The Week Ahead - Hello 2019!
All Week
Snack Duty: Leenstra
Monday, Dec 31
- No School
Tuesday, Jan 1
- No School
Wednesday, Jan 2
- New Faculty Meeting @ 2:20pm in Angelica's room
Thursday, Jan 3
- Visiting student: Tommy Underwood 5th & 6th (partnering student yet tbd)
- Snack Long Advisory
- MS Faculty Meeting @ 3:15pm in MS Faculty Work Room
Friday, Jan 4
Action Items
- Attendance Reporting: As requested by Anelisa, please continue to CHECK SchoolPass and then EMAIL her directly with any changes or absences. Thank you for helping us as we continue to work through the teething issues of this system.
- High School Transition Process: I will be reminding Grade 8 Parents about this process, but Grade 8 Advisors, please also review this. Any teachers receiving recommendation requests, please complete the Google Sheet with this information.
- Reports:
- Course Summaries: These are due by Monday, Jan 7 @ 8am. Please place them in this Semester 1 linked folder. For examples, please follow this link.
- Subject Reports: These are due to the assigned folders by Monday, Feb 4 @ 8am. More details about these to follow next week.
Changes to the Week Ahead, Updates & Reminders
- Finals: The final schedule is almost done and these timed assessments will occur on Jan 17 & 18. There will be a change in the schedule to accommodate a double block for each subject assessed. If you have a summative assessment due that week too before the end of the semester, please be mindful of the finals occurring. We will chat more about these in the MS Faculty Meeting on Thursday.
- Attendance Reporting: Please remember to email Anelisa your changes for attendance (including tardies) and after-school plans. You should compare to SchoolPass but NOT edit it. Anelisa will do this for you. Thank you!
- USB Tutors: A small group from the USB have offered to tutor any LS and MS students as necessary. They have times free most days from 3-4pm. Jeremy, Ann, and I are supervising this. If you have a student whom you think would benefit from some one-on-one help from these wonderful USB students, please let myself and Andrea know.
- Faculty Meetings for 2019: In preparation for our MYP Evaluation, we have planned out the meetings for the next year. Please make sure that these are on your calendars and as soon as the MS Office Coordinator spot is filled, these will be added to the MS Calendar too.
Visiting Students
- Thursday, Jan 3: Tommy Underwood 5th & 6th
Absent Students
- None
Kudos!
- The last week was crazy stressful and amazingly rewarding! There are a lot of folks to specifically thank:
- Thanks to the musical talent of Jeff Orr and Leon for the Holiday Sing-along musical accompaniment and entertainment.
- Thank you to Shelli for going that extra mile in organizing Holiday Tea and Faculty Share.
- Thank you to Stuart and Leon for organizing the beautiful musical presentations at Lessons & Carols, Holiday Tea, and Grandparents' Day. They all sounded amazing!
- And lastly, thank you to Kyle for organizing another epic White Elephant party! If you couldn't make it, please ask Andrea about her pickles!
The Month Ahead
- Monday, Jan 7: Course Summaries due
- Friday, Jan 11: Across the Commons
- Tuesday, Jan 15: SHARE Clubs
- Thursday, Jan 17: MS Finals
- Friday, Jan 18: MS Finals
- Monday, Jan 21: No School MLK Day
- Thursday, Jan 24: MS Atheltic Awards @ 2:15pm
- Friday, Jan 25: MS Dance @ 7pm
- Monday, Jan 28: Drug Prevention Presentation @ 2:05pm
- Monday, Feb 4: Subject Reports due by 8am
- Friday, Feb 8: US Scholar Search
- Saturday, Feb 9: Ticket to Thrive & PD Day
- Friday, Feb 15: School Closed - Presidents' Day
- Monday, Feb 18: School Closed - Presidents' Day
- Thursday, Feb 21: Service Learning Days
- Friday, Feb 22: Service Learning Days
