The College Preparatory School - Events and Traditions

Events and Traditions

• The school newspaper is the "College Prep Radar", and the yearbook is known as Entropy.
• Every year the school features a large scale performing arts event, alternating yearly between a musical and music "tour", where the Chorus, AVE, Jazz Band, Orchestra, Chamber Music, and Intermediate and Advanced Dance classes perform around California. Also, there are music concerts, art exhibitions, and dance shows several times each semester on the school's campus.
• "Snow Trip" is a three-day all-school trip to Bear Valley in the Sierra Nevadas after semester finals in January
• "CPS Day" is a morning of alternative education and an afternoon of work assignments for the benefit of the school grounds
• "Intraterm" is a week in the middle of spring semester which affords students the opportunity to travel on an organized trip or take or teach alternative classes.
• Students participate in various community-awareness activities such as Oxfam and Adopt-a-Family.
• "Senior Ditch Day" is a healthy College Prep tradition where seniors decorate the school with elaborate signs and artwork, adhering to one unified theme. It generally takes place in the last few weeks of school, and is actually condoned and chaperoned by several faculty members, who remove content that is in poor taste.