March 3, 2017 CFA Newsletter w/o Attachments Dear CFA Students and Parents, Happy Friday!! Did you see the snow flurries this morning – this has been the CRAZIEST WEATHER!! Speaking of crazy, please take a moment to read this CFA Newsletter – we have a lot of things coming up in Warrior Nation and CFA Land! We are heading into the busiest part of the year – the Spring Showcase season for CFA and SOL Testing for HHS – so make sure you know what’s going on!

CONGRATULATIONS HHS DRAMA CLUB for

a GREAT OPNENING NIGHT of Pippin!!

We would like to start this Newsletter with a HUGE SHOUT-OUT and

CONGRATULATIONS to the Cast and Crew of Pippin for a VERY

SUCCESSFUL OPENING NIGHT performance last night! Way to go HHS

Drama Club!!

And – if you didn’t make it to the show last night – you have TWO MORE

CHANCES!! The show will run tonight (Friday, March 3) and tomorrow (Saturday,

March 4) at 7:00 p.m. in the HHS Auditorium. Tickets are on sale for just $10 in

the HHS TICKET BOOTH (by the gym lobby) starting at 6:30 p.m. Students –

Pippin counts as a THEATRE LOG, so NO EXCUSES for not seeing a show this nine

weeks!!

Henrico High School Drama Club presents

PIPPIN Book by Roger O. Hirson

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

Director Karen Moody

Choreographer Jenny Fralin

Musical Director Billy Dye

Scenic Design Michael Jones & Todd Ritter

Costume Design Kendall Bruffy & Todd Ritter

Lighting Design Carlos Nine & Rain Clements

Projections Michael Jones

Sound Michael Jones

Stage Manager Gillian Cohen

Assistant Stage Manager India Jones

CAST

Leading Player Alyssa Shuster

Pippin Preston Steele

Fastrada Raina Chaber-Tully

Charlemagne Pernell Johnson

Lewis Sage Munson

Catherine Raven Humphries

Berthe Abbi Morin

Theo Henry Boyle

PLAYERS

Genie Atran Christopher Hudert Stanley Lundberg

Michaela Brayboy Maya Ewell Sofia Malin

Jayda Cook Alexandria Fuselier Hannah Mayer

Terrance Easter Richelle Hodge Ebony Nixon

Emma Flynn Talford Hayden Jaida Robinson

Berkley Gray Jianna Hurt Ronnie Will

Sarah Kingsley

CREW Light Board Operator Kate Lawrence

Sound Assistant Gabby Rooney

Makeup & Hair Khiarra Johnston, Mykell Pleasant

Follow Spot Reid Hardymon, Malachi Hill

Props Ginger Barbour, Dee Dee Harris

Running Crew Zoe Flippen (Crew Chief),

Mykell Pleasant (Crew Chief), Em Carter, Kerry Cavanaugh, Khiarra Johnston, Rosalie Jung

THE HENRICO CITIZEN is accepting NOMINATIONS for HENRICO’s TOP TEACHERS!!! Please nominate your TOP TEACHER TODAY!! Nominations for the Henrico Citizen newspaper’s annual “Top Teachers” issue are open now! In May, the

Citizen will profile 20 of the top teachers in Henrico County. Nominations will be accepted until March 31.

Visit this link to submit a nomination: http://www.henricocitizen.com/site/top_teachers

Past winners of this honor include our very own Mr. Todd Ritter who was featured in the First Edition of

Henrico Citizen’s Top Teachers Issue

(http://www.henricocitizen.com/index.php/news/article/todd_ritter_8742#.WLm2p2_yu70)!!

CFA MT/Theatre Infusion Symposium Video Here is a FABULOUS video about the CFA Infusion Symposium Day – produced by our wonderful friends at HCPS-TV – and it is worth your while to take a moment to watch this! Parents, family, and friends – it will give you a glimpse of the FANTASTIC opportunities and workshops our students got to experience during Symposium Day!

watch: http://hcpstv.org/2017/02/16/center-for-the-arts-symposium/

download: https://content.streamhoster.com/file/hcpstv/2016-

17/HS/henrico-cfa-symposium2.mp4?dl=1

MORE CFA NEWS YOU CAN USE! CFA INTENT TO RETURN FORMS Intent to Return Forms will be given to all CFA Underclassmen Students on Monday, March 13. Dr. Poxon will be visiting with all CFA Underclass students to distribute the Intent to Return forms and Transportation Information. All Intent to Return forms are due back to Dr. Poxon by Friday, March 24. Thank you!

