{"id":17777,"date":"2015-12-01T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17777"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:49:36","slug":"khs-to-host-1st-annual-we-are-kennett-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=17777","title":{"rendered":"KHS to host 1st annual \u2018We are Kennett\u2019 night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Academics, athletics and extracurricular activities will be showcased to Kennett community<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>By Kim Chiomento<\/strong>,<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>News Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2013 Kennett Middle School students &#8211;\u00a0grades 6, 7 and 8, their families, and members of the Kennett\u00a0community are invited to attend the first annual \u2018We are Kennett\u2019 night at Kennett High School, 7 PM, Wednesday, December 9.<\/p>\n<p>The open house\u00a0aims to\u00a0educate rising middle school students, and their families,\u00a0about the quality public high school education the Kennett Consolidated School District (KCSD) offers. Attendees\u00a0will have the opportunity to\u00a0speak with teachers, counselors, meet coaches and\u00a0club advisors and gain a feel for what their high school academic experience will be like.<a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KHScorrected.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17841 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KHScorrected-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"KHScorrected\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KHScorrected-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KHScorrected-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KHScorrected.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>KHS principal, Dr. Jeremy Hritz explains, &#8220;We are hoping to encourage middle school students to begin thinking about their high school studies and about all of the opportunities they will have at Kennett High School. We Are Kennett Night will help students to begin creating a vision for what is possible through their education and in their future careers.&#8221;\u00a0 Hritz added, &#8220;We will be sharing a wealth of information, in addition to being able to answer any questions that out students and parents may have&#8230;.A lot of hard work and energy has gone into making this event a possibility, and we hope to make this a yearly event!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KCSD Board President, Heather Schaenn says \u201cWe have been working diligently to better inform our students, families, and constituents of the variety and magnitude of wonderful programs we have implemented at KHS, and offer them an opportunity for all to see the facilities and hear from our dedicated, hardworking staff. We have a great deal of amazing things happening on a daily basis and look forward to sharing them with the Kennett community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schaenn enthusiastically notes, &#8220;This is a great opportunity to learn about all of the programs, details, and opportunities for our students from academics and advanced placement courses, to STEM (Science Technology Engineering &amp; Math), music, arts, drama, athletics, after school clubs, college placements, Vocational-tech options, graduation course requirements and much more.\u00a0 We hope to see you there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academics, athletics and extracurricular activities will be showcased to Kennett community By Kim Chiomento, News Editor, The Times KENNETT SQUARE \u2013 Kennett Middle School students &#8211;\u00a0grades 6, 7 and 8, their families, and members of the Kennett\u00a0community are invited to attend the first annual \u2018We are Kennett\u2019 night at Kennett High School, 7 PM, Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[79,6844],"class_list":["post-17777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-schools","tag-kennett-high-school","tag-we-are-kennett-open-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17842,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions\/17842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}