Subject: US Weekly E-Newsletter 12-6-15
From: "SFS US Weekly E-Newsletter" <[email-masked]>
To: "R. Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 09:02:19 -0500

Sunday - December 6, 2015

		

		

		 

					

							
								Principal's Letter

MESSAGE FROM MAMADOU 

							
							
								Announcements

SERVICE LEARNING TRAVEL PROGRAMS 
TRANSPORTATION SURVEY REMINDER 
IMPORTANT FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION 
HOLIDAY GIFT DRIVE: NOV 30-DEC 20 

							
							
								Events

US MUSICAL EVENTS: DEC. 11 & 13 
GAMETIME! WRESTLING: DEC. 15 
WIZARDS TICKETS ON SALE THROUGH DEC. 18 
CALLING PERFORMERS & VOLUNTEERS FOR ARTRAGEOUS 2016! 
CALLING PERFORMERS & VOLUNTEERS - ARTRAGEOUS JAN 31 
PARENTS OF BLACK STUDENTS HOLIDAY POTLUCK DEC 11 
CANDLELIGHT MEETING FOR WORSHIP: DEC 22 

							
							
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								Principal's Letter

MESSAGE FROM MAMADOU
Dear Friends,
It has been another busy week in the Upper School.  Students have thrown themselves back into their studies as they prepare to wrap up their schoolwork before the winter break. Most classes will have another round of assessments in the last two weeks as they wrap up their units before the holiday, so please help your students manage their time in the weeks leading up to the break. 
The Winter Dance will take place on Saturday, December 12, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Dining Room. The Student Government has generated a list of themes for the dance that students may select by voting. If you are curious about the themes, ask your child to share the list with you. Please remind your children that dances are open to all students. Encourage them to attend with a group of friends. Dates are not required! 
Student artists will be exhibiting their artwork in the Fall Art Exhibition in the Art Center Gallery. The opening reception will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 11, right before the Instrumental Music Concert. Please consider joining us for an evening of art and music!
Winter sports are also fully underway. I hope to see you at some of the basketball games, wrestling matches, and swim meets!
Warmly,
Mamadou
Mamadou Gu&egrave;ye
Upper School Principal
Upcoming Events:
December 11, 5:30 &ndash; 7:30 p.m., Fall Art Exhibition of Student Work Opening Reception, Kogod Arts Center
December 11, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m., US Winter Music Concert
December 12, 8:30 &ndash; 10:30 p.m., Winter Dance, Dining Room
December 13, 2:30 p.m., Winter Choral Concert
December 21-January 1, Winter Break
January 4 &amp; 5, Review Days
January 6, Reading Day
January 6, 8:00 - 8:45 a.m., College Admission for the Athlete Meeting, Choral Room
January 7, History Exam (10:00 a.m. exam start time)
January 8, Science Exam (10:00 a.m. exam start time)
January 11, Language Exam (10:00 a.m. exam start time)
January 12, Reading Day
January 13, English Exam (10:00 a.m. exam start time)
January 14, Math Exam (10:00 a.m. exam start time)
January 15, Exam Make-up Day (10:00 a.m. exam start time)

							
								Announcements

SERVICE LEARNING TRAVEL PROGRAMS

Service Learning/Community Engagement Travel Programs
APPLICATION PROCESS
All students who are interested in participating in the following Upper School travel programs will fill out the same US Travel Opportunities Common Application, due on December 15. 

	Voices of Peace: Japanese Language and Culture Summer Study
	Student Global Leadership Institute at Punahou
	Peace and Economic Justice: New Orleans Quaker Workcamp
	Jamaica Library Project: Literacy Justice in Kew Park Community
	Technology to Overcome Cancer in Colombia
	Appalachia Community Immersion: Quaker Workcamp in West Virginia

More information about each trip and the application can be found at www.sidwell.edu/trips. Students must complete the Common Application (download in Adobe Acrobat as a fillable PDF) before they can register for the program. Once the interview and selection process happens in January, they will be notified when they can register.

TRANSPORTATION SURVEY REMINDER
If you haven&rsquo;t completed the parent transportation survey, please do so by Friday, December 11. The survey is very brief and should only take about one minute to complete: Click here to access the survey.

