Friday Update 6-4-10

Friday Update
June 4th, 2010

All good things must come to an end! On the school news this morning when I said that this was the last Friday of the school year it felt pretty good. This has been a year full of challenges, but you all have handled everything that has been thrown at you as well as could be expected. We have much to be proud of so I want to formally thank you all for pouring yourselves into making this a successful year. Hopefully, we have all learned lessons along with our students and will come back next year even better. Our preliminary EOG scores look good so our hard work and preparation this year and previous years seems to be reflected in our students’ performance. We will share details at our end of year staff meeting on Friday, June 11th. Great job!

“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.” John Heywood

“It’s never over till it’s over.” American Proverb

“Every end is a new beginning.” Proverb

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Next week
Monday 6/7 – 4th and 5th grade Field Day, 3rd Grade End of Year Party, 4th Grade End of Year Party, Lunch for staff provided by Village Tavern
Tuesday 6/8 - Watch Dog – David Rhyne, 5th grade Celebration, No Staff Mtg.
Wednesday 6/9 – AR Celebration
Thursday 6/10- Last Day for Students
Friday 6/11 - Teacher Workday, Staff Meeting 8:30-11:30 (Everyone expected to attend), Staff hospitality lunch at 11:45 (Everyone expected to attend)

Week of 6/14-6/16
6/14 – Teacher Work Day, Report Cards Turned In
6/15 – Teacher Work Day, School Improvement Team working lunch (Lunch provided)
6/16 – Start of Summer Vacation!!

Duty Schedule
*Breakfast – Womble, Aikins, Sereika, Letourneau

FYI/Reminders
- Kim Skinner’s mother-in-law passed away last week. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
-Jerri Smith’s husband recently had surgery. Please keep their family in your thoughts and prayers.

- We know that some of you are still in the process of meeting with parents to make decisions on retentions. We have a partial list, but want to make sure that everyone has responded to Kim Cressman in some way. If you have not contacted Ms. Cressman, please let her know if you have: "no retentions", "still possible" or "definite retentions", e-mail her ASAP!
- Due to all of the extra “events” going on this week, there wilt be no duty free lunch.

Staff Stars
- Congratulations to Mr. Keener on being named the new principal at Clemmons Elementary School. We will miss you - good luck!

- Congratulations to Pat Taylor who welcomed twin grandsons to her family. Garrett and Gibson Taylor were born Friday evening, May 28th. Both boys weighed over 7 pounds.

-Thanks to all of you for working with your grade parents to provide some memorable end of year experiences.

Katie Chamra & Terry Lowe - Great job with field day.

Debbie Herrin, Erika Coffield and everyone who helped with remediation and retests – Great job!

Thank you to all of our long-term subs for the wonderful jobs that you have done.