Moorhead Junior High News

We will be offering tutorials in the morning this year. We will offer morning tutorial sessions from 8:25am -8:55am.

Morning Schedule

Monday - Science tutorials

Tuesday -7th Math tutorials / 8th grade Math small groups

Wednesday - Language Arts tutorials

Thursday - 8th grade Math tutorials / 7th grade Math small groups

Friday - History tutorials

Tutorials for elective classes and additional core content tutorials are available after school by appointment only.

Conroe ISD requires students in grades 7 - 12 to wear a school issued photo ID.

All students in grades 7 - 12 must wear an ID at all times. All students will be issued an ID card and lanyard on the first day of school. Students may not deface their ID or cover their photo.

Replacement ID cards are $5.00. Temporary IDs are S1.00.

Please wait to pick up your student until you are along the sidewalk of the school. Traffic will flow more efficiently and most importantly; it keeps our students safe!

Vision and Hearing screenings will occur the week of September 16th-20th. Please make sure your student has their glasses with them this whole week, so they will be ready for the screening.

On another note, we still have just under 100 students who have not turned in update shot records or a Religious and Moral Exemption from the State of Texas. Texas Immunization Exemptions | Texas DSHS

Student who do not have up to date vaccinations or their notarized exemption form turned in by September 25 will be withdrawn.

Change in plans

We ask that our parents call the front office when after school pick up plans change. Our front desk staff will contact your child's teacher and provide your child with a pass.

For example, if your child is normally a bus rider but is being picked up in the car rider line, you will need to call the front desk. The main number is: 936-709-6001.

Early Pick up
Be sure to pick up your child by 3:40 p.m. if you are picking your child up early. We will not allow students to leave class after 3:40 p.m. due to traffic flow. Please call the main office before 3:20 p.m. if you plan to change your normal after-school pickup routine so we have time to inform your child.

Diamond art club will have its first meeting on September 24th.

Students in the Science Honors classes that have been accepted into the First Tech Challenge Robotics Project will meet at Caney Creek High School on Saturday, September 7th to travel with the Caney Creek High School team to the Walter P. Jett Center to watch the live stream Challenge Reveal. This year’s theme is “Into the Deep.” FIRST Tech Challenge teams (up to 15 team members, grades 7-12) are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge in an alliance format. Guided by adult coaches and mentors, students develop STEM skills and practice engineering principles, while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and working as a team.

Our counselors will be going to 8th grade classrooms to present Naviance. Naviance is a comprehensive toolkit that helps your child assess and develop essential competencies, so students succeed after high school. Students must understand their strengths, interests, and needs, to help them achieve their goals. Naviance is a critical tool to ensure that each of our students is on track and has a vehicle to navigate their paths.

Hello parents! In the wonderful world of Language Arts, we are focusing on fiction texts for the first nine weeks. We are looking at character traits, plot, figurative language, theme and summary. So far, we have already gone to the library to check out books and started learning about different genres. In the upcoming weeks we will start working on the writing process by writing a personal narrative. We have been working hard and can’t wait to see how well the kids do the rest of the 9 weeks!

Seventh grade science has their chemistry 1 unit test on Wednesday, September 4!

Meals:

Breakfast: Free for all students

Lunch: $3.20 regular price / .40 reduced price

Information about our child nutrition program is forthcoming from the CISD Child Nutrition Services office (936) 709-8193.

Charging meals

Students will only be able to charge a lunch 15 days. After 15 charges they will not receive a lunch.

Register for free and reduced breakfast and lunch

You must reapply every year for Free and Reduced meals at www.myschoolapps.com.

Prepay for meals

· Parents can prepay meal bills online at www.myschoolbucks.com.

2024-2025 Breakfast Meal Prices

Free for all students

2024-2025 Lunch Meal Prices

o Student Lunch $3.20

o Student Reduced Lunch $0.40

Late Bus Registration

Remember to register for Late Bus transportation if you child plans on using this service.

https://apps.conroeisd.net/AlternativeTransportation/

The late buses depart Moorhead at 5:25pm and drop off at designated Satellite locations.

Students involved in extracurricular activities, tutorial programs or after school detention will have the opportunity to utilize our late buses. The following are some important details pertaining to the late bus system. Please read over these new details carefully.

