Monthly Archives: March 2022

March 9, 2022

Dear SMILE parents,

Praised be Jesus Christ!

It has been noted that there has been a lot of pressure on everyone in the school community lately.  In order to promote school-life balance for both learners and teachers, SMILE is adopting the following measures:

1. FOR KINDER TO GRADE 10: Certain Thursdays and Fridays will be wellness days.  Essentially, we will be going back to the 4-day virtual synchronous meetings between learners and teachers.  The Class Advisers will advise you within each week whether the wellness day falls on a Thursday or Friday.  These shall coincide with schedules of performance tasks, written tasks, and post-exam rest.

• FOR GRADES 4-10 ONLY:  Required (graded) written tasks about 2 weeks topics will be only once monthly.  The adjusted rubrics are as follows and will also be formally stated in a memo soon:

1. 5 points- Submitted proof of accomplishment of the required asynchronous activity on time, and there is evidence of extra care and effort in performing the task;

• 4 points- Submitted proof of accomplishment of the required asynchronous activity on time, and there is evidence of some care and effort in performing the task;

• 3 points- Submitted proof of accomplishment of the required asynchronous activity on time;

• 2 points- Submitted proof of accomplishment of the required asynchronous activity but late by 2 weeks;

• 1 point- Submitted proof of accomplishment of the required asynchronous activity but late by 4 weeks;

• 0 point- Submitted proof of accomplishment of the required asynchronous activity but late by more than 4 weeks, or did not submit at all

• FOR GRADES 1-10: There will be only a minimum of 4 performance tasks for each quarter.  These may be oral, live, or asynchronous.

• FOR GRADES 1-10: except for the required written tasks or performance tasks, weekly assignments in all subjects will only be for the learners’ own improvement.

• FOR TOMORROW, March 10, ONLY THE FOLLOWING periods will have synchronous meetings between teachers and learners:

8:30  am

9:30 am

10:30 am

11:30 am

12:30 pm

1:30 pm

2:30 pm

3:30 pm

4:30 pm

5:30 pm

6:30 pm

7:30 pm

• FOR THIS FRIDAY, March 11 only – Wellness Friday.  There will be no classes in Kinder to Grade 10.  Please let the children finish whatever Performance Task is due next week or Written Task they have not yet submitted this week.

Thanks so much po. God bless everyone!

Very truly,

Teacher Julie Anne Litob