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Welcome to Seventh Grade!

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Dear Parents and Students,

Grades 7 and 8 are departmentalized into an 8 period school day (including block periods) from 8:25am to 3pm daily. The curriculum includes: Religion, Language Arts and Literature, Science, Math, Social Studies, Physical Education and Electives including (but not limited to) Band, Drama, Study Skills, French and Art.

7th and 8th graders are challenged to participate in and provide school leadership.  They are actively involved in Community Outreach and Service Projects such as the Pierce County Hunger Walk, various food bank collections, Thanksgiving and Christmas Baskets and other service projects as needs arise. Students also have the opportunity in the 7th and 8th grade to run for positions in Student Council as the leaders for the younger students, in Safety Patrol, both before and after school.  They provide the school service as office monitors during lunch and they take on various other responsibilities in many all-school activities.

Seventh grade at St. Frances Cabrini School is the first year in which the students enter a departmentalized program.  Along with the eighth graders, the seventh grade has many leadership opportunities.  They are expected to be involved in community outreach and service projects such as the Pierce County Hunger Walk, various collections and school service activities.  They also have the opportunity to participate in Student Council as leaders for the younger students.

Characteristics of the Seventh Grade Student

• Physical Characteristics and Needs:   Seventh graders vary widely in their growth and development. Life for a seventh grader is becoming more complicated because of new and varied experiences, rapid physical changes and academic progress. 
• Emotional Characteristics and Needs:  They are continuing to develop a social sense. They are greatly influenced by their peers and seek the shelter of the group. While they usually have one or two close friends of the same sex, they are beginning to develop an interest in the opposite sex. 
• Social Characteristics and Needs:   The process of identity seeking increases for both boys and girls.  They like doing things with their peers and just being together. They are sensitive to criticism but realize that such correction is often necessary. They have a genuine interest in sharing things and in helping others. Emotions run high.
• Moral Characteristics and Needs:  Seventh graders have the intellectual and moral capacity to know right from wrong.  Overall they respect rules and expect others to follow as they do. The seventh grader needs increasing opportunities for independent choices and, with proper guidance, will begin to use their intellectual abilities as a spring-board to worthwhile personal advancement. 
• Intellectual Characteristics and Needs:   Because adolescents are now able to learn more about themselves and their personal human needs, they are ready for a more mature approach to life.  At this age there is a basic need for youth to disagree with authority, so the seventh grader tends to reject much of what has been learned as a child.  It is vitally important that adults support, encourage, be patient and provide opportunities for the young person to develop positive attitudes towards life, God, people. 

Parent-Teacher Partnership

The partnership between home and school is vital to give the guidance, support, and nurturing that our maturing seventh and eighth graders need. We all want the students to experience personal and academic success – academic and personal.  The key to supporting students is through communication.

• Teachers post daily assignments prominently in the classroom. 
• Parents check the student’s assignment book to make sure that assignments are recorded every day. 
• Parents and teachers may write messages in the assignment book as one method of home-school communication.
• Teachers send home graded tests and parents sign all tests and send them back to school.
• After reading the teacher’s monthly newsletter, parents sign and return the clip-off section of the newsletter.  Comments are appreciated.
• The best ways to reach the teacher are by voicemail at school (253) 584-3850, or by sending a note to school with your student. The teacher will call you back within a reasonable time.
• Every Wednesday a family envelope comes home with school-wide communications.  You may also use this envelope to send notes to the teacher.
• The entire school holds Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences in the fall and in the spring. 
• Report cards are sent home at the end of each trimester and progress reports are sent home at each mid-term. 
• Parents or teachers may request conferences as needed at other times.

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