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NEWS for PARENTS & STUDENTS ✓ Mark Your Calendar

▪ March 12-15: 3rd Quarter EQTs

▪ March 16: St. Patrick’s Day Dance

▪ March 19: No school (Teacher’s Work Day)

▪ March 26: Report Card Distribution

▪ April 2-6: Spring Break

▪ April 13: Spring Fling and Talent Show

▪ April 26: National Jr. Honor Society Induction Program

▪ May 8: Sixth Grade Honors Program (9:00 am)

▪ May 8: Seventh Grade Honors Program (12:30 pm)

▪ May 9: Eighth Grade Honors Program (9:00 am)

▪ May 11: Eighth Grade Social

▪ May 22: Eighth grade Promotion Night

✓ Early Morning Drop-Off Reminder:

This is a reminder that morning supervision begins at 6:40am for those students who arrive to

school early. There is no supervision prior to that time. Too many students are dropped off

6:10am-6:30am and there is no one to supervise at that time. Please do not jeopardize your

child’s safety and drop your child off before the designated time.

March 2018

✓ End of Day Dismissal: Students Should Wait on Campus and Not Off Campus

Students are put in dangerous situations when waiting for parents across the street with no

adult supervision. Business owners have requested that students DO NOT “hang out” in their

parking lot while waiting for parents to pick them up because the students interfere with the

customers who are going in to shop and it becomes a liability issue. Not only that, there are so

many strangers who are in and out of that parking lot and that alone, puts students’ lives in

jeopardy.

Students are dismissed at 2:30pm and if the students are not picked up by 3:10pm, forty

minutes later, then the students must go to after school care which is $5 per hour.

Parents, please do not jeopardize your child’s safety and make sure your child stays on campus

after school until you pick up your child.

✓ EQT Schedule:

❖ Monday, March 12: 1st and 2nd periods

❖ Tuesday, March 13: 5th and 6th periods

❖ Wednesday, March 14: 3rd and 4th periods

❖ Thursday, March 15: 7th and 8th periods

✓ PPS's undefeated Scholar's Bowl team will be competing in the Bay Area Scholastic Challenge on

Friday, March 9 at the University of Mobile. Jake Jordan, Ruth Delmas, Elias Jones, Reeshi

Ghosal, Faisal Alrakan, and Alex Shelley-Tremblay will be representing the pirates. Good luck!

✓ Thank you all for making our St. Jude out- of- uniform day a HUGE success. We collected $1,553 for St Jude!

✓ Thank you to the students who donated to the family of fallen police officer Justin Billa. We rasied $1000 to be given to his family.

✓ The deadline for students to make their AR goal for the 3rd quarter is March 16th.

✓ You and your child have the wonderful opportunity of travelling to France and Spain during Spring Break of 2019. We will be visiting Paris, Barcelona and Madrid during this 10 day excursion. If you would like further information, just come to the meeting on March 16th at 4 PM in Mr. Holly's room.

✓ Yearbook balances were due March 1. Please send any outstanding balances to Mrs. Whitney in

room A102.

✓ On February 12- March 19 the Mobile Museum of Art is hosting “The Best of the Best” Art

Exhibit displaying outstanding artwork from Mobile County students. Featured Phillips’s artists

are Aaria Ashraf, Louisa Bagot, Peter Sherman, Abby Stork, and Hannah Wright.

✓ The Mobile Regional Science and Engineering Fair is Friday, March 16th at the University of

South Alabama. Students attending will need to have all of their science fair paperwork

submitted. Students will bring their science fair abstract, show board, and log book with them

on the bus. Students must wear their PPS blazers and ties. No electronic devices will be allowed

on the trip. Students will leave from the school on buses to South Alabama campus and will

return from the science fair for lunch at PPS. A sack lunch from the cafeteria has been ordered

for everyone.

✓ If students are interested in entering the MCPSS Film Festival, projects are due to Ms. Lancaster

by March 15th at 2:30 pm. Here is the official MCPSS link with details: http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/2018_Rules_and_Guidelines_without_dates.pdf

✓ Talent Show auditions will be held March 26, 27, and 28. You may pick up an application

beginning Monday March 12 from Ms. Payne, Ms. Goodson, Ms. Jones, or you may print one

from the Phillips Website. You may sign up for an audition time beginning Tuesday March

13. Please note that you must have your application and any other group member’s application

completed with your song lyrics stapled together before you can sign up for an audition

time. Please be selective of your song choices. Your song may not contain anything vulgar or

suggestive. This includes edited tracks. If you are singing, you must audition with an

instrumental track. You will not be able to audition without music.

✓ The PPS Media Center is having another Barnes & Noble Book Fair at the Spanish Fort location on Saturday, March 31. Ms. Lancaster is in need of volunteers to assist with giving out flyers in the store as well as wrapping gifts. The last book fair raised over $800 for our media center. Anyone interested in volunteering can email Ms. Lancaster at dlancaster1@mcpss.com. Be sure to see the attached flyer with the details.

