2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 32,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 12 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

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Awards Ceremony for 1st trimester

Dear Parents & Guardians,

Queens Collegiate cordially invites you to an awards ceremony to honor our students’ achievements.  We will be giving awards for perfect attendance, honor roll, citizenship, and excellence in various classes.  We hope you will be able to attend.

Light refreshments will be available.  Please RSVP to principal@queenscollegiate.org  (this email is solely for RSVPs.  If you need to reach out to Ms. Dubei, please use msdubei@queenscollegiate.org or jdubei@schools.nyc.gov.  Thank you)

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Teen Night–Parents invited also

teen night 12 2 11 postcard

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College Tours

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students,

Most students have the opportunity to go on college tours this Wednesday and/or Thursday. Some students, especially those in grades 7, 11, and 12, will have opportunities later in the year. All college tours this year are organized by the advisors of each grade (i.e. 6th grade advisors plan tours for the 6th grade students), which is a slight change in our policy. We feel this will help our students on grade go to appropriate colleges for their developmental and academic readiness levels.

For the 10th & 11th grade students who received permission slips to fill potential open slots on the 9th grade overnight trip:
Seats will be filled first by 9th grade students who return permission slips on Monday. Any open seats will then be filled by 10th & 11th grade students who have shown particular interest in the colleges that we will be visiting (Brown University, Yale University and Rhode Island School of Design). Student interest will be judged by a survey that must be returned to Ms. Kaufman or Ms. Abdul-Malik. First come, first served is not in effect. We want to ensure students who show exceptional interest in a particular school are given priority over those who solely want to attend an overnight tour.

Thank you.
Ms. Dubei & the 9th grade team

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Community Education Council vacancies. Apply now!

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students,

The NYC Department of Education has Community Education Councils (CEC), which are the local educational boards for each district. There is a position available in the District 28 CEC which makes policy for all K-8 schools in this district.

For more information on Community Education Councils and the responsibilities of parents who serve on these committees, see this website:  powertotheparents.org 

Two vacancies are open, and one of which must be filled by an English Language Learner Parent. If you are interested in applying for the positions, please fill out the application attached your resume and fax to 718-557-2830 or mail to, Ms. Phyllis Gittens-Waithe at District 28 CEC Office.
90-27 Sutphin Boulevard
Jamaica, New York 11435

FINAL- 2011 2013 CEC APPLICATION

B. 15800 Community Education Council Application-10.07_Urdu

B. 15800 Community Education Council Application-10.07_Bengali

B. 15800 Community Education Council Application-10.07_Chinese

B. 15800 Community Education Council Application-10.07_Russian

B 15800 Community Education Council Application-10 07_Spanish

B. 15800 Community Education Council Application-10.07_Haitian Creole

I hope that some of our parents will apply to have your voices heard.  Good luck!

Ms. Dubei

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Open House

Dear Potential Parents, Guardians and Students,

We welcome you to attend an Open House where you can learn more about the academic offerings, social-emotional supports, and extracurricular activities at Queens Collegiate.

Looking forward to seeing you Wednesday, 10/26 at 6:30PM.

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School lunch forms

Dear Students, Parents & Guardians,
This Friday, October 21st the DOE will reset all students who have not turned in lunch forms to $1.50 lunch.  Currently, the DOE is using last year’s information.
If you have not done so, please return your form immediately.  These forms qualify our school for approximately $500,000 in Federal funding.  You may also directly fill out the form online here.
I highly recommend that all parents send your child with $1.50 for lunch on Monday, Oct 24th, just in case there has been an error in processing your form.  The DOE now processes the forms centrally.  With 1 million forms to process, errors are expected.  Ask your child after school on the 24th if there has been a change in their payment.
If there is a processing error, the best approach is just to send in another form or fill it out online.  In that case, your child would need to pay $1.50 until the form is processed properly.  See Mr. McMahon for additional forms.
Should you want to pre-pay for your child’s lunches online, you may do that here.
Best regards,
Mr. McMahon
Assistant Principal
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School Business Manager Posting

Dear Parents, Guardians and Students,

Queens Collegiate is expanding our administrative support to better meet your child’s needs. This will free Mr. McMahon and myself from some of the logistics and paperwork we must do to run a school, and allow us to be in the classrooms more often.

If you know someone who has experience in accounting, business, finance, management, etc that is looking for a position, please see the posting here.

All the best,

Mrs. Dubei

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Calendar of A & B days, report cards

Dear Parents, Guardians, and Students,

To make it easier to track A/B days, and dates of report cards and vacations, I have created a calendar.

You can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/QCcalendar

We will be trying to print sufficient numbers in color this week, so you can place one in a convenient spot in your home.

Best regards,

Mrs. Dubei

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First week newsletter

Dear Parents & Guardians,

The following forms were sent home on Tuesday.  In case your child did not bring it home, attached are our First Week Newsletter and our QC Policies Letter & Parent Survey.  Please look at these documents, and send the survey and signed form back to us.

Thank you for sending us this important information to help your child.

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