Announcements

School Government

• Meeting with Drew Patrick to talk about school issues next week
• Elections 5/20 for student representatives on Board of Education
• School Gov will be making amendments to School Gov constitution, check email for community lunch meeting where people can agree to changes 

Junior Class

• Planning Junior Olympics – Juniors get excited! 
• Starting to discus Prom/pre prom

Sophomore Class

• Organizing breakfast for Shakespeare Festival
• Planning a walkathon for Non Sibi Day

Freshman Class

• Planning kickball tournament for class event
  • All Freshman should come
  • There will be free food and prizes
• Received some great advice from junior and sophomore govs about how to plan it

PTA

• Seniors last day – distributed lollipops, wanted to know what candy students prefer them to hand out
• Senior Day – planning photo ops with a 360-photo booth and asking seniors to bring kindergarten photos

Ms. O’Neill, Central Treasurer on Fundraising

• Deposits should come in a timely manner, not months later
• To collect funds please use MySchoolBucks and websites as well no need for alternative third party vender

Principal Bonamo

• Quarterly update – based on rolling gradebook positive feedback, will be rolling out a student portal for grades (ie open grade book)
• Common lunch – very positive so far but waiting to see what happens with rain, received positive and negative feedback
• June 3 – form for students, parents, and teachers to determine how pilot programs goes
• Bonamo Discussed the Capital Projects Committee at the District level is determining what projects the district will pursue across all schools.
  • Current bond – allows 40 mil in projects, current list from schools abt projects is 109 mil
  • One of the possible projects is removing some lockers to make counters in the hallways for work -> Would be a possible way to make more space
    • BUT would not allow removable tables and chairs bc it’s a fire hazard 

Common Lunch Opinions

• More people going outside, enjoy the weather – interested to see what happens when it rains
• Good for Junior class to drive and go get food
• Longer time to eat food, Allows for people to eat with more of their friends
• Students able to eat and get work done, Library generally pretty empty and quite, Students utilizing time to meet with teachers and study
• Lines, specifically in commons are not the best, crowd control?
• Sometimes period feels too long
• Major Problem: Bc of schedule change, early bus leaves too early – at 208 when bell rings for end of 7th period so nobody is able to take that bus 
• Nobody using the hallways – lots of people don’t like the idea of having to use them 
  • Students also eating in classrooms with teacher permission
• DID YOU KNOW: Little theatre is designated study space!

Questions/Concerns

• Is it feasible knowing that seniors are missing (400 ppl) -> definitely more crowded, Really only makes sense during spring 
• How is food service dealing – are they making too much food since most people are leaving?

Moving Forward

• Bonamo believes that if  the administration receives mainly support for the idea then they may pursue another pilot program in September to test how common lunch works with Seniors 
  • But the Board of Ed’s decision also plays a role

Pep rally Discussion 

• Past three years, school spirit is decreasing, people not showing up, pep rally rarely any seniors or juniors
• How can we highlight/support our amazing athletes more? 
• Pep rally alternatives? getting rid of it? Only one pep rally in fall/spring?
  • Ppl do the same things every time, Spirit weeks are hard to participate in
  • But are good for team bonding
  • Many find it boring