Friday, August 14th

 Good Evening Parents/Guardians and Students:

Student schedules will be available after fees are paid on August 19th.  Please log into your parent portal account to see and pay your student’s fees online and access student schedules.

When students are home the expectations will be for them to be completing their assignments and class work at home. Grading will be done in the A, B, C, D and F manner. When students are home they will be expected to complete an attendance form each day and submit to us by 11:00 am. Additional instructions for this will be found in the students google classroom.

The blended learning model will assist us with social distancing in classrooms, hallways, lunch etc as we will have half of our student population in the building at a time. The A, B days will be broken up as follows:  A days will be students with the last names beginning A-K and B days will be students with their last names beginning L-Z. A day will be held on Monday and Thursday, B Day will be held on Tuesday and Friday. Wednesdays will be distant learning for students and there will be an expectation for students to check in with their teachers, we will rotate Odd/Even days on Wednesdays. Please click here to view the schedule. This will be consistent in all secondary schools in the district. We will also keep our lunches per grade level, one sixth grade lunch, one seventh grade lunch and one eighth grade lunch each day. Appropriate social distancing and seating will be available to spread the students out in the cafeteria and lunch lines.

If you need assistance with home internet access please access this link.

To ensure additional social distancing as students enter the building we will be requiring students to use the following entrances:  sixth grade will enter through the Northwest doors or the Northwest courtyard doors, seventh grade will enter through the east doors/gym entrance to the building or the southeast doors adjacent to the sidewalk leading to the main entrance. Eighth graders will enter through the main entrance doors that face Arapahoe Road.

No parents or outside visitors will be allowed into the building.

We will not assign lockers to students this year, students will bring their materials/supplies with them to class in their backpacks. If you need assistance acquiring a backpack please let me know.

Please continue to monitor our website and look for email updates from me as things may change at a moment's notice before school begins on the 24th.

Have a great weekend.

James O’Tremba

Principal, Newton Middle School