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SOUTH EAST PSTO SOUTH EAST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2501 Bradford Drive Iowa City, IA 52240 TEL 319-688-1070 NEWSLETTER FAX 319-688-1079 A key to 2016 Magazine Sale your A fun and exciting magazine drive student’s came to a close on November 1, November, 2016 2016. Students sold subscriptions success! totaling over $16,000. This is significantly short of our goal of Inside… Please remember to call 688-1071 before $50,000. Donations can still be made 8:00 am if your student is going to be to this fundraiser to help us meet our absent or late! Being late for school hurts goal. Proceeds from the annual PSTO Minutes a child’s learning - a student that is 10 minutes late every day will miss 30 hours event fund student activities such as of instruction throughout the year! Your music, sports, field trips, after school Removing Barriers child’s success in school depends on clubs and supplemental classroom to Learning having a solid educational background – activities. one that can only be gained through regular school attendance! There are Students earned cash and prizes 17-18 Registration two kinds of tardiness--to school and to throughout the magazine drive, and class--and they are either excused or individuals and classes achieving high unexcused. levels received special Share your Tardy to school occurs in the morning. recognition. Congratulations to School Day Pass slips for this tardy must be picked up students on their outstanding at the attendance window. Tardy to class salesmanship! Top sales person this occurs between class periods. Teachers year was Ella Cook with 25 total Report Cards will handle these tardies. Students are orders and LEngle Charis-Carlson had expected to be in their assigned location in the biggest donation! Donations are the classroom when the bell rings. Announcements truly appreciated and 100% goes to Tardiness will be excused for the following SE. reasons: Parent Teacher 1. Late bus. We’d also like to thank all our 2. Detained by a teacher, counselor, or Conferences volunteers and staff for their administrator. efforts. Year after year the success of 3. Emergency situations with principal’s approval. our magazine sale can be attributed to After School the excellent leadership and Unexcused tardies are defined as a unflagging support of the entire SE Clubs student not being in their assigned location population--parents, teachers, staff, (room or seat) when the tardy bell rings to and other well-wishers in the begin the period. community. Oversleeping, missing the bus, or waiting for a ride are NOT valid Finally, a special thank you goes out excuses for tardiness even if the to Heather Bright and the wonderful absence is called in by a parent/ team of volunteers for leading the fundraiser. guardian. EQUITY STATEMENT Thanks for all you do! It is the policy of the Iowa City Community School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status in its educational programs, activities, or employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy, please contact Kingsley Botchway II, Director of Equity, 1725 N. Dodge St., Iowa City, IA 52245, 319-688-1000, [email protected]. 2017-2018 Registration is Just Around the Corner! It is hard to believe, but once the new year begins, SE administrators and counselors will be out to our elementary schools and into 7th grade classes to register students for junior high – and the counselors from City High will be visiting our 8th grade classrooms to register the 2017 Freshmen Class for their first year at City High! Stay tuned for more specific information as details are sent home with your students. Rough Weather Administrators will use Blackboard Connect to notify Share Your School Day parents of inclement weather decisions via telephone. School Ever thought about doing junior high over again? Can’t wait closings are also broadcast on local TV and radio stations. to warm up those old memories? Why not create new Information will be posted on the district website too. memories with your own student by joining us for South East’s Share Your School Day? What if we have a delay of school due to weather? The radio and TV will announce how long the delay will be. It will be On Thursday, February 2, you may visit school with your stated in terms of 1 hour or 2 hours. If it is a one hour delay, student for all or part of the day. The staff will welcome then school will start at 9:50 AM; if a 2 hour delay, school parents and guardians over age 21 to attend classes, eat will start at 10:50 AM. We will then run an adjusted schedule lunch, and enjoy a day in the life of your junior high student! throughout the rest of the school day. School buses will run late by one or two hours. Please check in at the table in the main foyer and pick up a schedule and nametag. You may also bring your student in Your student should arrive at school one to two hours later early with you if you like! Mark your calendar – come on than when you would normally have your student arrive. back to junior high! Therefore, if you drive your student to school and drop him or her off at 8:30 AM on a regular school day, doing so at Iowa Assessment Tests Administered 10:30 AM would be appropriate when there is a two hour Thanks to the efforts of everyone, SEJHS students delay. The school will have minimal staff available for participated in four very successful days of Iowa Assessment supervision of students during these delays and we would tests. Results will be available on PowerSchool. We will let appreciate students arriving as close to the actual delay start you know when they are posted. time as possible. Report Cards What if I Need A Weather Update? Students should have received their 1st trimester report Go to the ICCSD http://www.edline.net/pages/ICCSD or tune cards around November 18th. We use a 4.0 grading scale in to KXIC, KCJJ, KRUI, Q103, KRNA, WMT, KFMW, with no additional point value for “+” or “-” marks. Each WSUI, WHO, KHAK, KCCK, KUNI, KCRG-TV, KGAN- trimester grade stands alone, and three separate grades are TV, KWWL-TV. The radio stations have been very helpful recorded for year-long classes. in getting out the word if there is a change. Station managers request that the public refrain from calling in for information. Students are eligible for Honor Roll each Trimester if they have at least a 3.0 grade point average, and special The District’s Board of Directors has approved a new recognition is given to students with a 4.0 grade point policy outlining the District’s inclement weather average. guidelines. The policy was created to better define school cancellation procedures for parents, students and staff. The policy outlines how the District will handle schedule changes, delays, early dismissals and cancellations related to inclement weather. The established standards will help parents know exactly what to expect when inclement weather hits. To view the new guidelines, visit: http://bit.ly/1LAXtBw. HONOR ROLL for the first trimester will be published in the next Newsletter, the beginning of We will also have an update message on our school answer February. machine, so you could call 688-1070. SOUTH EAST JUNIOR HIGH AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS 2016-17 * Spring Musical – The spring *Chess Club: is on Mondays, 4:10- approaches to challenging musical will hold auditions in 5:10 in room 109. Meet Mr. mathematical situations. January and will be presented the Chambers to learn to play chess week before spring break. All *After School Art (UAY): meets and compete against other SE levels of experience are welcome in room 130 every Tuesday 4 - students! to participate either on stage or 5:45 pm. Art activities, games behind the scenes. The sponsor is and a little snack are provided. Ms. Finger. Join us for fun after school. * South East Talent Showcase – Polar Bear Club: will be meeting South East hosts a talent show on Mondays and Wednesdays (4:15 every spring for wish you can – 5:10) beginning after winter *GLOW club: G.L.O.W. Club meets audition. Unlike a typical variety break. We will have fun running in Wednesdays from 7:40 - 8:20 a.m. show, all talents are encouraged to the snow, learning core strength Our motto is ALL ARE WELCOME; audition—skateboarding, fashion exercises, and drinking hot NONE ARE JUDGED. The mission design, and martial artistry are chocolate! We encourage cross of the SE Glow Club is to educate examples of the kinds of varied country and track athletes as well the community about LGBTQ talents that should be shared and as any other student interested in issues; to build and support celebrated by our South East staying fit and socializing with acceptance for everyone; to work Talent Showcase audience! Be friends during the winter months. to end bullying, harassment, and sure to look for announcements The Polar Bear Club meets with ignorant behavior in our school; to and publicity regarding this event. empower people to love Mr. Smith in room 211. themselves; and to be supportive *STEM (Science Technology *Sewing/Craft Club will meet on friends to each other. The Engineering Math) Club will meet Fridays from 4:00 – 5:00 to G.L.O.W.