Greetings Schroeder Raider Families!
Thank you for taking the time to read our Schroeder Snapshots newsletter, where you’ll find the latest information about your student’s experience at Schroeder Middle School.
In the information below, there is a survey link for our parents and guardians regarding our work as a High Reliability School.
High Reliability Schools (HRS) provide the Grand Forks Public Schools with a framework to ensure continuous improvement. HRS is designed to continually monitor critical factors that determine a school’s effectiveness and guide school leadership to take proactive steps to ensure success. As a parent or guardian, your role in this process is incredibly important!
Along with results from both student and staff surveys, your feedback will be analyzed and used to support decisions that we’ll make moving forward. And in case you breeze through this newsletter and forget to take the survey, I’ll be sending it out again next week to give you another opportunity.
Thank you for taking the time to participate!
I truly love this time of the school year! Despite the persistent cold and the snow outside, our building is absolutely buzzing inside with activities before and after school. Clubs, such as Card Club, Knits and Krafts, GSA, and Dungeons and Dragons, meet on a regular basis and bring like-minded students together for fun and productive social activities.
Both gymnasiums at Schroeder (and Kelly Elementary’s gym!) are full of girls and boys basketball players either competing against our area’s middle school teams or practicing for their next game.
And after the 3:30 bell, our musical cast turns our commons area into their performance stage and the choir room into their set and costume workshop. All of this hustle and bustle adds a tremendous amount of energy to the building, and it leads to fun and exciting days at Schroeder Middle School!
I hope you have an opportunity to enjoy the weekend with your friends and family. Stay warm!
All the best,
David Nowatzki
Principal
We are SO excited to announce that our Spring Music Department Field Trip
will be to Valleyfair!
On Friday, May 26th, all 7th & 8th grade music ensemble members will hop onto a few buses around 6:00am and head down to the twin cities area. We will then spend all day at the Valleyfair park.
There are a variety of food choices available along with different concessions and souvenirs. When the park closes at 5:30pm we will head home and grab fast food along the way.
We would likely get home (back to Schroeder) around midnight.
With the fundraising we have done so far, the total cost per student is around $90.00.
We are working on organizing at least one more fundraiser to lower this cost. If you do not want your child to participate in this fundraiser, you can pay the amount yourself. Anything your child fundraises will go towards their own account cost.
We are hoping to still fundraise and lower this total cost per student.
There may be scholarships for those who cannot pay the full amount. If you would like to sponsor a student, please reach out to one of the music teachers and let us know!
Please start thinking about if your child will be attending, and we will send out an RSVP link in the next few weeks!
Once we get a head count we can provide a more accurate cost per student. Our plan is to make a similar trip every other year, so current sixth graders would go on their field trip in their 8th grade year.
We are so excited to celebrate our young musicians with a fun excursion like this!
Basketball season is in full swing and we would LOVE parents/guardians/adults to help run the Schroder Concessions when we are LUCKY enough to be the HOST SCHOOL!!
It would be terrific to have TWO ADULTS sign up for each time slot— the PTO NEEDS YOUR HELP!!
Please consider signing up for a time slot or two if you have availability in your schedule!! The SCHROEDER PTO and our players greatly appreciate you!!
Click on the link below to sign up to help with
Basketball Concessions:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080C4DACAF2CABFE3-basketball
The Grand Forks Public Schools high school summer school registration form is now open! The high school summer school registration form can be located at https://bit.ly/SSHSReg23
If your student has any questions or needs assistance with registering for high school summer school, please have them speak with their school counselor.
Updated Basketball Game Schedules can be found here:
https://www.grandforksmsleague.org/public/genie/1596/school/4/
Attendance Line 701-746-2334
Please enter this number into your phone so you can inform us when your student is absent or needs to leave our building during the day for an appointment. We request a phone call or written note for all absences.
Please be courteous to our office staff and teachers and call well in advance to the time that you are needing to pick up your student. By not doing this could result in delay of dismissing your student and interrupting a teacher in the middle of teaching a class.
8:40 - 3:30
8:00 - 4:00
DOORS OPEN: The east door (#2) opens early for morning band, orchestra, and athletic practices. Our other student entries (#1 and 17) open at 8:00 a.m., and once school begins, our front doorbell (#1) should be rung for visitor access. All doors are locked for security.
Watch our daily announcements and special events on the Schroeder YouTube channel!
