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Volume 13, Issue 17 December 4, 2017
UPCOMING EVENTS
Finals December 15th-20th
Early Release December 18th-20th
11:30 am
School Resumes January 9, 2018
SAVE the DATE Upperclassman Parent
Information Night January 29, 2018
7pm
Athletic Game Schedules
Photo credit: Woodlands Student
Center, and TWCP Staff
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
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Commitment Pride Honor Success Attitude Character Perseverance Integrity Respect Responsibility
Fall Semester Exam Schedule
Friday, December 15th
1st period—7:20am-7:52am
2nd period– 7:59am-8:31am
3rd period– 8:38am-9:10 am
4th period EXAM– 9:17am-11:17am
5th period-11:24am-1:20 pm
6th period-1:27pm-1:58pm
7th period-2:05pm-2:35pm
Monday, December 18th
1st period EXAM-7:20am-9:20am
2nd period EXAM—9:30am-11:30am
Tuesday, December 19th
3rd period EXAM– 7:20am-9:20 am
5th period EXAM—9:30 am-11:30 am
Wednesday, December 20th
6th period EXAM– 7:20am-9:20am
7th period EXAM—9:30am-11:30am
PLEASE NOTE: There will be NO PASSES deliveredvfor
early check-out during finals.
COUNSELOR’S CORNER College Board School Code 447642 Family Connection website: https://connection.naviance.com/family-connection/auth/login/?hsid=cphs Progress Report Dates 1st 9-weeks: 9/7, 9/28 2nd 9-weeks: 11/2, 11/30 3rd 9-weeks: 2/1, 2/22 4th 9-weeks: 4/12,5/3/5/24 Report Card Dates 1st 9-weeks: 10/13 PAC/student 2nd 9-weeks: 1/12 PAC/student 3rd 9-weeks: 3/22 PAC/student 4th 9-weeks: 6/8 (Mailed ) Cavalier/Peer Tutoring (2:45-3:45) Math – Teacher website Science – Teacher website Peer Tutoring-CCC-TBA Exam Schedule Fall Exams: 12/15-12/20 Spring Exams: 5/25-5/31 Seniors Spring: 5/22-5/25 Senior Information Senior Lighting: 8/22 Senior Parent Info Night: 9/11 Mandatory Senior Mtg. w/Dr. Murrell: 4/6 Prom: 4/20 Honor Graduate Breakfast: 5/1 Senior Awards Night: 5/21 Senior Picnic: 5/25 Graduation Practice: 5/25 Graduation: 5/25 PTO GradNight: 5/25 STAAR Testing Schedule
12/4-12/7, 4/3-4/6
EOC Testing Window
5/7-5/11
AP Testing Dates
5/7-5/18
SAT Test Dates 9/26, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2, 3/10, 5/5
ACT Test Dates 9/9, 10/28, 12/9, 2/10, 4/14
PTO Meeting: November 29, 2017
9am in the LGI Please check in at the front office.
The CP PTO is now on Facebook!
www.cpgradnight.org
Visit cpgradnight.com to find out more about our senior graduation lock-in and to
download a registration form.
Please join our planning committee to make this the best Grad Night ever! There
are big and little jobs to be done, so please help in any way you can. For more in-
formation, please contact [email protected]
Plan now to do some Christmas shopping to help
our CP Grad Night
Please join us for a KENDRA SCOTT
GIVES BACK PARTY
Enjoy sips, sweets & jewels from 6-8 pm
Friday, Dec. 1 6-8 p.m. (Market Street)
20% of all purchases will be donated to Grad Night
Unable to attend? Place a phone order anytime that day (make sure you mention
Grad Night), and they will ship your order at no add’l cost 281-528-1174
JOIN CP PTO
Shop & Dine in Market Street
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1ST
Eat at Potbelly between 5-8 pm
Be sure to mention CP Grad Night
25% of sales will be donated to Grad Night
PSAT
10/11 during school
Late arrival for Seniors 11 am– Commons
PTO Meetings 9:00 a.m. LGI 1
9/27, 10/25, 11/29, 12/13, 1/31 2/28, 3/28, 4/25, 5/23
PTO “Parent’s Night Out” Fundraiser –February 15, 2018 Dosey Doe’s Big Barn
PTO Brown Bag Lunches
@ 11:00 am - LGI
10/4, 11/8, 1/10, 3/21
Pep Rally Dates
9/13 (Homecoming/Woodforest),9/29, 10/13, 10/27, 10/10, 1/19 (NEAT),
Spring Pep Rally: 1/19, TBA
Important Dates
8/22 Senior Lighting Ceremony 7pm Auditorium
8/24- Open House 6pm
9/11 –Financial Aid and Sr. Parent Info Night 7pm
9/18– Junior Parent Information Night 7pm-Auditorium
9/25 –9th/10th/New to TX Parent Information Night—7pm
1/22-Incoming 9th graders Parent Info Night 7pm
1/29 -Upperclassman Parent Info Night 7pm
2/1-PTO “Eyes Wide Open” 7pm Auditorium
2/8- “Everything Under the Sun” Information Night Class Fair 5:30/Advance Class Information 7PM
4/6—Sr. Meeting w/ Dr. Murrell
4/20– Prom
4/24- NHS Induction Ceremony 6pm Auditorium
VERIFICATION OF
ENROLLEMENT (VOE)
INFORMATION:
VOE ‘s can be requested
student must sign-up in
the grade level office with
a 24 hour notice. Students must
have a VOE for Driving Permit and
Driver’s License. VOE’s are good
for only 30 days.
