WILDCAT WEEKLY 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

Ms. McDill - Principal

Mr. Szlaga - Assistant Principal

Website: shelby.uticak12.org
Location: 51700 Van Dyke Ave, Shelby Township, MI, USA
Phone: 586-797-3700
Facebook: facebook.com/ShelbyJuniorHigh
Twitter: @ShelbyJuniorHi1

All student spectators for junior high school athletic events must be accompanied by an adult and wear their student IDs.

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Monday, February 3rd, 2025

2/3/25: 7th & 8th Grade GB: Shelby @ Jeannette 4/5:30 pm

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

WIDA Testing: Hours 1, 3, 5 (7th graders on list eat C Lunch)

2/4/25: 7th & 8th Grade GB: Eppler @ Shelby – 4/5:30 pm

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

WIDA Testing: Hours 1, 3, 5 (7th graders on list eat C Lunch)

Thursday, February 6, 2025

YFC @ 3 pm (Room 146)

2/6/25: 7th & 8th Grade GB: Shelby @ Davis – 4/5:30 pm

Saturday, February 8th, 2025

2/8/25: 7th & 8th Grade Comp Cheer: Shelby @ Warren Woods – 1:30 pm

Lee won an Honorable Mention for her colored pencil drawing "Regrets", and Daynika won an Honorable Mention for her photograph "Gasp!"

If you see or know either Lee or Daynika please feel free to offer them your congratulations.

Congratulations

to our Shootathon school champions!

1st Place - Grace Lantzy

2nd Place - Vinny Manzo

Runner Ups - Brooklyn Watts, Nola Makiewicz, and Evan Walper

Mt Holly Ski Club Membership cards will be sold starting this week until the end of January. The membership card is $30 for either snowboarding or skiing. Please make checks out to Utica Community Schools. Click to download the membership application or have your child pick one up in the main office. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Jenzen at natalie.jenzen@uticak12.org

Groundhog Day: Sunday, February 2, 2025

Secondary Wellness Team Meeting: Monday, February 3, 2025 @ 8 – 10:30 am;

Admin Svc Ctr HR Conf Room National School Counseling Week: February 3 – 7, 2025;

“School Counseling: Helping Students Thrive” Wellness Wednesday: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 @ 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm; Walsh Comm Ed Ct

Create a PaySchools Account

PaySchools has improved its platform to provide a system that is more consistently reliable and user friendly. The end result for parents will be that the information they need will be personalized for their child.

Families who do not have a PaySchools account should create one using the following directions. Once created, product choices that directly relate to your child will be provided.

• Create an account from your computer or tablet at: www.payschoolscentral.com
• Complete the account registration by selecting register, enter your profile details, setting up your password via the email link that will be sent to you, then logging in.
• Add your children to your account using their student ID numbers. ID numbers are found on their report card available through PowerSchool.
• If you like, enter credit card and/or banking information as forms of payments to use with your PaySchools account.

Need help with your PaySchools Central account?
8:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. ET (M-F)
psc_help@payschools.com
877-393-6628

Rest assured that PaySchools is PCI-compliant and maintains industry-standard SSL certificates, ensuring all your family’s data is safe and secured.

For PaySchools information in Spanish, click here.

The UCS Wellness team podcasts are available on the UCS Wellness page. UCS Wellness - Utica Community Schools.

• When a student is going to be absent, parents/guardians should report the absence before the school day begins. Calls to the attendance line can be made 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Shelby Attendance Line is 586-797-3799. Absences will be input to PowerSchool by 4:00 pm on the date of the absence.

• Per UCS policy, the following reasons for an absence will be accepted as an excused absence; student illness, hospitalization, doctor ordered bed rest, mandatory court appearance that has been pre-arranged, death in the immediate family, family vacation that has been pre-arranged and approved, medical appointments and administrative permission. All other absences will be unexcused.

• Pre-approved absence forms can be obtained in the counseling office, the main office or in Schoology.

Shelby Junior High (bigteams.com)

2/3/25: 7 th & 8th Grade GB: Shelby @ Jeannette – 4/5:30 pm

2/4/25: 7th & 8th Grade GB: Eppler @ Shelby – 4/5:30 pm

2/6/25: 7th & 8th Grade GB: Shelby @ Davis – 4/5:30 pm

2/8/25: 7th & 8th Grade Comp Cheer: Shelby @ Warren Woods – 1:30 pm

When filling out your online forms in Big Teams, please make sure to make enter your high school. If you put Shelby Jr. High, the staff cannot see your profile.

Utica and Eisenhower is using digital ticketing. The link families can use to purchase tickets is https://gofan.co/app/school/MI10109. You can also Click here for a QR code you can scan to purchase tickets

Please remember that all elementary and junior high students must be with a parent to enter sporting events.

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Utica High School (bigteams.com)

2/4/25: V Swim/Dive: Utica @ L’Anse Creuse N – 6 pm

2/4/25: JV/V Comp Cheer: MAC White #3 @ Utica – 6 pm

2/5/25: F/JV/V GB: Lakeview @ Utica – 4/5:30/7 pm

2/5/25: F/JV/V BB: Utica @ Stevenson – 4/5:30/7 pm

2/6/25: V Wrestling: MHSSA Team Districts @ Utica – 5 pm

2/7/25: V G/B Bowling: Chippewa @ Utica – 3:45 pm

2/7/25: F/JV/V GB: Utica @ Romeo – 4/5:30/7 pm

2/7/25: F/JV/V BB: Ike @ Utica – 4/5:30/7 pm

2/8/25: V G/B Bowling: Utica @ Stevenson Heartbreakers – 8:45 am

2/8/25: JV/V Comp Cheer: Utica @ Avondale – 9:30 am

Eisenhower High School (eisenhowerathletics.org)

2/4/25: V Swim/Dive: Chippewa @ Ike – 6 pm

2/4/25: F/JV/V BB: Port Huron @ Ike – 4/5:30/7 pm

2/5/25: V Wrestling: Ike @ Wrestling Districts – 5 pm

2/5/25: F/JV/V GB: Ike @ Grosse Pte N – 5:30/5:30/7 pm

2/5/25: JV/V Comp Cheer: Ike @ Anchor Bay – 6 pm

2/6/25: V Wrestling: Ike @ Utica (MHSAA Team Districts) – 5 pm

2/7/25: F/JV/V BB: Ike @ Utica – 4/5:30/7 pm

2/7/25: V G/B Bowling: Chippewa @ Ike – 3:45 pm

2/7/25: F GB: Ike @ Berkley – 4 pm

2/7/25: JV/V GB: Port Huron @ Ike – 4:30/6 pm

2/7/25: V Swim/Dive: Ike @ MISCA Diving Meet – 6 pm

2/8/25: JV/V Comp Cheer: Ike @ Avondale – 9:30 am

2/8/25: V Wrestling: Ike @ Wrestling Individual Districts -- TBA

2/8/25: V G/B Bowling: Ike @ Stevenson Heartbreakers – 8:45 am

2/8/25: V Swim/Dive: Ike @ MISCA Meet – 12 pm