Wednesday, September 8, 2010

TEACHERS

• “You’ve got mail!” Please check your mail before school, during your lunch break, and at the end of the day.

• Important messages! Unless there is an emergency, messages will be placed in your mailbox or forwarded to your voice mail.

• “Calling long distance!” Please see office staff if you need to make a school-related, long distance phone call.

• Phone extensions! Teacher phone extensions may have changed if new rooms were assigned. Please check your new extension (if you have one) and program your voice mail as soon as possible.

• “Park the car!” All staff who use the school parking lots must obtain a new permit from the Maintenance Office. Parking is not allowed on 2nd street south and 4th street south. Tickets will be issued by the Virginia Police Department. This is not school property!

• Supplies! As of 9/7, supplies ordered from the stockroom will be delivered to the VHS mail room with your name on it for pick up.

• 7 & 8 Grade Homeroom Teachers: Please announce to your homeroom that 7 & 8 grade orchestra students will NOT report to homeroom on Wednesday (9/8) or Thursday (9/9). They will turn in their enrollment materials to Mrs. Wilcox. Announce that they must board Bus #10 on 5th Avenue by 7:50 am for their Orchestra class in Gilbert!

• Homeroom will meet on Wednesday (9/8) and Thursday (9/9) from 8:15-8:25 a.m. for the purpose of collecting enrollment/emergency cards, lunch forms, and insurance forms/waivers. Please stress that these materials must be turned in this week. Thank you!

• Attendance should be taken today and every day. If you encounter problems with your attendance module, please call Bill in the Technology Office at ext. 1210. Until your needs are addressed, fill out a white attendance slip for absences. These slips need to be brought down to the high school office each class period. Please have a student volunteer bring down your attendance slip.

• Teachers: If you notice any postings in the hallway or stairwells, such as advertisements for dances, etc., which do not have the initials of Mrs. Hakly or Mr. Vukmanich, please remove and drop them off in the high school office. Thank you!

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

• ALL STUDENTS, IF YOU HAD A SCHEDULE CHANGE AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED A NEW SCHEDULE, PLEASE STOP BY THE MAIN OFFICE.
  

• Detention meets at 3:15 pm in Room T128 Monday through Thursday.

• Student Absences:

1) Absences should be cleared before 8:10 a.m.

2) All absences require a call from a parent/guardian.

3) For appointments, report to the office before 8:10 a.m. with a note        from a parent. Sign out on the clip board & get a blue pass to leave class. When you come back from your appointment, return to the office and sign back in. Have your blue pass ready to be signed for the return to the current class period.

4) If you miss a class period or more, you must clear your absence by the next morning in the office before 8:10 a.m.

5) Failure to clear an absence before 8:10 a.m. will result in detention.

• Telephone Use:  The telephone in the high school office is for school business only. Students should not be making phone calls during class periods!

• Athletic User Fee: (Maximum of $500.00 per family cap)

a)$110 per sport for grade 7

b)$120 per sport for grade 8

c)$130 per sport for grades 9 – 12

• Class Schedule Changes

1) If you need to have a schedule changed:

a) You must obtain a pass from the Counseling Office with a specific time to see Mrs. Hakly.

b) Continue to report to your classes as scheduled until your appointment.

2) Schedules will not be changed unless there is a definite error on your schedule.

• Cafeteria News:  Any student who was eligible for FREE or REDUCED meals at the end of the 2009-10 school year, will be eligible for the same during the first two weeks of this school year.

PRICES

Breakfast – $1.70 (full pay) /.00 cents (reduced pay)

Lunch – $2.25 (full pay) /.40 cents (reduced pay)

Adults – $3.30 (lunch) / $2.05 (breakfast)

• *Students who are not purchasing a hot lunch, must stay out of the lunch line and be seated at a lunch table.

• *Students must use a lunch tray when selecting items from the lunch serving line.

• *Grades 7-12: No food may leave the cafeteria unless a student has a pass to a teacher’s room for a meeting, etc. There will be NO eating in hallways during the lunch periods.

• STUDENT PICTURES — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th! (Don’t forget your payment envelope!!)

More reminders – PLEASE READ TO ALL STUDENTS

• Students must vacate the high school building by 3:30 p.m. unless they have prior approval from a staff member, or if participating in a school activity, or attending a scheduled school event. This will be strictly enforced.

• Lockers: All lockers were painted “Blue Devil Blue” this summer.  Students are not to hang pictures, mirrors, posters, baskets, etc. in their lockers or deface or damage their locker in any way. A periodical locker check will be held to insure that lockers are being kept safe and organized.

