Good Morning!
Excellent effort on keeping a safe and warm environment for students to perform at their maximum potential on the EOG. Let's continue as we have a few students to re-test over the next 2 days. Locations for testing Friday (today)
- Main floor - Media & Art Room
- Outside - Mobile 34, Mobile 35, Mobile 38, Mobile 40
- Upstairs - Resource & Guidance
Next Week - May 21-25th - brings the opportunity to enrich all our students with engaging instruction. Utilize methods to "connect" topics from this year and bring relevance into everything you plan. Our schedule for the week is......
- Remain in our EOG lunch schedule. (posted on the board and in the Blog documents "May 21-25, 2012 schedules")
- Have a NEW Specials schedule (posted on the board and in the Blog documents "May 21-25, 2012 schedules")
- Have a NEW Recess schedule (posted on the board and in the Blog documents "May 21-25, 2012 schedules")
- Have a K-1 Musical Performance on Friday at 2pm
- Have CPR training for selected Staff on Wednesday May 23rd
- Have BAGELS in the Fridge room on Monday as a thanks from Kathy, Andy and I for your cooperation and dedication to students during our EOG week.
- Have student's best interest at heart and plan instruction so that we do not know which group is "remediation" and which is "enrichment."
More Schedule info about next year and beyond is below.
The 2012-13 calendar: The Department of Public Instruction
has granted our last waiver request, so we’ve been able to finalize the
180-day calendar for next school year. School will start on Monday, Aug.
27, and the last day is scheduled to be Monday,
June 10. Open house for middle schools will be Aug. 21; for high
schools, Aug. 22; and for elementary schools, Aug. 23.
You can see the calendar on website at http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/1213calendar.
The 2013-14 calendar: Our board of education will be setting
the 2013-14 calendar at its meetings on May 22 and June 12. The board
will be choosing from two options, which you can see at http://wsfcs.k12.nc.us/1314calendar.
The traditional calendar: This maintains the schedule we’ve
used for several years. School would start Aug. 26 and end June 9.
Students would have two days off for fall break, a 12-day winter break
and one week for spring break.
The unified calendar: We last used this schedule in 2004-05.
School would start on Aug. 5 and end May 28. The calendar would have a
one-week fall break that would include remediation time for some
students, 16 days for winter break and two weeks
for spring break that would include remediation time for some students.
This schedule would allow high schools to finish exams before Christmas.
It also would give more instructional time to students who are below
grade level. The State Board of Education would
have to give us a waiver for us to use this option.
We want to know your opinion, The board will consider input from families,
teachers, principals and the community when adopting the calendar. It
takes two votes to approve the calendar, and those votes
are scheduled for May 22 and June 12. The TAC leaders from Brunson, Kathy and Lara, will address how to express your opinion later next week.
Theo Helm
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