Attention parents and students,
A packet was sent home today with details about options for next year. Please have a look through it and decide on your top 6 options for next year!
Below is the message from SJAM!
Hello future SJAMers!
Over the next two weeks, staff from Sir John A. Macdonald School will be traveling to our Elementary feeder schools to assist the Grade 6s with their option selections.
Please look over the attached document with your child and decide what options they would like to take in Grade 7. Students will get four options, two per semester, or 3 if one of their choices is Band as it’s a full year option. If your child does not want Band for sure, please do not make that selection! It is a priority so any students that select Band will be placed in it. If you think your child would like Band but wants to explore, please choose Music.
Students must make four selections AND two alternates in the event that we can’t place them in their first four choices due to class size restrictions. If these choices are not made, we will make them for you and students might not like where they are placed so it’s very important to make all the selections. Please have a conversation with your child as to which options they would like to take.
It is important that we have selections chosen to ensure that we have accurate representation of students’ desires and can staff accordingly. If a class has a low request number the option may not be offered.
In the event that your child is out of area and has been accepted to SJAM for Grade 7, we are not traveling to schools out of our designated area but we will enable the feature so that they can log into their PowerSchool account and do it from home.
If your child is pre-registered to attend a different junior high next year, please do the option selection anyway. If by chance your situation changed and your child ends up coming to SJAM, we want those requests to be there.
The Power School Portal will be open from May 3rd to May 16th. You will be able to see the options in the Power School Portal and be able to change a request until May 16th.
