Dear Students, Parents, and Guardians: Reading and writing are essential to learn about ourselves and our world. Students will read a variety of books over the summer and engage the texts through writing. Please see the attached summer reading suggested texts and choices for response.
If you have questions, please contact your English Language Arts Teacher or school administration. Enjoy your summer and have fun reading!
PTO Elections
Dear Parents, We will hold election for next year. We need help from all current and new parents. The election will be on Thursday, May 23rd at 6 pm right before Kindergarten Graduation program. You can get nomination form at the front office. See you all at the elections!
AR Top Readers Prizes
We will give Kindles to top Readers in Accelerated Reader (AR) at the end of the year. We will look at the overall points accumulated for the 4-8 grade levels and the most books read for the K-3 grade levels.
Kindle Fire- 1st place Kindle Paperwhite- 2nd place Kindle- 3rd place
Keep reading!
Summer School
SST-Alamo is offering a summer school program required for K thru 8th grade students who need additional instruction. The four-week program, from June 4th to June 28th 2013, will focus on Reading and Math skills and concepts. No summer school for Science and Social Studies, tests will be given for the students who fail these subjects.
SST-Alamo requires the students who fail Reading and/or Math course(s); STAAR Reading and/or Math tests and eligible ESL students to attend the summer school program. The program will also include the students who are in jeopardy of failing because these students may have a “summer slide” and forget some of what they have learned during summer. The summer school will be an opportune time to intervene and to provide the extra support they need to meet new learning expectations awaiting them. We will mail letters to parents of possible failing students. Please read Summer School Parent Letter here.
The Robotics Summer Study
The Robotics Summer Study will be from June 10-21, 2013. The cost is $100 per student and is open to grade levels 3rd-8th grade. In order to be eligible, students should not be in summer school, have good grades, and behavior. Registration will close on June 5th. Robotics Study will be from 9am to 12pm.
Enrollment for 2013-2014 School Year
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-ALAMO IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 8TH GRADES IN 2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR. AS A PUBLIC OPEN-ENROLLMENT CHARTER SCHOOL SYSTEM, WE WELCOME ALL STUDENTS WHO MEET STATE AGE AND HEALTH REQUIREMENTS IN 2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR. School of Science and Technology-Alamo is a high performing K-8, tuition free, college prep, public charter school that focuses on math, science, ELA, and computer technologies to provide opportunities for underserved communities.
Dear Parents, The first day of school is on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013. We will have 4 nine-weeks reporting periods next year, instead of 6 six-weeks reporting periods. Please check tentative 2013-14 Academic Calendar here.
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL : August 21, 2013 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL : May 30, 2014
STAAR EXAMS
Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s): You can get more information about STAAR at TEA’s website including assessment attributes, assessed curriculum documents, test blueprints, and released sample STAAR questions. There is a 4-hour time limit for students to complete the test. STAAR Test Dates: ~ May 14th Tuesday: STAAR Grade 5, 8 Math Retest ~ May 15th Wednesday: STAAR Grade 5, 8 Reading Retest
Please make all necessary arrangements to ensure that your child we be present and on time at school on their test dates. Before the test, we would like you to make sure that your child: 1) Get a good sleep before the test night 2) Has a good breakfast in the morning 3) Come to school before 7.45 a.m. 4) Has two pencils (preferably soft #2), an eraser and a sharpener with him/her 5) Bring a reading book
Dear Parents, SST Mobile applications are ready for all parents of our school. Parents and guardian can keep in contact with the school and track students’ progress from their smart phones anytime.
-Access to information about SST students’ grades, homework, attendance, discipline points, schedule, web news, school calendar, payments and test center.
-Offline viewing of student’s data. Parents view student's data even when you are not connected to a network.
-One click login once you save your child's login information.
-Email communication with your child's teachers without leaving the application.
Texas State Science & Engineering Fair
We participated to Texas State Science & Engineering Fair with 4 students: Kayla Bradshaw, Tionna Scott, Kristen Atencio, and Leighton Cornell.
