:

Thursday, January 6th (History exam day) = Socks
Friday, January 7th (Science exam day) = Toothbrushes and Toothpaste
Monday, January 10th (Language exam day) = Deodorant (for men & women)
Wednesday, January 12th (English exam day) = Shampoo and Conditioner
Thursday, January 13th (Math exam day) = Soap (bar soap or gel)

Students should leave their donated items in the collection box which will be set outside of the Dean of Students' office.

Students (as well as parents and other family members) have also been asked to visit the following link: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/11th2
and sign up for a shift to either serve food, or hand out toiletry bags and gently used winter clothing. Please don't forget to sign up!

Students who would like to help out on January 17th to assemble the toiletry bags may sign up at: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/11th3

If you have any questions at all, please contact Donna Joe at 301-640-6201 or thedjoes@gmail.com

Thank you.

11th Grade Parent RepsHappy New Year...
...from the Wednesday Letter editorsNewsletter Basics
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Calendar


Wed, Jan 5th

Reading Day


Thu, Jan 6th

Exam: History


Fri, Jan 7th

Exam: Science


Mon, Jan 10th

Exam: Languages


Faculty Staff Council Meeting on Technology

Alumni Lounge
3:30pm - 5:00pm


US PA Steering Committee Meeting

US Room 102
4:30pm - 6:00pm


Tue, Jan 11th

Reading Day


Wed, Jan 12th

Exam: English


PA Athletics Committee Meeting

Athletic Center Meeting Room
7:45am - 9:00am


Thu, Jan 13th

Exam: Math


5th & 6th Orchestra / 5th Grade Choral Concert

AC Theater
7:30pm


Fri, Jan 14th

US Exam Make Up Day


5th & 6th Orchestra / 5th Grade Choral Concert

AC Theater
2:30pm - 3:20pm


Mon, Jan 17th

Martin Luther King Jr Day - No School


Tue, Jan 18th

LS Faculty In-Service Day - No School, LS Only


PA Executive Committee Meeting

Athletic Center Meeting Room
7:45am - 9:00am


US Musical Rehearsal

AC Theater
6:00pm - 9:00pm


11th Grade Parent Peer Group Meeting

US Crane Room
7:30pm - 9:30pm


Wed, Jan 19th

PA All School Committees Meeting

Athletic Center Meeting Room
8:00am - 9:00am


US Musical Rehearsal

AC Theater
6:00pm - 9:00pm


Thu, Jan 20th

US Musical Rehearsal

AC Music Room
6:00pm - 9:00pm


11th Graders & parents College Counseling Kickoff Meeting

AC Theater
7:00pm - 9:00pm


New Orleans Workcamp meeting

Zartman Drawing Room
7:00pm - 9:00pm


PA Arts Committee Meeting

US Library Board Room
7:45pm - 7:30pm


11th graders College Counseling Break Out

US Dining Room
7:45pm - 8:45pm


Sat, Jan 22nd

SAT

Off Campus


Tips on Trips and Camps Annual Fair

US Dining Room
12:00pm - 4:30pm


GLSBT Dance

AC Theater
8:30pm - 11:00pm


Sun, Jan 23rd

11th Grade Family Community Service Project at MLK Library

Off-Campus
8:00am


Model UN

AC Theater
8:00am - 10:00am


Model UN

MS Classrooms, MS Library, MS Choral Room, MS Drama Studio
9:00am - 6:00pm


Mon, Jan 24th

US Musical Rehearsal

AC Theater
6:00pm - 9:00pm


All School PA & Quaker Life Committees host an evening with Susan Goldman

MS Drama Studio
7:00pm - 9:00pm


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Athletics


Wed, Jan 5th

Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. Flint Hill


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at Flint Hill


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 C vs. Flint Hill


2:45pm


Thu, Jan 6th

Wrestling - 7/8 at St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B at St. Albans


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Mon, Jan 10th

Basketball - Girls 7/8 A at Potomac School


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Bullis


2:45pm


Wed, Jan 12th

Basketball - Boys 7/8 A vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B at Maret School


2:45pm


Thu, Jan 13th

Basketball - Boys 7/8 C at Maret School


2:45pm


Sat, Jan 15th

Wrestling - Varsity - Capital Duals


9:00am


Tue, Jan 18th

Wrestling - Varsity vs. St. James School


5:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Potomac School


7:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Potomac School


7:00pm


Wed, Jan 19th

Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Mater Dei


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Mater Dei


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C at Mater Dei


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at Maret School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Flint Hill


4:15pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman at Flint Hill


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Flint Hill


6:00pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


6:00pm


Thu, Jan 20th

Basketball - Girls 7/8 C at Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Wrestling - 7/8 vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


Swimming - Boys 7/8 at Stone Ridge School


2:45pm


Swimming - Girls 7/8 at Stone Ridge School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 A at Potomac School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys 7/8 B vs. Potomac School


2:45pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity - Thurgood Marshall HS


4:00pm


Fri, Jan 21st

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at Maret School


4:15pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity at Madeira


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity at Maret School


5:45pm


Sat, Jan 22nd

Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Potomac School


12:00pm


Wrestling - Varsity vs. Episcopal, Georgetown Prep & Good Counsel


12:00pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Potomac School


3:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity at St. Albans


5:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. National Cathedral School


5:30pm


Mon, Jan 24th

Swimming - Boys 7/8 at St. Albans


2:30pm


Swimming - Girls 7/8 vs. National Cathedral School


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 C at National Cathedral School


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity - Dunbar HS


4:45pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity - Dunbar HS


6:15pm


Tue, Jan 25th

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


4:15pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Holy Child


4:15pm


Wrestling - Varsity at Potomac School


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman at Field School


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. St. Andrew's School


6:00pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Holy Child


6:00pm


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