Boston Newsletter2016-17

Featured inside this issue...1. Letter from the Head

2. Announcements

3. Recent activities

4. High Honor Roll

5. What’s coming up

6. Activities

News from around

CATS AcademyBoston

Issue: 4

Springachievements at CATS Academy Boston.

Greetings from Braintree! We are now officially enjoying Spring in New England. Spring began with a display of art, fashion, and music put on by our students in an art gallery located not far from our front door. Our advanced piano students gave a recital that could be enjoyed as visitors moved through two floors of student exhibitions that included paintings, drawings, clothing designs, and collages. This exhibit was open to the community and was warmly received.

With Spring comes the beginning of the baseball season, America’s favorite sport, and our students visited historic Fenway Park to watch the Boston Red Sox play. They purchased numerous baseball caps and foam fingers and ate many hot dogs. The home team won the game and a good time was had by all. And our students traveled to the Lowell Factory Museum to learn about the life of American workers during the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Fine Arts, fun, and field trips have all been part of our Spring experience as we look forward to the last few weeks of our 2016-2017 school year.

Chris Angell Head of SchoolCATS Academy Boston

From the desk of your CATS Congress

President, Mohammed Erfan:On behalf of the student government, I would like to invite you all to the CATS Fiesta-VAL on May 9th after school.

You can expect to enjoy a variety of fun activities and delicious food. Fiesta-VAL will feature booths from the new school store, cooking club, HHS, music club, and many more!

Anyone interested in having their own booth or helping out with Fiesta-VAL should contact Prof. Mike or myself as soon as possible !

Thank you,

Mohammed

Announcements

To the CATS Academy Community:It is hard to believe it is already time to plan for academic year 2017-18! As our student population continues its steady growth, we are experiencing a great interest in the Academy. It is our intent this year to start the re-enrollment process a little earlier than we have in prior years to ensure that currently enrolled students have every opportunity to re-enroll before we commit to admit new students.

Our Re-enrollment contracts are still open to families and agents. We are excited to hear back from you during that time.

If you have additional questions or concerns regarding re-enrollment, please contact the Student Services office at: studentservices@catsacademyboston.com4

Thank you.

The CATS Academy team

REMINDER!Last week of classes for seniors:

May 22 - May 26 Graduation!

Monday, May 29

Reading Day

Tuesday, May 30

9-11am English Literature, English Skills, CATS Extra Literature

1-3pm Mathematics, CATS Extra Math

Wednesday, May 31

9-11am Social Science, CATS Extra Social Science

1-3pm ESL, CATS Extra Academic ESL

Thursday, June 1

9-11am Science, CATS Extra Science, ESL Science

1-3pm World Languages: Spanish and French;Conflicts/Doubles;Make- UpsforAbsences

Friday, June 2

9-11am Computer Science, GameTheory,Conflicts/ Doubles,Make-UpsforAbsences

1-3pmConflicts/Doubles;Make-Upsfor Absences

Recent activities

Keep up to date with the latest activities at CATS Academy Boston.FromaBostonRedSoxbaseballgameatFenwayParkto

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Boston Red Sox

Awesome day at the ballpark On Easter Sunday a group of CATS students went to Fenway Park and enjoyed a beautiful day of baseball. They experienced the wave, Fenway Franks and a few home runs by the Red Sox.

“The baseball game was an amazing American experience. The famous Fenway franks (hotdogs) were fantastic”

Livia,Albania,Grade10

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/tour.jsp

Arduino DayWe hosted over a dozen CATS Boston students, plus a young community memberandhisparents. Several students shared their own projects, and all participants learned a few tips on how to use open-source Arduino technology in projects ranging from wearable tech to robotics to interactive art.

Fashion Show Show TheCreativeArtscollaboratedonce again to produce a spectacular end of year ‘Black Spring’ fashion show.Thank you in particular to:

• Mr. Archers Digital Imaging class for the posters

• Mr. Lewan’s Music Production class for creating the music

• All of the student performers: Riya, Gigi, Ben and Lina

• Those who helped decorate and organize the show, especially Nhi and Tony

• Our photographers, Philip and Jackie

• Mr. Crandall who set up the lights

• Our models for their professionalism

Emerging Young Artists2017

Please congratulate these students for all that they have achieved. The following is the list of students on the High Honor Roll!

HIGH HONOR ROLL

• Liliana Wei • Long Bao Huyunh• Baian Ou • Nina Saeki Sunago• Liang Yi Lee • Phuong Linh Vu• Yuhan Shi • Sebastian Uribe Munera• Nguyen Thanh Ngan Pham • Vy Nhat Duong Nguyen• Bolu Chen • Thuy Phuong Dung Tong• Huan Quang Bui • Andrey Rudanets• My Anh Nguyet Nguyen • Tuan Minh Tran• Thu Ngoc Anh Tran • Pranav Sultania• Anh Truc Nguyen • Emilija Nestor• Yiqing Yao • Binh Minh Nguyen• Zheming Ye • Horacio Ornelas Ramirez• Thanh Chi Pham • Alexandra Quintero Rico• Nguyen Quang Du Duong

OnApril6,2017,CATSArtstudentscollabratedwithourneigboringBraintreeCommunity Art Center to host afabulousArtShow.

