Girls Basketball

This Friday EAC came to play another game against Chapel's basketball teams. The Girl's game started at 5:30, and since the second it started Chapel had control over the game, they were playing really well and were ahead in the score. When Campinas saw what was going on in the game they took more action and were able to score more baskets and equal up the score. The game was intense and both teams were playing very well. Some of the Chapel girls weren't playing to all their potential because they seemed to be very tired, and instead of replacing them for sometime while they rested, their coach decided to leave them playing. So at one point of the game Campinas overpassed Chapel's score. During the last quarter of the game the girls played full speed, they made impressive defenses, stole the ball and scored many baskets. Unfortunately it was not enough and EAC won the game, the bad thing is that for the next game they will have to go play against EAC again but it will have to be at Campinas. That was not such good news to the basketball team, but we all hope they will beat them at the next game!

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7th Grade Fun Night

The 7th grade fun night is a traditional party held by STUCO to welcome the 7th graders to high school. Every generation of high school students has gone through it. It is generally on a Friday night and all of the 7th graders tend to attend, because it's an oppurtunity to have fun and know their classmates better. This year it will be a costume party and many fun games are being planned. The STUCO officers are putting a lot of work into it and we all really hope that all the 7th graders go and enjoy it. There will be delicious food, fun games, good music, and great company! Whats there more to ask? Its a night for them to forget their tests, homeworks, books, and just have fun!

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Snack Bar

Chapel's snack bar is stocked with delicious and healthy treats for the students to eat during break, recess, or afterschool. Our bar is not exactly the best one, if we compared it to Graded's or St.Paul's our bar would be considered empty. Theirs is truly full of treats, they are not very healthy but they have more options. According to our administrators Chapel's bar is not like that because there is a rule stating that some specific things would be prohibited to be sold in the snack bars at schools. But apparently Chapel was the only school who decided to follow it, leaving its students with the desire for more. If the other schools have it, then it must not have been such a serious rule. Also during break our snack bar area ia a caos, because it's the time where every student is purchasing their chits, and who ever goes there may say it's not the most organized place there is. There is always people cutting line, students smudged and pushed by others. Although there are some teachers to watch and see whats going on, nobody can control what happens. The best way to fix all these problems would be if the school gave us a card where we could deposit our money and we could just go to the bar and the money we would have to pay would just be discounted from it. It would solve everyone a lot of problems. We hope that we can find a solution.

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Common Assessments

Do common assessments really help teachers evaluate how students are doing? In my opinion I don't actually believe they help. The tests taken and homeworks done by the students are already a way to determine how they are doing, why add something more. One bad thing about them is that you can't study for them, because msot of them are writing essays, or answering questions from texts. That leaves us students with a small percentage of more chances of not going very well. English and Portuguese common assessments are understandable but Geography assessments for example are kind of unecessary and sometimes confusing. I belive there are various different ways teachers could try to see the overall understanding of the class, not by doing another tedious activity.

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New Printing Rule

From this week on Chapel has adapted a new printing rule to prevent the waste of paper. They have installed a program in which the computer counts the number of pages each student prints and each grade has a different numberof pages they may print. If one looks at this in an environmental way it is really a great way to help, and preserve our beautiful trees from being wasted by what the school considers nonsense. But sometimes the school just doesn''t understand that students have to utilize those papers and the numbers of papers we print is reflected on the amount of homework they give us. So if they are establishing an amount of papers that can be printed than we too should be able to estabilize the amount of homework they give us. Even the librarians have a printing quotas which they were critisizing because they have to print things for all the students and it is not their fault they have to do so, its their job. The school should really take all of this matters to consideration and make a better decision on how to waste less paper, because apparently this wasn't such a good solution.

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