May 25, 2012 We Hope Everyone Is Enjoying Their First Few Days of Summer. Here Are a Few

May 25, 2012
We hope everyone is enjoying their first few days of summer. Here are a few quick announcements:
Important Survey for Parents of Last Year's
9th Graders (now rising sophomores) and
10th Graders (now rising juniors)
Please complete the following survey for our MYP evaluation visit from the International Baccalaureate in the fall. Click on the link or cut and paste it into your browser. Thank you in advance for your input.

Attention Rising Seniors (Class of 2013!)
You can go ahead and schedule your senior portraits this summer! Visit the North Atlanta web site to sign up for your appointment here.
Mr. Colbert Announces Retirement
This is bittersweet news indeed. Center for the Arts Academy Leader Reginald Colbert has announced his retirement - along with his wife and Sutton's beloved orchestra teacher Natalie Colbert - after 32 years with Atlanta Public Schools. Anyone who has attended one of the numerous Center for the Arts performances this past year knows the incredible and nationally renowned program that Mr. Colbert has built at North Atlanta during the past three decades. We thank the Colberts for their dedication to our students and their commitment to excellence. We will miss them both, but send many best wishes for their retirement.

Mr. Colbert at the recent NAHS faculty concert.

Join The Reading Bowl
Start the next school year at North Atlanta High with a new and challenging friend: the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl! Join your NAHS media specialist, Ms. McCall, as she builds a team from scratch to compete for the very first time! If you are interested in being a part of the team or even in just learning more about it, please email your name and contact information to Ms. McCall at nd
Here is the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Nominees 2011-2012. This list is used in the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl for the high school competition and will be promoted in public libraries as part of the Vacation Reading Program.
1. Almost Perfect (2009 ) Brian Katcher
2. Beautiful Creatures (2009). Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
3.Birthmarked (2010) Caragh M. O'Brien
4. Black Hole Sun (2010) David Macinnis Gill
5. Bruiser (2010) Neal Shusterman
6. Dirty Little Secrets (2010) C.J. Omololu
7.Finnikin of the Rock (2010) Melina Marchetta
8. Five Flavors of Dumb (2010) Antony John.
9. Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have : A Novel (2009) Allen Zadoff
10. God Is in the Pancakes (2010) Robin Epstein
11. Hate List (2009) Jennifer Brown
12. Jane (2010) April Lindner
13. Lockdown : Escape from Furnace ( 2009) Alexander Gordon Smith.
14. The Maze Runner (2009) James Dashner
15. The Morgue and Me (2009) John C. Ford
16. Nightshade ( 2010) Andrea Cremer
17. Shift (2008) Jennifer Bradbury
18. Ship Breaker (2010) Paolo Bacigalupi
19. Split (2010) SwatiAvasthi
20. The Things a Brother Knows (2010) Dana Reinhardt