Semester grade review letters CFA Students and Parents – CFA semester grade review letters were distributed to ALL CFA students during their CFA Warrior Times last week. The semester grade review letters will

let students know if they are meeting the academic expectations as outlined in the CFA Handbook. To be in good academic standing within the CFA program, each student must maintain a GPA of 2.7 or higher, and must earn a grade of “B- or higher” in the CFA

discipline class. Students will have received one of three letters – that they are EXCEEDING expectations;

that they are MEETING expectations; or that they are BELOW expectations. PARENTS – please ask your students which letter they received and make sure you read their letter too!

If your student has received a letter that states they are NOT MEETING EXPECTATIONS, this means that your student has been placed on ACADEMINC

PROBATION for the spring semester 2017. Parents and students must sign this letter and return it to their students’ CFA teacher or to Ms. Pippert in the CFA Office by

Monday, February 27. To be sure that you receive this letter, we have also mailed a copy of this letter home to you. All students who are not meeting expectations will be meeting with Dr. Poxon and Ms. Johnson in the next few weeks to discuss strategies to improve

their grades and to get back on the right track! Students on academic probation have until the end of the year – June – to show IMPROVEMENT in their academic record. If sufficient progress is shown, they will be removed from the probationary

status. If no progress is shown, parents and students will have an additional conversation with Dr. Poxon and Ms. Johnson at the end of the year.

Please note that all students placed on ACADEMIC PROBATION are not eligible to attend any CFA-related field trips or special activities, with the exception of any trips that are

already paid for, such as the NYC trip or the Dance Festival trip. But they will not be able to participate in any future field trip opportunities for the remainder of the spring semester. Additionally, seniors who are placed on probation are facing the possibility of

NOT performing in the Senior Showcase if no progress is shown in the 3rd/4th marking periods.

If you have any questions about the CFA academic/grading policy, please contact Dr. Poxon via e-mail or call the CFA Office (228-2718).

ATTENTION CFA DANCE, MT, or THEATRE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN ONLINE HEALTH!!! CPR/AED/First Aid content: Section 1 March 21st (Tuesday) and March 23rd (Thursday) Ms. Bohon and Ms. Mitchell will be available for Fall semester CFA online Health students to come check off their CPR/AED/First Aid skills. We will be available in the morning 8:30-9:00 a.m. and during Warrior Time on the above dates. All we ask is that you review the videos located in Schoology in preparation for the check off. We are going to continue with the times and days until we have completed all students.

Thank you, Ellen Bohon, CFA Online Health Teacher

And now, a note from everyone’s FAVORITE CFA COUNSEOR, Ms. Johnson!!

Greetings,

AP Exam Registration and Payment

Deadline: March 17, 2017 by 3:00pm

Flyer attached

Website: http://henricohighschoolcounseling.weebly.com/ap-testing.html

CFA Summer Online Health

Registration Window: March 20-31, 2017

Seats will be filled on a first come first served basis

Application attached

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/henrico.k12.va.us/online-health-and-

pe/center-for-the-arts-online-health

Summer Online Health and PE

Lottery entry: Feb. 13 – March 3, 2017

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/henrico.k12.va.us/online-health-and-

pe/home

MORE COOL THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE CFA!!

CFA Musial Theatre/Theatre NYC Trip – April 4-6, 2017 THANK YOU FOR GETTING ALL YOUR PAYMENTS IN!!! We will be holding a meeting on TUESDAY, MARCH 28 @ 6:00 p.m. in the CFA BLACK BOX THEATRE for all students going on the NYC trip. Please note that this meeting is MANDATORY – we need for each trip participant and a parent to attend! We will be discussing the itinerary, roommate list, packing list and reviewing the trip expectations. Please contact Mr. Ritter or Dr. Poxon if you have any questions!

CFA Spain Trip – June 2016

Our next Spain Trip meeting will be on Thursday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the CFA Black Box Theatre!

Just a friendly reminder to the CFA Spain Trip participants that we still need you to do a few things – see the list below!! Please call me (228-2718) if you have any questions or need any help!! #1 – Confirm your Passport Info with WorldStrides Please confirm your FULL PASSPORT NAME/DATE OF BIRTH on the World Strides website ASAP! You will need to log onto your personal MY TRIP site and click on the orange tab that says MY PROFILE. If you don’t have your log in/password – call me!! I have your log ins/passwords so I can walk you through this!!

www.educationaltravel.com/login #2 – Final Balance If you are not on a payment plan, the DEADLINE is February 27, 2017. Please check your balance and payment schedule on your MY TRIP PROFILE.

