Athletics & Activities - Shoshana S. Cardin Jewish Community High School

Athletics

As part of our dedication to excellence, The Shoshana S. Cardin School values physical education and athletic competition as a means to develop character, athletic skills and sportsmanship. The physical education curriculum is designed to give students the confidence and motivation to improve and maintain active, healthy bodies, minds, and lifestyles and to pursue the challenges of new physical activities throughout their lives. The curriculum includes units on health and healthy living and focuses on the social, emotional and physical challenges that teenagers face. Our competitive team sports program focuses on skill development and team work and students have the opportunity to join team sports each session. Our thriving Athletic Program features a wide range of competitive sports. As a co-founding school of the Chesapeake Athletic Conference, the Cardin School has created an exciting opportunity for students to compete against area schools.

Sports Teams include: Boys’ Soccer, Girls’ Soccer, Cross Country, Boys’ Basketball, Girls’ Basketball, Softball, Baseball

Activities
The School participates in national and international student activities through our association with various schools and organizations throughout the world. We are members of the Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS) as well as RAVSAK-The Jewish Community Day School Network.

Clubs, electives and activities are determined by student interest and include:

• Art	• Piano Lessons
• Band	• Robotics
• Chess	• Set Design
• Dance	• Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
• Debate Club	• Student Government
• Drama	• Students for Social Action
• Film Studies	• Talmud
• Guitar	• Theater Production
• Instrumental Ensemble	• Vocal Ensemble
• Israeli Culture	• Yearbook
• Photography	• Yoga

Special Programming
Travel, field trips, holiday celebrations, community service projects and Shabbatonim are also a large component of our programming. Two annual events are signature Cardin activities.

Theater Production
Our theater productions enable students to demonstrate their dramatic talents and skills in dance, choreography, set design, technical work, and backstage management. Recent performances include:

December 2006 —The Fantasticks
The longest running Off-Broadway show, this musical comedy draws on the familiar themes of young love and romance.

January 2006 — 1776
Using humor, dialogue, and song, the play depicts the Founders – Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington – and the challenges they faced in the days preceding America’s independence.

January 2005 — Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Interim Week
The School spends a week between the 2nd and 3rd trimesters engaged in an experiential and interdisciplinary learning program. Regular classes are suspended so that all members of the community, students and faculty alike, learn together in a manner that crosses disciplines and curricula. This is a time of challenge, creativity and community building.

Interim Week 2007 – Six Days Plus Forty Years: The Six-Day War
The week-long experiential project simulated the Six-Day War from multiple viewpoints using innovative activities. It provided a keen understanding of the causes, events, characteristics, and global consequences of the War – and strengthened our students’ connection with Israel. At Kibbutz Cardin, a communal retreat setting, students re-enacted Israeli life according to a timetable and daily theme that paralleled the corresponding day of the War.

Interim Week 2006 - Space/Time University: Einstein 101
The Cardin community celebrated the 101st anniversary of Einstein's "miracle year." Students explored different ways of looking at space and time from the vantage points of science/math, philosophy/religion and arts/culture through study, activities and trips to the National Radiometric Astronomy Observatory and New York City. Students participated in an all-school Shabbaton in which sacred time was explored.

Interim Week 2005 - Ultimate Road Trip
Students researched the lives of Jewish American pioneers and planned a five-day road trip along the East Coast tracing the history of American Jewry. Students and faculty explored the first synagogue in Rhode Island, early Jewish leaders and communities in Philadelphia and Jewish immigration in New York.

Interim Week 2004 - Purim Pandemonium
Faculty and students together participated in a week of study, drama and games culminating in a school-wide celebration of Purim. Students chose mini-courses centering around the theme of Purim, including conceptions of beauty throughout history, probability in games of chance and the derivations of weird and wacky words. Students ended the week by presenting the megillah story through plays that they had written in troupes and genres assigned by lot.