AM Announcements - June 08

AM Announcements
June 08, 2009

1. Today is Day 176 (The last week!).

2. It is the mission of Speas Elementary School to provide its students with the tools necessary to successfully meet the challenges they will face in a diverse world.

3. Calendar items for this week:

Monday: June 08
Student Council Trip
Equity+ Steering Committee meets with Dr. Martin - 4:00 - Reichert off-campus

Tuesday: June 09
Retirement celebration - 2:45 - Media Center
CiCi's Pizza Night - 5:00-8:00 PM

Wednesday: June 10
Class Picnics - 12:00
Ms. Powell and Dr. Reichert meet with Sloan Academics -11:00 AM

Thursday: June 11
Honor Roll Assembly - 8:15 AM
Fifth Grade Celebration - 10:00 AM
Fifth Grade Social - 11:30 AM

Friday: June 12
Dollar Dress Down Day
Last Day of School
Brief staff meeting - 2:45

4. At the end of each day, please do the following:
a. CLOSE ALL BLINDS
b. TURN OFF ALL MONITORS and COMPUTERS (CPU's).

5. K-1 teachers, please remember to collect the yellow book bag tags provided for all K-1 students by transportation. They should be turned in to the office by Tuesday afternoon.

6. Upcoming dates for your calendar:
a. June 16 - Retirement Breakfast - WS Children's Museum
b. June 16 - Staff Luncheon - Golden Corral
c. June 17 - Staff members leave 2 hours early
d. June 17 - Review Committees - 7:30-12:00 - using rooms 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 39
e. June 18 - Furlough Day - Only staff working - Cokley, Higgins, Ireland and Reichert

7. Please look for an e-mail today that spells out growth from the first to second administrations of the 2009 EOG and from the 2008 results to the 2009 results. These are percentages of students who are proficient. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves.

8. We will honor our retiring staff members with a reception on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 2:45 in the media center. Please join us as we celebrate the careers of these individuals and wish them well as a new chapter in their lives begins.

9. Our Prioritized Title-1 Plan was submitted on Friday and was reviewed over the weekend. The plan is based on our SIP which was approved back in January. Yesterday afternoon, I was informed that our plan passed scrutiny and all that is needed is for us to make a couple of changes to reflect some things like are not normally a part of the plan. One example is that Equity+ bonuses are to be paid out of our Title-1 allotment this year. That was not part of our SIP and we have to revise it to include that.

10. A crew from Greensboro will be on-site today. They will be boring test holes between the back building and the tree line to check the extent of subsurface rock formations. While this drilling is going on please keep your students out of the area behind the school.

11. Please turn in your list of Honor Roll students to Ms. Rhodes by tomorrow afternoon so she can have certificates printed in time for the assembly and celebration.

12. Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)