Monroe High School and its first-ever Career and College Ready Day will be featured tonight in a televised report by WTVG-TV news reporter Kristian Brown. The piece is scheduled to be in the 5:30 p.m. segment of the news. Consult your cable operator for the location of WTVG-TV on your cable dial. It is Channel 13 if you have over-the-air television.
WTVG-TV reporter Kristian Brown was at Monroe High School this week and filed this story about the school's successful Trojan Pride Card program. Copy and paste the link below into browser to see more. The MHS piece is preceded by a 15-second lawyer commercial.
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Congratulations to Monroe High School graduate Jonathon Brown who has been elected president of his 1,100-member Class of 2019 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT.) He will serve during his freshman year with the next election scheduled for April 2016 for his class’ sophomore year. Jonathon said that he had a number of leadership roles while at Monroe High School but this is the first time he has been elected class president. Jonathon was a summa cum laude graduate and a senior scholar as a member of the MHS Class of 2015. With scholarship offers from eight major universities, he was one of the most sought-after MHS grads in the history of the school. During his years at MHS, he was a member of the student council, National Honor Society president, Upward Bound Student of the Year and captain of the wrestling team. At MIT, he is studying mathematics and astrophysics. Best wishes…Mr. President.
There will be no school for Monroe Public Schools students this Friday, October 30, so our staff can participate in the county-wide in-service day. In addition, there will be no Kid’s Club at Riverside or Custer on Friday and there will be no Rainbow Pre-School on Friday either. Once again – no school Friday for Monroe Public Schools students, no kid’s club and no Rainbow Preschool.
The Monroe High School Instrumental Music Department will present its annual fall concert entitled Band-O-Rama! The concert, which will present the Monroe High School String Orchestra, Chamber Strings and the Monroe High School Trojan Marching Band, will be at 7 p.m., Wednesday, October 28, in the Monroe High School Auditorium.
The Orchestra will kick off the concert with a variety of selections including: “John Williams Trilogy” and “Hopak” from “The Fair at Sorochnisk. The Chamber Strings portion will include ‘Allegro in D” by Vivaldi.
The last portion of the concert will feature the 96-member, Trojan Marching Band. The band will present a review of their recently concluded marching season entitled “Queen with a little bit of Styx,” including the songs “We Will Rock You,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Too Much Time On My Hands” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
The concert will be under the direction of Orchestra director Ann Felder and Band director James Nuechterlein. The Master of Ceremonies will be Craig Prater. The public is welcome and admission is complimentary.
Nearly 900 Monroe High School students earned Trojan Pride Cards for their 2014-2015 school year academic achievements. A Trojan Pride card is given to students based on the GPAs – 3.0 GPA and higher -- for the previous school year. This year’s cards were awarded at an October 20 breakfast for the recipients.
There are three levels of achievement based on a student’s GPA and each higher level qualified students for more and better rewards. For instance, recipients of the highest level – 3.8 or higher -- qualify for drawings for a free school yearbook, Winterfest tickets, or prom tickets. All student recipients also qualify for various “deals” at local merchants, such as a percentage off of purchases for foods, video games, clothing and flowers, for example.
“We are very proud of all Monroe High School students and we want to acknowledge those who have earned a 3.0 GPA or higher by working hard in class and doing so well. Our local merchants also are proud of these academic achievements and were eager to help support Monroe High School and our students,” said Monroe High School Principal Mrs. Sandra Kreps.
The MHS Parent Club holds an annual Harvest Party as its main fundraiser that is supported by parents, teachers and merchants. All of the profits go toward academic incentives for students.
“Our Parent Club works hard to support our students and to encourage them to strive to academically be the best they can be. They are just as excited for the students to receive their cards as the students are,” Mrs. Kreps said.
In a letter to her students. Mrs. Kreps encouraged them raise their GPA this year. Those who were at 4.0 were encouraged to maintain that level. For others, she said a bit more effort on homework, classwork or reading can help a student to raise his or her GPA,
“I also want to encourage our students to give back to their fellow students as a peer tutor or as a core tutorial student through their school counselor. By helping others learn, they strengthen their academic skills while fulfilling one of the MHS Guiding Forces which is ‘Taking Care of One Another, ’” Mrs. Kreps said.
She added that former core tutorial students felt they had improved their efforts on college entrance exams by tutoring others,
“As principal, a highlight for me is seeing students achieve while helping one another,” Mrs. Kreps said.
Monroe High School will hold its first Career and College Ready Day on Wednesday, Oct. 28, for all students. The 9th through 11th graders, will take the preliminary-SAT (PSAT.) Seniors will have individualized opportunities and personalized guidance in their career and college-readiness progress.
“At Monroe High School, we are committed to providing educational opportunities to help each student be career- and college-ready when they graduate from MHS,” said Monroe High School Principal Mrs. Sandra Kreps. “We look at this as helping prepare our students to succeed in the global market.”
At Monroe High School, two separate age-appropriate sets of tests will be given – one to the ninth graders and one to the 10th and 11th graders – on Career and College Ready Day. For the 12th graders, they will spend the morning of Oct. 28 at a computer doing such things as completing their college applications, completing a resume for job and scholarship opportunities, performing a career inventory, doing college and scholarship searches and completing specific career and college activities for their educational development plans,
Mrs. Kreps said that to help determine their readiness, College Board has re-designed the preliminary SAT assessment which is the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test given to 10th and 11th graders and the PSAT 8/9 given to 9th graders. For the 10th and 11th graders, the PSAT-NMSQT is an assessment that shows students where they may need academic work so they are career- and college-ready when they graduate from Monroe High School.
“This also gives students a chance to prepare for the SAT which all 11th graders will take in the spring as part of the state assessment schedule. It also is the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test,” Mrs. Kreps said.
The freshmen will take the PSAT 8/9 test which is designed to help students and their teachers define the curriculum essentials that need to be focused on so students are career and college ready when they graduate. It also will develop a baseline measurement of readiness so they can see their improvement as they progress through school while giving them a chance to preview the SAT and PSAT/NMSQT and connect them to AP courses.
Mrs. Kreps said that students will get their test results in December and will be able to connect with two educational resources to get free SAT study recommendations, helping them to know what to focus on in their MHS classes as they prepare for the SAT.
Congratulations to the Monroe High School Trojans football team which has earned a spot back into the playoffs. The Trojans visit top-ranked 8-0 Saline, a Southeast Conference foe. The selection was announced Sunday night (Oct. 25.) The Monroe-Saline winner will take on Ann Arbor Pioneer (6-3) or Belleville (8-1).
Come on out for the Halloween Bash and help support the Monroe Public School’s Promise Fund at the same time. The Bash runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday (October 24) at Total Sports Monroe, 987 Stewart Rd., with trick or treating starting at 7 p.m. All proceeds and donations will benefit the Promise Fund which helps provide support to Monroe Public Schools’ homeless students and their families. For more information, check out the flyer which is attached. ,