The Buzz
Volume 2, Edition 27 May 7, 2021
Irmo High School
Email: absmith3@lexrich5.org
Website: https://www.lexrich5.org/Domain/28
Location: 6671 Saint Andrews Road, Columbia, SC, USA
Phone: (803) 476-3000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/irmohighschool/
Twitter: @IrmoHigh
SHINING STAFF
It's been a challenging year in many ways for students, teachers, families and schools. And in this year like no other, we have seen miraculous and amazing feats of strength, character, perserverance, love, support, and hope. It has been awe inspiring to watch our teachers adjust, pivot, adjust again, flex, pivot, flex again, and continue to care for, love and educate our students, famiiles and each other. You, our Teachers, truly are the unsung heroes of the universe. Superhero movies should be made with classrooms, 12:00 am grading and planning, tutoring sessions, student check ins, parent phone calls, and the laughter and tears of educators as their backdrops.
From the very bottom of our hearts, we Celebrate and Love our Educators! Even when you may not realize it, we see you and we are amazed. Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
STINGER SHOUT OUTS
MISS YELLOW JACKET UPDATE
A Big Congratulations to all our Miss Yellow Jacket particpants, organizers, and volunteers for a beautiful pageant. We are so proud of our new titleholders. And the winners are:
Miss Humble Bee (Most Community Service): Elisabeth Hall
Miss Congeniality: Corali Kimura
Miss Freshman: Amelia Hewitt
Miss Sophomore: Elisabeth Hall
Miss Black and Gold: Victoria May
Miss Yellow Jacket: Savannah Neuenfeldt
STUDENT SECTION
Wanna be a SUPERHERO, ROCKSTAR, LIFE CHANGER, DIFFERENCE MAKER?
Then read on below.
DON'T FORGET YOUR YEARBOOK
Order your yearbook today!
Less than 70 copies remain available for sale.
Yearbooks can be purchased at www.yearbookforever.com for $70.
Just search Irmo High School.
All books must be pre-ordered
CLASS OF 2021
IMPORTANT DATES AND INFORMATION
- May 15 - Senior Prom - 7 pm - 11 pm at the Columbia Conference Center.
- May 27 - Senior Items Pick Up and Drive Thru Celebration - 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm at the loop in front of Irmo High School (ALL SENIORS)
**This will be a Drive Thru distribution. Students will enter the campus at the entrance located in front of the West Wing. Jostens will be set up in front of the Main Office, so cars will follow along until they get to the Main Office. You must have a $0 balance to pick up your items. Stoles will be available to purchase on this day with CASH ONLY.**
- May 28 - Senior Sunrise - 6:15 am - 7:45 am at W.C. Hawkins Stadium
- June 4 - 8 - Senior Exams
- June 10 - Senior Grades are complete
- June 16 - Graduation Practice - 2:00 - 5:00 pm in the Large Gym
- June 17 - Senior Awards Ceremony 6:00 - 7:00 pm in the Center for the Arts (Invites will be sent for this)
- June 18 - 8:00 am - Graduation!!!!
CLASS OF 2022
SAVE THE DATE
Seniors
Monday, September 27
Tuesday, September 28
Make up
Wednesday, November 10
NEED TO KNOW
EOC SCHEDULE UPDATE
Course Request Changes for 2021-2022 School Year
Any student desiring to make a change to their course request for the 2021-2022 academic school year will need to submit a course request change form to IHS School Counseling by June 15, 2021. Per the District 5 course catalog, no schedule changes will be accepted after June 15, 2021 except for the following circumstances:
- When credit has been earned during summer school.
- A prerequisite course is failed
- There is a computer error
The Course Request Change form can be accessed here. Students must use their LexRich5 student email to complete this form for identification purposes. For any additional questions or concerns regarding a course change request, please contact your assigned Irmo High School Counselor.
AP EXAMS
These contain very important information for any student and parents/guardians of students taking AP exams. Please click on the fliers and read them carefully to be ready for success!
SIC REPORT TO PARENTS RELEASED
It is posted on our school website and can be viewed by selecting the Our School tab, then navigating to the School Improvement Council Page. For your convenience, it is also attached to this week's Buzz.
This document contains wonderful highlights and information. We encourage all to take a few minutes and see just some of the amazing accomplishments that occurred at Irmo High School in a year like no other! #IrmoStrong
HAPPENINGS
WEEK OF MAY 10th
- May 10 - School Board Meeting- 7:00 pm at The Center for Advanced Technical Studies
- May 11 - Accuplacer Test - 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
- May 12 - NO LATE START - Due to testing
- May 14 - SC High School League State Soccer Championship hosted at IHS
REMINDERS AND INFORMATION
RETURNING MISSED CALLS FROM IHS
MISS SOMETHING?
DISTRICT WIDE NEWS
P-EBT PROGRAM PROCESS
The SCDE Office of Research and Data Analysis (ORDA) compiles and provides the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) with a student-level data file of potentially eligible students. This file of potentially eligible students is generated from various sources including school and district level data maintained in PowerSchool and the district’s Nutrition program. DSS is responsible for the final eligibility determination and the administration of the P-EBT program.
The following are criteria are used to identify a student as potentially eligible for the P-EBT benefit.
1. Student attends a CEP school or is eligible for Free/Reduced Lunch
HWES, IHS, IMS, LES, NRES, and SOES are CEP schools. Students enrolled at these schools, by default, meet the Free/Reduced requirement to be potentially eligible for the P-EBT benefit.
Alternatively, a student may meet Free/Reduced Lunch status by:
• Completion and approval of the Free/Reduced Lunch application
• The student identified as Head Start in the current year PowerSchool and enrolled in a PK program
• The student identified as SNAP/TANF through a matching process with DSS data
The LR5 Student Nutrition Department can confirm a student’s current F/R Lunch Eligibility status.
Student must be enrolled and participate in virtual learning via a 100 percent virtual schedule or a hybrid schedule and must meet a minimum number of virtual days present.
The student is marked in PowerSchool as virtually present (SC_VTP) one or more days through Meeting attendance (secondary schools) for 50% or more of the day.
Students must be present at least 50% of the day to be counted virtually present (SC-VTP) for the P-EBT benefit.
LR5 school personnel/attendance clerks can confirm the number of SC-VTP present days recorded in a student's PowerSchool attendance record.
SCDE has confirmed via a memo to Superintendents dated 4/20/21 that "The results of the first round of P-EBT payments have highlighted unexpected issues with the systems and data..." In some instances, the calculation method used to process virtual attendance resulted in inaccuracies in attendance counts reported for various student sub-sets.
Schools will continue to review and update student attendance records to ensure a high level of accuracy for the next data collection period. Errors in the calculation of student virtual attendance counts, due to the known errors reported by SCDE, will be corrected prior to SCDE’s next P-EBT data compilation. Missed P-EBT benefits for eligible students that were excluded from this first round of payments in error will be included in the next payment cycle, estimated May 15, 2021.