Homework for third quarter is due by Friday, April 3. This is all of the homework that was passed out before March 13, 2020. The NEW homework is not due until your teacher tells you.
Band and choir fundraiser delivery date will be this Friday, April 3rd from 11:00am to 6:00 pm. Drive up to the school and someone will get your order.
April's Monthly Newsletter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mk2BTvrFrxbXwjmd_P1TVgHlIy5i6iRXS3G0QKZEdzg/edit?usp=sharing
If you have homework done, you can turn it in at school or when you have your lunches delivered. Our support staff will bring the homework back to school. Please make sure that you have the student's name and the Teacher's name CLEARLY marked on the homework. Mr. Haffner will get your homework to the correct teachers. Special shout out to Mrs. Hoffman’s “Fido”
Gresham is delivering FREE breakfast and lunch during this closure. Please fill out the form if you HAVEN'T signed up or want to change your preference. https://forms.gle/P6weyTLT6WpysWVh9
Gymnasium looks a lot different than a day ago. Thanks to everyone for picking up your materials, what a great community!
March 27, 2020
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Thank you for picking up your student(s) essential learning materials from the gym.
In with their essential learning materials, we have provided you with homework for your student(s) to complete. We are assigning ESSENTIAL learning activities. Please don’t stress at the sheer volume of materials that you have gotten. Some teachers printed off the whole rest of the year. Some teachers printed off one week of activities. Please wait to hear from your teachers about the expectations. They are going to be flexible as this is our first try at virtual education. We are going to make mistakes, but we are going to do the best that we can for you and your students. If there is a problem with completing a packet, please call your teachers. Let them know what is going on. The teachers can be flexible, but the homework must be completed.
If you get lunch deliveries, we will pick up the old packet and give out a new packet on April 3, 2020 and every Friday after this. We are not delivering food on April 10, 2020. There will be a double lunch and breakfast bag on Thursday’s drop off. If you don’t get lunch deliveries, we will have a bin at the front doors for you to put your homework in. The office staff will be emptying it multiple times a day. We would like to leave at 4:00 pm. We are working on an overnight drop off solution.
At this moment, we are going to be grading the homework. We have not received any guidance from the state on what this is going to look like. We will not be putting any grades into SKYWARD until after we receive direction from the state on how best to proceed. We will keep you posted via email and the app as we get information.
Teachers will be available via phone, text message, or email. Teachers will be calling the numbers listed in SKYWARD. If we don’t have a correct phone number for you in SKYWARD, then you will need to call the office and have it changed. This will help you and our teachers to communicate more effectively. Junior High and High School students need to check their email for updates. If you don’t have the internet, the teachers will call to talk to these students.
Thank you for your patience in this confusing and frustrating time. There are so many people with lives that have been changed due to the Coronavirus. It is so hard to know what to do and when to do it. Please observe social distancing and wash/sanitize your hands frequently. If you have any issues or need to talk about school-related issues. Just call the school-715-787-3211 and leave a message. We will call you back as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Newell E. Haffner Benjamin Heninger
haffnen@gresham.k12.wi.us heningb@gresham.k12.wi.us
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We school will be available for parents to pick up their students' essential learning materials. We will be available on Friday, March 27 from 11:00 am-6:00 pm. The protocol will be:
1. You drive up to the front of the school.
2. Roll down the passenger window and identify yourself and your children.
3. One of the staff will go back into the school building and bring out your children’s educational materials.
School staff has emptied all of the hall lockers and cubbies and placed contents into plastic bags.
School staff has emptied all of the gym lockers and placed contents into plastic bags.
If your student had materials in other lockers that were not assigned to them, we have bags of unidentified materials in the gym that will be claimed at a later date.
4. We will bring your students educational materials to your car.
5. We will leave the educational materials by your car for you to load.
6. If you are unable to make the times on Friday, please call the school-715-787-3211 ext 800 and leave a message stating what date and time will be better for you. Someone from school will call you back to verify this appointment.
