Weekly Update 4/27
Dear NCHS Family,
NC Color Run - The NC Color Run is the annual fundraiser for the New Canaan High School Scholarship Foundation. We would love to see everyone there! The NC Color Run is for kids of all ages to come and have some fun and support our New Canaan High School students. If you can’t make it, but would like to learn more about how to contribute to the New Canaan High School Scholarship Foundation, click here.
Athletics:
This Saturday features a double header of lacrosse action in Darien. A letter was sent to the entire school community regarding appropriate fan behavior, to see the letter in its entirety, please click here.
The high school is a busy place, please see the athletic web page for other contests and also consider coming to Dramafest in the evening.
Pictures from around NCHS:
Check out the latest One Second Everyday video. It is a glimpse of a second or two from everyday beginning with April 25th, 2018, all the way back to August 28th, 2017. Enjoy the show, here!
NCTV Broadcast:
Be well and stay healthy NCHS!
Bill Egan
Upcoming Events:
4/27,28 Drama Fest 7 - 8:30pm Auditorium
4/28 Color Run
5/3 Staff Appreciation Breakfast and Lunch (Thank you PFA)
5/5 NCHS SATs
5/7-18 AP Exams
Department News:
National Honor Society:
NHS students at Classical Studies Magnet School in Bridgeport served breakfast for the children not able to eat regularly at home and saw test score improvement!
English:
Mr. Gallo and Ms. Cullen took two classes of Juniors to visit the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT. Students participated in a guided tour of Mark Twain's home, where he wrote American Literature classics such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Since students had just read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in class, they also participated in an interactive lecture that placed the novel within its larger historical context, from slavery to the Jim Crow Era to the Civil Rights Movement.
Social Studies:
AP World History students from NCHS gathered after hours with students from Stamford High to continue their review for the upcoming AP Exam. Students played “Help, Help, Who Am I?” to facilitate review of famous personalities from the third and fourth periodizations (600 AD - 1750 AD). Thank you to Marianne Cohen for organizing and planning!
Math:
M3 Algebra 2 students are seeing real world applications of arithmetic, geometric and shifted geometric sequences and series including credit cards, loans, pendulums and other situations.
In M3 Precalculus, students just completed parametric equations that involve not only x and y but t for time as well. They are then beginning polar coordinates and equations so they will be mentally switching from traditional (x,y) coordinates to
coordinates.
Integrated Geometry is beginning their unit on similar figures and will be learning how they can prove whether two triangles are similar by using things like SSS, proportions and other items.
Students in M4 Algebra 2 presented their findings from their statistics projects. Topics ranged from How Many Hours of Sleep Do You Get a Night?, How Many Concerts have you been to?, How Many Countries Have You Visited?, among many others. Please see below for examples.
VPA:
NCHS Theater presents the 28th Annual Drama Festival, “ Heaven Knows". Students enter one act plays based on this year’s theme “Heaven Knows” and four are chosen and performed. Please join us for a wonderful evening of performances tonight and Saturday at 7:00pm in the NCHS auditorium. Tickets are $12 and will be sold at the door only (cash or check only). The Lobby Box Office opens at 6:30pm.
NCHS Choir and Orchestra programs had 6 students selected this year for the Connecticut All-State Choir and All-State Orchestra. Students prepared music beginning in September and competed in two regional auditions with thousands of high school students in the state. This past weekend, the selected students rehearsed and performed at the CMEA Convention in Hartford. Congratulations to these student musicians on this incredible accomplishment!
Daniel Assis, tenor
Lillian Gray, violin
Cella Kove, viola
Cassidy Little, alto
Logan Otis, bass
Finley Vigliotti, tenor
The NCHS Art Department presents the 31st Annual Senior Art Show, It’s Been a Rocky Road!
Seniors have been working hard the last few weeks to prepare their one-person exhibitions that will open to the public, and had an ice cream themed reception on Thursday.
The Senior Art Show allows students to generate a one-person exhibit that is entirely their own creation. It’s unique in that it challenges any senior to present his or her work inside their own space as a one-person “retrospective” of art that can be drawn from anything the student has created throughout their high school years. The organization of this exhibit is meant to draw attention to each student’s individual portfolio and distinctive artistic style – their personal “voice”. The challenge of evaluating and displaying one’s own work is exciting and demanding to the artistically talented students. Several of these students will be attending art school in the Fall. The students are responsible of planning and organizing the event with the advice given from their art teachers, Jeanne McDonagh and Kimanne Core.
The student responsibilities include creating the exhibit's logo and title to the general publicity of the show. The senior exhibit will also give three seniors an opportunity to have their work selected and purchased for the NCHS Fritz Eager Art Collection. These works of art will then be on permanent display throughout the high school and the NCPS district offices. This art collection began in 1969 in the memory of New Canaan High School art student Fritz (Frederick) Eager. The selection committee is comprised of members of the high school staff and a committee of professional artists.
The following students are presented in One-Person Exhibits in New Canaan High School’s 31st Annual Senior Art Show:
Lauren Berardino, Cali Brannan, Sydney Britt, CeCe Challe,
Eric Cimini, Mary Cross, Jack Dunn, Olivia Germann,
Caroline Grogan, Charlie Hane, Sydney Kend, Reilly Krug,
Nicholas LaMorte, Kate Lindberg, Emily Malner, Isaac Marshall,
Michelle Mercede, Eden Neleman, Ashlyn Pace, Eliza Pohle,
Darleicy Ruiz, Mead Savage, Tim Scranton, Sammi Smith, Amy Tan
Students preparing their exhibitions:
World Languages:
French: Last week the AATF ran a statewide French Cultural Trivia Quiz Bowl (in a fun Kahoot! format) and a number of NCHS did well. Emily Murphy had the fourth highest score in the state and can move on to the Finals to compete live at Hopkins School May 15.
NCHS will play host to a school from France, le collège Henri Guillaumet. We have 27 families hosting 30 students and 3 teachers. They are from the town of Blagnac (a suburb of Toulouse, in the south of France), and will be in New Canaan from the 2nd to the 10th. Besides visiting New York City twice, and going to New Haven, they will discover all the charms of New Canaan and will visit our school on the 3rd and the 7th.
Library:
Click on this link to read the library update!
5/5 NCHS SATs
5/7-18 AP Exams
Department News:
National Honor Society:
NHS students at Classical Studies Magnet School in Bridgeport served breakfast for the children not able to eat regularly at home and saw test score improvement!
English:
Mr. Gallo and Ms. Cullen took two classes of Juniors to visit the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT. Students participated in a guided tour of Mark Twain's home, where he wrote American Literature classics such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Since students had just read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in class, they also participated in an interactive lecture that placed the novel within its larger historical context, from slavery to the Jim Crow Era to the Civil Rights Movement.
Social Studies:
AP World History students from NCHS gathered after hours with students from Stamford High to continue their review for the upcoming AP Exam. Students played “Help, Help, Who Am I?” to facilitate review of famous personalities from the third and fourth periodizations (600 AD - 1750 AD). Thank you to Marianne Cohen for organizing and planning!
Math:
M3 Algebra 2 students are seeing real world applications of arithmetic, geometric and shifted geometric sequences and series including credit cards, loans, pendulums and other situations.
In M3 Precalculus, students just completed parametric equations that involve not only x and y but t for time as well. They are then beginning polar coordinates and equations so they will be mentally switching from traditional (x,y) coordinates to
coordinates. Integrated Geometry is beginning their unit on similar figures and will be learning how they can prove whether two triangles are similar by using things like SSS, proportions and other items.
Students in M4 Algebra 2 presented their findings from their statistics projects. Topics ranged from How Many Hours of Sleep Do You Get a Night?, How Many Concerts have you been to?, How Many Countries Have You Visited?, among many others. Please see below for examples.
VPA:
NCHS Theater presents the 28th Annual Drama Festival, “ Heaven Knows". Students enter one act plays based on this year’s theme “Heaven Knows” and four are chosen and performed. Please join us for a wonderful evening of performances tonight and Saturday at 7:00pm in the NCHS auditorium. Tickets are $12 and will be sold at the door only (cash or check only). The Lobby Box Office opens at 6:30pm.
NCHS Choir and Orchestra programs had 6 students selected this year for the Connecticut All-State Choir and All-State Orchestra. Students prepared music beginning in September and competed in two regional auditions with thousands of high school students in the state. This past weekend, the selected students rehearsed and performed at the CMEA Convention in Hartford. Congratulations to these student musicians on this incredible accomplishment!
Daniel Assis, tenor
Lillian Gray, violin
Cella Kove, viola
Cassidy Little, alto
Logan Otis, bass
Finley Vigliotti, tenor
The NCHS Art Department presents the 31st Annual Senior Art Show, It’s Been a Rocky Road!
Seniors have been working hard the last few weeks to prepare their one-person exhibitions that will open to the public, and had an ice cream themed reception on Thursday.
The Senior Art Show allows students to generate a one-person exhibit that is entirely their own creation. It’s unique in that it challenges any senior to present his or her work inside their own space as a one-person “retrospective” of art that can be drawn from anything the student has created throughout their high school years. The organization of this exhibit is meant to draw attention to each student’s individual portfolio and distinctive artistic style – their personal “voice”. The challenge of evaluating and displaying one’s own work is exciting and demanding to the artistically talented students. Several of these students will be attending art school in the Fall. The students are responsible of planning and organizing the event with the advice given from their art teachers, Jeanne McDonagh and Kimanne Core.
The student responsibilities include creating the exhibit's logo and title to the general publicity of the show. The senior exhibit will also give three seniors an opportunity to have their work selected and purchased for the NCHS Fritz Eager Art Collection. These works of art will then be on permanent display throughout the high school and the NCPS district offices. This art collection began in 1969 in the memory of New Canaan High School art student Fritz (Frederick) Eager. The selection committee is comprised of members of the high school staff and a committee of professional artists.
The following students are presented in One-Person Exhibits in New Canaan High School’s 31st Annual Senior Art Show:
Lauren Berardino, Cali Brannan, Sydney Britt, CeCe Challe,
Eric Cimini, Mary Cross, Jack Dunn, Olivia Germann,
Caroline Grogan, Charlie Hane, Sydney Kend, Reilly Krug,
Nicholas LaMorte, Kate Lindberg, Emily Malner, Isaac Marshall,
Michelle Mercede, Eden Neleman, Ashlyn Pace, Eliza Pohle,
Darleicy Ruiz, Mead Savage, Tim Scranton, Sammi Smith, Amy Tan
Students preparing their exhibitions:
World Languages:
French: Last week the AATF ran a statewide French Cultural Trivia Quiz Bowl (in a fun Kahoot! format) and a number of NCHS did well. Emily Murphy had the fourth highest score in the state and can move on to the Finals to compete live at Hopkins School May 15.
NCHS will play host to a school from France, le collège Henri Guillaumet. We have 27 families hosting 30 students and 3 teachers. They are from the town of Blagnac (a suburb of Toulouse, in the south of France), and will be in New Canaan from the 2nd to the 10th. Besides visiting New York City twice, and going to New Haven, they will discover all the charms of New Canaan and will visit our school on the 3rd and the 7th.
Library:
Click on this link to read the library update!
