High Point News
Week of: October 3rd, 2016
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GA Pre-K Week
This week is GA Pre-Week!!! We will be celebrating our Pre-K classrooms all week and many different people from our county will be coming into our Pre-K classrooms.
We will be welcoming Superintendent Jeff Rose this Thursday to read to our Pre-K students from 8:00-9:00!!! Please make sure you are dressed professionally (even though you probably will be because it's picture day) and your bulletin boards are updated. We want to make sure we are making a great impression!!!
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October 7th and 11th
October 7th - RFF Day for HPES
Students DO NOT HAVE SCHOOL but all staff members are required to attend on this day. We will be having IB professional development as well as holding parent/teacher conferences. The schedule is as follows:
RFF & PD Day schedule
7:30- 11:00 am Certified teachers, homeroom, SPED, ESOL, EIP: Social Studies GSE standards preview with Hess and Roberts in CAFETERIA
8:00- 11:00 am Special Area certified teachers Music, Art, Spanish, Media: Connecting to the PYP through the Essential Elements with April Hardy in Roberts Portable
8:00- 11:00 am Prek teachers - Unit writing in their classroom
11:00-12:30 Lunch on your own
12:30 - 3:30 pm All Paras ( PreK, K, ESOL, Categoricals and Instructional) All you wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask about IB with Roberts in Roberts Portable
12:30 - 3:30 pm Parent, Teacher ,Student Conferences
Any questions, see Lib
October 11th - Fulton County Professional Learning Day
This week is GA Pre-Week!!! We will be celebrating our Pre-K classrooms all week and many different people from our county will be coming into our Pre-K classrooms.
We will be welcoming Superintendent Jeff Rose this Thursday to read to our Pre-K students from 8:00-9:00!!! Please make sure you are dressed professionally (even though you probably will be because it's picture day) and your bulletin boards are updated. We want to make sure we are making a great impression!!!
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October 7th and 11th
October 7th - RFF Day for HPES
Students DO NOT HAVE SCHOOL but all staff members are required to attend on this day. We will be having IB professional development as well as holding parent/teacher conferences. The schedule is as follows:
RFF & PD Day schedule
7:30- 11:00 am Certified teachers, homeroom, SPED, ESOL, EIP: Social Studies GSE standards preview with Hess and Roberts in CAFETERIA
8:00- 11:00 am Special Area certified teachers Music, Art, Spanish, Media: Connecting to the PYP through the Essential Elements with April Hardy in Roberts Portable
8:00- 11:00 am Prek teachers - Unit writing in their classroom
11:00-12:30 Lunch on your own
12:30 - 3:30 pm All Paras ( PreK, K, ESOL, Categoricals and Instructional) All you wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask about IB with Roberts in Roberts Portable
12:30 - 3:30 pm Parent, Teacher ,Student Conferences
Any questions, see Lib
October 11th - Fulton County Professional Learning Day
- TAG teachers - HPES (8:00-12:00)
- PreK Lead Teachers - Aviation Community Cultural Center (10:00-4:00)
- General Music Teachers - Woodruff Arts Center (8:30-4:00)
- General Art Teachers - Woodruff Arts Center (8:30-4:00)
- PE Teachers - North Springs HS (8:30-3:00)
- SS Learning Architects - Teaching Museum South (8:30-4:00)
- ELA Learning Architects - Admin Center 176A (8:30-4:00)
- Vanguard Team - Virtual Conference (8:30-3:30)
- RTI/SST Chairs and Psychologists - Stars and Strikes (8:00-4:00)
- PSE - Creekside HS or Cambridge HS (8:30-4:00)
- SPED IRR Teachers - Johns Creek HS (8:30-11:30 or 12:30-3:30)
- Social Workers - Oak Hill (1:00-4:00)
- Science Learning Architects - North Learning Center 106/107 (8:30-4:00)
- Math Learning Architects - North Learning Center 205/209 (8:30-4:00)
High Point Schedule
7:30- 11:00 am Certified teachers, homeroom, SPED, ESOL, EIP: Science GSE standards preview with Hess and Roberts in CAFETERIA
All day Vanguard, PreK, Learning Architects, Special Area Teachers -Out of the building
7:30- 11:00 am Certified teachers, homeroom, SPED, ESOL, EIP: Science GSE standards preview with Hess and Roberts in CAFETERIA
All day Vanguard, PreK, Learning Architects, Special Area Teachers -Out of the building
11:00-12:30
Lunch on your own
12:30
- 3:30 Parent,
Teacher ,Student Conferences Personalized Learning Tuesday
All teachers who teach grades 3-5 will participate in personalized learning focusing on student-led conferences using technology such as Office 365, Weebly, and Seesaw. Please bring your laptops and meet in the media center at 2:50.
