The Play’s Afoot! Sherlock Holmes is coming April 22nd & 23rd
Read All About it! Read all about it! Super Sleuth Sherlock Holmes solves his latest caper! Come join the Junior High Drama Team as they present Sherlock Holmes the play for two nights with two different casts! With villains aplenty, you don’t want to miss this highly entertaining show as we travel through the streets of 1890s London. Letters go missing, bombs tick, and the evil Moriarty tricks. Come both nights for double the fun, but watch out for double-crossers! April 22 and April 23 at 7:00 PM Tickets $3 or $12 family Come early and enter our $1 raffle for best seat in the house. Enjoy our pre-show entertainment, and concessions, too! By Tim Kelly and adapted from the original Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Englewood, Colorado
ARCHITECTS OF TOMORROW: Join us for Leadercast on May 6th
Be A Leader Worth Following: Join us on May 6th, 2016 Leadercast is an annual simulcast event that teaches, encourages, and inspires the behaviors that make the best leaders. The Ambrose School is dedicated to growing leaders not just within our own walls, but throughout the Treasure Valley. Come be a part of this amazing one-day event that will change the way you think and lead in your business, your job, your family, and your community. If you’d like to receive updates about this event, please send us an email at communications@theambroseschool.org and we’ll be in touch. About Leadercast… At Leadercast, we believe leaders worth following think and behave differently. These leaders choose to operate in ways that make the people around them better, stronger, and crazy enough to believe they can change the world. We have come to see seven core behaviors that characterize the essence of Leader Worth Following. Our event themes focus on one of these behaviors each year. Architects of Tomorrow At Leadercast 2016, we’ll explore what it means to be a visionary leader by looking at three unique perspectives that an “Architect of Tomorrow” must explore. Visionary leaders have the ability to see a preferred future, operate in the present, and utilize the resources around them to architect a clear path to a new destination. They work tirelessly to empower those around them to bring a vision to life. Leadercast is for leaders from all over the Treasure Valley to come and learn from world-class experts: CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT LEADERCAST
Mock Trial team wins 2016 state championship title
by David Goodwin This is only the second time that Ambrose has clinched the state championship in Mock Trial. Over the past 10 years, Ambrose has battled to the state finals eight times. Ambrose won in 2014 and competed at the National Mock Trial tournament in Madison, Wisconsin. This year, we defeated Logos School in north Idaho to represent Idaho in the first-ever Boise Nationals competition held in Boise on May 12-14. The road to the championship was long. First, we had to advance from the 2016 regional competition held in Caldwell. We defeated Capital and Centennial high schools, as well as our own “B” team, which was the secondary team from Ambrose. We took first place in the southern regional. In the state quarter finals, we defeated Coeur d’Alene and Lake City from the North, as well as Logos School in Moscow’s ‘B’ team, and a team from Helena, Montana. We entered the semi finals as one of the top contenders, having lost no ballots from judges in the earlier regional or state competitions. Ambrose defeated Mountain Home in the semi finals 3-0 to face Logos school in Moscow for the final round in the Idaho Supreme Court. We defeated Logos with the narrowest of margins— 2 ballots to 1, with only one point separating the two teams for the victory. Ambrose had eight students on our winning team. In the final round, student attorneys Noah Pauls, Eric Wilford, and Ally Chaney argued for the Plaintiff in a securities fraud case written by representatives of the Idaho State Bar Assn. Witnesses Reagan Good, Noah Good, and Samantha Baran competed with Leah March rounding out the team as the timekeeper. Leah, Reagan, and Noah played instrumental roles as attorneys and Phillip Cutler as a witness on our defense side in earlier rounds. Mock Trial is a motivating and high-energy competition where teams of 7-9 students construct a court-case out of documents provided to both sides. The teams use strategy, rhetorical skills, argument, and examination skills to battle for a win in any given round. The US National High School Mock Trial championships will be held in Boise for the first time in the event’s history. The Ada County Courthouse will provide the courtrooms for over 46 teams from the more than 50 US states and territories. This annual event draws judges and lawyers who are self-proclaimed “mock trial junkies” from around the nation. And, it draws teams from as far away as the Solomon Islands and South Korea. Ambrose team members win Regional and State Awards At The Regional trials in Caldwell, Ambrose took 5 of 9 attorney awards, as well as 3 witness awards. State Awards State Quarter Final Best Attorneys: Reagan Good, Hannah Owens, Noah Pauls, Eric Wilford Best Witness: Eric Wilford 4 teams in Semi Finals Logos A, Ambrose A, Logos B, Mountain Home Best Attorney: Ally Chaney Best Witness: Samantha Baran 2 Teams in the Finals Logos A, Ambrose A Best Witness: Samantha Baran
Archer boys bring home first Ambrose basketball state championship
It’s been a long time coming. Head Coach Ken Hosier had decided after 11 years to hang up his coaching hat and move into a more expanded role as the school’s science program director. Bringing home a state title his final season would be icing on the cake to a decade of program building. Coach Hosier has gone from practicing on a carpeted (yes, carpeted!) gym in Garden City and making dozens of calls to other Christian schools to organize games for his players, to a shiny new gym in Meridian and moving up to Idaho’s 1A Division I designation this year. The chances were looking good as the Archers remained undefeated in their conference going into the district tourney. After winning district, all eyes turned to the state tournament, where predictions of an Ambrose/Lapwai matchup for the championship came to fruition. Archer fans turned out in force for the final game, where pre-tournament fears and rumors about Lapwai’s undeniable skill as a team turned to reality. Lapwai dominated the first three quarters of the game, though our boys managed to never let their lead get out of reach. At the start of the fourth quarter, the Archers showed their true character and their ability to come together to get a job done. Coming out with guns blazing and making some crucial shots, the Archers pulled ahead and kept the Wildcats at bay until the buzzer. We are all thankful to Coach Hosier for the years of hard work and sacrifice he and his family have made, not to train good basketball players, but to train good men. The state trophy is just icing. SOLI DEO GLORIA! Here are a few links to photos and stories: Ronn Seidenglanz Facebook Album Steve Roser Flickr Album Steve Connor – IdahoSports.com gallery Jason Duchow – IdahoSports.com gallery Championship game story on KTVB Archers on Sunday Sports Extra Idaho Statesman article You can also watch all the state tournament games on IdahoSports.com.
