From your south campus principal, Grant Bickell
To make sure everyone is on the same page for Lessons and Carols, I am pausing my normal Nuntius style to highlight the FAQ for our 2020 Lessons and Carols at South.
LESSONS & CAROLS will be held WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9th at 10:00 AM
The service of Nine Lessons and Carols is an historic service used during the seasons of both Advent and Christmas, in which we meditate upon and give worship to Almighty God through readings from Holy Scripture and carols of praise and thanksgiving for His coming. The Scripture lessons take the worshiper through the full history of our salvation from Genesis to the Gospels, and the carols give us an opportunity to respond to the goodness of God in praise.
LESSONS & CAROLS FAQ
When is rehearsal?
What does my student need to wear for rehearsal on Monday, December 7th?
What does my student need to wear for the performance on Wednesday, December 9th?
What time do I drop off and pick up my student and where?
How will I watch the performance?
What if my Dialectic Student is not involved?
Will there be a reception?
We are Hiring!
More information on all employment opportunities at The Academy can be found at: https://theacademyok.org/employment-opportunities/
Smart Watches
We will be having students with a watch that connects to a phone/internet for grammar students to leave it at home or turned off and leave in the backpack and for dialectic students to check it into the “phone motel” along with their phones at the beginning of the school day. The Academy Handbook supports this practice, and we are mirroring the Rhetoric campus enforcement of the policy. Due to the volume of students with Smart Watches it has become increasingly difficult to ask teachers to methodically manage internet access during classes while also teaching with presence of mind. Thank you for your partnership and support for this matter!
Final Exams at The Academy
We are reconfiguring the way we manage final exams for all Dialectic & Rhetoric classes. While students will complete the semester with some sort of assessment (project or test), this experience will follow the same pattern of assessment procedures used throughout the semester. We are transitioning away from intensive testing procedures that entail 1-2 hour exams and require a complete restructuring of the last 2 weeks of school. We believe that students retain information best if it is built upon in a cumulative manner without the presence of stress-induced situations that force intensive cramming. Research fully supports that depth of learning and lasting retention occurs most when students gradually develop deepening knowledge with continual opportunities to strengthen conceptual and long-term memory. We believe this new assessment practice will provide healthier opportunities in the school culture to deepen memory retention and deepen understanding of knowledge. This shift also provides more opportunity for class instruction time at the end of each semester. If you have questions about this shift in practice, I welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you further. Please contact me!
House Verse
This month we are memorizing Colossians 3:15 as part of our yearly study on the Fruit of the Spirit. If they memorize it and recite it to Mr. Bickell, they will receive 5 House Points.
Calendar for the rest of the semester:
