Principal Newsletter
February
Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences
This year, JLMS will be using a different format for spring P-T conferences and it will be very similar to how the elementary schools conduct their spring conferences. Our conferences are on Thursday, March 19 from 4-7 p.m. and will be by teacher request. If you receive a request, staff will work with you to confirm your conference time slot on the night of March 19. Our staff will begin sending out requests to families the week of February 24. If you do not get a request to conference about your student, this indicates that your student is meeting the expectations at JLMS and staff is pleased with your child's progress. If you would like to request a conference, please reach out to the teachers you would like to conference with and they will coordinate a conference time slot. Our goal for this spring is to have 1 conference time for families and include all the teachers involved with your student.
GEF - Golden Apple Award
This year the Grafton Education Foundation is looking for nominations for their Golden Apple Awards. Nominations can be made by parents, students, and community members. To learn more about the Golden Apple Award, please click here.
Student Responsibility
Our current PBIS focus is on student responsibility. We are emphasizing and recognizing students for coming to class prepared, on-time, homework completed, and following classroom expectations. Each day, we have a student winner for responsibility based on students that have received a Falcon Feather for being responsible. I am sure you are wondering, was there a video to kickstart responsibility? The answer of course is yes and the video is included at the bottom of this newsletter.
We want your receipts!!!
If you have not heard, the Box Tops for Education program is moving away from the collecting of physical box tops and using an app to scan receipts to digitally collect box tops. If you do not want to use the app but are willing to send your grocery receipts to school with your students, we will scan them for you to earn money back for JLMS. We have a collection box in the main office for receipt collection.
If you want to scan your own receipts, simply download the Box Tops for Education app on your smartphone and select JLMS as your school to support. The app will walk you through the scanning process.
Thanks for your support!!!
Upcoming Important Dates
- February 16 - Chili Day at GHS (11:30-1:30 JLMS performances)
- February 21 - No School - Teacher Professional Development
- March 6 - Half day of school (Students release at 11:00 am)
- March 21 - 29 - No School - Spring Break
- April 8 - We begin Wisconsin Forward Exams
JLMS PBIS: Responsibility
John Long Middle School
Email: kdeering@grafton.k12.wi.us
Website: https://jlms.grafton.k12.wi.us/
Location: 700 Hickory Street, Grafton, WI, USA
Phone: (262) 376-5800
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Public-School/Grafton-School-District-332022333548537/
Twitter: @JLMS_Falcons