Family Newsletter

Hello Maverick Nation!

Hope you are having a wonderful week!– Here are some news items for our community.

We Need Your Help!

This week we kicked off our annual Direct Drive to raise funds to support our school programs such as music, art, library, and student and community events. Thank You to all of the families who have already donated! You are so generous!!!

Our goal this year is to raise $130,000, which is about $400 per student, but we are asking for any amount you are able to give!

Your donation will make a huge impact toward strengthening curriculum support and building lasting community engagement among McClure families.

Thank you so much for your support as we live our 2023-24 McClure motto: “Unity Needs U n I”!

McClure PTSA Direct Drive

Professional Speaker, Christian Paige:

On Thursday, October 12th, McClure is excited to welcome Christian Paige, an Emmy nominated spoken word poet and professional speaker and educator from Tacoma who is passionate about community, antiracism, equity, and empowerment. Christian will lead an all-school assembly in the morning and visit our leadership classes of ASB, AVID, and WEB throughout the day. Students will continue to build on Christian’s message of community throughout the school year in Advisory and in all facets of their McClure experience.

Curriculum Night : Thursday, October 12, 5:30 – 6:00 Pizza/ 6:00 -8 :00 Classrooms

We are so excited to welcome you all into our school on Curriculum Night! If you had a McClure student here last year, you might remember that we experimented with a new format for our Curriculum Night.  It was a student-led experience in which our McClure scholars led their parents/guardians around the school, checked out their classrooms and other spaces and introduced their parents/guardians to their teachers.  We surveyed the staff and our families following the event. Here’s what we found: though families and staff enjoyed parts of this format (student-led, absence of bells, not rushing to classrooms, etc.), the log jam of “receiving lines” to meet teachers was frustrating to all and parents wanted a little more information from teachers about their child’s classroom experience.

We heard you loud and clear!  This year we have a bit of a “hybrid” format to our Curriculum Night which will allow for a little bit of free-form time, a bit of community-building, and then time to experience your child’s classes/teachers so you can get a better handle on the entire McClure package! Plus, our wonderful PTSA will be providing a pizza dinner for you starting a little bit before 6:00 (more deets to come).

In planning for the event, please feel free to bring your McClure student with you – we’d love to see them!! But…also plan to have them with you for all parts of the evening as we will not be providing supervision of students.

Also, we will have Childcare! –Two classrooms: one for the super-“littles” and one for older kids. Our wonderful WEB (Where Everyone Belongs) leaders will provide supervision and entertainment for your younger children so you can relax and enjoy the evening.

We will finalize our brochure and agenda this week. This should come home to you via “kid-mail” next week. There will be space on the brochure for your McClure student to enter his/her/their class schedule so you know where you are going on Curriculum Night. Can’t wait to see you there!!

Position Open at McClure – Lunchroom Assistant Manager

The District’s Culinary Services Office has posted a job at McClure to support our wonderful Cafeteria Manager, Christine Robel. The Lunchroom Assistant Manager position posting can be found here: McClure Lunchroom Assistant Manager . We are a small-ish middle school with limited staffing and now our staff must help Christine in the kitchen to ensure kids are fed in a timely manner with time to play after eating.  If anyone you know (or you!) is interested in this position, please share the link and encourage them to apply!!

Side note: if you are able to come up and volunteer during lunch, we could also really use your help!

Covid and Flu vaccination clinics…even one at McClure!!

These are regional clinics open to all in the SPS community. You do not have to be a student or staff of a particular school to make an appointment.

McClure Middle School, 1915 1st Ave. W. Seattle, WA 98119

Where: Portables

When: Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2:45-6 p.m.

• We accept almost all insurance plans, including Medicare and Medicaid, but are unable to accept Cigna and Tricare insurance. We are also unable to accept some out-of-state Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. You must input your insurance information during registration, or you will be charged for your selected immunization(s) at the clinic. Kaiser is only allowing for flu vaccines at this time and will not cover the cost of COVID boosters.
• If you choose to sign up for a COVID booster that is not covered by an insurance listed you will pay the out-of-pocket cost of $200!!
• If you have an out-of-state Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, please select “Regence” as the insurance carrier from the drop-down menu and use your Blue Cross Blue Shield member ID number. If that doesn’t work, please try “Premera” next.
• •unfortunately thereis no funding for uninsured patients, so the cost is $200 per immunization.
• For those that need vaccines that do not have insurance or their insurance is not listed:
• Students can go to any School Based Health Center. Find the nearest one to you: Ballard is the closest for most families in the area).
• For all individuals and family members you may go to most local pharmacies for both flu and COVID boosters:
  • Find Flu and Covid booster at Rite Aid – The Bartell Drug Co #69671929 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
  • Find Flu and Covid booster at CVS – CVS Pharmacy, Inc. #10331531 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
  • Find Flu and Covid booster at QFC – QFC Pharmacy #70500881500 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109
  • Find Flu and Covid booster at Walgreens – Walgreens Co. #11856566 Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98109

As always please reach out to the school nurse if you have questions or need help!

Order Free At-Home COVID Test Kits Residential households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from USPS.com again.

Health Room Needs If you’d like to donate to the Health Room, here are some things they could use throughout the year:

• Large band aids 2”x 4”Kleenex boxes
• Container of honey
• Tea: ginger and peppermint
• Small/travel sized deodorants (mixed gender options)
• Container of Liquid, allergy free/fragrance free laundry detergent

Join the PTSA! (You’ll be so glad you did!!)

Please join the PTSA!  It’s a fun and easy way to connect with your McClure community and contribute to the school. Please click on the link and join as an individual or family.   Join McClure PTSA

• Donations for students:

Donations of the following school supplies will be greatly appreciated and shared as needed. If you can donate any of the following items, please drop them off in the main office. Thank you!

• Kleenex
• Backpacks- medium/large size
• Reusable water bottles
• Composition books
• Pens/pencils
• Sticky notes
• Graphing composition notebooks
• 10 basic calculators (not graphing)
• 10 Small packs of color pens/pencils

Order Free At-Home COVID Test Kits Residential households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from United States Postal Service.

Health Room Needs If you’d like to donate to the Health Room, here are some things they could use throughout the year:   Large band aids 2”x 4”Kleenex boxes Container of honey Tea: ginger and peppermint Small/travel sized deodorants (mixed gender options)Container of Liquid, allergy free/fragrance free laundry detergent

The 2023 Seattle Black College Expo will be held at Rainier Beach High School on Saturday, Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 

Students and families will have an opportunity to meet with over 50 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and a few of our regional colleges and universities too!  

Students can get accepted and receive potential scholarships on the spot. Each student needs to be prepared to provide copies of their transcripts and should have at least 16 copies on hand. The application fees will be waived.  

Families and students will have the opportunity to attend various useful college webinars. There will be a surprise celebrity guest, and a chance to WIN cash prizes!  

Please share with your school community. We do not want our SPS scholars to miss out!  

Contact: Nichelle Page: ntpage@seattleschools.org 

That’s it for now!

Go Mavs!

Principal Shannon Conner

McClure Middle School