Morton Junior High School News and Notes

Parents / Guardians,  Some important odds and ends: Our latest newsletter is now published.  Please take a look.  We have included lots of information. You can find all past emails archived in my blog here . It can also be found at the bottom of our homepage. There is still available slots for the Service Squad’s bell ringing on Thursday afternoon at Farm and Fleet and Walmart. You can sign up in the office.  The RISE students have started a service project for kids in need of warm winter items!  Please join us in donating new or gently used winter gloves and hats to Peoria Rescue Mission.  You can drop off these items under our Giving Tree in the Kiln foyer starting this week through Thursday, December 19th.  Thanks for your support and caring for those around you and keeping people warm this winter.  Dance sign-up is active.  Please take a look and consider helping out!  The theme is Glow and Snow . Tickets can purchased at lunch beg...

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Sent to parents on 11/19/24... Parents & Guardians,  I wanted to remind everyone of a service Morton #709 provides through our online filter, Securly.   When students are registered each summer, we provide parent/guardian emails directly from PowerSchool to Securly so they can send home weekly emails detailing each web search your student makes on their school-issued IPad.  This email is sent weekly at approximately 12:00AM each Monday morning.   This allows families to view the exact terms their students are searching online while at school and at home.  In this weekly email, you will see the exact terms searched and whether or not the search was allowed or prohibited.  I would also like to remind you that for all online activity, any and all results are run through our web filter. Web searches are filtered the same way at home as they are at school.    If for some reason you are not getting these weekly emails, please fill out...

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 ...

  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 a...