Grizzly Gazette- 05/06/2024
🙏 Teacher Appreciation Week 2024 👨🏫
STAAR is over and May has begun!
We are in our fifth grading cycle with four and a half weeks still left of school. Instruction will continue at West Briar as students in Math, Reading, and Science will be working on setting growth goals for the MAP EOY tests (last week in May). Other content areas are working on spiraling back through previously misunderstood concepts and/or extending the content into supporting concepts they will need to know for next school year. Also, Summer School preliminary letters will be going out by the end of this week to students to which it applies.
There are also several concerts and activites coming up this month- so stay tuned to the Calendar notes below.
💛 👩🏫 Teacher Appreciation Week: Let's shower our West Briar Teachers in appreciation this week as there are several treats in store for them. You can certainly encourage your student to write them a note or card in their own words- all educators hold onto these special notes written by their students. The simplest of gesture can make a big difference!
💙 #GrizzlyValues 💛
Calendar Notes
- Mon, May 6- Fri, May 10- Teacher Appreciation Week
- Wed, May 8- General PTO Mtg/ Q & A w/Principal Mishlan- 5:30pm (see flyer)
- Thu, May 9- WBMS Dance Choreography Night- WBMS
- Thu, May 16- Sports Physicals Night- @ WB (see flyer)
- Thu, May 16- WBMS Orchestra Concert- WB Auditorium
- Thu, May 23- Houston ISD Fine Arts Showcase - Hattie Mae
- Fri, May 24- WBMS Band Concert- 6pm- WB Auditorium
- Mon, May 27- Memorial Day Holiday
- Tue, May 28 - Fri, May 31- MAP EOY Testing
- Fri, May 31- 8th gr Formal Dance- 6:30pm-9:00pm
- Sat, June 1/ Sun, June 2- Theater Arts Musical Shows - WB Auditorium
- Tue, Jun 4- 8th Gr Bridging Ceremony- Westside HS
AM Announcements Bulletin Board
(Morning announcements are shared on this board. Students are able to view in the Grizzly Den 23-24 Canvas Course.)
🗳 Vote for Educator Fan Favorite
Have a favorite West Briar Teacher that you think could earn the Houston ISD Educator Fan Favorite Award?!
Vote HERE for your favorite Teacher and then garner support so they'll get there!
- Ms. Iracema Alanis was West Briar's Teacher of the Year 2024- she would be an amazing vote!
Voting ends May 10th!
Get your West Briar Yearbook Now!
There's nothing else like your school yearbook. Get your hands on a limited edition collection of stories from our Grizzly school year. Share it, get signatures, and keep it for years to come!
Order now and will be delivered to school at the end of this year.
Go To: WEST BRIAR MIDDLE SCHOOL HOUSTON, TX - 2024 Yearbook | Jostens
❗ Food Delivery Services
ATTN: Food Delivery Services (uber eats, etc.) are NOT permitted during the instructional day including lunch time. Food delivered to our campus from a delivery service will be left in the Front Office and can only be picked up by the end of the instructional day. Parents may bring up a forgotten lunch for a student before their designated lunch period and that will be delviered.
Students- absolutely- should not be ordering food from any type of delivery service for themselves. This violates our campus/district cell phone policy and consequences will be enforced.
📅 Student Attendance
Some parents and students received Student Attendance- Principals Plan - packets that went home recently. We would like to share with your state school attendance policy so that you may best understand what is required for your student. As always, should you have questions regarding your student's specific attendance- you may contact Ms. Young- our Attendance Clerk.
Breakdown of Attendance Law/Policy
- A child is considered chronically absent if they miss two or more days a month. This includes excused & unexused absences. There are two main attendance laws that students must follow:
- Compulsary Attendance Law- students must provide necessary documentation for each period or day absent from school.
- 90% Rule- students must be present for each course 90% of the school year. Therefore, they cannot be absent more than 10% of any core class period. This equates to roughly 17 days/periods in one school year.
- The Principal's Plan for Attendance seeks to help students earn the credit missed back by allowing a student to make up missed class time through tutorials or other academic interventions outside of the regular school day.
- If the last day of school passes and any student is still in need of making up credit for attendance, an Attendance Committee will meet to determine promotion or need for make-up credit (summer school). Having the Principals Packet with Parent Appeal paperwork filled out early, will help avoid it getting this far.
- Principals Plan paperwork was sent out to any student who had missed over 10% of one course in each grading cycle to try to tackle attendance issues early. Again, your student may have received a letter but not be in jeaopardy of violating either the compulsary attendance or the 90% rule for attendance. You can make sure your student is following law by:
- Turning in any absence notes for any missed period or full day.
- Ensuring your student does not miss more than 10 days or periods in any course this school year. (At 15 days/periods, we will review the attendance plan and the committee will meet for your student's attendance. Best practice is that an appeal should be filled out in this situation. If the student has excessive unexecused absences, the atendance committee will meet to review compulsary attendance.)
District Resources for More Information
- HISD Attendance Attendance Department Page
- HISD Attendance Policy Page
- Compulsary Attendance vs. 90% Attendance Rule
#AttendanceMatters
