Principal’s Blog
9-18-13
What a Beginning!
We have certainly had quite a kick off to our new school
year! I am extremely impressed by our young Mercy Women as they have fully
participated in every activity. The
upperclasswomen are setting a great example for our new freshwomen who are
having a great start!
Activity and
Service Fairs
In these first weeks back, students have had the
opportunity to attend activity and service fairs in our multi-purpose room to
review many clubs they may join and organizations they may connect with to
offer service. There are over 30 clubs
that our Mercy Women may join from cooking to robotics! Many community organizations also came to
discuss the ways we may be of help to them.
Thank you to Emily Hall who organized the service fair!
Opening of
School Mass and Freshwomen Pin Ceremony
On Tuesday, September 10th we welcomed Bishop Cote as he
came to celebrate with us the opening of the school year. At that Mass we also welcomed the freshwomen
as new members of our Mercy Community.
They received Junior “Big Sisters” who gave them their Mercy pins and
will watch over them in these next two years.
What a wonderful day and start to this new year.
Hear us “Roar”!
I am sure that you have heard we had two days with the
excitement of taping a promotional video that we will use in many ways, most
especially recruitment of new students.
Throughout the summer Mrs. Leary, our communications director, worked
with teachers and others to plan the sequencing of a video which would include
the entire student body. We used the new
song by Katy Perry “Roar” as it was a perfect fit for the “Mercy Tigers”! You will be able to see the video soon! Here are some photos taken while we were
filming –
Mercy/Xavier
Class of 2017 Social
On Friday, September 13th Mercy hosted a social for the Xavier freshmen
and Mercy freshwomen from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Pizza was served in the cafeteria with a DJ playing music in the
multi-purpose room. This is a
longstanding tradition and was very well attended. Everyone really seemed to enjoy their time
getting to know each other!
Athletics
Academics
Congratulations to Senior, Emily Hall, who has been named
as a National Merit Semifinalist. Emily
is one of approximately 16,000 students across the nation to earn this
distinction. For more information on
this award please click here: NationalMerit Semifinalist
Upcoming Events
·
Our Magazine
Drive is now underway. Students have
been faithfully bringing in their subscription orders and winning some great
prizes while they do so. For more
information on this important fundraiser please go to: http://www.mercyhigh.com/page/student-fundraisers
·
Mini
Class Night: On Thursday, September
19th we will be hosting our Mini Class Night from 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Parents will have the opportunity to follow
their daughter’s class schedule and meet her teachers. We are also privileged to have with us again
this year, Sr. Patricia McCarthy, CND who will speak to the entire
assembly. Your daughter should be
bringing home a pink copy of her schedule today (September 18th) so that you
may bring it with you Thursday evening. The school store will be open all
evening for your convenience. We look
forward to seeing you!
· The visiting team for our NEASC reaccreditation process will be here beginning Sunday, October 6th and continuing to
Wednesday, October 9th.
The self-study process in preparation for this visit has been quite
rewarding and we look forward to sharing our findings as well as our Mercy
Spirit with the NEASC team.
· The first Progress
Report will be posted to MMS on Tuesday,
September 24. If you have not yet
created your MMS parent account, see directives below:
The MMS Parent Portal enables parents to
view their daughter’s schedule, her attendance activity, her two progress reports
during each quarter, her report card at the end of each quarter, and also
biographical data including parent contact information. The first progress report will be posted on
September 24.
If you have
an MMS Parent account, go to the Mercy High website www.mercyhigh.com and
click on the icon for MMS Parent Portal. Enter your Username and Password.
· Your First
Name and Last Name must be
entered exactly as it appears in one of your daughter’s contact records.
· A Login
Name that you will use to access the MMS Grade Book. We recommend that you use your first and last
name. (e.g. JaneDoe)
· The ID
Number of your daughter. If you have
more than one daughter at Mercy, they can be added after your account is
created.
When the above information is
entered, click on the Create Account button. An email is automatically sent to the email
address that is on file for this contact record. You should check your email and look for an
email with a subject line of “Parental Access for.” The email includes the temporary password that
you will use to access the MMS Parent Portal.
The first time that you log into the MMS Parent Portal, you will be
asked to change your password. If you
need assistance, please call the main office.
·
Edline
Account: We have begun to use Edline
as the site for our teacher webpages where student homework can be found. Teachers have been asked to have information
on their webpages by Monday, September
23. Each student and parent has been
given an activation code to set up their Edline accounts. If you have misplaced your activation code
letter, we will have copies of the parent letter at Mini Class Night. If you are unable to attend, please send me
an e-mail at mbullock@mercyhigh.com
and I will send you your activation code by e-mail.
Be well.
