On Sept. 23, Carlé students and staff went to Highland Springs for the entire day. Staff and students played games designed to help students become a more effective team.

Students and staff cooked and shared a barbecue together. It was a wonderful chance for the students and teachers to bond with no written schoolwork!

Many people pitched in to make the trip possible. Most notably was the person that helped to plan free lunch for everyone, Pat Howell.

Pat is and aide at Carlé but takes on so much more to help students and staff. Pat did not do it on her own.

There was many students that helped with this field trip. There was Desiree Bauer, Carlé's student body president who helped Pat prep all the food for the trip. Thanks go out to substitute Cathy Hammond who to got food ready for the trip. Leah Davidson, a Carlé graduate last year and Jorge Vieira were the very special barbecue chefs.

Carlé would like to thank these special people for taking their time to make this trip special.

Back to school night was on Thursday, Sept. 29, there will be more information in the next article.

Carlé will have the next CAHSEE Oct. 4-5 for all the 11th and 12th grade students who need to take it.

Carlé also will have the ASVAB test on Oct. 12. For anybody who doesn't know, the ASVAB is a

military aptitude test, and you don't have to be interested in the military to take it. It reveals areas that students excel in with and eye on the best kind of jobs for their talents. Best of luck students!

Carlé's first grading period will end on Oct. 7, so it's time to work hard to get gold and silver level.

For all who don't know there are many perks to earning high grades and credits at Carlé.

First and most obvious there is graduating, but there are also field trips and free things from the media room for students who can sustain levels from grade period to grade period.

The way the level system works is that if you earn 12 to 15 credits within each of our six six week grading periods you will receive silver level. If you earn 15 or more credits along with better than 90 percent attendance you will receive a gold level card from the wonderful super secretary Barbara Dye.

Anybody who comes to school every day and does their work should usually get silver level, however there are many more perks to putting forth the extra work and earning the highest gold level.

This week there are new students Carlé will like to welcome: Justin Bobbit, Brandon Cruz, Jesse Harrell, Tim Hernandez, Talmage Jones, Anthony Olmedo, Bryan Olmedo, Dane Pearson, Shawna Sample and Alexandrea Von Rekowski.

Everybody have a great week!

Chrissie Green and Jade Fox are students at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.