Recent ActivityRegular CISL Boosters meetings are the first Monday of the month. Please note that 75% of Booster fundraising profits go towards credits for student accounts, which are used by the student to help pay for any Hylton sponsored activity which has an international focus. 25% of profits go towards funding CISL programs, i.e., annual conference, speakers, or any other activity directly benefitting the entire CISL program.
Join the CISL Boosters to support the CISL Program! The Boosters registration form is in the CISL file below. Complete and submit to the CISL Coordinator.
To remain informed about current CISL events and news, we recommend that you join this CISL Boosters SchoolFusion group.
Group Announcements Proposed FY2011 Budget and CISLThe Superintendent presented his proposed 2010-2011 budget to the School Board at this week's School Board meeting. He will be presenting this again to the public on Monday, February 8 at 6 pm. at Stonewall Jackson High School. You may also view this presentation on the pwcs.edu Web site. After Monday's presentation, the School Board will hold a public hearing. If you would like to speak, please contact the Clerk to the School Board by noon on Monday at dentaj@pwcs.edu or at 703. 791.8709. You will be given two minutes. It is not too late to contact representatives in all levels of govermnent to share concerns regarding funding. Contact information is posted to our pwcs.edu Web site.
Wine and Cheese Event PostponedBecause of weather conditions, our CISL Boosters Wine and Cheese Event scheduled for Saturday, February 6, has been postponed. Our new date is Saturday, March 20, at Wegmans from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. We hope that many of you will be able to attend. Cost is $30 per person, which includes a $10 gift card to use at Wegmans and a $5 CISL donation that will help cover costs for our CISL Conference on March 6. Contact Meg Holt, CISL Coordinator, at holtmh@pwcs.edu or Mindy Higgins, CISL Boosters President at 703.492.2568.
Ice Cream Social for CISL Families On Wednesday, March 17 CISL Boosters is sponsoring an Ice Cream Social at 7p.m. in the enclosed cafeteria. This is a great time to come in, share time with other CISL student families, & have dessert (or a backward dinner that starts with dessert!). Reserve the date! Entry amount to be decided at next Boosters meeting.
Boosters help needed for CISL Conference DayOn Saturday, March 6 we will be helping at the CISL Conference. This is a wonderful day filled with interesting topics to learn about. CISL Boosters provides both a light breakfast and lunch with food from various restaurants in the Woodbridge area. It's also a nice day to spend with your child, meeting their friends and friends' parents. We will need volunteers to help over the course of the day but shifts are not that long; feel free to help as much or as little as you want (or not at all but just come & enjoy the conference).
CISL Boosters meeting February 1On Monday, February 1 we will have our February meeting & our Pampered Chef kick-off. Tress Billy, a CISL parent will be there with delicious samples and pamphlets for you to look over. Even though there is no school for the kids that day, Hylton will be open and our meeting will occur in the library. The Booster Board meets at 6:30 p.m. with the general meeting starting at 7:15 p.m. This meeting is also when we will discuss details of the CISL Conference. If you can't attend, Pampered Chef pamphlets will be available to your student at the February 4th CISL student meeting. You can also order online.
Reminder for our Wine and Cheese tasting eventCISL Boosters is holding a wine, cheese, & olive tasting at Wegman's in Woodbridge on Saturday, February 6th from 5-7pm in the upstairs dining area. This is new for CISL Boosters & we are very excited about it. The flyer in CISL files with a reservation form at the bottom needs to be returned to Mrs. Holt quickly. Space is limited to 40 people so make your reservations early. This event is both a Booster get together and a fundraiser for the March CISL Conference. The cost is $30 per person. $25 is the cost Wegman's charges but those who come will receive a $10 Wegman's gift card to spend however they want at Wegman's. $5 will help defray costs of the CISL Conference. So, the true cost to you is $20 per person. Make it a date with a friend or spouse; invite your neighbors or adult family members. Please come out & spend a wonderful early evening with fellow CISL Boosters tasting wines, cheeses, & olives from around the globe.
First Boosters Wine and Cheese Tasting EventSee the flyer in our CISL files below!
Where? Wegmans at 14801 Dining Way, Woodbridge, VA (off Route 1 between Opitz and Dale Boulevard) When? Saturday, February 6, 5 - 7 p.m. What? Taste 6 international wines, 6 types of cheese, and an olive bar How much? $30 per person - inludes $10 gift card to Wegmans at the event, $5 donation towards the CISL conference Checks payable to CISL Boosters. Send to Mrs. Holt no later than February 1 or turn in your payment on February 1 at the Boosters meeting. Limited places available! Book early! Call Mindy Higgins at 703.492.2568 if you have questions. CISL Express bus system - do you use it?Please complete the following information if you are a transfer student and use one of the express bus stops. Email Mrs. Holt with your response at holtmh@pwcs.edu. This will help us to review the ridership of buses and our needs for tranportation. Make sure you include your full name in your email.
