September 2, 1999
Volume 8, No. 2
Summit’s Back-to-School Night for parents will be held on Thursday, September 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. A short opening session in the auditorium will be followed by informative meetings with each of your student’s teachers. The program is tightly scheduled, so please be in the auditorium by 6:30 PM to receive instructions for each of the sessions for the remainder of the evening. We look forward to seeing you there.
Most electives at Summit are attended every other day. Each day is designated as an “A” day or a “B” day. An “A” day is always followed by a “B” day on the next day classes are held, even if there are weekend or vacation days between the two.
Summit is still waiting for the individual teacher voice mail system to be installed. Until then, please leave messages for teachers at the office (303-499-9511) if it is necessary to speak with them.
Mrs. Koch’s sister, Ms. Ammon, will be running a new after school camp for sixth, seventh and eighth graders. They will meet in Room 114 after school for field trips, sports, movies, projects, etc. Parents can pick kids up between 5 and 6 PM. The cost is $40/week or $10/day.
The heavy traffic in front of Summit on Knox Drive is a problem for many parents when they are dropping off or picking up students. There are at least two options which avoid Knox Drive. Students may be dropped off and picked up on Greenbriar Boulevard just past the SKIP stop or at the South Boulder Recreation Center. The Greenbriar drop-off allows students to cross the athletic field to the school along with many students who take the SKIP to school. The Recreation Center drop-off allows students to take the path across the park to school.
Thirteen month RTD bus passes are still available in the Summit office for $62.50. This program is available for students and siblings. There is a SKIP stop right on the other side of the field behind Summit. Join the many Summit students who take RTD to school.
Students who are openly enrolled are eligible to petition for busing on a space available basis. Parents should complete the “Petition for Space Available Busing” form which came home in the first day information packet. Forms are also available from the Summit office. Petitions are accepted until September 15. Available spaces are filled by lottery. Please feel free to contact the Transportation staff at 303-447-5120.
Due to the high volume of schedule change requests made during the first few weeks of school, we ask that you do not call or visit the counseling office to request a schedule change. Instead, please make your request in writing, be sure it is signed by a parent, and submit it to the office staff. Forms for this purpose may be obtained in the office, or from Ms. Bartley, the counselor, during lunch time. If there is a problem with granting your request, Ms. Bartley will get back to you or your student. Otherwise, your student’s new printed schedule with the requested change will be delivered to your student at school. Note: Students may not change the classes they attend until they receive a new printed schedule from the counselor’s office. Core course change requests will be processed first, and elective course change requests last. Due to scheduling conflicts and the need to balance class sizes and teacher loads, schedule change requests cannot always be granted. Please be patient in waiting for your schedule change to be processed.
This is an important message to all Summit parents. Our system for buying grocery certificates has just gotten easier. Starting this fall, you may purchase King Soopers, Leevers, and Wild Oats certificates in the Summit office. Our friendly office staff has graciously offered to sell certificates at your convenience. You simply tell them how much and make your check payable to Summit Middle School. Hopefully, this will encourage more people to use the certificates. With only 25-30 families participating last year, we were able to raise over $5000 simply by eating! Think what we could do if we had 100% participation. Hope to see you in the office with your checkbooks soon!
Summit Middle School is now a Community Partner with Albertson’s. This means that when you shop at Albertson’s, a percentage of your purchase will go to Summit at the end of each quarter. It’s easy to participate in this program. You simply pick up a Community Partners Card in the office at Summit. When you shop at Albertson’s, give the cashier your card so that they can scan it. (This is important; they will not make adjustments after a transaction has already taken place.) We will receive a check for 2-5%, based on the sales of all Summit families during that quarter. If you shop at Albertson’s, this is a painless way to contribute money to Summit, so pick up your card as soon as possible.
All athletes are required to submit to the office a sports physical report, a parent permission form, and an athletic insurance waiver form.
8th grade only for football, soccer, basketball, and volleyball. 6th, 7th, and 8th grades may participate in track and wrestling.
Participation Fee: $60 per sport or a maximum of $150 per student/$200 per family in one year.
Participation fee: $20 per sport.
