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PRINCIPAL'S UPDATE
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January 15, 2017
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Thank you Link Crew for supporting freshmen with Cocoa, Cookies, and Cram
Thank you PLUS for Yellow Ribbon Week and a focus on "Balance"
Thank you PLUS for those great Krispy Kreme donuts
Thank you Learning Center staff for extra student support
Thank you National Honor Society members for tutoring students at lunch
Thank you amazing faculty for all you do to support students each day
Thank you Nia, our Panther therapy dog, for keeping us all calm
Panthers are well-prepared and ready to rock those finals!
Monday, January 16
Holiday
Tuesday, January 17
0 Period Final: 7:00 -9:00
Period 1: 9:06 - 9:51
Period 2: 9:57 - 10:46
Period 3: 10:52 - 11:37
Period 4: 11:43 - 12:28
Lunch: 12:28 - 1:03
Period 5: 1:09 - 1:54
Period 6: 2:00 - 2:45
Wednesday, January 18
Period 1 Final: 8:00 - 9:58
Nutrition Break: 9:58 - 10:13
Period 2 Final: 10:18 - 12:16
Thursday, January 19
Period 3 Final: 8:00 - 9:58
Nutrition Break: 9:58 - 10:13
Period 4 Final: 10:18 - 12:16
Friday, January 20
Period 5 Final: 8:00 - 9:58
Nutrition Break: 9:58 - 10:13
Period 6 Final: 10:18 - 12:16
GOOD LUCK ON FINALS!
 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY - JANUARY 16, 2017
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. We commemorate as well the timeless values he taught us through his example - the values of courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service that so radiantly defined Dr. King's character and empowered his leadership. On this holiday, we commemorate the universal, unconditional love, forgiveness and nonviolence that empowered his revolutionary spirit." - Coretta Scott King
I applaud the many Peninsula families who will spend Martin Luther King Day giving back and serving the community. Please consider spending your day giving to others in honor of Dr. King's legacy.
"The MLK Day of Service empowers individuals, strengthens communities, bridges barriers, creates solutions to social problems, and moves us closer to Dr. King's vision of a beloved community."
- Corporation of National and Community Service
"If you want to be important, wonderful. If you want to be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Throughout today's update, I will be sharing some of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King!
BLACK HISTORY MONTH ESSAY CONTEST
Peninsula High students have been invited to participate in the inaugural Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely essay contest in honor of Black History Month, which we will celebrate in February. This is an exciting opportunity for our students to celebrate the life of VADM Gravely, a great "Man of Many Firsts". A flyer is at the end of this update and more information can be found online here.
PVPHS ARTS GALA - FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017
Please join us for an evening of visual and performing arts presented by over 200 student artists on Friday, January 27, 2017 in the Kelly Johnson Fieldhouse. All of our talented and award winning arts groups will be represented to share their talents and inspirations with our school and surrounding community. We hope you join us!
Thank you to Hallie King for designing the flyer
 HARBOR COLLEGE COURSES AT PENINSULA HIGH THIS SPRING
Peninsula High continues to serve as a satellite campus for Harbor College.
Juniors and seniors can enroll in free classes and earn college credit.
These courses are taught by Peninsula High teachers.
Film Appreciation is taught by Dr. Coleman and Sociology is taught by Mr. Wheeler.
Application forms are available in the Counseling Office, H15 and H64.
Turn in forms to Dr. Coleman (H15) or Mr. Wheeler (H64) by January 19.
You do not need to go to Harbor College to sign up.
HUM 17 M,W 3:15 - 4:50 PVPHS - Room H15 Starts February 6
SOC 001 TU,TH 3:15- 4:50 PVPHS- Room H64 Starts February 7
WALK FOR LIFE SPONSORS
We would love to have your name or logo on the back of our Walk for Life t-shirt as a sponsor! A minimum $150 donation by the February 2 deadline is all it takes! Download the
Walk for Life Sponsor Form today or find it under Panther Picks on our school website.
