PIRATES SPYGLASS

PPS Team - 1st at District Mathcounts Competition Phillips Preparatory School placed first in the team round at the annual District MATHCOUNTS Competition February 9, 2013. Bayside Academy placed second, and Clark-Shaw placed third. The Top Ten individuals included Phillips Preparatory high scorers: Aaron Zheng (1st), Kimberly Chieh (2nd), Alexandra Atchison (4th), Anna Woods (5th), Seth Henshon (6th), and Lilly Gulledge (8th). Kimberly Chieh from Phillips also took first place honors in the Individual Countdown Round.

Front Row: Nathan Lunsford, Aaron Zheng, Kimberly Chieh, Rupa Palanki, Alexandra Atchison

Back Row: Lily Gulledge, Anna Wood, Andy Lin, Matthew Buker, Nandita Dey, Seth Henshon

PTSA News

SPRING FLING 2013

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

WELCOME TO PIRATE’S BEACH!!!

Armbands: Sold from Thursday, March 28th – Tuesday, April 2nd

$25.00 includes

LUNCH W/DRINK

WATER, SNACK,T-SHIRT, PHOTO

UNLIMITED ACCESS TO

GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

Send back the form your child brought home

OR

Download the form from the PPS website.

There are plenty of ways you can volunteer for this fun event!

We need your time and talents. Please feel free to email us at

phillipspta@yahoo.com with any suggestions. More information will

be released soon!

As a side note, PTSA is very grateful for all volunteers

on this fun day, but this event is for current PPS STUDENTS only.

Please make other arrangements for younger siblings when

volunteering.

Are you looking for a way to get involved at PPS? Our PTSA coordinates volunteers to help our staff and teachers at Phillips Prep. One area staffed by parent and grandparent volunteers is our first aid room. Coverage is needed for two shifts a day Monday – Friday. First shift is 8-11 am and second shift is 11-2. No experience is necessary to volunteer. If you want to try it out we offer a ‘SHADOW SHIFT’ with another volunteer. It provides information and hands on experience. Please contact our volunteer coordinator, Mrs. Angela Stauter at angelastauter@comcast.net or check out www.phillipsprep.com/ptsa webpage for our PTSA email address.

Do you have a favorite recipe that isn’t a family secret? Would you share it with us please? The PTSA is planning a cookbook and continues to collect interesting and tasty recipes. Please send your recipes to our email at phillipspta@yahoo.com

STUDENT OF THE MONTH

Congratulations to Ansley Chaplin, 8th Grade Student of the Month!

PTSA Officers It is time once again to elect officers for the 2013-2014 PTSA Board! Board

positions and very brief description of duties include:

President - Preside at all meetings of Phillips Preparatory School PTSA; Serve as an ex officio member of all committees; Coordinate the work of the officers and committees of this local PTA.

VP Programs - Plan and prepare all programs offered by the PTSA; New Parent Forum; Take your Family to School and any other program sponsored by the PTSA VP Volunteers – Coordinate parent volunteers. Main responsibilities include first aid room and Spring Fling

VP Ways and Means – Coordinate all PTSA Fundraiser Programs. Oversee PTSA fundraising events.

VP Communications – Facilitate communication between Phillips administration, teachers, parents and family members. Provide PTSA information for the monthly newsletter as well as advertising of PTSA events.

VP Hospitality – Coordinate Partners in Education luncheon; Duty Free Lunches and Teacher Appreciation.

Treasurer - Have custody of the funds of the Phillips Preparatory School PTSA; Maintain a full account of the funds; Make disbursements as authorized; keep a full and accurate account of the receipts and disbursements. Provide a written financial statement to the board of directors at each meeting; Present an annual report of the financial condition of the organization.

Secretary - Record the minutes of all meetings of the Phillips Preparatory School PTSA; Be prepared to read the records of any previous meetings; File all records.

Membership Chair – Collect fall memberships; Report membership records to local, State and National PTA; Maintains all memberships rewards at the local and state PTA. If you are interested in serving, contact Michelle Dickens at phillipspta@yahoo.com

Partner in Spotlight The Crichton Optimist Club "Friend of Youth," was formed in 1953, and since that time has made

the lives of many thousands of young people better in dozens of ways. A non-profit civic club, non-

political, it is an affiliate of Optimist International, with the purpose of being "Friend of Youth" One

of the programs the Crichton Optimist Club facilitates is the Football Player of the Week. Since

1956, the Crichton Optimist has honored local high school players of the week in Offensive,

Defensive and Special Teams Categories. The season ends with a banquet honoring Academic stars,

Offensive, Defensive, Special Teams, and Coach and Team of the Year for our local high school

teams. We are so proud of these young men, and where their careers took them on life's journey.

