Newt News 3/10/25

On Tuesday, March 11th, Worthington’s high schools will administer the state-funded SAT to all 11th grade students during the school day. This SAT administration is free of charge to all 11th grade students. Linworth students will take the test at their home school.

All juniors will automatically be enrolled to take the test. Families of junior students will receive additional and more detailed information via emails in February and March.

In order to provide focused time and attention to the SAT, the morning will be dedicated to testing only. All 11th grade students are required to report to school by 8:40 a.m. for testing. We will use a delayed start of school for 9th, 10th, and 12th grade students. Lunch will be served for all students who would like to eat.

Linworth classes will be Orange C & D only, following these times:
C 12:35-1:40

D 2:05-3:10

Main campus classes will be as follows:

Period 5 12:25 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Period 6 1:10 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Period 7 1:55 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.

Period 8 2:40 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

Transportation

● 11th grade students - buses will run at their regularly scheduled times for arrival.

● 9th, 10th, and 12th grade students - buses will run on approximately a 90 minute delay for arrival.

● Students on buses will arrive at school around 10:10 a.m.

● All buses will run on a regular schedule for pm dismissal.

● Linworth students will leave for their home school immediately after testing. A bus will pick them up at the front door. (For students with extended time, they will be transported to their school

of enrollment upon completion of the test.)

March 17-21--Next week!

Interim Planning Packet is due this Friday, March 7

Interim Presentations will be on Wednesday, April 16

INTERIM will appear on your Linworth transcript in one of three ways:

1. Pass with ¼ Credit,

2. Pass, or

3. Fail

TO PASS INTERIM WITH ¼ CREDIT, YOU MUST DO THESE FOUR THINGS:

1. Complete 40 hours at Interim. This time may not include attending a main campus class.

2. Complete a log showing your schedule for Interim

3. Complete daily journals reflecting on your experience

4. Complete a presentation

TO PASS INTERIM, YOU MUST DO THESE THREE THINGS:

1. Complete 30 hours at Interim. This time may include attending a main campus class.

2. Complete a log showing your schedule for Interim

3. Complete a presentation

TO PASS INTERIM AS A JUNIOR, YOU MUST DO THESE FOUR THINGS:

1. Complete 30 hours at Interim. This time may include attending a main campus class.

2. Complete a log showing your schedule for Interim

3. Complete daily journals reflecting on your experience

4. Complete a formal presentation

Journal Ideas For Interim:

You may write your journal on anything you like, but we do not want it to be a diary. We want you to practice reflecting and thinking about what is happening, and what you are learning during your experience. You may find some of the topics below helpful. Please feel free to reflect on any of them.

1. What are you finding out about yourself that you were not aware of before?

2. How is your Interim compared with your expectations? Is there any initial disappointment or initial excitement? Positives? Negatives?

3. Do you have any feelings of inadequacy? What are you seeing that you do well, and what are you seeing that you can improve on?

4. What are you most worried/concerned about today?

5. What is something that surprised you today?

6. What is the most difficult thing that happened today?

7. What is the most important thing that happened today?

8. How did you contribute positively to your placement today? How can you contribute positively tomorrow?

9. If you could change something about today, what would it be? Why?

I received this message from the Artistic Director of the Columbus Children's Choir:

"Thanks to Rae and her classmates, we successfully reached our goal of collecting 500+ cans! Their generosity and enthusiasm were instrumental in making this happen, and we are incredibly grateful for their support."

Great job Rae and everyone!

All Linworth parents & guardians are invited to a Social Gathering at Aardvark (2355 W Granville Rd, Columbus, OH 43235), Thursday, March 13, 6:00-9:00.

This will be a fun time to meet other Linworth adults to hang out and have a good time.

If you plan to attend, email Cristine Stoner at Cristinestoner82@gmail.com.

It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club did some heavy lifting! We moved our compost bin to make room for a new water system, and we set up some infrastructure for low tunnels, which are structures that work like mini greenhouses on plant beds. We also added soil to some of the raised beds. The Sustainable Linworth class pulled down some of the fencing for us in preparation of fence repair and rebuild at Interim. Phyte Bites served toasted sunflower seeds that we harvested and dried in the fall. Next week, we will have a visitor, Dan Barash, from the Worthington Green Team. He has a grant to help Worthington reduce single use plastics, and the garden is going to be part of the program! This is a great opportunity for us to be involved in a city wide sustainability program, as well as save some money during our native plant sale. We will also continue to prep for the 2025 Interim Glow Up! 7 weeks until last frost!