WINTER FORMAL IS COMING
This year's incredible Winter Formal is Saturday, February 4th at the Natural History Museum! The theme is "A Land Before Time: Prehistoric Elegance." Tickets are $95 with ASB and $100 without ASB (Prices will go up $5 after January 27) . All students must turn in a Contract/Transportation Form at the time the tickets are purchased; this document must be signed by students' parents/guardians, and will state whether the student will be taking the school-chaperoned chartered bus (only $15!), or whether the parents will be taking responsibility for their son or daughters' transportation. Please download the Contract/Transportation Form from our school website, pvphs.com, under 'Panther Picks'.
PALOS VERDES LIBRARY DISTRICT "ONE BOOK ONE PENINSULA"
The community is invited to the 8th Annual One Book One Peninsula at the South Coast Botanic Garden to meet this year's author, Natalie Baszile. She will be discussing her novel Queen Sugar, a mother-daughter story of reinvention, about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. The novel was adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay, of "Selma" fame, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN, Oprah's television network. For more information, call 310 377-9584 or visit pvld.org/onebook
CHINESE LANGUAGE CLASSES PREPARING FOR THE NEW YEAR
Chinese New Year is approaching. One Chinese cultural practice before the Chinese New Year is to write spring couplets (
春联
). Chinese people express happiness and hopeful thoughts for the coming year by decorating spring couplets. Thank you to Mrs. Shirley Ho who brought red paper for students to write spring couplets and taught students how to write Chinese calligraphy. All students enrolled in our Chinese language program had the opportunity to write Chinese characters on the special red paper. Students will ask teachers at Pen High to put these spring couplets on their door or window
. Pen High looks forward to celebrating the Chinese New Year January 30 at lunch. The community is invited to join in the celebration, but we do ask that you sign in at the Main Office before you come on campus.
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Chinese Language Students
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PREPARING FOR WASC 2018
During the Late Start Faculty Meeting on January 11, faculty, staff, parents, and students met in WASC Focus Groups that are led by members of School Site Council. The work of each Focus Group is organized around five categories of criteria with emphasis upon the identified critical student learning needs and related schoolwide learner outcomes.
The five criteria categories are:
A: Organization: Vision and Purpose, Governance, Leadership, Staff, and Resources
B: Standards-based Student Learning: Curriculum
C: Standards-based Student Learning: Instruction
D: Standards-based Student Learning: Assessment and Accountability
E: School Culture and Support for Student Personal and Academic Growth
Focus Groups meet throughout the school year, as well as Home Groups (Departments), and School Site Council to develop and plan for the WASC 2018 report and visit by the visiting committee.
Thank you to PVPHS stakeholders for your continued support!
Our previous WASC reports are available here on our school website.
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PEN Community Working on WASC
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AP SEMINAR COURSE DEVELOPMENT
On Tuesday, January 10, sixteen Peninsula High Staff faculty members gathered in the Community Room and spent the entire day developing the curriculum for the new AP Seminar class that will be offered in the fall. Information on this new course will be shared at the February Course Information Fair.
Faculty Developing the AP Seminar Curriculum
NASU TOY DRIVE RESULTS
The student members of the Native American Student Union (NASU) club collected nearly 1000 toys last month as part of the Toys for Tots Native American program. Thanks to the generosity of the Peninsula, Ridgecrest, and Soleado communities, as well as Hyland's Corporation, hundreds of underprivileged children living on the San Carlos Apache and White Mountain Apache reservations in Arizona had a brighter holiday. Thank you to everyone that donated and/or participated and helped spread holiday cheer.
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NASU members Sean Lee, Joe Meyers and Jack Smith
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT UPDATE
The Jazz Band continues to be busy performing. Last week they performed at RIS, and they are scheduled to perform during lunch periods at MIS on January 24 and PVIS on January 31.
