Morton Junior High School News and Notes

Parents and Guardians, On Wednesday, November 13, our Food Service Director was made aware of an issue involving some of the chocolate milk cartons in our most recent delivery.  We learned that some cartons of chocolate milk appear to be spoiled, yet they are not expired. Our Food Service Director has taken corrective action by pulling the chocolate milk option. She is also working with the local vendor on getting a new delivery of chocolate milk cartons to our schools. Unfortunately, this issue may be impacting other districts in the Central Illinois area.  Our next delivery of chocolate milk is scheduled for Monday morning and we hope to have this issue fully resolved.  Until then, we have arranged with the supplier to have additional white and strawberry milk on hand for school lunches on Friday.   We apologize for this inconvenience since we know how popular chocolate milk is with many of our students. Thank you for your understanding and we will keep you informed as we receive upd

  Parents and Guardians, Just a quick update on a couple of items: Linked here is our newsletter Report Cards will be emailed out tomorrow afternoon Boys basketball tryouts start on Monday Good luck to our cross-country teams this weekend!  They compete at the IESA state meet at Normal Parkside’s Maxwell Park on Saturday morning.   Chris Carter Principal

  Parents and Guardians, Today was another “great day to be a Junior Potter!”  The Help-a-Thon was a great success!  From what I saw and heard from others, our students worked their tails off!  Here is a folder of pictures from today.  Additional pictures will be added.   I wanted to remind everyone that we do in fact have school on Monday, Columbus Day.  There have been years in the past when we had this day off from school, but not this year!  Our next days off will be for parent/teacher conferences on October 24 & 25.  Also, we do not have school on Election Day, November 5, either. Today was the end of the 1st Quarter, and report cards will be emailed home next Friday afternoon. You can still sign up for conferences.  Please use this link to sign up for an in-person conference and this link to request an email update. Also, be sure to select your student’s team when scheduling your conference.  The Teams are listed across the top of the webpage with the White Team page being

  Career Spark field trip ...It was a another Great Da to be a Junior Potter!

Gray Team Parents/Guardians,  Each year the Red & White Club (PTO) coordinates “teacher appreciation” breakfast/snacks for the staff on or around the first Monday of each month.  Instead of asking all parents each month to consider contributing, we will ask one team’s parents each month.  For this month, we are asking the 8th Grade’s Gray Team parents. Please consider donating to this committee for October 7.   Here is the link to this month’s schedule.   Full Link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0845ADAE2FA0FE3-mjhs2#/ Thank you, Chris Carter Principal

Parents / Guardians,  Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled from 8:00-7:00 on Thursday, October 24 & 8:00 to 12:00 on Friday, October 25.     Listed below are two options parents can select from when considering what best works for each individual family’s schedule and needs.  1. EMAIL:  I would like an email synopsis from my student’s TEAM of teachers.   Click HERE to fill out form 2. IN-PERSON CONFERENCE: I would like to meet IN-PERSON for a 15 minute conference with my student’s TEAM of teachers.  Click the SignUp link below to sign up for an IN-PERSON conference Click the TEAM your student is on from the tabs at the top of the page Select conference time IN-PERSON Parent-Teacher Conference Sign Up Thanks! Chris Carter Principal