Warrior Weekly # 36

Happy Mothers day to all our Warrior Moms!

Warrior Culture and instructional aspects:

-Community Circle Implementation

-Class transitions (in-class assignment to assignment & building transitions)

-Clear learning objectives posted (DASH)

-Clear opportunities for student to display learning (Checking for Understanding)

-Clear student incentive system (PBIS rewards)

-Classroom specific systems (Attention getters, pass system)

-Warrior Word Wall Literacy Evidence Based Intervention

Upcoming weekly events:

Thursday May 16, 2024

*Grade level meeting- Optional

Further out Dates:

May 29- Memorial Day Holiday- Schools closed

Spring SOL Testing will continue at our campus this week. Thank you all for your efforts in ensuring that our testing session were conducted successfully last week. Please be sure to review all manuals prior to us testing. This week we will also begin make up testing and remediation for retakes.

*A quick note, as student complete their respective SOL test, we are not sharing scores directly with students until we are provided guidance to do so. Please don't hesitate to contact Dr. Evans or Mr. London if you have questions around releasing scores.

Community circles are the social-emotional community and class-building exercises that we begin each day with. For each first bell course, we utilize the time 8:15 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. as our school-wide designated time for community circles.

Warrior Educators, please be sure to liberally provide PBIS points to Warrior Students that are consistently making positive choices. Warrior students will fully participate in PBIS Spirit Week events.

Also, Warrior Educators that serve as Check-in/Check Out mentors, please be sure to connect with your Warrior Students on your caseload during each week. Please speak with Mrs. Lawson or a member of the PBIS team if you have questions.

Taking attendance is critical to the continued support of our Warrior Families and students through tracking attendance. On the first day of school, it is critical that we assure that we take accurate attendance to begin effective record-keeping for the 2023-2024 school year.

*Please be sure that you are taking accurate attendance every day during the first 10 minutes of each bell. Also, please be sure that you are making contact with families that have students that have missed class and maintain a call log of your contacts.

If you have questions about attendance please be sure to contact Mr. Cobb and don't hesitate to contact the front office.

There will undoubtedly be times that we will need to request time to be absent from work.

If you need to request leave or report an absence, please begin the process by contacting Mr. London @ 804-229-5991. Same-day absences should be communicated no later than 6:30 a.m. Once your absence is reported, we will work to arrange coverage for your class. Also, please utilize this link The link with let you send your leave date directly to a school calendar so our administrative team can plan for your absence.

Preparing for absences: Please be sure to have lessons for the day uploaded prior to your absence.

Requesting time off: If you are requesting personal leave, please be sure to send a formal email to your respective content administrator at least a week in advance. We want to be sure that we can accommodate your request.

Warrior Administrator Quick Contacts

Principal London: 804-229-5991

Assistant Principal McCloud: 804-584-3161

Assistant Principal Lawson: 804-588-2100

Assistant Principal Cobb: 804-592-0148

By August 2025 Henderson will be fully accredited with at least a 75% pass rate for each SOL-tested subject (First Middle School in the City of Richmond)

By August 2025 Henderson Middle School will triple the number of students qualifying for acceptance into Specialty programs and on track for an advanced diploma by completing the transformation into a full STEM Academy (Magnet School)