Donoho Focus Group Shows Support of World AIDS Day 2011

Donoho students and faculty showed their support of World AIDS Day 2011 by wearing red today. The theme for World AIDS Day 2011 was "Getting to Zero- Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths." Thank you to the Donoho Focus Group for bringing awareness to this worthy cause!

Sixth Graders Use Technology for Book Projects

Sixth graders collaborate to create multimedia "Did You Know?" book projects featuring a variety of informational books and topics of their choice. Students used iMovie, GarageBand, and the Internet to combine audio, video, images, and text to publish final projects.

Fifth Grader Wins School Spelling Bee

C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S to Shelley Phillips for winning the 2011-2012 Donoho Lower School Spelling Bee! Shelley will advance to the Calhoun County Spelling Bee on February 1, 2012. Let's wish her lots of luck. Also, congratulations to all the 4th - 6th grade homeroom spelling bee winners who participated in this year's bee:

Sarah Green (4th grade)
Adam Stremmel (4th grade)
Shelley Phillips (5th grade)
Sarah Abdul Ghani (5th grade)
Grayson Marlowe (5th grade)
Jenna Stremmel (5th grade)
Sonia Kashyap (6th grade)
Tej Patel (6th grade)

Volleyball All-County Honors Announced

Congratulations to Sally Barber, Adele Fink, Grace Fink, Rachel Matson, Katie Swinford, Anna Turner and Peyton van Ekris for being named to the Anniston Star All-County Volleyball team for 1A-2A schools.
 
Rachel was selected as The Star’s 2011 Class 1A-2A Calhoun County Player of the Year by local coaches. Coach Janice Slay was selected as The Star’s 2011 Class 1A-2A Calhoun County Coach of the Year.
 
Grace, Katie and Peyton received first team honors, and Sally, Adele and Anna received honorable mention. 
 
We are so proud of you!

Student Qualifies for All-State Chorus

Congratulations to Katherine Westbrook who qualified for All-State Chorus! This is her third time to be selected for this honor and to represent The Donoho School. All-State Chorus is considered one of the highest honors that can be awarded to a high school choral student in the state of Alabama.
 
She will spend many hours in rehearsals with other students from all across the state who were selected for the High School All-State Treble Choir and under the direction of Sandra Snow, conductor of the Michigan State University Women's Chamber Ensemble.  Snow is an experienced clinician and has been chosen to conduct many honor choir and all-state groups in Texas, New Jersey, Washington, Alabama, Kansas, Missouri and many other states. 
 
The choir will rehearse on the Samford University campus March 8-10, 2012.  Their concert performance will be open to the public and will be performed at The Wright Center auditorium on Saturday afternoon, March 10. Friends, family, and school supporters are welcome and encouraged to attend. Way to go Katherine!

Middle School Quiz Bowl Wins Donoho Tournament

Congratulations to the MS Quiz Bowl team, winners of the 2nd Annual Donoho Quiz Bowl Tournament! The MS Quiz Bowl team competed in the 2nd Annual Donoho Quiz Bowl Tournament, Saturday, November 19. The tournament grew this year to include 13 schools with 18 teams competing, there were 9 schools on a waiting list. The Donoho team members are:  Wittney Brown, Libby Davis, Meghana Giri, Bella Howell, Derek James, Jake Kaplan, Mark Simmons, and Jake Walker. They were undefeated in the tournament. They won their pool play,  the semi-final round,  and took 1st place in the tournament.

Congratulations to Coach Shannon Felder and the Varsity Football team for being named "Team of the Week" by WHMA The Big 95 and Awards to Remember. The Falcons were presented their team of the week trophy this week during the school's pep rally for their 42-6 victory over Akron HS last week. Accepting the award on behalf of Coach Felder and the team were seniors Damien Christen, Teddre Williams, Alex Svensen, Jackson Hodges, Zach St. Clair, Matthew Overton, Tate Thomas, Alec McCormack, Pavan Mudiam and Walker Mason. Way to go Falcons!