Student name: ______________________________ Grade level: ________________________________ Express bus stop used: _______________________ Name of base school: ________________________ Tonight's CISL Boosters meeting!CISL Parents! Tonight, Monday, December 7th at 7pm we will meet at Giorgio's Restaurant, located at 4394 Kevin Walker Drive in Montclair. It is located right off Route 234. The food is Italian and Greek in a nice homey atmosphere. We hope to see many of you there.
 THANK YOU to all who came to the Oxfam Hunger Banquet!Thank you for participating in our annual Oxfam Hunger Banquet. So many people wrote afterwards of the effectiveness of the event in understanding world poverty and hunger. We raised over $700 for the Oxfam organisation to help them continue their work all over the world. We thank the CISL Student Committee for their leadership and commitment to this cause. We hope that you will reserve this date on your calendar for next year.
Sally Foster Orders are Coming!If you placed an order for Sally Foster products through our recent fundraiser, you and/or your parents will be able to pick up your orders on Wednesday evening, November 18, between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. outside my office on A street. If for any reason you are unable to come, please let me know in advance so that the parent volunteers are not waiting for you to arrive. We will then try to deliver the products to you in class during the last period on Thursday, November 19. The packages may be cumbersome so we encourage you to take advantage of the Wednesday pick-up.
Many thanks for your participation in this fundraiser. We also thank Mr. Gary Stiles, CISL parent volunteer, for coordinating this fundraiser. World languages Governor's SchoolGREAT Message from Mrs. Karen Garon, Hylton's world languages chairperson: There will be an Information Meeting for Prospective World Languages Governor's School Candidates on Thursday, November 19th at Oxfam Hunger BanquetThe Center for International Studies and Languages invites you to join us at the annual Oxfam Hunger Banquet on Friday, November 20 in the Enclosed Cafeteria at There will be special presentations that highlight world issues and a dining experience to accompany the event. CISL students will receive three points for their participation and one additional point for family or guest participation. All guests and family members must be over the age of 10. Registration forms will be delivered to your first period classes on Thursday. if you do not receive it, please download the form here. HURRY, REGISTER AS SPACE IS LIMITED! From Oxfam’s Website at http://www.oxfamamerica.org CISL Restaurant Night at Amici'sWe are having a Restaurant CISL Fundraising night on Tuesday, November 10th. Actually, the event lasts all day and all you have to do is frequent Amici's Italian Restaurant and mention Hylton CISL & we will receive a donation to the CISL Boosters to help the CISL program.
Come in and enjoy Italian pizza, entrees, sandwiches, & their popular pizza buffet. Carry out, dine in, whatever suits your needs. Just remember to mention Hylton CISL when you pay your bill. The restaurant is located in the County Center shopping center where Harris Teeter's is. Print our attached flyer as a reminder. Come on in and enjoy a night off from cooking and benefit Hylton CISL Boosters at the same time. CISL Points: Marshall Elementary Multicultural EventThe Marshal Elementary PTO is looking for CISL students to help with their annual Multicultural event. This year's event will be held on Dec. 8th at 6 pm at Marshall ES. If you are interested in volunteering please let Mrs. Deferre know at deferrcm@pwcs.edu. CISL points will be awarded for this activity upon submission of a signed and completed verification form.
Temporary Host Family NeededWe are looking for a host family for a French student for Friday and Saturday, with the French student returning to the original host family on Sunday afternoon/evening depending n your plans. This is an unavoidable circumstance on the part of the original host family. The French exchange student will be able to attend all the homecoming events and on Saturday will be visiting Mount Vernon with the group so there are no additional activities to be planned.
Please let Mrs. Holt know if you are able to help us. Foreign Exchange Opportunities!Four great opportunities are right around the corner for you to travel to one of the following destinations in 2010 and/or 2011!
We have two exchange programs where you step right into the culture of another country, and stay with a family in either Dijon, France, or Verona, Italy, just like our recent guests from Verona and those who are about to arrive from Dijon. Experience this discovery without your family and usual friends here at Hylton and enjoy seeing new sites, eating new foods, meeting new people, hearing a different language! You will be amazed and will always remember this high school experience. You travel over spring break.
We also have an educational tour of England, Wales and Ireland! For this tour, you stay in hotels throughout your visit, and have expert guided tours of historic sites in these three countries as well as see the beautiful countryside along the way. You travel in early summer 2010.
If you would like to hear more information about any of these programs, come to one or all of the following information evenings. On the 22nd you can certainly get information from both rooms. At the French exchange evening, you will also meet many of the French students from Dijon who will be hosting us in the spring! Hear from them about your stay!
Italian Exchange meeting: Thursday, October 22, 7 p.m. in E108
Educational travel to England, Wales and Ireland: Thursday, October 22, 7 p.m. in E126
French Exchange meeting: Monday, October 26, 7 p.m. in the Enclosed cafeteria
These three trips are all approved by Prince William County Schools. They are all officially part of the CISL program. CISL students will receive priority if more than the maximum number of students apply. All applications will be reviewed by Hylton faculty before approval is given.