IMPORTANT FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION
For students in grades PK &ndash; 11 interested in applying for financial aid for the 2016/17 school year:
If you are a current financial aid recipient: you may reappy online at www.sss.nais.org.
If you are not currently receiving financial aid, but want to apply for the upcoming school year: e-mail Frankie Brown before beginning the application process online at www.sss.nais.org.
Key dates:
January 4, 2016: Due date to submit Parent Financial Statement at www.sss.nais.org.
February 1 - 21, 2016: Re-enrollment Contract and Financial aid awards available.
April 15, 2016: Due date for copy of 2015 Federal tax return with W-2 and schedules submitted to SSS. Awards are not final until taxes have been submitted to SSS.
Please contact the Financial Aid Office via e-mail at [email-masked] or call 202-537-8111, with any questions or concerns.

HOLIDAY GIFT DRIVE: NOV 30-DEC 20
Dear US Families: We are preparing for Sidwell Friends&#39; annual holiday gift drive. The student-run Community Action Club (C.A.C.) and the Parents&#39; Community Service Group are teaming up for this effort. As in past years, we will provide donated gifts to benefit participants supported by partner organizations with which we have long-term partnerships: Martha&#39;s Table, the Rosemount Center, and FAPAC. Please help make this time-honored SFS tradition a success by donating a gift or gifts to benefit a child or children from age infant to 18.
HOW IT WORKS:

	For FAPAC and Rosemount: Please place unwrapped gifts in a large bag. Please include wrapping paper.
	For Martha&#39;s Table: Please click on this link that will direct you to Amazon.com for the preferred gift items, and items will be sent directly to Martha&#39;s Table: http://marthastable.org/bundles-of-joy/
	Drop-off site for US: in boxes in the Upper School Library, and if there is a tree, these would be under the tree.
	Delivery dates: Monday, November 30 through Tuesday, December 20.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS:
Rosemount Center: Gifts for children 0 to 5: diapers, winter clothes, books, board games, Legos, African American and Latina dolls, toys, crafts kits. 
FAPAC: Gifts for ages 0 to 18: diapers, winter clothes, books, toys, gift certificates for teens from Target, Old Navy (shops within walking/ Metro distance of recipients) and diapers. 
Martha&#39;s Table: http://marthastable.org/bundles-of-joy/
PLEASE NO action figures that carry weapons. No toy weapons. 
OUR PARTNERS: 
ROSEMOUNT CENTER: Located in Mount Pleasant, Rosemount provides a range of services, day care, bilingual instruction, home visits, physical and occupational therapy. SFS Upper School students partner with the Rosemount Center, providing support in the classrooms at this bilingual day care center that primarily serves children ages birth to 5 of recent immigrants to this country.
Martha&#39;s Table: Your participation in Holiday Gift Giving supports families that participate in Martha&#39;s Table Children Youth and Family Learning Programs. The program serves hundreds of children from the 14th Street corridor and surrounding neighborhoods in DC. For many years, all divisions of our School have been involved in the work of Martha&#39;s Table.
FAPAC &ndash; The mission of FAPAC is to significantly improve the lives of children in the District of Columbia child welfare system by empowering their foster, kinship, and adoptive parents to advocate for their children&rsquo;s needs and ensure the inclusion of those perspectives at every relevant table. FAPAC provides comprehensive support and training that enables foster, kinship, and adoptive parents to access the services needed to care for children who have experienced neglect and abuse, and to develop skills to serve as foster parents and mentors in the DC foster care system. Sidwell Friends will be hosting a holiday brunch for FAPAC families in early December. 
Thank you for your generosity and your thoughtfullness. Our warmest wishes for the holiday season. For questions, please contact Mohini Malhotra ([email-masked]); Nancy Rosenfeld ([email-masked]), or Hanna Endrias ([email-masked]). 

							
								Events

US MUSICAL EVENTS: DEC. 11 & 13
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11:
Upper School Instrumental Music Concert
7:30 p.m., Kogod Arts Center, RLS Meeting Room
FEATURING: US Chamber Orchestra and the music of Borodin, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky; and the US Jazz Ensembles I &amp; II and the music of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Roy Hargrove, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, The Yellowjackets, and Snarky Puppy.
Free Admission. Reception to follow.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13:
Upper School Choral Concert, 2:30 p.m., featuring the full Upper School Chorus, the Chamber Chorus, and a wonderful array of student-led a capella groups.

