Yale Junior High Sept Oct 2009 Newsletter E Version[1]

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This year, students will be required to test on fourpredetermined days: October 13th,

October 15th, October 20th andOctober 22nd. Students are onlyallowed to test on those days. If achild is absent, they will be required totake a make-up MEAP exam on pre-selected make-up days. Please makesure that your child is in school theentire day on our MEAP testing days. All students will betested in the morning.The MEAP exams can be very intimidating to junior highschool students. Parents can help alleviate some of thestress by preparing your child at home. Make sure they get agood nights rest before a testing day. Have your child eat awell balanced meal in the morning before their test. If yourchild walks or is driven to school, arrange for them to get toschool on time. Lastly, talk to your child about theimportance of trying their best on the tests and talk to themafter each exam day and reflect on how they did.The staff at our school believes we have designed a daily

schedule that will allow your child toperform to their best ability. Our hope isthat students do the best that they can andthat the scores earned on the examsreflect your childs abilities and quality of program offered at Yale Junior HighSchool.

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Sept . / Oct . 2009

Calendar

October

6 Fundraiser Ends (Delivery of Productapprox. 3 weeks later)

13 MEAP Testing Day

15 MEAP Testing Day

15 Board Mtg. 7:00 p.m. @ Avoca El.20 MEAP Testing Day

22 MEAP Testing Day

22 PIN Meeting @ 6:00 in MediaCenter

27 Halloween Band Concert 7:00 @ HS

November

2 Picture Re-Take Day

6 7th Grade Vision Testing6 End of 1st Parking Period

12 Board Mtg. 7:00

16 Parent / Teacher Conf 5-8 p.m.18 Parent / Teacher Conf 5-8 p.m.19 Day Students

19 Parent / Teacher Conf 12-3 p.m.29 NO SCHOOL

26 Thanksgiving NO SCHOOL27 NO SCHOOL

30 NO SCHOOL Full Day In-Service

198 School Drive Joseph Haynes, Principal Telephone (810)387-3231

Yale, Michigan Robert Keefe, Assistant Principal Fax (810) 387-9207

48097 Shari Muxlow, Counselor www.yale.k12.mi.us

FundraiserDelivery Date

Thank you to everyone whosupported our Fundraiser thisyear. The orders are being processed this week and will beforwarded to the companysoon. Delivery of goods shouldbe in approximately threeweeks. We will let studentsknow in advance of the deliverydate so that they can makearrangements to pick up theproducts from school. Onceagain, thanks for your support.

O C T O B E R M E A N S M E A P T E S T S

Parent Teacher Confere November 16th 5-8 PM November 18th 5-8 PM November 19th 12-3 PM

In the Gymnasium

Yale Junior HighSchool Fall Sports

Teams

View The TeamRosters and Various

Photos On Page 4 & 5

PictureRetakeDayIs November 2nd

-The Electronic Version of Our School Newsletter-

Congratulations 8th Graders

Class of 2014

Yale Junior High Schools 2009Homecoming SpiritWeek Winners

The Spirit Key is Yours!


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Yale Public Schools are Smoke and Alcohol Free Yale Public Schools are Smoke and Alcohol Free Yale Public Schools are Smoke and Alcohol Free Yale Public Schools are Smoke and Alcohol Free

All school buildings and school property are alcohol and smokefree environments. The Yale School Board established a policythat states: no person, at any time, shall smoke, chew, or

otherwise use tobacco products, of any kind, on School Districtproperty, on property under control of the school district, nor inschool district vehicles. The adopted school district policyinvolving alcohol states: no alcoholic beverages, of any kind,nor any look-a-like alcoholic beverages, shall be used by anyperson in District buildings or on District property, nor inconnection with any District sponsored activity, either on or off District property, at any time.

Signs prohibiting the use of alcohol, tobacco, or tobaccoproducts are posted on schoolgrounds. General public violations

will be handled in accordance with State Law.Any student involved with either alcohol, drugs or tobacco are subject toour student code of conduct related to the offense. Alcohol and tobaccorelated incidents would result in suspension from school and policeinvolvement including the issue of a citation for minor in possession.Drug related incidents, including look-a-like drugs, would include a tenday suspension from school, followed by a possible recommendation forexpulsion as well as police involvement.

