BLUEs news

This is a reminder that there is no school next week. Enjoy the week with your scholars. We will see you back at school on Monday the 28th of November.

Thank you for your patient as we have moved to a more secure parent pickup process. Your child’s safety is our first priority. With that in mind we have made a few changes. Please see the letter that is linked to this for more details. If you have not filled out the authorization form, you will need to do that even if your child is a bus rider. You can pick these up at the front office or email Ms. Amanda at ablankenstein@manaraacademy.org and she will get one to your child to bring home.

We are intrested in feedback from our parents on our website. Please use the attached link to fill out the survey.

Any day is a great day to be at Manara.

WEBSITE FEEDBACK FORM

I hope that you have enjoyed our family fun nights this year. We will be holding our next one on December 15th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. This is our last one before the winter holiday. We hope to see you there.

Downloading the Manara Academy App will help us stay connected. We will celebrate good news, share accomplishments, deadlines and events. Did you know you can set the app to your preferred language by going to settings and selecting your language choice? Great news Manara! We are making strides for improvement every day!

Video Preview of the Manra App

All students have their ID badges. They are required to wear them at all times. Any student that is found to not have their ID badge on will be sent to the front to get a sticker badge for the day. Consequences will be given if students are caught without their badge more than two times.

We will be hosting an Arabic Spelling bee in January. More information to come. Parents we need volunteers to come help out with this. If you are interested, please reach out to Ms. Chamri at cchamri@manaraacademy.org

Students came home today with permission forms for their field trip. If you are interested in chaperoning the trip the forms are also attached. They need to be returned by Wednesday November 30th, and all money is due by Friday December 2nd. Wee below where each group is going:

Pre-K through 2nd is going to Crayola Experience

3rd through 6th grade is going to KidZania

7th through 12th is going to AT&T Stadium

Once we get back from Thanksgiving break, we will be entering our winter testing season. With that we will be conducting benchmark tests for all students in grades 3 through 11th grade and STAAR EOC re-tests in the high school. Below are the following testing dates.

November 29th and November 30th 3rd through 6th grade will take their math and reading interim

December 1st and December 2nd 7th and 8th grade math and ELAR

December 5th MLA foreign language Benchmark

December 6th English 1 tests and interim testers and 8th-grade social studies

December 8th English II retests and interim testers as well as 8th-grade science

December 12th science retests and interim testers

December 13th Algebra 1 retests and interim testers