Welcome to the start of the 4th week of school! It is flying already!
itsLearning Parent Help Night-
Mrs. Dirlam will be offering her second parent help night this Wednesday, September 28th in the Upton Auditorium. Please bring your child’s laptop and login information. The session will run from 7:00- 7:30 P.M.
Free Tutoring-
Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27th, St. Joseph High School will offer free tutoring every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00-4:00 P.M. in the high school media center. The National Honor Society students led by Ms. Nita Nicholie will provide the tutoring.
6th grade Book Club-
Any 6th grader interested in joining the monthly book discussion can get an application from our media center. This is done at their lunchtime the first Thursday of each month The first book is Schooled by Godan Korman and this will be discussed on October 6th. If you have a daughter/son that loves to read, please encourage them to join.
Builders Club 2016-2017-
Builders Club is back! Builders Club is a community service group that encourages leadership, responsibility, and quality character traits. See our bulletin board in the hallway by the conference room for pictures of our past projects and a list of our tentative ones for this year. Our kick-off meeting is Wednesday, October 5th, 2:50 – 3:45 in the foods room. We hope to see you there!
itsLearning App for Smartphones-
The itsLearning app for smartphones is currently designed for students. If parents want to access itsLearning on a mobile device, they need to go through the internet browser and log in that way. We have been told that itsLearning is working on developing a parent app. When we hear that the parent app has been developed we will let you know.
Behavior at the Football games-
Please help us out by encouraging your daughter/son to not play the water bottle flipping game at our home football games. Although it may seem like innocent fun it also can flip and hit someone accidentally. If you are not sure what the water bottle flip challenge is you can go to youtube and see hundreds of clips on it or just ask you daughter/son. Thanks for your help! :)
Late-Start Wednesday-
We will have a one hour delay this Wednesday, September 28th. Buses will come one hour later and breakfast will be available starting at 8:15 A.M. at Upton.
Pictures this Thursday, September 29th-
Upton will have pictures this Thursday, September 29th for those students who were not able to make our start-up day. Forms are available in the office. We have announced this to our students as well. 100% of our students should get their pictures taken for their student ID's and the yearbook.
News team applications-
We have been advertising at Upton that we are looking for students interested in joining our news team as either a producer/technicician, camera person, or anchor. Applications are in the media center and are due by this Wednesday, September 28th. Mrs. Burnette will be leading this and can be contacted for more information.
Quote of the week:
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - Booker T. Washington
Have a great week,
Mr. Mandarino
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