Calendar
As an international school, we have many parent requests for longer holidays for families to travel. Our calendar has fewer isolated holidays and more long weekends (Sept. 3 & 6, Jan. 14 & 17, Feb. 18 & 21). We have 3 week-long holidays (Oct. 11 – 15, Nov. 22 – 26, and March 14 – 18). Winter break is December 20 – January 2, 2011. We do not take off school for the public school holiday on Veterans Day on Thursday, Nov 11. This calendar was determined by an online parent survey conducted in January, 2010.
With our extended school day, students at The Capitol School have the opportunity to be at school 40% more (520 hours) than schools on the 8:00 – 2:30 schedule. In addition, we offer 10 weeks of Summer Explorations.
Parents may choose which religious holidays their children observe. Please send a note to your child’s teacher to inform him/her of upcoming holidays when your child will not attend school or will have special needs while they are in school such as specific times for prayer or fasting.
Fall Term 2010
| August 12-14 | Required | Parent Intake Conferences with Teachers |
| August 16 | School Opens | First Day for Students |
| August 24 | PTA (5:15pm) | Pizza Picnic on Capitol Park |
| September 3 | No School | Long Holiday Weekend |
| September 6 | No School | Labor Day Holiday |
| September 14 | Book Club (4:00pm) | Buy Intelligence Reframed by Howard Gardner to discuss |
| September 23 | PTA (5:30pm) | Meet your child’s Expert Teachers |
| October 7-8 | No School | Required Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences |
| October 11-15 | No School | Fall Break |
| October 19 | Book Club (4:00pm) | Buy The Trouble with Boys by Peg Tyre to discuss |
| October 29 | Fall/Halloween Photos | (2:30pm-5:00pm) Skip Baumhower will take photos on Capitol Park |
| November 16 | PTA (5:30pm) | Thanksgiving Dinner at First Baptist Church |
| November 22–26 | No School | Thanksgiving Holidays |
| December 7 | Book Club (4:00pm) | Buy Queen Bees & Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman to discuss |
| December 20 | No School | Winter Break until January 3, 2011 |
Spring Term 2011
| January 3 | School Opens | First Day for Students |
| January 11 | Book Club (4:00pm) | Buy The Minds of Boys by Michael Gurian & Kathy Stevens to discuss |
| January 14 | No School | Long Holiday Weekend |
| January 17 | No School | Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday |
| February 10 | PTA (5:30pm) | International Dinner at Trinity United Methodist Church |
| February 18 | No School | Long Holiday Weekend |
| February 21 | No School | Presidents’ Day Holiday |
| March 1 | PTA (5:30pm) | Math Night in each cluster |
| March 10-11 | No School | Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences by appointment |
| March 14–18 | No School | Spring Break |
| April 7 | Book Club (4:00pm) | Buy Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell for $28 to discuss |
| April 22 | No School | Teacher Inservice |
| May 3 | PTA (5:30pm) | Picnic & Art/Photo Show on Capitol Park |
| May 19 | Last School Day | Students’ last day of classes |
| May 20 | Honors Ceremonies | TBA for each cluster |
| May 24 | No School | Last day for teachers |
