The BULLetin
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Principal's Message
Practice SAT
Practice SAT: Saturday, January 28, 2017 at Murphy Junior High, 7:45am to 11:15am.
Historically, we have suggested that the practice test be taken by students in 7th or 8th grade. Typically, students who are in honors-level courses will have had more exposure to the math content than other students. However, the reading and writing sections are generally accessible to all students, although the reading-level will be for high school students. Nonetheless, we want to ensure any interested students can sit for the test in a quasi-testing environment but also make it familiar and relatively comfortable.
We always want to give Murphy families the first opportunity to fill the available seats as seating will be limited to the first 100 students to sign up. Registration will open to others the week of January 9, 2017.
If your student is interested, sign them up at: https://murphysat.eventbrite.com
High School Course Recommendations and Requests
Oswego East has set the timeline for next year's course selection. Teachers will make course recommendations January 9th through January 25th.
Students will input their course selections into Home Access January 26th through February 12th. More information on this process will be shared in January, if you are unfamiliar.
On February 15th, OE counselors will be here, at Murphy, to meet, one-on-one, with students.
5 Essentials Parent Survey
This has been in The BULLetin the past few weeks and we've not had many more people complete the survey. As of today, we've got about 8% parent response. We need 20% to get survey results. Make it your holiday resolution and fill out the survey, all parents are welcome to complete the survey, it is not limited to only 1 response per family.
NOTE: Murphy is located in Kendall County. When you're searching for the school, you need to enter county information. If you're having difficulty finding our school that could be the issue.
Parents, please take a few minutes to answer some question about Murphy. We have a great school but can always improve, taking about 5 minutes out of your schedule to tell us about your experience will prove invaluable. All the responses are completely anonymous.
Let Ms. Liskunas, Ms. Shrum and Ms. Cooper know that they do a great job of welcoming families into the building. Let the teachers know that we do/do not do a good job of communicating with home. It just takes a few minutes. I've completed it 3 times for my three kids three different schools.
Please visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/ to take the parent survey.
If you have any questions about the survey, please contact 5Essentials Customer Support at 1-866-440-1874 or 5essentials@uchicago.edu.
Thank you!
Contact Us
Email: banderson@sd308.org
Website: www.sd308.org/murphy
Location: 26923 Grande Park Boulevard, Plainfield, IL, United States
Phone: (630) 608-5100
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/murphy308/
Twitter: @murphy308