✓ Congratulations to the 2018 Mobile County National History Day Competition Winners from PPS

1st Place Individual Exhibit Jazmyn Bettis

3rd Place Individual Documentary Kayla Miller

1st Place Individual Documentary Lily Hoyle

3rd Place Individual Performance Emily Dickson

2nd Place Individual Performance Bo Arendall

1st Place Individual Performance Thomas

Carmichael

3rd Place Individual Website Parker James

1st Place Individual Website Hannah Jones

3rd Place Group Exhibit Sarah Mitchell

and Jasmine Ngo

2nd Place Group Exhibit Sean Givens and

Triston Buckley

1st Place Group Exhibit Kellen Lincoln

and

Kessia Gonzales

3rd Place Group Documentary Cameron

Knowles and

Peter Sherman

1st Place Group Documentary Ray Lambeth and

Hunter Holcomb

1st Place Group Performance Alli Merryman,

Jazell Knight and

Delana Nassar

3rd Place Group Website Braeden Dye and

Elias Jones

2nd Place Group Website Advika

Mahadevan and

Ellis Dodson

✓ Congratulations to the Mobile County Science Fair winners:

➢ Thomas Carmichael: Lisa Bramuchi Fay Horizon Award

➢ Alexander Shelley- Tremblay: 2nd Place Behavioral Sciences

➢ Jennifer Ellzey: 2nd Place in Botany

➢ Robert Carlisle: 3rd Place Chemistry

➢ Riley Martin: 1st Place Chemistry

➢ Heath Palle: 3rd Place Medicine and Health

➢ Ella Fletcher: 1st Place Engineering

➢ Matthew Alexander: 2nd Place Math and Computer Science

➢ Victoria Fernandez: 3rd Place in Physical Science

➢ Hunter Ryan: 2nd Place in Physical Science

➢ Kellen Lincoln: 1st Place in Zoology

➢ Riley Martin: The Susann Ford Pierce Patriot Award

➢ Ella Fletcher: Best in Show for the Entire Middle School Division

✓ NJHS inductions for new members will be April 26. Be sure to view the attached flyer about the

new National Junior Honor Society requirements.

✓ Make sure your child is on time each day. The bell rings at 7:15 each morning.

✓ The writing lab is open each morning at 7:00. Students may work on projects requiring

computers and printing during this time. Please encourage your student to work ahead. The

labs become crowded on due dates, so he/she may not be able to get their last minute work

complete.

✓ As a safety precaution, students are not allowed to have drinks of any type outside of the

cafeteria. Water fountains are available for students during the day. If students bring a drink in

a lunch box, it must stay inside the lunch box until lunch. It must be thrown away before leaving

the cafeteria. If a student brings in a thermos (Corkcicle, Yeti, etc), it must be put back into the

lunch box and remain there. No drinks or thermoses will be allowed in classrooms or the

hallways before or during school.

✓ Pirates Unplugged is available for viewing at

www.watchseymour.com/phillips . Go there to see the morning

announcements your kids hear each day at 9:00 am and never miss

another deadline. Pirates Unplugged uploads to YouTube live each

morning. Search “Pirates Unplugged”.

Learning About International Baccalaureate:

IB Community Project

Students have been meeting once a week on Wednesdays for the past few weeks to create a way to make our world a better place. During school each week, students go to their community project class instead of homeroom and meet for forty minutes to work on ways they can have a positive impact on our community. Ask your child about their ideas. Students will begin presenting their projects during school at the end of April.

IB term of the month: Global Contexts

The “why” behind learning

Teachers teach their material through the lens of 6 different perspectives depending on the material they are teaching. This gives students a way to see the

connection of what they are learning to real life: 1. Identities and Relationships: Students learn material to see what makes them who they are and learn how to relate who they are to who others are.

2. Orientation in Time and Space: Students look at how can understanding the "when" and

"where" of events help them to understand the world in which they live today? They also may look at

how particular events have made an impact on personal as well as global history.

3. Personal and Cultural Expression: Students learn material to see what it means to be creative. The

student learns information in order to look at ways they can express self, culture, ideas, and beliefs.

4. Scientific and Technical Innovation: Students learn material in order to determine what impact the

natural world has on the student. They may learn material to look at what impact the student has on

the natural world.

5. Globalization and Sustainability: Students learn content to see how people are connected and how

the connections impact the student. Information may be taught in order to explore the idea of how can

our way of life and the systems we have in place last long term?

6. Fairness and Development: Students examine the question of why is there war in the global

community. They may explore the idea of learning material in order to see how they can promote

peace, fairness, and sustainability through the content they are studying.