Happy Mother's Day! I hope that you all took a moment this weekend to decompress from a long week, refuel, and prepare for the last week of school. Thank you for your work last week. I know that many of you sacrificed your plannings to help make the field days a success. Another loud shout out to Connections and the coaches for organizing a fun event. The students loved it!
I know that the news shared on yesterday was troubling. We will have support on site to help assist our students and our staff. I encourage you to seek assistance if there is a need. If a child expresses a need for support, please send them to the counselors. Please remember to arrive at 7:15 tomorrow for a mandatory staff meeting. Members from Instructional Services will be present to help supervise our students and to cover the front office.
As we prepare to close our year, I encourage you to stay focused and remain encouraged! The work that we do is not easy but please know that it is both necessary and important. If you need a reminder, look at the students' MAP scores or reflect on the number of challenges that we have overcome this year. It was hard but we made it! Let us make it for the next 5 days! We can do it! Keep your heads up Panther Nation.
In it to win it,
Tolbert
Announcements and Reminders
Grades are due in the system Thursday no later than 4:00. We must be ready to print report cards at 6:00 pm in preparation for the last day of school. The grading window is open. Please begin entering your grades.
Makeup Work
It is our goal to help every student be successful at HMS. If you have a student that need to make up assignments that they are lacking during this term, please encourage them to do so as well as communicate it to parents. I ask that you provide options that will allow our students to get the work done. Remember not every student can remain after school for a number of reasons.
Checking it Twice
Please check and double check your list of students for Honor Awards. It is critical that we do not leave anyone out as it is hard to make this up to the students and parents. I will run another grading report tomorrow and share it out. You are strongly encouraged to check the grades of the students in your homeroom in Campus to avoid a mistake.
Boxes
Boxes will be distributed Thursday. At this time each teacher will only be given 10 boxes to pack up material that you will NOT need upon your return to school in August. Please do not take any of the boxes until they are properly distributed.
Supervision of students and Professionalism
This is a reminder that we are to be present and actively involved in the hall during EVERY transition. Students should be signed out and given a written pass when they are permitted to leave your classroom. There is no exception. Additionally, students should not be permitted to leave class unless it is an emergency. We have had a lot of unnecessary movement in the halls during instructional time. WE will continue to teach from bell to bell.
Remain mindful of the manner in which you are redirecting our students. It is not permissible to yell at students, make sarcastic remarks, or publicly embarrass any student. Additionally, we do not put students out of the classrooms. Please follow our discipline procedures.
Your presence at work this week is necessary for us to end the year successfully. Please be present at work unless there is an emergency. Your smile is needed to encourage someone in our building.
Data Collection for the EOY
MAP scores are accessible. Please begin to review and disaggregate your data. We need to update our SGP with our most recent data and measure our growth this year.
Preference Form
Below is a preference form for the next school year. Please take a moment and fill this out so that we can begin planning for next year. This will need to be completed before Wednesday at 12:00 pm.
Awards Ceremonies
6th Grade-May 15th at 10:00 am @ Cedar Shoals (auditorium)
7th Grade-May 14th at 10:00 am @ Cedar Shoals (auditorium)
8th Grade-May 16th at 6:00 @ HMS' Gym
Upcoming Events
May 13th, FFA Banquet 6pm -cafeteria
May 15, 8th-grade Semi-formal Dance 6pm @ Hilsman New gym
May 17th last day of school early dismiss
Week at a Glance
Monday-Faculty Meeting at 7:15
Khakis with a spirit shirt-No jeans
Tuesday-Jeans for 6th and 8th grades
Enter Grades
Wednesday-Jeans for 7th and 8th Grades
Enter grades
8th Grade Semi-Formal Dance
Thursday-Jeans
Enter grades by 4:00 pm
8th Grade Moving On Day
Friday-Last Day of School
Early Release
1-4-End of the year team data roundup