Good News! CATS has moved into 1st place of all Massachusetts Division III (<500 students) for the vocabulary.com

Chernysheva, AlessandraMariana Cruz-Fernandez97Chen, BoluDominique Lomax: Advisory95Nestor, EmilijaKelly Tempest: Honors British Literature92Sultania, PranavKelly Tempest: Honors British Literature83Bui, JohnKelly Tempest: Honors British Literature76 Zhang, FengweiKelly Tempest: Honors British Literature75 Alexander, DavidLucy LaVallee: ESL 3C69 Duong, TungEric Dunklee: Test Preparation Section 468 Mcginnis, TerryPeter Bard: Advisory 201763 NG, LinaKelly Tempest: Honors British Literature60

Upcoming-May Spring Happenings

We have been on lots of trips and excursions. It’s great to hang out

with friends and meet new people.May7thBoston National College Fair

The entire junior class, along with interested freshman, sophomores and seniors, will be attending the Boston National College Fair, as they plan to make decisions on where to further their education after CATS. There will be admission representatives from schools across the country on hand, so the students will get the opportunity see what each region has to offer.

May 21 End of Year Prom At Lombardo

Get your gladrags on! It’s time to clebrate!

In the United States, and increasingly in the United Kingdom and Canada, a promenade dance, most commonly called a prom, is a semi-formal (black tie) dance or gathering of high school students.

May20th6 Flags MA

Six Flags is an amusement park located in Agawam, Massachusetts, a western suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts. Dating to the late 1800s, it is the oldest amusement park in the Six Flags chain. Superman the Ride (formerly Bizarro) is among the park’s most notable rides having appeared in every Golden Ticket Awards publication by Amusement Today, ranking first or second in the Top Steel Roller Coasters category from 2001 to 2015, and third in 2016.

Coming up

SHOWTIMES

Wednesday,May17earlyreleaseFINAL DRESS/PERFORMANCE & OPEN

REHEARSAL (audience!)

Thursday, May 18 early releaseCostume/makeup call - PERFORMANCE

Friday, May 19 PERFORMANCE

CATS Academy theater group presents:Once on this Island

Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, it is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.

The show includes elements of the Romeo and Juliet story and elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid.

It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes.

Thursday May 11th

at 4pm Spring Fling Concertin the gym

Come and enjoy an afternoon of music and dance, featuring performances by: Chorus, Band, Instrumental Ensemble, Hiphop dance team, Beatbox and Advanced Pianists.

The musical is a fantastic extracurricular achievement bytheCreativeArtsDepartment at CATS. Auniquecollaborationfromallelectives. Fashion (costumes), Music (arrangements), Drama & Chorus (actors) and Art (sets and promotion).

Tuesday May 9th Advisorytimes11:00/12:00Actor’s Studio Performance(Black Box Theater)

A culmination of this semesters work. The Actor’s Studio presents: One Act Plays!

Comeandenjoytheshow!

Activities 2017

• Fashion Club• Crew• Zumba• Boxing• FitFactory• Weymouth Fitness Club

(swimming and tennis)• Rock Climbing• Musical • Yoga• Anime• Chess• Community Service• DECA• GSA/Diversity• Literary Magazine• Math• Model UN• Photography• Scale Model Club• Snack• Technology and Robotics• Yearbook• Russian• Newspaper

and more...

SPORTS

Extracurricular Activities

Soccer Schedule

May 07, 2017 1:00 PM

SSU Blazers N St. Michael Youth C

May 14, 2017 1:00 PM

SSU Blazers N PioneerValley

Jun 04, 2017 4:30 PM

Hampshire United SSU Blazers N

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Sports

Exchange Program

On behalf of the CATS London and CATS Cambridge students who visited last week, and their chaperone, Mr. Rishi Nathwani of CATS College London, I pass along their warm thanks for a memorable trip. The visitors learned a great deal about our city and our school.

Looking ahead, I hope everyone from CATS Academy Boston will also take the chance to visit CATS London, CATS Cambridge, and CATS Canterbury in the future. These trips teach more than just academic material. The visitors had a very positive reaction to the CATS Boston facilities, personnel, and academic program.

They would also like to thank the staff who spent time with them outside class, especially Mr. Dan Doherty, Mr. Alex Walecka, Mr. Jason Yang, and Mr. Nick Lashway. In addition, many teachers welcomed the visiting students to classes last week

On April 23, students participated in a charity run to raise awareness for childhood cancers.

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