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Wednesday - December 15, 2010


From the School

Message from Lee Palmer, Upper School Principal
Dear Friends,
As we are about to go our separate ways for winter break I would like to wish everyone a holiday season filled with joy. Information about exam period that has already been distributed to students is below, but please encourage your children to put schoolwork aside for the first week and focus on family, friends, and fun. Students find all different ways to enrich their spirit the second week and should do whatever will lift them up and help them look forward to the new year.
The winter solstice is on December 21, and I always look forward to the lengthening of the days and the return of the light. A Maori proverb comes to mind - Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Peace,
Lee
Message from Mamadou Guèye, Academic Dean
UPPER SCHOOL MIDYEAR EXAMS SCHEDULE 2010.pdfDear Parents,
I am writing to inform you that the exam schedule must be followed as published on the Sidwell Friends School website. Any deviation from the exam schedule must be approved by me.
If a student is doubling up in any subject matter, he or she must take both exams on the very day that subject matter midterm exam is scheduled. Students should contact Ms. Morillas (morillasj@sidwell.edu ) before the first exam, January 6, to schedule their double exams. Please encourage your child/ren to adhere to the exam schedule above.
Exam Make-up day is scheduled for students who missed exams due to illness and/ or unusual circumstances approved by the Academic Dean only.
If school is closed due to inclement weather, we will move the scheduled exam forward by one day (i.e., Thursday exam will become Friday exam). Therefore, students will take the exam they have already studied for upon their return.
If you have any questions or concerns about the midterm exam schedule and protocols, please call or email me.
Many thanks,
Mamadou Guèye Read MoreVariety Show: Here's a Holiday Gift That Keeps on Giving!
Give your extended family, your friends, your child's favorite teacher tickets to Variety Show 2011 -- the annual showcase where alumni professionals in the performing arts return to entertain us. You’ll be giving your children an evening with great role models. And you’ll be giving the gift of student financial aid – all proceeds go to Events for Student Scholarships.
The Ninth Annual Variety Show is set for Saturday, January 29, 2011, at 8 p.m. in the Kogod Arts Center. Click here to buy tickets. Become a sponsor and give yourself the gift of a tax deduction! Order now; this show SELLS OUT!
Great News from the Fox Den!
Now you can shop at the Fox Den 24 hours a day! The online store is up and ready for your viewing and shopping pleasure. Just click here and shop. Please feel free to call or email Donna C. Osborn (202.537.8198 or osbornd@sidwell.edu ) if you have any questions.
Annual 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 MoreSally Foster Gift Wraps and Gifts
Stock up Now for the Holidays!
Sally Foster is a school-wide sale that includes quality gift-wrap and delicious gourmet chocolates among many other great gift items available through a convenient online catalogue. 50% of all sales go directly to student financial aid. All orders may be placed now through January 31, 2011 at www.sallyfoster.com. When prompted at check-out, enter the SFS account code 505552 so that 50% of the proceeds are properly recorded to our school.


PA Announcements

Message from PA US Steering Committee Co-Clerks
Many thanks to all of our wonderful and dedicated parents and volunteers who have given of themselves and their time for our school community this year. We appreciate the work you have done to welcome new families, participate in community service projects, host family pot-luck dinners, support school fundraisers, honor our teachers and staff, help with student activities, and attend our meetings. We have enjoyed getting to know you and look forward to working with you again in 2011!

We wish you a happy and safe holiday,

Ann von Pentz and Joan Ochi
Upper School Co-ClerksArtRageous Shout Out!
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 appreciator 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! Read MoreCalling all Students: ArtRageous wants you!
Put on your dancing shoes, exercise your fingers, warm up those voices, plug in the guitars, and rise up to this CALL for all performing musicians to participate in the fun event known as ArtRageous! This happening takes place in the beautiful spaces of the Middle School this year on Sunday, January 30, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Write it down now, and reserve your chance to participate by sending a note to maude.fish@comcast.net. Read More


