Between the Lions
The Wright Junior High Weekly Newsletter
CONNECT WITH US
Email: crjaster@lcisd.org
Website: lcisd.org/campuses/wrightjh
Location: 7500 Koeblen Road, Richmond, TX, USA
Phone: 832-223-6000
Facebook: facebook.com/wrightjrhigh
WELCOME TO WRIGHT JUNIOR HIGH!
Our Wright JH Admin Team
Sherryl Anthony - Assistant Principal - Alpha A-L santhony@lcisd.org 832-223-6010
Shane Ameen- Assistant Principal - Alpha M-Z mameen@lcisd.org 832-223-6012
Tiffany Hoelzel - Assistant Principal - 6th Grade tiffany.hoelzel@lcisd.org 832-223-6009
Our Wright JH Counselor Team
Jennifer Mitchell - Alpha M-Z -jcmitchell@lcisd.org 832-223-6017
Angela Criswell - 6th Grade - acriswell@lcisd.org 832-223-6018
WEEK OF DECEMBER 6TH - 10TH
WHAT TO EXPECT THIS WEEK
- Front doors will open at 7:30am. First bell rings at 8:15am. when students arrive on campus, they will go to the Gym, until they are released to class.
- Students who arrive after the 8:15am bell, will receive a Tardy. Unless they have arrived to school on a late bus.
- Final Exam Exemption Procedures
- Fall Final Exam Bell Schedule
- 8th Grade Course Endorsements
- WJH Student Council - Holiday Food Drive - December 6-10th
- WJH WINTER BAND CONCERT - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7TH
- WJH WINTER CHOIR/ORCHESTRA CONCERT - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9TH
- Order your 2021-2022 Wright JH Yearbook
- Mental Health Awareness - December 9th
- WJH Winter Wonderland Ball - December 10th
- Final Exam Exemption Policy
- Student Discipline
- Campus Destruction and Consequences
- TIK TOK Challenge - please talk with your student.
- REMINDER: We are a cell phone free campus. Please leave devices at home or powered off in student backpacks.
- TARDIES have started, please talk with your student about getting to class on time.
FINAL EXAM EXEMPTIONS - DISTRICT POLICY!
LCISD allows all 7th and 8th graders who meet the district policy requirements to exempt final exams in December and in May.
7th Graders can exempt 2 class finals
8th Graders can exempt 3 class finals
Fall Final Exams - 7th-8th Graders Only! 6th Grade will be on a normal schedule!
Forms are ONLY available via the Student's Skyward Account!!!
Parent's login can NOT view the exemption form.
Forms are due in Skyward, by Tuesday, December 7th.
Final Exams begin on Tuesday, December 14th (see schedule below)
7th Grade is allowed 2 Exemptions, 8th Grade is allows 3 Exemptions.
6th Grade do NOT take final exams, classes will run like a normal day for them.
8th Grade Only!!! Incoming Freshman Course Endorsement Selection
Eighth grade students received a presentation at Randle High School over their Endorsement and Program options for next year. Endorsements consist of a related series of courses that are grouped together by interest or skill set. They provide students with in-depth knowledge of a subject area and help them achieve their post-secondary goals (college, military, trade school or career). Students must select an endorsement in the ninth grade. The counselors had students fill out the attached sheet and will be visiting gym classes next week for verifications before entering students' Endorsement selections in Skyward. We will send out instructions mid-next week how parents can sign for or change their students Endorsement selection through Skyward's Family Access Center.
WJH Student Council -Holiday Food Drive
WJH BAND WINTER CONCERT - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH - 6:30PM
WJH CHOIR/ORCHESTRA WINTER CONCERT - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9TH - 6:00PM
WJH Winter Wonderland Ball - December 10th
Wright JH Lion Gear
Fall GEAR IS ON ITS WAY!!! Check periodically! Hoodies, long sleeves, so much more!!
ORDER YOUR SCHOOL YEARBOOK
Look for Wright Junior High under "Shop my School"
STUDENT DISCIPLINE/CONFLICT RESOLUTION
We need your help and support. We are experiencing incidents on campus in which students are trying to resolve their conflicts by using physical means to handle things. WJH does NOT condone students solving any issues by fighting or engaging in physical confrontation. We need you to talk with your children and help work through any issues they are experiencing and how to handle it on campus.
LCISD policy states that any student engaged in mutual combat, regardless of who throws the first punch, results in a MUTUAL fight. Therefore, both students will receive campus consequences of 3 days of Out of School Suspension. If a student engages in a 2nd incident for fighting or physical confrontation, they will receive a 45 day ALC placement.
