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Friday, December 1, 2023
RECORDS
For records request and 8th grade high school records email District Office at Records@madisoned.org
FEBRUARY & MARCH
- 2/22 FAMILY FUN DAY
- 2/24 to 2/28 Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week
- 3/5 2nd Grade Music Showcase (MCA 6:30pm)
- 3/10 to 3/14 SPRING BREAK
- 3/21 Guild MOVIE NIGHT
- 3/24 Guild Meeting (Cafeteria 6:30pm)
- 3/24 Site Council Meeting
- 3/26 Top Chef Competition (Madison #1 Cafeteria 4:30-5:30pm)
- 3/28 7th/8th Grade Shamrock Shuffle (6:00-7:30pm)
- STATE TESTING (see dates below)
MTA FIELD DAYS
Tuesday February 25th 2nd & 3rd Grade (8:20-10:20)
Thursday February 27th 4th & 5th Grade (8:20-10:20)
Tuesday March 4th 6th & 7th Grade (8:20-10:20)
Thursday March 6th 8th Grade (8:20-10:20)
Field Day will consist of students participating in many fun events and activities. Mr. Holcomb is looking for a large number of Volunteers to help run the many different Field Day Stations. Please click on the following link to sign up for any of the 5 Field Days being held this year https://signup.com/go/QsHeUpv
Parents who Volunteer are being asked to Sign In at the front office before school and meet in the GYM at 7:55 for a Field Day Meeting that starts at 8:00 AM. Information about how to run each of the Field Day Events and Stations will be handed out at the meeting.
Thank You
Bryant Holcomb
Physical Education Teacher
STUDENT COUNCIL
Yes, you heard it here. Students will have four Fridays to change their uniform slightly for $1. All donations will be used to purchase new items for MTA and MTA Preschool
Please send in a $1 bill to change their uniforms on one Thursday and three Fridays. No rips, shorts, or skirts. Nothing that is inappropriate on the outerwear.
Friday 2/14 non-uniform hoodies/jackets to be worn in class (normal uniform top tucked in and normal bottoms)
Friday 2/21 Sweatpants or blue jeans (normal uniform top tucked in and normal outerwear)
Friday 2/28 non-uniform hoodies/jackets to be worn in class (normal uniform top tucked in and normal bottoms)
Please email Miss DiPede (cdipede@madisoned.org) or Mrs. Buskirk (abuskirk1@madisoned.org) if you have any questions.
All students must have AIA physicals uploaded into Aktivate to tryout. Directions in link.
https://aktivate.helpscoutdocs.com/article/38-how-do-i-begin-a-registration-for-a-sport
*Aktivate registration needs to be completed and AIA Physical needs to be uploaded to tryout and participate and make sure your athletic fee is paid.
All games imformation can be found on the MTA Athletics website. If you need to pay an athletic Fees see below “STUDENT FEE (S)” for directions. Athletic fees are $100 for each sport. If a tax credit donation was made and you would like to apply part or all of the donation towards $100.00 athletic and or $50.00 activity fee, email us mtaoffice@madisoned.org and provide a copy of your receipt. You can also drop off a copy at the office.
Music Department News
MTA 2nd Grade Music Showcase
Wednesday, March 5th
6:30pm at the Madison Center for the Arts
All are welcome to attend. Songs sung will be patriotic songs of our country, and songs performed on mallet instruments will be songs learned over the past 3 years. Students performing should report to the Madison Center for the Arts Rehearsal Room at 6:00 p.m. Doors for audience seating will open at 6:00 p.m. Concert Dress is "Sunday Best" - please no blue jeans, shorts, or tee-shirts. Seating is General Admission...No Tickets Required. We look forward to seeing you Wednesday evening.
TOP CHEF
Top Chef Event
What is Top Chef?
Top Chef is a district-wide student culinary competition designed to allow students to explore nutrition and alternative career paths. Students will first compete at a site level by submitting their own written recipes to their cafeteria managers to review. If selected as their site winner, the student will then have the opportunity to be mentored by a nutrition professional and compete in the main Top Chef event. The event will be judged by chefs from our community, not attendees. Winners will receive prizes.
