Mr. Posick's Friday email

I would like to start this week by commending our students and staff during the Forward Exams. Our students focused, took their time and did their best. Our staff and students provided a safe and quiet environment for testing, including doing really well during passing times. Our staff did a great job preparing our students for the tests and encouraging them throughout. I couldn't be more proud of students and staff and their efforts the last few weeks. You should be proud of your children, too!

Here is a link to this week's Mustang Memo. The Mustang Memo is not published on short weeks. If you'd like to see view the Mustang Memos for the school year, they can be found here.

We will be having a Spring Book Fair this year, but it will be online only. The dates of the Book Fair are May 2nd-6th. You can find out more about the Book Fair using this link.

The PTO encourages all students to apply for a grant. Please see below for details.

Applying for a student grant is easy!

Step 1: Come up with an idea that will help many students or the entire school.

Step 2: Apply online at mertonpto.org > Forms > Student Grants by 5:00 p.m. on May 6, 2022. A parent can help.

Step 3: By the end of May, PTO will determine which student’s grants are approved!

Your PTO has a week-long event planned for our awesome Staff! If you can help with our lunch on Tuesday, May 3rd, please see the link below. The week of May 2nd is a great time for students to bring in cards to show their appreciation!!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080944ACAC2BA0F85-staff3

The Washington County Anti-Trafficking Advocates are hosting a meeting on April 26th with the Hartford Police Department. We are discussing Internet Safety. We are hoping you would be willing to share this information with your school and your faculty. We appreciate your efforts to help us get the word out about how we can help our parents and children be informed and educated about online predators. Our goal is to educate, advocate and be a resource for our community. Hope you can make it. This event is FREE!

Merton Intermediate School will be hosting a half day career event on Friday, May 13, 2022. The event will take place between 8:30 - 11:30 at Merton Intermediate School. We are seeking professionals to participate in either of the following options that day:

1. Speaking to students during 25 minute sessions about your career and highlighting the opportunities of your career field or company

2. Conducting Mock-Interviews with 6th - 8th grade students using provided questions.

We are hoping to give students an opportunity to explore a wide variety of career fields, so please consider sharing your time and expertise with our students!

All questions & interest can be sent to Jackie Krajewski at krajewskij1@merton.k12.wi.us.

Thank you for your consideration.

Congratulations to our Mustang Magazine contributors on their fourth issue. You can find the link here.

Homework Club is up and running on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school. Homework Club is held in the library from 4:15-5:15 and is a chance for students to work on their homework, work on group assignments, or get organized. There is no need to sign up and all are welcome to attend.

As the school year progresses, many families plan vacations. If you are planning a vacation, per school board policy, teachers are not to provide work in advance of the vacation. Our students have access to Google Classroom and can find all work there if they are on vacation during a scheduled school day. If you have any questions, please let me know.

As we look forward to future staffing and the possibility of some driver retirements, we were hoping that you could run a notice for “driving the bus” in your weekly newsletter or other forms of parent/community communication publications. The bus driving opportunity is perfect for stay at home moms, retirees, and others who work part time or have mornings or afternoons free.

Our district website has a link called Launching the 2021-2022 school year. This link contains information about COVID mitigation efforts as well as the COVID dashboard for our district, our community and our county. The link can be found here.

There are some things that can be difficult to find when searching our website. Some of these things can be found on social media (@mertonint for Twitter, mertonint for Instagram, MertonIntermediate on Facebook). But if you're looking for announcements and links to our weekly family newsletters, you can find them on my website. If you have suggestions for additions to my website, please let me know.

Coach Witte has asked me to share this information with you regarding the Arrowhead Girls Basketball Summer Camps.

Parents United offers a variety of parent workshops during every school year. Please see this attachment for something that might be of interest. These workshops are free.

• April 25, 2022- School board meeting 6:00PM
  
• May 3, 2022- Choir concert 5:30PM
• May 13, 2022- Career Day/ PTO meeting 9:45AM
• May 18, 2022- PTO Culver's Night
• May 23, 2022- School board meeting 6:00PM
• May 24, 2022- Band concert 6:30PM

Email: posickj@merton.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.merton.k12.wi.us/intermediate/
Location: N68W28320 Sussex Road Merton, WI 53029
Phone: (262) 538-1130
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MertonIntermediate
Twitter: @mertonint