Munhall Bulletin
April 29, 2022
Munhall Elementary School
Email: heather.miller@d303.org
Website: http://munhall.d303.org/
Location: 1400 South 13th Avenue
Phone: 331-228-2600
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Munhall-Elementary-1459358344296891/
Twitter: @MunhallD303
Principal Note
I-Ready Spring Diagnostic Window
Dear Parents and Guardians,
The end of year i-Ready diagnostic assessment is scheduled for students to take between May 2nd and May 13th for elementary and middle school students. This end of year check is one measure of how students made progress towards their end of year growth goal. All grade levels will begin testing next week. Students will participate in both a reading and math diagnostic assessment. After the diagnostic assessments, your child will receive an update to their lessons assigned under the personalized pathway (MyPath). MyPath will be available to students through July.
What should I know and expect as a parent/guardian?
- Computer adaptive assessments are designed to determine what standards students know and don’t know yet.
- Remind your child they will see questions they might not know the answer to and some easier questions. We need to know what they do know and do not know yet. This is expected.
- The purpose of the i-Ready diagnostic is not to give your child a score or grade, but to determine how to best support their learning.
Thank you for your continued support and for being a partner in your child’s learning. Your child’s report will be sent home prior to the end of this school year. If you have any questions about i-Ready, please do not hesitate to contact me, your principal, or your child’s teachers. You can also learn more about i-Ready by visiting https://sites.google.com/d303.org/i-readyresources/home.
Sincerely,
David Chiszar
Executive Director of Assessment and Accountability
2022 Spring Panorama SEL Survey
This year, students in grades 3-12 completed the SEL survey to assess their strengths related to their social and emotional skills. Our students participated in the survey in the fall, and again this spring. Parents will receive their child’s results via US Mail the week of May 9th. The use of this tool allows us to refine and strengthen our efforts to help all students achieve success by taking positive and preventative measures as early as possible. This also provides us with the opportunity to assist students who may need additional support with social and emotional skills.
The Panorama SEL Survey provides individual students information in the following areas:
- Self-management: the ability to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations
- Emotional regulation: the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experiences with the range of emotions
- Social Awareness: the ability to understand the perspectives of and empathize with others, including those from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and contexts
- Grit: the ability to approach long term goals with passion and perseverance
- Self Efficacy: the ability to believe in one's ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task
Additional information can be found at: https://district.d303.org/departments/assessment.
Strategies to support your child in these social and emotional skill areas can be found at: https://district.d303.org/academics/social-emotional-learning.
Thank you for your support and assistance in ensuring each of our students has the opportunity to achieve academic and social-emotional success.
Please feel free to contact your building principal or me if you have questions.
PTO Bingo Night and Basket Raffle
Tonight is our PTO Bingo Night and Basket Raffle. The event will be held indoors and begins at 6:30. I look forward to seeing many of our families this evening.
Evacuation Drill
Earlier this week our students participated in an evacuation drill. I’m proud to say that our last staff member excited the building at the one minute and thirty-eight seconds. Great job Mustangs!
Enjoy your weekend!!
Jarrod Buxton, Principal
SUMMER STRINGS CAMP 2022.
Calling All Current Orchestra Members!
Sign up for Summer Orchestra Camp! It is for two weeks in June, and will be a BLAST! See the attached flier for more details. Click on these links to enroll:
- Students entering 4th grade in fall: Junior Strings "Adventure"
- For students entering 5th grade in fall: Cadet Orchestra " A Medieval Tale of Dragons, Kings...
- Students entering 6th, 7th, 8th grade in fall: Bach to Beatles and Beyond
Summer Band Camp 2022
5th Grade Choir Concert
Order your school supply kits by June 19th!
Please consider helping as you can with raising money for MunRun. All the money raised helps our teacher and students in many ways. We are hoping to raise money not just for our PTO but also indoor recess supplies for our classrooms to share. PTO provides an allotment to the teachers for classroom items. PTO has a grant program for our teachers which can lead to the PTO helping fund specific items for the classroom and students (ie. educational games, books, sensory items). We provide lunches for teachers and staff one certain occasions. PTO/Munrun helped our school upgrade their reading room, and purchased sensory walking paths for inside the school. We know the pandemic has affected many of the events that we help support financially and we hope to do more of the events next year. We have our bingo night/basket raffle this year. PTO funds purchased each family their OBOM book. More information can be found here. https://munhallpto.membershiptoolkit.com/whatwedo
Please never hesitate to reach out with any questions.
https://munhallpto.membershiptoolkit.com/fundraiser/568 is the general fundraising page. Thank you for your support.
Please be on the lookout for Prepackaged school supplies order information.
Reminder Bingo Night is tonight. Thanks to our amazing chairs and all of our volunteers.
Virtual Lip Sync is May 6th
2022 Munhall Staff Appreciation Week May 2nd - May 6th
Below is information on how you can participate in staff appreciation week.
LETTER: https://munhallpto.membershiptoolkit.com/assets/02130/Munhall_2022_Student_Participation.pdf
FAN MAIL TEMPLATE: https://munhallpto.membershiptoolkit.com/assets/02130/FANMAILAPPRECIATION.jpg
Sign up link for donations:
https://m.signupgenius.com/?fbclid=IwAR096toq-U7daObGn7oPiakldMQFqOPpbnWW-0VyFnxoA0oN7mw0O6ffUqM#!/showSignUp/10c0a4aacac2aa2f58-2022