Monarch Memo: Sept 6 - 9th, 2016

Monarch Memo

September 6 - 9, 2016

Military/Staff Appreciation Night, Sept 9th.

KUDOS to all staff for providing parents a warm welcome on Back to School Night. The performances by our band and cheer were a great hit as well as our fabulous MV burger stand courtesy of Bill Sullivan and his hardworking team.  Thanks to the ASB who are at the heart of all that went on last week.  It was great to see so many dedicated staff members at the Assembly on Friday supporting our students and showing their spirit.  Community Night at the football game was well attended and drew a good crowd to honor CalFire and watch Los Toros football.  Thank you everyone for your part in making last week a great one.  

What’s New?

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Now that we have complete the first three weeks of school and Back to School Night, most staff have settled into the school year routine.  As I shared at our opening days, I wish I had the summer to get to meet and connect with you.  In order to help me get a feel for our MV campus I am asking staff to complete a very brief survey by Friday, Sept. 15th.  You are welcome to complete this in Google Forms, email or handwritten and turned into Denise. I will be sending it out to you this week. I truly appreciate your time and assistance in helping me learn more each day about our wonderful school.    

D/F Monitoring and Advisory

See last week’s email from Amanda Engstrand for directions on how to post grades.

This week marks week 4 of this school year and it time for our first round of D/F monitoring. The window for the first 4- week grades will open this Tuesday morning (9/6) and close Monday morning (9/12). No conduct grades are needed for this grading cycle as it is D/F monitoring. These grades will be used to place students into the first Advisory cycle.

In order to ensure that teachers who are giving tests on Friday Sept 9th have time to grade and include those exams in our 4 week D/F monitoring we are going to take the grade snapshot on Monday morning at 8am. Please make sure to have all of your D/F monitoring grades entered by 8am on Monday Sept. 12th. Freshmen Advisory will end on Friday Sept. 9th and a huge thank you to the 20 teachers that have stepped up and made our new Monarchs feel welcome. Because we are keeping the grading window open until Monday we will start our new advisory cycle on Wednesday September 14th. Tuesday will be an all school extended lunch.

Reminders:  Show the Newscast every Wednesday

• Daily Pledge of Allegiance begins Sept. 8.   Per Ed. Code, we will begin period 3 every day with a pre-recorded message over the PA of the Pledge except on Newscast Wednesdays.  Teachers, please initiate participation in honoring our flag.  Please utilize the extra minutes allocated during Period 3 to share the daily bulletin provide time for students to stay informed with information on our website via their Chromebooks.
• Support the Julie Weaver Scholarship for MV Students.  Fundraiser Thursday, Sept. 29 @ Cafe Coyote in Old Town, 5:00 p.m.
• Spirit Wear Orders - link only open for less than 2 weeks. Order here now
• Need a TB test soon?   Please click here to view Operational Bulletin-16-06 that outlines the new TB testing procedure.
• Chromebook technical issues?  Please send student to Laura in the Library.  Best times slots from period 2 to end of period 7.
• Support our Auto Dept; get your smog check done here.  Email Mike Fleming for info.
• Admin. Team Schedules this week are a bit busy.   

• Tuesday: Joe and Rad out all day, Bill out until noon. Amanda AP sub. all day
• Wednesday: Rad and Marietta out in a.m. half day (trainings)
• Thursday:  Marietta and Amanda out all day at Equity Symposium
• Friday:   Marietta and Amanda out all day at Equity Symposium; Rad out in afternoon.  Admin. Sub coming in for afternoon.  

Here is the phone message to parents on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016
Good Evening Monte Vista Families, this is Principal Minjares with a weekly update.

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow there is no school in observance of Labor Day.

We want to thank families for attending Back to School Night last Wednesday and for coming out on Friday night to watch our first home football game and support Community Night.  Please join us this Friday, September 9th for Military and Staff Appreciation Night. Students if you buy your ASB card for $25 you can get into all the home games for free. Friday night promises to be entertaining so don’t miss football vs. Patrick Henry.  

Please take advantage of our Homework Center that is open to all students.  On regular days we are open daily from 6:15 am to 8:15 am for the morning session and 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm for the afternoon session. On C.P.T. days the morning session runs from 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. Please join us Monarchs.

The Scholarship Bulletin is posted on our website. Scholarship opportunities change daily so please check this bulletin regularly. Our Monte Vista website is your one stop shop for staying up to date on all of our events as well as a great resource for our families and the community.

Don’t forget that every Thursday is College Day and Friday is Monte Vista Spirit Day, so please remember to wear your gear.

Have a great week Monarchs!