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Announcements for 12/11/14

By Lauren Camenzind

Published: December 11, 2014

GUIDANCE NEWS

Below are the High School and District Wide Flyers

Board of Education Candidate Filing Opens December 16

Candidate filing for the April 7, 2015, election to the Francis Howell School District Board of Education opens at 8:00 a.m.on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, and continues until5:00 p.m.on Tuesday, January 20, 2015. The three-year terms of Director Marty Hodits and President Eric Seider will expire in April 2015. Click here for more information about eligibility requirements to be a Board Member and how to file. 12/16 Henry
FHN will be hosting a parent information night on Tuesday, January 20, from 6:00-7:00pm in the Auditorium. The National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse (NCADA) will be presenting “Signs & Symptoms.” From alcohol to marijuana and prescription drugs, “Signs & Symptoms” explores current trends in teenage drug use. With this knowledge, parents will be armed with the information they need if they are concerned about their own teen or a friend of their teen. Parents will also be given resources to help prevent drug use in their teen and practical tips on how to talk to their teen about drugs. 1/20 Johnson
Air Force Academy Scholarships

Junior year is when the Academy application process truly begins. Students will start by filling out the Pre-Candidate Questionnaire, which becomes available online March 1every year.

Students must submit their Pre-Candidate Questionnaire online between March 1 of their junior year and December 31 of their senior year.

Between March 1 of their junior year and December 31 of their senior year, students must also request nominations from a designated nomination category.

If a student is interested in seeing what life at the Academy is really like, they should consider applying to our Summer Seminar program. Designed for high school juniors during the summer before their senior year, this program is highly competitive with a limited number of spaces available.

Upcoming Deadlines
Pre-Candidate Questionnaire 31 Dec

Academy Application (not early eligibility) 31 Jan

Latest Test Dates for SAT/ACT Feb

www.academyadmissions.com

1/31 Woodrum

Attention A+ Students and Parents: Please click on the following link to read an update and FAQ from the Missouri Department of Higher Education about a possible financial reduction to the A+ scholarship award for the Spring 2015 semester. More details to follow as they become available. If you have questions, please contact MDHE. http://tinyurl.com/MDHELetter2

Students of the week

Congratulations to the following students for being chosen students of the week for the week of Dec 8:

Freshman-Courtney Duncan
Sophomore-Garret Lewis
Juniors-Morgan Buchholz
Seniors-Elizabeth Niederjohn

Congratulations

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FINAL EXAMS are December 17^th (1^st, 2^nd, and 7^th hours), December 18^th (3^rd and 4^thhours), and December 19^th (5^th and 6^th hours). School will dismiss at the regular time on December 17^th, and at 11:25 on December 18^th and December 19^th. Students are not allowed to take exams earlier than the dates and times listed above. If your student is absent on any of these dates, please call the Attendance office at 851-5893 on the date of the absence. Student must also bring a written note when they return or when they take their final exam to excuse the absence. Students must arrive to class on time. Students will not be allowed to enter class late. Any late arrivals will be required to take their exam on the exam make-up days. Additionally, during final exams, we will not be able to call into classrooms or interrupt classes in any way. Any passes for early dismissal must be taken care of before the start of school with a note from a parent. Students may only leave at the end of class period. Students will not be able to leave at any time during a class hour. Students will only be called to the office in-between classes to pick up messages or anything else that may be dropped off by parents.

Make-up final exams will be held on Thursday, December 18^th and Friday, December 19^th from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., Friday, January 2^nd from 12-4:00 pm, and Monday, January 5^th from 2:30-5:30 p.m. Make up exams are held in room 218. Students may attend any of the make-up sessions – no appointment is necessary. Students must bring a photo ID with them in order to take their final exam. Students should bring at least TWO number two lead pencils or any other items that may be required for completion of exams.

Students will report to their homerooms on half-day final exam days on Thursday, December 18^th and Friday, December 19^th. The first exam of the day begins at 8:20 AM. Buses will be running on their regular schedule on both of these half-day exam days. On December 18^th and 19^th, students may come to school at the regular time (7:20 AM) or may choose to arrive by the beginning of the first exam session at 8:20 AM. No parent note is required for any student who chooses to arrive to school by 8:20 AM.Students will not be allowed to visit other homerooms/intervention areas unless they have an appropriate pass.

However, students who arrive late to class once exams begin will not be allowed to take the exam. Late students will need to take the exam they missed during the makeup exam schedule. 12/19 Birch

Need Help Studying

For your Math Final???

Math Tutoring All Day

Thursday December 11

Friday December 12

Monday December 15

Tuesday December 16

Tutoring will be held every hour in Room 229

With teacher permission, you may attend from any class.

Must have a pass to enter!!!

Remember Math Tutoring is available before and after school too!