The Crichton Optimist also holds a watermelon cutting at a local Boys & Girls Club in the month of

July. We have been a long-time supporter of the Adopt-a-School program, with Phillips Preparatory

being our last adopted school when Woodcock Elementary was closed. We are proud to honor the

Student of the Month at a luncheon and the 6th Grade Citizen of the Year during Honors Day. This

club also honors the Deputy and Corrections Officer of the Month of the Mobile County Sheriff's

Department with a luncheon each month. This is just a bit of what this group of local Mobile

business men and women has contributed over the past 57 years. We are fortunate to have current

club members with over 50 years of service to the Crichton Optimist Club of Mobile. The main

fundraiser for the Crichton Optimist is a Spring Festival & Silent Auction. The 2013 event will be

held April 26, St. Dominic's Parish Hall, Tickets are $50 for Dinner for 2 and chance of $5,000

drawing. Please call Cindy Campbell, Club President at 422-7740 for more details. Meetings are

held each Wednesday, Noon, at Admiral Semmes Hotel, Cove Room. We invite anyone interested to

please come by, have lunch, enjoy the program speaker, and find the OPTIMIST in you!!

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK Dear Parents, Please join the Phillips Prep PTSA in honoring our teachers May 13th -17th during Teacher Appreciation Week. This is a week where we shower our teachers with nice meals, snacks, and tokens of our appreciation. They have a huge impact on our children and we want to say thanks. How can you help?

1. Monday, May 13th (drop off in the morning) - Snack Day: Send in your favorite sweet or salty treat/snack for our teachers to enjoy.

2. Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday Send in door prizes. We will distribute them

during the luncheon. Suggestions include gift cards in $5 increments from Target, Starbucks, Cold Snap, Office Depot, or your favorite place. Candles and lotions also make great gifts. Please keep each item donated or each gift card at a $5 value each.

3. Wednesday, May 15th at 10 a.m. - We will host our luncheon. We need paper

products, cups, drinks, utensils, desserts, and your favorite side dish. Drop off at morning carpool or anytime before 10:00. Please e-mail me if you are able to send in something.

4. Friday, May 17th at 7 am. - We will provide breakfast. Please send in a

breakfast casserole, cheese grits, donuts, muffins, orange juice or your favorite breakfast item.

I hope you will be a part of this great week! Help us show our teachers how much we appreciate all they do for our children throughout the year. For planning purposes, let me know what dish and/or items you plan to send. If you are interested in helping on any of these days at the school, please let me know as well. Thank you for your time and effort. Nicole Larriviere 463-5036 nicoleonthebay@yahoo.com

Friday, March 15, 2013

Phillips was well represented by 61 outstanding students at this year’s Mobile Regional Science

Fair! We would like to congratulate the following students for their hard work and

accomplishments:

Botany

3rd place Maggie Foster

2nd place Davina Ho

Chemistry

2nd place Rohan Badve

1st place Abbie Williams

Earth and Space Science

1st place Lucy Zhu

Engineering

1st place Lauren Danzey

Math and Computers

2nd place Nikolas Pham

Medicine and Health

2nd place Allan Zhu

Physics

1st place John Smiley

The Phillips Preparatory School Band recently participated in Mobile County Honor Band auditions.

For this event, students had to perform six scales from memory, two prepared pieces, and a piece of

sight-reading. They competed against all of the other middle schools in Mobile County. We are

pleased to announce that for ten years in a row, PPS has had more kids than any other school make

the Mobile County Honor Band! A total of 90 students from Phillips made it.

The people who made Honor Band are divided into three bands. The Red Band has the top scores, the

White Band has the next set of scores below that, and the rest of the students who make it, go to the

Blue Band. The majority of the people who try out do not make it at all, so it is truly an honor to be

included in any of the three bands!

Phillips students make up 22% of the Blue Band, 39% of the White Band, and a whopping 44% of the

top band (Red)!!! That means that 34% of the students who made the Honor Band this year are from

Phillips! Way to go, band students! We are so proud of you.

We also had 8 students from our school earn 1st chair in the county on their instrument.

Flute: Josselyn Vierya

Clarinet: Anna Wood

Bass Clarinet: Asia Hope

French Horn: Lauren Danzey

Trombone: Stephen Wood

Euphonium: Nathan Lunsford

Mallets: Austin Lowery

Timpani: Ryan Bailey

We had a total of 90 students make it this year! Congratulations to all of you and thank you so much

for doing such an outstanding job of representing our school.

The students who made it participated in Mobile County Honor Band rehearsals and concert. The

rehearsals were during the school day on March 25 & 26 at Baker and the concert was at the Mitchell

Center on the 26th. Way to go, band!

Regional Science Fair Contestants

6th Grade Emmanuel Gapud Molly Smith Alyssa Rutkoski Alan Zhu Joe Fields Wyatt Capes Jakob Johnston Victoria Purdy 7th Grade Ryan Bailey Alexandra Atchison Sydney Eiland Jennifer Mulholland Alicia Bracken Alana Foster Tanvi Bhadkamkar Nicole Ghobar Brianna Harris India Prather Sage Turner Avinash Anshumali Rohan Badve AnnaKate Burleson Lauren Danzey Nandita Dey Maggie Foster Bailey Harper Zachary Harrelson Jeetesh Kunche Nicolas Larriviere Zistine Mones Aliyah Odom

Brianna Peal Maitland Thull 8th Grade Emma Bearden Andres Morales Lucy Zhu Emma Joseph Allie Shepler Summer Hinton Tara Summer Sophie Herrington Ivy Singthong Wendy Mateo Eva Curran Will Sherman John Smiley Ansley Chaplin Makenzie McLendon Emily Phillips Sophie Mikkelsen Davina Ho Caitlyn Latiolas Alex Jacobs Bethany Gorum Avery Alexander Trevin Brooks Andrew Harris Rupa Palanki Lauren Sibley Clayton Spaulding Abbie Williams Annsley Zimlich

Attention 8th Grade Parents:

This year is flying by with graduation quickly approaching. To celebrate your 8th grader’s

graduation we are planning a special honors program and end of the year celebration. This is

where we need your help with the two projects below.

Project #1 Baby Pictures

We would like to showcase each student during the honors program with a baby or very young

picture of them (before elementary school) that captures their personality. The video looks

best if some of these pictures are candids and not all yearly school portraits. Please label the

back of each picture with your child’s name (lastname, firstname).

Project #2 Memory Pictures

We would like to compile an 8th grade memory video for the students. Watching the video

together at the end of the school year is a real treat. Your help is needed to ensure everyone is

adequately represented in the video. We need your pictures! You can submit group or

individual photos, but please make sure all the students in the picture are PPS students.

Pictures can come from their 6th, 7th, or 8th grade years. Again, candid pictures are

recommended. Please label the back of each picture with your child’s name (lastname,

firstname).

Ways to Submit Pictures

Digital submission (preferred) – email the pictures to: ppsvirtuallibrary@gmail.com as

an attached jpeg file. Make sure the pictures are saved with the highest available quality

and labeled with your child’s name (lastname, firstname).

Regular submission – label the back of each picture, place all pictures in the provided

manila envelope (will be sent home this week), and turn in the envelope to your

language arts teacher or the library. All photos will be returned after usage.

ALL PHOTOS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN APRIL 12TH. PLEAE HELP YOUR CHILD TO

BE INCLUDED IN THE MEMORIES.

April

2 8th grade class picture (8th graders should wear survivor shirts to school) Partners in Education luncheon 12-2pm 3 National Junior Honor Society induction 1-2pm

Seniors’ Reunion 3-5pm 4 Orthodontic Screening by Dr. Bennett 12:30-2pm 4-10 Volleyball Tryouts 5-7 State Science Fair 5 Donut Sale (8th grade project to benefit CAC) 8 8th grade pre-registration for Murphy 8am, Blount and B.C. Rain 12:45pm 9 Honor Roll Celebration 8th grade pre-registration for Davidson 8am 10 S.W.A.T. to E.R. Dickson French to Saenger Theater 8-2pm 8th grade pre-registration for Baker 8am 12 8th grade Social 7-10pm 15 8th grade pre-registration for LeFlore 8am Box Tops Krispy Kreme Party 2-2:30pm Perfect Attendance Celebration 16 Progress Reports Chorus Concert 7-8:30pm 17 8th grade pre-registration for Citronelle 10am Chorus School Performances 17-19 All State Band to Huntsville 18 Spring Fling 19 Student Teacher Basketball Game 1:30pm 19-23 French to New York 22-24 Band to Disney 22-26 Spring Break 30 Donut Sale (8th grade project to benefit CAC) Athletic Banquet May 2-3 Jewelry Sale (8th grade project to benefit CAC) 3-5 French to New Orleans 6-7 ARMT Reading Test 8-9 ARMT Math Test Drama Performance 1-2pm 10 ARMT Science Algebra I Test 13 ARMT Makeup 13-17 Teacher Appreciation Week 14 Band Awards Party 3-5p

