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SUNDAY LETTER February 19, 2017
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A MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
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Come Along and Help Preserve Our Very Own Blue Butterfly
Next Saturday sees our second opportunity for family and students to come along and learn about the endangered Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly and to begin to help it get reestablished right here next to our campus. From 9:00 a.m. to noon next Saturday, February 25, we will be working alongside the South Bay Audubon Society on our new piece of land. We will learn about the butterfly and its habitat, and begin to remove non-native plants and replace them with native deerweed and coastal sage scrub . . . also known as "butterfly food!" Service learning hours are available for students.
Last Tuesday, several students who are particularly passionate about conservation and horticulture, joined an Audubon Society representative with gardening tools in hand on their first venture into the preserve. After learning about the native plant life that is essential for the Palos Verdes Blue Buttery to thrive, the students started work on removing invasive plant species in order to begin reintroducing the deerweed and coastal sage scrub. The butterfly can lay dormant for over 25 years in their pupae form, and will likely start to reappear after all the rain we've had this winter.
See photographs of the students working
here.
We have been working for ten years to begin this project, so come on along and join in, and be prepared to gets hands dirty! We will meet in the parking lot at 9:00 a.m.
Peter McCormack
Head of School
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Tuesday, February 28
Bake Sale / Food Fundraiser | 5:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Quiz
Bowl | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Quiz Bowl Night sponsored by the History Department is a family fun trivia night on campus. All grades, faculty, staff and parents are welcome to participate and test their trivia knowledge. Space is limited to 20 teams of 6 players. We will have 8 categories with 5 questions each from a variety of categories. You must register by this Thursday, February 23 by filling out this form and returning them to Mrs. Hagee. Please contact Mrs. Hagee at khagee@rollinghillsprep.org with any questions.
Middle School Spelling Bee
Thursday, March 2 | 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Dr. Matthew Torrington Presentation: "How Your Brain Works and Why It Doesn't." The Neurology of Addiction.
Tuesday, March 7 | 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Join us for an insightful talk by Dr. Matthew Torrington who is a board certified family medicine physician with a specialty in addiction medicine, focusing on the individualized longitudinal disease management of addiction and pain issues. For almost 20 years, his practice has placed a distinct focus on helping individuals stabilize and build momentum biologically, psychologically, socially, spiritually and nutritionally. This presentation is aimed at educating families on the nature of addiction and why our brains are susceptible to addictive behaviors. This event is open to the entire community, so bring your friends and neighbors.
 Upper School Spring Musical: The Addams Family
THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story, and it's every father's nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren't upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his parents. Come meet the family. We'll leave the lights off for you.
Purchase Tickets Here.
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to view the full athletic schedule and stay up to date on this week's CIF Playoff schedule. Go Huskies!
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Senior Speech: Jay Shao
 One day I was the only one in my class who went home from school by myself because my parents were working on their export productions very late until 9 o'clock in the evening. They suddenly remembered that I was still in school. However, when they arrived to pick me up, the school was empty and they called the police to try to find me. Then they went back home and saw me sitting in front of the gate, asleep with saliva on my clothes. From that day forward, I was asked by my parents to walk home by myself.
Years later, I came to the United State and the experience of walking alone helped a lot. It helped me to make friends quickly and fit into American society. It also helped me calm myself down when I faced difficulties in school. Walking alone is becoming a part of my life.
Last Day to Vote for RHP or Ren as Best of the Beach 2017!
Today is the last day to vote for RHP or Ren as Easy Reader's BEST OF THE BEACH Private School! Last year, Rolling Hills Prep was voted as the BEST PRIVATE SCHOOL! We hope that you will vote again this year for Rolling Hills Prep or Renaissance School and help us get the word out to the community about our amazing schools!
It only takes a few minutes to cast your vote. Please note that you can only vote 1x per IP address.