1. Each late bus run will be designated by a color rather than a number.
2. Each late bus will stop at the same designated stops every single day. This new system resembles more of a “Metro” type of system than our previous late bus system.

3. These satellite stops are not intended to be within a short walk to each student’s home, but more of a central place where parents may pick up their children without having to drive all the way to campus.
4. Your student will be given a standardized late bus pass from their teacher in order to ride the late bus.
The teacher will be printing this pass from our View-It system and it will contain all of the information the bus driver will need to drop off your student at the correct location.

5. A student will not be allowed to ride the late bus if they do not have a late bus pass or if it is not signed by a teacher.

6. Also, a student will not be dropped off at any location other than the one that has been assigned to them by View-It which is based on their current address.

6. All satellite stops have been chosen for their safety features (large parking lot for waiting parents), but we do not recommend that students cross any roads or try to walk home from Satellite stops due to dangerous traffic conditions or other dangers that walking home may pose.
7. These satellite spots are subject to change. If for some reason there is a change you will be notified via phone and/or email.

3. These satellite stops can be up to 2 miles away from a student's home.

September 2 - Labor Day (No school)

September 24 - Open House 5:30pm - 7pm

September 20 - Back to School Dance 6pm - 9pm

October 11 - No School

October 14 - No School (Columbus Day)

Congratulations to our Moorhead students of the month! Students are nominated by our staff members. Each student will receive a Canes Boxed lunch and a sweet tea!

TBA

We would like to recognize Mr. Henry Adeoye, one of our U.S. history teachers, on being selected for the 2024 James Madison Fellow award!

Click this link to be redirected to the Moorhead PTO newsletter.

MOORHEAD JR HIGH PTO 2024 | Smore Newsletters

Sept. 17- Rasin Canes

Oct. 10 - Dave and Busters

Dec TBA - Jeremiah's Italian Ice

Jan. TBA - Nail Salon / HWY 242

Feb. 9 - Main Event 3pm - 6pm

The Moorhead Junior High Back to School Dance is on September 20 from 6pm - 9pm. Students must be office referral free to attend.

Dress code: Normal school day attire

Tickets: $10 and will go on sale September 16 - 20 during lunches.

We will meet the 2nd Wednesday of each month beginning in September at the school at 5:30pm.

I look forward to seeing our families at our upcoming Open House from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on September 24th. Our parents are invited to a tour of the open building and teacher visits in the rooms. Counselors and directors will be available in the cafeteria to help answer any questions you may have.

Fall Picture Day is October 15.

Friday, August 30 is the last day we will allow schedule changes for elective classes. The last day to switch from level to Honors in a core content class or vice versa is September 19. After these deadlines the next opportunity to make schedule changes will be in December for the spring semester.

Schedule changes after these deadlines will be on a case-by-case basis.

2024-2025 Football Season

Tickets - Tickets cost $1 for students/children and $2 for adults. Please bring singles or small bills. It can be difficult to make change for large bills. Electronic methods of payment are not currently available for junior high games.

2 Weeks for a Schedule Change - Athletes will have until August 30th to make a schedule change out of athletics. After August 30th students have committed to their teammates and coaches to finish the season and be a part of athletics. Any students requesting a schedule change from athletics to PE, before August 30th, will need to have a parent schedule change form signed. Furthermore, if a student has not turned in a physical by August 30th, they will be transitioned out of athletics. A physical is required to participate in athletics.

Football Players making the Basketball Team - Any athlete in 1st period or 7th period “Football” Athletics that makes the basketball team will not have to have a schedule change as basketball class is also during the athletic period. Student-athletes will transition from offseason into the basketball section and participate in basketball until the conclusion of the season. At the completion of basketball season, they will then be moved back to offseason football.

Game Day Support - We encourage parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and family friends to support our student athletes by attending games. When cheering for our Moorhead Panthers, please keep in mind the goal is for our players to learn and love the game. While winning is always fun, we want to keep our support positive and encouraging. Please refrain from yelling negative comments to the referee, coaches, and other players. Please visit https://www.uiltexas.org/files/athletics/manuals/Parent_Info_Handbook_23.pdf and refer to page 7 for spectator expectations.

