A Message from Your PTSA President
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00 M AGNET NEWS FALL EDITION OCTOBER. 2 0 1 9 WHAT’S INSIDE: Principal’s Ponderings…………….2 National Merit……………………....3 A Message from Your PTSA President Student Awards……………………..4 Can you believe that the end ble and excited about their to the school cannot be accom- Teacher Award, Readers Choice.5 of the first nine weeks is just first year of high school! plished without our amazing National Honor Society…………..6 around the corner? Things We have a very important pool of volunteers! Please con- Jr Class, Student Awards…….….7 have been rocking and rolling event coming up on Saturday, sider getting involved! Volun- JROTC, Quiz Bowl………………….8 at Magnet High since the first October 26th…our Fall Pre- teering is not a full time com- th Student Awards, News………..9-10 day of school, and the PTSA view for 8 graders and JAM- mitment, and we are happy to PTSA Membership Form...……..11 has been hard at work! We balaya Muzik Festival! Invita- get any contributions we can, Student Awards…………………...12 had a record-setting turn out tions have gone out, but whether it’s an hour of your Cross Country……………………...13 for our PTSA Membership please be sure and encourage time or a case of water for a Dinner and Activity Fair on your friends with 8th graders PTSA sponsored event. EVERY Swim Team…………..……………..14 August 15th! Robin Jones and to attend...and tell them how contribution makes a HUGE Tour, Fall Preview………………...15 Stacey Simpson did a great job awesome Magnet is! Follow- difference! Volunteer forms PTSA Officers……………………...16 of organizing the dinner and ing the Preview will be our are available in the office, and I District, State, National PTA….17 providing those super helpful JAMbalaya Muzik Festival with hope you will find a volunteer PTSA Contacts, Calendar……….18 (and “high tech”) one-sheets food, fun, and live music. We opportunity that speaks to you. for the various student activi- encourage our guests to stay PTSA meetings are held on the ties we offer here at Magnet! I and experience a little piece first Monday of every month at C O N T A C T U S would also like to thank the of what makes Magnet 5:30pm in the library. We had Ambassadors for doing such a unique! record attendance at our meet- Website: great job greeting guests and If you haven’t joined the PTSA ing in September and would helping them through the food yet, it’s not too late! Forms love to have even more of you www.caddomagnetptsa.net line. They are wonderful ex- are in this newsletter, in the join us! amples of the quality students office, and on our website at I am always available to answer we have here at our school! caddomagnetptsa.net. The your questions and concerns Facebook: Lisa Nelson and Amy Johnson number one reason for join- and hear your ideas and sugges- hosted a fabulous New Parent ing is to benefit your child and tions. Please do not hesitate to Caddo Magnet HS PTSA Coffee on August 16th. We your child’s school! Joining call or text me at 318-455-1964 https://www.facebook.com/ had a great group of new par- the PTSA also helps you stay or email me at magnetptsapres- cmhs.ptsa.1 ents in attendance, and I en- connected! Keep up with [email protected]. Looking for- Twitter: joyed getting to meet and talk news by attending monthly ward to serving you! with them. Our Freshman meetings, subscribing to our @cmhs_ptsa Activities Committee, consist- weekly news blast, reading Julie Lyles ing of Dalton Ross, Dodie our award winning newslet- 2019-2020 PTSA President Brown, Ellen Alley, and Penny ter, checking out both the Brown, helped our Freshmen school and the PTSA’s web- get to know their classmates sites, and downloading the at the always fun Freshman school’s app from the app Newsletter Email: Speed Meet on August store. Don’t forget our Face- rd [email protected] 23 ! The kids had a great time book page: Caddo Magnet HS talking with friends old and PTSA. All of these resources PTSA President’s Email: new, eating pizza and snacks, are extremely helpful in keep- [email protected] and winning door prizes…did ing your finger on the pulse of A Magnet PTSA/FOM Publication someone say “homework what’s happening at our passes”? The committee did a school! great job making our youngest And, of course, all of the ser- Mustangs feel more comforta- vices that the PTSA provides P A G E 2 Principal’s Ponderings The first nine weeks is over, and we are off to a great start in the 2019-2020 school year. Report cards will come out soon. First time high school parents, please remember that this report card is just a formal progress re- port. Grades and