Aragon’s talented music and drama students come together for "A Cabaret Evening,” full of popular songs from Broadway musicals, a beautiful classical piece by the string quartet, a cool number by the Jazz Combo and much more during a chicken dinner all to benefit Fund an Instrument.
The Aragon Music Boosters and music directors are raising money for the following instruments in the coming years: One bassoon, one contra bassoon, one eb clarinet, four French horns, two oboes, four digital pianos, one baby grand piano, one piccolo, one baritone saxophone, two concert tubas, one vibraphone and four violions.
The dinner with entertainment starts at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11 at Temple Beth El, 1700 Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo. Tickets are $20 for adults in advance, $25 at the door; $15 for students in advance and $18 at the door. To purchase tickets www.aragondrama.com. For more information contact Melissa Lee at melissa7570@gmail.com.
To make a donation toward Fund an Instrument, send a check payable to Aragon Music Boosters, 900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA, 94402. On the memo line write "Fund an Instrument.”
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Bowditch Middle School’s presents Disney’s "Beauty and the Beast Jr.,” an enchanting musical for the entire family. Shows are 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19 and Saturday, Feb. 20 with a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday. Presented at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center at 600 N. Delaware St. in San Mateo. All tickets are $10. For more information visit www.bowditchmusical.org.
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The South San Francisco High School video production class, under the direction of Aaron Boyd, has been working with Director Bruce Grantham and Executive Producer Jim Murphy to produce a video series promoting job training classes available at San Mateo County adult schools. The videos began running on PENTV this month and will highlight vocational job training programs and classes available at Jefferson, Sequoia and South San Francisco adult schools. Administrators, teachers and students at all three schools were filmed and interviewed on location in order to explain the course offerings available throughout the county.
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High schools nationwide can now apply to receive H&R Block Dollars & Sense Curriculum Grants.
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Only 21 states currently have any type of personal financial education requirements for high school graduation. Even for schools that want to teach personal finance, many can’t afford to allocate funding for personal financial education. Yet, this knowledge is critical for teens as they prepare to enter adulthood and face real-life challenges.
To help, H&R Block has committed to donate more than $1 million in personal finance curriculum to high schools for the 2010-11 school year. The annual donation provides administrators and teachers the opportunity to apply for a curriculum grant through the H&R Block Dollars & Sense program. The grant application is available at hrblockdollarsandsense.com. The deadline to apply is Feb. 15.
If selected as a grant recipient, H&R Block Dollars & Sense will provide Knowledge Matters’ Virtual Business-Personal Finance software and lesson plans at no charge to the school. This interactive curriculum engages students while presenting them with challenges around 18 financial topics such as bank accounts, credit and debit cards, taxes and investing.
Knowing that 80 percent of students entering college carry at least one credit card and only 15 percent of students leaving high school receive any formal personal finance education, there is an obvious need for programs like this.
Grant recipients will be notified by March 31. For more information about increasing financial fitness or to apply for a grant visit hrblockdollarsandsense.com.
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In November, Notre Dame Elementary School announced that 44 percent of eligible students in the fifth through eighth grades were identified by Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth as having outstanding academic talent. To be eligible, the students must score at the 95th percentile or better in the verbal, math and/or composite areas on the ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills) standardized test taken in September.
Class notes is a twice weekly column dedicated to school news. It is compiled by education reporter Heather Murtagh. You can contact her at (650) 344-5200, ext. 105 or at heather@smdailyjournal.com.
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