Mission Bay High – Congratulations to Mission Bay High School’s surf team. This was another great year, with five students landing in the top 10 for the year: Men’s shortboard, fifth, Lucas Monari (11th grade) and seventh, Kieran Wills (10th grade); women’s longboard, third, Pearl Moore (11th grade) and eighth, Ciara Gray (ninth grade); bodyboard Div. 4 champion, first place, Nicolas Campagna (ninth grade). Pacific Beach Middle – Piatt Pund, PB Middle IB World School seventh-grader, with two years’ Mandarin experience, won second place in his category in the 2015 Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition Preliminary Contest. Sponsored by Los Angeles Chinese General Consulate Office and hosted by Confucius Institute at San Diego State University on May 15, the competition was open to all students in first through 12th grades under the judiciary region of Los Angeles Chinese General Consulate Office, and it included contestants from California, Oregon and Arizona. PB Middle IB offers Mandarin for nonnative speakers and will become one of the only Mandarin Immersion Middle Years IB programs in California starting in the fall. – Welcome Cecilie Udsen to PB Middle. Udsen is a teacher in Denmark and will be volunteering in classrooms at PB Middle through June. She has come to learn more about our system of public education at the IB Middle Years Programme. Mission Bay Cluster
– Mission Bay High School seniors are excited for their next steps after graduation. This great class got accepted to some of the finest schools in the nation, including Vanderbilt University, Boston College, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC and so many more. – The final Mission Bay Cluster meeting of the school year is 6 p.m. Thursday, June 4 at Mission Bay High School in the library. We will reflect on a successful year of collaboration, advocacy and growth. This last meeting will include a panel discussion, with a group of MBHS seniors sharing their experiences. The discussion will be moderated by a graduate of MBHS and will include time for Q&A. You will not want to miss this opportunity to hear about the successes, struggles and rewards of high school, straight from the students themselves. – If you are part of the Facebook community, consider joining the Facebook page, Mission Bay Cluster of Pacific Beach Schools, to hear the latest and greatest about the community schools. CPJMA – The NAMM Foundation and the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus invited 2014 Best Communities for Music Education and Support Music Merit award schools to submit a video that answers the question: What makes music education great in your school? Videos featured interviews with students, teachers and school administrators enthusiastic about music education in their school or district.
Crown Point Junior Music Academy won a two-day residency on the John Lennon Education Tour Bus. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a nonprofit state-of-the-art mobile audio and HD video recording and production facility. With the assistance of three on-board engineers, students learn how to write, perform, record and produce original songs, produce and shoot music videos and documentaries and complete a broadcast-quality music video – all in one day! Kate Sessions Elementary – Sessions recently held its annual spring art and music show, which provides Sessions students access to a variety of artists, mediums and techniques, including working with clay and sewing. The show was a great success. Many thanks to Mrs. Meara, Mr. Neil and all the parents who volunteered to helped. – During the course of Sessions IB unit “Childhood Global Issues,” second-grade students raised funds for The Water Project, an organization that helps dig wells and provide clean water solutions to villages in Africa. To learn more about The Water Project, visit thewaterproject.org. Thanks to Mrs. Sussman’s class for organizing.