points continue into the 2nd nine weeks. At the end of the second nine weeks, the semester grade (which is made up of the 2nd nine week grade and semester exam grade) is what will actually be recorded on the transcript. The freshman class is getting acclimated to Caddo Magnet, and I continue to hear comments about how impressed teachers and staff are with this group of kids. And, I am not just talking about academics and talents, but primarily behavior, manners, and character. We are truly blessed with great students and an awesome school environment. We have entered the recruiting season for the 2020-2021 school year and will have our Fall Preview on Saturday, October 26th, beginning at 9:30 AM in the PAC. Please invite any families that you know with an 8th grade child to attend, and let them know of all of the wonderful opportunities that are available to Caddo Magnet students. The 6th Annual JamBaLaya Musik Festival starts at 12:30 PM immediately following the Fall Preview on October 26th, and admission is free to everyone. Come listen to some great bands, eat some good food, and experience one of the school’s unique events as we raise funds for our community outreach programs for the Valencia Community Center. Our guests that are touring the campus will be welcomed to stay as well. We hope to see you there! Security upgrades to our campus have begun, and installation of the access points will probably begin in November. Once completed, access to the interior of the campus will be much more secure and able to be monitored much more closely. This will make an already safe campus that much safer. As always, thank you for all your support in our pursuit of Excellence in Education! Michael Ilgenfritz FALL EDITION FALL EDITION P A G E 3 CMHS Students Named National Merit Semi-Finalists Congratulations to Joshua Gill, Ian Golsby, Sloan Hall, Taylor Rosen and Grace Sun for joining a group of approximately 16,000 students named Semi-finalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. From the National Merit press release: Over 1.5 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools entered the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, repre- senting less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The num- ber of Semifi nalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percent- age of the national total of gradu- ating seniors. Congratulations on a job well done! And thank you to all of the teachers, especially Mrs. Barbara McGuire, who have worked so hard educating these students. We wish them the best as they continue in the competition towards being named a finalist. For more information on the program please visit the NMSQT website. To view the official press release in its entirety, please click National Merit Press Release Sept 2019 Semifinalists Pictured front row, left to right: Sloan Hall, Joshua Gill, Grace Sun, Ian Golsby, Taylor Rosen Zheng Named National Merit Commended Congratulations to Kevin Zheng for being designated as a National Merit Commended Student. His PSAT score has placed him in the top 50,000 of approximately 1.5 million juniors that took the exam in 2018. FALL EDITION P A G E 4 August Students of the Month Each month, teachers select a student from each grade level as Student of the Month. The students are recognized due to their academics, work ethic, and character. August honorees are: Senior - Lindsey-Kathryn Bowen Junior - Graham Claycomb Sophomore – Jackson Dillard Freshman - Leon Adams Left to right: Leon Adams, Jackson Dillard, Lindsey-Kathryn Bowen, Graham Claycomb September Students of the Month Each month, teachers select a student from each grade level as Student of the Month. The students are recognized due to their academics, work ethic, and character. September honorees are: Senior - Cody McKinney Junior - Maggie Weaver Sophomore - Edmund Pozniak Freshman - Abby Sterling Left to right: Cody McKinney, Maggie Weaver, Edmund Pozniak, Abby Sterling Thank You, Willis Knighton! Thank you to Willis Knighton for supporting Caddo Magnet's student-athletes by providing an athletic trainer at no cost to our school! Mrs. Erin Bolin (Palmer) attends many of our athletic events as well as working with injured athletes in her office down by the track. Thank you Erin for all that you do!! P A G E 5 Andrew Medlin Named Yale Educator Award Winner Congratulations to Mr. Andrew Medlin for being named a Yale Educator Award winner for 2019! From the Yale website: The Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions has the distinct pleas- ure of recognizing the following educators as recipients of the 2019 Yale Educator Award.