The following students received A’s in at least all five of their core classes for the 2nd semester last year:
Sri Bangaru
Christopher Benjamin
Lucie Bridonneau
Tim Burchett
Logan Callihan
Sunjay Dodani
Courtney Horlbeck
Aaron Johnson
Eleanor McDaniel
Clark Patton
Jennifer Rood
Yotam Schachter
Courtney Schultz
Anna Sizova
James Swirhun
Steven Wilson
These students received A’s in all core classes for both semesters last year:
Galen Bascom
Jessica Boulet
Hildur Boylston
Eryn Callihan
Maxwell Carey
Corinne D'Ippolito
Christopher Dole
Rebecca Dole
Jason Eckstein
Michelle Evans
Tyler Fox
Greer Hansen
Eric Hansford
Jake Hogue
Aviva Johnson
Sara Klymkowsky
Anna Lindemann
Henry Liu
George London
Parag Mahajan
Amy Motomura
James Norton
Evan O'Loughlin
Nathan Parkhill
Alice Perl
Heather Perry
Alana Riksheim
Savannah Ross
Layla Smith
Marek Sotola
Meredith Strauss
Vani Vivekanandan
Emilyanne Weigel
Ashley Witt
Alisa Yamasaki
History Day Competition is open to all 7th and 8th grade Summit students who are in either American History or Advanced World Geography. Participation will be optional this year. Our new History Club will support students as they participate. History Club will meet Tuesdays at lunch in Ms. Griffiths’ room, beginning September 14. Please bring a sack lunch. To avoid a conflict with Science Fair in January, Summit History Day(s) will be December 9 and 10 in the library. Ms. Riksheim will be parent coordinator, with Ms. Burchett, Ms. Griffiths, and Ms. Kapsak helping. School winners will go on to district competition.
Please consider joining us September 14, with a sack lunch, for the first meeting of History Club in Ms. Griffiths’ room.
The current and previous issues of Summit News, information about Summit, and useful education links, are available on the Web at http://bcn.boulder.co.us/univ_school/summit/
The Parent Volunteer Committee would like to thank all those families who have taken the time to return their volunteer forms. Over 100 families have responded so far. If by chance you have not returned the form, please return it quickly.
There was an awesome volunteer turnout throughout the week before school started. The student volunteer turnout was especially impressive. These kids deserve special recognition for giving up their last days of vacation to make certain the school year was launched well. The student work crew included last year’s eighth graders and this year’s 6th graders. Nearly every room (including a science lab), was moved at least once, the entire school inventory was recorded, the rooms were outfitted, books and materials were organized, furniture was assembled, back-to-school packets and schedules were created for every student, and music binders were copied and assembled. The students in the link program practiced and prepared a great welcome for the new students. The majority of volunteers spent 3 - 10 hours working. There were at least 8 who worked from 12 to 20 hours and 4 who worked over 25 hours. Wow!
Thank you to these students: Brita and Crissy Christensen, Caitlin, Megan & Tim Smith, Paul and Maureen Reynolds, Colin and Lauren Kelley, Michelle and Sarah Evans, Andrea and Nathan Parkhill, Laura Tippit, Maddy Cline, Tegan and Gwen McGilvray, Alana Riksheim, Simon Million-Perez, Colter Hayes, Ben Klecker, Clark Patton, Kellan Toohey, Jason Burchett, Willie Kilkenny-Patrick, Madeline Rovira, Erica Daley, Erin Grady, and Elise Hogue.
Thank you to these parents: Marian Rothchild, Cindy Scott, Barbry Hogue, Linda Parkhill, Sara Volkman, Jenny Evans, Betsy Smith, Mary Boulet, Patty Hansen, Ronda Kelley, Ingrid Johnson, Nancy Pennington, Anita Gonzales, Lisa Bailey, Julie Dotson, Ann Horlbeck, Nancy Harmon, Sue Bruggeman, Cathy Burchett, Barb Minor, Eileen Reynolds, Madeleine Meier, Sandra Foote, Janet Christensen, Lise Roussein, Susan Brownstone, Dianna Cahalan, Margie Riksheim, Shelly Hendrick, Susan Brownstone, Jackie Ross, Pat Daley, Mary Lou Oppenheimer, and Barb Metzger. Please forgive us if we have missed your name.
The science teachers would be pleased to receive donations of:
Thanks for your help.
