The Quill

Renaissance Feast

5th - 8th grade students
November 23
Lunch is served
Volunteers still needed to bring food items or serve (please come in costume to serve)
Students are asked to bring a simple costume to school that day to wear to the feast.

The costumes do not have to be elaborate. They can be a skirt with a flowing shirt or a simple tunic for the boys.


Thanksgiving Break No School on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday of this week. Enjoy the time with family and friends.	Lost & Found We will be donating lost and found items during the winter break. Please have your child look for any lost items before then. Lost and Found is in the basement of the red brick building on the hooks in the art room hallway.	Please Keep Your Child Home If Sick Just a reminder to keep your child home if they show ANY symptoms. We do have COVID-19 Testing at JHCS. Contact Mrs. Payne if you would like to have your child, or any family member tested. devinpayne@johnhancockcs.org

Thanksgiving Break

No School on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday of this week.

Enjoy the time with family and friends.

Lost & Found

We will be donating lost and found items during the winter break. Please have your child look for any lost items before then.

Lost and Found is in the basement of the red brick building on the hooks in the art room hallway.

Please Keep Your Child Home If Sick

Just a reminder to keep your child home if they show ANY symptoms.

We do have COVID-19 Testing at JHCS. Contact Mrs. Payne if you would like to have your child, or any family member tested.

devinpayne@johnhancockcs.org

What is grit and why is it important?

Grit is passion and perseverance for long-term goals.

One way to think about grit is to consider what grit isn’t.

Grit isn’t talent. Grit isn’t luck. Grit isn’t how intensely, for the moment, you want something.

Instead, grit is about having what some researchers call an”ultimate concern”–a goal you care about so much that it organizes and gives meaning to almost everything you do. And grit is holding steadfast to that goal. Even when you fall down. Even when you screw up. Even when progress toward that goal is halting or slow.

Talent and luck matter to success. But talent and luck are no guarantee of grit. And in the very long run, I think grit may matter as least as much, if not more.

Angela Duckworth - https://angeladuckworth.com