• Office Help: We will be taking applications for students who may be interested in serving as a student office helper during their study hall period.  Please stop in at the high school office to inquire.  The applicants will be subject to secretarial approval.

• Student Messages: Students need to remind parents that the high school office is unable to deliver personal messages during the school day. The exception is… real emergencies! Parents may call the Counseling Office at749-5437, extension 1910, if they need to have essential personal messages to be delivered.

GRADES 7-8 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• 7-8 Grade: No food will leave the cafeteria unless a student has a pass to a teacher’s room.

• Open Roosevelt Gym for Boys and Girls Basketball, Sundays 4-6pm.

• Reminder to students: Remember that any absence from class needs to be cleared in the High Office before 8:10 am. If you see the school nurse, a counselor, or go to an appointment (or other), you need to check the absence bulletin the next school day and if your name is on the absence bulletin, clear in the office.

• Orchestra-Grades 7 & 8: Do not report to your homeroom on Wednesday (9/8), Thursday (9/9) or Friday (9/10).  You will turn in your enrollment materials to Mrs. Wilcox. You must board Bus #10 on 5th Avenue by 7:50 a.m. for your orchestra class in Gilbert!

SENIOR HIGH ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Open Roosevelt Gym for Boys and Girls Basketball, Sundays 4-6pm.
  

• Grade 9-12 Students:  Green Team meeting this Friday at noon in Room T412.  Come and learn how you can have a great time while helping the environment.  (Meetings every Friday)

• IRYA meeting this Thursday (and every Thursday) at noon in Room T412 for all interested students in grades 9-12.  Come and join the fun.

• 2010 ROHIAN Half Price Sale! Buy last year’s ROHIAN for only $25.00 in Room T401.  Better late than never!

• VERY IMPORTANT!!! Parking is not allowed on 2nd Street South and 4th Street South. Tickets will be issued by the Virginia Police Department. This is not school property!

• **Students are not allowed to park in the Malone Hall parking lot as well as any other school parking lots. Parking spaces are numbered and have been assigned to staff members. Don’t be the first to get towed!

• Senior High Lunch: Food purchased in the cafeteria will be eaten in the lunchroom, NOT IN THE HALLWAY. Students will not be allowed to eat in the hallways.

• Work Permits: Students in grades 11 and 12 who may need a work permit should go to the high school office to request one. Students must have a 3.0 GPA in order to leave a study hall.

• Reminder to students: Remember that any absence from class needs to be cleared in the high school office before 8:10 am. If you see the school nurse, a counselor, or go to an appointment (or other), you need to check the absence bulletin the next school day and if your name is on the absence bulletin, clear in the office!

• All 11th & 12th grade students: If you do not want your name released to the military recruiters, please stop in the High Office and have your named crossed out on the list by Friday, 9/10.

• From Mr. Vukmanich, Dean of Students:                                                    Welcome back to a new start of a new school year!  A few things to remember to ensure a detention-free year:                                                         1.  Absence must be cleared before 8:10 a.m.                                                     2.  No use of cell phones or backpacks during the school day.                    3.  No food out of the cafeteria.                                                                                4.  If you are assigned detention, serve it within 24 hours                           5.  Be aware of new tardy policy begun last May.

• Vocational Students: These students will report to their vocational classes according to their schedules beginning Wednesday, 9/8. Morning vocational students will not go to homeroom on Wednesday, 9/8, and Thursday, 9/9. These students need to turn in their enrollment materials at the high school office. Students with afternoon vocational classes will report to those classes.  The vocational bus schedule is as follows:

2010-11 VOCATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SCHEDULE

7:50 Virginia bus #10 will leave 5^th avenue with orchestra students to Gilbert, Accounting I students to Eveleth and Medical Fields I to MRTC in Eveleth.

8:25 Mt Iron bus will transport Virginia Food Occupation I and II from 5^th Avenue to Mt Iron.

8:45 Orchestra students will return from Gilbert on Virginia bus #10.

9:35 Eveleth bus will return Accounting I students from Eveleth to Virginia.

9:40 Eveleth bus will return Medical Fields I and II from MRTC in Eveleth to Virginia.

9:40 Mt. Iron bus will return Food Occupation students from Mt Iron to Virginia.

10:00 Mt Iron bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from 5^th Avenue to Mt Iron.

11:50 Virginia bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from Mt Iron to Virginia.

12:20 Eveleth bus will transport Nursing Assistance to MRTC in Eveleth.

