Seniors: Ozarks Medical Center is offering a $500 scholarship - due May 22nd. It is posted in Mrs. Gilliland's Senior Google Classroom.
9th - 11th grade students should be working on their schedule for next year from Mrs. Gilliland's Google Classroom. If you need an emailed or mailed copy, please email her at pamgilliland@alton.k12.mo.us or leave a message at 417-778-7215 ext 224.
9th Grade Students: I have put an assignment in my google classroom for next year's schedule. They are due Thurs., April 23rd. If you can't access the classroom and need an email or mailed copy, please email me at pamgilliland@alton.k12.mo.us.
11th Grade Students: Your schedules for 2020-2021 are past due. Please get those in as soon as you can. Email me if you are having difficulties or have questions. Mrs. Gilliland
10th Graders: Your junior year schedule is due to me tomorrow, April 21! Mrs. Gilliland
Please work through these educational enrichment opportunities with your child as you have time. Look to create opportunities outside of the regular school day and make things work best for your family. If you have a student who struggles with any of the suggested “assignments”, we would recommend that you modify by breaking things down into smaller chunks or decrease the amount that you expect students to complete at a time. We are here to support you in any way that we can. Don’t hesitate to reach out to the office or your child’s teacher at any time.
Link to AMI Newsletter: https://bit.ly/2ys4Hh7
Summer School 2020 is in the planning stages. Complete the form by clicking on the link to register your child for an elementary class. Dates are undetermined at this time, but will be announced when guidance is received from DESE.
https://forms.gle/aWdrD9cxbFhFjcnC9
Summer School 2020 is in the planning stages. Complete the form by clicking on the link to register your child for a Junior High/High School class. Dates are undetermined at this time, but will be announced when guidance is received from DESE
https://forms.gle/bSzbZRAzmSTk9zkEA
As a reminder, any Alton R-IV student needing internet access (or better internet access than what they have at home) for dual credit classes or other school related assignments may park in the Alton R-IV parking lot and access our network just as if they were on campus during a normal school day. Please comply with all the social distancing recommendations and remember the Alton R-IV filtering system and internet conduct rules will be in place as well.
Alton R-IV Update:
We hope this message finds you and your family well, both physically and emotionally, as we continue down this COVID-19 road that has become our new normal. Governor Parson announced on April 9, 2020 that all Missouri Public Schools would remain closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 Spring Semester, and Alton R-IV will comply with this directive.
Packets may continue to be deposited at the blue drop box located at the Superintendent's Office at your convenience, including during food pickups on Sundays, but we will not be staffing this location on Sundays.
All academic material from April 20, 2020 through May 14, 2020 will be considered as enrichment activities and educational opportunities for our students. For PK-6 students, weekly newsletters with grade appropriate activities and skills will be provided. For 7-12 grade students, teachers will continue to provide opportunities for students to remain engaged in academic content. We have determined the lag-time between students receiving assignments and teachers being able to grade the material is quite long. Once assigned, work then took one to two weeks for completion before returning of the packets to campus and then a mandatory quarantine time of several days before staff could sort the packets by teacher or subject area. Only then could the grading process even start for teachers. This lengthy process and time delay has led us to reconsider and adjust our strategy for student academic engagement moving forward.
We do want students to be engaged and actively participate in these educational opportunities and enrichment activities! However, no formal grades will be taken for any educational opportunities or enrichment activities provided to students and families between April 20 and May 14, 2020 and there is no expectation of the work to be returned to campus. Teachers will still be contacting students and families on a regular basis and will be available via email or other contact methods to assist as needed with the educational opportunities provided and to check in on the well-being of our students.
We are working on plans and methods for students to return books and other school property to campus in the near future. We are also developing plans to collect and return student items and possessions from desks, lockers, or other locations on the Alton R-IV campus to the appropriate students. Lastly, we are evaluating some alternate dates for HS Graduation, Honors Night, and Prom during the month of June and do plan for the milestone events to occur. More information on all of the topics listed in this paragraph will be provided in the coming weeks as we finalize the plans.
Food pickups will continue this Sunday, April 19, 2020 from 2:00-4:00pm in the same format and location as previous weeks. Any child aged 18 and under is eligible for this meal program and does not have to be in the vehicle to receive the meals. Again, we do ask adults to be ethical and truthful in the meal counts that are requested at the point of service.
SENIORS: If you received scholarship offers from colleges, churches, insurance companies, etc., that I might not have received, please send me a copy of the info. I want to make sure it is included on the Honors List. Even if you don't plan to attend that college, but want it announced, send it to me!
SENIORS: If you plan to attend Ozarka College next year, please email Mrs. Gilliland if you would like to be considered for nomination for the Ozarka College Opportunity Scholarship. More info is in your assignment section.
10th & 11th Graders interested in attending the Career Center next year need to complete the application. Reference the assignment in Mrs. Gilliland's Google Classroom. These are due April 30th, but spots are filling up!
10th Graders - your schedule forms are due TODAY, April 16th. However, I will extend your deadline to next Wednesday, April 22. Email pamgilliland@alton.k12.mo.us if you have any questions. Mrs. Gilliland
11th Graders - your schedule forms for your senior year are due TODAY, April 16th! Mrs. Gilliland
ACT has distributed updated information in regards to summer and fall testing and test prep. Please check out the article in the News section and/or Mrs. Gilliland's Google Classroom for grades 9 through 12.
JUNIORS: Strive Scan will be offering a "Strive Virtual College Exploration Week" next week, Monday, April 20 - Thursday, April 23, 2020. Check it out at https://www.strivescan.com/virtual/
10th and 11th Grade Students: Schedule forms for next year are due tomorrow, Thursday, April 16th.
Seniors: Jostens orders are available for pick up on Thursday, April 16th from 1-3 pm. You may enter the front lobby of the school to pick up your order. All items must be paid in full.
10th Graders: The deadline for 2020-2021 Schedules is Thursday, April 16th. Please have them in by then. Questions - email me at pamgilliland@alton.k12.mo.us or you can try my office at 778-7215 ext 224. Mrs. Gilliland