MISSION BAY CLUSTER • The final Mission Bay Cluster meeting for the current school year will be Thursday, June 7 at 6 p.m. at Mission Bay High School. Join us for updates and year-end wrapups. There will be a presentation and moderated panel by MBHS seniors called “The Successes and Challenges of MBHS,” an honest account of the high school experience. Come learn the truths and the myths about MBHS from a diverse group of students at this highly informative presentation. • The Friends of Pacific Beach Secondary Schools’ (FOPBSS) “Blues By the Bay” Auction was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who contributed items, purchased auction items, donated time and money to make this the most successful fundraiser ever for FOPBSS! • The last day of class for the MB Cluster of schools is Tuesday, June 12. MBHS • The class of 2012 Mission Bay High School will have its graduation ceremony on Tuesday, June 12 at 5 p.m. on the MBHS football field. Rachel Lobato, has been named valedictorian and will be attending Harvard in the fall. Casey Glasgow and Nicole Remsberg have been named salutatorians, and will be attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UCLA. The trio will share its high school experiences and words of encouragement with peers. • Mission Bay High teachers will attend professional development summer camp workshops, beginning June 18. These weeklong teacher trainings are designed to enhance the classroom curriculum and further expand the international baccalaureate program into the ninth and tenth grades. PBMS • Dr. Julie Martel, Pacific Beach Middle School principal, will retire this year after 34 years working in the San Diego Unified School District. PBMS students, parents, teachers and staff will miss her commitment, vision, leadership and friendship. We wish Dr. Martel well in her next steps and hope that she enjoys her much-deserved retirement. • On Tuesday, June 12, Pacific Beach Middle International Baccalaureate School will promote more than 200 eighth-grade students to high school. The graduation ceremony will be held on the PB Recreation Center field. More than 80 students will be recognized with an “Academic Distinction” medal at the PBMS 2012 promotion ceremony. Speakers will be Tim Daly, Hannah Bloom and Lizbet Gonzalez. • Pacific Beach Middle School’s sixth, seventh and eighth grade international baccalaureate students documented over 14,000 hours of service to the local and global community this year. The students with the most service hours documented in each grade will be awarded savings bonds from Kiwanis of Pacific Beach. PB Middle IB service activities included working with seniors at Wesley Palms, planting the new PB Middle School garden, designing healthy meals and delivering dinners to the Storefront Teen Shelter, organizing beach cleanups at the school’s adopted beach, planning a food drive, working with Meals on Wheels and other activities. PBMS international baccalaureate students are inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. PBE, KATE SESSIONS, CROWN POINT JMA and BAY VIEW TERRACE It’s not too late to register for the 2012-13 school year at Pacific Beach Elementary, Kate Sessions Elementary, Crown Point Junior Music Academy and Bay View Terrace Elementary. Check out the great programming at your local school. • Pacific Beach Elementary: www.sandi.net/pbe • Kate Sessions Elementary: www.sandi.net/sessions • Crown Point Junior Music Academy: www.sandi.net/crownpoint • Bay View Terrace: www.sandi.net/bayviewterrace — Jennifer Tandy