There is a 4th exchange program to Germany. Students who study German are invited to be part of this county-wide program which involves a 6 week stay, enrolled in school in Germany in the summer of 2011. Students of German will be given the opportunity to be part of the 2010-11 program in the spring.
US FreedomwalkSaturday, October 17, the day we partner with the US Freedom Walk Festival in Washington DC is almost here! Thank you to all the students who have volunteered to help at the two embassy sites of El Salvador and the Korus House, part of the Embassy of Korea. Permission slips have gone out to those students who signed up. Please return your forms if you haven't already done so. Parents, if you are willing to drive, the form is attached to the student forms.
Once all papers are returned, we will determine who is driving to which embassy and at what time. As indicated on the permission form, there are two shifts: 7 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. If in the afternoon we are given the signal that all walkers have passed through our checkpoint, we will be able to leave, possibly earlier than the stated time. If you didn't receive the paperwork but want to help, please pick up a form from my door pocket. If you have not signed up to help, you can always walk! Details of this event are at http://www.ava.org/clubs/usfreedomwalk/. A Successful CISL Boosters Dinner!What a great turn-out for our first international restaurant night of the year, over 30 parents!
We were sorry that Boosters president, Mindy Higgins, was unable to join us. She had to attend a funeral in Rhode Island and was not able to return in time for our meal. We all thank Mrs. Kim Ryals for organizing the evening for us. We look forward to our December event! Our Boosters meeting will be back in the library for our November meeting.
A list of those in attendance has been added to the CISL Booster Minutes folder below. Double check that myou are on this list so that your child can get CISL points. Contact Mrs. Holt with any discrepancies. Thanks to you all for making this such a successful dinner! CISL Football Tailgate!We are holding a special Tailgate Social for CISL families and some special guests on Friday, October 16 before Hylton's football game. Our special guests are a group of female high school soccer players from Uganda. Mr. Steve Duckworth, CISL Boosters Board member, is helping us to coordinate this event. You may email him at ODSCSteve@aol.com with the food items and/or other items you plan to bring. Please tell us how many servings your dish will provide.
Thank you in advance for your response to this call for help. It should be a lot of fun. Details: WHEN: Friday, October 16th
WHERE: in the teachers parking lot, behind the sign at the main entrance
TIME: set up starts at 5:00, event set for 5:30 - 6:30 (+/-)
WHAT: "pot luck" style social with emphasis on hamburgers, hot dogs, salads, sides and deserts; we also need condiments, plates, napkins, bottled water, tables........tail gates
In the case of rain, the event will be held in the school building at the enclosed cafeteria
Note that NO charcoal grills can be used on school grounds
Please email Mr Duckworth with what you plan to bring to this event.
 Burundi Car Wash Thank You!To the 50 CISL students, their parents and all who helped with donations of supplies or more for the car wash in aid of our partner school in If you brought buckets, towels or cleaning supplies that you need back, please check with me as soon as possible. I washed the towels that we had and we can always keep these for next time if you don't need them back. Thank you again! For points, I will record all students who signed in and out, one point per hour's work. You don't need to complete an additional form for the car wash. Sally Foster ReminderHow are your Sally Foster sales going? If everyone sold just $10 worth of goods, we would each make $5 profit. The CISL program would gain $437.50 and student accounts would gain $1225.00. CISL would use its money either for one scholarship, one orientation lunch, or fund the CISL seniors at our Celebration banquet, help fund the CISL Conference Day or assist with our exchange visitors. We gave our Italian visitors CISL spirit wear. We would like to be able to do this again. We would really appreciate your participation. More packets available in my office door. We have extended the returns date to Friday, October 2! AIU High School Diplomats ProgramThe AIU High School Diplomats program brings American and Japanese high school students together at There is an application process for participation in the program. It is limited to 40 participants. All current sophomores and juniors are encouraged to apply. Japanese language is not a pre-requisite. Full scholarships are awarded to the student participants in the program. The dates are July 28 - National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)We want to announce to you a program of the U.S. Department of State through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y). Merit-based scholarships for eligible American high school students are being made available for the study of less commonly taught languages in summer, semester, and academic year overseas immersion programs. NSLI-Y encourages American citizen 15-18 year olds with any level of language experience who have a passion for communicating across cultures, learning languages and living abroad to apply. In 2010/11, there are seven languages: Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Turkish, and Russian. The Russian component of NSLI-Y is one of the program’s largest; in 2010/11 there will be 85 summer slots for Russian alone! Scholarships provide full funding with minimal cost to the family of the student. A 2.5 minimum GPA is required. Applications will be available soon with a deadline of Our Russian teacher, Mr. Rischard, says: "In about a month we will have an evening meeting at Hylton to discuss the program, the application and your thoughts about having your child live in We will let you know the meeting date as soon as possible. CISL Fundraiser begins! |
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| CISL Student Comittee Car Wash (005995) |
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| Oxfam Hunger Banquet (005995) |
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| Pampered Chef Fundraiser |
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| Peel Away Cards Fundraiser |
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| Restaurant Night Fundraisers (various, throughout the year) |
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| Sally Foster Fundraiser (garystiles) |
