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THIS WEEK AT BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL
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January 20, 2017
SAVE THE DATES:
DAMN YANKEES, February 10 (7PM) and February 11 (2:30PM and 7PM).
SENIOR TRIP TO DC: February 15 and 16
STATE CHAMPION FOOTBALL RINGS: February 22 (11AM)
PARENT WEEKEND: March 31 and April 1
OUR NEW BLOG: We launched the new Blue Ridge School blog on Monday, January 16, with posts from teachers, parents and students. I'd like to post an article about why our parents have chosen to send their sons to a boarding school to dispel unfortunate myths that are out there. I'm currently looking for comments/questions you may have received from people who don't understand your decision and how you've responded.
TWITTER IN THE CLASSROOM: Since English teacher Dan Dunsmore recently began to follow author T.C. Boyle on Twitter, he's learned that the talented writer really enjoys communicating with his fans in this way. The sophomores read
The Human Fly and Other Stories, a collection of short stories by the author, this past summer. T. C., as he prefers to be called, agreed to dedicate an hour of Tweeting to questions that have been asked by a number of Dan's sophomore English students. On Thursday night, January 19, the sophomores gathered in Dan's classroom where he projected T. C.'s Twitter feed on the white board. Pete Bonds is using Twitter in his history classroom, too. (The School's own Twitter account began six years ago by Ms. Terry Benshoff and has an active following.) For more on this story, click
here.
ATHLETICS:
Congratulations to the Baron basketball team (formerly known as the Squires) on their fourth straight victory on Wednesday night, January 18. The team beat Tandem Friends 33-28! Both the JV and Varsity teams beat Carlisle last Friday, January 13. The Varsity team then traveled to Christ School in North Carolina on Saturday, January 14, where they won 60-58. Varsity also beat Hargrave Military Academy on Tuesday, January 17, 51-43. Both the JV and Varsity basketball teams play at Miller School tonight. On February 22, the State Champion Football team will receive their rings at 11AM in an all-school assembly.
COLLEGE COUNSELING:
Parents of seniors, remember to contact Nick Patnaude if you or your son receives a letter from a school requesting additional materials. Also remember to update your FAFSA applications as your son adds or subtracts schools from his college application list.
Parents of juniors, please start signing up your sons for the April 8th ACT and the May 6th SAT. Contact Nick if you need help with that. You should select Blue Ridge School as your son's test center in both cases.
COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES: Congratulations to the following seniors for their recent college acceptances - Connor Coleman, Tusculum College; Bryce Bongiovanni,
Valdosta State University;
and Marcus Valeiras, Thomas College.
