Knight News May 6-11, 2024

Celebrating Staff Appreciate Week and Diversity Week!

Monday, May 6

• Rep Your Country’s Favorite Sport

• AP Testing (Government - AM/Chemistry - PM)

• Pep Assembly

• Boys Golf Invite @ Madison Memorial (12:00 pm)

• Var Baseball @ Badger (4:30 pm)

• Jv/Var Softball @ Delavan-Darien (5:00 pm)

Tuesday, May 7

• Dress in the Colors of your Family’s Native Country Flag

• AP Testing (Human Geo - AM/Statistics - PM)
  

• Boys Tennis @ Westosha (4:15 pm)

• Softball @ Union Grove (4:30 pm)

• Jv/Var Girls Soccer vs. Badger (4:30/6:30 pm)

Wednesday, May 8

• Tourist Day

• Melting Pot (5-7 pm Cafeteria - All Families Invited)

• AP Testing (Eng Lit - AM)

• Jv/Var Softball @ Janesville Parker (4:20 pm)

• Jv Baseball @ Delavan-Darien (4:45 pm)

Thursday, May 9

• Tie Dye/Multi Color Day

• Human Library (IMC)

• AP Testing (Environ Science - AM/AP Psychology - PM)

• Boys Golf (2:00 pm)

• Track Quad Meet @ Burlington (4:00 pm)

• Boys Tennis @ Badger (4:15 pm)

• Var Baseball vs. Badger (4:30 pm)

• Jv Baseball @ Badger (4:30 pm)

Friday, May 10

• Unity Day (School Spirit)

• AP Testing (US Hist - AM/Euro Hist - AM/Art Portfolio Due)

• Var Softball vs. Union Grove (4:30 pm)

Saturday, May 11

• Jv Boys Tennis @ Wilmot Union (8:00 pm)

• May 15 - Academic All-Stars Awards Night (6:00 pm)

• May 22 - Senior Academic Scholarship Awards Night (6:00 pm)

• May 6-17 - AP Testing

May 22nd- SENIOR AWARDS-Those that receive awards will get an invitation in the mail prior to the event. PRACTICE for this event will be on Tuesday, May 21st during FLEX - all seniors invited will be defaulted to the Auditorium during FLEX. NHS Cords and Student Senate Outstanding Achievement Awards will be presented then.

May 31st - All Books are Due back to the Library

June 4th- SENIOR EXAMS

June 5th- SENIOR EXAMS

June 6th - SENIOR CHROMEBOOKS, CHARGERS, AND CASES - seniors can drop off student technology items to Ms. Cunningham in the Library once they're no longer needed for assignments or exams. Graduation Practice is the last chance to return items to avoid fees. All fees should be paid prior to Graduation.

June 6th- VICTORY TOUR from 8:30am-11:30am

June 6th- GRADUATION PRACTICE- in the Fieldhouse at 1:00pm. This is REQUIRED for all seniors and typically lasts for 90 minutes. Everyone is allowed to decorate their caps for graduation. If you do decide to decorate your cap, please bring it with you to practice to get approved. All decorations have to be school appropriate. Only school provided cords and stoles can be worn during the graduation ceremony.

June 6th- SENIOR SUNSET on Jacobson Field at 7:30pm

June 7th- SENIOR GRADES DUE at 8:00am and all credit recovery must be completed

June 8th- GRADUATION- All seniors must report to the Fieldhouse by 8:30am. If the ceremony is outside then tickets are not required for friends and families, there is no limit. If there is bad weather, the ceremony will be in the Barkin Arena and each graduate will have 4 tickets for guests. Tickets will be given out during graduation practice.

High School graduation day is a very special occasion. It is a day that is accompanied by feelings of excitement, pride, accomplishment, relief, honor, fulfillment, and joy, just to name a few. This is a day for you, as a graduating senior, to celebrate this accomplishment, as well as a day for your family/friends to celebrate you as well. Graduation is a formal event, but one that comes with some flare and excitement!!! Any Class of 2024 graduate that wishes to appropriately and tastefully decorate their graduation caps may do so. Please remember that this is a school and family oriented event and that all cap decorations MUST be school appropriate. Please adhere to the following guidelines:

• All language, symbols, pictures...displayed on the cap MUST be school appropriate.

• Only the graduation caps purchased from Midwest Scholastic will be allowed to be decorated and worn during the graduation ceremony.

• Any and all messages/sayings displayed on the cap must be directed in a positive manner, not as to slander or put down others.

• Remember this day is not only for you, but for the rest of the graduating class of 2024, your family, and their families as well, so do not take away from their experience.

• Have fun with it. Keep it clean, keep it meaningful, and be proud of yourself!!!

• Administration reserves the right to deny your cap decorations if they feel it is not appropriate. Please reach out to your Principal if you have any questions about whether or not your idea is appropriate.

Beloit Memorial High School is participating in a new state program called Direct Admit Wisconsin. Direct Admit Wisconsin is designed to provide a place for all Wisconsin high school students to access a world-class public post-secondary education by proactively offering direct admission to Wisconsin universities. Students who are currently Juniors (Class of 2025) are the first class of students who can take advantage of this program.

10 UW schools are participating in Direct Admit Wisconsin for Fall 2025. They are UW-Green Bay, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Parkside, UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Stout, UW-Superior and UW-Whitewater.

Direct Admit Wisconsin changes the process for admission to the 10 participating UW universities. The table below provides information that compares Direct Admit Wisconsin with the traditional university admission process:

Please complete this form if you DO NOT want your student to be considered for the Direct Admit Wisconsin program. Opting out means your student will not be considered for direct admission to the participating UW universities through the Direct Admit Wisconsin process.

DIRECT ADMIT WISCONSIN OPT-OUT FORM

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For further information on Direct Admit Wisconsin please see the following FAQ at: https://www.wisconsin.edu/direct-admissions/

We will continue to share information in the coming weeks ahead. In the meantime, please be sure to review Direct Admit WI Student & Family Informational Slidedeck, and reach out to your student’s school counselor if you have any questions.