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MCCPS 15th Anniversary Annual Appeal
Our Goal: 15 Years, $15,000

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Our Mission: MCCPS fosters a community that empowers children to become capable, self-determining, fully engaged individuals who are critical and creative thinkers committed to achieving their highest intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and physical potential. We are dedicated to involving, learning from, participating in, and serving our school community and the community at large.

Band Trip

Just a reminder that the MCCPS band trip is this Friday, May 14th. We'll meet at 7am and return 8:30pm. Please be on time because we will leave promptly.

Wish us luck and thank you to all the parent volunteers who are coming along!

Hello From Nature's Classroom 2010

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 17:33

Hello from Nature's Classroom. The sixth graders have settled in and are having a ton of fun. The food is good, the teachers are nice, and the beds are soft enough. Your children have been busy learning about trees, plants, and animals (some even saw a porcupine). We have also enjoyed hiking, building water rockets, singing, dissecting a pig, playing tag, building structures, and completing challenges as a team. On Tuesday and Wednesday, students became insects, frogs and snakes and played a huge game of predator and prey. Teachers and students created their own cultures and became anthropologists to learn about each other's cultures; waakaa waakaa choo choo(ed. note ???). Other highlights included natural facials, edible plants, fire building, more singing, and cake in Ms. Dunne's face. Having a great time! Hope you are not missing us too much. Check the MCCPS website for updated pictures throughout the week. See you on Friday around 2pm.-The Sixth Grade Team

MCCPS Swings into Spring

Submitted by admin on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 13:42

Taking care of the environment has always been an integral part of the Marblehead Charter School's programs. The Lynn Daily Item highlighted several key parts of our environmental stewardship. Click on this link to find out about EcoArt, TerraCycle, and other environmental programs at MCCPS.

NEWS FROM THE ART ROOM

WANTED: STUDENT ART!
All students are invited to submit a piece for the Marblehead Festival of the Arts that will take place from July 1-5, 2010. These are the directives, taken from the Festival’s website:
Description: Non-juried exhibit of original work in the categories of crafts, drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. No kits allowed. All work must be mounted and wired, ready to hang. Size may not exceed 3’ 6“ in any direction, including frame, this includes group pieces.
Art is selected and submitted by the art teachers in the Marblehead public and private schools and classes. Marblehead resident students who attend school or classes outside Marblehead, or have done work independently must drop off their own entries.

Eligibility: Grades 5 through 12 Marblehead residents in public or private schools or classes, and non-residents attending school or classes in Marblehead.

 
Although the drop-off date for youth/student work has not been posted yet, it will probably be around mid-May.
For more information, go to http://www.marbleheadfestival.org/ or email/see Mme Dart in the art room.
 
 
THE BOSTON POPS ANNOUNCES STUDENT ART CONTEST
AS PART OF 125TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CELEBRATION
 
BOSTON POPS INVITES STUDENTS THROUGHOUT MASSACHUSETTS TO CREATE ORIGINAL ART PIECES TO BE DISPLAYED ON SCREENS IN SYMPHONY HALL DURING THE SEASON  
 
The Boston Pops announces an art contest as part of a season-long celebration of its 125th anniversary season, May 4-June 20.  Using the general theme of music as their inspiration, Massachusetts students, grades K through 12, are invited to submit an original drawing or painting to the Boston Pops Student Art Contest. Ten winners will be chosen to have their artwork displayed on screens in Symphony Hall during the Pops 125th season and on bostonpops.org (full contest description below).  Subjects can range from literal representations of the Boston Pops on the Esplanade for their famous Fourth-of-July concert or in Symphony Hall for their spring or Holiday season concerts, to something more abstract, not at all directly related to the Pops—something more personal that represents what music means to the individual student. 
All entrants will receive a subscription to the Pops online digital music store with access to all Pops digital recordings. A judging panel including Keith Lockhart and representatives from the Boston Pops will select 10 Grand Prize winners, who will be given four tickets to a Pops concert during June 2010, with an opportunity to visit back stage and meet the conductor following the performance. 
All entries must be original artwork and the work of the student contestant.  Artwork must be in one of the following forms: drawing/sketch (charcoal or pencil), painting (oils or watercolor), or a design created with an art software program, or photography.  Artwork must be at least 3” by 5” and no larger than 30” x 50”.  All entries should be mailed to Boston Pops Art Contest, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA  02115, and should include the artist’s name, age, grade, and school on the back of the artwork.   Entries must be received by Friday, May 14. Winners will be notified by Friday, May 28.  

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