A HUGE THANK YOU to all who participated in the food drive.  We collected 500 items for the Fruit Cove Lutheran Food Bank.  Way to go Raiders!!

Congratulations to students who participated in the International Thespian Society District 1 Festival last Saturday at Keystone Heights.  Out of 26 entries, Swiss Point received 11 Superiors and 6 Excellents and 1 Critics Choice!  For the first time competing, our Thespian Raiders were AMAZING!!  A big thanks to Mr. Segal for his continued dedication and support to our students.

It is hard to believe that we are in the 2nd quarter already. This quarter is much shorter in length, so please help your child stay focused and seek help early if needed.  The quarter exams will be administered December 16th through the 19th.  It is very important that your child is present for these exams.  Make-up exams will be administered in the afternoon of Friday, December 19th and when we return from the Winter Break in January.

The exam schedule is...

Tuesday, Dec. 16th - exams in Silver 2 & Silver 3

Wednesday, Dec. 17th - exams in Black 2 & Silver 4

Thursday, Dec. 18th - exams in Black 3 & Black 4

Friday, Dec. 19th - exam in Skinny & make-up exams

We received news from the FL DOE on Thursday that a few changes have been made for the Spring 2015 FSA Writing. For the 2015 administration, the FSA Writing will be paper/pencil for 6th & 7th grades.  The 8th grade FSA Writing will be administered on the computer.  

During our last quarterly behavior expectation assembly, we talked to the boys about a problem we are having with boys urinating on the bathroom floors.  This is not being done accidently.  We have boys that are purposefully urinating all over the floor.  We asked the boys to tell us if they walked into the restroom and there was urine on the floor, so we could look at the cameras to see who went into the restroom last. Unfortunately, students are not telling us so we have been unsuccessful in figuring out who is doing this.  With the number of restrooms involved, we think that several boys are participating.  In addition to urinating on the floors, now they have started putting papertowels or toilet paper in the urinals and toilets to cause them to overflow.  Last week several restrooms had to be closed until the facilities could be unclogged.  If you have a son, I am asking that you please talk to him about how disgusting this behavior is. Please encourage him to talk to the dean if he knows of anyone doing this, sees anything, or walks into a restroom that has been vandalized.  The only way that this incredibly immature behavior is going to stop is if those not participating get tired of using a nasty restroom or having to walk to find an open restroom.  Thank you in advance for your support.

Does your child ever stay after school? 

If so, please read below so you are aware of our new policy starting Monday, October 20^th 

Students that are staying after school for any reason, make-up work, review session, club meeting or sports, are under the sponsoring teacher's supervision until the parent arrives.  Students are NOT allowed to sit outside or in the main office unsupervised waiting for their ride.  Arrangements MUST to be made in advance if your child plans on staying after school or they should not stay.  If a child is not picked up within 30 minutes of the designated pick-up time, the student will be sent to Beyond the Bell in the library.  The parent will then be charged $1 a minute until the student is picked up.  After 3pm, teachers are giving their personal time and it is frustrating when they have to sit with a student for 30 minutes, 60 minutes, or sometimes longer waiting on a student to be picked up.  We have to make changes to our policy or teachers will stop offering after school activities and we do not want that to happen.

Beyond the Bell is open until 6pm and does offer a punch card option that can be used if your child needs to stay after school and be supervised until you can pick-up.  PLEASE see the Beyond The Bell section below.