Harrison Hills City School District Newsletter

Week of 8/25/14 “Home of the Huskies”

DISTRICT OFFICE:

Administration visitation to all buildings

Distribution of curricular materials to faculty complete.

Administrative consultation with building principals

Submitted to the State Auditor’s Office the completed financial report for Help Me

Grow and Family and Children First for FY 2014.

Provided financial information for Medicaid reporting to HPC for 2012-2013 school-

year.

Completed information for Julian and Grube for cash basis statements for FY 2014.

Approved paraprofessional and teacher license requests.

Transition for Harrison North over to their New 100 MB Wireless Uplink began last

week. Increased network speed is certainly welcomed.

Safe Schools Healthy Students counselors, preventionists, and truancy specialist are

welcomed in all buildings. Thank-you to Janet Groome, director, for the smooth

implementation of this much needed program.

Beginning bussing was good but there were several delays due to accidents, wrong

addresses

Harrison has 19 regular routes and 2 mid-day PS routes

Great job by driver's dealing with changes.

Great job by cooks and Jenny Gibson to get cafeterias up and running.

Great job Colin Albaugh and district custodians to get buildings ready.

Harrison East Elementary

GOOD HAPPENINGS

STUDENTS ARRIVED BACK TO SCHOOL LAST MONDAY, AUGUST 25TH EAGER TO LEARN AND GET

STARTED ON A NEW ADVENTURE……Also welcome to Lisa Ferrell, Maria Lopez, Morgan Heavilin, and

Chris Dyer to the Harrison East staff.

STUDENTS AND STAFF SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THEIR FIRST FIRE DRILL OF THE NEW YEAR!!

MRS. CARMAN’S FOURTH GRADE CLASS ALONG WITH HOPEDALE VILLAGE COUNCIL MEMBERS WORKED ON MAKING HARRISON EAST AN EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO BE….PLANTING MUMS WITH A SMILE!!!!

MRS. ELLIOTT WELCOMED HER FIRST CLASS IN STYLE!!

WHOO’S READY FOR 1ST GRADE!!

UPCOMING EVENTS!

PTO’S FIRST MEETING WILL BE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH AT 6PM

PICTURES ARE SET FOR SEPTEMBER 17TH & 18TH

FOR GRADES 3-6 WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, THE 17TH

FOR GRADES PS-2 WILL BE THURSDAY, THE 18TH

Harrison North Elementary

Highlights

Welcomed educational aide, Dana Takach to the Harrison North Staff.

A “Back to School” building newsletter was prepared and sent home with students at Open House.

Special thank you to our custodians, summer helpers, volunteers and district maintenance for completing summer improvements which included: masonry work and replacement of window lentils; installation of preschool restrooms; ceiling and lighting upgrades in classrooms; electrical upgrades and installation of air conditioners in classrooms; installation of window blinds in both preschool classrooms, cafeteria/lunchroom and additional rooms; and painting of the upper hallway, lunchroom and Barr Memorial lobby.

Over 250 students and family members attended Open House with several also in attendance at the “Back to School Rally” that afternoon.

Congratulations to Mrs. Bailey’s 5th grade student, Sophia Brammer. She was the winner of North’s Open House gift basket.

Congratulations to the Miss Jacobsen’s 1st grade student, Timmy Wren. He was the winner of North’s “Back to School Rally” gift basket.

Preschool and Kindergarten teachers held conferences with students and parents prior to the student’s first day of school on Wednesday. Currently, both preschool classrooms are full with a waiting list.

Beginning of the year ODE Screeners, Pearson baseline tests for reading and math, along with placement tests for online intervention programs of SRI, V-Math, Moby Max and Study Island were administered to students during the first week of school.

Spring OAA family reports were mailed home to parents prior to the start of school.

Fire drill was conducted for the first week of school requirements.

To break up time between assessments this past week 2nd grade teacher, Ms. Utter has been reading Captain Underpants to the class. In the story George and Harold hypnotize their principal Mr. Krupp. So students were asked to write in their journals what they would have Ms. Ryder do if they could hypnotize her.

Current enrollment at Harrison North (341): Preschool (40), Kindergarten (44), 1st Grade (51), 2nd Grade (42), 3rd Grade (41), 4th Grade (43), 5th Grade (39) and 6th Grade (41).

Ms. Sayre’s preschool students participated in a class science experiment from the book “If You a Take Mouse Goes to School” by Laura Numeroff.

Tuesday’s professional development started this past week and included: an introduction of the district’s SLO initiative; overview Ohio’s New Learning Standards for ELA and Math and FIP in Action with a review of “clear learning targets”.

September building newsletter was sent home with students on Friday.

Special thank you for everyone’s help in preparing our building for the 2014-2015 school year.

Upcoming Events:

9/03 September PTA Meeting @ 5PM

9/ 18 4th Grade Environmental Field Day

9/19 Progress Reports for 1st Nine Weeks 9/23 Fall School Picture Day

Harrison Central

Good News

First week of school is now completed. What a fantastic beginning to the school year! Varsity girls soccer team won their first ever game vs. Steubenville by a score of 2-1

Mr. Miller's science 8 class did a scientific inquiry lab

Students are now utilizing Chromebooks for classroom instruction and homework

Approximately 95% of our students now have their Chromebooks. The other 5% are using loaners throughout the day

Fire drill completed this week Varsity golf team continues to roll and is now 7 and 1 Varsity football was victorious over Buckeye Trail

Fall sports picture day completed. Action Images has submitted fall photos to our Fall Sports Programs

Attendance was monitored and communicated with Mr. Smith to follow up on absenteeism Referrals are coming in for our new Safe and Healthy School Grant specialists Jostens representative Rob Vera was here to meet with sophomore and senior students Kore energy shutdown was completed Administration continues to complete classroom walkthroughs Mr. Ripley met with students to discuss their views on the Chromebooks. Students are excited

about the learning. They enjoy having notes provided to them so they may follow along teacher discussion. Submission of assignments has also been deemed as positive. The students are stating that the electronic files are helping them stay more organized.

Numerous IEP, student and parent meetings held Pep rally held for students grades 7-12

Up and Coming

9-3 Varsity golf vs. Meadowbrook and Weirton Madonna 3:30 PM 9-3 Boy's soccer vs. Wheeling Central 5:30 PM (Scio) 9-4 Varsity golf vs. Conotton Valley 3:30 PM 9-5 Varsity football vs. Weirton 7:00 PM 9-6 Varsity golf 2nd round of Buckeye 8 Championship 8:30 am (Belmont Hills) 9-6 Cross country in the Buckeye 8 Championship 9:00 am (Buckeye Local) 9-6 Girl's soccer vs. Oak Glenn 11:00 am (Scio)

Harrison Hills Employee Spotlight

Name: Elizabeth Marie Brooks (Ferrell)

Building: Harrison Central

I grew up on an old apple orchard in Freeport, attended Lakeland High School, and graduated from Harrison Central in 2000 (the first class of Huskies). I earned my bachelor's at Kent State University and obtained my master's in educational leadership from Salem International University. I love taking classes and learning new things, so a doctorate just might be in my future.

Obviously my hobbies are reading, reading, and more reading! I would briefly mention a few of my favorite authors/novels, but the list would take up entirely too much space on this newsletter. As the genius George R. R. Martin said, “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

Bobby (Harrison Central Resource Officer) and I married on June 26, 2010 in a rather unusual manner. (I'm sure those in attendance will recall medieval costumes and a stage.) Since then we've been traveling as much as possible. Our favorite destination thus far has been an isolated little town called Skagway, Alaska, but we haven't made it to Ireland...yet.