Wright-ings

After a pandemic hiatus, Daniel Wright’s Special Olympics team competed in its second competition since the program came to the junior high in 2019. Students competed on Sunday, May 15, in the Region B Track and Field Spring Games with students receiving medals and one student advancing to the state competition.

All the students did an excellent job participating in running and throwing events.

• Elcy Arroyo Castro received two ribbons for outstanding participation in the 50-meter run and the tennis ball throw.
• Yuvi Vummiti received a bronze medal for his division in the softball throw.
• Luis Gonzalez received two bronze medals in his division for both the softball throw and the 50-meter run.
• Siddharth Arumugam received a bronze medal in his division for the 50-meter run.
• Chase Mattson received a gold medal for his division in the softball throw and a silver medal for his division in the 50-meter run. Chase will be advancing to the state competition in Bloomington-Normal for the softball throw on June 18!

A huge shout-out to our coaches Anna Healy and Alex Funk and their student assistants for helping to guide the DW Olympians.

“All of the athletes did an excellent job representing Daniel Wright and living up to the Special Olympics oath, ‘Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.’ A special thank you to our amazing allied partners and all of the people who came out to support our athletes,” Coach Healy said.

Please visit the school's Facebook page or the Google Doc Folder for pictures.

The Daniel Wright Science Olympiad team took 6th place at the recent national tournament where over 2,000 students competed. Four students took home national champion first place medals: Shivaani Sivaraman and Rhubyn Letuchy in the Bridge event, as well as Lucas Niu and Richard Xu in the Crime Busters event. The team consists of students in grades 6-8.

"The kids work very hard during the nine-month season to achieve the goal of representing Illinois at the national level. We were met with many different kinds of challenges all season, especially with COVID illnesses, and each time the students stepped up to do their part to maintain momentum toward nationals. I'm especially proud of our two national championship titles won for individual events," said Lisa Solesky, who coaches the team with Eric Rexer along with the assistance of parent volunteer coaches.

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• May 20: Eighth-Grade Graduation Dance, 7-9 p.m., Daniel Wright
• May 21: 5K Run/Walk for D103 - Cheer on the runners/walkers
  

• May 27: Eighth-Graders Last Day of School
  

• May 27: Eighth-Grade Picnic - order pizza and water

• May 30: No School, Memorial Day

• May 31: Seventh-Grade Bowlero and Pizza - Order pizza and bowling through our RevTrak Web Store

• June 1: Sixth-Grade Spring Fling - Permission form required

• June 1: K-7 Students Last Day of School (Early Dismissal Day)
  

• June 1: Eighth-Grade Graduation - Details

• June 6: First day of summer school

D103 students participated in the 42nd annual Consortium ArtFest at Stevenson High School this week. Only 15 percent of Daniel Wright students' artwork is selected for the art show.

Students from Sprague, Half Day, and Daniel Wright are selected for hard work, excellent attention to detail, originality, etc. Each of the selected students have a 2D or 3D artwork displayed. Mediums include pencil, pen, acrylic paint, watercolor paint, chalk pastel, clay, sculpture, collage, etc.

“Students get so excited when they find out their artwork has been chosen for display. For some students it is the highlight of their year. The show really is an amazing experience,” said Art Teacher Kerry Sweet.

Please visit the district Facebook page or Google Doc folder to see the students and their artwork.

Congratulations to our Warriors Track and Field Team.

The boys 4x400 meter relay team that set a new school record at the Patriot Conference meet last week set ANOTHER new record time of 4:28.81! Congratulations to the relay team of Spencer Manning, Matthew Spohnholtz, Adam Foley, and Owen Moran.

One of the seventh-grade boys, Ben Tosyali, placed first in the shot put and will compete for the state championship shot put event on Saturday, May 21, in East Peoria.

Congratulations to the 119 athletes who are coached by Morgan McDermott, Michele Amato and John Solis.

For pictures of the athletes, please visit the school's Facebook page or Google Doc folder.

Parents must pick up their children’s medication from the school nurse no later than Wednesday, June 15. Please visit the nurse’s office weekdays during school hours. Nurses will properly dispose of medication following that date. Medication cannot go home with a student.

If your student is attending summer school, please reach out to your child’s school nurse to request the medication be sent to the summer school nurse. When summer school is completed, you must pick up the medication from the Daniel Wright nurse’s office or it will be disposed.

Medication administration forms can be found on the District 103 website. New forms must be submitted annually.

Missing a jacket, water bottle, lunch box, something else? Check the school’s lost and found bins today before the items get donated at the end of the school year.

In order to assure that all district issued student iPads are up to date and in good working condition for next school year, we will collect student iPads during the last few days of school. For more about about iPad return please review the information that was sent out recently.

Grade Level Collection (What to Return)

Eighth Graders: iPad, Case, (Cord, and Charging Brick, if available)

Seventh-Graders: iPad, Case (Hold onto cord and charging brick)

Sixth-Graders: iPad, Case (Hold onto cord and charging brick)

Registration is now open for the 2022-2023 school year for students returning to District 103 schools in the fall.

The email you use to check report cards on the PowerSchool parent portal is the same email you will use to register. That email should have received an invitation today from Registration Support (noreplyregistration@powerschool.com). If you did not receive it, please check your spam folder or security settings. Follow the directions in the Registration Support email.

If you have trouble retrieving your login credentials using the “Forgot Password?” link on the Sign In page, please contact your school directly for assistance logging into the parent portal for returning registration.

• Laura B. Sprague School - 847-945-6665 or Dawn Ripoli at dripoli@d103.org
• Half Day School - 847-634-6463 or Julie Kirkorsky or Avantika Singh at HDschool@d103.org
• Daniel Wright Jr. High School - 847-295-1560 or Gayathri Kalyanaraman at gkalyanaraman@d103.org

The May regular Board meeting has been moved to Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Half Day School, 239 Olde Half Day Road, Lincolnshire, with a student and staff member recognition ceremony. Students who have achieved their highest level of competition at conference, state, regionals, or nationals will be honored. District 103 retirees and staff members will also be recognized for their years of service.

Following the awards ceremony, the Board of Education meeting will move to the District Office at 111 Barclay Blvd. Suite 100, and will be broadcast on the District’s YouTube Channel.

Weather conditions, as well as rising COVID cases, has led the PTO to make a decision to cancel the Saturday, May 21, comedy show. The PTO plans to reschedule it later in the year.

The PTO needs volunteers to help with the Sixth-Grade Spring Fling on Wednesday, June 1. Volunteers needed to supervise games. Sign up to volunteer on the PTO Membership Toolkit.

Lincolnshire's Memorial Day Commemoration is set for 10 a.m. Monday, May 30, Spring Lake Park, and will include band students from D103.

Join the Village of Lincolnshire in its 4th of July festivities.

The Village of Lincolnshire's Summer in the Shire offers a – Free Community Concert Series!

Check out this virtual summer camp for budding scientists.

Register now for the Center for Gifted summer classes that will be held in schools nearby.

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Principals

• Principal Michelle Blackley
• Assistant Principal Nina Nusbaum
• Assistant Principal Melody Littlefair