Last week Carlé High School welcomed three new students: Nick Begins, Sergio Beltran and Shaunara Pannyasy.

In addition, the Carlé student body found out who made what levels in the fourth grading period.

What the levels are: In each six week grading period to earn bronze level a student needs to have 80 percent attendance and a minimum of nine credits. Silver level means a minimum of 85 percent attendance and at least 12 credits. Gold level means at least 90 percent attendance and a minimum of15 credits.

The students who made gold level this last grading period are Jason Arson, Gage Beck, José Bendana, Logan Carlson, Doyle Conatser, Alyssa Garnett, Jasmine Heckard, Angel Hernandez, Stevie Jones, Roy Kirk, Aneesa Lopez, Robert McGraw, Regina Perrin-Clanton, Rogelio Ramirez, Daniel Salvante and Alexus Stickle.

Our Student of the Week last week was Kayla Van Horn. Kayla has been a wonderful student with her eyes on the prize. She has been so focused that she is within just a few credits of graduation. Congratulations to this smart and focused student.

Students Daria Seslar and Vanessa Leon have taken over birthday card making. Each and every one of our students gets a special memento hand created on their birthdays.

Last week Carlé awarded perfect attendance awards created by secretary Barbara Dye to these students: Nicole Arlitt, Dameon Dawson, Gage Fowler, Alyssa Garnett, Angel Hernandez, Kristin Melcher and Alexus Stickle.

Every 6 weeks students who make gold level take a trip, the last trip was to a place called Scandia. Teachers Alan Siegel and Dan Maes accompanied the gold level students on this adventure.

This week we had a portfolio presentation by Blake Von Rekowski. Blake expressed his love for the school and explained how much he felt like a valued individual during his time at the school.

We also held the silver level movie for gold, silver and bronze with 100 percent attendance.

We would like to thank student Dameon Dawson for all his hard work preparing the library and setting up the video and sound systems. In addition Dameon stayed late after school to reclean the library and take everything down. Now, that is the Carlé Way!

Student council held a lunchtime activity on Feb. 20. Led by Principal Strahl they held a ping-pong contest and the winners were Alexis Stickle, Sam Martinez and Alex Landeros.

Jason Conatser and Danny Salvante are students at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.