Lights, Camera...LEARN!-Here are a few pictures and ideas of some building decorations for our 2012-2013 theme. I ordered these clapboard yard signs with your name and grade level to hang outside your doorways this year. So, you will NOT have to decorate any poster board signs this year. Please don't start crying! I am also covering our tree at the end of the hallway this year with black paper and this hollywood arch. Students who earn individual tigerific tokens and have their name announced on Friday mornings will add their name on a star to this wall. They will still sit at the special table with a friend in the lunchroom.
Donna Creed-I talked to Donna's husband this morning. He said that Donna is getting gaining strength each day with the help of therapy. They are running one more test and are hoping she will be released to go home on Friday. Please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Anita Yates-Anita had laparoscopic hernia surgery on Monday. The surgery went well and Anita is recovering at home. She hopes to be feeling even better by next week with some rest. Keep her in your thoughts! NCLB Waiver-As you might have heard, Missouri passed the NCLB waiver this year. This means that we do NOT have to offer school choice to students! The students who did choose to transfer to WOHE or WC can remain at those buildings through fourth grade. However, if they have younger siblings who will be starting school, they will have to go to WS. We will also NOT offer transportation...no shuttles. Dr. Bishop and Mr. Medlin have communicated this change to families. All of the students who transferred to WOHE will remain at that building this year. At this time we have seven WC students who will be returning to WS due to no transportation. I will try to keep you posted on updated numbers. MAP Scores-I have added 2012 MAP scores to our data page. Please feel free to take a look at what I have added. I will be uploading more as the reports become available. It is going to be a little different for us to look at data this year due to the NCLB waiver and not focusing on AYP. We will be looking more at APR, Index Scores and growth of students. My plan is to have Danielle Sellenriek present this information to our entire staff at a later date. PTO/Volunteer Program-I shared the email with you and parents regarding our dissolution on PTO and starting a volunteer program at WS for this school year. We will discuss this in detail Thursday, August 2nd at 7:00 in the WS library. I have received a couple of emails from parents that were very complimentary for "thinking outside the box" on ways to have more parent involvement. If you have ANY IDEAS for what a volunteer program should look like or any forms/resources Comments are closed.
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