#3 – Complete the attached health form. Please complete the attached health form and turn it in at the CFA Office. Again, please leave it with Ms. Pippert if I am not there.

CFA 2017 Calendar of Events – just a reminder that the spring is “CFA SHOWCASE” season! Please note that all performances and galleries are MANDATORY for CFA

students – all students receive a GRADE for their rehearsals and performances

– so please plan ahead NOW! For performing arts students (dance, musical theatre, theatre), you must also plan on being at rehearsal every week night

leading up to a performance, and you will receive a grade for each night of rehearsal. For Visual Arts students, you must plan on hanging the show at

least one night and attending the Showcase – the Arts Teachers will give you more information about this.

ALSO NOTE – we will be selling tickets at ALL CFA PERFORMING ARTS

SHOWCASES – DANCE, MT and THEATRE - for $5.00. Students will still receive COMP TICKETS for each night of the performance, but any additional tickets

will need to be purchased at the TICKET BOOTH or at the door (we will let you know the exact location very soon!)

2017 Performance Dates for all CFA students March 24-25 Theatre Spring Showcase @ 7:30 p.m. HHS Auditorium

(Tech week rehearsals @ night March 20-23) March 31-April 1 Dance Spring Showcase @ 7:30 p.m. in HHS Auditorium

(Tech week rehearsals @ night March 27-30) April 21-22 Musical Theatre Spring Showcase @ 7:30 p.m. in HHS Auditorium

(Tech week rehearsals @ night April 17-20) April 22 Visual Arts Spring Showcase @ 5:00-7:00 p.m. CFA Jeff Hall Gallery May 12 Senior Theatre Showcase @ 7:30 p.m. in CFA Black Box Theatre

May 16 CFA New Student Orientation @ 7:00 p.m. in HHS Auditorium May 19 Senior Musical Theatre Showcase @ 7:30 p.m. in HHS Auditorium

May 26 Senior Visual Art Showcase

7:00 p.m. Art Works

320 Hull Street, Richmond, VA 23224 (291-1400)

June 2 Senior Dance Showcase @ 7:30 p.m. @ Grace Street Theatre, VCU

Tickets $5 and SOLD IN ADVANCE in the CFA Office. June 3 CFA Honors and Awards Picnic @ 11:00 a.m. HHS Auditorium

Picnic to follow in HHS Main Commons/lawn

For more information about these events, please call 228-2718 or visit our website: http://blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/cfa

CFA Spring Showcase Rehearsal Information is listed below for ALL CFA THEATRE and DANCE Students – and the MUSICAL THEATRE SCHEDULE is coming soon. Parents and Students – please mark these times in your calendars, planners, phones, etc. Also – please remember that students are REQUIRED as per the CFA Handbook to attend these rehearsals. All of these rehearsals and performances are part of the CFA curriculum and are GRADED events. Students – it is EASY to get SUPER GREAT showcase grades if you show up for rehearsal on time, you are prepared, you have good attitudes and you are doing your best! Also – the FCFA is providing snacks before the rehearsals on Monday-Thursday. See the SIGN UP GENIUS (in the FCFA Corner of this Newsletter!) for the nights the FCFA is planning to

provide students with something to eat before rehearsals. The menu can also be found in the SIGN UP GENIUS. As always, students may PACK/BRING their own food to eat during the snack time if they have dietary concerns, but NO FOOD may be delivered to students at rehearsals. AND STUDENTS MAY NOT LEAVE CAMPUS TO GET FOOD EITHER!!! Please respect this policy and expectation – thank you parents and other family members - and please contact Dr. Poxon if you have any questions about this.

And, thanks to our WONDERFUL FCFA for providing snacks/small meals to our students!

SPRING SHOWCASE AFTER SCHOOL PROCEDURES FOR SNACKS & REHEARSALS – parents, we need your help with this procedure as well! CFA Students and Parents – the FCFA very generously provides snacks for our students prior to our rehearsals. This tradition gives our students a chance to unwind and socialize before rehearsal and to give them some “fuel” to make it through rehearsal. However, please keep in mind the following PROCEDURES concerning snacks:

Students will report to their CFA classroom directly after school for attendance. Your CFA teachers will then escort you to the Main Commons for the snacks. DO NOT GO TO THE MAIN COMMONS UNLESS YOU ARE WITH YOUR CFA CLASS!