All teachers who teach grades K-2 will participate in personalized learning focusing on iRead reports and phonics instruction based off the data. Please bring your laptops and meet in portable 1518 at 2:50.
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Tutoring
Many parents are requesting support outside of the school day for their child. If you are interested in tutoring outside of High Point, you may fill out the following link. We will give this document to parents who are requesting additional support for their child.
Please note that school employees are NOT ALLOWED to tutor on campus unless you are tutoring for free. It is board policy which is copied below. Disciplinary action will be taken for anyone using our facility or resources for paid services such as tutoring.
District Policy
Section
G - Personnel
Title
Professional/Classified - Tutoring for Pay
Number GBRGB
"Professional and classified staff should provide reasonable assistance without charge to students in their own classrooms. To avoid any conflict of interest, such employees shall not accept payment for tutoring any student currently assigned to their classroom. Further, no employee may use any school facility to do any tutoring for which payment is accepted."
Report Cards Timeline
We appreciate everyone's help and support with correcting class lists. As of right now, we have pushed back the timeline two days. If we need more time, we will communicate that in the next day or two. Special permission has to be granted when the report card timeline does not sync with Fulton County.
Grades and competencies (2-5 only) in TAC should be uploaded by Sunday, October 16th. The official report cards will be printed on Monday, October 17th. In order to save time and paper, we are only printing the report cards ONCE. There will not be a printed verification sheet; only the official report card.
Any corrections that need to be made should be made in TAC and on the printed report card and given to Ms. Alexander. Reprints will be placed in your box by Thursday.
All report cards will be sent home in the report card envelopes on Thursday October 20th instead of Tuesday, the 18th. Extra envelopes will be available at the front office.
The peer review process that we have done in the past is still encouraged but not required due to time constraints. Teachers are still responsible for the contents and accuracy of the report cards. All parent concerns or questions will be directed back to the teacher if needed.
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Data Clerk Communication
We will be implementing a new process for how we communicate class changes, incorrect class lists, reports, etc.... We will communicate this new process as soon as we finalize all of the details.
Beginning today however, please DO NOT email Ms. Fears. Please have all communication routed to Jacinta Alexander or Sheri Hess.
In order to streamline our processes and help alleviate confusion, we cannot have staff emailing or interrupting Ms. Fears during her work. All questions regarding class lists, grades, class changes, reports, etc.... should be directed to Alexander or Hess. This will allow Ms. Fears to focus on the important work at hand and prioritize tasks.
Thank you for your help with this!!!
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Accelerated Reader
High Point will be using the
Renaissance Learning AR program for the 2016-2017 school year. We believe it is
an important tool to encourage reading in our students and aligns with
students' reading levels from the STAR testing you administer. We
hope you will support and encourage students who wish to take tests and allow
them the opportunities to do that without conflicting with your classroom
expectations.
The program will start this
year on October 3rd and run through early May for our 1st through 5th
graders. We simplified the prize structure last year and will award
students certificates to use at our book fairs to encourage reading. Our
goal is to encourage reading for all students; AR allows students to choose
their own books and encourages individual goal setting for students.