Monday thru Friday 6:25 – 7:15 in Room 205

Monday, Friday Room 205 2:30 – 3:30

Tuesday, Thursday Room 203 2:30 – 3:30 12/19 Stratton

EXAM EXEMPTION INFORMATION:

Students can pick up forms from the main office at Ms. Kimball’s desk beginning today (Nov 21st) after lunch for both EOC earned exemptions and ACT exemptions. To obtain their exam exemptions, students will need to pick up a form and then follow the process listed below.

Student will check with the guidance counselor to see how many exemptions they have earned;
Teacher will verify that students have a 90% or higher in the class (this will also be checked on the day the exam is taken);
Attendance will verify that student has 95% attendance;
Mrs. Downs will verify that the student does not have any book fines;
1. The Media Specialists will verify that the student does not have any Learning Commons Fines;
2. Mrs. Hood will verify that the student does not have any parking fines; and
  1. The student’s administrator will verify that they have not received ISAP or OSS for the 2014-2015 school year.

Please remember that on the day of the exam, the student must have a 90% in the class or they will not be allowed to use the exemption.

Final Exam Exemption forms will be due back to the Main Office by December 5^th at 3:00p.m. No late forms will be accepted.

Also, just a reminder that students WILL NOT be allowed to use exam exemptions for the state mandated EOCs, any PLTW course exam, and will not be allowed to exempt their first semester final in any AP course. 12/5 Blankenship

A REMINDER FROM YOUR NURSES

PARENTS – With the cold and flu season upon us, please remind your student to go to the nurses office when not feeling well. Students have been texting parents from class stating they are not feeling well. For your convenience and to avoid disruption of class, it is important for students to come to our office to contact you. If the student needs to leave school, they can contact you from our office and be in our office waiting for you if pick up is required. That way, we are also aware of any illnesses present in our building.

Also, please remember the policy adopted by the FHSD is to exclude students sent home with fever until the fever is gone for 24 hours without the use of acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Please help us control the spread of viral illness and disease by complying with our 24 hour exclusion policy after your child is sent home with a fever, or after developing a fever while at home.

Thank you for your cooperation! FHN Nurse Office 12/22

Do you know anyone that would love to have breakfast with Olaf, Anna & Elsa?

FHN All-Knighter is sponsoring Breakfast with Olaf, Anna & Elsa on Jan 10th (Jan 24 just in case Elsa gets a little upset & make us have a snow day). This will be held in Commons at FHN

What a great stocking stuffer or gift for any Frozen fan!

Tickets are $10 each (children under 2 are free) There will be UNLIMITED Pancakes & Sausage, Crafts, Raffles, Meet & Greet with Olaf, Anna, & Elsa plus Photo Opportunities. Seating is limited & we are having 2 sessions (9am & 10:30am).

For Reservations:

Please mail the following information & payment to Tracy Heath, 218 Birchleaf Dr., St. Peters, MO 63376

– family name,

– name of school,

– email address,

– # of adults ($10),

– # of children 2 & over ($10),

– # of children under 2 (free)

– indicate which session you would like to attend 9am or 10:30am

Make checks payable to FHN All-Knighter. Payments may also be accepted through Pay Pal:

9am session: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2HAMY8B7Y48SY

or 10:30am session: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=82Q5W46HSCZ9E

Questions may be sent to: [email protected] Reservations accepted through 1/3/2015.

Flyer available in FHN office, or watch online backpack. 1/10 Schulze

Math Tutoring

Available BEFORE School

Monday through Friday

6:30 – 7:15

Room 205

Available AFTER School

2:30 – 3:30

Tuesday & Thursday

Room 203

Monday & Friday

Room 208

SPANISH TUTORING SCHEDULE for 2014 – 2015 school year

	6:45 am	Room #	2:30 pm	Room #
Monday	Steffen	222	—	—
Tuesday	Johnson	202	Mossinghoff	213
Wednesday	Steffen	222	Santos (during homeroom, not after school)	227
Thursday	Johnson	202	Mossinghoff	222
Friday	Santos	227	—	—

Activities & Clubs

Activities for the week of Dec 8

DATE DAY OPPONENT SPORT LEVEL H/A TIME

12/11/2014 Thu FORT ZE BASKETBALL/GIRLS JV Away 5:30 PM

12/11/2014 Thu Practice BAND Home 6:00 PM

12/11/2014 Thu FORT Z E BB/GIRLS Varsity Away 7:00 PM

12/11/2014 Thu BAND CONCERT 7 PM AUD Home 7:00 PM

12/12/2014 Fri MCC N Relay SWIM/GIRLS Varsity Away 3:30 PM

12/12/2014 Fri JV TOURN SETUP WREST LG GYM Home 4:30 PM

12/12/2014 Fri FT ZS BASKETBALL/GIRLS C-Team Away 5:00 PM

12/12/2014 Fri Practice BAND Home 6:00 PM

12/12/2014 Fri FT ZS BASKETBALL/BOYS C-Team Away 6:15 PM

12/13/2014 Sat ACT TEST Commons Home 8:00 AM

12/13/2014 Sat JV TOURN WEIGh WREST SM GYM Home 8:00 AM

12/13/2014 Sat FHN JV TOURN WREST LG GYM Home 9:30 AM

12/14/2014 Sun State SOCCER/BOYS Varsity Home TBA

12/14/2014 Sun LTL LGE TOURN WREST BIG GYM Home 7:00 AM

Anime Club: Next meeting is Thursday, Dec. 11 in room 201 from 2:30 until 4pm. To sign up for Remind for text alerts about Anime Club, text @e9ec41 to 573-535-5528. 12/11 Freeman