Students may NOT leave campus after school to get snacks. We are responsible for you and have to know where you are at ALL TIMES! If you are caught leaving campus, you will be written up.

Parents may NOT bring additional food after school during snack time/rehearsal.

Students – if you do not like/cannot eat the food that is provided, you may pack your own snack to eat after school. Please pack something that non-perishable – such as peanut butter sandwich, granola or protein bars, fruit, etc. REMEMBER – parents MAY NOT BRING any food to you at snack time/rehearsal.

Remember to thank the FCFA for doing this for you! ATTENTION ALL CFA THEATRE STUDENTS!!! Here is your SPRING SHOWCASE TECH WEEK REHEARSAL SCHEDULE!! Monday, March 20 -- Levels 1 & 2 4:00-7:30 Tuesday, March 21 -- Levels 1& 3 4:00-7:00 Wednesday, March 22 – ALL Levels 4:00-8:00 Thursday, March 23 -- ALL Levels 4:00-9:00 Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25 -- 6:00 call and 7:30 Showcase Performance

ATTENTION ALL CFA DANCE STUDENTS!!! Here is your SPRING SHOWCASE REHEARSAL SCHEDULE Monday, March 27th – 4:00-7:30pm

- Level I (Tap and Modern)

- Level II (Modern and Hip Hop)

- 2 Student Adjudicated Pieces

Tuesday, March 28th- 4:00-7:30pm - Level III (Modern, Contemporary, Latin Fusion)

- Level IV (Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary)

Wednesday, March 29th NO REHEARSAL Thursday, March 30th – 4:00-8pm FULL DRESS REHEARSAL ALL Levels

- 4:45 Warm-up

- 6pm Run Show

Friday, March 31st - 6-9pm SHOW!

- 6pm Call for Dancers

- 7:30 Performance

Saturday, April 1st – 6-9pm SHOW!

- 6pm Call for Dancers

- 7:30 SHOWCASE Performance

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CFA Spotlight

Congratulations to the following CFA Visual Arts students who participated in the first annual Metro Richmond STEM Fair Art Competition. We received the results of the STEM fair today and the following students will be recognized at the Awards Ceremony at 3:00 pm at Huguenot High School on Saturday, March 11. 1st Place - Adam Dabbs 2nd Place – Morgan Martin 3rd place - Cole Taylor Honorable Mention: Cyndy Reyes Georgia Flemotomos Rose Roundy Jaya McKinley Megan O’Brien *****************************************************************************

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Friends of Center for the Arts (FCFA) Corner Website: www.friendsofcfa.com Email: friendsofcfa@gmail.com

Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/FriendsofCFA?fref=ts

We all shop! Whether you shop at Kroger or Martins or online at Amazon.com,

PLEASE register your shoppers reward card as shown below. This is FREE MONEY

to FCFA and the easiest thing you can help with. To date, we do not even have

10% of our families registered and have earned a few hundred dollars during the

last quarter of 2016. Imagine what it can be if you ALL registered!

If you are a parent that has a business that would like to help the FCFA through a

fundraiser, please contact me at terrihague@verizon.net or

friendsofcfa@gmail.com. We would welcome the opportunity to partner with you!

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SPRING SHOWCASE TECH WEEK REHEARSAL SNACKS and

CONCESSIONS – the FCFA needs YOUR HELP!!

CFA families – the FCFA needs your help in providing TECH WEEK

MEALS to our students! We also need donations of concessions to

sell at the Showcases, and we need volunteers to help work the

tables, serve as ushers, distribute programs and greet our

guests!! Please sign up on the SIGN-UP GENIUS below – ALL HELP is

welcome!! No donation is too small or too big Thank you, thank

you, thank you!!

This is the link for Theatre Showcase to signup for food, drinks and volunteering during tech week www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0E4AACA92BA6F58-theatre This is the link for ALL CFA parents to signup to bring in concessions to sell during all tech weeks. www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0E4AACA92BA6F58-concession1

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In the next few weeks, I will be providing information regarding another source of fund-raising for the FCFA. We will be able to earn $ by having our parents AND students participate in manning Papa John’s Pizza booths at events such as the Richmond International Raceway NASCAR races and Innsbrook Music Events. This is a great way that everyone can help! Be on the lookout for more information.

If you have any questions regarding the FCFA or would like to make suggestions

or bring anything to our attention, please feel free to email us at

friendsofcfa.com! We love to hear your thoughts, comments and suggestions!