The Summit Board of Directors held a day-long retreat on Saturday, August 28. The Board discussed long-range plans, improvements in organizational infrastructure, and priorities for action for the coming year. Issues assigned high priority included: continued work on sharing the new charter school site with Peak-to-Peak, financial planning, further refinement of the master calendar, maintenance of a Summit institutional file, teacher retention, elective course planning, curriculum articulation with Peak-to-Peak, and improved communications (such as this Board activity report.) We wish to thank Kathy Reims for facilitating the retreat and the McDaniels for hosting it and providing lunch.
The Board is seeking persons interested in running for the Summit Board this coming spring. We particularly need someone with budget management skills and someone with legal, litigation and negotiation skills. Early identification of these persons will allow time for training and orientation. More details will follow. If you have these skills and are interested in taking a leadership role in Summit, please contact Hunter or Jim.
At the regular Board meeting on Monday, August 30, among other things, we reviewed and approved a letter from the faculty to parents concerning communication of student progress, voted to hire former Board member and expert scheduler Tricia Olson to do class scheduling, approved general production and distribution concepts for this year's version of Summit's promotional brochure, "Reach for the Summit," approved a fund to provide assistance in purchasing school supplies for Summit families who need it, approved a Tools for Learning expenditure for additional Silver Rain costumes, and discussed availability of district-owned musical instruments for Summit students and access to Fairview classes for Summit students. We also discussed, in executive session, strategy for addressing the district's refusal to consider our request for increased enrollment at the new charter site. Stay tuned on this item.
The next Summit Board meeting will be Monday, September 13, at 7 PM in the faculty workroom. Parents and students are always welcome and may raise issues or ideas not on the agenda.
The Kickoff Classic will include a 5 kilometer road race and several short distance field races for kids. It will be held on the CU Boulder Campus. Registration starts at 7 AM on September 6. The 5K starts at 8 AM. Kids’ events will begin after the 5K.
Summit participates in the Parent-Teacher Hotline service courtesy of the Daily Camera. To confirm homework assignments, dial 303-938-9090 and enter the appropriate category number.
303-938-9090 |
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| Teacher | Subject | Ext. |
|---|---|---|
| Avallone | English | 0671 |
| Blakemore | Spanish | 0683 |
| Burkhart | Orchestra | 0667 |
| Choir, Silver Rain |
0678 | |
| Band | 0688 | |
| Donaton | Science | 0686 |
| Fotino | Math | 0675 |
| Frohbieter | Math | 0676 |
| Science | 0685 | |
| Griffiths | History | 0680 |
| Hankel | French | 0679 |
| Kapsak | History | 0673 |
| Koch | Math | 0669 |
| German | 0670 | |
| Lenz | English | 0672 |
| McGarrity | English | 0668 |
| Molenaar | Science | 0677 |
| Mueller | Math | 0684 |
| Sikora | Science | 0681 |
| Stough | Spanish | 0682 |
BVSD Food Services has several positions open for the 1999-2000 school year. There are openings in Elementary, Middle School, and High School cafeterias. Cook helper and cashier positions start at $6.99/hour. Cook positions start at $7.63/hour. Schedules range from one and a half to three and a half hours per day.
Tuesday, September 14, many area restaurants will be donating 10% of their sales to the Foundation for Boulder Valley Schools. Feel free to contact the Foundation at 303-447-5231 or www.fbvs.org.
The Colorado Association for the Gifted and Talented will be presenting its third Parent Institute on Saturday, October 9, at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel. The deadline for registration is September 10. Call Bonnie Hollowell, 303-368-4401 for more information.
Susan Winebrenner will present a two-day workshop on “Teaching Gifted Kids and Kids With Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom” on Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 2, at the Arvada Center. Space is limited. Registration must be postmarked by September 22. Call Education Consulting Service, 708-798-9096 for more information.
On Saturday, September 18, 9 AM - 2 PM at the Niwot High School Gymnasium, the Boulder County Commissioners, Boulder County Human Services Coordinating Council, and area non-profit agencies are sponsoring a community gathering to promote alternatives to community violence. Small discussion groups will be held on: raising connected, caring kids, adult/youth communication, safety, media, guns, and substance abuse. There will be pizza, youth theater, entertainment, and prizes. For more information contact Jana Mendez, 303-441-4503 or Jane Uitti, 303-666-5882.