The Marie Murphy Update
30 April 2021 Edition
Extra Curricular Activities Up and Running!
For the first time in over a year, extra-curricular activities have begun both remotely and onsite at MM. Students have been running in Cross Country, rehearsing for the Spring Play, learning to communicate via ASL Club, making a difference in Roots & Shoots, and finding their musical-creative side in History Remix! Thank you to the teachers and the students for their time and effort in starting up these endeavors!
May Maroon & Gold Schedule
Parking Lot Patience Payoff!
A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL PARENTS WHO DRIVE THEIR CHILDREN TO AND FROM SCHOOL!
The increased parking lot congestion and frustrations that arose with the move to a MOD schedule have decreased over the past weeks. Is the parking lot still very crowded? Yes. Is the parking lot still slow to navigate through? Yes. Is the parking lot difficult to exit making a left on to Illinois Road? Yes.
However, the time needed to empty the lot after school is decreasing, the movement of kids from the exits to their parents' cars is safer, and the near-death experiences for parking lot supervisors are nearly non-existent! Thank you to our parents for helping improve the system!
These improvements were made possible by...
Entering the Lot
- When turning into the parking lot, please use your turn signal. This helps cars exiting the lot know what direction you are heading.
- Please keep a lookout for students on the Illinois Road sidewalk who biking and walking. Walkers, bikers, and cars are converting at the entrance to the lot, so please be careful. As the weather gets nicer, more kids will walk or bike to school.
- When exiting the lot, please consider making a right-hand turn on to Illinois Road. With so many cars turning into the lot, the visibility needed to exit safely to the left is difficult. Plus, by making a right, you avoid the Illinois-Hibbard intersection congestion too!
- Just like above, walkers and bikers wanting to head west on the Illinois Road sidewalk converge on the exit of the parking lot. Please be aware of them.
Graduation Is Coming...
Upcoming FAN Events
I Am a Girl from Africa: The Power of Community, Perseverance, and Education
Presenters:
ELIZABETH NYAMAYARO
Award-winning humanitarian and former United Nations Senior Advisor on Gender Equality
ANGELA DUCKWORTH, PH.D.
Founder and CEO of Character Lab, and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
May 3 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours
Presenters:
SARAH SENTILLES
Writer, teacher, and advocate
SALLY FIELD
Two-time Academy Award and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor
May 5 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Presenters:
STEVEN JOHNSON
New York Times bestselling author, host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got to Now, and host of the podcast American Innovations.
JAMES HAMBLIN, MD, MPH
Board-certified preventive medicine physician, staff writer at The Atlantic, and lecturer at Yale School of Public Health.
May 12 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Marie Murphy School
Email: palcerm@avoca37.org
Website: https://www.avoca37.org/
Location: 2921 Illinois Road, Wilmette, IL, USA
Phone: 847-251-3617
Twitter: @MarieMurphySch