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| Pen Jazz Band Performance at RIS |
The after school enrichment program, Music Madness, will begin Monday, January 23rd. and continue until May.
Advanced Jazz Band will perform for the 8th Grade Open House on Thursday, January 26th.
On Friday evening, January 27th all Music Department groups will be performing at the Fine Arts Gala in the Fieldhouse.
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Thank you Mrs. Lipton for updating
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PHYSICS IS FUN
I hope you enjoy this
fun video created by Mr. Greenberg's Physics students
J
ONES ENVIRONMENT VISITS PEN HIGH
Jones Environmental came to Peninsula High to talk to Mr. Snodgrass' chemistry honors students about the field of environmental chemistry, possible internships, and the value of the under-represented workforce, such as women and minorities in science-related jobs. The students enjoyed learning about job responsibilities such as testing contaminates in soil and air samples.
Jones Environmental generously donated three hot plates and twelve graduated cylinders which will help provide students more equipment needed to perform chemistry labs.
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ROBOTICS COMPETITION SEASON BEGINS
The 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition Season Kick Off
Strategizing begins as the 2017 Game is Revealed
I. The 2017 Game is Revealed
On Saturday and Sunday afternoon, January 7-8, 2017, PVPHS Robotics FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 2637 began their 2017 Season Kick off. Each Robotics season starts off with the big game reveal. Teams all over the world have been awaiting this moment. At 7:00 AM PST, on January 7th, 2017, the video animation of the game was streamed live. The animation provides the game premise, scoring, and game field configuration. Excitement filled the Robotics Rooms (T-102 and T-103) as our team discovered what will surely occupy their hearts and minds for the next 6 weeks: STEAMworks, the game their robot must excel at in order to advance to the coveted National Championships!
Yep, you read that right! 6 weeks is the time that each team has to build a competitive robot for this year's game. To appreciate the task ahead of our robotics team, this next 6 weeks, here is the 2017 game animation video (click on the picture to watch):
II. Our PVPHS Students Begin their 6-week Build Season
Kick Off Day 1, January 7th:
The Robotics team approached this year's game with a new tactic based on lessons learned over prior years. They spent their pre-season learning and developing their skills in industry standard practices for systems engineering and are applying these to this year's game. Strategy discussions were preceded with thorough scoring and game rules analysis sessions. Small groups of 5 team members + 1 group facilitator developed their strategy based on the scoring analysis. Each group then presented their strategy with projected scoring based on their strategy. Spencer Gray- Team Captain, Aaron Lum-Vice President, Artie Levine-Rules, Strategy, and Drive Lead, and our mentors, did an amazing job facilitating the sessions and keeping the team focused on the strategy session goals. A strategy evaluation criterion (developed by our Rules, Strategy, and Drive Lead, Artie Levine) was utilized to evaluate each strategy presented. By the end of the 12-hour day, the team had refined the strategy choices to the 2 best. While strategy sessions convened, several of our build team members reviewed the game field specifications and began building key game components. These components will provide for accurate prototype testing and will allow the drive team to practice their driving/strategy skills with the final robot.
Kick Off Day 2, January 8th:
Day 2 was dedicated to building the game field pieces, creating the systems requirements document based on the selected strategy, and then beginning the design process. Small groups of team members were instructed to come up with a robot design that
met all the systems requirements and then present their designs to the team. Each submitted design was critiqued and questions were fielded to refine understanding and feasibility.
III. Game Overview
FIRST® STEAMWORKSSM, the 2017 FIRST® Robotics Competition game, invites two adventurers' clubs, in an era where steam power reigns, to prepare their airships for a long distance race.
Each three-team alliance prepares in three ways:
1. Build steam pressure. Robots collect fuel (balls) and store it in their boiler via high and low efficiency goals. Boilers turn fuel into steam pressure which is stored in the steam tank on their airship - but it takes more fuel in the low efficiency goal to build steam than the high efficiency goal.
