The Patriot Parent Connection
2020-2021 School Year: Volume 15 - Week of December 7
With just 12 school days remaining in our first semester, we are busy wrapping up current content while also planning for the second half of the year.
You may have noticed that your student's schedule for quarters 3 and 4 is no longer visible in Parent Portal. Due to the number of students making changes to their learning environment for Semester Two, we are having to make some significant changes to our Master Schedule. The admin team will be working over the next few weeks to make these adjustments, and student schedules will be made visible again a day or two prior to the start of second semester, much like in August when we started the school year.
In the meantime, if your student notices additional courses popping up in their itslearning for next quarter, please disregard. No schedules will be finalized until January.
To reiterate the information shared weeks ago when we asked families to complete the Semester Two Learning Environment Survey...
ALL schedules (including assigned teacher) are subject to change in order to accommodate the significant changes in our numbers. We know this is not ideal for any student. Unfortunately, it is a necessary aspect of being able to offer our families the choice of face-to-face and virtual instruction during these difficult times.
Thank you for your patience and understanding,
Amanda Thrower
Principal
For Your Calendar
December 9 - LMS Spelling Bee
December 18 - 22 - Midterms/End of Unit Summatives (see details below)
December 23 - January 5 - Winter Break
January 4 - Camp Liberty for Semester 1 Virtual 6th Graders returning to Face-to-Face Learning (more info coming soon!)
January 6 - First Day of Semester 2
Change to Covid-19 Quarantine Procedures
Midterms / End of Unit Summatives
Missing Assignments & Semester Averages
New Facebook Page
Athletics
See our December Basketball games below; all games start at 5:00 P.M. Tickets will need to be purchased on GoFan this season. Students wishing to stay after school to attend home games must have a pre-purchased ticket from GoFan and a signed permission form.
Masks are now required at all FCS Sporting Events and Activities.
Out of District Requests for the 2021-2022 School Year
A few key points to note:
- Rising 8th graders may apply for an OOD to remain at their current school for their final year of middle school. Siblings of these students may apply for an OOD for one year only.
- Parents are responsible for assuring the student complies with all policies. Failure to do so may result in the revocation of the approval to attend the out-of-district school. Principals have the authority to deny or revoke out-of-district status if students and/or their parents have not followed school rules. Repeated tardies, unexcused absences, discipline issues and/or poor academic progress may also be cause for revocation of out-of-district status.
- Parents/guardians of out-of-district students must provide their own transportation.
- The OOD process for 2021-2022 will be open December 1, 2020 - January 18, 2021.
PTSO Corner
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Attendance
- Attendance will be taken daily as usual.
- If your child is absent, please send in their excuse note or doctor's note within 5 business days.
- Feel free to contact teachers or Danielle Worley (dworley@forsyth.k12.ga.us) to notify them of an absence, especially if you anticipate your child being out more than one day.
Students Attending Forsyth Virtual Academy online
- Attendance will be taken weekly, based on work completion.
- As long as your student is logging into ItsLearning regularly and completing work in a timely manner, they will be marked present.
- If you receive a notification over the weekend that your student has been marked absent for one or more days, it means they did not submit all of the assignments for the week.
- If your student is too ill to log into itsLearning to complete work, please notify their teacher and Danielle Worley (dworley@forsyth.k12.ga.us) to make them aware of the absence.
if your student is absent
General Health Precautions
- Hand sanitizer stations are located throughout the building, but we encourage students to bring their own, as well.
- Our custodians will be sanitizing classrooms every afternoon. If you want to send cleaning wipes with your student to wipe down surfaces before use, please just make sure they are not bleach-based products.
- It is the expectation of staff and students to wear masks, if they are able. We want to be able to maintain face-to-face instruction all year. In order to do so, we MUST work to keep each other safe; mask-wearing is a significant part of this.
Liberty Middle School
Website: https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/libertyms
Location: 7465 Wallace Tatum Road, Cumming, GA 30028, USA
Phone: (770) 781-4889
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LibertyMDL
Twitter: @LibertyMDL