The first week of the 2023-24 school year at Morris School is in the books! We would like to take the time to thank all Morris School community members for helping the first week go well. We appreciate seeing all the students in their classes on their respective first days. The very large majority of classes had all their students in class and on time. Our parents communicated well when they had questions or something they felt our staff needed to know. For those of you who drop off & pick up your students, thank you for not using the bus loop in the back of the school or parking in the circle turnaround at the very end of Toronto Avenue East. We appreciate that! A big thank you to our staff for handling any adjustments that were needed to be made. The first week of school can be stressful enough (for students & staff), so your ability to roll with some of these changes was appreciated. We look forward to our second week. We encourage all community members to contact the school if you have questions. If it is a question about classroom activities, please reach out to the teacher first. If it is administrative in nature (forms, applications, fees, etc.), please ask the front office staff. If you're not sure who to direct your question/comment to, please call the office or speak directly with Mr. Watson. k-8 families...strong beginnings (sign up Online)Strong Beginnings is a MANDATORY assessment that occurs early in September for students in Kindergarten to Grade 8. On Friday, September 15 and Monday, September 18, children will attend school by appointment for approximately 60 minutes to participate in assessment activities. Kindergarten students are asked to book a 30-minute appointment during one of the time slots. The appointments on these days replace regular classes..so NO classes for Grades K-8 students on Friday or Monday. Grades 9-12 students...we'll see you at school! A Strong Beginnings session is an opportunity for teachers to extend and consolidate their understanding of each child in order to plan for instruction. This, in turn, will effectively address unique learning needs as early as possible in the new school year. All Grades K-8 students need to be registered for Strong Beginnings by Thursday, September 14th. We book online using our Conference Manager software. If you do not have a Conference Manager account, please access the site via our school's website or by clicking here. If you are new to the school, please create an account and add your students to the system. If you have questions, please contact Mr. Watson. school cash online - thank you!We would like to send out a huge 'THANK YOU' to those families who have made inquiries on how to get set up on our division's School Cash Online software or have made profiles on their own. We will set up the fees online this week as we were waiting for our lists in various classes to be as accurate as possible. Our School has moved to accept all school fees online using our School Cash Online software. No payments in cash or cheque will be received by a member of our school staff. An email has been sent to you by Ms. Danielle LeBlanc containing your student's student ID number and instructions on how to become an established user of the School Cash Online software. If you did not receive that email, please email Ms. Denny at [email protected] and she will send you one. You do not require a credit card to successfully execute a payment using School Cash Online. You can link your account directly to one of your bank accounts and it will be withdrawn directly from that specific account when you complete your payment transaction. You also have the ability to make partial payments using this online software. Link to School Cash Online: SchoolCashOnline.com A list of this year's fees includes:
If there are concerns about your family's ability to pay one of the above fees, there are two options:
calling all jazz musiciansInterested in learning a new instrument? Or gaining an extra high school credit? Consider joining the Jazz Band! No musical experience is required and classes take place 2-3 lunch hours a week. Any grade 8-12 student can participate. Come to the first Jazz Band meeting this Monday, September 11 at 12:15 p.m. in the Band Room if you're interested! See Mrs. Zimmerman if you have any questions. bio class does some 1st day, HANDS-ON learningThe grade 11 Biology class had a great first day this week taping organs and bones onto their peers in the (approximately) correct locations! the guidance DEPARTMENT welcomes you!mavericks athletic updateCross Country Interested in running? Or learning how to be a stronger runner? Come to the Cross Country meeting this Tuesday, September 12 at 12:15 p.m. in the Band Room to learn more. It's a quick season and no experience is required so come on out! See Mrs. Zimmerman if you have any questions. High School Soccer The boys head to RVS for their first game on Monday. It is not too late to sign up, See Mr. Ricard or Mrs. K. for more information Girls Soccer has practice at 3:30 on Monday at the school field while their season starts later next week. Volleyball Varsity Girls played in Warren this past weekend for their first game action of the season. Varsity Boys are practicing Monday at 3:30 in St. Jean, Wednesday at 3:30 in Morris, and Thursday at 5:30 in Morris JV Girls are practicing on Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30. See Mr. Dekezel or Mrs. K. for more information. JV Boys are practicing Monday and Thursday at 5:30 and Wednesday at 3:30 Both JV teams are preparing for their home tournament on Sept 22-23, while the JV boys will also head to Warren next weekend. Grades 7/8 Girls volleyball begin practices this week on Monday and Friday at 3:30 while the 7/8 Boys also start this week with practices on Tuesday and Friday at 3:30. Maverick Athletic Fundraiser Decorate your new water bottle or binder! The Athletic Department is selling Mavs stickers for $2 to help raise money for sports opportunities. Contact Mrs. K. if you would like to purchase one....or ten. register for Powerschool and safearrivalAt Morris School, one of our greatest priorities is ensuring that all our students arrive safely at school each and every day. To enhance our existing absence-checking procedure, we are using a student absence reporting system called SafeArrival. This system will reduce the time it takes to verify student attendance, make it easy for you to report your child’s absence and easy for staff to respond to unexplained student absences. With SafeArrival, you are asked to report your child’s absence in advance using any of these 3 convenient methods:
***A New Text Option is available for SafeArrival. There are directions to sign up in link to the pdf below: SMSTextOpRRVSD.pdf In addition, we will use the SchoolMessenger Communicate automated notification system to contact parents whose child is absent when the absence was not reported in advance. The automated notification system will attempt to contact parents at multiple contact points until a reason is submitted for the absence. If our system is unable to reach the designated contacts, office staff will follow up. If you report your child’s absence in advance using the SafeArrival toll-free number, website or mobile app, you will NOT receive these notifications. Please report absences in advance using SafeArrival instead of sending notes or calling/emailing the school. Staff will be using the SafeArrival notifications to let you know if your student is absent (when you haven’t reported the absence in advance). If you have children attending other schools, please continue to report absences using the existing procedures for those schools. coming soon...contact information changesIn order to receive all the information you require to be an active member of our school community, we need to be sure your contact information is up-to-date. If you've moved to another residence, changed (or dropped) a phone number or have a new email address, please let Ms. Denny know in the office as soon as possible. Her email is [email protected]. We appreciate being kept in the loop on the above changes. Thank you, in advance, for helping us out. Comments are closed.
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