16 8th grade Honors Practice 11am 17 Yearbook Party 1:30pm 20 EQTs – 1st and 2nd 21 EQTs – 3rd and 4th 8th grade Honors Day 6-7:30pm at Christ United Methodist Church 22 6th grade Honors Day 9-10am 7th grade Honors Day 1-2pm 23 EQTs – 5th and 6th 24 EQT – 7th Last Day of School 8th grade “Meet and Weep”

Summer Programs for Gifted Students

Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies University of Southern Mississippi

Contact Information

Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies

Owings-McQuagge Hall 108-D

118 College Drive #8207

Hattiesburg, MS 39406

Phone: 601.266.5236

Fax: 601.266.4764

Contact Us

Summer Gifted Studies Program

June 23-28, 2013

A summer residential program designed to meet the unique needs of gifted students

Sponsored by The Hattiesburg American

Conducted by The Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies

Serving students currently in grades four through eight (2012-13 school year) Please see

application at bottom of page for classes offered this summer.

The Summer Gifted Studies Program at The University of Southern Mississippi, established

in 1978, is designed to enhance cognitive, affective and psychomotor abilities of gifted

students through planned enrichment/acceleration activities. Emphasis is placed on

individual participation in areas that provide in-depth analysis of specific topics of interest.

The students will have the opportunity to participate in leisure and cultural activities with

other gifted youth.

Students will be housed in dormitories on the campus of The University of Southern

Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Instructional activities will be conducted in

classrooms on the campus. Qualified teachers, supervisors or counselors will be with the

students at all times. Certificates of completion are given to each participant, but there are

no grades or credits assigned.

Summer Gifted Studies

www.usm.edu/karnes-gifted

Online Application for Returning Students

Summer Program for Academically Talented Youth

Grades 7, 8, 9, and 10

July 7-26, 2013

Sponsored by Forrest General Hospital, Southern Miss Alumni Association,

and Regions Bank

The University of Southern Mississippi, through a cooperative effort with the

Duke University Talent Identification Program, is pleased to offer the three

week residential Summer Program for Academically Talented Youth, designed

for very bright students who are currently enrolled in grades 7, 8, 9 and 10.

The University of Southern Mississippi assumes full responsibility for the

instruction, administration and outcome of this program. The Summer

Program is designed to provide a balance of educational, cultural and

recreational experiences. Upon completion of the program parents will be

sent a detailed grade report to forward to the student’s school. At the

discretion of school administrators, the student may receive school credit

and/or appropriate placement for course work completed during the three-

week program. The program will be held on the beautiful campus of Southern

Miss in Hattiesburg, located in south central Mississippi, approximately 100

miles from Jackson, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

It is important that students select classes in which they are interested and to

which their best efforts will be given for three weeks. If the first choice is not

available, placement will be in the next available choice.

Academic Courses

Classes, taught by outstanding teachers, meet six hours each weekday and

three hours on Saturday. Students participate in quality learning experiences

that allow them to progress at a rate and a level appropriate for high ability

students. Each class is limited in enrollment. Students select one of the

following courses, each of which is offered in a fast paced, challenging format.

SAT or ACT (taken in 7th grade) eligibility requirements are noted after each

course description. Please see the downloadable application at the bottom

of this page for classes offered this summer.

Residential Accommodations

The residential component is planned to be an integral part of the learning

experience. The residential hall provides an equally comfortable environment

for academic activities and leisure time. Students live in an air conditioned

dormitory a short walking distance from the dining hall, campus resources

(such as the library) and campus recreational facilities. Residential counselors

supervise students when they are not in class. Approximately six hours each

weekday and three hours on Saturday mornings will be devoted toward group

classroom studies, with one hour per evening provided for individual study.

Cultural and recreational activities will be planned as well. There are many

opportunities for students to enjoy getting acquainted with other young

people of similar abilities and interests. www.usm.edu/karnes-gifted

Other

Summer Programs for

Gifted Students

MIST Academy Summer Math Camp (Birmingham, AL). Grades 4-12. MIST Academy's Math Camp is an exciting two-week program designed to introduce avid young students to mathematical principles of problem solving. This program is designed as a half-day program.

U.S. Space & Rocket Center - Space Camp (Huntsville, AL)

Website: U.S. Space & Rocket Center - Space Camp (Huntsville, AL)

Organization: U.S. Space Camp

THANK YOU

Annsley Zimlich, Newspaper Editor