TWCP- DRIVER EDUCATION CLASSES: CPHS Driver Education
Class:
For class information you can go on-line at http://www.esc6.net/apps/pages/
index.jsp?
For more information, please contact Chris Hemphill 936.435.8325 or
Join us on Thursday, February 15, 2018 for Parents' Night Out hosted by the College Park PTO! Parents' Night Out is the PTO's only fundraiser of the year. So, mark your calen-dar, get your table or tickets now, round up
your friends and neighbors and plan on join-ing us for a fun night out that includes dinner, entertainment, silent auction, raffle, contests and dancing! You don't want to miss this!
To purchase sponsorships, tables and tickets, go to: Boots and Bling
5/1 -Honor Graduate Breakfast at Woodlands Church 8am (Invitation Only)
5/21 -Senior Awards
5/25-Panoramic Picture
5/25 - Graduation Practice
5/25- Senior Picnic
5/25 - Graduation 7:30 pm Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Early Release Days
10/6 and 12/20, 3/9 at 11:30 am
School Holidays (Students)
9/4, 9/9, 11/20-24, 12/21-1/8, 1/15, 2/19, 3/12-16, 3/30, 5/28
Online Information
AST Campus Life
Cavalier Connection Child Nutrition CISD Calendar CISD Website Faculty/Staff
Parent Access Center Parent Resources TWCP Website
Weather What Bus Do I Ride?
Webstore
ADMINISTRATION Dr. Mark A. Murrell Principal Dr. Susan Caffrey Academy Headmaster Mr. Brian Lee Associate Principal of Administration/9th Grade Dr. Susan Hersperger Associate Principal Curriculum and Instruction Ms. Melanie McCarthy Associate Principal Facility Operations Assistant Principals Ashley Wallace A-C Victoria Brinkman D-Hem Mitch Marriott Hen-Mer Danny Johnson Mes-Sam Clint Holden San-Z
UPCOMING COLLEGE VISITS:
Lone Star College - Montgomery Tue December 5, 2017 -
Lone Star College - Montgomery Wed December 6, 2017
Tarleton State University Wed December 6, 2017 1:00 pm
University of North Texas Tue December 19, 2017 10:00 am
Incoming 9th graders
Information Night
January 22nd
TWCP Auditorium
7pm
Upperclassman Information
Night
January 29th
TWCP Auditorium
7pm
PSAT Results Presentation:
College Park and The Woodlands High are teaming up for PSAT Results
Presentations this year. December 11th at 7pm there will be a PSAT results
presentation at The Woodlands High Auditorium and December 15th at
11am there will be a PSAT results presentation in the CPHS LGI. We
expect College Board to release access to PSAT scores in early
December. Students and Parents will be emailed information about how to
obtain scores when scores are available. Interpretation will be available
through the College Board website as well. Results presentations will cover
how to interpret the scores, test prep for the SAT, and brief information
about National Merit. Please note, national merit cutoff scores are not
released until September of each year, the presentation will only explain
about the National Merit program.
Counselors Jessica Beckham Lead Counselor Debra Creel College and Career Mary Edgerly -9th Grade A-Lee Shannon Andersen- 9th Grade Lef-Z Cindy Doud A-Ch Junette Mihelich Ci-Gib Tiffani Jaqua Gic-K Chiante Deal L-Oe Leslie Ayers Of-She Tammy Morrow Shf-Z
LUNCH DROP-OFF POLICY: Safety is the upmost importance for our students. For the safety of our students, all lunches brought in to school for your student will need to be signed in at the front office. Lunches will be taken to the AP office for the students to pick-up. Our students know that the AP office is the location to pick up items. Thank you for your help and cooperation. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter
The Conroe Independent School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following persons have been designated to handle inquiries regarding these non-discrimination policies:
Title IX Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936)-709-7700 and the Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304;
(936) 709-7670
Yearbook 2017-2018: Yearbooks are on sale now for the 2017-2018 school year. You may purchase online at: www.balfour.com ($65)or on the school webstore ($70) $5 extra if you want a name plate. Checks may be dropped off at the front office in an envelope marked "Yearbook" or brought to room 3112. In the memo section, please print put your student's name. Checks must include driver's li-
cense and birthdate. Please bring any cash sale to room 3112.