-Terri Hague

KROGER is Giving More Back to the Community and FRIENDS OF THE CENTER

FOR THE ARTS! Kroger is committed to helping our communities grow and prosper. Year after year, local schools, churches and other nonprofit organizations will earn millions of dollars through Kroger Community Rewards.

Kroger Community Rewards makes fund-raising easy…all you have to do is shop at Kroger and swipe your Plus Card!

To enroll, please go to https://www.kroger.com/account/enrollCommunityRewardsNow, register your Kroger Card and/or telephone number associated with your card to participate in the rewards program and select Friends of the Center for the Arts as your community recipient. If you do not have a Kroger card, you can get one from your local store – it also helps YOU save $.

Beginning October 7, 2016, Friends of Center for the Arts– (ID#: 40339) has the opportunity to participate in and earn

CASH from A+ School Rewards, a great fundraising program run through your local GIANT!

To participate:

Visit www.giantfoodstores.com/aplus and scroll down to the center of the page to select REGISTER YOUR CARD

from the red box on the right marked FOR CUSTOMERS; or,

Call the A+ School Rewards Hotline at 1-877-275-2758 for assistance; or,Email the A+ Hotline. Please include the

last name associated with your BONUSCARD®, your 11-digit BONUSCARD® number and our school name and school

ID number* of our school (or the name, city and state in which the school is located) to:

askaplus@cranecommunications.com.

AMAZON SMILE – EARN $ FOR FCFA WHILE YOU SHOP!

EASY WAYS TO HELP US MEET OUR

FUNDRAISING GOALS!

Amazon Smile is a program through Amazon that everyone can take advantage of. There is NO change in prices for goods purchased online. However, if you click this link - https://smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0528878 - before you begin

your shopping, the FCFA will automatically receive .5% of your total purchases in donations to our organization. It truly is that easy. So….save this link in your favorites and SHOP AWAY! This is one of the easiest ways for the FCFA to

obtain funding from something that you already do! Please pass this along to your extended family and friends as anyone can use this link.

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HHS NEWS HHS Drama Club Production of Pippin – March 2-4, 2017 @ 7:00 p.m. in the HHS Auditorium Please mark your calendars now for the Drama Club’s Production of Pippin – under the Direction of Ms. Karen Moody with Musical Direction by Mr. Billy Dye – which will be performed Thursday – Saturday, March 2-4, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the HHS Auditorium. Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the HHS TICKET BOOTH. STUDENTS – come support your fellow CFA students who are in Pippin and get a THEATRE LOG out of the way at the same time!! Yes – Pippin will count as a THEATRE LOG so NO EXCUSES for not seeing a show this nine weeks!!! WRITING SOL – Tuesday & Wednesday, March 14 & 15 – here is the schedule for those days: Writing SOL – Multiple Choice

ODD day - Tuesday

March 14th

9:00-11:30 Period 1: Writing SOL MC Section 11:30-11:36 Transition 11:36-12:46 Period 3 12:46-12:53 Transition

12:53-1:18 A Lunch 1:23-1:48 B Lunch 1:53-2:18 C Lunch

2:18- 2:24 Transition 2:24- 3:55 Period 7 Writing SOL – Essay Prompt

EVEN day - Wednesday

March 15th

9:00-12:46 Period 2: Writing SOL Essay Prompt (Seniors may arrive late) 12:46-12:53 Transition

12:53-1:18 A Lunch 1:23-1:48 B Lunch 1:53-2:18 C Lunch

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STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

Have You Filled a Bucket Today? Sunday, March 19th 2:00 pm Children’s Theatre of Virginia at Willow Lawn Written and directed by Scott Wichmann Music by Jason Marks Based on the play "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?" and book "Bucket Filling Fairy" by Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead Originally based on the book by Carol McCloud Bucket filling is a metaphor for doing caring things for others - filling their “buckets,” and ultimately results in personal self-esteem. The concept of bucket filling is now used in schools across the world to teach students how easy and rewarding it is to spread kindness and caring as a deterrent to bullying behavior. HAVE YOU FILLED A BUCKET TODAY? THE MUSICAL! is the story of Trey, a 4th grader who learns about bucket filling with help from his new friends at summer camp. This upbeat, family-friendly musical is a fun and effective way for kids to learn about kindness and how to prevent bullying. Following the show there will be a book signing with author Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead and a meet & greet with the actors! ALL TICKETS $5 for this one-time public performance. To learn more about bringing this play to your school or organization, visit out site:http://va-rep.org/tour/inschool.html

Have a wonderful weekend and hope to see you at Pippin! Best, Dr. P