Continuous School Improvement

You probably notice that Yale Junior High School has traditionally done well on MEAP tests. Often,schools are measured on MEAP results alone. Yale Junior High School measures their success with avariety of tools. The State of Michigan has an annual review process called the School ImprovementFrameworks. Schools have to rate themselves in ninety-five different areas called indicators. Thesescores are tabulated to come up with a grade for our school. This score is combined with other piecesof information to calculate our Yearly Progress school grade. Schools are graded annually and YaleJunior High School received a letter grade of an A last year.

Yale Junior High School is also involved in the AdvancEd (NCA) system. We are the only junior high /middle school accredited in St. Clair County. AdvancEd uses a peer review system to review schoolwide goals. Yale Junior High Schools School Improvement Goals for this year include:

1. Our Students will improve their writing skills across the content areas.

2. Our students will increase their competency in informational reading.

3. Our students will increase their utilization of technology in all curricular areas.

Yale Junior High School is also involved in a process that addresses students individual needs titledResponse To Intervention (RTI) or Pyramid of Intervention. This system is designed to review schoolneeds, grade level needs, classroom needs, and individual student needs. The plan is designed toreview individual student results and create different levels of interventions that could address thatstudents needs.Finally, Yale Junior High uses other types of reports to assist in measuring our successes and needs.Some of these reports include percentage of students making honor roll, percentage of studentsfailing a class / grade, special education referrals and academic award winners.If you would like to know more about any of the aforementioned school improvement pieces, pleasefeel free to contact Joseph Haynes at (810) 387-3231 ext. 232 or email him at

[email protected].

Thank you to all student

government officers and

representatives.

Student Council

Members2009/2010

Student Council Officers

President: Heather May

Vice-Pres: Nicholas Priehs

Secretary: Natalie Currie

Treasurer: Justin Antilla

Representatives

Chance Palmateer

Alex Kingsbury

Kevin Cowan

Derek Burns

Katherinann Bahr

Rachel Bartley

Holly Koglin

Austin Gentner

Hannah Ainsworth

Kyle Avery

Hannah Wiegand

Kristen Bosman

Amber Schieweck

Greg Woods

Natalie Keith

Madison Sokacz

Matt Rapley

Joey Moza

Hayley Stamps

Rachel Stawecki

Brendan Macias

Seventh and Eighth Grade Class Officers

and Photos are on Page 7


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Merit activities were designed toreward Yale Junior High Schoolstudents for doing their bestacademically and following our

school code of conduct. Students who are passing all of their classes and have not been issued adiscipline referral, been suspended from school or bus service are eligible to participate in our meritactivity for that marking period. Throughout the year, approximately four to six merit activities arescheduled for the students. Each activity has a marking period as the qualifying time frame. If a childis ineligible for one activity, they automatically are eligible for the next activity unless they fail a class orreceive a discipline referral during that qualifying time period. The activities are exciting and most allstudents who qualify for the activity participate. Some activities have a cost attached to them. Yale

Junior High School attempts to off-set the cost of the merit activities byhosting one fundraiser at the beginning of the school year. All funds raisedin our Great Lakes Promotions fundraiser go directly into the studentsactivities accounts at our school.The merit activities are announcedin advance and are listed on ourbuilding calendar.If you have any questionsregarding this, please contact the

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Yale Junior High School produces a newsletter every two months.Newsletters contain photos of student activities, monthlycalendars, notification of upcoming events and reflections onactivities within our school. We offer two types of newsletters.Our traditional newsletter is printed at a printer and mailed hometo every family within our school. There is a significant cost toprint the newsletters. In order to keep cost to a minimum, thenewsletter is copied in black and white. Our second newsletter isour electronic version. This newsletter is in full color with specialgraphics. The photos are sharper and the overall appearance isvery professional. The newsletters information is exactly thesame. However, because the electronic version is sent to parents through their email addresses, thecost is free for us to send and the newsletter is sent in a more timely fashion. If you are interested insigning up for our electronic notification system, please contact Mrs. Jenise Brennan at 387-3231 ext283 .

Signing up for the electronic notification system also has other advantages. Important reminders aresent out to individuals reminding them of special events and meetings.

All parents with internet connections have the opportunity to sign up for Parent Connect. ParentConnect allows parents to view their childs current grades and homework assignments. ParentConnect also has a calendar component. The calendar is updated regularly. You can sign-up forParent Connect by contacting Mrs. Joann Sabada at (810) 387-3231 ext 284.

