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The CCLCS Mock Trial Team - April, 2008

The Mock Trial seminar has prepared a civil case involving a (fictional) action being brought against a coach who may have purposely called for the injury of a star player on the other team. Students in this seminar have taken on the the roles of attorneys and witnesses on both sides and prepared them to go into court with real, live judges. The seminar involves trials at the So. New England Law School and elsewhere. All students have to write carefully, learn aspects of lawyering, and make arguments on their feet. Local attorney John Wherry has provided invaluable advice.

2007 Highlights

We welcomed our new executive director, Katharine B. McNamara, who is "thrilled to be a part of CCLCS." "Students and teachers get to know each other well, and that makes all the difference in middle school." says Mrs. Mac. Guys and Dolls, our first-ever school musical, was a smash hit. CCLCS students attended the One World Youth Project Summit in Washington DC, where they lobbied Representative Delahunt and Senator Kennedy for greater recognition of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. In the seminars program, the Mock Trial Team mantained our undefeated status, the Atlantic Challenge Rowing seminar continued, students studied string theory, photojournalism, and much more.

Forty-five percent of CCLCS 2007 graduates went on to high school honors-level math, English, and history courses, and fifty percent are in honors science. Naturalists met with students at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History to discuss whales, the salt marsh ecosystem, and Cape Cod bats. Some students mapped the general locations of coyote dens from Harwich to Provincetown, while others joined with lifelong learners from the Brewster Senior Center to study pottery skills. Seventh grade teacher Daniella Garran participated in an archaeological dig in Bulgaria. Alumni David E. Chase, Jr, was the youth keynote speaker in September at UNESCO's 60th annual conference at the U.N. General Assembly, and Audrey Wright won First Prize in the Cape Cod Symphony Young Artists Competition, for her violin performance. Read more...

Alumni News Updates

Teaching children and adults with special needs, photography, painting, filmmaking, physics, political thought, photojournalism, inventing, Tae Kwon Do, rowing, designing, singing, teaching, building, founding, hockey, hiking, music and, oh yes... studying. Where? Cambridge, England, Mauritania, Haiti, Costa Rica, London, Nicargua, Cuba, Guatemala, Panama, Northern Ireland and South Africa. Read more...