FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE 2010

TUESDAY, MAY 25
Half-day with dismissal at 12:05 pm. The 7th period exam will be held at 12:30 p.m. on that day.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3
SENIOR MAKE-UP EXAMS: Seniors who need to make up exams will take them on Thursday, June 3, at 12:30 p.m. in Room 204. Seniors must have all exams completed by Thursday afternoon. Graduation rehearsal will be held on Friday, June 4.

FRIDAY, JUNE 4
Make-up exam day. Students who were ill during an exam day and need to make up exams should arrive at school at 8:30 am . Make-up exams will be held in Room 204.

Any requests for early exams or for exams to be taken at alternative times must be submitted in advance to me.
Shayne Klein, Academic Dean
sklein@raleighcharterhs.org

NEWS AND NOTES

EXPRESS YOURSELF: VOTE FOR NEXT YEAR'S PASTA EXECUTIVE TEAM
The recommendations for the Executive Team of your PASTA Board for next year are on the RCHS website. We need two minutes of your time to review the list and vote. Please take a moment and vote!

Thank you!
Pete Cotter, PASTA President
pcotter@kintgs.com 

AN INVITATION FOR NEW STUDENTS
The RCHS Peer Mentoring program aims to support new students by providing them with opportunities to meet new people, make new friends, and learn more about the school from select RCHS upperclassmen called Peer Mentors. Although the program is optional, the benefits for new students who participate in the program include: having lunch on the first day with a great group of freshmen and upperclassmen, learning more about clubs, activities and traditions at RCHS, and getting questions—on anything from homework to basketball games to Flex Days—answered by informed and caring upperclassmen.

New students for 2010-2011:

Sign up by emailing Ms. Joseph at ajoseph@raleighcharterhs.org  with the following information:

Student Name
Grade during 2010-2011
Phone Number
Student Email Address
Student Interests (Please name two or three— e.g. soccer, singing, art, comics, etc.)

Thank you!
E. Thompson

CARPOOL TIME AGAIN! REGISTER NOW
Students who need carpool for next year need to register now. You must register every year that you need carpool. From the RCHS website:
https://www.raleighcharterhs.org/studentlife/transportation.asp 
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link "To submit your information to the Carpool database." Follow the instructions from there.

All information should be input by July 1. You will get information back about families in your area in early July. Questions? Email me at the address below.
Cathy Hren, PASTA Carpool Coordinator
cphren@mindspring.com 

SIGN UP FOR SUMMER DRIVER'S EDUCATION
Students may enroll in Driver's Education when they are 14 ½ years of age. Summer forms are now available in the office.
Linda Hash
lhash@raleighcharterhs.org 

CAN YOU HELP?

EVERY DAY IN MAY, VOTE SOOTS FOR $5K
SOOTS (Sustaining Roots Music Community Project) is in the running for a $5,000 grant from PepsiCo. In order to win the grant, we need your vote every day. Let's exercise our civiCulture for the world to see. This grant will allow SOOTS to fund more medical mini-grants to aging blues musicians and enable RCHS to introduce more Piedmont Blues musicians to our students and the greater Triangle community.

Simply sign in via:
www.refresheverything.com/soots
to see SOOTS at work and join the fun. You'll find photos of SOOTS' events, our proposal in its entirety and a short documentary filmed to sustain our cause. We are proud of our work and your support.

SOOTS will also send the RCHS community a weekly email reminder along with a link to our weekly slideshow and live recording on
www.sootsblues.org

Please forward the message to friends and family. When you support SOOTS you support RCHS. You can vote every day to help build a more perfect world in a small but significant way.

Let's show the strength of the RCHS community! Support SOOTS with YOUR VOTE.
Charles Montague, SOOTS Founder and Faculty Sponsor
cmontague@raleighcharterhs.org 

SPRING CLEAN THAT QUILTING FABRIC
Please donate any scraps or yardage of cotton material to the community work group for next year. We will make another beautiful quilt for a disabled U.S. Veteran. We prefer calicoes, but any kind of woven (not knit) cotton cloth is accepted. The material can be brought to me in Room 306 anytime before or after school.
Mary Krawiec, Spanish Teacher
mkrawiec@raleighcharterhs.org 

THE SPORTS PAGE

ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

Saturday, 5/29
Women's Soccer State Championship - TBA

For directions to events, see https://www.raleighcharterhs.org/athletics/Sports_Directions.pdf

LINKS OF INTEREST
RCHS website: http://www.raleighcharterhs.org 
PASTA website: http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/pasta 
The Phoenix News: http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/pasta/news.asp 
PASTA Fund Raising: http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/pasta/fundraising.asp 
PASTA Alumni: http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/Alumni/
RCHS College Counseling Naviance: http://connection.naviance.com/fc/signin.php?hsid=raleighcharter 
The Flame: http://flame.raleighcharterhs.org 
Extracurricular opportunities: http://rchspasta.org/extracurriculars.htm

PUBLICATION INFORMATION
The Raleigh Charter High School newsletter, the Phoenix News, is published each Friday of the school year as a service of Raleigh Charter High School's Parent, Administrator, Student, and Teacher Association (PASTA) and is distributed via an electronic news group. The Phoenix News is also available on the RCHS website at:
https://www.raleighcharterhs.org/pasta/news.asp

Parents, students and faculty are invited to share school-related news, recognize accomplishments and solicit volunteer needs via the Phoenix News. The deadline for submitting articles is every Tuesday at noon for publication the following Friday. Please send articles to:
phoenixnewseditor@yahoo.com 

If you would like to receive the Phoenix News automatically each week, please subscribe to the RCHS Yahoo! news group by sending an email to:
RaleighCharterHS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com 

Please indicate your student's name in the subject line and body so the moderator can verify that you are a member of the RCHS community.
Membership is monitored and available only to RCHS parents, students and personnel.

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
RaleighCharterHS-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com