12:20 Mt Iron bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from 5^th Avenue to Mt Iron.

2:00 Eveleth bus will return Nursing Assistance from MRTC in Eveleth to Virginia.

2:00 Mt Iron bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from 5th Avenue to  Mt Iron.

2:15 Mt Iron bus will return Mt Iron students back to Mt Iron.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

TEACHERS

• Students will report to their homerooms at 8:15 to get their schedules and all other necessary information before reporting to their period 1 classes.
  

• “You’ve got mail!” Please check your mail before school, during your lunch break, and at the end of the day.

• Important messages! Unless there is an emergency, messages will be placed in your mailbox or forwarded to your voice mail.

• “Calling long distance!” Please see office staff if you need to make a school-related, long distance phone call.

• Phone extensions! Teacher phone extensions may have changed if new rooms were assigned. Please check your new extension (if you have one) and program your voice mail as soon as possible.

• “Park the car!” All staff who use the school parking lots must obtain a new permit from the Maintenance Office. Parking is not allowed on 2nd street south and 4th street south. Tickets will be issued by the Virginia Police Department. This is not school property!

• Supplies! As of today, 9/7, supplies ordered from the stockroom will be delivered to the VHS mail room with your name on it for pick up.

• 7 & 8 Grade Homeroom Teachers: Please announce to your homeroom that 7 & 8 grade orchestra students will NOT report to homeroom on Wednesday (9/8) or Thursday (9/9). They will turn in their enrollment materials to Mrs. Wilcox. Announce that they must board Bus #10 on 5th Avenue by 7:50 am for their Orchestra class in Gilbert!

• Homeroom teachers: Please promptly bring down to the office, any and all materials which are unclaimed after homeroom meets today (9/7).

• Homeroom teachers need to announce today in homeroom that all new students (except for new 7^th grade students that attended the 7^th Grade Orientation) should report to the Resource Center at the end of the homeroom period. Please have a student volunteer escort them to the Resource Center. New students will receive an orientation and meet a peer volunteer who will help them find classrooms and get to know the buildings.

• Homeroom teachers need to announce today in homeroom that all PSEO students should turn in their completed enrollment/emergency cards, insurance forms, and lunch forms to the high school office.

• Homeroom will meet on Wednesday (9/8) and Thursday (9/9) from 8:15-8:25 a.m. for the purpose of collecting enrollment/emergency cards, lunch forms, and insurance forms/waivers. Please stress that these materials must be turned in this week. Thank you!

• Attendance should be taken today and every day. If you encounter problems with your attendance module, please call Bill in the Technology Office at ext. 1210. Until your needs are addressed, fill out a white attendance slip for absences. These slips need to be brought down to the high school office each class period. Please have a student volunteer bring down your attendance slip.

• Teachers: If you notice any postings in the hallway or stairwells, such as advertisements for dances, etc., which do not have the initials of Mrs. Hakly or Mr. Vukmanich, please remove and drop them off in the high school office. Thank you!

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Students will report to their homerooms at 8:15-8:25 to get their schedules and all other necessary information before reporting to their period 1 classes.
  

• Detention meets at 3:15 pm in Room T128 Monday through Thursday.

• Student Absences:

1) Absences should be cleared before 8:10 a.m.

2) All absences require a call from a parent/guardian.

3) For appointments, report to the office before 8:10 a.m. with a note        from a parent. Sign out on the clip board & get a blue pass to leave class. When you come back from your appointment, return to the office and sign back in. Have your blue pass ready to be signed for the return to the current class period.

4) If you miss a class period or more, you must clear your absence by the next morning in the office before 8:10 a.m.

5) Failure to clear an absence before 8:10 a.m. will result in detention.

• Telephone Use:  The telephone in the high school office is for school business only. Students should not be making phone calls during class periods!

• Athletic User Fee: (Maximum of $500.00 per family cap)

a)$110 per sport for grade 7

b)$120 per sport for grade 8

c)$130 per sport for grades 9 – 12

• Class Schedule Changes

1) If you need to have a schedule changed:

a) You must obtain a pass from the Counseling Office with a specific time to see Mrs. Hakly.

b) Continue to report to your classes as scheduled until your appointment.

2) Schedules will not be changed unless there is a definite error on your schedule.

• Cafeteria News:  Any student who was eligible for FREE or REDUCED meals at the end of the 2009-10 school year, will be eligible for the same during the first two weeks of this school year.