SENIOR ADS: Can be purchased by contacting Donna Brawner at [email protected]
Follow yearbook on twitter@twcpyearbook and "like" TWCP yearbook page on Facebook for updates and sneak peaks of the 2017-2018 year-book
Senior Dues now $110.
Senior class dues are for all the activities throughout the
school year; these can be paid in the finance office or online
through the Webstore. Please see Mrs. Wallace or Mr.
Holden when the school year begins for more information,
or if you are having difficulty paying senior dues.
Please note:
*Senior Dues are optional. Seniors do not have to pay any dues to graduate.
*Seniors who graduate early may still pay dues and participate in all activities.
*Any senior attending prom MUST pay dues.
Senior Dues Cover:
* Senior Lighting
*Senior T-Shirt (Spring)
*Prom Ticket (Sr. Only)
*Senior Picnic
Senior Dues do NOT Cover:
*Cap, Gown or Graduation Announcements
*Prom Date Ticket
*Homecoming Ticket
*Panoramic Picture
*Prom Pictures
*GradNight ‘18
Senior Parents: Herff Jones will meet
with your Seniors on January 22nd.
Please expect the packet for Gradua-
tion announcements, Cap and Gown, and other senior product information to
come home with them. It can will also be available on their website.
For more Club News and
information, visit our website:
http://twcp.conroeisd.net/
CAVALIER EXPRESS:
SCHOOL STORE
The Cavalier express will be open during all lunch
periods . We will have spirit shirts and items, as
well as Pep Rally T’s, football tickets, and much
more. Stop by and say Hi!
Custom Buttons
TWCP Spirit
Awareness Months
NFL/College Teams
Graduation
Special Occasion
$12 Small
$15 Large
Provide us a picture and ribbon color preference.
Or let our TRAILS students
select a design for you.
TRAILS BUTTON BOUQUETS –School Based Enterprise
Contact Erica Castillo, ecas-
[email protected] for orders
FRIENDLY REMINDER to all who purchased a senior banner: please send photo to Karen Patton at [email protected] by December 15th.
SENIOR BANNERS
College Park FFA: College Park Future Farmers of America help students learn more about having leadership and develop knowledge about agricul-tural that goes on in the world. Students have the opportunity to show their skills by doing things like livestock judging, showing animals, building flower arrangements, welding, and so many more other events. Incoming students who are new to College Park High School need to make sure that they are enrolled in some type of Ag. class.
On Thursday, November 9, HOSA sponsored a blood drive honoring Meghan Rudd, CP graduate 2017, currently battling leukemia. We had 85 donors and collected 109
units potentially saving more than 300 lives!!
Peer tutoring will take place Monday - Thurs-
day from 2:45 to 4 in the College and Career
Center.
December 7th will be final day for Fall Se-
mester
Academy of Science and Technology Fall Distinquished Lecture Series
The lecture is from 6-7 pm in the LGI. Students, parents and guests are welcome
Tuesday, February 13—TWCP LGI 6pm
Faye Johnson, MD PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Targeted Therapy for Cancer-a Tale of Translational Research from Bench to Bedside and Back Again
FREE TUTORING
Wednesdays 2:45-3:30 in
the school library
Sponsored by NEHS
CP Library has just added the database, Global Issues in Context, to our Gale database holdings. This wonderful re-
source is great for all subject areas with a world focus.
Global Issues in Context is updated daily, and ties together authoritative content that enables students to
understand the most important issues of the modern world.
It integrates the following and more in a single search:
News -Global viewpoints- Reference materials -Country information -Primary source documents -Videos statistics
Access via CP Library Website- Gale Database- password: woodlandcp.
Talk to your CP librarians for more information!
TWCP MCJROTC Cadet wins Texas State All Service JROTC Air Rifle Championship
Sophomore Philip Becker took home 1st place in the Precision Category at the 2017 Texas State All Service JROTC Air Rifle Championship held 16-18 November in San Antonio, TX. Over 50 teams and hundreds of individuals representing the best JROTC shooters in the state in the Sporter and Precision categories com-peted in the annual event.
Photo is attached and a News clip about the tournament is here: http://www.kens5.com/features/neisd-hosts-texas-state-j-rotc-air-rifle-championships/492451668
2017-2018 Season Information is
now available online.