GAMETIME! WRESTLING: DEC. 15
Whether you wrestled in high school and want to relive your glory days or have never seen a wrestling match and want to expand your horizons, you are invited to cheer at the first winter GAMETIME! celebrating the wrestling team. This is a tri-meet against St. Albans and George Mason at 4:45 p.m. in the Athletic Center. Refreshments will be available at 4:30 p.m. in the Rusch Team Room. Let&rsquo;s pack the stands!

WIZARDS TICKETS ON SALE THROUGH DEC. 18
SFS night at the Washington Wizards is January 8. Tickets are $25 each and must be purchased by Friday, December 18. You can pick your seat and pay online at the link below. If you want to sit with your grade or your team, pick a section and suggest the group buy their tickets in that section. Or check the online listing to see where your friends are sitting. Tickets will be e-mailed to you or you can pick them up at will-call before the game.
Tip-off between the Wizards and the Toronto Raptors is at 7:00 p.m. in the Verizon Center. The SFS chamber chorus will sing both the U.S. and Canadian anthems. Other fan opportunities available for early arrivers include the Wizards fan tunnel and courtside seating during warmups, 12 students may stand with the players while the anthems are sung. To participate in these activities, you must be ready to enter the Verizon Center at the 601 F Street entrance at 5:15 p.m. Once inside, we&rsquo;ll gather at the T-shirt table near section 103 to organize for the early activities. T-shirts will be provided to all fans. https://groupmatics.events/SIDWELL

CALLING PERFORMERS & VOLUNTEERS FOR ARTRAGEOUS 2016!
Calling Student Performers and Parent Volunteers!
ArtRageous, our annual all-School, community-inclusive arts festival, will be held Sunday, January 31, at the Upper School Kogod Arts Center from 1:00 &ndash; 4:00 p.m. All are welcome! The theme of this year&rsquo;s ArtRageous is The Fabric of Art. 
Student performers (individuals and groups) are needed to sing, dance, play an instrument, act, read, juggle, and more!  To sign up to perform or to learn more, please contact the PA Arts Committee at [email-masked].
Parent volunteers are also needed (no experience necessary) to make this event a success. Volunteer for as little as one hour, and then enjoy the festivities. Please sign up to volunteer at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f49a8a72aa0f58-artrageous.

CALLING PERFORMERS & VOLUNTEERS - ARTRAGEOUS JAN 31
Calling Performers and Volunteers for Artrageous 2016!
ArtRageous is the annual all-School community arts festival. This inclusive event will take place Sunday, January 31 in the Kogod Arts Center on the Wisconsin Avenue campus, from 1:00 &ndash; 4:00 p.m. All are welcome! The theme of this year&rsquo;s ArtRageous is The Fabric of Art.
Student performers (individuals or groups) are needed to celebrate the arts at ArtRageous &ndash; all are invited to come sing, dance, play an instrument, act, read, juggle, and more! Parent volunteers are also needed (no experience necessary) to contribute their time to help make this event a success &ndash; please volunteer for as little as an hour and then enjoy the festivities.
To learn more, or to sign up to perform or volunteer, please e-mail the PA Arts Committee at [email-masked].

PARENTS OF BLACK STUDENTS HOLIDAY POTLUCK DEC 11
Please join the Parents of Black Students for our annual holiday gathering on Friday, December 11 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. Sidwell Friends School parents Yomi Alawode and Georgine Newman-Alawode have graciously volunteered to host this potluck gathering. 
Please take a moment to RSVP, using the Signup Genius link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0544aea823a0fe3-pbsannual. (You may need to copy this link and paste it into your Internet browser to access the Signup Genius.)

CANDLELIGHT MEETING FOR WORSHIP: DEC 22
Members of the SFS community are invited to the Bethesda Friends Meeting Annual Candlelight Meeting for Worship at the Lower School Quaker Meeting House on Tuesday, December 22, from 8:00-9:00 p.m. Friends have come to appreciate, in the midst of nonstop holiday activity and anxiety, this peaceful hour together. From infants to teens, all are most welcome. This is a refreshing way to celebrate the season! For details, contact BFM members Ralph Bryant at 301-657-3767 or Susie Crowley at 202-966-8980, or [email-masked].