PRICES

Breakfast – $1.70 (full pay) /.00 cents (reduced pay)

Lunch – $2.25 (full pay) /.40 cents (reduced pay)

Adults – $3.30 (lunch) / $2.05 (breakfast)

• *Students who are not purchasing a hot lunch, must stay out of the lunch line and be seated at a lunch table.

• *Students must use a lunch tray when selecting items from the lunch serving line.

• *Grades 7-12: No food may leave the cafeteria unless a student has a pass to a teacher’s room for a meeting, etc. There will be NO eating in hallways during the lunch periods.

• STUDENT PICTURES — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th! (Don’t forget your payment envelope!!)

More reminders – PLEASE READ TO ALL STUDENTS

• Students must vacate the high school building by 3:30 p.m. unless they have prior approval from a staff member, or if participating in a school activity, or attending a scheduled school event. This will be strictly enforced.

• Lockers: All lockers were painted “Blue Devil Blue” this summer.  Students are not to hang pictures, mirrors, posters, baskets, etc. in their lockers or deface or damage their locker in any way. A periodical locker check will be held to insure that lockers are being kept safe and organized.

• Office Help: We will be taking applications for students who may be interested in serving as a student office helper during their study hall period.  Please stop in at the high school office to inquire.  The applicants will be subject to secretarial approval.

• Student Messages: Students need to remind parents that the high school office is unable to deliver personal messages during the school day. The exception is… real emergencies! Parents may call the Counseling Office at749-5437, extension 1910, if they need to have essential personal messages to be delivered.

GRADES 7-8 ANNOUNCEMENTS

• New Students to VHS! Please report to the Resource Center today after homeroom for an orientation. A student from your homeroom can escort you to the Resource Center. (This does not include new 7^th grade students who attended the 7^th Grade Orientation.)

• 7-8 Grade: No food will leave the cafeteria unless a student has a pass to a teacher’s room.

• Open Roosevelt Gym for Boys and Girls Basketball, Sundays 4-6pm.

• Reminder to students: Remember that any absence from class needs to be cleared in the High Office before 8:10 am. If you see the school nurse, a counselor, or go to an appointment (or other), you need to check the absence bulletin the next school day and if your name is on the absence bulletin, clear in the office.

• Orchestra-Grades 7 & 8: You should report to Study Hall in the Resource Center today (9/7) after going to your homeroom. Do not report to your homeroom on Wednesday (9/8), Thursday (9/9) or Friday (9/10).  You will turn in your enrollment materials to Mrs. Wilcox. You must board Bus #10 on 5th Avenue by 7:50 a.m. for your orchestra class in Gilbert!

• Grade 8 Teachers: Please escort your period 2 8th graders to the Auditorium (main floor middle section) at 9:45 a.m. for a short presentation by Mr. Vukmanich. Please sit with your period 2 students. Students will be excused from the Auditorium to their period 3 class.

• Grade 7 Teachers: Please escort your period 3 7th graders to the Auditorium (main floor middle section) at 10:35 a.m. for a short presentation by Mr. Vukmanich. Please sit with your period 3 students. Students will be excused from the Auditorium to the cafeteria.

SENIOR HIGH ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Open Roosevelt Gym for Boys and Girls Basketball, Sundays 4-6pm.
  

• Grade 9-12 Students:  Green Team meeting this Friday at noon in Room T412.  Come and learn how you can have a great time while helping the environment.  (Meetings every Friday)

• IRYA Officer meeting today at noon in Room T412.

• IRYA meeting this Thursday (and every Thursday) at noon in Room T412 for all interested students in grades 9-12.  Come and join the fun.

• 2010 ROHIAN Half Price Sale! Buy last year’s ROHIAN for only $25.00 in Room T401.  Better late than never!

• VERY IMPORTANT!!! Parking is not allowed on 2nd Street South and 4th Street South. Tickets will be issued by the Virginia Police Department. This is not school property!

• **Students are not allowed to park in the Malone Hall parking lot as well as any other school parking lots. Parking spaces are numbered and have been assigned to staff members. Don’t be the first to get towed!

• Senior High Lunch: Food purchased in the cafeteria will be eaten in the lunchroom, NOT IN THE HALLWAY. Students will not be allowed to eat in the hallways.

• Work Permits: Students in grades 11 and 12 who may need a work permit should go to the high school office to request one. Students must have a 3.0 GPA in order to leave a study hall.

• Reminder to students: Remember that any absence from class needs to be cleared in the high school office before 8:10 am. If you see the school nurse, a counselor, or go to an appointment (or other), you need to check the absence bulletin the next school day and if your name is on the absence bulletin, clear in the office!

