Week of February 4, 2018

Upcoming at AWS...

Monday, February 5
E DAY
8:00am Morning Meeting
10:00am All Schools Chapel
10:30am Break and Snack in the MS Office
2:15pm Guest Speaker: Substance Abuse Prevention in the Great Hall
3:30pm Topic Group Meetings
7:00pm AWS Speaker Series: Substance Abuse Prevention in the Great Hall

Tuesday, February 6
F DAY
8:00am Advisory
10:05 Break and Snack in the MS Office
10:20am Flex & MS Chorus
2:15pm Grade 7 Team 
2:45pm Grade 6 Team
3:15pm Grade 8 Team

Wednesday, February 7
A DAY
7:30am Math Team Meeting in Rockne's Room
8:00am Advisory
10:05 Break and Snack in the MS Office
10:20am Journeys Meetings (6: Strate's Room, 7: Price's Room, 8: Lounge)

Thursday, February 8
B DAY
8:00am Advisory
10:05 Break and Snack in the MS Office
10:20am Long Advisory: making Val-o-gram Envelopes
2:15pm MS Faculty Meeting in the Design Lab

Friday, February 9

C DAY

8:00am Advisory
10:05 Break and Snack in the MS Office
10:20am Clubs
2:15pm Scholar Search Weekend begins for students in Grade 8

Saturday, February 10
8:30am Start of the Day for MS Faculty
9:00am Ticket to Thrive
2:30pm End of the Day for MS Faculty

Ticket to Thrive

Ticket to Thrive 2018 Schedule & Details  Ticket to Thrive, our major MS admissions event, is on Saturday, February 10.

Security reminders...

• If you are in the building after hours or on weekends, please notify security that you are there. 
• All adults in the building should be wearing an employee nametag, ID card, or a visitor badge. Please remind any adults you see in the building to sign in at the front door or at 10th Street and to wear the appropriate badge. 
• Fire doors: students should not place items in front of fire doors. 
• If you are expecting a guest, please notify the Front Desk or the 10th Street desk. 

Meeting schedule

In our meetings this week, we discussed revising the meeting schedule again, consolidating team meetings to Tuesdays. We'll keep faculty meetings on Thursdays. 

Tuesday, 2:15pm: 7th Grade Team

Tuesday, 2:45pm: 6th Grade Team

Tuesday 3:15pm: 8th Grade Team

Thursday, 2:45pm: MS Faculty Meeting

Attendance procedures...

From Anelisa: To be certain which students are physically on campus we need to record attendance specifically. This will prevent confusion during an emergency. Please mark the students Absent even if parents have communicated they will be tardy. Once they are on campus, I will then note they are HERE and change their status to Tardy.

Accessing the OCC

In our MS Faculty meeting, John introduced how to log onto the replacement for the OCC. Below is the video he showed and walked us through. Please follow the directions to make a new account for IBO.org. Once you have done this, John will be notified by email that you have set up a new account (old ones for the OCC won’t work and you need to register as new). John and Clare are happy to help in any way we can, please reach out if you need help with this process. It would be great to have all MS teachers registered before Feb break. 

https://vimeo.com/232957815/1ac6739414

Ordering & Supplies

Just a reminder - please direct all requests for supplies and special orders through Neil. Just shoot him an email with ordering information and relevant links. He is developing a form to streamline the ordering process, and we'll add that to the permanent links on this blog when it's ready.

Getting to Know You

On the families blog this week, we'll continue to feature our fabulous faculty! The Get to Know You form is here. Here's the schedule...

• February 9: John R
• February 16: Niki 

A little further down the road...

• Saturday, February 10 8:30am-2:30pm: Ticket to Thrive
• Monday, January 29: Start of Winter II Athletics Season
• Friday, February 9-Saturday, February 10: US Scholar Search Weekend
• Saturday, February 10: Ticket to Thrive
• Monday, February 12: Re-enrollment Contracts released
• Friday, February 16: All School Civvies Day
• Monday, February 19-Friday, February 23: February Break for Lower and Middle Schools
• Monday, February 26: Re-enrollment Contracts due
• Thursday, March 1 7:45am: Grade 6 Parents’ Coffee 
• Friday, March 2 1:00pm: Living Voices "Through the Eyes of a Friend" (Special Schedule)
• Tuesday, March 6 7:45am: Grade 7 Parents’ Coffee (note date change!)
• Wednesday, March 7 1:20-2:00pm: Master Class for MS Orchestra with Sarah Ionides (Orchestra students only: Ava Salam, Amelia Wynne; Lauren Cook, Kiran Hutchinston, Sofia La Rosa, Elodie Soustelle, Rae Wartelle, Sasha Zhang; Kate Collie, Mia Escobar, Gwynnie Hayes, Dana Hicks, Anna Parrott, Samantha Salamone)
• Saturday, March 10: Auction 2018
• Tuesday, March 13 7:45am: Grade 8 Parents’ Coffee (note date change!)
• Thursday, March 15 10:00am-11:45am: Guest Speaker George Elbaum for Grades 7 & 8
• Friday, March 16 2:15pm: SRS Irish Dance Performance 
• Wednesday, March 21 2:15pm: Winter II Athletics Assembly
• Thursday, March 22: Spring Advisory Conferences
• Friday, March 22: Faculty In-Service
• Monday, March 26-Friday, March 30: Spring Break
• Wednesday, April 4 6:00pm: MS Journeys Information Night (at least one parent of every student must attend!)
• Friday, April 20: UW Engineering Discovery Days field trip for Grade 8
• Wednesday, April 25: Regional orchestra festival at Stadium High School
• Thursday, April 26-Friday, April 27: MS Play in the Kemper 

Upcoming religious and cultural observances

• Thursday, February 1 marked the beginning of African American History Month, American Heart Month, and International Friendship Month. 
• Tuesday, February 13 is the Christian observance of Mardi Gras. It is also the Hindu festival Maha Shivaratri. 
• Wednesday, February 14 marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent and the Christian Feast of Saint Valentine. 
• Friday, February 16 marks the Lunar New Year, an important observance for East Asian  cultures.