IMPORTANT

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973-7800

Attendance Line—

973-7815

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Inside this issue:

Important dates 1

Letter from the Principal 2

News from the Nurse 3

AFL List 4

Attendance Info 4

Hadley Happenings 5-7

Library News 8-9

Hadley Middle School

Hadley Herald

Important Dates

5/16

LAST DAY OF

SCHOOL (early dis-

missal at 12:15)

7/30-8/1 Enrollment

8/14 First day for 6th

grade ONLY

8/15 First day of

school for ALL stu-

dents

Published quarterly May 2018

For Your Information:

Hadley is a secured building. Should you need

to enter, please come to Door 1 and press the

button. Staff in the office will then buzz you in.

Come directly to the office—staff are waiting to

assist you there.

Office hours are: 7:15am-4:00pm

Summer hours start 6/4 and will be 7:30-5:00

Mon-Thurs.

Hello Hadley Blue Devil Families!

Another school year is in the books! Blue Devils will finish the 2017-2018 school year strong with final exams, May 11 – 16, bringing learning to a close. May 16 is a shortened day schedule. Students will be dismissed at 12:20 pm, with buses leaving at 12:30 pm. Students must be off school premise no later than 12:30 pm.

May 16 brings locker clean-out and yearbook signing for Blue Devils as well as end of year celebrations. 8

th grade celebration will honor and recognize student’s aca-

demic and social successes throughout middle school and encourage continuing success well into high school. 6

th and 7

th grade Blue Devils will celebrate with an

awards ceremony on an alternate schedule. Celebrations are for current grade-level students and families.

Enrollment information for 2018-2019 school year will be available soon at usd259.org/enroll. Online enrollment opens July 3, 2018. In-person enrollment is July 30, July 31, and August 1. First day of school is August 15, 2018 with a half-day orientation for 6

th graders August 14, 2018.

Encourage summer reading to maintain your students’ academic growth.

Letter from the Principal

Please note:

Early dismissal (12:20 on last day of school (5/16)!

Make plans to enroll online for 2018-2019 school year!

Save yourself some time this summer.

Enroll online, pay online, and have your student take their Student ID photo during the

first week of class. You don’t need to come to the school at all !

Online enrollment will open in early July.

To enroll online, you must have a ParentVue account.

Don’t have one? Stop by the main office and get yours set up today. You can use it to

enroll, check your student’s attendance, and their grades.

The Health Room does not stock

any medications, even over-the-

counter medications, to give to stu-

dents. If you want your student to

take medicine at school, you will

have to provide it, and get a physi-

cian’s order for the school to ad-

minister.

Students are not to carry medica-

tion with them at school without the

necessary paperwork.

Again, this includes over-the- coun-

ter medications.

More News from the Nurse

If your student needs medi-

cations at school, you need

to complete a new request

and provide a new prescrip-

tion school each year. If

your student took medica-

tions this year, they will need

a new form on file for next

year to be able to continue.

If your child needs medica-

tion, please bring the com-

pleted and signed paper-

work to school after August

9, 2018. Remember to sign

the parent permission form,

obtain a doctor’s signature

and order for all prescription

medications. The doctor

must complete the dosage,

frequency, and symptoms

for administration.

Parents with students entering 7

th grade in the 2018-19 school

year:

Please schedule your student to receive the Tdap vaccine before school starts in August. A new immunization record will then need to be sent to stay on file at Hadley. If your student is not current on vaccinations, they may be excluded from school later in the fall until their immun-izations are brought up to date.

Please remember: if your student has medications at school, you will need to arrange to pick them up before the last day of school. Medications not picked up must be discarded.

Whenever you have questions regard-ing medical issues and your student, call me at 316-973-7820.

Thank you.

Pam Cornejo, School Nurse

316-973-7820

Page 3 Hadley Herald

Medications

MUST be

picked up on

the last day

of school

(5/16) or the

following

day. Medi-

cations not

picked up

will be dis-

carded.

Page 4 May 2018

Academics First List

At Hadley, we promote an attitude of

“Academics Come First”.

Therefore, we create a weekly list of students who are not meeting our high expectations in the classroom and have received at least one failing grade. We call this list the Academics First List

(AFL).

If a student is on the AFL, he or she cannot participate in any of the week’s activities.

The student will receive a notice during his or her Check and Connect class on Monday. The stu-dent should spend that extra time studying, working with mentors, getting some extra tutoring, or

reading so that his or her grades can improve.

We want and encourage students to participate in extra-curricular activities but we also want the students to understand the importance of focusing on their academics.

Creating excellence, no excuses!

If your student calls you to pick them up from any place except the Nurse’s Office, they

will not be medically excused.

Don’t forget to call the attendance line daily at 973-7815 if your student won’t be in

school. If you do have a doctor, dentist of other professional caregivers written excuse

of absence, please bring it in on the day of the student’s return.

