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EDUCATING FOR LIFE; IMPACTING FOR ETERNITY


Welcome Junior High Families,

The purpose of The Beak Blog is to provide information, updated information is the goal. Many of the blog posts will remain throughout the years. These are generally event posts. We will try to update these posts each year as the specific event approaches. Other posts will remain for a week to two weeks and these posts will share information about current happenings most specifically in regard to junior high classes. We will also use this blog to make announcements.

For communication purposes it is still valuable to utilize many tools. Please continue to read the Eagle Flyer and email blasts that come from the school. Also, feel free to email our teachers at any time.

It is our desire to continue to improve the communication between the school and our families. Please become a follower of The Beak Blog so that you will receive and updates as they are published.

God's Blessings to you and your families,

Timothy Pearce
Secondary Vice Principal

Friday, February 24, 2012

Best of Junior High Fair - (updated 04/17/15)





 

This event is an opportunity for the students to display the work that God has been doing in their lives during their years in junior high. Students will have partners, select a theme and then decorate a booth. In this booth the students will display items from all areas of their lives during junior high as well as an item representing their work in each subject.

Judging will serve two functions: First to ensure that all requirements have been met for grading. Secondly to select winners of specific awards such as Best Theme, Most Interactive, and Others!

  They may not have weapons of any kind from Nerf to paintball to airsoft to knives, etc.
 All items displayed are subject to removal by a teacher or administrator if deemed inappropriate for any reason.
 PARENTS AND STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO CLEAN-UP AND TAKE HOME ALL ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR BOOTH AT THE END OF THE EVENING.
 THE JUNIOR HIGH FAIR
 DO’S AND DON’TS
 DO:
  1. Prepare a creative name sign that includes your first and last name and your grade. The sign must be at least 11x17, neat, and readable.
 2. Work well with your partner. Your booth will consist of one long table for the two of you, and each of you will also have a section of lattice work or wall space approximately the size of a classroom door.
 3. Think about how you are going to decorate your booth. It should be colorful, creative, catch the judges’ eyes, draw visitors in, be organized and be neat. In the past, students who have shared a booth have chosen a theme for their booth, but this is not a requirement.
 4. Choose something from each of your school subjects to display. Include math, history, science, English, Bible, and one elective class.
 5. Make your booth personal by displaying things that represent your hobbies and interests.
 6. **Bring all necessary materials to school on May 8rd in order to decorate your booth (tape, duct tape, a staple gun and staples, a staple puller, an extension cord, ETC.)
 7. Go overboard on preparing your booth in terms of what you bring to represent the best of your Junior High years. This is your time to SHINE!
  DON’T:
 1. DON’T ASK YOUR PARENTS (OR ANY OTHER ADULT) TO SET UP ANY PART OF YOUR BOOTH; it really is the Junior High Fair , so we’d like to see what YOU can do.
 2. Don’t bring guns, knives, or blades of ANY kind!! Pictures of hunting trips are OK, but actual rifles are not. Pictures of Civil War Reenactments are OK, but swords are not.
 3. Do not represent questionable or potentially offensive sitcoms or cartoons or movies. Although Sponge Bob or the Simpsons or Twilight (for example) may be OK to watch with your family, remember that MANY families will be at this event, and not everyone agrees with the content or the family values portrayed in media such as these. The most righteous choice is to decorate your booth in such a way as to not offend ANYONE.
 4. Do not display questionable pictures, or pictures of people dressed immodestly.
 5. Do not set yourself up to have your booth “edited” by Mr. Pearce, Mr. Lugg, and/or other staff because you chose to ignore the above “don’ts.”
 REMEMBER, QUESTIONABLE BOOTHS OR PARTS OF BOOTHS WILL BE REMOVED AT MY DISCRETION.
 Let’s have a Christ-honoring, fun, and informative night.
 It is the responsibility of each family to remove all garbage, staples, etc. at the end of the evening!
 Parents, you can help by:
 1. Reminding your student of the booth requirements:
 a. Remember, each student MUST have a name sign that includes first and last name and grade.
 b. Remember, each student MUST display something from each subject listed under “Do’s” # 4.
 - The rest is up to each student to decide and display creatively.
  2. Providing refreshments for the refreshment table:
 a. If your student’s last name begins with A-M, please provide one dozen cookies.
 b. If your student’s last name begins with N-Z, please provide one 2 liter bottle of Sprite or 7 up.
 3. Planning to attend the fair on Thursday, May 8th from 7:00-8:30.
  4. Considering helping in one of the following ways:
 a. We need a refreshment hostess from 6:30-7:30 to make and serve punch (supplies will be provided).
 b. We need someone to pick up the pre-purchased balloons from Party City (on Grove) and deliver them to the Gym the afternoon of the event.
d. We need a few select parents to whom students can go to be checked out immediately following the fair. These parents’ main focus would be to ensure that all staples etc. have been removed from the lattice.
  Thank you so much for all that you do!