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East Junior High Newsletter

Registration for next year’s classes will begin in early February. Students will be receiving registration materials and bringing them home to review. As a parent, you can take an active role in this process. What can you do? A few simple, effective things. Ask your student what courses they are required to take. Ask them if the course fits their interests and abilities. Our counselors

are available to answer questions about the registration process and next year’s classes. Be careful and wise when guiding your daughter or son in making course selections for next school year. Why? Because students are held accountable for their course selection choices. As a general rule, students cannot drop courses after May 1. Again, please be sure that students carefully consider their course selections. Below are important dates to remember: Current Grade Date Materials Distributed Date Course Selections are Due Grade 8 Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Grade 9 Thursday, January 26, 2017 Thursday, February 2, 2017

Just a reminder that the first semester grading period ends on January 18th. Grades recorded as of this date will become part of the permanent academic record for students. This impacts our Freshman the most since credits earned this year apply to earning a Lincoln High School diploma three years from now. With approximately two weeks remaining this semester, it is important for students to continue to work on obtaining the academic goals estab-lished for them. It is not too late for scores just below passing to be raised to earn credit but real-ize that this will take additional time and effort on the part of the students for this to occur. Please continue to provide support, encouragement, and conversations with your children as they work to achieve academic success. With the start of a new semester on January 23rd, ALL students will start with a clean academic record. Most students will have new classes start-ing and the day will have the feel of the first day of school again. It is important to recognize that this fresh start means that no first semester grades carry over and work done beginning with this day will all be part of the second semester grades.

SEMESTER 1 REPORT CARDS The Semester 1 grading period is set to end on January 18. Grades will be posted on Skyward no later than January 22. Recall that grades for the semester are cumulative grades that are broken into 3 grading peri-ods. As a reminder, paper copies of the S1 report will not be mailed home. If you have any questions regarding this report, notification or process, please call Student Services at 715-424-6735.

January 2017 Kevin Yeske Principal

Patti Ritchay Associate Principal

Important News for Freshman… The Registration Expo will be held in conjunc-tion with Parent Teacher Conferences at LHS. Tables will be set up for each department spe-cifically for registration questions. The expo will be held on Monday, January 23 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in the LHS fieldhouse. It is an excellent opportunity for students (grades 9, 10, and 11) and their parents to learn about courses at LHS, the registration process, and gather important information about educa-tional opportunities. Please attend and bring your son or daughter. Teachers from each de-partment at LHS, counselors, and administra-tion will be available to answer all of your questions. Be sure you have had discussions with your child about their career plans and what they want to do after graduation. These discussions will go a long way when making sure students are taking rich, rig-orous, and appropriate courses that will meet their goals. We look forward to seeing you.

Cold season is here! Thank you to those that have donated Kleenex to EJH. Our classrooms and offices are in need of more tissues. Please

consider donating if you are able. Dona-tions may be dropped off in the office. Thank you!

On Friday, January 13, students who have all passing grades (D- or higher) will be reward-ed with an afternoon movie. The following movie choices will be available for stu-dents:

Pitch Perfect 2 Finding Dory Kubo and the Two Strings Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children School of Rock Parental Guidance Lights Out Percy Jackson-Sea of Monsters

The cut-off for passing grades to qualify for the movie will be at the end of the day on Tuesday, January 10. Students who turn in work or take assessments after that date may still achieve a passing grade for the semester, but won’t be eligible for the movie. Please encourage your child to talk with their teachers, turn in missing home-work and complete projects and assess-

ments BEFORE THE JANU-ARY 10 DEADLINE! Any student who does not qualify for the movie, will use the time to work with classroom teachers on incomplete work, projects or assessments in an effort to raise their final grade.

Parent Teacher conferences have been set for the spring. Please mark you calendars for the following dates:

Monday, March 13 4:00-5:30 pm

We look forward to seeing you!

All students who attend events at Lincoln High School ~

Please remember that school rules and behav-ior expectations are still in place during after school events. If you choose to attend high school athletic events, you will be expected to sit in the bleachers. You will not be allowed to roam freely around the high school. Thank you for your cooperation!

NEW THIS YEAR...The registration expo will be held in conjunction with Parent Teacher Conferences. Tables will be set up for each department specifically for registration questions. The expo will be held on Monday, January 23 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in the LHS fieldhouse. It is an excellent opportunity for students (grades 9, 10, and 11) and their parents to learn about courses at LHS, the regis-tration process, and gather important information about educational opportunities. Please attend and bring your son or daughter. Teachers from each department at LHS, counselors, and administration will be available to an-swer all of your questions. Be sure you have had discus-sions with your child about their career plans and what they want to do after graduation. These discussions will go a long way when making sure students are taking rich, rigorous, and appropriate courses that will meet their goals. We look forward to seeing you.

WRPS PUPIL NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

The School District of Wisconsin Rapids is committed to equal educational opportunity for all District students. The District

will not deny any person admission to, participation in, or the benefits of any curricular, extra-curricular, pupil services,

recreational or other program or activity because of a person’s gender, race, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion,

pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity, or physical, mental, emotional

or learning disability, or any other characteristic protected under State or Federal civil rights laws. Please review

Board Policy 411 for additional information. Incidents of discrimination or harassment should be reported to a teacher,

administrator, supervisor or other District employee to be addressed or forwarded on to District Compliance Officer Ryan

Christianson.

Important Dates to Remember

Last Day of 1st Semester Wednesday, January 18

No School - Record Keeping Day

Thursday, January 19

No School - Professional Development Day Friday, January 20

Beginning of 2nd Semester

Monday, January 23

During the 2017-2018 School Year, freshmen students will be operating under a trimester schedule that will have each ninth grade student enrolled in five classes each day. Each class will run for approximately seventy minutes in length for twelve weeks. This will be defined as the first tri-mester. During the first trimester, freshmen students will earn one-half

credit for each course they pass. After twelve weeks, students will be enrolled in five new classes for another twelve weeks, or the second trimester. Again, one-half credit can be earned for each course passed during the second trimester. For the third trimester lasting twelve weeks and beginning in March, students can earn an additional two and one-half cred-its by passing all of their five courses during this term. Under our current system, ninth grade students have seven classes each day and can earn a maximum of seven credits each year. Under the new schedule beginning with the 2017-2018 School Year, ninth grade students will have five classes each day and can earn two and one-half credits each of the three trimester terms thus totaling seven and one-half credits each year. This new schedule is the same schedule that the students and teaching staff are using at Lin-coln High School to earn credits toward a Lincoln High School Diploma. As a building, we are looking forward to providing a consistent high school curriculum for all WRPS students earning credit toward a diploma. This change will also provide consistent teaching schedules for staff travelling between Lincoln High School and East, common grad-ing periods, and the same learning expectations for all students taking the class for high school credit.