New Students to VHS!  Please report to the Resource Center today after homeroom for an orientation. A student from your homeroom can escort you to the Resource Center.

• All 11th & 12th grade students: If you do not want your name released to the military recruiters, please stop in the High Office and have your named crossed out on the list by Friday, 9/10.

• From Mr. Vukmanich, Dean of Students:                                                    Welcome back to a new start of a new school year!  A few things to remember to ensure a detention-free year:                                                         1.  Absence must be cleared before 8:10 a.m.                                                     2.  No use of cell phones or backpacks during the school day.                    3.  No food out of the cafeteria.                                                                                4.  If you are assigned detention, serve it within 24 hours                           5.  Be aware of new tardy policy begun last May.

• Vocational Students: Period 1 & 2 Vocational classes will not be held today (9/7). Please go to Study Hall.  These students will report to their vocational classes according to their schedules beginning tomorrow (Wednesday, 9/8).  Morning vocational students will not go to homeroom on Wednesday, 9/8, and Thursday, 9/9. These students need to turn in their enrollment materials at the high school office. Students with afternoon vocational classes will report to those classes today.  The vocational bus schedule is as follows:

2010-11 VOCATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SCHEDULE

7:50 Virginia bus #10 will leave 5^th avenue with orchestra students to Gilbert, Accounting I students to Eveleth and Medical Fields I to MRTC in Eveleth.

8:25 Mt Iron bus will transport Virginia Food Occupation I and II from 5^th Avenue to Mt Iron.

8:45 Orchestra students will return from Gilbert on Virginia bus #10.

9:35 Eveleth bus will return Accounting I students from Eveleth to Virginia.

9:40 Eveleth bus will return Medical Fields I and II from MRTC in Eveleth to Virginia.

9:40 Mt. Iron bus will return Food Occupation students from Mt Iron to Virginia.

10:00 Mt Iron bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from 5^th Avenue to Mt Iron.

11:50 Virginia bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from Mt Iron to Virginia.

12:20 Eveleth bus will transport Nursing Assistance to MRTC in Eveleth.

12:20 Mt Iron bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from 5^th Avenue to Mt Iron.

2:00 Eveleth bus will return Nursing Assistance from MRTC in Eveleth to Virginia.

2:00 Mt Iron bus will transport Food Occupation I and II from 5th Avenue to  Mt Iron.

2:15 Mt Iron bus will return Mt Iron students back to Mt Iron.

August 31st – September 2 – Teacher Workshop Days – NO STUDENTS

August 31st – 7th Grade Orientation – Goodman Auditorium – 5:45 p.m.

September 7th – First Day of School – School starts at 8:15 sharp!

7th grade schedules will be available on Tuesday, August 31 at the 7th Grade Orientation.  Please watch your mail for information.

Monday – “Every Monday Matters” a curriculum which heightens social skills with a Service Learning Component

Tuesday – Compass Math

Wednesday – Study Skills for Success

Thursday – Compass Reading and Language Arts

Friday – Review of current week’s progress (review planners, check homework deadlines, etc) and planning for next week’s classes -Time may be used for further curriculum enrichment thought to be needed by junior high teaching staff

REQUIRED MATERIALS FOR THIS CLASS:  Student Planner (provided by the school for 7th and 8th graders), one subject notebook (multi-colored or a “fun looking notebook”, a folder, and a pencil.

RED:  Computers

YELLOW:  Social Studies (Geography)

GREEN:  Science

BLUE:  Math

PURPLE:  English

BLACK:  Health

IN ADDITION TO YOUR NOTEBOOKS YOU WILL ALSO NEED:

FOR ALL CLASSES:

Writing utensil for every class, every day

ENGLISH:

Pencils, highlighter, black or blue pen, and AR book

GEOGRAPHY:

Box of 8-12 colored pencils

GYM:

A complete change of clothes (t-shirt & athletic shorts or wind pants), socks, and good gym shoes that lace up tight.

ONLY FOR THOSE IN CHOIR:

Half-inch or one-inch 3-ring binder

ONLY FOR THOSE IN ORCHESTRA:

Lesson books, 3-ring binder, rosin, metronome, tuner, cleaning rag, shoulder rest for violinists, and end pin holder for cellists and bassists

NOTE:  There could be other classes with additional supplies needed and you will find out about those in the fall. 

Have a great summer! We look forward to seeing you in the fall!

July – High School Office Hours – 8:00 – 12:00 – July 7, 14, 21, 28 (Wednesdays Only)

August – High School Hours – 8:00 to 300 – Open August 16th -  September 3, Monday – Thursday