Base Camp: “People of the Book: How Arab Christians and Jews Lived under Islamic Expansion”
Don’t miss this informative talk by 6th grade teacher Hilary Dotters. Hilary will share her knowledge of and real-life experience with the intersection of Islam and Christianity in the Middle East. Tuesday, April 5th, at 7:00 pm in the library “People of the Book: How Arab Christians and Jews Lived under Islamic Expansion” Hilary will address the history of early Islamic expansion as it spread throughout the Middle East and incorporated Christian and Jewish communities alike into its new social and legal framework. She will stress the various views Muslims hold of themselves and Christians, while exploring the historical legal protection provided to Christians as a ‘people of the book.’ She will also speak to the several definitions of Islam. Finally, Hilary will share from her own experiences and reflections after living in a Christian town in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The evening will end with a time for Q&A.
The 5th Grade presents: Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing
On Friday, March 11th at 6:00 pm, come to the school to see our amazing 5th grade players! Audiences continue to be amazed year after year that 5th graders can perform Shakespeare so well. The plays are shortened, but the language remains the same. Our students take this challenge in stride, reeling off lengthy lines of prose with perfect expression and emphasis, obviously understanding, not just reciting, their lines. 5th grade teachers Kathy Troyer and Rebecca Hobbs make sure their students understand the storyline, using it to help students consider the the virtue (or lack of) in the characters. So, this performance is not just drama for drama’s sake. It is a teaching tool as well. While studying the play’s characters helps develop their understanding of virtue, working together as a class to produce something beautiful is another benefit that produces life skills and class unity. Friday will be a great opportunity to see this in action (no cost, but donations are accepted). Come and see! O, had I but followed the arts! – Sir Andrew
There’s more than music at the Idaho Music Educator Association Conference
By Lorna Mitson Last week, two Ambrose students took part in the All State honor groups at the Idaho Music Educator Association’s (IMEA) conference. Four students submitted recorded auditions last fall, three were selected, and two were able to go. It was a fun-filled time of music, food, friends, and even some recreation. Brynn Crownover was part of the inaugural Middle School Honor Choir. She was hesitant to audition for something that seemed so serious, but is glad she did. She writes, ”The experience was extraordinary! I was able to spread smiles and giggly laughter with my new-made friends, along with the Word of our Lord. The performance and rehearsals were not nearly as formal as I anticipated. The director was encouraging, not strict like you might think, but fun and loose. The exquisite music we sang aroused a little spark in my heart, and an extensive love for more grand psalms of praise to glorify our Almighty Father.” The choir performance on Friday was incredible! Well, with one small exception . . . the fire alarm went off during the concert and the building was evacuated. Almost an hour later, we were allowed to return to enjoy the concert. It was worth the wait. Channing Mitson was in the High School Honors Symphony Orchestra. She shares, “This year I got to play two amazing musical compositions and work under the conductor of the Chicago Youth Symphony. I made new friends and hung out with some old ones. We shared music and food and a lot of selfies. I even had the opportunity to share my faith. All State is a huge growing experience and I continue to be inspired by how beautiful music can be.” Mr. Bryant commented about the final concert, “As I listened to the honor orchestra’s transcendent final cadences of ‘Capriccio Espagnole,’ I couldn’t help thinking how amazing it is–how jaw-droppingly unfathomable it is–to have been made in the image of God, and to have had that reality demonstrated so profoundly by those brilliant young musicians.” Mr. Bryant and Mrs. Kapsoff were there thanks to the Teacher Benefits Annual Fund. Mr. Bryant shares, “Attending the conference reinvigorated my desire to see our music program take its place in Idaho’s top tier of high school accomplishment.” Mrs. Kapsoff echoes this sentiment, “It was like having a sneak preview of our own potential. It motivated me to expect more from not only myself but from the Ambrose community and administration as well. Now is the time to increase our efforts by purposefully dedicating the resources to reach that level of excellence. I look forward to the future of our music program.” Experiences like these inspire young musicians and some will pursue music full-time. But even for those who aspire to other callings, colleges and universities often offer scholarships to qualified musicians regardless of major. The next All State IMEA conference will be November 17-19, 2016 at NNU in Nampa. Talk to your music director about submitting an audition this Spring.
“I’ll push you.”
MARCH 16TH! Mark your calendar! The entire Ambrose community is invited to hear Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray speak at a grand exordium (3rd – 12th grades) at 9:00 am on March 16th. In the spring of 2012, Justin Skeesuck asked his best friend of nearly 40 years, Patrick Gray, to tackle the epic 500 mile pilgrimage across northern Spain called the Camino de Santiago. The challenge? Justin lives life in a wheelchair. When asked, Patrick’s response was simple and direct; he said, “I’ll push you.” Learn more about their incredible story and watch the film trailer at illpushyou.com. Then come meet them in person on March 16th.
