Dear Parents/Guardians:
First, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your patience, flexibility, and kindness as we navigated the most challenging year of education. This year tested us not only mentally, but physically and socially like never before and hopefully, never again. As a school we tried our very best to deliver a program that met families' needs and for the most part, worked well for the challenges that we faced. However, none of us signed up for this type of education, we had no choice.
We are very excited as a staff to welcome all students back full-time next week so they can return to the joy of full-time school, where relationships are made, and high levels of learning occur. We are thrilled at the prospect of offering our co-curricular and extra-curricular programs to all students and getting back to creating a culture of learning and exploration of their personal journey through their high school years.
We, as a staff, realize that the first week of school will be crucial in establishing some routines, expectations, and developing relationships with students and staff. To do this, we have developed a comprehensive plan to meet the needs of our students and families. Below is a detailed plan of how the first week of school will run and the specifics to the grade level for your child:
Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
9:00 -11:30 Approximately 50 leadership students only will be in attendance.
Students will be notified by the leadership teachers
11:30 am Dismissal for those students
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
9:00 am GRADE 12'S ONLY – Meet in the large gym
9:00 - 11:30 Grad breakfast
Everyone receives a t-shirt
Assembly
Photo booths
Scavenger hunt - Prizes: win grad cruise tickets, year books and swag
Teacher presentations
11:10 – 11:30 Homeroom (Schedules – Lockers – Student Packages)
1130 - 12:30 Grad BBQ
12:30 - 2:45 Timetable Rotation:
12:30 - 1:00 Block 1
1:05 - 1:35 Block 2
1:40 - 2:10 Block 3
2:15 – 2:45 Block 4
Thursday September 9th, 2021
9:00 am GRADE 11'S ONLY – Meet in the large gym
9:00 - 11:00 Everyone receives a t-shirt
Assembly
Homeroom (Schedules – Lockers – Student Packages) – 10:00 am
Scavenger hunt – Prizes: Mission Secondary swag
10:40 – 11:00 Teacher presentations
11:00 - 12:00 BBQ Lunch
12:00 – 2:45 Timetable rotation:
12:00 -12:40 Block 1
12:45 – 1:25 Block 2
1:30 – 2:10 Block 3
2:15 – 2:55 Block 4
Friday, September 10th, 2021
9:00 am GRADE 10'S ONLY – Homerooms will be posted
9:00 -10:00 Homeroom (Schedules – Lockers – Student Packages)
Everyone receives a t-shirt
Tour of school by leaders and teachers of that homeroom via scavenger hunt - prizes
to be given out
Finish at Homeroom
10:00-11:00 Half the homerooms to participate in a math inventory, The other half of homerooms will be in an assembly
11:10 – 12:10 Homeroom switch – math inventory students go to assembly, and assembly students participate
in math inventory
12:10 - 12:50 BBQ Lunch
12:50 – 2:59 Timetable Rotation:
12:50 - 1:02 Day 1 - Period 1
1:07 - 1:19 Day 2 - Period 1
1:24 - 1:36 Day 1 - Period 2
1:41 - 1:53 Day 2 - Period 2
1:58 - 2:10 Day 1 - Period 3
2:15 - 2:27 Day 2 - Period 3
2:32 - 2:44 Day 1 - Period 4
2:49 - 2:59 Day 2 - Period 4
Finally, we hope that this schedule will give our entire school community the best possible restart moving into a very exciting year. We need to acknowledge that last year was very difficult, but we have a great opportunity to start fresh and re-establishing all the learning and opportunities that makes ROADRUNNER NATION a great place to be!
Sincerely,
Jim Pearce and the entire staff of Mission Secondary