We need your help to make sure that incidents like these don't happen on our campus and that they understand the results of their actions. It takes all of us, working together, to ensure that EVERYONE gets the best experience at Wright Junior High.
If your student needs additional support, they can visit with their Counselor or Assistant Principal.
ACCESSING PROGRESS REPORTS AND REPORT CARDS
Accessing Student Portfolios for Progress Reports and Report Cards - Click Below!
Need Assistance with Athletics:
Coach Dee McNeal - Girls Athletics - rmcneal@lcisd.org
Does your student need tutorials?
For more questions about tutorials, please email your student's teacher directly.
Procedures, Remote Conferencing and Notifications!
*They will have FULL access to their Teacher's Canvas pages and a zoom link to access the designated "REMOTE CONFERENCING TEACHER- Sarah Vo - to help assist them during this temporary period.
THREE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO BE EMAILED IMMEDIATELY:
- WJH Nurse - Jessica Barber-Gonzalez jessica.gonzalez@lcisd.org
- WJH Attendance - Ceciley Ortiz ceciley.ortiz@lcisd.org
- WJH Principal - Creighton Jaster crjaster@lcisd.org
In the email please include:
- Student Name
- Grade Level
- Student ID
- Date of Confirmed POSITIVE
ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE STEPS ABOVE MR. JASTER WILL BE EMAILING YOU AND YOUR STUDENT WITHIN 24 BUSINESS HOURS WITH HOW YOU WILL BE SUPPORTED THROUGH THIS TEMPORARY PERIOD. During remote conferencing if you need assistance, our SILVER TRACK Remote teacher will assist you.
Here is her contact info, in case you have further questions.
Sarah Vo sarah.vo@lcisd.org
COVID Notification Emails:
WJH will continue to follow LCISD COVID Protocols by pushing out the email notifications that you are currently receiving when a positive and/or close contact case is reported by a parent. Please understand that we cannot reveal a student's identity, nor specific class, due to confidentiality. We are not contract tracing this year, so there is no quarantining. I will say, that many of these cases we are reporting are from parents doing their due diligence of reporting when their student was exposed or tested positive outside of the school. Many of these students did not even report back to campus. We appreciate these parents helping us stay as safe as possible at school. Please note, that if your child shares multiple classes with a certain student, you may receive MULITIPLE emails.
Need a school locker???
Smart Tags on the WAY!!!
Addressing concerns at Wright Junior High - Start by contacting your child's teacher directly!!
For 6th Grade concerns: please email or call Tiffany Hoelzel at tiffany.hoelzel@lcisd.org or call at 832-223-6009
For 7th/8th Grade concerns Alpha A-L: please email or call Sherryl Anthony at santhony@lcisd.org or call at 832-223-6010
For 7th/8th Grade concerns Alpha M-Z: please email or call Shane Ameen at mameen@lcisd.org or call at 832-223-6012
Conflict Resolution
If your student needs help, find one of the following staff members:
1) Administrator
2) Counselor
3) Teacher
4) Coach
5) Librarian
6) Other staff member
SCHOOL INFORMATION
- School Hours: 8:15am to 3:40pm.
- For those who require early arrival, the building opens at 7:30am.
- You may enter via the main front door and proceed to the cafeteria or gyms
- Transportation: If your student will be using district transportation, please visit the LCISD Find My Bus page to get detailed route information. https://www.lcisd.org/students-parents/find-my-bus-school
- Lunches from Home: For those students bringing a lunch from home, please be aware that, per district sanitation guidelines, microwaves will not be available for student use.
- Lunch Deliveries: Wright does not accept 3rd party lunch delivers for students. No DoorDash, UberEats. GrubHub or any other type of pizza or food delivery. Only family members can deliver lunch to their student. Lunches are left at the front office with the student's name and grade. Please do not deliver fountain drinks, bottled drinks only.
- Tardies: It is important that all students get to class as quickly as possible and are in class when the tardy bell rings. Students should listen for the warning bell and get to class promptly. All students must be in the room before the tardy bell rings.
PE UNIFORMS - BOYS PE & GIRLS PE
Wright JH Tutorial Schedule
Wright JH Bell Schedule
HOW TO CONNECT AND STAY IN TOUCH WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING AT WRIGHT
- Wright JH sends weekly newsletters in a Skylert blast (email listed in your Skyward account).
- Monitor our Facebook page for daily updates.
SKYLERT INFORMATION - RECEIVING EMAILS AND TEXT MESSAGES FROM WRIGHT
- Click on Skylert, on the left side of screen
- The phone number and email address (where the arrows are indicating) must be correct
- Each box that is circled must be checked.
- You may have up to 2 emails who receives emailed notices and newsletters from Wright
- Up to 4 numbers who receive texts and/or calls from Wright