Even though Black History Month may be coming to a close today, DIS has enjoyed featuring innovative, powerful and strong leaders who have helped changed our world for the better!
Sharing out our plans for Reading Across America MONTH! We are spreading the love of reading from one week to all month long!
The SCPS Teacher Career Expo & School Showcase scheduled for Wednesday, 2/28/24 is postponed, and a new date will be announced soon. In the meantime, SCPS is still accepting applications for potential teaching positions on our website: https://somerset.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, "Peter Pan" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
February flew by! We have a FREE casual day on Friday for our monthly incentive. Our sweatshirt orders are due by Friday as well. Don't wait until it's too late!
https://www.customink.com/fundraising/24-dis-crewneck
Have a great week!
Sharing out information about local rec league sports!
The G.R.I.T. Mentoring Program is inviting young men (5th-12th grade) to the Gentlemen Dining Out event on 2/28/24, 5:30 PM at Washington Academy & High School. RSVP to Tony Morton Sr. by Friday, 2/23/24 at 443-859-1655.
Re-sharing our uniform policy!
The deadline to respond to the '24-25 academic calendar survey has been extended to March 6. Please take a few moments to review the drafts and respond to the survey on our district website, here: https://www.somerset.k12.md.us/article/1442426
We want to thank the school community for raising over 4,000 for the American Heart Association! Mrs. Jones highlighted our top two fundraisers Paisley K and Kingsley B and rewarded them with a goodie basket. Mrs. Walters gave Target gift cards to our Spelling Bee winners Nellie and Brantley. Mrs. Walters also highlighted Gabriella for being our top Joe Corbi fundraiser in the fall. Big thanks to all our students and communities for making our school so successful!
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, "101 Dalmatians" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
We are so blessed to have all amazing teachers work at Deal Island! Announcing our '23-'24 Teacher of the Year: Ms. Anna Powers! Our first grade teacher was selected to move on in the contest for the county teacher of the year. Congratulations Ms. Powers!!!!!
As a reminder, schools and offices are closed on Monday, February 19, 2024 in observance of Presidents Day. Enjoy the long weekend! Schools will reopen on Tuesday, February 20.
Happy Valentine's Day from Deal Island! We love our students, staff and community!!!
Last call for any American Heart Association donations! If 3 more students sign up online, DIS can get an extra $500! Register: http://www2.heart.org/goto/dealisland
Any paper forms can be turned in tomorrow. Thank you!
Phone service was restored to all SCPS buildings this afternoon, Feb. 13, 2024. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.
Schools continue to experience phone outages today, 2/13/24 while repairs are in progress. In the meantime, email any staff member from our school websites or the SCPS mobile app, message us on social media or your student's teacher in Rooms.
Did you review the proposed '24-25 calendar drafts and leave your feedback in our short survey? Please visit our website to participate in the calendar adoption process: https://www.somerset.k12.md.us/article/1442426
SCPS is experiencing a temporary interruption in phone service today, 2/12/24. The outage affects all school buildings, and repairs are currently underway. We apologize for the inconvenience and will send an update when phone service is restored.
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, "Tangled" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