The School District has very specific criteria about when a student must be sent home,

based on guidelines from the Health Department. The nurse will assess students who

are not feeling well, and if a nursing assessment indicates that the student meets these

criteria, parents will be contacted.

Keep Saving your Box Tops!

The Family Engagement Commit-

tee is asking all students and their

families to save their BOXTOPS for

Education Labels. The drive contin-

ues and during the school year we

will be awarding prizes to the class-

rooms who bring in the most. The

BOXTOPS allow us to buy books and

prizes to promote independent read-

ing, and the 25 Book Campaign.

Page 5 Hadley Herald

Happenings at Hadley

Track 2018

The State Science Fair was held Friday, April 6th at Cessna Ac-

tivity Center. Hadley was represented well by 21 students in at-tendance. 3 students earned Medals: Addison Larson received a Bronze medal for her project “Egg Shell Strength” and Emily Vale-riano-Trejo and Marie Loest received Gold medals for their project “Toothpaste Test” on Egg Shells. All students received a Certifi-

cate of Participation. Congratulations to everyone that went!

Page 6 May 2018

Happenings at Hadley

Congratulations! Our Hadley students are doing great things!

Winner of Prudential Award—Kyler, 8th grade at Hadley.

Kyler will now advance to the next round of finalists.

3.0 Awards

3.5 Awards

4.0 Awards

Junior Football Challenge

Academic Awards

Page 7 More Happenings at Hadley

Hadley Middle School placed 3rd in the

Leadership Cadet Challenge

Individuals:

Devilynn T.—2nd place overall

Monunique H.—7th place overall

Sa’vieon F.—7th place overall

Desire F.—11th place overall

Kelvin M.—13th place overall

Devilynn T., Sa’vieon F., and Kelvin M,

were present at McConnell Air Force

Base for Career Day.

AVID night

Page 8 News from the Library

Library News from Mrs. Salerno

Summer reading is important. Students who read at least 20 minutes most days of the week will greatly improve their reading skills. Not only do children need to practice reading to get better at this important skill, when they read they will begin to enjoy reading and want to spend more time reading. Start with books which include a topic which interests the student. Use the online or onsite catalog at the public library to find books that will interest the student. Hadley students are familiar with using the library catalog and they should be able to independently search for books—but it is more fun when you do it together! And, you can always ask the librarian.

To visit the Hadley library page, find www.usd259.org/hadley, locate the library tab under pro-grams, and choose the page for the online catalog.

Thank you for your participation in the BOGO book fair! Next year’s book fairs will coincide with fall and winter conferences and we will have a BOGO fair starting May 6, 2019.

So far this year, we have used Scholastic Book Fair proceeds to purchase magazines for student use located in the library, 3 Free Book Exchange shelves for the hallways, listening stations for the 6th grade language arts classes, multiples of books titles for classroom use, and prizes for students from the book fair.

Book Swap Trade and Borrow Available in the library and throughout the building. We have a bookcase in the periodical section of the library dedicated to books that anyone can borrow or trade. You are welcome to donate to or trade with things on the shelf.

We have installed Free Book Exchange Shelves in the following locations:

F Hall – North end between Room F1 and the auditorium doors

A Hall – in one of the empty insets

E Hall – at D hall intersection on the north side of the water fountain

Students are welcome to use books from these shelves. It is great if they can return the book or

bring one to put on the shelf for trade. But, no one is keeping track! Families are welcome to

send books to put on the shelves. If there isn’t room, bring them to the library, and we will store

them until needed. This is an example of the many services provided to the students at Hadley

which are funded by the book fair.

If you are looking for a good book to read, you might like a book from the William Allen White List—we have published all of the 6-8 WAW list in previous newsletters; here is the list for 3rd grade to 5th grade. For more information on each title, visit https://www.emporia.edu/libsv/wawbookaward/masterlists/list-2017-2018 We have at least one of each in the Hadley Library.

Our area public libraries have fun summer reading and activity programs. They offer incentives and activities. The Wichita Public Library has a great summer reading program. Here is a link to see what is going on: http://www.wichitalibrary.org/Kids/Pages/summer-reading.aspx

Page 9 May 2018

WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY: TEENS READ Students entering grades 6-12

To participate, read at least 20 minutes a day. You can track your progress online or with a reading log available at any Wichita Public Library. You can count any reading you do, whether it's in a book, a newspaper, on a website, or in a maga-zine! For every 10 days you read 20 minutes or more, you earn a prize such as:

Coupons for free food and entertainment

A free book

Entries for the grand prize drawing

Your name inside a library book of your choice

News from the Library

Last Day of School, May 16th, 2018

Early Dismissal (12:20pm)

First day of school, August 15, 2018

(Back to 8 AM start time)

2017-2018 William Allen White

Grades 3-5

Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton

Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley

George by Alex Gino

Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

A Handful of Stars by Cynthia Lord

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh