Julian Middle School Garden
It’s Happening!!! PJMS is making great strides on our outdoor school garden project. A place where we can foster Academic Excellence, Social Equity, and Developmental Responsiveness growth. Our garden will be hands on, real life focused, and immediately improve the environment around us.
Teachers Michael Youngberg, Chris Meglan, and Timothy Walsh have guided the students through three parts of Phase 1 of our plan, to create a Working Raised Bed Garden on the East side of the school where 6th graders line up in the morning. Structured raised garden beds have been built by the students and staff. Although they increase the initial investment of time and money, which we are thankful to the PTO and Julian Middle School budgets for supporting us, these raised bed gardens will be easier for our students and staff to maintain and allow us to spend more time learning in the garden, rather than struggling with challenges like difficult soil conditions and weeds. They also provide garden programs with a more permanent presence encouraging participants and administrators to view the garden as an important resource that should be used often and sustained over time.
Green Team Members / 2017-2018
(Teacher Liaison - Mr. Youngberg)
Xochitl Chavez, Heidi Pikul Enger, Tyler Iglar-Mobley, Jaliyah Knighten, Lucero Munoz, Liam Shea, Lucy Thomas-Colwell, Mia Wetzler and Isabella Yipp
Jukebox Choir Excels Once Again!
Congratulations to the members of Jukebox who participate in the IGSMA State Festival in late April. They again received a Superior rating, which is the highest possible, and they were only two points away from perfect scores!
You can click the following link to listen to the recording from the performance. https://app.box.com/s/139wn43yxb89rpvgflkxsf3h1wm9rbqm
Congratulations to Mr. Seymour on doing an excellent job preparing our students. It was a thrilling performance and they represented Julian and Oak Park at the highest level!
Jukebox members include the following students:
Aiyana Best, Audrey Johnston, Ava Waters, Ben Bonick, Ben Rodriguez, Brady Walters, Brigid Barrette, Cameren Truelove, Caz Badynee, Chip Papier, Elanor Rollo, Gabe Huang, Greta Kirby, Henry Skalla, Jackson Hassler, James McConnell, Jessica Wolthusen, Kate Cipparrone, Kegan Jones, Kirsten Plunkett, Lena Tang, Lili Cleaveland, Lily Manning, Livia Angelini
London Bingenheimer, Matthew Tuhey, Megan Chyna, Michael Goto, Natalie Klein, Olivia Scott, Owen Miller, Roman Johnson, Roya Gharavi, Sabine Roser, Samantha Duwe, Sarah Chapman, Solana Kahn, Terria O'Neal, Tucker Bonnell, Wes Morrison and Will Endres
Misericordia – Service Learning
It is official: The students of PJMS are experts at getting money out of adults. On Friday, April 27, students and staff volunteered to pass out candy and collect donations for Misericordia, a home for people with severe disabilities. An astounding, 142 members of the Julian community volunteered. In a matter of 2 hours they were able to collect $2,300. Great job.
Tip of the Hat to the following Staff who supervised the can shaking:
Ms. McDonald, Ms. O’Keefe , Ms. Guarino, Mr. Colucci, Ms. Sherrard Blesch, Mr. Hoffmann, Ms. Buccieri, Ms. Saunders, Mr. Hendrickson, Mr. Morrell, Mr. Gates, Ms. Brown, Ms. Wehman, Mr. Apostol and Mr. Walsh (Lead Organizer of this Event)
OPEF - Spoken Word Competition
A big congrats to Julian's very own Louise Calkins (7th grade) and Aiyana Best (7th grade) who won 1st and 2nd place at this year's OPEF Respect the Mic Slam at the School of Rock last week. Snaps to all the thirteen Julian club members who participated in the slam and "brought that heat."
38th Annual Ethnic Festival
Oak Park Elementary School District 97 will host its 38th annual Ethnic Festival and World Languages Day on Saturday, May 5. School and community members are invited to participate in the event, which will kick off with a parade at Julian Middle School, 416 S. Ridgeland Ave., at 10 a.m. Attendees are encouraged to wear their heritage clothing or colors or school spirit wear. Following the parade, the festival will continue at Julian until 4 p.m. with musical performances, hands-on activities, dance, art workshops and more. The theme this year is "Celebrate Diversity: The heART of Who We Are".
Tribute to Excellence – Thursday, May 24
We will have our annual "Tribute to Excellence" program on the morning of Thursday, May 24 starting at 9:15. On this day, students are honored for going above and beyond inside and outside of the classroom. The students being recognized will receive an invitation to attend the program during advisory within the next couple of weeks. An email blast will also be sent to the parents/guardians of these students inviting them to be a part of the program.
Some of the activities students will be recognized for are as follows:
Math Club, West 40 Speech and Drama Festival, Choir, Orchestra, Band, Art Contest Winners, Robotics team, Volleyball, Basketball, Spoken Word, Best Buddies, and many more.
The program typically lasts about 75-90 minutes. We hope that many of you will join us here at Julian Middle School on the morning of Thursday, May 24 to recognize our students.
Upcoming Events:
- Ethnic Festival – Saturday, May 5
- No School – Monday, May 28 / Memorial Day
- 8th Grade Graduation - Thursday, May 31
- Last Day of School for 6th and 7th Graders - June 1 / 12:00pm Dismissal
Sincerely,
Dr. Todd T. Fitzgerald