Get up-to-the-date information, stay connected.

Need UpNeed UpNeed UpNeed Up- ---totototo----Date Information About Yale Jr. High?Date Information About Yale Jr. High?Date Information About Yale Jr. High?Date Information About Yale Jr. High?----Get ConnectedGet ConnectedGet ConnectedGet Connected----

Just a reminder that studentlockers are property of the

school district. School repre-sentatives have the right toinspect lockers if there is aconcern regarding student

safety. If students abuse theirlockers (destroy, jam, or allowother students to use withoutconsent from their teacher),they may forfeit their right to

that locker or any otherlocker.

Inclement Weather

On very stormy or foggy days,school and bus informationis announced on the radioand television. Below arestations that announce

information concerning YalePublic Schools

WHLS (1450 AM)

WMIC (660 AM)

WPHM (1380 AM)

WQSA (1170 AM)

WFIN (1590 AM)

WNFA (88.3 FM)

CHANNEL 2 (TV)

CHANNEL 7 (TV)

In particular on fog days,the announcement will statethe length of time morning pick ups are delayed. Youare encouraged to have aplan to care for your child /children returning homewhen school is dismissedearly due to severe weatherconditions.


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L E A D E R S H I P T H R O U G H C H E E R L E A D I N G

B U I L D I N G O N T R A D I T I O N

T H E B U L L D O G C R O S S C O U N T Y

F A S T B E C O M I N G A T R A D I T I O N A L P O W E R

Volume 8 Iss ue 2

Football Team RosterFootball Team RosterFootball Team RosterFootball Team Roster

Austin AnspaughJustin AntillaBailey Bischer Derek BrownDerek CastroKevin CowanDerek Desloover James DevroyCorey EdgertonBrody FlynnTyler HillisCrystal JonesBrett keanCameron kegleyGarrett kersten

Alexander Kingsbury

Alex KocisNoah NichollCody NolanChace Palmateer Derrek PhillipsNicholas PriehsJeremy SchottKyle SmithRobert Smith

CheerleadersCheerleadersCheerleadersCheerleaders

Kelley ArsenaultRachel BartleyKayla BowersIngrid CieplechowiczKristi Cloutier Dayla Iseler

Paige KutchenBreyonna MarkhamMakayla MoodyKatalin ShappeeErika StilesMiranda TaseskiPayton WaldeckDonyele WatsonFranki Whittaker


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G I R L S 8 T H G R A D E B A S K E T B A L L

G I R L S 7 T H G R A D E B A S K E T B A L L

8th Grade Team Roster8th Grade Team Roster8th Grade Team Roster8th Grade Team Roster

Stacy BrennanCourtney CrawfordElizabeth GlombowskiKati KlockeMcKenzie Kosiara

Danielle MackeyTaylor Reid Allison RoestelLauren Schoof Keely SheldonTaylor Terpening Adriona ThomasMelany Wiczorek

7th Grade Team Roster7th Grade Team Roster7th Grade Team Roster7th Grade Team Roster

Bryanna BushBrianna Lappin Annie Taylor Hannah MeyersJessica Marks Alexandria Jedrzejczak Allison Fleming Autumn SchadeKimberly CharneyMariel Kincaid Alison Bastianelli

Amber Glavach Allison CowhyNatalie HoistTessa Palmateer

CrossCountry Roster

Heather BlantonJared BradleyTimmy DonnellonEmily Fuller Mallory Gebauer Rachel Gebauer Adam GlavachNathan Kaatz

Check-Out www.yalebulldoghoops.com for information about YPS Basketball

Nicholas Klei Alana Koepf Riley Koepf Holly KoglinScott KrzakKade NicolEliza SerosCurt SilverthornCasey VanCamp


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The greatest influence in a child's life is their parents. When a child becomes a teenager, the power of influence adjusts slightly to peers, role models and other adults. Parents need to stay involved in every aspectof their childs development and growth whether the teenager wants them to or not. For this reason, the staff atYale Junior High School has decided to dedicate one page per newsletter to parents in an attempt to betterunderstand development of a teenager. If you any information that you think would benefit parents in ourschool, please feel free to share your ideas with Joe Haynes, Building Principal.

Parent Page

Did You Know?

Research shows that when teenage girls are askedto write about a topic, they write to an adult audi-ence. However, boys write as if their audiencewere other boys their age. Parents may want toremind their children about the audience they arewriting to the next time your child has a writing assignment.

