MVS Family News

March 9 & 10-- No School or Snow Make-Up Days, if needed

March 13 to 17-- Spring Break

March 21-- Juniors take ACT @ MHS (see info below)

April 17 to May 11-- State Testing Season (see info below)

If you are going out of town or do not want to work over Spring Break, please mail your teacher know whether you are going to work ahead or catch up the week you return. Your teacher will let you know if he/she will be out of town for Spring Break and therefore maybe slower to respond to emails/ questions/ grades.

Tuesday, March 21st at Maryville High School---- All Juniors across the state of Tennessee take the ACT test in the spring. This test is given at school, during schools hours and is free to students. MVS juniors will be taking the ACT at Maryville High School on March 21st. The test will be given on the laptop.

• Who: ALL MVS Juniors
• When: 8:15 until 12:15
• Where: Maryville High School
• How: Arrive at the MHS front office by 8:15 with a charged laptop, an ID, pencils, and an approved calculator. (See ACT approved calculator info here.)

Please mark this date on your calendar. More information will be coming out soon. (Note- Taking the ACT is a graduation requirement.)

April 17 through May 12 is testing season! Students in grades 2, 7-12 will be taking TCAPs, EOC, and SDC tests here at MVS. Students in grades 4-6 will be taking TCAPs at Coulter Grove Intermediate School. AP tests will be taken at either Maryville High School or Maryville Junior High School. Please click the below button to see the schedule. All testing sessions are half-days. After break, we will send out exact times for all sessions.

We will start registering for next year's class after Spring Break. More information will come out on this closer to that time. Note: If you are wanting to transfer back to your zoned on-site school for the 23-24 school year, in May, you will come in to MVS and complete the transfer paperwork and then register with your on-site school.

Each week, we will be sending out a weekly progress report with current grades and attendance. This is the same information you can get by logging into the PowerSchool parent portal, but hopefully it will just be a simple reminder of your child's progress. If you want to see specific assignment grades, you may still login to PowerSchool. If you have a question about a grade or have an attendance question, please reach out to the teacher via email.

We are instituting a new cell phone policy for students who are invited in to MVS to work on assignments or to take assessments. Students may bring their cell phones with them to MVS, but cell phones need to stay stowed away out of site in back backs or pockets. Any exceptions to this will be handled by the teacher in the room, which could include contacting a parent for pick up or listen to music through headphones while working (unless the work is something that needs to be listened to). Students who do not follow this policy will be asked to place their phone the teacher's desk or to work from home.

As a MVS student, you have access to an ACT Review tool within ClassLink! You can choose the subject you want to study and the score range that you are shooting for. Or you can enter your last ACT scores, and the software will create an individualized plan just for you!

To access this ACT Review practice, login to ClassLink through the Login app, and then click on iXL, Skill Plans, Test Prep, and ACT.