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Woodbury Junior-Senior High School - Weekly Newsletter

Friday, April 26, 2019

Message from the Principal

Hello parents,

In this week's newsletter you will find a number of updates on school happenings including our recent hosting of the Woodbury Relays, a practice infrastructure test for the upcoming NJSLA assessments, Take Your Child to Work Day, highlights from some classrooms, and a new feature called Bison Bytes.

Chosen for their high academic performance and standout character, the following students were selected by their teachers as April's Students of the Month:

Javin Ruffin - 6

Peyton Shute - 7

Nailah Robinson - 7

Emily Corrigan - 8

Ever David Palma Palacios - 8

Chaele Swanson - 9

Demetrius McLendon - 10

Jayden Brown - 11

Zaire Livingston - 12

Congratulations to them, their parents and their families! We are all quite proud!

Keep Love Present,

Dr. Vivadelli

Photos of the Week

Upcoming Events

April 29 – NJSLA testing begins

April 29 – PTSA Meeting, 6:00

April 30 – In A Pickle, Girls soccer fundraiser

May 3 – AP Student/Teacher Photo

May 4 – SAT Testing

May 4 – Saturday School, 8:00 – 12:00

May 6 – 17 – AP Testing

May 6 – 10 – Teacher Appreciation Week

May 6 – 10 – Prom Ticket Sales during lunch

May 8 – School Nurse’s Day

May 11 – Saturday School, 8:00-12:00

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Woodbury Relays

On Thursday and Saturday during Spring Break, Woodbury hosted schools from all over South Jersey for our annual Woodbury Relays event. The middle school competition on Thursday saw some fantastic weather and some close races. Despite the rainy and gloomy weather on Saturday over 100 teams came to our campus to compete. Some record breaking performances were witnessed including meet records and even a state record javelin throw! As always, a heartfelt thank you goes out to everyone involved in putting this relay together. Special thanks is extended to Mr. Mohan, the meet director for the past 41 years, and Mr. Howey our Athletic Director who completed his first ever relay. Way to go team!

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New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA)

On Monday, April 29 students in grades 6-11 will begin the NJSLA. The testing will span Monday and Tuesday mornings for high school students and also Wednesday morning for Junior High students. A modified period rotation will occur after lunch on these days. Make-up testing will be on an as needed basis Thursday and Friday. We completed an infrastructure practice test earlier this week to work out any kinks in our system and testing schedule. Please be sure to encourage your children to get adequate rest during the testing period.

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Take Your Child to Work Day

The national holiday of Take Your Child to Work Day was celebrated in our school on Thursday. This great event provides a standing reminder to us as educators and ones who work with children every day, that it is important to get kids in real workplace settings at a young age.

Many staff chose to bring their own children to Woodbury that day. Our students were so gracious and helped guide the little ones around the building accompanying them to various activities. A great time was had by all!

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A Peek Inside Ms. Gauthier's Classroom

Over the past few weeks, Milja Dann, Cora Schottenfeld, and Birdy Smith-Fields have been working collaboratively on a research presentation about climate change. They chose to make their extended science project a presentation with the intention to present it to all sixth grade classes around Earth Day. They researched climate change and global warming and created a poster, a presentation, and a game for students to test their new knowledge. These students spent three days in science class presenting to their peers. The professionalism and knowledge displayed by all three students was astounding!

Milja, Cora and Birdy - we are super proud of you!

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Junior High Student Council Information

The 6th grade class trip is to Main Event Entertainment in Newark, DE on Thursday, May 23rd, 2019. Please have $20.00 payment and a signed permission slip submitted to either Mrs. Rosanne Scipione-Fehre or Ms. Alexis Gligor no later than Tuesday, May 7th, 2019.

The 7th grade class trip is to the FunPlex in Mt. Laurel, NJ on Tuesday, May 28th 2019. Please have $20.00 payment and a signed permission slip submitted to either Mrs. Rosanne Scipione-Fehre or Ms. Alexis Gligor no later than Tuesday, May 14th, 2019.

The 8th grade class trip is to Dorney Park & Wild Water Kingdom in South Whitehall Township, PA on Thursday, May 30th, 2019. Please have $45.00 payment and a signed permission slip submitted to either Mrs. Rosanne Scipione-Fehre or Ms. Alexis Gligor no later than Wednesday, May 15th, 2019.

*All checks payable to Woodbury City Public Schools

Some Projects From Students in Mr. Ford's Coding Classes

AP Computer Science Projects

https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/ItYNOxK5F0h6h45vbsmcNtE4iwbWC6xMGS3Roq06_nY

https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/9NZSX2iynYIMeT3qInKo8mJtEW9i2p2mvribciJafsY

https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/xP2yzcd27l4m_763aBCsXR0-5E4OXPwKSSNLhqL6E8A

Coding I Projects

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/286576213/

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/297063657/

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/286296908/

Grade 6 Coding Projects

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/299223410/

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/281329965/

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/258548520/

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6th Grade Book Club

Enrichment students at the 6th grade level recently participated in a book club examining the work of Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. This compelling, yet difficult book contains many pertinent themes on display in our world today. The kids did a fantastic job. In fact, Ms. Moody, their teacher, said it "was a highlight of her year"!

Project Graduation

Project Graduation is a safe and free night of fun for our graduates. It has been a part of Woodbury High School for many years. For the last six years Project Graduation has been held at Rastelli’s Sports & More in Deptford, NJ.

The night of graduation, our graduates return to the high school approximately 9pm. The students and parent volunteer chaperones are bused to the venue. For the next 3-4 hours the graduates enjoy many activities such as a photo booth, basketball, swimming, Gaga Ball, volley ball, Tether ball and a live DJ. Food is provided for all graduates at the venue. In years past, we raised enough funds to give participating graduates a small gift of a Wawa gift card and a Project Graduation t-shirt. At approximately 1:30 am. the students and volunteers are bussed back to the high school.

All costs, including transportation to and from the venue, are covered through fundraising efforts and donations.

The 2018-2019 Project Graduation Committee consists of only 9 parent volunteers. Fundraising has been particularly challenging this year. Our efforts have not raised as much money as we have hoped for at this point. Having so few volunteers makes it difficult to raise the needed funds.

We need your help! It doesn’t matter if your child is in elementary school, 6th, 7th, 8th grade or in the high school. Please join us at our next meeting. If we don’t get more volunteers, we fear there will be no Project Graduation for our graduates this year.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact:

Jennielee Elliot

Elliott311@verizon.net

856-628-7555

Sincerely,

Project Graduation Committee

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