502 Pflaum Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53716 Tremayne Clardy Ed
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502 Pflaum Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53716 Tremayne Clardy Ed
502 Pflaum Road, Madison, Wisconsin 53716 Tremayne Clardy Ed.D., Principal June 2015 Mark Dax, Asst. Principal [email protected] 204-1923 Main Office 1951 Safe Arrival 4029 [email protected] 204-1942 204-1920 Nurse 204-1928 Spanish BRS Office 204- 204-4020 FAX 204-0495 MSCR After School Office 204- Sennett's Website Address: http://sennettweb.madison.k12.wi.us Dear Sennett Families: As you read this newsletter we are preparing for the final days of the 2014-15 school year. There is a lot of excitement in the air as our 8th grade students prepare for Promotion! Parents of 8th grade students, please enter LaFollette High at the activities entrance between noon and 12:25 pm on Tuesday, June 9th. High school students will be completing their finals until noon so we don’t want to disrupt that process. The Promotion Ceremony will begin promptly at 12:25. Summer will go very quickly. Please ensure your child reads for at least 30 minutes each day. There are wonderful programs at our public libraries if you need books or assistance finding appropriate reading materials. Not to wish summer away, but we will be back in school before you know it. Enrollment days will look similar in the fall as there are 2 dates offered with both day and evening hours. Parents are able to enroll their children at either session. Please be aware of these dates as you make your summer plans: Enrollment dates include: Wednesday, August 19th from 9:00—11:30 and 3:30—6:30 pm Thursday, August 20th from 9:00—11:30 and 3:30—6:30 pm First day of school for incoming 6th grade students ONLY will be Tuesday, September 1st; students in grades 6, 7, and 8 attend on Wednesday, September 2nd. Sennett and the Madison Metropolitan School District as a whole continue to make adjustments to instructional programing to best service our student population. We want to make you aware of some important information regarding the District English Language Learner Program. Please click on the link below to view. https://multilingual.madison.k12.wi.us/english-language-learner-plan Thank you for all you have done to support our students. Have a wonderful summer! Sincerely, Tremayne Clardy Principal What the Sennett PAT (parent-action team) did This Year (Sept. 2014-June 2015) At the PAT meetings, we hear from Principal Clardy on what is going on at the school. We discussed the changes to the future of Sennett Middle School and engaged in conversations around how to support this transition. In addition, we were able to provide feedback from the parent perspective and we even had an evening of pizza and pop to get to know each other. This year, PAT held our annual fall fundraiser raising $7881. We also held a Culver’s night at the Cottage Grove Road store and made $500. NOTE: Each year the two houses that go to Upham Woods do their own in-house fundraising specifically to reduce the cost of the trip. This includes the Christmas wreaths, concessions at Kohl and Alliant Center events and other restaurant nights. The PAT supports these efforts but is separate from them. This year the PAT continued to support the Upham Woods trip by contributing $300 per homeroom in order to lower the cost per student. Houses 1 & 2 (nine homerooms) went to Upham. PAT provided $2700. The PAT also supported two different opportunities for staff to participate in Technology training to support our G1 efforts next school year. Our support allowed more Sennett staff to receive the crucial training this year. The PAT supported Sennett staff on several occasions this year with sustenance. For the first morning of school, parent/teacher conference lunch and dinner, and the day staff returned to school after the death of Tony Robinson (a former student). In addition, the PAT catered a special Staff Appreciation Luncheon from the Olive Garden in May in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. The PAT also supports students by providing incentives for the PBS (positive behavior support) program. This program is to encourage positive behaviors of students and reinforce them with incentives. The PAT purchased freezy pops, mechanical pencils, wrist bands and $50 gift cards from Best Buy and Target to support these efforts. In the coming weeks, we will also support the 8th grade promotion celebration, with cake, punch and a photo booth. We will also make our annual contributions to the Sennett Endowment and the Upham Woods Endowment through the Foundation for Madison’s Public Schools (fmps.org). We encourage all families to consider a donation to one of these endowments. Thanks to all the parents who support Sennett with their time and/or money! It is appreciated! If you would like to be involved in the PAT, please join us on the first Wednesday of the month at 6 pm in the LMC (unless otherwise noted). “Thank you so much for supporting our trip to Upham Woods. The experience was something I will never forget!”, House 1 student. POSITIVE BEHAVIOR EARNS TRIP TO MOUNT OLYMPUS Thanks in part to the generosity of the following families, we were able to send many of our Sennett Stars to Mt Olympus on June 8! Almost 500 of our students qualified, which was based this past year upon them a) earning positive behavior incentives at least three of their four quarters, b) being on time to class and c) avoiding multiple misconducts or suspensions. We apologize if we missed (or misspelled) your name, and thank those that donated anonymously. Thanks to the families of: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Maxwell Bundy Alexis Sather Henry Thies Anthony