For the Parents, Staff, Students & Community of Cherokee High School
MARCH 2015 Issue 3
Principal’s Message Dear Warrior Families-
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We have so many exciting events planned for our students as we progress to the end of the 2014-15 school year! We are anxiously looking forward to Graduation for the amazing Class of 2015. Graduation is a wonderful, special time and we plan to celebrate in spectacular fashion! We hope you can join us on Saturday, May 28th at 8:00 p.m. at Woodstock First Baptist Church for a truly awesome event! In addition, our prom committee has been hard at work to plan another extraordinary event for our upperclassmen and their guest on April 11th at the Fernback Science Center. Fernbank is my favorite prom location, our juniors and seniors do not want to miss this amazing event. I want to send out special congratulations to our amazing juniors who were named as Key Scholars during this school year! We are so proud of our many academic teams who have been amazing this year including: our Mock Trial Team, Academic Bowl team, Science Olympiad Team, Math Team, Science Fair competitors, Social Science Fair participants, PTA Reflections entries and Young Author’s Fair winners at the region, district and state levels! We are very proud of the gains in academic achievement shown by our students! Our students are working very hard to prove that we are Warriors of Academic Excellence! We continue to celebrate exceptional SAT and ACT scores that are well above the state and national average! In addition, we are proud of our students who have completed the Princeton Review ACT/SAT prep sessions! We hope that you can join us for some spring sports! We have very exciting Soccer and Baseball seasons shaping up for the spring. Cherokee Warrior Tennis for boys and girls is in full swing! Our Warrior Lacrosse has started out strong with a group of talented players. Our track team continues to shine with a group of stellar athletes and expectations are high AGAIN for our Golf teams to prove to the state that we are WARRIORS in every sense of the word. As we head into Spring, testing season is upon us! The New Georgia Milestone test will be introduced this year replacing the End-of-Course Test. We will also have AP Testing and Final Exams scheduled for May. It is important for our students to do their best on these rigorous tests! Please continue to encourage your student to study each night and to seek assistance with tutoring if needed. We want to make sure each student is prepared and ready to do his/her best! We very much appreciate your support of Cherokee High School! We will look forward to continuing our partnership to ensure the best possible education for our students! Go Warriors! Sincerely,
“Smoke Signals” March 2015 Published Four Times Per Year Cherokee High School 930 Marietta Hwy. Canton, GA 30114 Issue #3
Debra Murdock Principal
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Project Positive
Early Childhood Education
The 3rd level Early Childhood Education class used their creative skills to design family signs for the holidays.
Project Positive Impact will be hosting the “My Truck is Better than Yours� truck show on April 17th beginning at 4 pm in the 600 Lot. There is a $10 entry fee and prizes will be awarded in several categories including Best in Show. Please see either Ms. Brogdon or Ms. Parks to register. See you there!
Tiffany Bran, Emily Crane, Carson Rockey, Atzin Ayon, Katreana Pascal, Aaliyah Allen, Abbie Bearden, Sasha Rodriguez, and Erica Harris
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Drama
Annie Get Your Gun is April 24th and 25th. Come out and see the fantastic and funny love story of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. We are sure to “shoot” your socks off! Tickets are $10.00 each. Children under the age of 5 are free.
News from Healthcare Science
Level 1 students have completed their unit on emergencies and enjoyed a safety lab. Ask them about our “March Madness”. Level 2 students finished their unit on the digestive and respiratory system and have had fun with nebulizers and scales in the lab. CNA students are spending time at the clinical site utilizing all the skills they have learned and enriching their senior year. They are also beginning their preparations for State Boards. Skills USA: This year has been the most successful year for our Skills USA Team. They have qualified for the State competition in Atlanta which will be at the end of March.
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CHS Rescue Warriors
The CHS Rescue Warriors would like to spotlight the amazing work done every day by Iron Gait Percherons Rescue in Waleska. Because our Cherokee County Animal Shelter is not properly equipped to care for abused and neglected horses, our dear friend Denise Polydor, the founder of Iron Gait Percherons Rescue, gladly came to our assistance back in 2013 and is STILL caring for some of the horses and foals seized in that case. Because they were kind enough to take at least 7 of the rescued Saddlebreds that came to the shelter a year and a half ago. If it weren’t for Denise and her amazing staff of volunteers, it is certain that the three foals and two pregnant mares would not have survived. As you can see from the pictures, not only have they survived, they have THRIVED and been adopted by loving families, some of whom are CHS Warriors!! Our Warrior Family (and any other animal lover) can follow them on Facebook and other social media as well. Here is a link to one of their latest videos, posted on Facebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0fYh8_pC58
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National Art Honor Society State Conference
The State Conference of the National Art Honor Society was held February 27-28, 2015 at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia in Athens, GA. Six students represented Cherokee High School: Alison Belfield, Laura Castro, Samantha Crable, Kimberly Landrum, Emma Lewis, and Leah Ruff. Featured were workshops of a variety of art processes presented by UGA art faculty, catered meals, group art, and the conference concluded with a ceremony recognizing the top student artwork and scholarships in the categories of “Push Pin Exhibit”, portfolio, art history, and the Helen Fleming Stone Scholarship.
Emma in her wall drawing class. Leah in her wall drawing class.
BINGO!
Group dinner Friday night.
Let’s DANCE!!!
The art department created a unique art basket for the PTA bingo fundraiser held on February 6, 2014. The basket was filled with over a $100 worth of art supplies and creative handmade items. The art basket was coveted by all who participated in bingo. Art students had a lot of fun creating these baskets to benefit our PTA.
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Piedmont Technology Competition
Cherokee students win big at this year’s Piedmont Technology Competition. All students that competed in the Technology Fair from Cherokee High School placed either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd this year. We are very proud of everyone who competed. These students took personal time to create a project, working above and beyond their normal classes. All the students who placed first will compete in the state competition on March 7, 2015 in Macon, GA.
This year’s winners are: Game Design for 9th and 10th grade: • 1st place: Kate Johnson • 2nd place: Jaxson Johnson • 3rd place: Jason Mancuso
Congratulations
Non-Animated Graphic Design for 11th and 12th grade: • 1st place: Samantha Crable • 2nd place: Alison Belfield Technology Literacy for 9th and 10th grade: • 1st place: Mike Thomas Technology Literacy for 11th and 12th grade: • 1st place: Jordan Viehmeyer Multimedia Applications for 11th and 12th grade: • Brittany Posey Mobile App Design for 9th and 10th grade: • 1st place: Jaxson Johnson and Mike Thomas
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Basketball Cheerleading Tryouts
CHEROKEE HIGH SCHOOL 2015-2016 • Girls will be taught a cheer, dance, jumps, and basic stunts. • Clinic: Mon. 4/6/14 & Tues. 4/7/15 from 3:40 to 5:30 in New Gym • Tryouts: Wed. 4/8/15 - starts @ 3:40 for Varsity & JV • Camp @ World of Cheer June 24th - 26th (Wed. - Fri.) • For more information contact: Varsity Coach: debbie.craig@cherokee.k12.ga.us JV Coach: micah.mitchell@cherokee.k12.ga.us • A current physical form (10 pgs.) and applicant form is needed at clinic. The physical form may be found at www.cherokee.k12.ga.us/ schools/cherokee-hs/athletics/default.aspx Athletic documents
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Atzin Ayon is ironing a pillow case as part of the Million Pillow case charity drive for local organizations. The Quilt Makers of America started this drive to make a million pillow cases in 2015. Carson Rockey is presenting her newly acquired sewing skills to make cute pillow cases for the Family Violence Center. This was a FCCLA community service project. We have twenty pillow cases to donate.
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