St. Joseph Virtual School Blog: October 18th

Picture Day THANK YOU!

Picture Day was a huge success! Thank you to the Boys and Girls Club of Benton Harbor, Geskus Photography, Central Office Administrative Assistant Mandy Mortimore and all of you who attended for making it such a great day. It was so nice to connect in a socially distant way. We will have a retake day announcement very soon for sometime in middle of November.

Success coaches.

We are working to fill a few success coaches who have left us. Our current success coaches have been working diligently to meet with each virtual student weekly. This is a REQUIREMENT by the State of Michigan and we need your help. Please make sure you and/or your student are checking their emails and ensuring that these meetings take place. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

ELEMENTARY

By the end of the week we should have all of our teachers in place and we are SO EXCITED for this. Our second grade teacher should be able to be introduced any day and hopefully be able to "meet" the 2nd grade families on Friday morning and beginning lessons next week.

Lexia, IXL oh my.... We are hoping to have these programs available by next week to all of our virtual learners. Please stay on the lookout for more information on this.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

We are continuously evaluating the program and next steps. We know there is work to do to improve the experience at the middle school level. We will continue to discuss, plan and implement changes that we both are able to and feel like will benefit our students.

One area of note is communication with teachers. At the is time the company is asking for 48 hours to respond to any and all communication. They are also asking for 48 hours for grading. We have been in contact with the company that these time parameters are often not met. They are asking that you document the course and teacher and let your success coach know so that we may let the company know specific instances.

HIGH SCHOOL

PSAT

All 9th-11th grade students will be taking the PSAT on Thursday October, 29th

All Students should plan on arriving at 7:30 at the SJHS field house entrance. Freshman will be in field house and sophomores and juniors will be in the competition gym. Students must wear a mask. Students are allowed to have a snack and a drink if they would like. No phones are allowed in testing area and are recommended that they not be brought. Please check here for lists.

Parents should plan on picking up their students between 11 and 11:30. You may have to sit and wait for them to finish.

Practice tests are available if you would like to stop by the high school office. But, we would also encourage you to log into Khan Academy to practice on their as well.

Communication with teachers

We are excited to share with you the process for how our SJVS students can access books from our

school library/media centers!

Please use the links below to place orders for books via your student’s home school.

Orders should be placed by 12:00 (noon) on Mondays.
Orders can be picked up at each school’s office anytime on Wednesdays.

Note: Parking lots are especially busy before/after school.
Please plan accordingly or stop by during a late-start before students arrive.

All checkouts are for two weeks.
Students may have two items checked out at a time.
Please plan to return items to the school offices on Wednesdays when picking up future orders.