Herbert Slater Middle School

Hello Slater Friends and Families,

Welcome back Slater families! To kick off the school year we would like to invite you to a meet and greet with our PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) and Principal Partika in the Slater library on Monday, August 5 from 6:30- 7:30. Feel free to bring an appetizer, food and refreshments will also be provided by us, and be prepared with any questions you have for us. This is a great oppurtunity to get to learn more about Slater and our PTO and how you can join or collective effort to continously improve our school community. This is a great opportunity to connect with other Slater families. I'm looking forward to another great year. Go Spartans!

PTO- helps ​support ​Slater's families, students and staff through fundraisers, organizing special events, providing materials for classrooms, ​as well as supporting our positive reward systems with volunteers, ​rewards and promotions...and much more!!!

Best,
Amanda Dalton
President
Herbert Slater PTO

Hola, amigos y familias de Slater.¡Bienvenidos nuevamente, familias de Slater! Para comenzar el año escolar, nos gustaría invitarlos a una reunión con nuestra PTO (Organización de padres y maestros) y la directora Partika en la biblioteca de Slater el lunes 5 de agosto de 6:30 a 7:30. No duden en traer un aperitivo, también les proporcionaremos comida y refrescos, y estén preparados con cualquier pregunta que tengan para nosotros. Esta es una gran oportunidad para aprender más sobre Slater y nuestra PTO y cómo pueden unirse a nuestro esfuerzo colectivo para mejorar continuamente nuestra comunidad escolar. Esta es una gran oportunidad para conectarse con otras familias de Slater. Espero que sea otro gran año. ¡Vamos Spartans!

PTO: ayuda a apoyar a las familias, estudiantes y personal de Slater a través de recaudaciones de fondos, organizando eventos especiales, proporcionando materiales para las aulas, así como apoyando nuestros sistemas de recompensas positivas con voluntarios, recompensas y promociones... ¡y mucho más!

Atentamente,
Amanda Dalton
Presidenta
PTO de Herbert Slater

Slater Student Orientation is Friday, August 9th, 2024

When your last day of school is Spirit/Sports Day, you wear a different jersey each period:)

Huge shout out to all our Slater students, families, and staff that endured and completed the past 15 months of challenges and triumphs. We should all be proud. Wishing our 8th graders a fabulous high school career and can’t wait to get back to normal with our current 7th graders next year. Also, we can’t wait to meet our new incoming 7th graders. Have a well deserved and restful Summer Break. Go Spartans!!

Best, Mr. Tucker

Dear Slater Parent or Guardian,

I am writing to ask for some of your valuable time to complete an online survey that will help us improve your our school. We have asked YouthTruth– a nonprofit organization that supports hundreds of schools and districts across the county – to conduct an anonymous survey on our behalf.

Here is why and how we are asking you to take this survey:

WHY
Inviting parents and guardians to share their perspectives and valuing their input can support family engagement efforts, which have been shown to contribute to a range of elements of student achievement including increased attendance, improved grades and social skills. Research suggests that efforts to improve school culture and student achievement should be informed by family and staff perceptions as well as student perceptions. Making informed decisions requires hearing diverse perspectives from these integral groups of stakeholders.
HOW
The Family Survey is online, and is available to take in English, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, or French (by selecting the language of choice from a drop-down menu in the survey itself).
The survey is compatible with any internet enabled device, including desktops, laptops, chrome books, tablets/iPads, and any mobile device that supports any of the following standard up-to-date internet browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge.
The standard survey (without additional topic modules or added custom questions) typically takes respondents about 15 minutes to complete. Each additional topic module adds about 5 minutes in length.
The survey must be completed in one sitting.

Please take the survey before it closes at midnight on January 29, 2021 by clicking this link:

http://www.ytsurvey.org/santarosafamily21

Please note:
The survey needs to be completed in one sitting (only about 15 minutes).
We ask that one member of each household fill out the survey.
If you have more than one child who attends the same school, you may respond to the survey multiple times - one time per child.
If you write any comments, please do not include your name or anything else that might identify you. Your responses are anonymous, and they will be combined with the responses of other parents and guardians before being shared back with school and district leadership.

We sincerely thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. Your response is incredibly valuable to us.

If you have any questions about the survey, or our plans for how we will use your feedback, please contact myself or Ms. Gage.

Sincerely,

Mr. Tucker, Principal HSMS

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