AM Announcements - March 22

AM Announcements
March 22, 2010

1. Today is Day 126.

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: March 22
Third Quarter testing
Equity+ Principals' meeting - Atkins High School - 12:00-2:00 - Powell off-campus
Leadership Winston-Salem - Education Day debrief - 12:00-1:30 - Reichert off-campus
NCI Refresher course - 3:00-6:00 PM - Powell, SR, Tuttle, Robinson and Reichert

Tuesday: March 23
Third Quarter testing
Speas Idol Student Council Talent Show 6:30-8:00 PM

Wednesday: March 24
Third Quarter testing

Thursday: March 25
Third Quarter testing

Friday: March 26
Third Quarter testing
Dollar Dress Down Day
Box Tops for Education collected

4. Upcoming Calendar Items:
a. 3/30-4/2 - Spring Break
b. 4/08-09 - AGS screening
c. 4/14 - Young Authors' Day
d. 4/16 - Honor Roll Assembly
e. 4/21 - VOlunteer Breakfast

5. Spring pictures will be taken on April 7th and we have been notifed that teachers are responsible to fill out the Green information card for each of their students. These will be placed in your boxes on Monday.

6. Don't forget to take the Governor's Working Conditions Survey. This is an on-line survey and will be open through April 16. This is a chance to have your voice heard on issues that are important to you.

7. The Annual Enrollment Period for the State Health Plan continues and will run through April 9. ALL EMPLOYEES MUST ENROLL ON-LINE through the following website:

http://wsfcs.hrintouch.com/

If you have questions about login or site navigation please call 1-866-239-1055. If you have questions about State Health Plan benefits call 1-888-234-2416.

There is also a button on the WS/FCS web site that you can use to access the enrollment web site.

8. If you have anything that can be reused and placed back in the instructional supply closet, please give it to Ms. Rhodes. Rather than throw it away we will attempt to reuses whatever we can.

9. The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"