PIRATES SPYGLASS WINTERFEST 2016!!!

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1 PIRATES SPYGLASS Website: Facebook: Phillips Preparatory School Instagram (student administered site): pps_students March 2016 IMPORTANT DATES March 2 D.E.A.R. Drop Every Thing and Read Day (in honor of Dr. Seuss s birthday) March 4 Alabama National History Day Competition (Auburn) March 8 8 th Grade Field Trip to Spring Hill Temple March 9 & 10 Band MPA Competition March 11 Scholars Bowl Super Tournament (University of Mobile) March 16 St. Jude PPS Multiplies Miracles out-of-uniform shirt day (see newsletter announcement) March 17 WINTERFEST & Last Day of 3 rd Quarter March 18 Student Holiday / Teacher Work Day March 21 1 st Day of 4 th Quarter March 22 National French Contest March 22 Bring Your Family to School Night (see newsletter announcement) March 28 3 rd Quarter Report Cards sent home with students March 28 & 29 MCPSS Middle School Honor Band & Honor Choir Festival March 30 & 31 National Spanish Exam EVERY DAY 1 st Bell of the Day rings at 7:23 AM & 1 st Class of the Day begins at 7:30 AM (tardy bell) Final Bell of the Day rings at 2:30 PM & Buses depart by 2:35 PM. Carpool & walkers report to sidewalks on side or front of school for pick-up. NEWS from PTSA WINTERFEST 2016!!! RESCHEDULED JUST IN TIME FOR SPRING! MARCH 17, 2016 Food, Music and Games!!!! Get ready to have fun! Adult volunteers will be needed to help. More information will come via School Messenger. We re hoping for GOOD WEATHER this time so that EVERYONE can have A GREAT TIME!

2 BRING YOUR FAMILY TO SCHOOL NIGHT This event, sponsored by the PTSA, is Tuesday, March 22nd. Join the PTSA in the Cafeteria at 6:30 and then break into smaller groups for several different presentations. There will be five or more presentations from which to choose all pertaining to the middle school parent and student. This will also be a great time to see the new 8th Grade Hall! Enjoy Zaxby's for dine-in or take-out at Springhill Avenue & I-65 before or after the event to support the PTSA. Tell the cashier that you re there to support Phillips Prep. From OUR PARENTS to OUR PARENTS IMPORTANT INFORMATION from Virginia Guy of the Drug Education Council KRATOM Danger In A Bottle! Kratom is an herbal substance that is being sold in gas stations, convenience stores, and head shops as an energy supplement, an herb that reduces pain, anxiety and depression. The active ingredients are mitragynine and hydroxymitragynine. There are serious dangers that all parents should know: Researchers compare the effects of kratom to opiates (prescription pain killers) and heroin because it attaches to the same receptors in the brain. Kratom is often referred to as synthetic heroin ; however, it is not classified as a Synthetic. Kratom is addictive. Other side effects may include: nervousness, nausea/vomiting (can be severe and prolonged), psychotic episodes, hallucinations and paranoia. The effects of kratom are felt quickly and can last between 5 and 7 hours, although high doses can last longer.

3 Kratom is not detected by typical drug screens, which experts believe make it very attractive to youth who are trying to hide their use from adults. Since the packaging is similar to 5-hour energy drinks, young people may think it is a safe alternative to energy shots. It is not! Please talk to your children and loved ones. For more information, call the Drug Education Council, PARENTING PRAYER GROUP Any parents who are interested in participating are invited to attend an independent monthly Parenting Prayer Group meeting. The meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of each month at 8:00 am on campus. Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 2. Each meeting will include a brief devotion, followed by each attendee randomly choosing the name of a participating teacher and his/her students to hold up in prayer each morning during that month. No information, including names, will be disclosed regarding students. Please check in at the front office upon your arrival and to find out the meeting location. NEWS for PARENTS & STUDENTS from TEACHERS The St. Jude Math-a-thon kicked off in our PPS math classes on February 19, with all Matha-thon pledge donations due March 11. Students are raising money for St. Jude Children s Research Hospital while they learn MATH! Over the years, PPS has been a faithful participant in the Math-a-thon, raising $98,000! Children in need of medical care come to St. Jude from all over the United States. It costs $2 million a day to run the hospital, and every penny we raise helps because contributions provide approximately 75 percent of the funds necessary. No child pays for care or other needs that are not covered by insurance, including housing, food, and transportation. Patients receive the best care in the world and never receive a bill. This year we are also taking $1 donations for a shamrock competition between grade levels, AND there will be a PPS Multiplies Miracles out-of-uniform shirt day on March 16, also for a $1 donation. Thank you for helping us support St Jude Children s Research Hospital!