UIL - No Pass / No Play - Texas UIL No Pass / No Play law states that grades will be checked every three weeks, except for within the first 6 weeks of the school year. In the event an athlete is not passing all classes at the end of the first 6 weeks (2nd progress report) he or she would not be allowed to participate for a minimum of 3 weeks starting Sept 27th. At the end of the first 9 weeks report card grading period, any student who had to sit out due to grades must now be passing ALL classes in order to participate again. This date will be Oct 17th. After Oct 17th, athletes will have another chance each 3 weeks. This law also applies to all UIL competition groups/teams. Please visit https://www.uiltexas.org/policy/tea-uil-side-by-side/academic-requirements for information on academic requirements.

Parents and guardians have free access to the Parent Access Center through www.conroeisd.net. This portal provides full access to student grades, attendance, tardies, discipline, STAAR scores, and other information. This tool can also give parents and guardians the opportunity to set thresholds where scores for each assignment will be emailed to you. Students also have equal access through the Student Access Center.

TAE – Teacher Achieving Excellence is a great opportunity to recognize a teacher who is making a difference in your child's life. The electronic award can be created and submitted through Parent Access. An email will be sent to the professor as well as campus administrators.

Students can use electronic devices before school and after school. All devices, including phones, must be turned off and put away the rest of the day during the hours of 8:40 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. The vibration is not off. Headphones and all other devices should also be stored.

Please do not call or text your child at school except during their lunch period, which is fine and largely why students use phones during this time. We ask that you contact the front desk and we will deliver the message to your child.

Please note that each room in the school has a phone that your child can use.

Students bring electronic devices to school at their own risk. The school is not responsible for lost or stolen electronic devices, but we will do our best to help your child locate their device if it is lost or stolen.

Please have your student(s) set their AirDrop settings in their cell phone to either “Off” or “Contacts Only”. If it is set to “Everyone” then anyone will have the ability to send your student anything they would like without knowing who it came from.

Superhero Day- September 26th

- Students and Staff-

*Wear your favorite Superhero shirt

Superhero Attendance- September 26th

* No unexcused absences

* No tardies

*Passing all classes

*Panther Den pass for lunch

Tip Your Attendance Score- September

* No unexcused absences

* No tardies

*Passing all classes

*Tickets for an MJH home football game will be given out during lunches on October 18th

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month-September

*Children are more precious than Gold*

*Gold Out-September 18th*

-Students and staff are encouraged to wear Gold

-Collecting pop tops from soda canes and fruit and vegetable cans

-Collecting travel size toiletry items to benefit the Ronald McDonald House

*Pajama day- September 20th

-Pay $1.00 and wear your favorite pajama bottoms

-Proceeds will benefit Big Love Cancer Care

Bowl for Perfect Attendance

* No unexcused absences

* No tardies

*Passing all classes

*One bowling package for a 7th and 8th grader

*Drawing October 15th

Communities in Schools/Open House- September 24th (5:30 pm-7:00 pm)

*Resource Fair

*Free parent tutorial in the library on how to navigate the parent portal

Email your child's counselor or assistant principal if you need help. You can also call the school at 936-709-6001.

8th Grade (A - L)

Brenda Bishop: bbishop@conroeisd.net

Teresa Randall: trandall@conroeisd.net

8th Grade (M - Z)

Timothy Matthews: tmmatthews@conroeisd.net

Melodie Waldo: mwaldosharpen@conroeisd.net

7th Grade (M - Z)
Dusty Joiner: dkjoiner@conroeisd.net

Fallon Johnson: fjohnson@conroeisd.net

7th Grade (A - L)
Nichole Quinones nquinonesnegron@conroeisd.net

Dan Wheeler: dlwheeler@conroeisd.net

Associate Principal
Robert Jackson: rajackson@conroeisd.net

The Conroe Independent School District (District) as an equal opportunity educational provider and employer does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, or disability in the educational programs or activities it operates or in employment matters. The District is bound by Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as the Board's policy not to discriminate in that way.

For information about Title IX rights or Section 504/ADA rights, contact the Title IX Coordinator or Section 504/ADA Coordinator at 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, TX 77304; (936) 709-7752.