DEBATE CAMP FORMS

The debate camp forms were due August 1, but it should be possible to send them this week. Download the brochure for dates and the fax number to send the applications to.

Brochure DOC

Brochure PDF

Experienced Debaters DOC

Experienced Debaters PDF

Beginning Debater DOC

Beginning Debater PDF

Middle School Debater DOC

Middle School Debater PDF

Open Microphone Night at Barnes & Noble - 6/15

Take the microphone at the Bay Terrace Barnes & Noble on 

Monday, June 15 at 7:00 pm and 

read aloud one of your works. 

All readers will be entered into a drawing 

for a chance to win B&N gift cards and/or an Ipod Nano!

Sign up on the poster in your ELA classroom.

The event is also a fundraiser for our school!  When you purchase a book or even a snack in the cafe, a donation is made to WJPS if you use the special WJPS voucher any time on June 15.

Also, the voucher can be used at ANY Barnes & Noble in the country on our special date, June 15.  You can download a voucher and flyer at the bottom of this post.  Please tell your friends and family about it - they can use the voucher at any B&N.

Flyer & Voucher in .doc format

Flyer & Voucher in .pdf format

Here are the actual url's for the vouchers.  You can cut and paste these into an email:

doc format:

http://www.freewebs.com/wjpspc/flyervoucher.doc

pdf format:

http://www.freewebs.com/wjpspc/flyervoucher.pdf

UPDATED information for incoming students

The events for June 9 were cancelled due to a conflagration of circumstances.  We sincerely regret any inconvenience.  Please feel free to contact us with your questions/concerns.

Please drop in on Monday, June 15, at anytime between 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, to pick up a folder of forms and get measured by the uniform company.

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact our Parent Coordinator, Mrs. Reed, at 718-461-2219 or helen.reed@wjps.org

Middle School to Bowne Park, June 16

The permission slip was sent home, but you can print another here:

DOC format

PDF format

H1N1 Update from the Dept. of Education

The following letter was sent by Chancellor Joel I. Klein on May 29, 2009:

Dear School Community,

As the City continues to respond to the H1N1 flu, and do all we can to keep everyone in our school community healthy, I wanted to address a topic that many parents have questions about: absences due to H1N1.

The State of New York requires student to be in school a certain number of days each school year. But in our effort to contain the spread of H1N1 flu, we have closed some schools temporarily and encouraged some students who are sick and might be infected to stay home until their symptoms go away.  In other words, our response to H1N1 has led to increased absenteeism in some of our schools.

When a school is closed, the days a student misses are neutral.  Students are not marked absent or present. This means these days will not appear on students' records.

For schools that have not been closed, we have created a new policy to address absences related to H1N1.  Here's how it will work:

• We are putting a new Absence Reason Code in place that will allow schools to document that a student was marked absent from school because of H1N1.

• We will not require a doctor's note from students returning to school after an absence caused by H2N1, but we are asking every student to present a note from a parent or guardian explaining the reason for the absence. If the note states the absence was related to H1N1, we will enter the new code "H1N1 Related" into the computer system that tracks attendance to correspond to the day or days of absence.

• The existence and use of this new code will allow schools to make decisions pertaining to attendance awards ceremonies, promotions, and grades awarded.
  

Using the above coding process to designate H1N1 as the reason for student absence will allow students to put their health first.  Please be assured that absences related to H1N1 will be counted as excused in your child's attendance record.

Please contact your parent coordinator if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Joel I. Klein

Intrepid LIFTT Program

As part of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's mission to honor our heroes, inspire our youth, and educate the public, the Intrepid is offering its newest leadership program, LIFTT, Leadership Institute for Today and Tomorrow and is accepting applications for the 2009-2010 school year. In LIFTT, a group of 50 New York City high school students in their junior year participate in a year long series of programs and experiences to develop their leadership skills and to help them garner the tools necessary to mature into engaged and active community participants.

Applications for the program are due by Friday, May 29, 2009 to Mrs. Reed

For more information, please download the following documents.

Information Packet

Application

School Contact Info.

June 2009 Calendar