Waggoner’s Word September 26th, 2014
Dear Parents,
Calendar of Events
for the Week of September 29th-October 3rd:
Saturday,
September 27th: Hopewell Cross Country Lakeside 5K Challenge
Jonestown Cross-Country 8:30AM-Open to all-$20 entrance fee
Saturday,
September 27th: A Team Girl’s Volleyball Tournament @ Deerpark-8th
Grade @Canyon Vista-7th Grade
Monday, September
29th: 7th FB vs. Ridgeview @ Dragon Stadium-5:30PM
Tuesday, September 30th: 8th FB vs.
Ridgeview @ Cedar Ridge HS-5:30PM
Wednesday, October
1st: 7th and 8th Grade Fall Band Concert
7:00PM in the cafeteria
Thursday, October
2nd: 7th Grade Volleyball vs. Deerpark 8th Grade Home-5:30PM, 7th
Grade @ Deerpark 5:30PM
Friday, October 3rd:
School Pictures/Students will need their order form and money on this day.
Friday, October 3rd:
School Dance-6th Grade 6:00-7:30PM, 7th & 8th
Grades 7:30-9:00PM. Admission is $5.00 at the door. School dress code is enforced. Students must
have their school ID’s in order to get in.
Saturday, October
4th: Hopewell Cross Country @ McNeil Invitational @ Old Settlers
Park
On Wednesday, we held our first Pep Rally for our fall
sport teams and it was a great success. The students were all actively
engaged in the Pep Rally led by our exceptional Hornet Cheerleaders! Our
7th grade class took Spirit Stick Honors for cheering the loudest! Great
going 7th grade! Next time maybe it will be 6th or 8th grade.
Hopewell certainly has a TON of school spirit and it was loud and clear
Wednesday!
Also on Wednesday, we had our first professional learning
/ professional development afternoon accommodated by student early
release. Carving out time for staff to
meet together as a large group, then breakout into smaller groups is always a
challenge. The early release days
provide that sacred professional learning / professional development time and
our staff are grateful to RRISD for providing that time. We heard a presentation on disseminating
STAAR data in meaningful, relevant orientations and templates so our teachers
can help ensure that ALL students are successful on the STAAR assessments. Members of the RRISD Curriculum and
Instruction / Assessment Team were on hand to provide that crucial data review
workshop to the Hopewell staff. It was a great staff learning time and
relevant tools were given to the staff to take our students to the next level
of achievement.
Speaking of Relevance:
Our staff will be using prior STAAR data to inform them on where to
focus and specifically target their instruction, but it will not drive their
instruction. Teaching the Texas
Essential Knowledge Skills through delivery of Rigor, Relevance and
Relationships will be our school – wide instructional focus this year. It’s crucial that our staff make learning
meaningful and purposeful for our students.
It helps to hook our students into the learning experience and actively
engage them in the everyday lessons and objectives that are taught. We will ensure that all staff is teaching key
21st Century Learning skills such as: Student collaboration in class
discussions and activities, project based learning opportunities and technology
integration to enhance the learning in all classes. We as administrators as we conduct our
teacher observations will be looking for evidence of both Rigor and
Relevance. You can help support our
efforts at home by asking your child to provide real world examples on their
homework, projects, and assignments. It
will help them to continue to think critically and relate their learning to the
real world. This will help prepare them
for high school and beyond.
We will be hosting a Veteran’s Day Assembly for our
students on November 11th to celebrate all the Veteran’s who have
served their country over the years.
It’s important as young Americans that our students take time to honor
our Veterans who have given so much for our freedom. We will be having our band, orchestra, choir,
and theater department performing patriotic pieces, we will also have a Veteran
that will be our guest speaker, and our student council president will be
giving a short speech and introducing our speaker. This event is open to our Hopewell community
and any Veteran so if you have the time, you are welcome to join us. The times have yet TBD but will probably be
the first hour of the school day. More
info will be coming your way regarding this important assembly for all our
students and staff.
Please remember to join PTA if you haven’t already! Please encourage your friends who have
Hopewell Hornets to join as well. PTA is
really the life-blood of our school and we cannot do the things we do for our
kids without their support. The dues are
only $8.00 and additional information can be found on the Hopewell School
Website by hitting the PTA quick link on the left hand side. Click on Forms and
Documents then click on the 2014-2015 HMS PTA Membership Form. Easy as that!
Thanks for your support of PTA!
Hope everyone enjoys this great fall weather this
weekend!
Karl
Karl