Gresham school will be available for parents to pick up their students essential learning materials. We will be available on Friday, March 27 from 11:00-6:00 pm. The protocol will be:
1. You drive up to the front of the school.
2. Roll down the passenger window and identify yourself and your children.
3. One of the staff will go back into the school building and bring out your children’s educational materials.
School staff has emptied all of the hall lockers and cubbies and placed contents into plastic bags.
School staff has emptied all of the gym lockers and placed contents into plastic bags.
If your student had materials in other lockers that were not assigned to them, we have bags of unidentified materials in the gym that will be claimed at a later date.
4. We will bring your students educational materials to your car.
5. We will leave the educational materials by your car for you to load.
6. If you are unable to make the times on Friday, please call the school-715-787-3211 ext 800 and leave a message stating what date and time will be better for you. Someone from school will call you back to verify this appointment.
Thanks to Tammy for sending this in! While practicing social distancing we donated to the humane Society today.
The support staff had a great day! They cleaned the hall lockers, gym lockers, organized instruments, and helped to organize teacher packets. We will be delivering these things to our families later in the week.
The school board meeting tonight will be "virtual". To attend please see the instructions in the attached document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sCv4xjhxFKfuArdLxozUeaD8KsZoEbyzBD3SZzEGXyI/edit?usp=sharing
Meals are starting to be delivered. Any open enrolled students who ordered can pick them up in the front entry doors of the building
Thank you !
Dear Students,
I want to give you an update with the information that I know. This week, I treated it like it was a spring break just to see what Governor Evers and President Trump were going to do with this pandemic.
We are delivering Lunch and Breakfast to all of the children under 18 in the District that requested them. The secretaries did a great job of calling all of the families in our school district, checking on internet access, and inquiring about meals. We will be delivering your locker and gym locker contents during the week of March 23-27. We will be putting your locker contents in a black bag with your name on it. This limits the opportunity for exposure of the school staff to the coronavirus.
During the week of March 23-27, Teachers will be coming in to create virtual lessons and packet work. I am hoping that we can get this out to students on March 30, 2020 while we deliver lunches. We are trying to determine the best option for providing access to learning. This may include district issued chromebooks.
We have a lot more questions than answers right now: Do we have graduation? How do we grade students? What about scholarships? To name just a few of them. We are trying to figure all of this out, BUT it is a very slow process.
Here is ONE THING that I know: If you were missing work before 3/13/2020, then you should make all of this up. These 5 weeks could IN THEORY be your 3rd quarter, 4th quarter, and semester grades. I want grades to be as high as possible if this is the case. You can submit missing work via email, work exchange when the bus drops off your meal, traditional mail, pictures on your phones, and/or submitted through google classroom.
Any work assigned after 3/13, may or may not be counted in your final grades. The state has not clarified it’s stance on this issue.
Please don’t stress in this confusing time. Let me do all of that for all of you. I have faith that this will all work out.
Have a great day and keep checking your emails for updates. Please keep in mind that all of what I just typed could change in an instant depending on Governor Evers and President Trump. This is the best update that I can do as of 5:54 pm.
Sincerely,
Mr H
Thanks to Gresham School’s amazing staff for pitching in to buy ThedaCare and Shawano Ambulance Luigi’s to show our support!
Gresham Community, please like, share, and comment on our posts. We reach so many more people when you do. I’ve attached two screenshots that show this. On a side note, if you would like anything posted please email the picture and caption to greshamadmin@gresham.k12.wi.us
The play is postponed. That post was scheduled weeks ago. Stay safe and healthy Wildcats!
Gresham School is closed today due to an entire school cleaning. We will be back in the office on Monday. Thanks for understanding during this confusing time. We will have more information about school, grades, homework in a while. We will keep you updated via email and the app announcements.
Newell Haffner
District Administrator