Who Can Compete?
All kindergarten through 8th grade students are eligible to compete to be Madison’s Top Chef.
When and Where:
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
4:30-5:30 PM
Madison No. 1 Cafeteria
5525 N. 16th St., Phoenix, AZ 85016
Who is Invited?
All Madison staff, students, and families are encouraged to come and cheer the students on!
Event Timeline & How to Enter
February 3rd - March 6th: Recipe Submission. Students submit a written recipe of their creation to their site’s food service manager.
March 7th: A winner from each site will be announced! The student and their families will be notified.
March 17th - March 21st: Site winners will train with a mentor. The Wellness Coordinator will coordinate with the winner’s parents at this time.
March 26th: The main event! Site winners will prepare their recipes and compete for a chance to be Madison’s Top Chef: judged by three local chefs.
For more information, reach out to Lexi Phelps mphelps@madisoned.org
Hello, amazing MTA families!
Our MTA students are showing incredible behavior, reflected in the tickets collected at the OWL Store. We collected a total of 5229 tickets at our January store -- incredible! If you'd like to support our OWL Store, we are appreciative of donations including:
Chips (especially spicy chips!) and other snacks
Small ticket items (e.g., slap bracelets, keychains, erasers, etc.)
Tiny toys and items that can fit in our gumball machine
We have updated our Amazon wishlist (find it here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/UZ69GPQQ7ZOM...) to reflect some of the things that have been very popular and have sold out recently. We are also getting creative by raffling off some big-ticket items and have experiences that students can use their tickets for, like "Lunch with a Friend" or song requests at lunch!
We want to thank all the families that have supported the Owl Store by donating and volunteering this year. We could not do it without you!
-- The OWL Store Team
If a tax credit donation was made and you would like to apply part or all of the donation towards $100.00 athletic and or $50.00 activity fee, email us mtaoffice@madisoned.org and provide a copy of your receipt. You can also drop off a copy at the office.
Tax Credit Donations: It’s a win-win situation! Tax credit donations are 100% deductible to you, and the school can use your tax credit donations to fund such things as field trips, assemblies, athletic equipment (including uniforms), athletic fees, and student transportation to and from events.
You may submit up to $200.00 for an individual or $400.00 per family. You do not have to have a child attending the school, so let your relatives and friends know about this excellent opportunity. You may also want to check with your employer to see if they will match your donation. Forms and further information is available on the Madison School District website.
Please note: When donatiions are made via the Madison website https://www.madisonaz.org/families/family-resources/pay-a-fee and not the PowerSchool Parent Student Portal, MTA does not receive receipts for our parents who have paid online. If a tax credit donation was made and you would like to apply part or all of the doantion towards $100.00 athletic and or $50.00 activity fee, email us mtaoffice@madisoned.org and provide a copy of your receipt. You can also drop off a copy at the office.
- Volunteer requirement is a minimum twenty (20) hours per family during the school year.
- Each family must complete at least five (5) volunteer hours per quarter
- Both legal guardians are required to have a registered RAPTOR account.
- Only parents/guardians/grandparents can volunteer.
- The process for legal guardians (including step parents, grandparents) process can take 1-2 weeks to complete. They MUST go through a secondary background check and need to get their fingerprints taken.
- Hours do not roll over to the following quarter.
- It is the Volunteer's responsibility to track their hours in Raptor and to seek volunteer opportunities.
- Do not sign up for any volunteer opportunities until you receive notification that your volunteer application has been approved. If you have not been approved, you will not be allowed to volunteer nor will you be credited for hours.
- Off campus volunteering requires that the Teacher, MTA staff or Committee Chairs, identifies a job and a predetermined amount of time to correspond with that job. Teachers, MTA staff, Committee, Chairs, are responsible for electronically submitting your hours for off campus work and when you volunteer at an event.
