Community Spartan Weekly, Week 17

SCHURR Expectation of the Month: Courageous"

“We will fail when we fail to try.”

-Rosa Parks

Attendance Rate: Our latest attendance rate was 95.00%. Thank you to all staff and students for your supportive, uplifting spirit getting students to attend school. Let's work hard to keep our attendance rate above 95%. Please greet students with your uplifting Spartan Spirit and engaging 4Cs learning environments. Remind them that they are loved at Schurr. Thank you for your support.

Food Deliveries: This is Schurr High School Delivery Policy:

• Deliveries: We will not accept deliveries for students. This includes, but is not limited to, food deliveries, flowers, balloons, food baskets, gift items, and food delivery services, etc.

Staff members do not order food for students and pick it up for them. Thank you for your support.

Paper App: Our students share how much they love the Paper App to complete their work. Please encourage students to use Paper App, including during Extended 4th, to improve their learning and, hopefully, their grades. Thank you for providing students with multiple tools to learn.

Phone Confiscation: Please inform students that we are confiscating phones from students if they are out of class during instructional time using their phones. Thank you all for your support.

Gratitude: Thank you to Jeannette Alvarado, Paul Chavez, Sandra Gutierrez, Larry McKiernan, Jennifer Regalado, and Ami Szerencse for their critical thinking and collaboration creating Schurr High School's Community Schools Grant. We appreciate your supportive hard work.

Gratitude: Thank you to Christine Alcala, May Carrillo, Maria Maldonado, Claudia Monreal, and Samantha Montiel for providing input for Schurr's Community School's grant. We appreciate you.

Gratitude: Thank you to community members and parents Cecilia Alba and Dafne Molina for providing input for Schurr's Community School's grant. Your supportive communication is invaluable.

Gratitude: Thank you to Keila Osumi (9th), Harley Cruz (10th), Elimiliano Sosa (11th), and Mireya Vargas (12th) for providing input for Schurr's Community School's grant. Your critical thinking, collaboration, and communication are invaluable to create our grant.

Gratitude: Thank you to Claudia Monreal, USB, and our entire school community. Our Dollars for Scholars fundraiser raised over $2,500 for families in our community. We appreciate our community's uplifting support, generosity, and USB's hard work gathering the funds.

Gratitude: Thank you to all our Winter Sports coaches and student-athletes. We are looking forward to continued success on the fields for soccer, the pool for water polo, and the gym for basketball and wrestling. Thank you for creating spaces where we uplift our community, courageously challenge each other, and thrive together.

Gratitude: Thank you for supportively greeting students and each other when you first interact. That small moment can make a student's and person day. A "hello, ____" or "good morning, ____" goes a long way to create a safe, positive learning culture. Thank you for your uplifting Spartan spirit.

Gratitude: Thank you for continuing to hand out Spartan Bucks to students who are showing Schurr values and expectations (Supportive, Courageous, Hardworking, Uplifting, Responsible, and Respectful) and the 4Cs (Critical Thinker, Collaborator, Communicator, and Creator).

Monday, December 9, Spartan Spirit Wear -- Winter PJs

-Staff Meeting, Data Teams, Library, 2:40 - 3:30

-Girls JV and Frosh Basketball @ Sonora, 3:00 -

-Boys JV and Varsity Soccer @ Bassett, 3:30 -

-Girls Water Polo @ Santa Monica, 3:30 -

Tuesday, December 10, Spartan Spirit Wear -- Character Day

-Boys JV and Frosh Basketball @ Bosco Tech, 3:30 -

-Girls Soccer (H) Sage Hill, 4:00 -

-Girls JV and Frosh Basketball @ La Serna, 3:00 -

-Boys Varsity Soccer @ St. John Bosco

-Wrestling (H) Bell Gardens, 4:00 -

-School Site Council, Professional Library, 3:45 -

Thursday, December 12, Spartan Spirit Wear -- Teacher Swap Day

-Girls Soccer (H) Santa Fe, 3:30 -

-Spartan Legion/Mighty Oil Brigade Winter Concert Collaboration @ MHS, 6:00 -

-Schurr High Choir, A Winter Jazz Concert, Auditorium, 6:30 -

Friday, December 13, Spartan Spirit Wear -- Battle of the Classes

-Renaissance/AVID/Spartan Friends Formal

-Boys Varsity Soccer (H) Mayfair, 3:30 -

-Winter Formal, Big Gym, "A Night in Hollywood," 7:00 - 11:00

-Schurr Shout Out to USB for continuously improving their Spartan Meet in such collaborative, creative uplifting manners. We constantly look forward to what you will come up with next.

-Schurr Shout Out to Speech and Debate for their courageous competitiveness during Mark Keppel's Varsity Invitational. Special commendations to Shandra Kwok (2nd Place, Impromptu Speech), Fabien Hatier (5th overall, Program Oratory), Fares Binotham (7th Overall, Original Prose and Poetrty).

-Schurr Shout Out to all our seniors who completed their applications to UCs. Good work!

Wednesday, December 11, School Site Council, Professional Library, 3:45 -

Friday, December 13, Winter Formal, 7:00 - 11:00

Monday (12/16), Tuesday (12/17): Finals Preparation, Early Release, 2:30 -

Wednesday (12/18), Thursday (12/19), Friday (12/20) -- Finals Week, 1:40 release

• Wednesday, Finals Periods 1 and 2

• Thursday, Finals Periods 3 and 4
• Friday, Finals Periods 5 and 6

Friday, December 20, Last Day of the Semester

Monday, January 13, Professional Learning Day, No School for Students

• Monday, January 13, PTSA Brunch, "Show Your Card"

Monday, January 20, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Board Holiday, No School