Important Information
Progress Reports & Report Card Distribution - FCPS Weekly Progress Reports will not be sent to parents Tuesday, January 21-30 during 2nd quarter grading and report card generation. Additionally, the Gradebook and Report Card modules in ParentVUE and StudentVUE will be closed Thursday January 23 at 4:00pm through Saturday, February 1 at 6:00am.
Report cards will be distributed on Monday, February 3 through Panther Time for students to bring home and share with parents/guardians. Please contact your student’s teacher if you would like to discuss any grading concerns.
2020-2021 Course Registration for Rising 7th and 8th Graders - Glasgow’s 6th and 7th graders will learn about choosing their courses in Panther Time on Friday, January 24. In Panther Time on Friday, January 31 they will watch a video to learn about the elective courses available to them next year. On Monday, February 3 our 6th and 7th graders will learn how to complete their course selection sheet. Counselors will start meeting with 6th and 7th graders in February for academic advising and reviewing course selections. After meeting with their counselor, 6th and 7th graders will be bringing home the course selection sheet.
New for this year, students are now able to enter their course selections on their own through SIS StudentVue prior to meeting with counselors. Parents will also be able to view their student’s course selections is ParentVUE when they are entered. You may help your student through this process by using the “How To” guide below.
NOTE: All course request changes are due by April 17, 2020. Finalizing requests by this date allows us to invest in staffing and resources based on students’ needs and interests. We will be finalizing schedules and placements throughout the late Spring and summer months.
Helpful Links:
Online Course Selection - “How To” Guide
Glasgow MS Course Catalog for Rising 7th Graders
Glasgow MS Course Catalog for Rising 8th Graders
Rising 6th Grade Open House Presentation - On Thursday, January 16, Glasgow Middle School hosted our annual Rising 6th Grade Open House. We were so excited to meet all our future Panthers and their families! If you were unable to attend, we have a copy of all the presentations from the evening available for you below. If you have any questions about the information provided, please feel free to contact our presenters directly.
Welcome to Glasgow! - Presenters: Shawn DeRose, Katie Madigan
Course Requests 101 - Presenter: Joash Chung
Advanced Academics Program - Presenters: Nonye Oladimeji, Shawn DeRose
Special Education Office - Presenters: Eric Lindner, Lori Lekoski
ESOL Program - Presenters: Sarah Clark, Ilsa Reyes
Spanish Immersion - Presenter: Lisa Lopez
Panther Time & Flexible Instructional Time - Presenter: Emily Boydstun
Math Course Placement - Presenters: Danielle Griffin, Steve D’Adamo
Sign Up for Weekly Progress Reports: All parents/guardians of middle and high school students who have registered for a SIS ParentVUE Account and have a primary email address recorded in SIS ParentVUE can receive Weekly Progress Reports via email. This report provides a summary of your student(s) grades for the current quarter.
To activate the Weekly Progress Reports via email, login to your SIS ParentVUE Account and first verify that you have a primary email address within the system. It is listed under the “My Account” tab. If it is blank, enter the email address where you would like to receive the progress reports and click on update account. Once confirmed, parents/guardians are able to activate and select their preferences for receiving these reports within the SIS ParentVUE “My Account” tab.
Weekly progress reports for all of your middle and high school students will be included in one email. FCPS Elementary Schools do not use the SIS grade book and therefore are not included in these reports. For questions about a specific progress report or grade you can login into your SIS ParentVUE Account to find detailed grade book information. Additionally, your student’s teacher is always the best resource to answer any grade book questions that you may have. Weekly Progress Report Parent Quick Reference Guide.
TJHSST Admissions - Semifinalists Just Announced - Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology semifinalists were announced this Friday, January 17 through the online system. Glasgow students that are selected as semifinalists will need to send out teacher recommendation request through their online system as soon as possible..
Parents please encourage your student to start planning now which teachers they will request recommendations from if they become semifinalists. TJ is looking for students to obtain 2 teacher recommendations; one must be a 7th or 8th grade math or science teacher, the other can be any 7th or 8th grade teacher. The recommendations are done online only and submitted directly to TJ by each teacher. Semifinalists will meet with our TJ counselor liaisons for more information about the process and reminders.
If you have any questions please reach out to our TJ Liaison Counselor Greg Franz at gdfranz@fcps.edu or (703) 813-8733.
Yearbook On-line Store Available - Families who still have not purchased their 2019-2020 yearbook can pre-order on-line. The website is: https://www.balfour.com/virginia/alexandria/glasgow-middle-school. Students may continue to bring in money and turn in to the front office (please make checks payable to Glasgow MS). The price of the yearbook is only $25, but will increase to $30 the beginning of February. Extra items will be available until March: name stamping ($5), clear plastic cover ($3), autograph sheets ($2), arrow stickies ($6), jewel pack ($6) and pen signing set ($4.99). Please note, yearbooks will be distributed to students at Glasgow during the last week of school.
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