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The top five things you need to know for this week!

Marking period recovery end on Friday, May 31, 2024. If you have any work to complete, do this this week. No extensions are possible and we will be recording grades so that report cards can be accurate for your final grades.

If you are returning to your home school for next year (CHS, LHS, GMHS) you MUST turn in your VA laptop at the Virtual Academy.

Dates to turn in are June 7 and June 10. You can come by the Virtual Academy at any time, and we hope to have your high school laptop ready for you so you can swap it out.

Any computer not returned to the VA for students returning to school will result is a debt for the cost of the laptop, stylus, headset and connecting cords.

Ms. Cabanacan is communicating with students who are returning, so please be sure to check your email.

The SMCPS Food & Nutrition Services Department will be providing a 5-day pickup for summer meals.

These meal bags will include five breakfasts, five lunches, a half-gallon of white milk, and two cartons of chocolate milk for each child.

Meal pickups will be on Mondays and we are offering two pickup times for your convenience. 11 am - 1pm or 4pm - 6pm. The schools offering pickup are:

• Chopticon HS
• Leonardtown HS
• Oakville ES
• Spring Ridge MS

Parents/Caregivers must either have signed up ahead of time using this form with their children's information or have the children in-person for meal pickup.

Contact the Food Services Office with any questions at foodservice@smcps.org or 301-475-4256 x5

You can find more information here: https://www.annmariegarden.org/annmarie2/node/618

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• Monday, May 27, 2024 - No School for students, schools closed (Memorial Day)
• Wednesday, May 29, Government State Test sections 3 & 4 (graduation requirement)
• Wednesday May 29, 2024 - Chopticon Graduation
• Thursday, May 30, 2024 - Leonardtown Graduation
• Friday, May 31, 2024 - Great Mills Graduation

• Friday, June 7, 2024 - Last day of the 2023-2024 school year

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Having trouble getting to Google Meets, Schoology, using your camera, mic or other tech problem? If so, reach out to Ms. Barker for help! Contact her at ajbarker@smcps.org or call the Virtual Academy at 301-863-4090 and dial 16122 to talk to her directly.

Ms. Barker is also reaching out to student whom the teachers have reported are having difficulty.