New Family Welcome!

Is your family new to the Sycamore School District? Then you are invited to our New Family Welcome! 

This event is for families new to the district only, if your family has been in Sycamore Community Schools but is new to the Junior High, please attend our new student orientation instead.

Supply List for 2016-2017

Please note that due to the individualized schedules of each student, specific supplies needed will not be known until schedule pickup on August 10th and 11th. Specific supply lists for each teacher will be available at that time. 

Sycamore Junior High General Student Supply List 2016-2017
These are supplies that will be needed every day in every class. Refer to individual teacher lists for additional supplies specific to those classes.
Pens Pencils Earbuds/Headphones Chromebook/Computer (charged daily) Pocket Folders (check individual teacher lists for amount needed) Flash Drive	Colored Pencils Highlighters (2) Loose Leaf Paper Spiral Notebooks (check individual teacher lists for amount needed) Post-it Notes Silent Reading Book

Welcome to the 2016-2017 School Year!

Dear Parents and Guardians,

As the principal at Sycamore Junior High I would like to welcome you to the 2016-2017 school year! I hope you have enjoyed your summer and are as excited as I am about the year ahead at Sycamore Junior High. It is a true honor to be a part of a district that is rich with tradition! As your principal, my goal is to continue to provide your children with a learning environment that grows him/her both academically and socially. With the support of our staff, our high academic standards and extracurricular programs will foster the development of a well-rounded adolescent.

Our staff has been hard at work preparing the facilities, curriculum and opening day celebrations to kick off the school year. The upcoming weeks are full of opportunities for your child to be introduced to his/her schedule of classes and tour the school in preparation for the first day. The administrative team looks forward to meeting you and your children at our schedule pickup event on either August 10th or 11th. This will be an opportunity for you and your child to finish school forms if needed, get schedules and locker assignments, get school pictures taken, drop off medications and immunization records, and explore the building. Families are encouraged to go to our Final Forms website and complete school forms prior to schedule pickup. We also look forward to the chance to spend some time with you at open house on August 23rd where you will have a chance to follow your child’s schedule and meet their teachers. I am excited for this year and look forward to all the new opportunities it will bring!

Sincerely,

Traci L. Rea, Ph. D.

Principal

Important Dates for Fall 2016!

Student School Pictures and Schedule Pick Up	Wed	8/10/2016	8:00 AM	12:00 PM	Cafeteria
Student School Pictures and Schedule Pick Up	Wed	8/10/2016	4:00 PM	7:00 PM	Cafeteria
New Family Welcome	Wed	8/10/2016	5:30 PM	6:30 PM
7th Grade Orientation	Wed	8/10/2016	7:00 PM	8:15 PM	Auditorium
Student School Pictures and Schedule Pick Up	Thurs	8/11/2016	9:00 AM	1:00 PM	Cafeteria
Meet the Coaches Night/Fall	Thurs	8/11/2016	6:30 PM	8:00 PM
Parent Welcome Coffee	Fri	8/19/2016	9:30 AM	10:30 AM
Open House	Tues	8/23/2016	6:00 PM	7:15 PM
Fall Picture Day	Tues	8/30/2016	7:00 AM	10:00 AM	New Gym

Summer Reading Reminder!

We are only one month away from the start of school! That means only a few more weeks to finish your summer reading assignments!

This year, summer reading was distributed digitally to all students. Your student joined a summer reading Google classroom in their language arts class during the week of May 9th. Student's joined the class that corresponds with the language arts class that they scheduled to take next year. A copy of the summer assignments is attached in the links below. Please refer to your child's course selector to make sure that your child completes the assignment for the course they are registered to next fall. More information on summer assignments, Google classrooms, and fall activities, can be found here on the blog. We will continue to post information throughout the summer.

We look forward to another great year at SJH!

CLICK THE CLASS BELOW TO SEE YOUR SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT:

7th grade LA

7th grade Accel LA

8th Accel Grade LA

8th Grade LA

2016-2017 SJH PTO

Don't forget to join the SJH PTO for the 2016-2017 School Year!

Fill out this form and return to get your directory!

Click this Link for the Memberhsip Form
Click this Link for the Directory Form

Also, make sure your student and family are in the directory!

All information will be derived from the Sycamore Schools PTO database.  We currently have information for incoming 8th graders from last year's Junior High PTO Directory and for the incoming 7th graders from last year's Greene School PTO directory.  If your child was in these directories last year, this information will be used.

If you believe the Junior High PTO has all of your current contact information, you want your child to be in the directory again and you don’t want any changes made to contact information, you may disregard this form!   If you need to update anything, please use the directory form to update. 

There will also be a booth at our schedule pickup on August 10th and 11th where you can sign up for the PTO.