The parent team is planning to provide lunch for anyone and everyone who is able (and on staff ;) ) on Monday, May 21. Save your peanut butter & jelly or leftover pizza for Tuesday! Thank you to our amazing parent team!
End Of Year Data Meetings
EOY data meetings are scheduled for next week. The main goal of these conversations is to celebrate all of the progress made by your students this year, and to make sure the table is set to hit the ground running at the start of next year.
Please make sure you have added all data to your grade level spreadsheet prior to the meeting. (Delta and MAP scores automatically flow in.) Find the graduating class below and go to the linked data spreadsheets below, and click on your grade level tab.
- Kindergarten = 2030
- 1st = 2029
- 2nd = 2028
Please review these helpful and important links for you:
- Here is a link to the directions of what to add to the spreadsheet.
- Please review our ELA Non-negotiables.
- Please review Jana's helpful coaching reminders for Running Records completion.
- Here are the ELA Grade level data spreadsheets. If you cannot locate your grade's file, please let me know ASAP.
- Here are the Math Grade level data spreadsheets. If you cannot locate your grade's file, please let me know ASAP.
As always, let me know, please, if you have any questions. Thank you, all!
Batons
Just a quick reminder, if you haven't begun already, anytime now might be a good time to break your students' batons out of the closet, cupboard, or other storage space where you've had them. The last day will be here before you know and chipping off a few a week might be a good pace. Thank you for thoughtfully adding this piece of encouragement and blessing to your students!
Please let me know if you have a new student or a student who has lost his or her baton, and I'll see to it that you get one.
We’ll be sending these home with students again on the last day, June 1. If you need any of the program information, here is a link again.
Passing the Baton Parent Communication
Please copy and paste this into your blog these remaining weeks for parents as an explanation for the baton which will go home with your students on the last day of school:
Holland Christian Schools has developed a strong culture of adults investing in and mentoring students, cultivating a fruitful context for positive spiritual formation of our students. From Preschool through senior year, Holland Christian students know they are loved, affirmed, instructed and nurtured to become all that God has gifted them to be as his agents of shalom in our world. This happens in one-on-one conferring between teacher and developing reader; on the field, court, pool or stage between coach and performer; over coffee or breakfast between teacher and teen. HCS staff members invest into the lives of students, helping to create a “fabric of faithfulness” surrounding students who are encouraged to grow and “stay strong in their faith.”
One way that we tangibly can represent this “life-on-life” influence institutionally, yet personally, is to pass a customized HCS track baton from teacher to student, and student to teacher each year that a student is at HCS. Inside of this baton that follows each student throughout her or his HCS years is a scroll of paper with the accumulated personal messages of recognition and encouragement that will be added by that student’s teacher each year.
Please watch for this special baton, labeled with your child’s name, to come home with your child on the last day of school, June 3. Read the scroll inside, celebrate and pray together with your child over the growth that has taken place throughout this school year filled with God’s providence, guidance and love. You may feel free to write a note to your child on this baton scroll as well and invite another mentoring adult or two to write a thoughtful note encouraging your child as well. We ask that you store this baton in a safe place throughout the summer months so that your child can pass this baton to his/her new teacher next fall when we return to school.
Report Cards
Grades will be due by Wednesday, May 30 so we can print and stuff your report cards. They will go home with everyone (except Rita's students) on the last day of school. We will begin printing Thursday morning in the office.
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