Harrison Hills City School District Newsletter

Week of 10/27/14 “Home of the Huskies”

DISTRICT OFFICE:

Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Snider attended the Jefferson Health Plan Semi Annual meeting

where Bronze Plans, Cadillac Taxes, and laws were reviewed.

Administration attended the Vales press conference. Ohio Fall 2014 Graduation Test Week 1 complete successfully

Gifted education online assessment set up

Continual assessment/student set up and review within the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment system

Collaboration with the Harrison County Board of Developmental Disabilities and School Psychologist

Attended I.E.P. conference for out of district student

Collaboration with the Harrison County Ohio Means Jobs Office on student concerns

Set up of parent-teacher conferencing system

Homebound instruction collaboration with faculty and administration

O.V.L.A. collaboration on student enrollment

Administrative collaboration on Ohio’s Next Generation of Assessments

Value Added Collaboration with the J.C.E.S.C.

Attendance to the Volleyball banquet, Senior Night and V.A.L.E.S. football contest, Harrison Central Band “Lights Out” performance

Review of curricular, administrative materials

Harrison Co. Cluster Services meeting attended with Mr. Clifford for students in need of assistance

Faculty collaboration on curricular, special education issues

Administrative collaboration on “Blizzard Bag” preparedness

Administrative collaboration on Student Learning Objective submissions

Performance Based Assessments ordered for Science, Social Studies

Collaboration with special education staff on assessments, reviews

Treasurer is working with Mark Gillis concerning property tax valuation and board of tax appeals hearing.

Superintendent and Treasurer attended the Jefferson Health Plan Semi Annual Meeting and Health Benefits Training.

Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer attended OASBO Student Activities Seminar.

Treasurer’s staff currently working with State Auditors in providing requested information.

Harrison East Elementary

The “GERMS” stop here!

Julie McPeak BSMT(ASCP), MS Laboratory Manager at Harrison Community Hospital presented a hand

washing education for the 6th grade classes at Harrison East Elementary on October 21, 2014. She discussed the difference between bacteria and viruses which included a discussion of how to treat these infections, how to decontaminate surfaces to limit exposure and the proper way to wash your hands. Vaccination and antibiotic use for treatment/prevention of diseases were also discussed.

There was a discussion on Ebola and the children had lots of good questions. Mrs. McPeak helped to ease their concerns by going over the CDC guidelines for how the disease is transmitted and let them know that the “local” residents that were making the news have not been tested for or are not currently infected with the virus, but being monitored for signs and symptoms. Knowing that the first group of friends/family of the deceased patient Mr. Duncan were returning to work and school and are symptom free also eased their minds.

Mrs. McPeak did a black light demonstration using glo gel to simulate germs on their hands, which showed that hand washing is an essential step in preventing diseases and infections. A select few were dressed in PPE (personal protective equipment) which included gowns, masks gloves and a face shield to let them experience what hospital employees have available to use for their protection. We discussed more advanced PPE needed for those treating Ebola patients.

Lastly we did an art project where each student created their own “germ” using a blow painting technique.

Red Ribbon Week

For Tuesday’s Professional Development, Ms. VanCamp demonstration the use of Lapbooks as an effective tools for note taking, learning definitions and incorporating a different style of learning.

Deputy Eric Wilson, Deputy Chris Parrish and Frea kicked off Red Ribbon Week with a brief history and an interesting demonstration. Frea was a big hit.

Thanks to Judges Deputy Wilson, Deb Kenny,

Cayla Pierce and Brandi Burton

Ms. Tina and Ms. Marsha’s Preschool won the Door decorating Contest. Ms. Kelly Snider’s 1st grade received

an Honorable Mention.

Themes for the week included:

Pajama Day

Nerd Day

Student participated in a Mini Relay for Life walk around the block.

Mrs. McAfee’s Second grade class pledges to be Drug Free

First and Sixth celebrated their end of the 9 weeks Husky Rewards party.

81% of the 6th graders earned less than 15 demerits

95% of the 1st graders earned less than 15 demerits

UPCOMING EVENTS!

November 5th at 9 am- Understanding Wildlife is coming to Harrison East

Administrators Meeting- Wednesday November 5th

Signed Report Card Slips need to be returned by November 7

Hope Players to perform “Into The Woods” for students Friday morning. For the general public,

performance will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

PAWS PROGRAM – After School Activities

This has been a very busy week for the students and staff in the PAWS program. On Monday the PAWS

program hosted a Family Movie Night. There are around 45 parents and students in attendance to watch the

Halloween themed movie, Paranorman. The parents and students were able to snack on delicious popcorn

and drinks generously donated to us by the PTO and PAWS staff members.

5th graders at PAWS were also able to participate in “Spooky Science Experiments”. The students learned what

would happen to raisins if they are put into 7-Up. The students also had to use their observational skills to

determine what “body parts” were in the mystery bags.

