Basketball

Tonight! 1/28 – JV Boys Basketball team will play tonight at 6:30pm at Memorial Park against New Roads

Memorial Park, 1401 Olympic Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90404, United States

Friday 1/30 – Frosh/Soph Boys basketball game 4:30pm Del Aire Park Gym vs. Pathways

Wednesday 2/4 – JV Girls basketball game 4:30pm Del Aire Park Gym vs. The Academy Charter

Friday 2/6 – Joint JV-Frosh/Soph Boys basketball @Vistamar Betty Ainsworth Gym 4:00pm

3901 El Segundo Blvd, Hawthorne, CA 90250

Soccer

Monday 2/2 – JV Boys DVD/DVC Field 3:30pm vs. Vistamar

Tuesday 2/3 – JV Girls DVD/DVC Field 3:30pm vs. Maranatha High School

Thursday 2/5 – JV Boys Hawthorne HS Field 4:00pm @Hawthorne

Family Dinner is Back – Next Wednesday 2/4, 6pm to 9pm at Shakey’s

We will have our year’s first Family Dinner at Shakey’s Pizza in Inglewood.  Come meet and hang out with other DVC families.  For students without drivers’ licenses, you can actually see your friends who live far away.  Da Vinci Communications will receive 25% of all food sales as a fundraiser.

Family Dinner
Wednesday, February 4^th
6pm to 9pm – come any time in this window
Shakey’s Pizza
935 W Arbor Vitae St
Inglewood, CA 90301

***Be careful with Google Maps directions – sometimes they send you to 935 E Arbor Vitae and you end up at a Laundromat.

Buy Your Yearbook Now!

Save money, buy your DV Communication yearbook NOW!!!  Again, we are doing a joint Design/Communications yearbook produced by the Yearbook seminar with students from both schools.

• $46 through Feb. 14th
• $50 through March 1st
• $55 through June 5th

CLICK HERE TO BUY YOUR 2014-15 DA VINCI DESIGN YEARBOOK! (https://yearbookforever.com/#school/359370/2015)

You can also upload your own photos so they may be used in the yearbook! Click on the link below, go to “Community Upload” and enter the code “Da Vinci” to upload your photos.

Questions?  Contact Cari Werz, Yearbook Coordinator, at cwerz@davincischools.org for more information.

Thank you

A big thank you to everyone who came in and dropped off wood, dirt, a compost bin, plants, etc. for the 9^th grade Cultivating Culture project!  We have a great set of supplies and the kids are busy designing the space in class.

The 9^th grade team is working on a project to create green spaces at Da Vinci and then lobby for greater access to green spaces in our community.  In order to make this happen, we are looking for free or extremely cheap materials through sources like Craigslist and businesses with extra materials.

If you have the time and desire to make a free craigslist pickup of any of these items, Nathan will be on campus this Saturday1/24 from 9:30am to 1:00pm, and the campus is open for drop-offs during the week from 8am to 5pm each day (and often later, just call ahead if that is the case).  Here are the materials the students have brainstormed so far.  Students can check in with Meredith or any 9th grade teacher about details.

• Plywood
• 2x4s
• Soil/dirt
• Plastic sheeting
• Chicken wire
• Rocks/stone-big decorative or smaller river rock type
• Screws
• Composting supplies including a bin
• Worms
• Irrigation-small sprinkler heads, tubing, etc.
• Pallets
• Natural fertilizer
• Planters of any kind-pots, tires, boots, etc.
• Plants of all types-the kids have expressed interest in flowers as well as food plants
• Planting fabric
• PVC pipe
• Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Benches or other outdoor furniture in good condition
• Work/Gardening gloves

Lockdown Drill Recap

The lockdown drill went through without a hitch today.  Students all went into lockdown mode in their first periods, and the Sheriff’s department was able to run through a training exercise of their own and evacuated a couple classrooms.  Thank you all for participating.

We hope everyone had a pleasant and restful MLK Day weekend!  The 10^th grade team is starting their Revolutions project today, and the 9^th graders are continuing to plan out the greening of the DVC campus.

Family Association Meeting is today, 1/20 at 6:00pm.

We will be discussing second semester updates and looking ahead a bit at plans for our students experience over the next few years of high school.  All are welcome.

Lockdown Drill Thursday

We will also be having a lockdown drill this Thursday mid-morning.  We are coordinating the drill with the local sheriff’s office, who had reviewed our emergency procedures and helped us refine our practices.  Students will be told ahead of time this is a drill, and we will debrief afterwards with police, going over what went well and what we can improve on.  Please feel free (even encouraged) to discuss the drill with your student before or after we have the drill.

Dance Photos

We have had some requests for dance photos from semester 1.  In case you missed them, here they are, thanks to DVD senior Josh Caviness: https://flic.kr/ps/2Z2gwq

The 10th grade team did a cool chemistry lab last week – here are some pictures:

Students had a productive first week back from Winter Break.  The ninth grade classes have already begun planning out how to make great green spaces on our campus, while the tenth grade students have been debating free speech and religious sensitivity and experimenting in a lab using indicators and calcium chloride (or perhaps other chemicals – chemistry never stuck with me).  Here are quite a few dates for the this Spring semester:

Parent Involvement Opportunities and Important Dates

January 20^th: Family Association Meeting, 6pm in Noel’s room

February 17^th: Design’s College Info Night

March: Spring Dance (date and details to be announced soon)

March 9^th – 12^th: Student Led Conferences

March 17^th and 18^th: CAHSEE Test for all 10^th Grade Students

April 2^nd: DVC and DVD Exhibition Night

April 4^th – 13^th: Spring Break

April 21^st: Family Association Meeting, 6pm in Noel’s room

May 8^th: Teacher Appreciation Breakfast

May 12^th: Coffee with the Director (Nathan)

May 27^th – June 4^th: POL Schedule, all students on campus from 8am to 12pm

June 5^th: Last Day of School (students on campus from 10am to 3:55pm)

Students have come back this second semester with great energy – the teachers have noticed, and the students work has shown the energy.  Congratulations to everyone that earned great grades the first semester and participated in a bit of barber shop activity at the end of the first semester: