Tuesday, March 2: HSA Meeting at 7 PM Friday, March 5: NO SCHOOL - Parent/Teacher Conferences All Week: Online Murch Book Fair
Future Events
March 10: Deadline to order Auction Night Dinner & Cocktails & for Auction Donations March 19: Panorama Survey for Parents & Students Due March 20: Auction Night
Please Take the Panorama Family Survey - Open through March 19. Every voice matters!
DCPS has a vision that every student will feel loved, challenged, and prepared to positively influence society and thrive in life. The Panorama Survey, administered yearly since 2017-18, is a critical way to measure progress toward that goal and gather feedback from our community. Feedback is gathered via a family survey, a student survey (for grades 3 and higher) and a staff survey.
Please take a few minutes to complete the family survey (open until March 19) by clicking HERE.
**Families with more than 1 child at a school, should complete 1 survey per school. When answering the questions, please answer for your oldest child.
For more information about the DCPS Panorama Survey, please click HERE.
Thank you for taking time to provide your feedback!
Straight from Mr. C.
Guiding Principles for Term 4 In-person learning:
As a starting point, DCPS will maintain any classrooms that previously opened for in-person learning with the classroom teacher, CARE classrooms with a CARE supervisor, or self-contained special education in-person learning with the classroom teacher.
Since we don’t have a waitlist, we will create and publish another survey which will ask if any virtual students or students in CARE classrooms would like to be considered for in-person instruction.
If guidance from DC Health changes, aligned adjustments may be made within existing classrooms. For instance, if recommended cohort sizes increase, additional seats could be offered with existing classrooms. If the demand is great, we would consider opening additional cohorts. DCPS will be notifying principals of any such changes as they arise.
To minimize scheduling disruption, if there is sufficient demand at Murch, I may choose to add additional classrooms and/or cohorts to in-person learning and/or make other adjustments to accommodate more students in Term 4. Any plan we create must be approved by our school’s Instructional Superintendent.
Process for adding additional in-person learning classrooms and/or other adjustments to accommodate for more students in term 4:
Please click HERE to find an archive of Mr. C's blog on the Murch website.
Zoom in for the March HSA Meeting Tomorrow, March 2 at 7 PM
Please join us for our monthly HSA Meeting! It is always so important and valuable to have members of the community at the HSA meetings, so we hope to see you there.
Event: March HSA Meeting
Date: Tuesday, March 2
Time: 7:00 PM
Only 10 More Days to Order Your Auction Night Dinner & Cocktails
Auction Night Dinner & Cocktails on Sale Now!
Order a date night dinner from Michelin Rated Rose's Luxury or a family meal from I'm Eddie Cano for auction night March 20, 2021. (Gluten-free and vegetarian options available.) Plus buy your whiskey club membership now for cocktails on auction night! Click here to view the details and click here to order. Orders must be placed by March 10.
Your family and Kids can help the Auction in a big way. Find out how here.
Send Pictures for the Auction Video - Please send photos of your kids doing virtual learning, at the Murch playground, or returning to in person learning for the auction video. Email pictures to murchauction@gmail.com.
Stock the Wine Cellar
Every year, the Murch community donates bottles of wine to create a wine cellar, one of the most popular items at the auction.
Buy a bottle (and one for yourself too!) at 20% off.Paul's Liquor is currently providing Murch a 20% discount (5205 Wisconsin Ave NW) on all purchases through March 15. Please donate a bottle of wine to the auction wine cellar! You can leave your purchase for the auction at Paul's or drop off a bottle from home at 3919 Ingomar Street NW. Or email the Murch auction and we can pick up from your home.
Attention Parents/Guardians of Students in Grades 3 - 5
The Panorama Student Survey for grades 3 and up is open. More details regarding the student survey will come via your child's teacher and/or via Canvas.
Parents/guardians have the right to opt children out of the survey.
Details and instructions are in our Notification and Opt-Out Letter. To review survey questions, get more information on the Panorama Surveys, or download the opt-out letter in other languages, click HERE. The opt-out form will remain open through March 5.
Here is MaryJane W. in 4th grade watching the black history assembly today. If you have any Murch Moments that you would like to share, please email Murch Communications.
