Eagle Family,

What an amazing start we’ve had to the 22-23 school year! Our first day back, we welcomed 1617 students into our building, celebrating our 12th graders with the Senior Pledge Assembly, a tradition where our seniors sign a promise to meet me on May 31st at Colonial Life Arena for Graduation. We followed that with Spirit Week, a pep rally on Friday, then wrapped it all up with a win over Mid-Carolina in the “Battle of the Bell”, the longest running football rivalry game in the state. Students and staff alike enjoyed every minute of the week, and certainly validated our humble opinion that we belong to the greatest school family in the country.

For the month ahead, there is one specific item I would like to draw to your attention. In an effort to improve school safety, we are emphasizing the importance of wearing your ID at all times. If your child does not have one, they can stop by study hall from 8:00-8:20 to have one taken and printed, or alert their first or second block teacher. Once we get to third block, any student who is not wearing their ID will receive a consequence. Please know that I in no way want to be punitive to students regarding their ID’s so please help me spread the word and ensure every student has on come Tuesday morning.

I look forward to a continued great start to the school year, and hope that you join us at either the open house on Tuesday, September 6th from 6:00-7:30, or for Eagle Fest this Friday, September 9th, starting at 5:30 before our football game against Newberry.

As always,

We aRe Ready to Learn

We aRe Respectful to Others

We aRe Responsible to Ourselves

We aRe a Thousand Passions with One Heartbeat

We aRe Chapin!

Michael Ames

Principal

Chapin High School

9/2: 1st Home football game, CHS vs Spring Valley, 7:30pm

9/5: Labor Day: School and offices Closed

9/5: Chapin Labor Day Parade

Tuesday, 9/6: CHS Open House “Meet & Greet”, 6pm - 7:30pm

Friday, 9/9: Eagle Fest

Friday, 9/9: Deadline to sign up for PSAT, $18, see School Counseling

Monday, 9/12 - Tuesday, 9/13: Underclass pictures

9/15: Interim for First Nine Weeks

9/22: Interims go home

9/23: Military Appreciation Night (CHS vs AC Flora Home football game)

9/30: Homecoming (CHS vs Lexington Home football game)

10/1: Homecoming Dance

10/19: CHS Strings Fall Concert

10/21: Senior night (Home football game)

Please use Parchment.com for any transcript questions.

If your student would like to know what their GPA or class rank is at the conclusion of this year, your student will need to request a copy of their transcript through Parchment. The school counselors are unable to email transcripts, class rank or GPA data. If your student has not created an account in Parchment, please have your student check their student email. All students (9th, 10th, and 11th grade) will receive an email with a link to create their Parchment account. Please note that your student does not need to complete the student profile information, they only need to create the account and click "order" to request that a copy of their transcript be sent to themselves. Additional information regarding how to set up your student's Parchment account may be found on the School Counseling website.

Please note that Parchment requests are processed within 48 hours of the request (during business days Monday - Thursday).

Senior Parent Remind 101

Text 81010

Send the indicated message based on the letter of your last name:

Last name Message to text

A-D @hhagb8

E-K @f68968k

L-Q @2kdc27

R-Z @4ec8bd

10/28: Individual Cap and gown photos, Class group photo, wear your senior shirt

Graduation Info:

Graduation Practice 5/30 at 1:00 pm

Graduation 5/31 at 8:00 am at Colonial Life Arena

We encourage all parents, family and friends of our orchestra students to become a sponsor of the Chapin High School Orchestra Booster Club, (CHSOBC). Our organization was founded to promote the musical interests of our CHS Orchestra Students and helps improve the student's classroom experience. Our Booster Club along with orchestra parent volunteers help the students run fundraisers and help to organize and chaperone our field trips. New string instruments and the repair and maintenance of our current instruments at C.H.S. are provided by donations collected on a yearly basis. Below you will find the various levels of sponsorship available. All new Sponsors this year will receive their names printed in our concert programs. Those who donate at the Forte level will receive a car bumper magnet with our CHS Orchestra logo. For those who donate at the Fortissimo Level you will receive one of our car magnets and reserved front row seats for all our orchestra concerts throughout the year.

CHS Orchestra Booster Club Membership and Sponsorship Form

https://forms.gle/z43exnkuxunNSK5E9

Mark your calendars:

Wednesday October 19th 2022 Strings Fall Concert
Wednesday December 7th 2022 Strings Winter Concert

Wednesday March 22nd 2023 Strings Festival Concert

Friday March 24th 2023 Region 3 High School Concert Performance Assessment Field Trip

Wednesday May 10th 2023 Spring Concert

CHS Beta Club is pleased to announce our new Beta Sponsor - Ellen Smith! Ellen joined our faculty last year and she teaches in the World Language Department. Mrs. Morgan will be helping with the transition. Miss Smith's email is ersmith@lexrich5.org.

New/Interested AND Renewal students, please complete the appropriate interest form: Senior Beta Club 9th only google form OR Senior Beta Club 10th-12th If you stopped by the Beta Club table at schedule pick-up, you may have already submitted this form. The first year join fee is $32 then $20 for the following years. Fees will be added to the online student account within the next week. If you decide you don't wish to participate, you can request that the fee be removed.

CHS Senior Beta Club 2023

*to qualify: you need a current GPA of 3.5 or higher, or you may join if you participated in 8th grade Junior Beta Club (regardless of your previous district) with at least a B average

*your dues pay for your membership, certificate, pin, and access to www.betaclub.org

*deadline to register and pay $32 dues (on student account) - Friday, September 30

*new member induction ceremony in fall 2022

*ten service hours are required each year (two service hours must be CHS Beta Club sponsored events or donations). Please plan to list all hours you serve. We send our totals to National Beta for competition.

*monthly service projects are available, such as collections/donations of items for We Care, Trick-or-Canning, Families Helping Families, UNICEF, MDA, Red Cross, etc.

*Beta Club state convention will be held in Myrtle Beach, SC February 10-12, 2023 - you can register to participate in arts, talent, or academic competitions.

*9th-11th service hours due May 31, 2023

*12th grade CHS Beta students will be required to submit service hours and stole order form by March 31, 2023 in order to be eligible to purchase a Beta graduation stole

*Senior Beta Club google classroom code: lpmpztx

Parking Info for 2022-2023 school year

The parking link for the 2022-2023 school year is available on the CHS website. The $50 parking fee will be added to student accounts once Alive@25 has been verified. Fees may be paid online at that time, at https://www.studentquickpay.com/lexrich5/Default.aspx.

Let your students know that they must park in their assigned

space. If someone is in your spot, park in gravel, and come in

to see Mrs. Habat. Please contact Mrs. Habat at khabat@lexrich5.org with any parking sign-up questions.

• Sept. 21
• Oct. 19 (Chapin cluster joint SIC)
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• April 19
• May 17

Rent Rocky!

Rocky is located at the Boundary Road entrance to Chapin High School and is available to rent for painted messages and advertising. Rocky's rental week runs from Friday to Thursday. Each Friday, ALA students will paint the week's message. Reserve your week by clicking on a Friday appointment. Then, indicate in the appointment's notes the message that you would like painted on Rocky.

All proceeds will benefit the Chapin Academic Leadership Academy (ALA) Booster Club, a 501(c)(3) organization. Proceeds are used for ALA events, field trips and other student enrichment activities.

Click here to reserve rocky: https://chapin-high-school-ala-booster-club.square.site/rocky