January 9th

Celebrations 

• Congratulations to Clara Merritt on January 23, WCPSS and the Wake County School Board will be honoring you for your nomination for our Employee Excellence Award. They will be presenting this award at the Board meeting which will begin at 5:30 pm.
• Behavior data (August - January) - last year we had 374 referrals (112 majors and 262 minors) - this year 198 referrals (57 majors and 141 minors). 
• Staff and students for bearing with the lack of heat in our building on Tuesday and Wednesday. As was mentioned before, not the ideal learning environment, but we were able to make it work. 
• Melissa Goto - Nominated for WCPSS First Year Teacher of the Year 

Communication 

Volunteer Registration - (please add to your memberhub announcements - it will also go out in our parent email. 

This is a friendly reminder that any adult that would like to volunteer in our school or attend any field trips as a chaperone, are required to be a registered volunteer with Wake County Public Schools.  Volunteer registration must be filled out each school year.  It does not roll over.  Volunteer registration must be completed in a WCPSS school.  Volunteers list the schools they would like to volunteer at on the form.  If you have students at multiple schools make sure you list each school.  Thank you so much for helping support our students.  

All communication about your snow day hours (logging time, leave forms, etc) is due to Cindy by January 19th. Email will be sent out at the beginning of the week for more specifics, we are seeking out a couple of answers prior to sending out to staff. 

January 30th Business Meeting is cancelled.  We will meet February 6th at 7:45am.

Journalism Elective

Elective registration will be January 10th for 3rd grade and January 11th for 2nd grade.  Ashley will communicate times via email. 

Lunch Monitor Reminders:  You should be getting students up 2 minutes prior to the end of their lunch time. This allows time for the tables to be washed prior to the next group coming in.  Also, it is important to be circulating around all areas of the cafeteria.

Eschools:  Please be sure to complete your evaluations in Eschools, so they are feeding into your transcript to renew your license!  

Collaboration

CAM Docent Program will begin in January.  Selected 5th grade students will go on five consecutive Tuesday afternoons for training after school, followed by presentation opportunities to the general public during First Friday Evening Events at CAM.  If you are able to come attend and help, please sign up here.  

Technology Request -- If you have a technology problem that you would like to be looked at complete the Tech Help request and if on-site staff is unable to fix then they would be submitted to district help desk.  If you are need of a equipment  be sure to complete Funds Request form . This would be for cords, bulbs, ink, batteries, etc.

Critical Thinking 

Feedback -- If you have more feedback (things that have worked or things that could be better throughout the school year) you would like for us to consider, please feel free to email, discuss or fill out this form. https://goo.gl/forms/XNwhdAo6gU8lOfck1

Feedback responses -- See Link to feedback to see responses to the staff's questions and feedback. This will continued to be updated monthly. 

Creativity

Student and Staff Awesomeness -- Check out what our team is doing in their classrooms -- via Twitter - @underwoodgtm -- #weareunderwood Keep up the great work! 

#NCsnowchat -- Some Underwood staff members participating in the #NCsnowchat on Thursday and Friday during our snow days. Click on the hashtag to see the conversation. 

PDP Midyear -- All certified staff members need to meet with their unassigned evaluator to complete their mid year reviews prior to January 26th. See Mallory or Travis if you have questions or to set up your meeting. 

Calendar:

January 9th-SIP meeting
January 10th-Magnet Open House, 10am/12:30pm/6:30pm
January 11th-Theater Production, 7pm
                    -Q2 electives end  (Electives down Jan. 15-26)
January 15th-MLK Holiday (No school)
January 16th-Reflections Breakfast 8am (media center)
January 18th-CD cohort 7:45 am
January 23rd-SIP meeting
January 25th-Q2 elective report cards due
January 29th-Q3 electives begin
February 6th-Business Meeting 7:45am

*Staff attended events listed here