Grizzly Gazette- 05/27/2024
Second to last week of school! Thank you to everyone involved in helping with Friday's Athletic Fun Day- it was an awesome event!
👏 Congratulations to our Grizzly Band students who performed in their Spring Concert last week.
📣Shout Out to 8th Grader David Codina- who earned the Director's Choice Award for going above and beyond in Band!
MAP End-of-Year (EOY) Testing is this week- please see the adjusted bell schedule for Tuesday through Thursday. See article below for more details about MAP testing.
This Friday is our 8th grade Formal so 8th grade parents make sure your student gets their ticket early or they can pay at the door. See details below about this event. Saturday and Sunday our theater students will be performing their big Spring Musical- Guys & Dolls- come support them!
Let's make it a great end to our school year!
💙 #GrizzlyValues 💛
Calendar Notes
- 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- Guys & Dolls: Theater Musical- WB Auditorium- 6:00pm
- Sun, June 2- Guys & Dolls: Theater Musical - WB Auditorium- 2:30pm
- Tue, Jun 4- 8th Gr Bridging Ceremony- Westside HS
- Tue, Jun 4- 6th & 7th Mini Lunch EOY Social (+Yearbook Signing)- 4th Period/Lunch
- Wed, Jun 5- 8th Mini Lunch EOY Social (+Yearbook Signing)- 4th Period/Lunch
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❗ 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
