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Monday, March 2nd ~ Day 2
Tuesday, March 3rd ~ Day 3
Wed., March 4th ~ Day 4
Thursday, March 5th ~ Day 5
Friday, March 6th ~ Day 6
Monday, March 9th ~ Day 1
Tuesday, March 10th ~ Day 2
Mark Your Calendar!
Monday, March 2nd
Before & After School
Care Re-Registration for
2015-2016 Begins
Wed., March 4th
Grades 6-12:
Parent/Teacher
Conferences Begin
CCS Foundation Public
Meeting, 435
Conference Room
5:30pm
HS Spanish Honor
Society Induction
Ceremony, 535 Library
6pm
Thursday, March 5th
Early Dismissal Day for
Students
Grades 6-12: 11:30am
Grades K-5: 12:15pm
Grades K-12:
Parent/Teacher
Conferences
NHS Blood Drive, 535
Building (See Article)
Friday, March 6
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Early Dismissal Day for
Students
Grades 6-12: 11:30am
Grades K-5: 12:15pm
Grades K-12: Pay $1.00
to Dress Like a Fairy
Tale Character (See
Article)
Grades 6-8: Neon
Dance, 515 Cafeteria 79pm
Sunday, March 8th
Board of Trustees Public
Work Session, 435
Conference Room 14pm
Collegium Newsletter ~ March 2, 2015
500: (610) 903-1300, ext. 6106
150: (610) 903-1300, ext. 6811
515: (610) 903-1300, ext. 6372
535: (610) 903-1300, ext. 6602
CCS Board of Trustees: [email protected] or (610) 903-1300, ext. 7501
www.collegiumcharter.com
School Safety Information
Fairy Tale Character Day
Please review the school safety information As a fundraiser for the CCS Drama Society,
all students in grades K-12 are invited to
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Cinderella Enchanted Tickets participate in our March 6 event – Pay
$1.00 to Dress Like a Fairy Tale Character.
Come see Rogers and Hammerstein's
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All attire must be school appropriate and
Cinderella Enchanted as performed by our 7 leave all characters’ weapons at home (ex. a
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12 grade actors!
prince’s sword).
A beautiful girl with a wish accomplishes the
NHS Blood Drive
impossible. Cinderella has spent her life in her
Our
HS
National
Honor Society (NHS) and
own little corner in the shadows of her jealous
stepsisters and conniving stepmother. With the American Red Cross are hosting a blood
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the help of her unusual friends, a surprising drive on Thursday, March 5 in our 535
guest, and a prince who sees her true beauty, building. Our CCS community is encouraged
Cinderella discovers how she fits within her to donate between 11:45am and 6pm. To
schedule your donation appointment, please
own world.
http://www.redcrossblood.org/makeCinderella Enchanted will be performed in the visit:
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and enter sponsor code
515 Auditorium on March 12 , 13 , & 14 at donation
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7pm and on March 14 at 1:00pm. This show CollegiumCS.
is appropriate for all ages.
515 Building Dance
The cast and crew of Cinderella Enchanted Students in grades 6-8 are invited to our
encourage young audience members to come school dance on Friday, March 6th from 7in their best “ball” attire. Those dressed for the 9pm. Tickets are $5/each and will be sold
ball will be asked to participate in the special during lunch periods. Listen to the morning
intermission procession of princes and announcements for the start date of ticket
princesses. To order your tickets, visit: sales. Dress in your brightest neon colors –
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1290 all clothing must be school-appropriate. This
331 or contact Mrs. Cross at [email protected].
dance is for CCS students only – no guests.
Donations Needed
1. Our arrival and dismissal teams are asking
for donations of hand-warmers. Please
send your donations to “Mrs. McMichael,
150 Building”.
2. Our CCSHSA is putting together some great
prizes including gift baskets, door prizes,
and a gift card tree for Coach Bag Bingo.
Donations of gift cards and items suitable for
prizes or gift baskets are needed.
For
donation details and questions, please
contact
the
CCSHSA
at
[email protected]. Remember, 100%
of the proceeds from this event are used to
support our students and teachers.
3. Collegium Center Stage will hold basket
raffles at their upcoming performances of
Cinderella Enchanted. To fill those baskets,
your donations of new items or gift cards are
welcome.
For more information or to
donate, please contact Michele Adkins at
[email protected].