- For volunteer application questions contact us at volunteers@madisoned.org
- For volunteering opportunities or missing hours contact the Guild at mtaguildboard@gmail.com The Guild manages all volunteer opportunities and keeps track of all volunteer hours. https://www.mtaguild.org/
- If you are having trouble logging in your Raptor account or or signing in at the front office Kiosk, contact Liz Hernandez at the District office at volunteers@madisoned.org or call 602-664-7580
BREAKFAST & LUNCH SignUp
In order for you to volunteer for breakfast and lunch you must SignUp. If you have not signed up you will not be able to volunteer. To avoid volunteers overlapping, please DO NOT CLOCK IN before your SCHEDULED TIME.
https://signup.com/mobileweb/2.0/vspot.html?groupkey=88318611804#group_page
The Raptor link below is NOT where you can sign up for volunteering opportunities, this is for signing up in Raptor.
- Make sure you log into the MADISON volunteer portal. If you just google it, it won't be the right page. The Madison portal will have our logo, not the Raptor logo on it. The link to this page is also on the District website under volunteers.
- Raptor will not let the same computer log into 2 accounts at the same time. This happens when you have both parents trying to check their hours right after one another.
Complete the application INCLUDING uploading a photo ID that indicates name and DOB.
***!!! Name MUST match EXACTLY what is on the ID or the application will be denied!!**
Once approved, you will receive an email with a link to create a password to the volunteer portal.
Questions? Contact community Education at 602-664-7580 or volunteers@madisoned.org
ABSENT and TARDY PROCEDURES
ABSENT : Call the 24-hour attendance line at 602-745-4021.
All absences must be timely reported to the attendance line, even if you have notified your student’s teacher.
If your student will be absent multiple days, please leave ONE voicemail with the range of dates.
TARDY : Students who arrive late must be signed in at the front office by a parent or caregiver and receive a tardy pass before they are allowed into the classroom.
A student is tardy if they are not in their classroom at 8:00 AM.
REMINDER: MTA is a school of choice. To maintain open enrollment, students are expected to attend a minimum of 90% of the school days for the full-time school is in session. Any combination of tardies, absences, half-day absences, or early sign-outs that add up to more than 10% of the current total of school days (over 4 per quarter) is classified as excessive by the state. Regardless of the reason, excessive absences or tardies may result in the loss of open enrollment at MTA.
TIPS TO SAFEGUARD YOUR OPEN ENROLLMENT:
Timely report absences to the 24-hour attendance line. 602-745-4021
Schedule trips and appointments outside of school hours.
Have your student to school, ON TIME, every day!
We have a process for parents dropping off items. Below are the Instructions which are also posted in the front office on the black bookshelf.
1. Label the item
Write your student's first and last name on a post-it note and attach to the item.
2. Leave item on the black shelves
If your student was not able to get the item during the school day, please ask them to pick it up promptly after school or before class the following day.
3. Email the Teacher(s)
For 5th -8th, email all teachers in your student's grade, in the subject line, please type: ITEM IN OFFICE, in the email: Child's name and item(s) you dropped off. Below is the QR code link for all Teacher's email addresses. If you email from home, please make sure to include the "time", you will be dropping off the item.
Yearbooks and Happy Hoots!
It's time to order a yearbook for the 2024-2025 school year to guarantee your memories! They are only $22 (including the service fee)! All sales will be online this year to pre-order your memories. This year’s yearbook will include 96 color pages filled with school portraits (Pre-K through 8th), team photos, club photos, different school events, Happy Hoots and pages for autographs. Do you want to send a special message in the yearbook for your student? It's only $5 extra per Happy Hoot (click on the ad and follow the directions).
Please go to buytheyearbook.com to order your yearbook and buy a Happy Hoot to be included. All ONLINE yearbook and happy hoots orders will close MARCH 14th, 2025. (In person cash sales will be available in May if you miss the online deadline for $25 - first come, first served.)
Email rwehrenberg@madisoned.org for questions.
Madison Traditional Academy-Where Learning Never Stops!
Email: mtaoffice@madisoned.org
Website: https://www.madisonaz.org
Location: 925 East Maryland Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone: 602-745-4000