Phyte Club meets from 3:15- 4:15 every Monday. We gather in the Big Room and everyone is welcome. Join Us!

Join us for a Fun Workshop to imagine the Future and earn $50!

Dates:

• Tuesday, 3/18, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

• Thursday 3/20,1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

This workshop, consisting of two 1.5-hour sessions, is part of an Ohio State project, and we would love for you to participate in it. If you're interested in envisioning how we might live in the future, come join the Collective Dreaming with Teens Project. We are a group of enthusiastic graduate students from Ohio State University, eager to hear how teens like you envision and express their dreams for the year 2050.

College Credit Plus provides Worthington high school students the opportunity to earn college and high school credit at the same time and at no cost to your family. This includes courses offered at the main campus high school, online through the college, at the college campus, during summer, autumn, and/or spring terms, etc. Students are eligible to participate in this program with a minimum of 3.0 cumulative GPA or through placement testing. April 1st is the statewide deadline to submit your non binding Intent to Participate Form for the upcoming terms. See Laura ASAP if you are interested in participating.

COLA is a transformative six-day leadership experience designed for rising high school juniors and seniors across Central Ohio. This program equips students with leadership skills, personal growth opportunities, and a strong network of like-minded peers, all at no cost to participants.

To see the impact of COLA firsthand, check out our highlights video.

For more details and the application process, visit our website: https://www.leadershipcolumbus.org/cola.

Worthington students 16 years and older are encouraged to attend the Annual Worthington Job Fair on Friday, March 21st. This event is held at the Worthington Education Center in the morning and if you would like to arrive at the event by the district-provided bus from TWHS or WKHS, you must return this permission slip. Keep this event in mind as an option during the Friday of Interim Week if you would like to fold this opportunity into your meaningful week of experiential learning!

Worthington Connects is a community-driven organization dedicated to supporting local families in need year-round. We partner closely with schools to identify families who could benefit from assistance and rely on generous donations from the community to make our efforts possible. Every contribution helps us provide meaningful support to those in need.

If you would like to donate or get involved, please visit https://www.worthingtonconnects.org Families seeking assistance are encouraged to reach out to their school counselors, who work with us to connect resources to those who need them most. Together, we can make a lasting impact in our Worthington community!

Direct donation: https://www.worthingtonconnects.org/giving-page-3

Parents may create their own Schoology accounts and link them to the Schoology account of their students in grades 6-12. More information about this process can be found at the Schoology Parent Guide.

To recover your Schoology Access Code (necessary to connect to your student's Schoology account), login to Infinite Campus Parent. Click View your Students various IDs from the Parent Access Links section.

A Schoology Access code will populate only for students in grades 6-12.

Tuesday, March 11-SAT for all Juniors

Tuesday, March 11-Late start for Sophomores & Freshmen

Tuesday, March 11-Orange C & D only: C-12:35-1:40, D-2:05-3:10

Thursday, March 13-Parent Board Social Gathering, Aardvark, 6:00-9:00

March 17-22-Interim

March 24-28-Spring Break

Every Monday after school until 4:30--Phyte Club

Every Tuesday after school until 4:15--LINPACT

If you have any questions for Linworth teachers, please don’t hesitate to reach out to them.

Jamie Mackin jmackin@wscloud.org

Jen Kubina jkubina@wscloud.org

Lilly Yap lyap@wscloud.org

Ian Sample isample@wscloud.org

Rosanne Nagel rnagel@wscloud.org

Mark Shannon mshannon@wscloud.org

Amy Bowman abowman@wscloud.org

Josh Stegman jstegman@wscloud.org

Emily Valdez evaldez@wscloud.org

Laura Zelch lzelch@wscloud.org

Amy Kargiotis akargiotis@wscloud.org

Chris Hasebrook chasebrook@wscloud.org

If there is an emergency and you need to see or talk to someone right away, please:

• Talk to your parents or another trusted adult.
• Call Nationwide Children's Hospital Crisis Hotline (17 & younger) at 614-722-1800
• Call Netcare Crisis Hotline (18 and older) at 614-276-2273
• Call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or
• Text the Crisis Text line by sending a text message to 741741. (If you text “4hope” you should automatically be connected to someone in Ohio, but you can text anything - even just hello to get the conversation started.)
• If you are having an immediate emergency, please call 911.

All of these options are available 24/7/365.

Website: http://www.linworth.org/ or https://linworth.worthington.k12.oh.us/
Location: 2075 West Dublin Granville Road, Worthington, Ohio 43085, USA
Phone: (614) 450-6900
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LinworthAP?fref=ts
Twitter: @LinworthAPNewts