Our PTO is proud of our
support of reading at High Point. We purchased over $8000 in reading
materials with Scholastic dollars earned at our book fairs in the 2015-2016
school year and plan to invest the proceeds from this year's book fairs in the
same manner. Each classroom benefited from this book order. We will
again make Scholastic certificates available to each homeroom teacher for you
to use at your discretion for this year's book
fairs. The certificates are intended to recognize students who may
not be reaching the established targets for AR recognition at their
grade level but who are otherwise making progress at their individual reading
level. We kindly ask that these certificates not be used for needy students. We have a long tradition of providing money and support for students in need and will continue to do that if needed.
- PTO Presidents
Kona Ice Winner!
To incentivize giving towards the tail end of our $30K in 30 days fall Fundraising campaign, the PTO offered a Kona Ice Party (Donated by Chris Wilde of Kona Ice North Atlanta) to the grade level with the most donations from Monday 9/19 to the end of the day Thursday 9/22. The competition raised $2,035 and Second Grade won the Kona Ice Party with total donations of $825. Way to go 2nd grade!!!!
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Media Center News
If you have a question about
Copyright or Fair Use, here are some helpful resources. Some of the
resources also have information you may share with students.
· Common Sense Media Copyright and Fair Use
· Media Education Lab - resources to help students learn about
copyright and fair use
· Creative Commons
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Small Group Counseling
Homeroom teachers, please remember to turn in the orange
small group referral form to Ms. Wooden by today. If you do not have student to
refer, please write “no students” on the form and return it. If you have
misplaced your form, and have students to refer, I can give you a new one.
Thanks!
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What I've been thinking about...
With parent/teacher conferences coming up as well as report cards, I thought this video was fitting.
Hopefully it will give you a small laugh for this Monday morning.
Teacher Translate App
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtUQfeCkMjg
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PBIS This Week
Teachers please continue to remind your students about
expectations for cafeteria conduct.
Lunchroom expectations
Lunchroom expectations
- Students should enter and exit the lunchroom by walking in line through their assigned doorway
- They should stay seated the entire time.
- Tables should be clear and all trash picked up before lining up.
- When lining up after lunch, students should be in single file line and facing forward.Thank you for taking the time this week to remind students about good choices! Please continue to reward positive behavior with PAWS UP tickets!
******VISUALS OF BEST PRACTICE*******
Ms. Strafford's 4th grade class is beginning their 2nd IB
unit. Prior to beginning, Ms. Strafford showed her class these pictures and had
them write questions and thing that they know abut each picture. The students
shared several from each poster. This led into the conversation of what their
new IB unit was going to be and what they will be exploring. Teacher brought
the students over to the IB area in the room where they talked about the
central idea and the key concepts. What a great provocation!
*******WRITERS' GALLERY**********
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Calhoun's class this week.
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Strafford's class next week.
The pledge and writers' gallery will be hosted by Ms. Strafford's class next week.
******CALENDAR OF EVENTS*******
Monday, October 3rd
After School Tutoring Program Begins
9:30 - Prospective Parent Tour
Instructional Rounds by the CLC
After School Tutoring Program Begins
9:30 - Prospective Parent Tour
Instructional Rounds by the CLC
Tuesday, October 4th
2:50 - Personalized Learning
2:30 - Tutoring Program
Wednesday, October 5th
IB PLCs with Roberts2:30 - Tutoring Program
Thursday, October 6th
Picture Day!!
ITBS Readiness Test for 3rd and 5th
Grade Level Newsletter Goes Home
1:30 - ETT for 5th Grade
2:50 - PLCs
ITBS Readiness Test for 3rd and 5th
Grade Level Newsletter Goes Home
1:30 - ETT for 5th Grade
2:50 - PLCs
Friday, October 7th
RFF Day - Begins promptly at 8:00 am
Monday, October 10th
NO SCHOOL!!!!!! HOLIDAY!
RFF Day - Begins promptly at 8:00 am
Monday, October 10th
NO SCHOOL!!!!!! HOLIDAY!
******BIRTHDAYS! ****************
Happy birthday to Rebecca Negrin on the 7th!! We hope you have a wonderful birthday!!!