*Attention Art Club members – The Christmas Pizza Party has to be postponed until Mon.Dec.15th. Bring your Memory Project portraits and an appetite. Merry Christmas! 12/15 Leistner

Check out the new activities website. You can sign up for updates by logging in as a FAN to receive notifications. Log in to www.FHNknights.org

12/19 Janes

The next Knight Readers book discussion will be Croak by Gina Damico. Here’s what it’s about:

A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.

The discussion will be on January 9 during 7^th hour in the Learning Commons and will include food, prizes, and possible extra credit from your English teacher. Everyone is welcome. Check it out today! Available in both print and eBook. 12/19 Davis

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2014-15 Youth Spectator Guidelines

All students and children currently enrolled in the eighth grade and younger must be accompanied and directly supervised by an adult to be admitted to or remain at the event. We expect students and children to remain under the supervision of the adult that they are attending the event with.
Youth spectators as described above will not be admitted to the stadium without a designated adult. ANY YOUTH SPECTATORS WITHOUT A DESIGNATED ADULT WILL BE HELD OUTSIDE THE STADIUM UNTIL THEIR PARENTS COME TO PICK THEM UP OR ACCOMPANY THEM INTO THE GAME.

Accompanying adults are asked to maintain diligent supervision of those youth spectators for which they have assumed responsibility the entire contest. Any youth spectators found to be without adult supervision will be returned to the adult(s) they came to game with. If their adults are unable to be found, they will be held outside the stadium until a responsible adult comes to pick them up or accompany them back to the game.

Sportsmanship/Cheering Expectations

For the enjoyment of all, the following expectations for fans, players, and students will be enforced:

No student seating on the front row of the bleachers. No standing on the floor.
Continuous standing in designated areas only.
No profanity or implied profanity allowed.
No disrespectful chants including personal remarks directed at players and officials.
No singling out players by number or name on posters, signs, or chants.
No disrespectful behaviors to other fans, players, or cheerleaders.
Cheerleaders will not cross over half-court in basketball games.
Sportsmanship Banners will be displayed at all schools and appropriate expectations will be explained during public service announcements.
Cheer for your own team – Not against the other team!

Pre-Game Activities

Must be school organized and approved.
No coolers.
Faculty members (coaches, sponsors, or administrators) must do all cooking unless it is provided by an outside source (vendor, food trucks, etc.)
Must be in a designated area set up by the Administration.

Dress Code at Outside Events

Since a major part of Education Based Athletics is that we are an extension of the classroom, students will NOT be allowed to attend games without proper attire, students CANNOT be shirtless (males) or in sports bras (females) to wear body paint. Face paint is allowed along as the student’s identity is recognizable.

Dr. Dave Wedlock, Francis Howell Principal
Mr. Sean Erwin, CAA, Francis Howell Activities Director

Dr. Sonny Arnel, Francis Howell Central Principal

Mr. Scott Harris, CMAA, Francis Howell Central Activities Director

Mr. Andy Downs, Ed.S., Francis Howell North Principal

Mr. Michael Janes, Ed.S. Francis Howell North Activities Director

PARENT NEWS

Parents- The multiple choice portions of Final Exams will be given December 17-19. During classes when exams are in progress, students will not be called out of the class as it may disrupt students in the room as they complete these challenging assessments. If your student is leaving school early on one of these days, please call early in the morning and leave a message so that we may provide him/her a pass to leave. This will be very helpful in having your student released from school as soon as the exam period ends. If you have specific questions, please call 851-4900 and we will be happy to speak with you. 12/19 Birch
All Knighter – If you are not receiving emails about All Knighter activities, please send an email to [email protected] to be added to the list.

The Francis Howell School District has designated the following days, in the 2014-15 school calendar, as make up days, for snow or other inclement weather. We ask that families, please avoid scheduling vacations or other events on these dates, so that your children will not have to miss school should we need to use these days for makeup. Thank you for your help in this matter.

Snow Day	Make Up Date
1	May 22, 2015
2	March 9, 2015
3	March 10, 2015
4	March 11, 2105
5	May 26, 2015
6	May 27, 2015
7	May 28, 2015
8	May 29, 2015
9	June 1, 2015
10	June 2, 2015

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