PV Net Course: Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering
 Unmanned Aerial Systems technology has evolved into a sophisticated, highly-advanced and competitive area of technology with limitless applications. UAS's are not limited to recreational use. They are used for search and rescue, water management, accident reporting, military, topography mapping, artificial intelligence development, first responder information, and movie-making. This is a fully project-based class where students will build a UAS quadcopter from scratch and receive basic flight instruction from an FAA certified pilot and licensed drone expert.
Course Outline:
In this class, students will be introduced to and learn concepts and hands on applications in the areas of safety, electronics, mechanics, programming, radio control, fundamentals & physics of flight and basic understanding of the digital electronics used to control the craft as wells as gain actual hands on flight skills.
Instructor Don Wahlquist's Bio:
Don is a PVNet Manager of UAS and Robotics and has extensive mechanical and software engineering experience. He is also an FAA licensed aviator, UAS expert, as well as the President of the Soaring Union of Los Angeles.
Specifics:
1:15- 3:30 on Tuesdays, April 11- May 30th (8 total classes, 18 total hours)
1.5 credits
Open to MS and US Students, both RHP & Renaissance and South Bay Schools
Location: RHP Campus
Cost, including Quadcopter: $510.00
Auction Items Needed for the Totally Awesome Gala
Calling
ALL Huskies! We need your help procuring LIVE and Silent Auction items for this year's Totally Awesome Gala.
Ask your friends, family and/or community to support our schools.
Click here to find further instructions, suggested items, a solicitation letter and donor form. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Jill Notch at
jnotch@rollinghillsprep.org or, (310) 791-1101 x109. And don't forget to save the date!
Junior League of Long Beach's 12th Annual Kids in the Kitchen's Healthy Eating and Exercise Fair
NHS is sponsoring the Junior League of Long Beach's 12th Annual Kids in the Kitchen's Healthy Eating and Exercise Fair on Saturday, March 12th. Students can earn service hours for donating new sports equipment to the event to help kids lead an active lifestyle. We are looking for hula hoops, basketballs, baseballs and bats, jump ropes, frisbees, etc. For each $10 item donated students can earn one service hour. Up to 5 service hours available! Contact Emily Wratschko for more information at
ewratschko@rollinghillsprep.org
Student Organized Book and Teddy Bear Drive
We are asking for book donations to help local elementary schools without a library by building a small library for a few schools. We are looking for any kid friendly k-5 gently used and new books. There will be box in the office with a sheet. The advisory with the most donations will get a pizza party donated by the Akahiji family.
In addition, we want to help the
many kids in foster care who constantly move from place to place and possibly losing things along the way. We are asking for teddy bear donations of all shapes and sizes to give to children as they go through the final process of adoption. There will be another box in the office with a sheet. The advisory with the most donations will get an ice cream party donated by the Whitfield family.
The deadline for both these donations is Friday, March 10.
Student Volunteers Needed for Annual Directory Delivery
Pam Van Alstyne from Community Helpline invites RHP students to join us for the Annual Directory Delivery taking place on
Saturday, March 4, 2017
. Students will earn Community service hours for helping deliver the books to 25,000 homes on the Peninsula. Each route takes 2-4 hours. Parents are encouraged to drive a "route" if possible. The delivery is the largest fundraiser for Community Helpline and PV Hills Nursery School, both non-profits.
We thank
your students, teachers, and faculty who have volunteered in the past
. Click here to view the flyer for more information.
Calling all early birds: We are so excited to be hosting Galileo and their messy, bold, and all-around awesome innovation camps at our campus again this summer! Sign up now (by February 28th) for Camp Galileo or Galileo Summer Quest and save $25 on every week of gritty, glorious camp. Learn more:
www.galileo-camps.com/earlybird.
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Students woke up early last Saturday morning to pack 5000 meals at the LA Food Bank for hungry families.
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Student Council met this week to recap the Winter Formal and plan for upcoming activities like Pi Day.
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It was Random Act of Kindness Week this week and campus was bustling with daily activities from making new friends, to treating others, and group hugs.
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Students entered the Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly Preserve this week to remove invasive plant species and plant the butterfly's favorite food - Deerweed and Coastal Sage Scrub.
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