November 5

I hope everyone enjoyed the Parade of Pumpkins. It is hard to believe I am talking about that already and that it is already the second quarter. We have had a great start to the school year and there are so many things to celebrate. One major celebration is how hard the students and teachers are working to ensure that quality learning is occurring on a daily basis.

With that being said, I want to inform you of a new process that we will be using at Swift Creek to make sure that all students are successful. We have been hard at work analyzing student data and work samples. One thing we have noticed is that some of our students are struggling on work completion. As you know, we have character education assemblies on every Tuesday for grades K-2 and every Thursday for grades 3-5. With this in mind, we have decided to open a learning lab for students in grades 3-5 every Thursday during the character education assemblies. Students that have missing assignments will have the opportunity to go to the learning lab and complete the assignments. We want to give every opportunity to give access to the high quality assignments and we do not want to leave any excuses for missed assignments. This is just another way that we are working to achieve our school vision: Everyone will learn and succeed!

Finally, I have had several parents recently ask about after school clubs. If you remember, we had after school clubs last school year. We wanted to give everyone a heads up that we will begin this program again during the second semester. If you have a particular skill, gift, or talent that you would like to share with our students, please let us know and we can try and create an enjoyable after school club for the students. Last year’s clubs were a “ROAR”ing success!

Thanks for all you do for the students of Swift Creek and remember to keep on “ROAR”ing!

Jim