
Monthly Update
October Happenings: The Leadership Academy @ John T. White
Welcome!
Hello families,
We have wrapped up our First Six Weeks of the 2023 - 2024 school year and it has been a blast! Our students have been working hard, practicing respect, and have been growing as a family. Below are some of the activities, lessons, and celebrations that have taken place in the first six weeks. We are so proud of our scholars and expect to keep growing as a school family and community.
Boystown Skills learned in the First Six Weeks:
- Greeting others
- Following directions
- Accepting criticism or consequence
- Accepting No for an answer
Character Traits learned in the First Six Weeks:
- Respect/ Attentiveness
- Obedience/ Integrity
- Responsibility/ Fairness
- Self - control / Humility
Leadership Opportunities in the First Six Weeks:
- Flag Patrol
- House Leaders
- Announcements
Campus Activities/ Celebrations:
- Meet the Teacher
- House Sorting
- House Meetings
- Malcolm Mitchell Visit
- Start of Everybody Grows Fridays
- Winning House Celebration
- Stuffed Animal Sleepover
- Classroom Transformations
- Classroom Guidance Lesson from Counselor/ Interventionist
- Opening of Thinking Lab
- Open House (over 150 families attended!!)
Stuffed Animal Sleepover
Everybody Grows Fridays
Student Collaboration
Winning House Celebration - Congrats Tolmao!!
Malcolm Mitchell Visit
House Meetings
Upcoming October Campus Events
October 6, 2023 - Fall Break (No School)
October 9, 2023 - Fall Break (No School)
October 10, 2023 - Campus Reading Marathon - stay tuned for flyer
October 11, 2023 - Hispanic Heritage Month Culminating Event
October 17, 2023 - Chat and Chew with Grandfriends - see flyer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EeA8hqLpRxLUDRh3o6faBpi9jXSUYp1P/view?usp=sharing
RSVP for Chat and Chew with Grandfriends here
October 19, 2023 - Suicide Prevention Parent Meeting 8:30 - 9:00 in the library
October 23, 2023 - First Day Welcoming Families for lunch - See flyer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLYJ7GDVtCnBxjJvImyt2lXxEPflMCyM/view?usp=sharing
October 23 - 27, 2023 - Red Ribbon Week - See flyer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rqfe_UlpcAfHPw3fB22EHdW9YsYJ8dea/view?usp=sharing
October 26, 2023 - Math - O - Ween (Math Night) - stay tuned for flyer
Good News Club
Good News Club Flyers went home for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade students. Good News Club will take place October 4, 11, 18, 15, and November 1, and 8 from 4 - 4:55PM. If you would like your child to participate, please fill out the flyer. This is NOT a FWISD - activity/endorsed organization, but has been authorized for after school meeting. Contact Person is: Vivian Smith 817 - 800 -0294
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Families,
We need your help with sending candy for our Math - O - Ween Math Night! Please see flyer attached for more information.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eEZMP4p8IamyhImlGf8fHwxnE7BCmeEt/view?usp=drive_link