Boston. Newsletter Featured inside this issue... Issue: 4. News from around CATS Academy. Boston

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1 News from around CATS Academy Boston Boston Newsletter Featured inside this issue Letter from the Head 2. Announcements 3. Recent activities 4. High Honor Roll 5. What s coming up 6. Activities Issue: 4

2 Spring achievements 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. Announcements REMINDER! Last week of classes for seniors: May 22 - May 26 Graduation! Monday, May 29 Tuesday, May am 1-3pm Wednesday, May am 1-3pm Thursday, June 1 Reading Day English Literature, English Skills, CATS Extra Literature Mathematics, CATS Extra Math Social Science, CATS Extra Social Science ESL, CATS Extra Academic ESL To the CATS Academy Community: It is hard to believe it is already time to plan for academic year ! 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 From the desk of your CATS Congress President, Mohammed Erfan: 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 school year. Chris Angell Head of School CATS Academy Boston 9-11am 1-3pm Friday, June am 1-3pm Science, CATS Extra Science, ESL Science World Languages: Spanish and French; Conflicts/Doubles; Make- Ups for Absences Computer Science, Game Theory, Conflicts/ Doubles, Make-Ups for Absences Conflicts/Doubles; Make-Ups for Absences 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

3 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, Grade 10 Recent activities Keep up to date with the latest activities at CATS Academy Boston. From a Boston Red Sox baseball game at Fenway Park to experimenting with technolgy in the Innovation Lab on Arduino day. Arduino Day We hosted over a dozen CATS Boston students, plus a young community member and his parents. Several students shared their own projects, and all participants learned a few tips on how to use opensource Arduino technology in projects ranging from wearable tech to robotics to interactive art. Fashion Show Show The Creative Arts collaborated once 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

4 Emerging Young Artists 2017 On April 6, 2017, CATS Art students collabrated with our neigboring Braintree Community Art Center to host a fabulous Art Show. 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 Good News! CATS has moved into 1st place of all Massachusetts Division III (<500 students) for the vocabulary.com Chernysheva, Alessandra Mariana Cruz-Fernandez 97 Chen, Bolu Dominique Lomax: Advisory 95 Nestor, Emilija 92 Sultania, Pranav 83 Bui, John 76 Zhang, Fengwei 75 Alexander, David Lucy LaVallee: ESL 3C 69 Duong, Tung Eric Dunklee: Test Preparation Section 4 68 Mcginnis, Terry Peter Bard: Advisory NG, Lina 60

5 Upcoming-May Spring Happenings May 7th Boston 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. We have been on lots of trips and excursions. It s great to hang out with friends and meet new people. May 20th 6 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 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.

6 Coming up Tuesday May 9th Advisory times 11:00 / 12:00 Actor s Studio Performance (Black Box Theater) A culmination of this semesters work. The Actor s Studio presents: One Act Plays! 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 musical is a fantastic extracurricular achievement by the Creative Arts Department at CATS. A unique collaboration from all electives. Fashion (costumes), Music (arrangements), Drama & Chorus (actors) and Art (sets and promotion). SHOWTIMES Come and enjoy the show! Thursday May 11th at 4pm Spring Fling Concert in 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 show includes elements of the Romeo and Juliet story and elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid. Wednesday, May 17 early release FINAL DRESS/PERFORMANCE & OPEN REHEARSAL (audience!) 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 18 early release Costume/makeup call - PERFORMANCE Friday, May 19 PERFORMANCE

7 Activities 2017 Extracurricular Activities 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 Soccer Schedule May 07, :00 PM SSU Blazers N St. Michael Youth C May 14, :00 PM SSU Blazers N Pioneer Valley Jun 04, :30 PM Hampshire United SSU Blazers N SPORTS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

8 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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