2. Start rotors. Robots deliver gears to pilots on their airship for installation. Once the gear train is complete, they turn the crank to start the rotor.
3. Prepare for flight. Robots must latch on to their airship before launch (the end of the match) by ascending their ropes to signal that they're ready for takeoff.
The Game Field:
Our Impressive Team of Engineers who attended the Kick Off
All sub-teams were represented: Systems Engineering Team, CAD Team, Build Team, Electronics Team, Programming Team, Scouting Team, and Business Team
A very special "Thank you!" to all our mentors and volunteers who provide countless hours of volunteer time mentoring our students:
Mrs. Monica Rudder (Team Coach), Mr. Clark Rudder, Mr. Allen Boothe, Mrs. Paula Boothe, Mr. Walter Chung, Mr. Mike Hashiro, Mrs. Carol Hashiro, Mr. Jim Lee, Mr. Kip Louttit, Mr. Bert Schluper, Mr. William Sheh, Mrs. Sherry Tateyama, Mr. Roger Valeri, Mrs. Joan Yazejian
Thank you to all the team members, mentors, parents, and volunteers who attended the kick off. You are all vital to the success of our team!
Important Season Dates:
San Diego, CA, Regional, Del Mar Arena: March 8 - March 11, 2017
Las Vegas, NV, Regional, Cashman Center: April 5 - April 8, 2017
Houston, TX, National Championship: April 19 - April 22, 2017
Go PVPHS Phantom Catz, FRC Team 2637!
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Our major fundraiser, A Black & Gold Affaire, is just around the corner!
You can help our athletes and our school in so many ways:
* Family Sponsorships - contact Julia Parton Rosas at [email protected] for more information. Sponsorship opportunities start at only $100! Download the Sponsor Form now. Become a sponsor today!
* Advertise your athlete in the Black & Gold Affaire Program! Example ad layouts and more information can be found here. Email your finished page, photos or questions to
[email protected]
by Friday, February 27, 2017. Please make check for $50 payable to "PVPHS ABC" and mail to Judy Lee, 17 Via Costa Verde, RPV, 90275
* We need your photos for the all sports media show to be shown at the Black & Gold Affaire. Please visit the ABC website and click on "Black and Gold" to upload your photos by Friday, March 10, 2017!
A Big THANK YOU to these families who have already signed up as
Black & Gold Affaire Event Sponsors
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All-Star $2500-$4999
The Syal Family
Varsity $1000-$2499
Wendell & Lori Hamamoto
Steve & MaryBeth Kane
Bo & Jennifer Kelly
Frank & Marta Merola
Marc & Jolene Meskin
The Milch Family
Kuni & Candi Takeda
Richard & Liz Umbrell
Junior Varsity $600-$999
Robert & Martha Zane
Frosh/Soph $300-$599
George Cashman
Ferdows Family
William & Elaine Jow
Steve & Romy Martz
John & Tina Quinn
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Panther Patron $100-$299
Louie & Marcella Bozanich
Chris & Christine Collins
Ciro & Elisa Fidaleo
Chris & Nicole Graves
Ken & Tomoko Hatae
JJ & Michelle Jongkind
Eric & Janet Louie
Prakash & Kathy Mansukhani
Jill Masuda
Yogi & Tiffany Matharu
Linda Shu
Mark & Debbie Simpkins
The Suppelsa Family
Judy Law Torok
Bin Cao & S. Wang Family
Michael & Meagan Webb
Friends
John & Jean Baskovich
Liz Gibson
Eugene Lee
Lucas Family
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Next ABC Meeting:
February 1, 7:00-8:30 pm Athletic Booster Club Meeting! Community Room, S22. Please join us to hear what is happening in the world of Pen High Athletics!