							
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&ldquo;Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another up with a tender hand.&rdquo; &ndash; Isaac Penington, 1616-1679

                            
                                
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	Tue, Dec 8th 
		
				PA Arts Committee 
				
				Upper School Room 102
				7:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Wed, Dec 9th 
		
				US Swim and Dive Meeting 
				
				Rusch Team Room
				5:45pm - 6:15pm

				

		
				MS 7/8 Chorus & Orchestra Winter Concert 
				
				Caplin Theater
				7:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Fri, Dec 11th 
		
				US Art Show & Reception 
				
				Rubenstein Gallery
				5:30pm - 7:30pm

				

		
				PBS Holiday Potluck 
				
				Off Campus
				6:00pm - 9:00pm

				

		
				US Instrumental Winter Concert 
				
				Robert L. Smith Meeting Room
				7:30pm - 9:30pm

				

	Sat, Dec 12th 
		
				US Winter Dance 
				
				US Dining Room
				8:30pm - 10:30pm

				

	Sun, Dec 13th 
		
				US Winter Choral Concert 
				
				Robert L. Smith Meeting Room
				2:30pm - 4:30pm

				

	Tue, Dec 15th 
		
				GAMETIME! Wrestlng 
				
				Athletic Center Wrestling Room
				4:45pm - 6:30pm

				

	Wed, Dec 16th 
		
				US PA Steering Committee Meeting 
				
				Rusch Team Room
				8:00am - 9:30am

				

	Thu, Dec 17th 
		
				MS Meeting for Worship 
				
				Robert L. Smith Meeting Room
				8:00am - 8:45am

				

	Fri, Dec 18th 
		
				US Arts Guild 
				
				Robert L. Smith Meeting Room
				7:00pm - 9:00pm

				

	Mon, Dec 21st 
		
				Winter Break - School Closed 

				
				1/1/2016

				

	Tue, Dec 22nd 
		
				Candlelight Meeting for Worship  
				
				Lower School Quaker Meeting House
				8:00pm - 9:00pm

				

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									Athletics

									

                                                
												
	Tue, Dec 8th 
		
				Indoor Track - P.E. Class (Coed) - Georgetown Prep Practice Meet  

				4:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. St. Albans 

				4:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. St. Albans 

				6:00pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Meet with Maret & St. Stephen's/St. Agnes 

				7:30pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Meet with Maret & St. Stephen's/St. Agnes 

				7:30pm

				

	Thu, Dec 10th 
		
				Swimming - Boys 7/8 vs. St. Alban's Meet 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Swimming - Girls 7/8 vs. St. Alban's Meet 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Wrestling - Varsity at Georgetown Day 

				4:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity vs. Landon 

				4:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity vs. Landon 

				6:00pm

				

	Fri, Dec 11th 
		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity at National Cathedral School 

				4:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Freshman vs. Landon 

				4:00pm

				

		
				Indoor Track - P.E. Class (Coed) - Episcopal High School Early Bird Meet 

				4:00pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Boys Varsity vs. Open Dive Meet 

				4:00pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity vs. Open Dive Meet 

				4:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity at National Cathedral School 

				5:30pm

				

	Sat, Dec 12th 
		
				Wrestling - Varsity - Tri with SSSA & Wilson 

				10:00am

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity - Paul Charter School  

				12:00pm

				

	Mon, Dec 14th 
		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 A vs. Bullis 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 B at Bullis 

				2:45pm

				

	Tue, Dec 15th 
		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Holy Child 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at St. Andrew's School 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Swimming & Diving - Girls Varsity at Holton-Arms 

				4:30pm

				

		
				Wrestling - Varsity - Tri with St. Alban's & George Mason 

				4:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Holy Child 

				5:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity at St. Andrew's School 

				6:00pm

				

	Wed, Dec 16th 
		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 A at National Cathedral School 

				2:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. National Cathedral School 

				2:45pm

				

	Thu, Dec 17th 
		
				Basketball - Girls 7/8 B vs. Georgetown Day 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys 7/8 C vs. Georgetown Day 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Wrestling - 7/8 vs. Georgetown Day 

				2:30pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Junior Varsity vs. Stone Ridge School 

				4:00pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Junior Varsity at Georgetown Day 

				4:15pm

				

		
				Basketball - Girls Varsity vs. Stone Ridge School 

				5:45pm

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity at Georgetown Day 

				5:45pm

				

	Sat, Dec 19th 
		
				Wrestling - Varsity - SFS Invitational 

				9:00am

				

		
				Basketball - Boys Varsity - Chantilly 

				7:00pm

				

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