Kayla Bradshaw earned 2nd place in Animal Science-Junior Dvision Category with her project named 'The Effect of Different Pesticides on Cricket Mortality'. We would like to congratulate all students, parents, and teachers who made this success happen.
Lady Eagles Basketball Team got championship in NW District, played against charter and private schools. They won all 9 games and did not lose any game.
Here are the names of kids: Britani Elias, Brooke Richardson, Jacqueline Deleon, Maria Solórzano, Daizja Plummer, Julia Khiong, Sheyra Bravo, Kassie Hand, Anaya Samuel-Hartfield, Nicole Murillo.
Congratulations to Coach Perez, Parent Coach Plummer, parents, and students!
REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR AWARDS
Congratulations! SST-Alamo young scientist have done it again! On 3/4/13 14 students went on to compete in the Alamo Regional Science and Engineering Fair. We have 4 students: Tionna Scott, Leighton Cave, Kristen Atencio, and Kayla Bradshaw who will advance on to the Exxon Mobile Science and Engineering State Science Fair on March 26-29th.
We would like to thank the following Universities for all of their help Our Lady of the Lake University, UTSA, and Incarnate Word for aiding our students. We would especially like to thank the OLLU for reviewing all our paperwork and letting us use their labs. We would like to thank UTSA for providing microorganisms and for reviewing some projects.
Please join us in congratulating the following students: Fair II (Health Sciences) 1st GRAND PRIZE- Medicine & Health (B) Tionna Scott School of Science & Technology – Alamo Special Sixth Grade 2nd- Kayla Bradshaw Microbiology 4th- Anthony Perez Zoology 1st- Kayla Bradshaw Environmental 1st- Leighton Cave Chemistry 2nd- Kristen Atencio Engineering 5th- Mark Anthony Luna
Director's Awards: Behavioral & Social-Kevin Gicvan Behavioral & Social-Denny Hamrick Microbiology- Andrew Perez Environmental- Lilyth Cave Earth & Space- Brandon Barker Honorable Mentions Engineering- Citlali Trujillo Physics (A)- Scot Wallace Congratulations to Bailey Martin for going to compete in Zoology and he is only in 5th grade.
SPECIAL AWARDS: National Society of Black Engineers- 2nd Tionna Scott Superior Water Softeners- $100 Leighton Cave UTHSC SA Women's Faculty Association & American- $50 2nd Tionna Scott Broadcom Masters- Certificate Kayla Bradshaw Broadcom Masters- Certificate Tionna Scott $8,000 University of Incarnate Word Scholarship- Tionna Scott
We congratulate our Science Olympiad Students and Teachers for their achievements at the Regional Science Olympiad 2013.
Anatomy placed 1st place with Brandon Barker and Andrew Nelson Dynamic Planet placed 2nd place with Tionna Scott and Leighton Cornell Helicopter placed 2nd place with Leighton Cornell and Brandon Barker Mousetrap Vehicle placed 3rd place with Liam Campbell and Kayla Bradshaw Picture This placed 3rd place with Andrew Nelson, Liam Campbell, and Olivia Perez Crime Busters placed 3rd place with Savanah Gill and Tionna Scott
SST Alamo Academic and Athletic Achievements
Dear Parents and Students,
These are some of the academic and athletic achviements that our students earned. Congratulations to our students, parents, and students!
SST-Alamo is proud to announce that Eagles Robotics Team will participate in Alamo Region FLL Robotics Competition on March 2, 2013 at Memorial H. S. Robotics team is working very hard to prepare for this fun and educating event. The team and Mrs. I. Medina will like to thank all parents and student body for supporting the Eagles Robotics. Team members are having fun while developing critical thinking skills and team building. SST-Alamo Robotics team is composed of the following bright and dedicated students:
Jona Covarrubias Dennis Hamrick Bruce Panagopoulos Tionna Scott Brayden Thompson
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