Harrison North Elementary

Congratulations to our 6th grade student, Caeleb Chappell! He is currently #1 in both our building and

district for VMath. As of last Wednesday, Caeleb was currently #1 in the state of Ohio and #369 out of

221, 832 in the nation for VMath

Currently on display in our school lobby our Jessica Knight’s 4th grade class first STEM (Science,

Technology, Engineering and Math) projects. For their first STEM project, students were paired up and

asked to build a structure using only toothpicks and gum drops. First, students had to think abut what

they wanted to construct and draw a picture of it. The next step was to make their drawings come to

life!

Roxane Starkey attended a 5th grade math follow-up meeting facilitated by the Jefferson County ESC on

Wednesday.

Anisa Rocchi attended a gifted meeting held at our district office on Wednesday.

Two speech IEP meetings were held on Thursday with members of each student’s IEP team in

attendance.

Tuesday’s professional development began with a presentation from American Fidelity Assurance Company on Section 125 followed by individual grade level meetings.

Red Ribbon Week activities concluded on Friday with our students & staff dressed in costumes and a parade throughout the school as the theme for the day was “Scare Away Drugs!” Winners of the following categories were: Cutest – Madison Hoobler, 1st grade; Scariest – Parker Hutton, 3rd grade; Funniest – Thea Haney, 6th grade (Darla from Nemo); Most Creative - Landon Stull 2nd grade (from the movie, UP) and Best Homemade – Skyler Nayman – 4th grade ( Wall-E). Special thank you to our intervention specialists for serving as judges and our PTA for providing the prizes for the contest winners.

Congratulations to Becky Agostini’s 4th grade homeroom class for their winning classroom door, “We Can’t Be Bugged with Drugs” for Red Ribbon Week. Special thank you to our celebrity judges from the Harrison County Health Dept and the Harrison County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Special thank you to our Resource Officer, Eric Wilson and Harrison Co Sheriff’s Dept Deputy Chris Parrish for presenting a Red Ribbon Assembly to the students and staff on Friday morning.

Report cards were sent home with students on Friday for the 1st nine weeks.

Upcoming Events: 11/05 Understanding Wildlife’s “Live on Stage, The Rainforest” Presentation @ 2PM

11/05 November PTA Meeting @ 5PM (Cafeteria)

11/05 “Live on Stage, The Rainforest” @ 6PM (Barr Memorial Gymnasium)

11/07 Fall Picture Retake Day

11/11 Veteran’s Day Program @ 10AM

11/13 November Staff Meeting

11/25 Parent-Teacher Conferences

11/25 Ned Show Presentation @ 9:45AM (9:45-10:30AM)

11/25 2-Hour Early Dismissal

11/26 Thanksgiving Break

12/02 Classes Resume

Harrison Central Jr./Sr. High School

Building Leadership Team meeting held with focus on EZ-S.L.O. submission review

Successful Professional Development session held with teaching staff with focus on a research

based instructional strategy to implement into the classroom

Ms. Minalga attended gifted meeting at District Office

Classroom Spelling Bee conducted for 7th and 8th grade students by Language Arts Teachers

Mr. Ripley and Mr. Clifford met with Robert DeFrank to submit articles for local newspapers

Final Pep Rally of the Fall Season held. We recognized seniors from all fall activities

Administrative Walkthroughs continue to be a focus with emphasis on lesson alignment with new

learning standards and clear learning targets

Administrative Observations continue to be completed

Congratulations to the junior high cheerleaders on winning the North Canton Cheer Competition this

past weekend!

First 9 Week’s report cards were distributed to students. Mr. Ripley sent an all call reminding parents

that their children would be bringing home report cards.

School picture retakes completed. All seniors were informed of this date through email to each school

and by a phone call from Mrs. Parkinson to each school’s secretary.

OGT’s given to students grades 10-12 needing to pass the tests.

Mrs. Pelegreen’s 7th grade math students working together on predicting using experimental

probability

Guest speaker Leann Vizeno (Woman’s Tri-County) spoke with Mr.Mckinney’s 9th grade health class

about abuse in relationships. This is in collaboration with Safe Schools six week program called Safe

Dates.

Chain Gang was recognized at Friday’s football game. Thank you to Ken Zitko – 40 years, Dane Morgan

40 years, Tim Kenney 8 years and Tom Kenney 3 years. Thank you for your dedication to our students.

Congratulations to the Varsity Football Team as they finished the season with a victory over Buckeye

Local and retained the VALES trophy for a 3rd straight year.

The Husky Band performed their Lights Out Show at the conclusion of Friday night’s football game.

Congratulations Band!

Up and Coming:

11-3-14- Value-Added Training @ ESC @ 8:30A.M.

11-4-14-Election Day

11-5-14- Administrative Meeting @ District Office @ noon

11-5-14-Guest Speaker- Phil Chalmers @ 9:30A.M. & 12:45P.M.

11-7-14- Staff Meeting with American Fidelity @ 2:20P.M.

11-9-14- Varsity Soccer Banquet @ Sally Buffalo @ 6:00P.M.