For more information, contact Ms. M. Martin
at [email protected]. We can't wait to see you
there!
Coach Bag Bingo Returns
Coach Bag Bingo, sponsored by the
CCSHSA, returns to CCS on Saturday, May
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9 . This is one of the CCSHSA’s biggest
fundraisers of the year and a very exciting
event. Registration is now open. For
more information, see the homepage of
our website.
Five Below
The CCSHSA has again teamed up with the
Downingtown Five Below store. When you
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shop at Five Below from March 1 through
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April 4 and use the flyer that’s posted on
our website, our CCSHSA earns 10% of
each
purchase.
Questions?
Contact
[email protected].
Camp Collegium
Camp Collegium is back for summer 2015!
The camp registration form is now posted on
Lost and Found Bins
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The bins will be cleaned out on March 27 . the Activities page of our website. Sign up
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Items remaining in the bins on the 27 will be now to save 5% on your total tuition!
donated to the Uniform Resale Shop or a local
charity.
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School Safety Information – Family Contact Information
As our families are aware, Collegium takes our students' safety very seriously - from Newsletter
reminders about arrival/dismissal line protocols to school visitor procedures to emergency planning.
Collegium regularly works with local and county emergency responders, conducts a variety of drills
with our students and employees, and provides specialized training for our staff. Over the next few
months, we will share more information about school safety through Newsletter articles.
Recently we worked with emergency management experts to review our internal plans for handling a
large-scale emergency on our campus. Our administrative team also participated in a “table-top”
exercise, walking through a large-scale emergency scenario.
In an emergency, we will communicate with families as soon as possible. We will make every effort
to communicate quickly, and often, to keep parents informed of the situation. We promise to
communicate with parents via our SchoolMessenger system as quickly and often as possible.
Collegium will need help from our parents/guardians should we ever have an emergency. Right
now, we are asking for your assistance to make sure that we have up-to-date contact
information on file for parents/guardians. Please consider…have you moved recently? Changed
jobs? Updated your email address? Have a new cell phone number? Disconnected your land line?
If your contact information changed, please contact Mrs. Novak at [email protected].
2014-2015 Yearbook
Order forms for the 2014-2015 K-12 CCS Yearbook are available on our website. The price is $65.00. Order now before
they are sold-out! The Yearbook includes a special senior class section, lots of activities photos, and is hard bound in fullcolor.
Annual Parent Survey
In past years, information about our Annual Parent Survey was provided only to those parents/guardians who attended a
spring conference. This year, the link to the survey will be emailed to all parents/guardians in early March. Please
respond to the survey. Your feedback is important to Collegium!
2015-2016 School Year
If your family’s plans for 2015-2016 change (moving, change of schools, etc.), please alert Collegium as soon as you’ve
made the decision. Our open enrollment period is underway. The sooner a current family advises us of their plans, the
sooner we can enroll a new student for 2015-2016. Please do not rely on the new school to tell us…they often don’t
reach out for a records transfer until after our upcoming school year begins. As you can imagine, planning for students
who don’t show up wreaks havoc on Collegium’s planning and budget. If your child is not returning for 2015-2016, please
contact Mrs. Novak at [email protected]. Your decision will not impact your child’s 2014-2015 experience at Collegium.
Community Opportunities
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While CCS is not endorsing these or any other programs that occur outside CCS, we pass along information on community
opportunities that CCS families may want to explore.
1 Annual American Helicopter Museum Girls Science Expo: Girls in grades 3-12 are invited to enter a science
project for display in the Expo. For more information, visit http://www.americanhelicopter.museum/ or contact
[email protected].
ConcertOPERA Philadelphia invites families to their performances of Faust, an opera by Gounod. For information about
these performances, designed and produced to be audience-friendly, visit www.concertoperaphl.org.
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WBYA is offering boys’ golf (ages 7-18) and girls’ lacrosse (K-6 grades) programs this spring. For more information, visit
www.wbya.org or contact [email protected] or 610-344-9444.
All content for the newsletter must be submitted by 4:00pm on Thursdays via email to [email protected]. The Community
Opportunities section will not include information about non-CCS fundraisers or information from for-profit companies.
CCS reserves the right to edit submissions and deny material for submission if deemed inappropriate or if it is determined
to be of little or no interest to CCS families.