AM Announcements - May 19

AM Announcements
May 19, 2010

1. Today is Day 164.

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:

Wednesday: May 19
EOG 3-5 - Math - Calculator Active test

Thursday: May 20
EOG 3-5 - Math - Calculator Inactive test

Friday: May 21
EOG - Make-up testing

3. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 05/25 - Web Page migration session to School Wires
b. 05/26 - Web Page migration session to School Wires
c. 05/28 - Dollar Dress Down Day
d. 05/28 - Box Tops for Education due
e. 05/31 - Memorial Day - No School
f. 06/01-06/04 - EOG Remediation
g. 06/04 - Class Picnics
h. 06/08 - Fifth Grade Celebration; Honor Roll Assembly; Fifth Grade Social

4. Today we take the EOG Math - Calculator Act test for all grades 3-5. Please keep your classes quiet in the halls as there will be testing taking place throughout the building.

5. The Spring Extravaganza art show is fast approaching. The exhibit will be held again this year at the Old Salem Visitor's Center. You are invited to celebrate the creative work of our students this year. The opening night is Friday, May 21st from 6-8pm. The show will run from May 21st to the 28th.

6. Don't forget to turn in your pledge card for the UNCF drive. The current total is $740.00. Remember that the drive ends this Friday, May 21, 2010.

7. The SIT Team made a number of decisions yesterday. Among these are the following:

a. They determined not to buy the Imagine It reading program at this time.
b. To continue to fund the Technology Coordinator's position as a Certified position using Theme money.
c. To maintain funding for the 3.2 positions using a combination of Title-1 funds and other allocations.

Be sure to talk with your representative and check out the minutes on the Shared Volume.

8. The following information was sent to Curriculum Coordinators, Assistant Principals and Principals last night around 9:00 PM. It came from Charlene Davis, Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education. It may directly impact some of the decisions SIT made in the previous paragraph:

If you have been keeping up with the news, you may be aware that there will be further budget cuts. The theme budgets may be cut to $20,000 for each school and foreign language may be cut completely. We will keep you informed as changes are made.


Should these cuts become reality, it would almost certainly mean that we would lose personnel through the surplus process or non renewal of contracts. The number would be dependent on the specific amount of the cuts. It would also mean that there would be shifting of positions in order to place the appropriate people in the remaining positions.

9. If you have not completed the survey from WSSU regarding Gang Activity please do it today before you go home. This is a system-wide survey. Thanks in advance for your response.

10. The address of the blog for staff comment on the information presented to SIT last Tuesday is:

http://2010-11organizationstructureb.blogspot.com/2010/05/2010-2011-structure-organization-and.html

You may click on the above address or copy and paste it into your favorites. Please continue to express your feelings regarding organization and structure for next year. This is valuable information for SIT. As noted above we may have to make a number of unanticipated changes and we need the opinions of all staff members.

12. The following addresses can be used for "Thank You" notes for the book give away last Friday:

American Association of University Women (First three (3) names)

Janice Imgrund
340 Ja-Mar Dr.
Kernersville, NC 27284

Norma Bernhardt
3919 Hampton Road
Clemmons, NC 27012

Marilyn Cardwell
2216 Elgin Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27103

City of Winston-Salem, Parks and Recreation Department

Ronald Beverly
City of Winston-Salem
Recreation & Parks Department
P.O.Box 2511,
Winston-Salem, NC 27102-2511

Dan R. Ariail
City of Winston-Salem
Recreation & Parks Department
Polo Park Recreation Center
1850 W. Polo Rd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27106

13. The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull (1943 - )

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn