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October 2015 Clocktower No. 1 October, 2015 CLOCKTOWER Deering’s Quarterly Community Newsletter | 2015, no. 1 Calendar October 30: Slam of the Dead Poetry Slam November 7: SATs Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school November 13: 1st Quarter ends November 25-29: Thanksgiving Holiday, no school December 5: SATs December 10, 11, 12: Shrek, The Musical December 23- January 3: December Recess, no school Above: Deering’s restored clocktower. The restoration took four months and was overseen by PPSD project manager, David Onos. Photo credit: Audrey Rolfe Clocktower !1 No. 1 October, 2015 From Principal Waltz... Greetings DHS of our thirteen Advance Placement classes’ study families and groups, working on Senior Capstones, and readers, internships. Thank you for Also, Deering High School is currently designing a trusting us with new “hands on” Science Technology Engineering your child’s Mathematics (STEM) lab. We have painted and education by started moving equipment for our VEX Robotics choosing Deering! Club, Introduction to Engineering and Robotics We take this trust class, University of Maine S.M.A.R.T. Storm- very seriously. You water Researchers program, and our new 3-D care about your Printer! children. I care about them. The Three science and two math teachers are attending teachers and staff a “Think Tinker & Inspire Workshop” for two in the school care days, helping to build the capacity for students to about them as well. pursue the STEM endorsement on their diplomas as well as Enrichment opportunities during our This publication is our first electronic step toward newly established WINN. time. communication and understanding that will benefit every child in the school. Please allow me to share We will expose students to “real world” career some of our exciting work. opportunities right here in greater Portland and throughout the globe. We will get them excited We are continuing to define our mission, as it about potential job opportunities, future career relates to student-centered learning through our options and educational opportunities beyond high identity as a member of the International Studies school. School Network. In closing, know that we care, connect, challenge, We are in a continuous improvement process by and celebrate our students. If you have any kudos, developing and revising our curriculum so that concerns, questions, and/or suggestions, please -Students have a say in what they learn, share them with us. how they learn and how they show us what they learned, Appreciatively, -Students investigate questions and perform tasks that adults would perform or study in the real world, -Students study topics, issues, and Ira Waltz phenomena of global importance and Principal -Students share their work- and receive feedback- from audiences with relevant expertise and on the web. In support of this continuous improvement, we have introduced a What I Need Now (WINN) period. This is a new forty-five minute block of time added to our schedule four days per week. During this block of time, we provide students with academic support and enrichment activities as well as Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO). Our ELOs may include becoming a member of one Clocktower !2 No. 1 October, 2015 Superintendent’s Corner by Portland Superintendent Jeanne Crocker Dear Families, Welcome to a new school year! As we begin this year, I want to tell you how much we value you as our partner in your child’s education. We encourage your involvement and collaboration to help your child succeed in school. To foster student success, one of our primary goals this year is to ensure that every student attends school regularly. Attendance is key to keeping kids on track academically and engaged in all aspects of school life. Showing up for school has a huge impact on a student’s academic success, starting in kindergarten and continuing through high school. Even as children grow older and more independent, families still play a key role in making sure students get to school safely every day and in helping them understand why attendance is so important for success in school and in life. We realize some absences are unavoidable due to health problems or other circumstances. But we also know that when students miss too much school – regardless of the reason – it can cause them to fall behind academically. Your child is less likely to succeed if he or she is chronically absent – which means missing 18 or more days over the course of an entire school year. Research shows: • Children chronically absent in kindergarten and first grade are much less likely to read at grade level by the end of third grade. • By sixth grade, chronic absence is a proven early warning sign for students at risk for dropping out of school. • By ninth grade good attendance can predict graduation rates as well as success in college. Absences can add up quickly. A child is chronically absent if he or she misses just two days every month! Clearly, going to school regularly matters. When our students are not at school, we notice because we care. We don’t want your child to fall behind in school and get discouraged. Please ensure that your child attends school every day and arrives on time. Please make sure you are familiar with the school calendar to assist in your family scheduling for vacations and medical appointments. You can find the school calendar on the district website, www.portlandschools.org, under “News & Calendars.” Let us know how we can best support your family so that your child can show up for school on time every day. We want your child to be successful in school. If you have any questions or need more information please contact Deering High. Sincerely, Jeanne Crocker Clocktower !3 No. 1 October, 2015 SHREK BY: SOPHIA MORIN ‘16 The Story This fall, the Deering Players will present When Shrek's swamp is taken the fun-loving over by an overwhelming production of Shrek Anthony Cavalaro amount of fairytale creatures, the Musical (choreographer) and he must find the culprit, Lord Who's Who? Farquaad, who sent them here. cast Little did Shrek know, he will A show would, after all, be meet a fun loving donkey in nothing without its directors, and technical crew. the way. Meanwhile, Lord Alongside Kathleen Harris (director), the Deering Players welcomes Kara Farquaad discovers that Larochelle as our new musical director! Kara is a current teacher at Hall Princess Fiona will be the love Elementary School and we couldn't be happier to have her with us. Our show of his life. However, he is too would also be incomplete without a handy technical crew that is newly led by scared to save the damsel in the wonderful Carolyn Claypoole. Carolyn is a Deering High graduate who distress who is locked in a castle that is guarded by a fire- worked as a techie throughout her four years. She also went on to receive a breathing dragon. Upon arrival degree in Theatre Arts from Acadia College in Canada. The choreographer is in the land far far away, Anthony Cavallaro, a very talented senior at DHS. We are ecstatic to welcome Farquaad declares Shrek as them all to the team, and hope to have a wonderful season with their help! her rescuer. Once Shrek saves Finally, the actors who will bring this show to life: playing the role of Shrek will Fiona, their journey back to the be William Weeks (senior), Fiona will be played by Sophia Morin (senior), castle soon turns into a Donkey will be played by Will Mathis (junior), and Lord Farquaad will be played romance that nobody saw by Anthony Cavallaro (senior). The whole cast and crew is working very hard on coming; and the rest is this production and we can't wait to share it with you all. history... Come see the show and find out how this all unfolds through magic, song, When? SHREK the Musical will be performed on December 11 at 7pm December 12 at 2pm & 7pm And December 13 at 2pm See you there! Duloc Dancers! Clocktower !4 No. 1 October, 2015 Deering JMG volunteers to help clean up Longfellow playground By: Kiara Neal ‘16 and Public Relations Officer At the beginning of October, the JMG students went over to Longfellow. We took part in a tremendous amount of community service. We had to take all of the wood chips that had gotten washed down to the garden out and move them to another area. It took about 30 wheelbarrows. We had to shovel and rake piles of dirt into them. A lot of hard work was put in as a team and pushing everyone along. Other classes focused on weeding or other areas of clean up. By the end of the day, the project was completed! Left: Deering senior Mustafa Khamis and Miles Bisher at the Financial Literary Fair Financial Literacy Fair By: Dora Perez ‘16 and Deeq Mohamed ’16 On October 14, community volunteers came in to help with the Financial Literacy Fair. The fair was sponsored by Key Bank and organized by the Guidance Department and JMG. Students chose a career they would like to have and had to move from booth to booth to create a real life budget for themselves at age 22. The fair was a mind opening experience. It helped many students realize how to live independently. Being 22 independently isn't as easy as we thought. Right after graduating, we have to find our own way of doing things. This experience helped us visualize how our life would be if we were to live independently in the future with our chosen career. We calculated what taxes we had to pay.
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