4 YEARBOOK BALANCES ARE PAST DUE! If you owe a yearbook balance of $19.00, please send that to Ms. Fosnight NOW! Students owing a balance should have received a statement in homeroom weeks ago. Balances are PAST DUE. Please make sure that all checks include a driver s license number, a phone number, the child s name and homeroom number. MIDDLE YEARS COUNSELING NEWSLETTER PARENTS of ALL GRADE LEVELS The PPS counselors, Madonna Burden (6 th grade) and Stacey Eiland (7 th & 8 th grades) send out a monthly Middle Years newsletter for parents. It will usually come as second attachment in the with the Pirates Spyglass newsletter and will also be posted on the PPS website ( The purpose of each newsletter is to promote ways for home and school to work together for school success. STUDENTS IN THE NEWS MOBILE S SINGING CHILDREN IN CONCERT Founded in 1977, Mobile s Singing Children (MSC) has been the premier youth chorus on the northern Gulf Coast. Performing choral music of the highest quality drives these children and teens toward excellence in song, spirit, and studies. MSC performs regularly with Mobile Opera and Mobile Symphony Orchestra, and in January was one of only five select middle and high school choirs chosen to perform for hundreds of music educators at the Alabama Music Educators Conference in Montgomery. PPS has often had current students and alums as members of this auditioned community group. This year, 11 of 42 members are PPS Pirates. Current PPS Students Miguel Gapud Tamra Gill Ruth Harper Marina Roddy William Stoll Past PPS Students Hannah Evans Emmanuel Gapud Meredith Mosley Bentley Odom Kiana Shula Kaliyah Shula

5 PPS MATHCOUNTS TEAM WINS BIG! Congratulations to the Phillips Preparatory MathCounts team on a first place finish at the area MathCounts competition on January 30, 2016! The team of Parker Inman, Russell March, Griffin Noble, and Joseph Hulcher placed first in the team competition. In the individual competition, Griffin Noble placed first, Russell March second, Seth Huddleston third, Parker Inman fifth, and Joseph Hulcher sixth. Front row L to R: Matthew Nguyen, Parker Inman, Ben Truong, Joseph Hulcher Back Row L to R: Spencer Purdy, Griffin Noble, Seth Huddleston, Russell March PPS S NATIONAL HISTORY DAY COMPETITION WINNERS All students at PPS were given the opportunity to participate in the independent researchbased National History Day project, culminating with our PPS competition day on February 18. The project is a chance for students to dig deep into historical content to develop perspective and understanding. Every year National History Day frames students original research within a historical theme. The theme for is Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History. Projects are entered into contests at the school, county, and state levels, where the top student projects have the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. for the national contest. In our past two years of participation in this program, PPS students have been selected to compete at the state level in Montgomery, and from there, we have had students selected to compete at the national level in both years of participation in this program. We hope this year will be no different! Congratulations to the 40+ PPS students participating in our 2016 school competition, all of whom were given the opportunity to compete at the county level on February 26. February 18 PPS school winners listed below: Exhibit (group) 1 st - Christopher Columbus: The Forgotten Slave Trader Abigail Foster Joshua Parker Inman Maria Moxey 2 nd 1918 Influenza Epidemic Brynne Devries Nina Quinley 3 rd - Chesapeake War of 1812 Gabrielle McCovery Jasmine Trainer Exhibit (individual) 1 st Clotilda The Last Slave Ship Jalexis Edwards 2 nd - Harlem Renaissance Victoria Blakely 3 rd Exploring the Great Unknown: Dives to the Mariana Trench Haylee Lynd

6 Performance (group) 1 st - Lewis & Clark & Sacajawea Madeline Erickson Isabelle Gautier 2 nd - Musical Influence on the American South Isabel Mayo Sydney Spann 3 rd - Interview with Ada Braun about Eva Braun Kandice Johnson Brianna Strong Website 1 st Exploring the CSS Alabama Cassandra (Cassi) Taylor Performance (individual) 1 st (tie - in alphabetical order) - Potato Famine & Irish Migration Cailin Allen 1 st (tie - in alphabetical order) - English Governess - Anna Leonowens Alicia Jones 3 rd - Harlem Renaissance Kayla Mitchell Documentary 1 st - Helen Keller Emily Steffenhagen OVERALL PPS National History Day Winners at Phillips Prep on February 18 1 st (tie - in alphabetical order) Emily Steffenhagen - Documentary about Helen Keller Cassandra (Cassi) Taylor - Website about Exploring the CSS Alabama 3 rd (tie - in alphabetical order) Cailin Allen - Individual Performance about the Irish Potato Famine and Migration Alicia Jones - Individual Performance about the English Governess - Anna Leonowens TOP ROW: Emily Steffenhagen Cassi Taylor Madeline Erickson, Isabelle Gautier BOTTOM ROW: Cailin Allen Alicia Jones Abigail Foster, Parker Inman, Maria Moxey Kandice Johnson, Brianna Strong

