SKYRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
MAY NEWSLETTER
LETTER FROM PRINCIPAL WILLIAMS
Hello Skyhawk Families!
We are getting more accustomed to our new normal, but it still feels a little strange to sit down and write a newsletter from my house and without a list of all of the happenings that have taken place at Skyridge over the last month. I can tell you that our 8th grade students had a successful week of forecasting last week, based on the number of students that were registered for 6 full credits. I know this was not an easy process and we appreciate your help at home as students worked through the week. Please let us know if there is anything that we need to follow up with regarding your student. For our current 6th and 7th grade families, information will be coming very soon about forecasting for next year at Skyridge, including an update on our math pathways for our current 6th grade students.
I also wanted to thank you again for your patience as we have found our way with remote learning. We have more teachers jumping into Google Meets sessions with our students as we continue to learn more. Right now, these sessions are still geared around collaboration through student and staff communication. We have created a set of expectations for our students and staff for these meetings. Please help support us and discuss these norms with your student. Our teachers will also be covering these with students as they work in these sessions.
Thank you to those who participated in the survey that was sent out last week. We will be using this information to calibrate what we are asking students to do for the rest of the year. Please remember that we are not looking to recreate school. We know that students and families have been put in a very difficult position and that not everyone is able to fully participate. We ask that students do the best that they can and engage in learning as much as possible. We will not be covering the same amount of information that we would have if we were still in school. Adjustments will be made when we do return to our physical spaces in Skyridge to help students catch up.
When the school closure was first announced, we reached out to families to determine needs around food and internet access. A lot has happened since that time and circumstances may have changed in your household since that initial contact. Please reach out to us if things have changed. We want to help in any way that we can and have resources that we can put you in touch with. Some of those resources are available later in this newsletter, so please use them if you need them.
We look forward to the time that our Skyhawks are back in the nest with us. Until that time, remember that we are all in this together. Keep encouraging your students to engage in remote learning and let us know how we can help.
Go Skyhawks!
Clint Williams
Principal
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NEW RESOURCE
YEARBOOKS ON SALE MAY 1
FALL SPORTS REGISTRATION
THESE ARE DIFFICULT TIMES
LOCKER CLEAN OUT MAY 11-15
- Only students will be allowed into the building and will have 10 minutes to clean out their lockers, both fitness locker and hall locker.
- Face masks are required.
- Girls basketball players should also plan to return uniforms, washed and in a labeled plastic bag, to the table set up in the cafeteria.
- Choir robes can be returned labeled with your name to the table by the office.
- Fitness locks should be left on lockers for 6th and 7th graders. Eighth graders can leave locks near the fitness locker door to be checked in by the teacher at a later time.
- Students should use the main entrance doors to enter the building.
- Only ten students will be in the building during each time slot.
- Locker combination assistance will be available.
- Bring a backpack and possibly a trash bag.
- Return library books on the table set up outside the LMC.
- Return text books if not needed for remote learning. We will collect books again in June.