Feb. 28, 2025 Newsletter
Capital High School Family Communication
February 28, 2025
Upcoming Events
- March 14 - Pep Assembly
- March 15 - Tolo Dance
- March 31 - April 4 - Spring Break - No School
Spring Sports
Spring Sports open for registration.
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Spring Sports
- Baseball, Softball, Boys and Girls Golf, Girls Tennis, Boys and Girls Track, Boys Soccer.
- First practice is March 3, must be registered by March 2 @ 5pm to participate in first practice.
Capital High School Attendance 2024-2025
ATTENDANCE OFFICE: (360) 596-8019
Attendance Secretary - Holly Loveland - [email protected]
When arriving at voicemail, please speak clearly and include the following information in your message:
- Student name (please spell last name)
- Parent or guardian name
- Reason for the absence/specific type of appointment (it is not excused without a reason)
EXCUSING YOUR STUDENT: A PARENT OR GUARDIAN MUST CALL THE ATTENDANCE OFFICE TO EXCUSE A STUDENT’S ABSENCE OR AN EXCUSED TARDY (excused tardy: late from medical appointment, dental). Calls must be received within 48 hours of a student’s absence or tardy. The voice mail is available at any time of the day to leave a message. For attendance purposes a note will not be accepted.
ARRIVING LATE or REMOVING YOUR STUDENT FOR AN APPOINTMENT: Advanced notification to the attendance office saves disruption to the teachers, students and staff in trying to locate the student on short notice.
- It is very important to understand that a parent/guardian must call AND the student must sign out AND back in with the Attendance Office.
- PLEASE CALL the attendance office at least 1-2 hours in advance to arrange those details - the earlier the better!
- State your student’s name, spelling the last name.
- State the type of appointment: Doctor, Dentist, Legal, Professional etc…
- State the time your student needs to leave or approximate time your student will be arriving at school.
When given advance notice we will send a note to have your student dismissed for their appointment. Your student then goes to the Attendance Office to SIGN OUT. When your student returns from their appointment they will sign back in at the Attendance Office and receive a pass to class. Please remind your students that they need to sign in and out from the Attendance Office!
EXTENDED LEAVE OF ABSENCE: ANY ABSENCE OVER THREE DAYS (NOT INCLUDING ILLNESS) MUST HAVE PRIOR APPROVAL THROUGH THE Extended Leave of Absence form. Signatures from the Dean of Students, parents and teachers are all required. This process may take a couple days to complete so please plan in advance. Forms may be obtained in the attendance office.
EXCESSIVE EXCUSED ABSENCES: Excessive excused absences MAY result in a Dr. note being required to excuse all absences. CHS Administration will contact the parent/guardian.
Message from the CHS Parent Organization
Dear fellow CHS parents & guardians,
Your CHS Parent Organization (CHSPO) officers are putting our hearts on our sleeves to ask for your help. The organization elects 4 officers each year and while we have volunteered to keep CHSPO running and meeting each month, there have been some life events happening with a few of us, as well as work preventing us from having bandwidth to do more. We know we're not alone in either of those situations! However, we're hoping a few of you might have time to help us.
Our mission as currently stated in our by-laws (which are under review as we come out of COVID & try to clean things up) is as follows:
Article II. Purpose
The purpose of the CHSPO shall be:
- Exclusively educational and charitable.
- To support educational endeavors at CHS.
- To promote volunteerism in support of educational endeavors at CHS.
- To provide a forum for CHS parents/guardians to become informed and involved in school activities, policies, and programs.
One of our favorite things our organization does is funding specific requests for teacher grants. To do that, we need funds. We are looking for ideas, and most importantly people, to run point on fundraisers. We completed a round of teacher grants in the fall, but will need to do some fundraising to do the same next fall. If we can raise enough funds, perhaps we could even consider funding some requests this spring. We love our community and seeing the amazing things everyone is capable of accomplishing! However, we need more folks willing and able to help fundraise.
Would you consider emailing us back with ideas for how we get more people involved? Or better yet, come to our meetings and offer your ideas & time? Our meetings are the first Tuesdays of the month; March 4 @ 6:00 pm is our next meeting. We need leaders to come up with ideas and organize them, as well as volunteers to pull them off. Your CHSPO officers want to hear from you!
Thank you for considering helping CHSPO!
Community Connections
The Olympia Education Foundation is hosting an in person event on Wednesday, March 19th from 6:30pm-8pm at the Ashho Cultural Community Center (5757 Littlerock Rd. SW #4, Tumwater, WA) as part of their well-being speaker series. This event presents Dr. Bre Haizlip with the topic: Mental Health is Generational Wealth. Please register for this event at the Olympia Education Foundation Student & community well-being webpage.
Spring Fling Tolo Dance
Tolo Dance Information
- Tolo will be Saturday, March 15th from 8-10:30pm at Capital High School Commons
- Must have ID and ticket for entry into dance. No entry after 8:30 p.m. and no re-entry.
- Students can purchase tickets before and after school, ten minute break and at lunch. Tickets will NOT be sold at the dance.
- Tickets are sold individually
- $15 with ASB
- $20 without ASB
- Last day to purchase tickets is Friday, March 14th, 2024, 3:45.
- If you are taking a guest to Tolo, please make sure and submit a completed Guest Pass form. Turn in the completed form with a guest ID to the front office. Guest pass forms are in the Main Office, ASB Office and Athletics Office.
- Completed Guest pass forms are due by Wednesday, March 12th.
- We are looking for volunteers to help chaperone the dance. Please email [email protected]. It's a really fun time and a great way to get involved in our school community!
- Go Cougs!
CHS Transfer Families
It's that time of year again to complete your annual Transfer request through the district office. If you live outside of CHS boundaries you MUST complete an annual transfer request. The 2026 Transfer request page for the 2025/2026 School year is now open. Completing this early is highly encouraged as this helps us better plan for staffing and scheduling. Please go to the Olympia School District website and choose transfers. If you have any questions please reach out to our Registrar Sarah Sadlemyer at [email protected].
From the Counseling Center
REGISTRATION FOR THE 25-26 SCHOOL YEAR
We need EVERY student who is returning to CHS next year to complete their Class Registration requests by March 3rd. Counselors will be presenting in classrooms and students will have a chance to still meet with their counselor to review their selections and make adjustments if needed. Follow this LINK for our registration website.
News from the CCRC
ALL THINGS SCHOOLINKS! Mrs. Smith will be presenting in the classrooms again this semester and helping students with their SchooLinks. If your student doesn't attend English class at CHS, please have them meet with Mrs. Smith to make sure they are completing all that is needed. SchooLinks is our platform for the High School and Beyond Plan and it is one of the Graduation Requirements. To make an appointment with Mrs. Smith your student can either Email: [email protected] Call: (360) 596-8029 or use link: Schedule Appointment
SENIORS MUST ADD COLLEGES IN SCHOOLINKS IF THEY HAVE NOT DONE THIS YET, PLEASE SEND THEM TO THEIR COUNSELOR OR MRS. SMITH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Senior Exit Interviews
Seniors will need to have ALL of their tasks and Personalized Plans completed in SchooLinks, by March 1st so they can schedule their Senior Exit Interviews with Mrs. Smith. The Senior Exit Interviews will be scheduled for either May 8th or May 15th.
Scholarships
OSD SCHOLARSHIP LIST (24-25)
The College Websites that your student applies to other Scholarship Platforms
FAFSA/WASFA
Many Scholarships will ask for Financial Aid information, so if your student has not completed the FAFSA/WASFA. Here is the link for FAFSA: https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa Here is the link to learn more about WASFA https://wsac.wa.gov/WASFAelig