Family Newsletter 9/25/2023
Good morning Maverick Nation! Here comes the rain!
Hope you had a wonderful weekend – here are some news items for our community.
Students Must Stay on Campus…please remind them:
Just a quick reminder that once kids are dropped off (either by bus or by you!), they are to stay on campus. They are technically in our care once they are here and if they wander away to the Ave or somewhere else, we would have no idea where they are if there was an emergency, etc. We are not a high school, and we are not an open campus. Thank you for reminding your McClure student about this!
SMILE!! – Picture Day is Tomorrow, 9/26/23!!
2023-24 McClure Middle School Picture Day 9/26
Covid and Flu vaccination clinics…even one at McClure!!
Seattle Public Schools is offering Covid and flu vaccine clinics. These are open to all in the SPS community—you do not have to be a student of staff of a particular school to make an appointment. There are several dates and times at schools across the district. There will be one at McClure on November 1.
Vaccine Clinics at McClure and SPS
Interesting article regarding young peoples’ access to non-preferred digital content
Although this is based on a UK interview study, this is and concerning information regarding adolescent and pre-adolescent access to the internet and incidental exposure to pornography…
In this article in The Guardian, Abbey Wright reports her takeaways from interviews conducted from 2016 to 2022 with thousands of U.K. youth age 6-22 about the impact of Internet pornography on their lives. With the youngest children, Wright started by asking them what was good about the Internet, then what was bad, and if they mentioned pornography, she followed the thread. With older interviewees, she asked directly about what they thought of pornography and recorded their thoughts. The Guardian Article on Social Media
Laptop cases – help!
The school district was unable to provide schools with laptop cases for all students’ laptops. I don’t know how this happened, but it did. So…we have kids carrying around laptops without any protection…what could go wrong? If your child is one of these students, please provide them with a small tote or laptop bag of some sort, if you are able. Also, if you are able, we would be so grateful for any totes or spare laptop bags that you could donate to the school. Just have your McClure student bring to the main office. Thank you!!
Yearbooks!
Does your McClure kid want a yearbook to commemorate this amazing school year? Why not get this over with now? Click here to order a 2023-24 McClure Yearbook!
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.
- 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
That’s it for now!
Go Mavs!
Principal Shannon Conner
McClure Middle School