Spring Lake Middle School
Newsletter, Week of September 11, 2023
Message from the Principal
Upcoming Important Dates
September 12--School Board Meeting
September 14--Flag Football Game, See Schedule
September 15--Volleyball, Flag Football Games, See Schedule
September 15--Game Night, 6-8 pm
September 29--Fall Festival, 4-8 pm
Schoology Parent Accounts and Classes
When you login to your Schoology parent account, you should be able to see your child in the dropdown menu, and then look at all of their classes, upcoming assignments, and grades. Now is a great time to sit down with your child and review their classes. Here are some highlights to look for:
- Class syllabus--all teachers post a syllabus with expectations for their class, assignments, grading and course standards; read the syllabus with your child and look over all of the information for each class.
- Have your child show you where the look in their class to get information about upcoming assignments. Identify two upcoming assignments and discuss with them what they will need to do to complete them.
- Find the grades section and look at your child's grades in three classes with them. Look at how the grades are broken down and review with your child how they can improve their grade on an assignment (check in with the teacher, complete a review or retake, etc.)
Fall Festival
Volunteer for Fall Festival 2023
We need parent volunteers to make Fall Festival an amazing event! Please sign up below if you are able to volunteer your time or effort this year.
Garden Club--Parent Volunteers Needed!
We need parent volunteers to help supervise and direct our garden club. In past years, garden club students have met after school one day each week to tend to the garden beds, pull weeds, make minor repairs, and plant new plants. We have the support of Seedlings Garden Group, but need parent volunteers to make it happen! If you are interested in volunteering to host the club after school and help work on our school garden, please contact Hannah Bates at hbates@rvusd.org. You will need to get fingerprinted in order to volunteer.
Sports Update
Flag Football
We have two teams this year, so check ParentSquare for your child's team!
Volleyball
Games this week:
Monday, September 11, @Presentation School
20872 Broadway, Sonoma CA 95476
7th grade 4 pm, 8th grade 4:45 pm
Friday, September 15, @Sebastopol Independent Charter School
1111 Gravenstein Highway, Sebastopol CA 95472
7th grade ONLY 4 pm
Practice on Wednesday, 2:15-4:30 pm
ParentSquare
All communication from SLMS will come through ParentSquare. You may have to access other sites, such as Schoology and your Parent Portal in Synergy, but all information pertaining to our school and links to access those sites will be provided through ParentSquare.
If you have not already signed up, you should have received an invitation link, or you can go to ParentSquare.com to sign up. When you use the app, you can change your settings to receive messages however you prefer (once per day, at the time they are sent, via text or SMS notification, etc.). Newsletters such as this one will contain lots of important information and will be sent out weekly, so please make sure you are reading them when you receive them!