Studies Show

The most consistent predictors of childrensacademic achievement and social adjustmentare parent expectations of the childs academicability and satisfaction with their childseducation at school.

-Help your child set high achievable goals!-

GOSSIP!Sure gossip seems innocent. After all, whatswrong with your child passing along juicyplayground news?The answer is plenty. Gossip isnt just rude, it isalso destructive (and often leads to bigger

problems inschool thatsometimesresults in schooldiscipline). Tohelp your childsee thedifferencebetween gossipand informationsharing, ask,would you tell

me this if the person youre talking about werestanding right here? If the answer is no, itsprobably gossip.

Most of the discipline referrals involving two ormore students at our school start as a result of arumor. Please help us teach students that rumorspreading is wrong and that it hurts other students.

Listen to What Your Child Has to Say

Want your preteen or teenager to open up? Use active listening. Heres how: Pay attention. When your child is ready to talk, put down what youre doing

and focus on them. Acknowledge their words. Dont chime in with advice, but give a simple nod

or response to show youre listening. Name the emotion. Are they struggling to express a feeling? Help them.

Asking, were you frustrated when you didnt get called on? for instance,may encourage them to share even more.

Family Dinner Time - - - - - Its What Kids Need!Something as simple as eating dinner together as a family can be beneficial toyour child. Meals around the dinner table promote communication, build familybonds and allow families to connect. Kids get food (and most teenagers love toeat), parents can get up to speed on theirchilds schooling, friendships, socialevents and calendar items. Who knows,your child may even want your opinion ona situation in their lives. Do what you canto schedule as many family dinners to-gether as possible. If you have to, a mealtogether at a fast food restaurant betweensoccer practice and dance practice is bet-ter then nothing.

SIXTH GRADE CROSS COUNTY CLUB


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Student Government

Give Reasons to Read When Your Teen Gives Excuses

Eighth Grade Class OfficersEighth Grade Class OfficersEighth Grade Class OfficersEighth Grade Class Officers

2009200920092009- ---2010201020102010President: Bailey Bischer

Vice Pres.: Kati Klocke

Secretary: Eliza Seros

Treasurer: Curt Silverthorn

Sgt at Arms: McKenzie Kosiara

Savannah McEvoy

Front row left to right: Eliza Seros, Kati Klocke,Baily Bisher

Standing: Savannah McEvoy, Curt Silverthorn,McKenzie Kosiara

Seventh Grade Class OfficersSeventh Grade Class OfficersSeventh Grade Class OfficersSeventh Grade Class Officers

2009200920092009- ---2010201020102010President: Felipe Macias

Vice Pres.: Spencer FrenchSecretary: Natalie Hoist

Treasurer: Riley Koepf

Sgt at Arms: Zach Farrow

Cole Salski

Front Row left to right: Riley Koef, Spencer French,Felipe Macias

Standing: Natalie Hoist, Zach Farrow, Cole Salski

Front: Natalie Currie, Heather May

Back: Nicholas Priehs, Justin Antilla

Student Council OfficersStudent Council OfficersStudent Council OfficersStudent Council Officers

2009200920092009- ---2010201020102010

President: Heather May

Vice-Pres.: Nicholas Priehs

Secretary: Natalie Currie

Treasurer: Justin Antilla

Your teen spends hours on the phone or computer, but you cant remember when you last saw them read. Ask them about reading and theygive you a bored look or a tired excuse. You cant force them to read, but you can let him know excuses wont work. If they say, why shouldI read, answer:

-Strong reading skills will help your school work.

- Reading is a thrill! A book can take you anywhere.

If they say, you say reading is a thrill, but I think it is boring, say

-Then read one of your passions.

-The read something funny. How about a joke book?

-Then read something with a twist. How about a mystery?

-Then read about your peers. How about a young adult novel?

-Then read something trendy. Encourage them to pick a book from a best sellers list.


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198 School Drive Yale, MI 48097 Joseph Haynes, PrincipalBob Keefe, Assistant PrincipalShari Muxlow, Counselor Michelle Manger, Secretary

Joann Sabada, Secretary Deona Ellis, Attendance Clerk

Yale Junior High School

Telephone: (810)-387-3231Fax: (810)-387-9207Email: www.yale.k12.mi.us

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