The JagWire

From the Principal

Greetings families!

We are in quarter three of this school year, and students are settling into their new classes for this semester. There are tryouts for the spring musical and spring sports, and basketball season is still underway. Juggling all of that is hard for adults and kids, but please keep an eye on ParentVUE this quarter.

This week staffing is released for the 2020-2021 school year, and I’ll be sharing what that looks like for us and what options we see for next year as part of the general PTA meeting already scheduled for Tuesday at 6:00 pm in the library. If you aren’t able to make it, I’ll be doing it again this Friday at the parent coffee, 9:30 am in the Community Room.

This is also a great point in time for us to reflect on the first half of the year and make adjustments for this school year. Students finished MAPS testing in reading and math, and teachers have been looking at comparisons between fall and winter. In general, we are seeing what we expected to see, and teachers are getting information about skills to highlight over the next 4 months.

Students in grade 7 and 8 will be taking the Successful Skills Survey quite soon as well. This is particularly useful information because students get to give us feedback completely anonymously to better support their academic and emotional development. Students last year were quite thoughtful in their observations and responses, and I will be sharing a little on how we used their feedback this year at the Parent Coffee on Friday. You too can provide feedback on the aspects of Jackson that are working and not working, completely anonymously, through the Successful Schools Survey link emailed to you on January 27^th (and reprinted in the box above).

The Kindness Campaign is Coming to Jackson February 10 - 14!

THE KINDNESS CAMPAIGN is a school-wide event which will celebrate the many positive (and often unseen) daily kindnesses that occur in our school, and an effort to raise awareness of and combat social isolation.

The Kindness Campaign will kick off Monday, February 10, with a school-wide success lesson and culminates on Friday, February 14 with a NO ONE EATS ALONE lunch event. See next week's JagWire for more information!

-Tara, Jen & Bassi (Jackson’s Counseling Team)

Immunization Resources

As we approach the deadline for students to be up to date on their immunizations (February 19), we wanted to provide the links below to free immunization resources available to every PPS student.

Immunization Family Outreach 

Immunizations Resource Flier (English) 

Immunizations Resource Flier (Spanish)

Lunar New Year Festival! 

Wilson High School's Asian Pacfic Islander Club is hosting our first annual Lunar New Year Festival on February 6th, from 5 pm to 7 pm, at Wilson High School. The festival is a student run, family-friendly event where we will celebrate the Lunar New Year through cultural food, activities, crafts, henna, videos and more. This event is open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or age. Click here for the full flyer.

Girls' Soccer Clinics at Wilson this Month! 

Wilson Women's Soccer: Winter Middle School Clinics