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WELCOME TO MURRAY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

 

 

Trimester 3 Newsletter

Murray’s 3rd Trimester Newsletter is packed with important information for the Murray community.  You can read “The Principal’s Corner” by Mr. Williams. Find information on next year: we are becoming a MIDDLE SCHOOL! Additionally, you can learn about 6th grade orientation, French classes, Band & Orchestra, National Junior Honor Society, State Competitions, Environmental Science, Murray sports, Debate, G.I.R.L.S. Group, yearbook, engineering education and much more. 

Click here to open the Trimester 3 Newsletter.

 


If you have not completed the School Bus Transportation Request Form, please do so and return it to Murray, 2200 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108.  If you want to have busing next year, you MUST complete the form for your student for the school year 2013-2014.   

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Parent Portal has gone mobile
Parent Portal, the SPPS tool for parents and guardians to access instant, online, timely and secure student information, now has a mobile app. 

Click here for more information on how to access Parent Portal from your mobile device.

 

IMPORTANT SCHOOL INFORMATION!

  School hours are 7:30 a.m-2:00 p.m.  Students should come to school prepared with a Trapper Keeper containing six separate notebooks and folders, pens, pencils, erasers, and a calculator.  Students are required to purchase a student planner from their homeroom teacher for $6.00.  Students and families will find the planner a necessary source of

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School Information


Please Note:  If your child needs to leave Murray during the school day for an appointment, please have your student bring a note to the office when he or she arrives in the morning.  The office clerk will give the student a pass with the time to leave marked on it.  The student will give this to their teacher when it is time so that they are in the office when you arrive to sign them out.  The office clerk marks the Campus attendance for the rest of the student's classes as an excused absence. 

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AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ENDS FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR!

Session 3 ENDS on Thursday, May 16 

The last day for Murray's highly successful After School Program is Thursday, May 16.  Murray students have danced, cheered, read, learned, built, 

cooked, sang, and strummed their way through a fabulous spring session. Look for more fun and challenging opportunities in the FALL of 2013!  

 

 Please contact the Murray office or Ms. Lieu, After School Program Coordinator, with any questions.

 

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Parents, want to find out more about Murray? Read the Murray Facts Sheet

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SPIRIT WEAR

School Spirit Day Is Every Friday! Murray Junior High students and staff are encouraged to show their school spirit by wearing their Murray Spirit Wear or school colors (royal blue and gold) on Fridays. Students at Murray should be proud of their daily accomplishments.
So celebrate those achievements by showing your school pride and wear your spirit wear on Fridays. Order Murray Spirit Wear.

 

 

 

PARENT INVOLVEMENT
Student success is dependent upon parents and guardians being involved in their child's school life, even if they claim they don't want you involved. Student success is related to adult involvement.  Students do want you involved. They just don't want to look un-cool in front of their friends because their parents showed up. Take the risk, show your child you care about their future. If you care enough to be involved in your child's education, your child may care enough to be involved in their education.
 
If you want to know what is happening at your child's school you must be at the school. Relying on what your child shares with you may cause you to miss a lot of information. Volunteer when you can, go on field trips, share your talents, go to the parent meetings, everyday talk to your child about school, email or call your child's teachers, go to Murray's concerts and sporting events. Be there with or without your child's approval. Even if they do not thank you now, they will appreciate it, and it will improve their academic success. Education is a partnership among students, school and home.
 
PARENT GROUP
Murray's Parent Association sponsors Forums, meetings and fundraising activities.  Get involved and stay active.
 
PARENT PORTAL
Parent Portal allows parents/guardians access to attendance, grades, assignments and teacher contacts. You will need to register to use Parent Portal the first time you use it.
 
 
PARENT ACADEMY at MURRAY
Saint Paul Public Schools Parent Academy is a free seven-week program designed especially for parents and guardians of children that attend SPPS.
Parent Academy is designed to connect parents to the school and university communities and to provide relevant information to parents so they can better support their child’s road to college.
 Parent Academy provides a framework for creating a community in which parents and teachers collaborate with one another to transform each child’s educational experience at home and at school, so all children can achieve.
 
