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Current Weekly Announcements

After School Study Center

Beginning today, we will be utilizing our After School Study Center as a restorative opportunity for students hoping to improve recorded unexcused or tardy attendance to remove themselves from the No Admit List for a given week.  Students can attend a 45 minute (minimum) After School Study Center Session within one week of a recorded unexcused absence or tardy.  By actively engaging in academic tasks during this time, students can remove one unexcused absence or tardy from their No Admit List eligibility (note: attendance will not change in Infinite Campus). Students may only utilize this restorative practice twice within one week. As a reminder the After School Study Center is available Mondays - Thursdays from 3:45-5:15pm in the Library Media Center. Students are welcome to drop-in at any point during this window of time. Memorial teachers, across multiple subject areas, will be available to help.

Attention Senior Families

Packets from Midwest Scholastic, our official provider of caps, gowns, announcements, and other Senior paraphernalia will be distributed to seniors in their English classes this week. Midwest Scholastic will be at Memorial High School during lunch in the cafeteria on Thursday, December 12th, to take orders for caps and gowns in person. You will also be able to place orders online. If your student does not receive the packet for some reason, there will be extras available in the Wisconsin Neighborhood Office.

VPM Annual Winter Art Sale

Vel Phillips Memorial’s Annual Winter Art Sale will be held December 11-13. There will be a variety of artwork crafted by professional, local, and student artists from the Memorial community. Come for cozy mugs, beautiful knits, one of a kind cards, and so much more. The majority of the profits go directly to the artists and the rest support VPM’s Art Department.

Sale Dates

  • Wednesday, December 11: 7:30am-4:30pm
  • Thursday, December 12: 7:30am-4:30pm
  • Friday, December 13: 7:30am-7:30pm

Final Demonstration of Learning (DoL) Schedule

Similar to the 2023-24 school year, we will again be implementing a Final Demonstration of Learning (DoL) at the end of each semester. Here is the Semester 1 and Semester 2 DoL Schedule for the 2024-25 school year.  Although we will be following a modified schedule on January 22-24 and June 9-11, students are still expected to be in attendance at the designated times that their classes are meeting to complete the required DoL assessment.

Madison Metro Customer Service

Madison Metro wants to hear from parents and students as soon as possible if a bus does not pick up a student. You or your student can call Metro Customer Service directly at 608-266-4466 if a bus does not show up. Metro can let you know if the bus is running late. If the driver made an error in a route, they often will send a bus back to pick students up.

Find bus routes and bus stop reminders, as well as additional information for students riding Madison Metro buses at mmsd.org/transportation. Students eligible for free bus passes should request one through their neighborhood office. 

No Admit List

We will again be implementing our No Admit List to encourage strong attendance during the school day so that students can attend after-school sporting events (as spectators) and dances.  Students and parents/ guardians of students with 2+ unexcused absences and/or 4+ tardies during the preceding week will receive a Monday email letting them know their attendance, as currently recorded in IC, has identified them as needing to be on the No Admit List for the upcoming week.  To read more about Memorial’s No Admit List, please refer to this information sheet.

Cell Phone Practices for the 24-25 School Year

All MMSD High Schools will continue to implement universal expectations regarding personal electronic devices in classrooms with the goal of establishing clear rules and expectations regarding the appropriate use of personal electronic devices with our high school-aged students.  Please review this information and know that teachers will be introducing and reinforcing these expectations across the school year.

Attendance Information

Absences (appointment, illness, college visit, etc.) should be reported to your student's neighborhood office administrative assistant in the morning. Contact information for the neighborhood offices is as follows:

Attendance can also be reported online through the Parent Portal in Infinite Campus. Please note the process has changed slightly from previous years. Helpful resources are below:

  • Attendance Brochure: Information about how to excuse your student, how to access student attendance and grade information in Infinite Campus, VPM’s progressive tardy practice, etc. 
  • VPM Daily Bell Schedule

Athletics and Online Ticket Sales & Live Event Streaming

All of Wisconsin’s Big 8 High School Conference teams are integrating their scheduling, ticketing, streaming and athletic websites into one place with Elite One programming. Two of the biggest updates to the 2024-25 athletic seasons are online ticketing and streaming of all sporting events. 

  • Online Ticket Sales: Visit the GoFan website (http://gofan.co/) or download the GoFan app from the Apple Store or Google Play Store, search for Memorial, and buy tickets for any sporting event. For more information on the ticketing service, watch this  introductory video by Madison West Athletic Director Corvonn Gaines (https://youtu.be/sZhwiUfJ2lM).  Please note, cash sales are no longer available at ticketed athletic events and refunds cannot be issued for tickets purchased in error. 

  • Event Streaming: Through NFHS programming, every sporting event in our spectator gyms and stadiums within the Big 8 conference, both home and away, will be streamed online. Watch a streaming tutorial video by MMSD Athletic Director Jeremy Schlitz to learn more (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59vlUt2toFk).

This Year’s Daily Schedule

Be sure to review our 2024-2025 Bell Schedule.  Please note that high schools no longer have a Monday early release schedule.