"Find Your Voice"
January 24, 2020
Welcome back to High School Highlights; a weekly wrap-up of events, designed especially for high school parents and students at Summit Academy, to help keep you in the know. All high school students have completed STAR testing in Literacy and will complete their Math testing next week. Your child's teacher will let you know when and how you will be receiving these scores (email or hard copy). Send us an email if you have any questions about this process! Also, we are nearing the end of the 2nd term. In next week's edition, you will have a chance to sign up for your conference time. Senior times will be Thursday, 2/20 from 3:15-6:15 and 9th-11th grade times will be Friday, 2/21 from 8 a.m.-noon.

Free Dress Monday for High School
Upcoming Events:

  • 1/24: Sr. Internships
  • 1/28: Senior students: mandatory CAPS meeting, 3-4:30
  • 1/28: Senior parents: important parent meeting in Library, 4:00-4:30, including Balfour representative
  • 2/14: No School
  • 2/16: Champs Skating Party 6-8 PM
  • 2/17: No School
  • 2/20: Winter Conferences for 12th grade, 3:15-6:15
  • 2/21: No School: Winter Conferences for 9th-11th grade, 8 a.m. - 12 noon
Before and After Pictures of Mr B's:
It Smells Like Coffee!
The former "hangout" area.
The former cafe area.
The new "hangout" area.
The new "hangout" area.
The new cafe area.
The new cafe area.
Shiny new double brewer.
State-of-the-art grinder
Ashley getting trained on using the scale and grinder.
Ashley, our GM, making the first cup of coffee.
The smell of coffee is about to hit Summit's campus. On Friday, our first student went through training with our partners at Sunergos Coffee to learn how to use our new state of the art equipment to brew delicious cups of Sunergos coffee, as well as tea and hot chocolate. Ashley, a high school senior and one of the founding members of Mr. B's, will be the student General Manager. She will help train the other students who have signed up to work at the coffee shop over the course of the next week.
Teacher Updates
Mrs. Beach
  • General Information:
  1. Important Senior Parent Meeting on 1/28 4-4:30 in the Library: All things graduation and end of the year events
  • Math: STAR test on Tuesday. Word Problem Week :)
  • Literacy: Vocab Unit 7 starts Tues. Test will be following Tuesday, 2/4. Continuation of writing workshop: We can all be Journalists.
  • Biology: Human Body Systems Final project this week: Animoto slide show creation and presentation
Ms. Finn
  • Math: Students are working on inequalities, integers and combining like terms.
  • Literacy: We have finished "A Boy and His Dog" final project and taken the STAR test.
  • QUEST: We are talking about stereotypes and ethnocentrism.
  • Earth Science: We completed our Rock Lab. Katie brought geodes in! Everyone did really well!
  • Forensic Science: We are preparing for our test on Wednesday over body systems, dissections and autopsies.
Mr. Harris
  • Career Ed & School to Work: Seniors - Hope your first day on your 2nd block of intern positions went well!
  • Geography and Cultures: We are now looking at the Middle East, and the class was excited to find out that Wonder Woman was once in the Israeli army.
Ms. Miller
  • Spanish : We will be having a unit test on Tuesday. Students will continue daily translation and Duolingo practice as we continue to build our vocabulary. We will also continue to listen to native speakers via podcasts and learning videos.
  • World Civ : Next week we will focus on Classical Greece. We will be learning about the Greek pantheon of deities, as well as famous philosophers.
  • Practical Living: Thank you for sending in clothing items for us to practice with. We will continue using these next week while we work on all the steps of doing laundry. Next week we will also begin working on washing dishes.
As always, please let us know if there is anything we can do for you!

Your High School Team ~
Susan Beach [ contact ]
Keeley Finn [ contact ]
Jenny Miller [ contact ]
Ben Harris [ contact ]