At last night's School Board meeting, the Board voted to place a referendum on the November 5 ballot seeking $19.4 million annually to protect and enhance educational programs and student services. The referendum would support the district’s new investment plan to “Ignite Student Learning.” Guided by feedback from residents, this plan was developed to stabilize our operating budget, strengthen our curriculum, and support the programs that will ensure our students are ready for life after graduation. Read more: https://www.rochesterschools.org/article/1611885
Due to predicted severe weather, RPS is canceling all after-school practices and games.
Here's what this means:
- All sporting events and practices are canceled.
- All activity buses are canceled.
- All Middle School After School classes and clubs offered through Community Education are canceled. All other Community Education programs are on as scheduled unless you receive a direct message from Community Education to the contrary.
Please check with your schools about their plans for PTSA meetings, concerts, and other events. The School Board meeting will still occur at the Edison Building starting at 5:30 p.m. If you cannot attend in person, you can livestream the board meeting at https://www.youtube.com/@ISD535.
Excited for our seniors.... and sad to see them go.
Abdi was excited to receive his special recognition awards today. He said he especially loved choir 🎶
Please join us tonight for the John Marshall Choir Concert, starting at 7:00 PM in the Auditorium.
2024 Yearbook: Get yours before they are gone! See Ms. Welsh in Room 3-109 for details. Cost is $108 cash or check payable to JM Yearbook.
All Seniors attend the Annual Senior Walk tomorrow! Meet in the cafeteria at 9 AM in your cap and gown. If you forget your cap & gown, still join us. We will start by doing a walk through the halls of JM, followed by loading buses to visit our elementary schools and JA. We are not signing up buses in advance. Once a bus is full, it is full. See JM Happenings for the bus routes. Join us!
The crew at Relay for Life. Thanks for joining us!
Class of 2024 Seniors: Senior Sunset is Friday, May 24th bring a blanket and your fellow Rocket friends to watch the sunset. There will be music, yard games, and The Wandering Scoop will serve ice cream and gelato, so don't forget your wallets! See you there!
Relay for Life had great turnout on a wonderfully sunny day! Thanks to all our Rockets for showing up!
Staff proudly previewing their Relay for Life wear. This annual event takes place at JMHS tomorrow, hope to see you there!
A few JMHS students headed over to John Adams MS to volunteer for their fun day on this sunny Friday! Thanks for giving your time Rockets!
Check out these happy kids! ❤️❤️❤️
Today Mrs Kraske's Creative Writing class went to Mrs. Lash’s kindergarten class at Washington. The kindergarteners made monsters. The JM students asked them questions about their monsters to write a story about each of them. Then we went back and gave them the stories.
Kids planting flowers and sharing some flower joy around the building.
Need a Pre-Participation Sport Physical? There are summer physicals available at a reduced cost. By appointment only and currently accepting reservations.
For OMC, call 507-529-660
For Mayo, use this link: https://sportsmedicine.mayoclinic.org/pre-participation-physical-examinations/
Class of 2024 Seniors!! Register for Senior Party today! Visit the Graduation page on the John Marshall website and click on Senior Party to register. Parents/Guardians of seniors, please consider helping out so we can make this party a huge success for our seniors. Adult friends, neighbors, and relatives can help! The volunteer sign-up is also on the Senior Party site.
Help 'make your mark' on JM by donating to our permanent JM Identity Mural. Over 2000 square feet of mural & mosaic designed by us & for us will be installed Fall 2024. Can you contribute $10, $50, more? Everything helps. https://ervasquez1.wixsite.com/jm-identity-mural
Tonight, Thursday, May 16th! JMHS is pleased to present the Spring Concert at 7 pm in our JMHS Ilstrup Auditorium. It promises to be a wonderful final performance for the JM Band Class of 2024 and we can't wait to share our work with you!
These two were excited to get their class rings today.
The First Annual John Marshall Soup Contest is in the books and was a success! We had some good food, and some laughs, and raised some money for the Relay For Life. After all of the votes were counted, counted again, and recounted, the winner of the first annual John Marshall soup contest was, DRUM ROLL PLEASE, Ms. Stephanie Oxley for her Curry soup. When asked if she would share the recipe, Steph was quick to say, "I sure will! It is a combination of everything from my refrigerator with curry in it." There you have it, The Martha Stewart of John Marshall struck again.