7 And CONGRATULATIONS to these PPS NATIONAL HISTORY DAY WINNERS who won at the MOBILE COUNTY Competition on February 26! We wish all of these students well as they move on to the state competition. PPS National History Day Winners at Mobile County Competition on February 26 1 st in Exhibits Abigail Foster, Parker Inman, and Maria Moxey Christopher Columbus: The Forgotten Slave Trader 2 nd in Exhibits Jalexus Edwards The Voyage of the Clotilda The Last Slave Ship 1 st in Performances Kandice Johnson and Brianna Strong Exchanges between Hitler and the Jews during WWII: Through Eyes of Eva Braun 3 rd in Performances Sydney Spann and Isabel Mayo French Musical Influence throughout the Gulf Coast and Southern Region 1 st in Websites Cassi Taylor Raphael Semmes: Exploring the CSS Alabama 2 nd in Documentaries Emily Steffenhagen Helen Keller: Exploring Language without Words Sydney Spann, Isabel Mayo Jalexus Edwards exbibit MOBILE COUNTY SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS from PPS 17 students represented PPS at the Mobile County Science Fair on February 19. Twelve of those students came away with additional awards along with the honor of being selected to represent PPS at the county and regional science fairs. Our students tied with Clark with 12 wins, a number no other school came close to achieving. Additionally, the majority of the high school winners were previous PPS students. Great job and Congratulations to the following students who placed at the Mobile County Science Fair: 2 nd Place in Behavioral Science, Trisha Agrawal 1 st Place in Botany, Maria Moxey 2 nd Place in Environmental Science, Tori Turberville 3 rd Place in Engineering, Ben Truong Honorable Mention in Physics: Emily Brock and Parker Inman 3 rd Place in Physics, Lizzie Smith 3 rd Place in Earth and Space, Michael Turner 2 nd Place in Earth and Space, Spencer Purdy 3 rd Place in Chemistry, Anna Claire Imel 2 nd Place in Chemistry, Faith McGoogan 1 st Place in Chemistry, Chloe Duren

8 SPORTS VOLLEYBALL TRY-OUTS for Team Attention Lady Pirates! Volleyball tryouts will be April 4-8. All students interested in trying out must see Coach Waters NO LATER THAN March 10 to sign up and get additional information about the tryout process. If students fail to sign up, they will not be eligible to try out. You must have an upto-date physical and have at least a C average overall in all of your classes to tryout. You will need to provide knee pads, a water bottle, and an after school snack for tryouts. Signs are posted around campus with more details Winter/Spring Teams PHILLIPS PREPARATORY ARCHERY TEAM Girls Grade Boys Grade Margaret Lee 8th A.J. Zimlich 8th Brianna Lawley 8th Charlie Gulledge 7th Geralyn Cruz 8th Nash Boone 7th Ryleigh Thomas 8th Amin Mantouzi 8th Gibson Attar 8th Gavin King 8th Cailin Allen 8th D Chon Cook 8th Destiny Wilbanks 8 th Gordon Granger 7th Lien Nguyen 7th Brayden Sellers 7th Autumn Black 7th Joshua Burnham 7th Shelbie Fuller 7th Charles Willock 7th Anna Marie Fulton 6th Wes Stephens 6th Isabelle Gautier 6th Riley Wilson 6th Bianca Bettin 6th Missy Thompson, Coach

9 GIRLS SOCCER TEAM Baugh, Destiny Berte, Julianne Brown, Terri Elortegui, Catherine Fields, Kya Gamble, Jalen Hakata, Tanaka Ivory, Imani Kaminer, Tene Levins, Mariah May, Lloreal Montgomery, Megan Napier, Madyson Pickett, Emma Taylor, Cassi Thomas, Ryleigh Watson, Tiyanna Wooten, Haleigh BOYS SOCCER TEAM Bettis, Jahlen Buckridge, Bannon Craft, Jackson Craft, John Feng, Bryan Givens, Conner Jalkh, Kelly Knot, Wieu Little, Julian Petro, Jacob Ray, Jadon Rose, Carson Streeter, Michael Trong, Ben Turner, Jamarcus White, Blayke Nicole Driggers, Coach GIRLS TRACK TEAM Bethany Albritton Addie Allred Caliyah Brackett Lauren Chestang Ariel Dixon Kya Fields Morgan Marris Sanola Mixon Raven Moffett Aaliyah Muhammad Jalah Rivers Christian Robinson Kelsey Sanders Annie Strasavich Kennedy Terry BOYS TRACK TEAM Matthew Allsup D Chon Cook Amarion Foster Fred Grant Jason Grissom Robert Harden Chris Henderson Jameson Hollis Wieu Kuot Jay Massey Pedro Nelson Travis Pearson Trey Pines Robert Porter Spencer Purdy Carson Rose David Thompson Jeremy Washington Jonah Shenesey, Coach Calvin Turnipseed, Coach (Track schedule on the following page.)

10 TRACK AND FIELD SCHEDULE 2016 Date Site Opponents 3/3 Murphy High Pillans Chastang Burns Denton Calloway 3/10 Bryant High Pillans Hankins Grand Bay Denton Causey 3/17 MGM Lott Scarborough Clark Burns Chastang 3/24 MGM High School County Championship Burns------Clark Causey------Hankins Semmes------Phillips All meets start at 3:30, except the county championship, which starts at 1: 00 PM until.