Parent Academy will empower parents to increase their skills and abilities to become active participants in their child’s learning. For 2012-2013 school year, classes were offered one evening a week for approximately 3.0 hours. Food, childcare and limited transportation were provided as needed.  Parent Academy started on Tuesday October 23 and continued for 6 more sessions.  Watch for information about Parent Academy for the 2013-14 school year.
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VOLUNTEERING AT MURRAY 

The students at Murray are fortunate to have tutors in the classroom, chaperones on field trips, judges at the science or history fairs, greeters at the front desk and many other volunteers doing many activities.  Some of these opportunities are not even apparent to the students such as helping with conference scheduling.  They only know the results help them. 

If you would like to be an MVP (Mighty Valuable Person) here at Murray, sign up using our on-line form  (under Volunteering.)

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 Easy Way to Pay for School Meals
 Pay by Phone or Web Go to the Nutrition Services website: http://ns.spps.org/ and click on Make On-line Payments to add money or check the balance of your child’s meal account before school starts. Complete the Free and Reduced Price Meal Application.
 
 

WILL SCHOOL DISTRICT CHANGES AFFECT

WHERE YOUR STUDENT GOES TO SCHOOL NEXT FALL?

 

What students need to know changes constantly, and how we educate them must keep pace.

 

After 30 years of busing students across the city, in 2010, Saint Paul Public Schools examined extensive data to determine whether sending kids out of their own neighborhoods for school actually helped them to achieve. What we found is that students do as well or better in school when they attend their neighborhood schools. We developed a plan to ensure that every SPPS school, in every community of St. Paul,

is providing a consistently high-quality education.

This plan is called Strong Schools, Strong Communities.  To learn more about this plan,

click on the link below:

http://www.spps.org/strong_schools

or

FOR MORE INFORMATION about Strong Schools, Strong Communites, go to the bottom of this web page

and CLICK on Strong Communities, Strongs School link.

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Wolf Ridge Week - - November 5-9, 2012. 
Again this year, 72 students and 16 adults spent five days at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center.  The trip was a great success.  Wolf Ridge ELC is near Finland Minnesota, in the Superior National Forest.  More than just a camp, the ELC is an accredited school. Click on the link below to read more.   http://murray.spps.org/wolf_ridge.html
 
 
"Box Tops for Education"

Yes, Murray Junior High collects "Box Tops for Education" coupons.  Students can turn in box tops to their advisory teachers during Pilot Time.  The box tops are collected by the AVID program and are used for direct student funding.

 

 
Box Tops for Education
Click on the link for more information about the Box Tops for Education Program.
Voyageurs at Wolf Ridge 2011
quicktime Why Murray?   --  Video with staff and students tell why Murray is a great school!
document Family Engagement Plan   --  For information about the Family Engagement Plan, click on this link or contact the Murray office for more details.
PDF Parent Academy Registration Form   --  Send this form to Cindy Thrasher at Murray to register. Questions? Call the school office.
Murray Jr. High School

2200 Buford Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone: 651.293.8740
Fax: 651.293.8742
Daily Schedule

School Day
7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Bell Schedule

Pilot Time 7:30-8:00

1st Period    8:04-8:56

2nd Period   9:00-9:52

3rd Period    9:56-10:48

4th Period    10:52-12:07

Lunch 1  10:48-11:11
Lunch 2  11:16-11:39
Lunch 3  11:44-12:07

5th Period    12:11-1:03

6th Period    1:07-2:00
Box Tops for Education

Yes, Murray Junior High collects "Box Tops for Education" coupons.  Students can turn box tops in to their advisory teachers during Pilot Time.  The box tops are collected by the AVID program and are used for direct student funding.  Click on the logo for more information about the "Box Tops for Education" program.