PHS Parent Update
May 25th, 2015
May Countdown is ON!
For those parents of seniors who are graduating, we wish you and your student well on the next phase of life's journey. And for parents of underclassmen, we thank you for your continued faith in what we do here at PHS. We will be updating you through the summer on registration, iPads, and other relevant information for the start of the next school year.
Enjoy the summer when it arrives!
PROM 2015 - A Night to Remember!
Thank you to all the students who worked so hard to fundraise for Prom, and an enormous thanks to Kerry Lowell, ASB director, for her tremendous behind-the-scenes work and attention to detail that make prom work so well. Thanks to all the chaperones for their time and care. A real night to remember!
Dancing...
..and dancing
Micah Lesch and Celine Mughannam, Prom King and Queen head to the floor for the first dance.
COMING UP May/June Events
MAY:
25th Memorial Day-No School
27th ASB Awards Dinner
28th Music Awards Night
28th, 29th, 30th Spring Sports Awards
29th Final Trojan Connections
JUNE:
June 1 - Cookies and Cram
Come spend time with your friends and study for your finals!
Study begins at 3:30, snacks at 4:30, go home at 5:30!
June 3 - 5 - Finals!
June 3rd - 1/2 periods
June 4th - 4/5 periods
June 5th - 3/6 periods
June 5 - Ice Cream Social and Mandatory Graduation Practice
No Practice = No Ceremony No Exceptions
- 1:00 pm - Ice Cream Social in the Multi
- 1:30 pm - Pick up grad cards in Attendance Office
- 2:00 pm - MANDATORY grad practice in the Multi
June 6th - Graduation: Student arrive at 9AM in Multi
- Graduation procession - 9:50 am for Ellison Field @ 10AM
Gold for Byerley at Festival
She sang Bach's "Bist Du Bei Mir." Well done, Jasmine!
Lacrosse Finishes Strong!
SSEP Project Headed for Space! - A Request...
Last fall, Linda Judah, our remarkably energetic and committed Biology and Anatomy teacher, came to me with a request to submit proposals for SSEP (Students Spaceflights Experiments Program). Designed as a model U.S. national Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education initiative, the program gives students across a participating community the ability to design and propose real microgravity experiments to fly in low Earth orbit (experiments conducted in a “weightless” environment) and then on to the International Space Station (ISS) – America’s newest National Laboratory.
The cost to register and become a part of the program is close to $20,000. I went to Steve Bolman, our superintendent, to request support. He said the district was in support and would put up the funds but that the school site would need to fund raise. We have done so, via outreach through crowd-funding sources like Indiegogo and GoFundMe. And we have been somewhat successful, raising about half of the funds. But we are short of our goal. We believe the learning and real-world experience has been invaluable to many of our students; we also realize we are bad at fund-raising. We are teachers and administrators and focus on the work of education.
After significant work by many of our budding scientists, Primary Investigators (PIs) Tara Thomas and Morgan Giraud's experiment was chosen. Because they are seniors, they have been collaborating with younger Collaborating Scientists (CSs) to get everyone trained up on our experimental design. These collaborators will handle the experiment's conclusion and analyze data once the experiment returns to Earth. All of these dedicated scientists have shown exceptional maturity, skill and dedication. They are currently putting in extra time in order to make this mission a success.
On June 8th, we will be loading our experiment into the experimental chamber and shipping it off to Nanorocks who will hold it prior to launch. Our launch date is currently June 26th (although that may change). (Follow the SSEP countdown here... http://ssep.ncesse.org/
Ms. Judah's hope is to organize a live-streaming launch viewing event. This event would be a celebration of our hard work, would be open to the community and would include invitations to all of our sponsors. It would also allow us to try to reach a few more sponsors in order to help cover the cost of our participation.
Our hope is that someone will step up and sponsor the final portion of the funding for the SSEP program. If you think you would be willing and able to take this on, please call me on my cell phone. You will be the title sponsor as we head into space.
707-364-2843
Congratulations again to all of our team. We are very proud of all of them!
Graduation Update!!
Graduation Information
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Ellison Field - 10:00 AM
Friday, June 5, 2015
- 1:00 pm - Ice Cream Social in the Multi
- 1:30 pm - Pick up grad cards in Attendance Office
- 2:00 pm - MANDATORY grad practice in the Multi
Saturday, June 6, 2015
- Seniors report to the Multi no later than 9:00 am
- Ellison Field - 10:00 AM
- No tickets required, first come first serve seating
- Handicapped information at bottom of page
- Graduates report to the Mulit at 9:00!
Graduation Attire
- No shorts
- No flip flops
- No sneakers
Our Yearbook Crew!
2014-2015 Yearbook Staff
- Michael Baribault (9)
- Shyla Barry (11)
- Sicily Barry (9)
- McKenna Brockhouse (11)
- Bailee Collier (11)
- Alex Dodd (9)
- Whitaker Ellis (9)
- Katherine Grube (10)
- Hannah Huntziker (11)
- Yannik Kilb (11)
- Whitney Royall (9)
- Shari Sanchez (12)
- Nicholas Schlager (12)
- Makayla Simien (9)
PTSA - A Huge Thank You!
Celebration and Heartache - Softball and Baseball Tourneys - Playoffs This Week!
First, on the softball diamond, Coach Jastrow's Trojans took the field in the SCL Tournament finals against the Analy Tigers, putting a 45 game SCL winning streak on the line. In a seesaw battle, the Tigers were up in the early innings before the Trojans took a 5-4 lead. But Jayde Hill's three-run blast in the top of the fifth put the Tigers up 7-5, and things seemed to be slipping away. Jastrow gathered the team and reminded them that it takes heart to become champions. Senior veteran Cassie Baddeley chimed in that it takes some runs too! So down to their last three outs, the team rallied for three runs, the winning run coming home on a passed ball. The thrill of success!
Thirty minutes later at Arnold Field, the Varsity Baseball squad took on the Sonoma Dragons. Things looked bright in the first few innings and going into the sixth, the Trojans had a seemingly comfortable 6-1 lead. But the Dragons chipped away in the bottom of the sixth, scoring six times. Though Petaluma tied it up in the seventh on Harrison Royall's line drive and pushed it to extra innings, the Dragons eventually put the winning run across in the ninth.
What I saw in the stands was actually more impressive. Though baseball is a team sport, it is also a set of individual players who together perform as a team. In this game, I watched a parent's anguish as one player struggled. I also watched the other parents in attendance empathize and root the athletes on. Many of us have experienced the wrenching feeling of rooting on our son or daughter; we may love them more than ever during those moments of struggle when it is all we can to do to stop from running out on the field and helping out directly! The beauty of sport and of high school sport in particular are these highs and lows, and the character that is built along the way. I was honored to watch our parents support each other, that off-the-field team that nurtures the on-the-field athletes.
Both teams are now set for the NCS playoffs. Baseball, the #8 seed in Division 2, hosts Arroyo at the PHS diamond on Tuesday at 4PM while softball, also the #8 seed, takes on Ukiah at PHS on Wednesday at 4PM.
Riley Scott sports the Gold Medal in the 200IM at the NCS Swim Championships.
Troy Jackson getting ready to root on baseball and softball squads in NCS playoffs...
Petaluma High School
Email: dstirrat@petk12.org
Website: petalumahighschool.org
Location: 201 Fair Street, Petaluma, CA, United States
Phone: 707-778-4652
Twitter: @PetalumaHS