Other News

Shared by an US Parent: Prepare to be Uplifted, Arts Guild 12/17/10
Arts Guild Reflections ~ December 2010
The next Arts Guild is THIS Friday, Dec. 17, at 7 pm in SFS’s Kogod Arts Center. Let SFS US artists offer you a spectacular way to begin Winter Break!
LIFT is a word for which there are many meanings, including what we take to the top of the mountain in order to ski down, platforms we add to shoes to make us a little taller, or what we ride to the rooftop if we happen, “dahling”, to be “doing” London! But thankfully, LIFT, is also a word a lot closer to home -- Read More11th Grade Community Service Project
The 11th Grade Parent Reps are excited to announce this year’s community service project for the 11th grade students. Please mark your calendars for Sunday, January 23, 2011, as the 11th grade students (and family and friends) will be serving food, giving away gently used warm weather clothing, and handing out toiletry kits to the homeless, from 8:30am to 12:00pm at the Martin Luther King Public Library, located at 901 G Street, N.W. All of the food will be prepared by the students in their own homes (with a little help from mom or dad?). In addition, all of the items to be included in the toiletry kits will also be donated and assembled by the students (and any family or friends who wish to contribute). This is a tremendous opportunity for the students to participate in a community service project in a very real and tactile way, and perhaps more fully appreciate what being homeless really means. The 11th Grade Parent Reps will be sending out more information to the 11th grade parents in the coming weeks.Friends, Parents, Future SFS Varsity Wrestlers! Come and cheer on our AWARD-WINNING WRESTLING TEAM!
When: THIS SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 2010, 9 am – 3 pm (last matches start around 2:45 pm) (Yummy Lunch and Snacks available all day!)
Where: Our new GYM!
Who: Our TERRIFIC SFS VARSITY Wrestlers and coaches, and supporters, in competition with: Read MoreSupport SFS during the Holidays (and all year) without even trying!
Take just a minute and register your Giant bonus card and Safeway card to automatically send $ to SFS.
Each dollar is greatly appreciated. It’s easy and quick.
Click here:
Safeway: group ID #151607736
Giant: Upper School ID #00178
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Calendar


Tue, Dec 14th

PA Executive Committee Meeting

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


US Instrumental Rehearsal

AC Theater
12:00pm - 3:00pm


US Musical Auditions

AC Music Room
2:45pm - 7:00pm


Wed, Dec 15th

US Instrumental Concert

AC Theater
7:30pm - 10:00pm


Thu, Dec 16th

PA Arts Committee Meeting

US Library Board Room
7:45pm - 9:30pm


Fri, Dec 17th

ARTS GUILD

AC Theater
7:00pm - 9:00pm


Sat, Dec 18th

US Wrestling Tournament (All Day Event)

New Athletic Center


Winter Vacation Begins


Mon, Jan 3rd

School Reopens


More


Athletics


Wed, Dec 15th

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


2:45pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman at St. Albans


4:15pm


Thu, Dec 16th

Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. Georgetown Day


2:30pm


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


2:45pm


Wrestling - 7/8 vs. St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


2:45pm


Swimming - Boys 7/8 at Holton-Arms


3:00pm


Swimming - Girls 7/8 at Holton-Arms


3:00pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


4:15pm


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Georgetown Day


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity at Georgetown Day


4:30pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes


6:00pm


Fri, Dec 17th

Basketball - Girls Varsity - Bullis Tournament vs. Wilson HS


3:00pm


Sat, Dec 18th

Wrestling - Varsity - SFS Tournament


9:00am


Basketball - Girls Varsity - Bullis Tournament


1:00pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity at Georgetown Prep


3:30pm


Sun, Dec 19th

Basketball - Girls Varsity - Bullis Tournament


Mon, Dec 27th

Basketball - Boys Varsity - Ft. Lauderdale Beach Holiday Classic vs. West Boca


1:30pm


Tue, Dec 28th

Wrestling - Varsity - Damascus Tournament


Basketball - Boys Varsity - Ft. Lauderdale Beach Holiday Classic


Wed, Dec 29th

Wrestling - Varsity - Damascus Tournament


Basketball - Boys Varsity - Ft. Lauderdale Beach Holiday Classic


Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity - Landon Tournament


1:00pm


Thu, Dec 30th

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity - Landon Tournament


1:00pm


Tue, Jan 4th

Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. St. Albans


4:15pm


Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at Episcopal High School


4:15pm


Wrestling - Varsity vs. Maret School


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Freshman - St. Joseph's Nudgee (Australia)


4:30pm


Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. St. Albans


6:00pm


Basketball - Girls Varsity at Episcopal High School


6:00pm


Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Bishop McNamara


7:30pm


Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Bishop McNamara


7:30pm


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