Summer Break Benefits

Getting rid of summer break would hurt a lot of students; they do not have the patience to go to school during the school year—taking away what is supposed to be their vacation could possibly break them.

Throughout my school years, I have always tried to be a positive role model for younger students as well as my peers. This year I decided that the best way to serve my school was to participate in our school’s Student Leadership Council. It has proven to be a fantastic decision for me. I succeeded in getting the most votes out of all of the candidates and have had a great experience taking a leadership role in my school. I feel like I have become a much better leader and role model because of Student Leadership Council. I have been really fortunate to be exposed to the Jeter’s Leaders program, since they come to our school to mentor us as SLC members. It has been an incredible experience, and I would really love to continue with it. As an eighth grader at Saint Augustine, we are required to mentor our younger students. I

The summer program will culminate in a completion presentation luncheon. Travel and event coordination including transportation, t-shirts, on-site catering and any admissions fees and permits the program and summer staff will need to coordinate.

Our Events Committee – led by Jane Van Dyk – has set a fantastic 1-1/2 day schedule for us with informative general sessions and specialized workshops. If you are an NFH tract leader, and get here early enough on Friday, please join me in a meeting at 10:00 AM where we will discuss cabin tract leadership and issues that we all face. And don’t miss the NFH Annual Members’ Business Meeting which follows at 1:00 PM. to hear the results of our 2016 election. There will also be reports on the current state of our organization and details about activities performed on behalf of our members and all permit holders. A General Session and three informative workshops follow later on Friday afternoon.

At the beginning of the semester, our group spoke with the client to develop several goals that they wanted our group to achieve throughout this semester. After speaking to the Vice Chairman John Wood (2016), one of the main tasks that he wanted our group to assist the club with accomplishing was to use the election to boost engagement within the club for both club meeting attendance and also visibility on social media. Since the media was covering he election for a large part of the day, Wood discussed the idea that since the media is covering the election for a large part of the day, politics is on the mind of people more now than it would be during midterm elections. By using the fact that the election is top of mind for many individuals at Liberty, the club wanted to take advantage of this season and also gain members. The last goal that the club wanted to accomplish was to increase voter registration and voter turnout on Election Day.

Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of the Middle School Student Council.

Activities: Boys Varsity Soccer (9-12), Varsity Golf (7-12), Boys Varsity Basketball (9-12), Boys Varsity Baseball (9-12), Student Senate (11-12 Vice President), Tech Club 10-12, Safety Squad (11-12), Scitamard (6-7, 9-11), Chorus (6-10), Band (8,9)

Congratulations! Your student has begun their journey to become a college graduate. WKU recognizes this great accomplishment and wants to go a step further in helping your student succeed. Based on your student’s academic profile and our college readiness standards, your student is invited to take part in our Summer Early Entry program.

The first thing I hope to gain from participating in the Summer Bridge program is being further college ready. Although my high school provided a rigorous curriculum, I believe the program will provide myself preparation for college work. At the same time, since college starts soon after the program, I need to enter the work mindset and transition from summer mode to school mode.

Meetings of the members shall be held at least one time during each school year. The annual meeting of members shall be held each year in the month of January, at a specific date set and noticed by the Board of Directors.

The author took upon the task of taking minutes when they met once a week for two hours to review, update and discuss issues concerning the event. There was regular input from most members to every aspect of the event, in particular volunteering, health and safety, creative student participation and budget reductions. To an extent, without underpinning complete authority to the group, the author chaired the meetings and attempted to push forward agendas. Please refer to Appendix 7 (Sample of Minutes).

Another great benefit that we offer is our vacation benefit. After working for our company for a year, employees will receive one week paid vacation. Two to five years of service will equate to two weeks. Five to fifteen years of service will earn three weeks of vacation time. Vacation time will not roll over for the year. If an employee does not use it, he will lose it. Vacation will be available for twelve months. (Anniversary to anniversary.) All vacation time must be requested two weeks in advance for coverage, and it does not have to be taken all at once.

The article, “Should children study in the summer holidays?” (Jackson, 2017) discusses the pros and cons of continuing a child’s education throughout their summer vacation. In favor of this idea was Vivien Stiles, a professional tutor for Kumon, who argued that studying over the summer would help children ease back into a full school year. Stiles continued to explain the program as a two day school week which teaches Mathematics and English. The average time it takes for each student to complete their homework for their class is between 15 and 90 minutes. Others, like Tanith Carey, fear that extending classroom education into the summer may overwhelm some young minds. She explained how her daughter felt so overwhelmed by her education experience she tried to deny an award she won because there was too much that surrounded the acceptance of that award. Once Carey realized how much stress the extra schooling during the summer was causing her daughter, she removed her from the tutoring program so she could play and experience a stress free childhood. Over years the results have been quite positive for Carey and her two daughters as they have both found passions in the arts and are leading healthy happy lives. She stresses the importance of learning not only in classrooms, but through nature, exploring, and experiencing the natural environment around them. According to Carey some parents are overlooking how much their children really learn when they are able to explore

As part of the end of the school year and in order to celebrate the successes of our students and staff as well as build relationships between the community and the school, Theresa Bunker holds an annual community involvement activity called Camp Bunker. This year, as part of my practicum experience I was tasked with leading the planning and preparations for this week long event. Three months before the event took place, my team and I began preparations to make connections with the community including the fire department, police department, and several businesses to make this event successful, fun and memorable for the students. This required me to lead my team of teachers to make contact with several community members and organize the team to take on various responsibilities. Through this leadership action I was able to learn to delegate responsibilities, keep people accountable, and solve logistical problems as they arose.

If you come to Anaheim High School and ask your fellow classmates who came back from their long summer vacation if they remember anything from what they learned last year. Majority of them might say they don't and would want to refresh their minds by redoing the lessons. This would be a waste of school time because teachers would be using the time to re-teach what they already taught their student last year. In order to increase student success at Anaheim school’s the districts should double school days and hours. The district can also give the schools Saturday school for a better understanding the subject for at least four hours. With these types of changes, their knowledge would expand without any hesitation. In the article “Marita’s Bargain” Malcolm Gladwell argues that “students in Asian schools don’t have long summer vacations’’(8). This quote compares how other countries double school days to make their intelligence grow and become responsible, therefore we should be doing the same. When students don’t have the capability of wanting to educate themselves and still think that they can go far in life without a good education. If Anaheim wanted to double school days and hours they would double think about it because plenty of students would rather want to leave then pay attention in class. If we had longer school days and hours in the Anaheim’s students would maybe excel in their math and reading scores when coming back from a short vacation. My second piece of evidence