MAKE A DIFFERENCE - JOIN THE ABC TODAY! It's easy to join, visit
www.pvphsabc.com
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If you missed this week's Sports Update
PANTHER FOOTBALL PLAYERS HONORED
Three Panther Football players were invited to attend the Daily Breeze All Area Luncheon
hosted by the South Bay Athletic Club. The recipients of the awards were chosen by the Daily Breeze Sports writers.
Athletes from all over the South Bay, both CIF and City were represented. Our boys were selected on the 2nd team. The luncheon was last Wednesday at the Torrance Double Tree Hotel. These boys were the first Peninsula Football players to be named All Area since Rory Hubbard three years ago.
Our honorees were also invited to play in the Lions All Star Game. Thank you to Coach Young, his staff, and our amazing players for "Restoring the Roar."
Marco Merola 2nd Team Linebacker - Senior
Jefferey Jimena 2nd Team Running Back - Senior
Zack Denney 2nd Team Offensive Line - Sophomore
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Zach, Marco, and Jeffrey, with Coach Young on the Right
Thank you to the Watts Family for once again sponsoring Supershot at halftime during our Boys' Basketball Games.
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1992 GIRLS' NATIONAL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS RETURN TO PEN
Don't miss this Friday's (January 20) Girls' Basketball game vs.
Redondo Union. Besides watching our incredible players, the team members from the 1992 National Championship Girls' Basketball Team are planning a 25 year reunion to celebrate their championship. The members able to attend will be introduced at halftime of the girls' game. The girls' game starts at 6pm. There will be other former players from other years in attendance as well. There will also be a luncheon the following day. More info to come.
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DR. GINSBURG COMES TO THE PENINSULA
Parent University will be hosting a must see parent evening presentation, Coping With Life While Being a Positive Bystander by Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg. Dr. Ginsburg is an expert in the field of building resilience in children and teens. He is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine. He is a best-selling author of "Building Resilience in Children and Teens", "Raising Kids to Thrive" and "Less Stress, More Success" just to name a few.
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Thank you to Link Crew for sponsoring
Cocoa, Cookies and Cram for our freshmen
YELLOW RIBBON WEEK
This year's Yellow Ribbon Week, run by the PLUS team, was a resounding success! We focused on promoting balance in the lives of Peninsula students through physical, mental, and social exercises. Throughout the week people signed pledges to keep a healthy balance in their lives. From pogo sticks to donut holes to riddles scattered around campus, the PLUS team reminds everyone to keep balance in their lives and schedules as we enter finals week. A big thanks to dogs Nia and Oliver for being on campus to de-stress students! Remember to also bring your raffle tickets from Tuesday to school this Tuesday for a chance to win a Habit gift card!
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Thank you to PLUS for a very successful Yellow Ribbon Week despite the rain.
We all learned to become a little more balanced in our lives.
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Junior Students and Parents:
Please mark your calendars for Junior Parent Night Wednesday, January 25th at 6:30pm in the GYM.
Sophomore Parents:
Please mark your calendars for the Sophomore Counseling Presentation on either Wednesday February 1, 2017 at 6PM (Locations TBA) or Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 7:30AM in the Gym.
SoCal Roc is now enrolling for the Spring semester
Classes begin Monday, February 6th. Sign up in the Counseling Office to speak with a SCROC advisor and pick up an application. SoCal Roc is FREE for Pen students and transportation is provided. Check out the link for Course Offerings
Course Offerings
Accessing Spring 2017 Schedules on Aeries
Students will be able to view their Spring semester classes in Aeries beginning on
Tuesday, January 17
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Hard copy schedules will not be distributed
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Log into Aeries and select "Classes" under the
Student Info
drop down menu. Flyers will be available in the Counseling and Attendance Offices for students who need assistance with accessing their class schedules in Aeries.
Please see Mrs. Juge or Mrs. Fuh in the Counseling Office if you have any questions.
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Follow Pen High on the following official sites
@CressPenhi
@pvphsasb
@pvphszoo
@pvphs_panthers
@pvphs_athletics
Have a great week!
Mitzi Cress
Principal
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