Proud to be EV... Week 3

It was another great week at English Valleys Junior/Senior High School! The staff and students did not have school Monday in order to enjoy and celebrate Labor day. On Monday night,  the Booster club held an informal meeting in which ideas were presented in order to raise funds, and promote and support our athletics even more. Booster club meetings will be held the third Wednesday of every month with the exception of this month. The Booster club meeting will be held on September 25th due to the pep rally being held on September 18. If you are not a member already, please consider joining and supporting this program.

Attendance. I cannot stress enough the importance of attending school. However, I do understand that people get sick, and other life events happen. We have a policy that if a student has an excused absence, they have two days to make up assignments for full credit. If a parent does not call in the morning to report their student's absence, our building secretary calls home to find out where the student is. Teachers take attendance every period. If the attendance does not come through, she calls the teachers to have them resend it if they haven't already. If a student isn't in class,  I investigate to find out way. The well-being of our students is of high priority.

Grade checks. I conduct grade checks every three weeks. In our Powerschool system, I am able to print the most updated D's, F's, and Incomplete grades. The goal is to not see many of these. This gives me an opportunity to visit with teachers on struggling students, and then I meet with students to find out why grades are suffering. Students have access to Powerschool. In this system they are able to check their attendance and grades 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Parents also have this access. Teachers are encouraged to update grades as often as they can, this way students and parents have the most up to date information.

Spirit Assembly. For the "Spirit Assembly" this week, 20 names from each grade were drawn and students had to spell "Bears" using formations. It was quite entertaining. Jeff Gordon, our Cross Country coach, introduced the team. Denise Wade, our music teacher, led the 7-12 students in learning the school song, if they didn't know it already. It was wonderful to listen to the words of our school song echo throughout the gym and to see the students enjoy singing it. The pep band performs the school song at every Spirit Assembly. They do a fantastic job playing music to the start of the assembly also. We are very lucky to have a great group of performers.

Gym update: the final panel is up! Walk or drive by to check it out when you get a chance~A big thank you to Scott Romine for the pictures~ here is one below with the final panel in place.

At times I will break my blog down into topics, especially as we move forward with initiatives in our building. As always, I am thankful for my staff and students and eagerly await for the next week to arrive~

Go Bears!