Persinger Osbaldo Viramontes Erik Olson Ana Graham Cook Karl Olson 9. Trey’vion Pearson 10. Sidney Schrage 11. Luc Fuller 12. Molly Hill 13. Curran Frank 14. Walter Marshall 15. Natalie McDonals 16. Holly Brissette 17. Cecelia Hogan 18. Celia Nichols 19. Margrethe Blum 20. Harry Finkelmeyer 21. Brittany Ruiz Fernandez 22. Emma Walters 23. Erik Gessner Thank you to all students who particpated in the National Science League competition. Congratulations to our top score earners. Grade 6 Karl Olson-Top score of 32 Ari Kaufman Chloe Hudson Aidon Lampe Brigid Mullen Michael Flores Dylan Wendricks Ija-Maliq Smith Tia Engelberger Camille DuVernois Parker Olsen Gianni Gubbins Katrin Brendeunmeuehl Zella Milfred Grades 7/8 Erik Olson-Top score of 41 William Canter Brad McDaniel Parker Storck Laila Jenkins Michael Johnson Hyrum Oliphant Dija Manly Gabe Lemke Alan Lopez A NEW SUMMER LOVE: READING SUMMER READING SKILL LOSS IS HUGE. HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW… Reading skill losses during the summer months create a wider gap each year, between more proficient and less proficient students. By the time a struggling reader reaches middle school, summer reading loss has created a two-year lag in reading achievement! Children who read 4 or more books over the summer perform better on reading comprehension tests in the fall than their peers who do not. Teachers typically spend between 4-6 weeks reteaching material students have forgotten over the summer. It is estimated that the “summer slide” accounts for as much as 85% of the reading achievement gap between lower income students and their middle or upper income peers. During school, lower income children’s skills improve at close to the same rate as their more advantaged peers, but over summer middle and upper income children’s skills continue to improve, while lower income children’s skills often do not. Reading for fun is the best predictor of comprehension, vocabulary, and speed. Third graders who can’t read at their grade level are 4 times less likely to graduate by the age of 18 than a proficient reader. Studies show that making sure there are always interesting books at home can increase the likelihood of a child being a frequent reader, especially at the middle school level. Library cards are free! Approximately 90% of students say that they are more likely to finish a book that they picked out themselves, and 86% feel proud when they finish a book. Reading frequency decreases after age 8, and boys are more likely to be low frequency readers than girls. Kids growing up in homes with many books gain higher academic achievement than children from bookless homes, regardless of their parents’ education, job, and class. 10 STEPS TO AVOID “SUMMER READING LOSS”... 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Set aside 20 minutes a day for reading. Pick a comfortable reading place. Read with your child. Take turns Involve and engage listeners. Ask questions about what is happening. Fill your home with reading materials, such as books, magazines, cookbooks… Get a free library card or subscribe to a children’s interest magazine. Get caught reading yourself. Inspire. Have your child read to a younger family member or friend. Keep favorite books around for multiple readings to build confidence and fluency. 5 SIMPLE STEPS IN DETERMINING THE “RIGHT-FIT BOOKS”… 1. Open the book to the middle. Ask the child to read a page out loud. Hold up a finger for each unknown or misunderstood word. 2. When the child misses the 1st word, hold up your thumb and say, “You know all but one word! I knew this book would be easy for you.” 3. After the 2nd missed word, hold up your thumb and forefinger in an L shape and say, “ ‘L’ stands for learning. This book will be a good learning book.” 4. After the 3rd missed word, hold up three fingers and say, “ ‘W’ stands for ‘warning.’ This book may frustrate you, and you may not enjoy it.” 5. With the 4th or 5th missed word, represented by the same number of fingers, you can advise the child to stop and explain, “This means ‘stop.’ It’s time to find another book that you’ll be able to enjoy all by yourself.” Please feel free to contact Reading Cadre members with questions (Lori Hillyer @ [email protected], Ann Fredrick @ [email protected], or Mackenzie Douglas @ [email protected]) Great Books for Summer Reading! Looking for an exciting summer read? Here are some award-winners and highdemand titles from Sennett’s library this year (listed alphabetically by author’s last name): Alexander, Kwame. The Crossover. [ 2015 Newbery Award winner, 2015 Coretta Scott King Award Honoree] "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood. Black, Holly & Clare, Cassandra. The Iron Trial. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future. The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . . Green, John. Paper Towns. From the creator of the wildly popular book The Fault in Our Stars, comes the story of Quentin “Q” Jacobsen. He has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar, so when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life--summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge--he follows. When their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Margo has disappeared. But Q soon learns that there are clues--and they're for him. He embarks on an exhilarating adventure to find her, but the closer Q gets, the less he sees the girl he thought he knew. After enjoying this book, check out the movie - in theatres July 24th! Magoon, Kekla. How It Went Down. [2015 Coretta Scott King Award Honoree]. When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. The story is told from dozens of characters’ perspectives as they all search for a way to say with certainty: this is how it went down. Nelson, Jandy. I’ll Give You the Sun. [ 2015 Printz Award Winner]. Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives, wears red-red lipstick, and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a broken, beautiful boy, and someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they'd have a chance to remake their world. MEDICATIONS IN THE HEALTH OFFICE If your child has medications in the health office, they must be picked up by the last day of school. Any remaining medications will be taken to the Med Drop at the police station on Cottage Grove Road. School enrollment day for the 2015-16 school year Mark your calendars for school enrollment days on August 19 & 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m in the Sennett Middle School Gym. Be there to enroll your child for the 2015-16 school year. 1. Locate your Infinite Campus username and password to access the online enrollment system. Your password is available from your school secretary before the end of the school year. Or visit mmsd.org/lostpassword to fill out a form to receive an email with your username and/or password 2. Fill out the yearly enrollment information and pay fees online by visiting mmsd.org/enroll beginning on August 4. 3. Complete the process at your school during the enrollment dates in August. What to bring: Verification signature page and fee receipt, printed at the end of the online enrollment process. Free/reduced lunch application number if you have one. Verification of your address (gas/electric bill, lease or mortgage) if your address has changed. Questions? Visit mmsd.org/enroll Or contact the enrollment office: [email protected] 608-663-4957 MSCR SUMMER 2015 ACTIVITIES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH Please call 204-3000 for more information or register online at www.mscr.org. Art & Enrichment Classes – Enjoy a variety of classes -- try drawing, guitar, painting, pottery and more. Camp Adventure – Register Early! Explore the great outdoors through rock climbing, canoeing, hiking, swimming, field trips and one overnight trip per session. One week sessions run June– August. Camp meets mornings at Hoyt Park Shelter. MAD City Sports Camp – Practice sports fundamentals in an active, but recreational setting. Get tips on health, fitness, sportsmanship, injury prevention, cross training and more. Each week features different sports themes. Sessions take place at Hamilton and O’Keeffe Middle Schools. MAD Youth Volunteer Camp – Youth “Making A Difference” in the community. Students participate in service projects at parks, food and clothing pantries and more. Plus, enjoy activities such as swimming, pontoon boat rides and field trips. One-week sessions run June – August at Cherokee and O’Keeffe Middle Schools. Camp Inspire Camp - Youth of all abilities get together to learn about the community through social activities, unified sports, community service and fun! The July session takes place at Cherokee and August session takes place at O’Keeffe. CR8TV U – Art camp that uses a variety of media. Take fun field trips. Sessions take place at Hamilton and O’Keeffe Middle Schools. Intro to Middle School – Learn how to successfully transition to middle school. Sessions are available at Cherokee, Jefferson, Hamilton and Toki. Fitness - a variety of fitness class es – Tween Yoga, Zumba Kids and more. Spring Harbor Green House Garden Program – Learn gardening techniques from experienced middle school teachers. The focus is on sustainability – rain gardens, vegetables and more! Takes place at Spring Harbor Middle School. Four sessions are available. Soccer Day Camps - One week sessions run June 22 - August 28 at many locations. A camp for teens is available at Badger Rock Middle School. Swimming - Youth swim lessons available at East, La Follette and Memorial High Schools and Goodman Aquatic Center (Verona). Open and lap swim available. Tennis – Beginner and intermediate lessons available at many locations. Two sessions are available. Classes are offered at a variety of times. Junior team tennis leagues are also available. Wrestling – Learn basic fundamentals, Folkstyle takes place at La Follette High, July 7-10, 12-3:30 pm. MSCR offers many recreation programs for all ages. Remember Sennett All Through the Summer 5% BACK TO SCHOOLS 5% Remember Sennett this summer when shopping at Office Depot for next years school supplies. Office Depot will donate 5% of qualifying purchases to Sennett for free supplies. When you shop at Office Depot, simply tell the cashier that you would like your purchase to support Sennett Middle School. Out-of-town supporters will need to give our School ID Number 70109391. TARGET REDCARD BENEFITS SENNETT Target will donate up to 1% of your REDcard purchases to Sennett. If you have a Target REDcard credit card, just visit www.target.com to enroll in Take Charge of Education® and select Sennett as your school of choice. It really adds up! Sennett June Calendar June 1 June 4 June 8 June 9 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 11 June 11 June 22 June Newsletter Available on Sennett Website Choir Concert @ 7-8 pm at LaFollette Auditorium Mount Olympus Field Trip 6th and 7th graders EARLY RELEASE @ 11:00 am 8th Grade Celebration Day Last day of school for 8th graders ONLY EARLY DISMISSAL @ 9:05 M, Last Day of School End of 4th Quarter Quarter 4 Report Card available via Infinite Campus First Day of Summer School Eighth Grade Graduation Day – Tuesday, June 9th Awards Ceremony in the morning 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony Tuesday, June 9 12:25—1:20 p.m. at the La Follette Spectator’s Gym 8th Grade Dance will follow the Promotion Ceremony 1:20 pm – 2:45 pm Have a Great Summer!
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