ATTENTION - The Junior Class Fundraising and Prom meeting scheduled for tonight, 1/23/12, is postponed until Monday, 1/30/12 at 6:00pm, due to inclement weather.
MID-TERM SCHEDULE UPDATE DUE TO SNOW DAY
ON JANUARY 12 and 2-HOUR DELAY ON JANUARY 20, 2012
Due to the snow day on 1/12/12, the mid-terms scheduled for Wednesday, January 18 will be rescheduled to Monday, January 23 (Black periods 2 & 4). Due to the 2-hour delay on Friday, the daily schedule has been adjusted to allow the full class period time for exams periods 1 & 3. Students attend full days during mid-terms with exams during their regular class periods. Second semester will begin Tuesday, January 24.
NEW --> AWESOME BEAR LETTER
Dear Community Member,
In the last weeks of the year when~you review your charitable giving for 2011, we hope you’ll keep Awesome Bear Society in mind. Your tax deductible donation will help support sports and co-curricular activities at Maranacook Community School.
With school budgets shrinking, there’s no telling what ABS might be asked to fund in the future. In the past, your charitable donations garnered from concession stand sales, our annual golf tournament and a variety of other activities have been used to support our sports and co-curricular activities in ways the school budget couldn’t. ABS funds have been used to:
send students to national competitions
enter teams in off-season tournaments,
enhance training for some of our coaches,
purchase training equipment,
purchase theater staging and equipment
purchase championship jackets
and so much more.
ABS gives each team and co-curricular group a per student allocation each year. This money can be used by that team/club/group to purchase needed equipment or fund an activity to enhance their team, club or organization.
As you consider your charitable gifts for the remainder of the year, please remember the Awesome Bear Society. Your donation will help support quality sports and co-curricular activities at Maranacook Community School.
If you would like to make a year-end donation, please send your tax deductible check to:
Awesome Bear Society
c/o Maranacook Community School
2250 Millard Harrison Drive
Readfield, ME 04355
If you have questions about ABS or donating, please feel free to contact me at 207-621-2347.~
Sincerely,
Lauren Whitman
President, Awesome Bears Society
MARANACOOK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
We hope you are excited about the Marancook Alumni Association. There are many ways to make a tax-deductible donation:
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SAT/ACT Prep. - Maine Prep offers small group classes and private tutoring to help students improve their SAT and ACT scores, and be more competitive when applying for college admission and merit scholarship aid. Classes are offered on different evenings at 10 different Maine locations. Please call 798-5690 or visit: www.mainprep.com for more info. and to view upcoming schedules for January 28th, and subsequent winter/spring SATs.
Attention Parents of Sophomore and Junior Students:
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 your child received his or her PSAT Score Report.
The PSAT is an important tool in preparing your student for the college application process. Students who take the PSAT generally score higher on the SAT college entrance exam.
The PSAT Score Report will provide your child:
- with feedback on their strengths and weaknesses on skills necessary for college study. They can then focus their preparation on those areas that could most benefit from additional study or practice.
- to see how their performance on an admissions test might compare with that of others applying to college.
- with information on whether or not their scores will be entered for scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation
In the fall of 2010 Maranacook established a new set of attendance procedures to support students. This change helped many students stay on track in order to be successful in their course work. In our continuing effort to support the academic success of students a group of concerned staff members, students, and parents discussed more ways to assist students who struggle academically. This group identified the need for students to have regular time embedded in the school day for them to see teachers in order to get work they might have missed when absent or to get extra help. Advisors expressed the need for dedicated time to meet with advisees in order to monitor their academic growth and progress more closely. As a result of these discussions, our daily schedule has been modified. The schedule we will use for the 2011-12 school year
provides a 30-minute block of time at the start of Black and Gold Days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) for students to meet with advisors and/or teachers, or to study. This advisee/tutorial time will benefit all students.
As part of our comprehensive effort to better support our students in their academic pursuits, study halls at Maranacook will be structured differently than in the past. The link below will connect you to the complete study hall structure. Highlights of the changes are:
Students who are earning satisfactory grades in their classes will have additional freedoms in terms of where they can go for study hall.
Students who are not earning satisfactory grades in their classes will work in silent study hall where they can receive assistance to bring up their grades.
Students who are in silent study hall and still not earning satisfactory grades in their classes may be required to attend after school tutoring sessions.
All study halls will operate under the same set of rules as posted in each room.
The bottom line is that we want to provide additional options and freedoms for students who earn them and better support our students who need assistance. We want to see the culture at Maranacook be one where learning is everyone’s priority and where students accept the responsibility for their own learning and in return are accorded appropriate freedoms.
Study Skills for Credit is designed to help students acquire useful organization and study skills in a setting that allows them to work quietly, get help as needed, and receive academic credit. This course will be a means to improve academic success in high school. Study Skills for Credit differs from a traditional study hall class because in addition to having time to complete assignments and study for other classes, students will also engage in organizational activities specifically focused on helping them develop good habits, making good decisions for themselves, and ultimately taking responsibility for their education.
All freshmen will take part in Freshman Seminar (Study Skills for Credit) as part of their Tech and Career Exploration class. Sophomore, junior and senior students may choose to use one study hall block to take Study Skills for Credit each semester. Study Skills for Credit will be worth 1/2 credit per semester.
As we have implemented our new attendance procedures there have been some good questions that are important to address:
MOST IMPORTANTLY – THE NEW STUDENT ATTENDANCE PROCEDURE DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD SEND YOUR STUDENT TO SCHOOL EVEN IF THEY ARE SICK. IF YOUR STUDENT IS SICK HE/SHE SHOULD STAY HOME FROM SCHOOL!
Missing school for being sick does not cause a grade penalty for your student. We are using attendance points as a way for parents and the school to keep track of student’s attendance. Yes, a student is given one half attendance point for missing school due to illness with parent contact to school. There is no grade penalty until after 10 classes of the 38 classes in a semester are missed.
We know that there are many illnesses where it is not necessary to see the doctor. In cases where a student misses 3 or more consecutive days of school, but does not need to see a doctor, the parent/guardian should contact the school nurse and explain the situation. When the student returns to school he/she can see the school nurse and obtain the note that will mean there are no attendance points accumulated due to illness. The school nurse or the Deans of Students can be contacted at any time when a parent/guardian has a concern about a student’s attendance.
Occasional illness is part of everyone’s lives and will not adversely affect a student’s grade. The new procedures are designed to help us better monitor attendance, provide clear up-front consequences for those students who need that guidance, and most importantly enable us to intervene earlier with students who are struggling.
If a student is concerned about their attendance affecting their grade due to illness, he/she should contact Pat Stanton or Steve DeAngelis. The bottom line is that no student will be penalized for being sick.
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