CHP News

CHP News

Grade 1 First Day of School

Responsive Classroom Activities in CHP First Grade

Our first graders have enjoyed the beginning of the 2021-22 school year! In September, we work to build relationships with our first graders to ensure they feel respected, valued, and seen for who they are. Building those relationships helps them build community within the classroom and with each other, which is extremely important. We also try to draw on their prior knowledge in order to contribute to group discussions, which ...
Pep Rally

Pep Rally

On Wednesday, September 22nd, the Cedar Hill Prep community gathered in the gymnasium for a pep rally in support of the school’s tennis and soccer Wildcats teams. The rally kicked off with “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones as the students clapped along to the music, before Principal Seeley revealed that this was the same song his high school wrestling team used to walk out to. He then opened up the ...
welcome picnic

Welcome Picnic

Cedar Hill Prep opened its campus to the parents of our students and the families of our staff in order to celebrate the return of our annual in-person Welcome Picnic. The Welcome Picnic was an event for the entire CHP community to come together, get to know one another, and enjoy some great fun, food and games. CHP’s usually health-conscious catering options were replaced for the day by cotton candy, ...
CHP House Ceremony

House System Ceremony

The staff and students at Cedar Hill Prep wasted no time this year getting down to the all important business of assigning new classmates and teachers to the school’s House System. Led by Principal Don Seeley in full monarch regalia, the ceremony saw new members of the CHP family appointed, by way of drawing names from a hat, to one of the four Houses: Cherokee Bears, Lenape Owls, Ramapo Falcons, ...
Middle School Spanish

Spanish Class Starts the School Year With Success

Middle School Spanish students tested their vocabulary skills in our indoor and outdoor Spanish Vocabulary Tournament, which incorporated dominos into the challenge, adding a component of physics to the linguistic competition. The student also checked out the online resources available to them this year in order to better facilitate their engagement with the material. Motu was declared the winner of the Spanish 4 Squares game and crowned with a sombrero ...