Upcoming shows early in 2017
Catch Me if You Can
Performances- January 25, 26, 27 at 7:00pm
Two performances Saturday- 2:00pm and
7:00pm
UIL One Act Play: Good People
Auditions-February 1
Performances- March 5, 7, 8, March 20
Contest- District March 9 at TWHS at approxi-
mately 2:00pm
CHOIR EVENTS
Dec 7 - Winter Concert with
Orchestra 7:00 at CP
Dec 11 - Selections from Handel's
Messiah with Orchestra 7:00 at
CP
Dec 15 - Days of Gratitude Dinner
Feb 9 and 10 - Solo and Ensemble at CP
Apr 12 - Pre-UIL concert
May 11 and 12 - RnB Black or White
May 14 - Pop Show
For Choir news and events
On Monday Nov. 13, we had Region Orchestra auditions for our band students. This audition is an opportunity to make the Region Orchestra and to qualify for the Area Auditions. Area is the final step before becoming a Texas All-State member - the highest individual honor a Texas musician can achieve while in High School. We send our very best students who are prepared at the time as we are limited to the amount of students we can send to this audition. We took 38 students to the audi-
tion and 21 made the Region Orchestra. On top of that, we had 6 make Area and will competing in
the beginning of January to become an All State member. We are proud of all 38 who prepared themselves to make this audition.
If you see any of these students throughout the day, please congratulate them on their success. They will be performing this weekend at Klein Forest High School. If any of you are interested in watching the concert, please email me directly and I can give you the information for which group they will be in.
The following 21 students qualified for Region Orchestra this past Monday:
Piccolo - Katie Kirkpatrick (Qualified for Area), Flute - Amrutha Murthy (Qualified for Area), Cindy Yu, Clarinet - Sunny Yu (Qualified for Area), Chloe Pierce, Bassoon - Mia Vu (Qualified for Area), Mike Torres, Sam Mason, Trumpet - Cade Owen (Qualified for Area), Alexis LeBlanc, Lucas Mseeh, Horn - Trevor Fulton, Joseph Cahill, Katie Daugherty, Elia Macha, Trombone - Franklin Tang, Evan Samford, Percussion - Zach de Kanter (Qualified for Area), Gabe Solano, Vishnu Murthy, Lilia Li
Band Website
Our homepage for orchestra is www.cporchestra.com You can also like us on Facebook at Cavalier Orchestra! ALL students need to maintain current contact information in CHARMS: www.charmsoffice.com. User name is cporchestra. Password is your student ID number.
Fall 2017 Semester Events:
Thursday, December 7, 7:00 PM: CP Winter Orchestra Concert (Sinfonietta, Philharmonic, Camerata)-CP Auditorium. Monday, December 11, 7:00 PM: CP Winter Orchestra Concert (Chamber, Symphony)-CP Auditorium.
Spring 2018 Semester Events:
January 25-27, 7pm: School Musical-CP Auditorium January 29-30, 7pm: Pre-Solo and Ensemble Chamber Music Recitals-CP Auditorium February 2-3: UIL Solo and Ensemble. February 14-17: TMEA All-State Convention. San Antonio, TX Thursday, March 29, 7:00 pm: Spring Orchestra Concert-CP Auditorium April 10-13: String Orchestra UIL Contest-Klein Oak HS. Wednesday, May 2: Full Orchestra UIL-Klein HS. Saturday, May 5, 7pm: Orchestra Senior Farewell Concert-CP Auditorium. Friday, May 11, 6pm: Orchestra Banquet-WUMC Wagner Hall Wednesday, May 23 7pm: String Fling-Large Gym. Saturday, May 27: State Solo and Ensemble-UT Austin.
Orchestra Students who made the Region Orchestra and will be performing in one of the two orchestras this Saturday at Klein Forest High School. Out of these students, Chris Chan was selected by competitive audi-tion to participate in the Texas Music Educators Association All-State Orchestra this February, as a string player, he competed against some of the most talented student cellists in the state and ranked 26th out of the 168 cellists that auditioned across the state. We are very proud of all of our students who auditioned for these groups Out of the students who made region orchestra in CISD, we have the most students represented. GO CP! In addition, we had 10 students participate in the inaugural Conroe ISD 9th/10th Grade Honor Orchestra. These students competed against other 9th/10th graders in CISD and we also had a large percentage of the Orchestra. If you see any of these students, congratulate them on what they have accomplished! Region IX Orchestra Caleb Hu, Andrew Yu, Sherry Lai, Anne Chan, Ruth Simpson, Jonathan Wang, Chris Chan, Amy Sanders, Dylan Mans-field Katherine Zhao, Rebecca Kong, Derek He, Alex Deng, Jaime Lee, Sofia Fuentes, Sreya Rahman , Vianne Dorak , Sean Roberts, Monica Gaffney. CISD 9th/10th Grade Honor Orchestra
Lonnie Madison
Athletic Director
