The 8 th grade operates as one large team. There is also a team for the Foreign Language and ESOL students. This arrangement allows the teachers to coordinate plans for interdisciplinary lessons as well as to work together to help individual students. When parents schedule a conference, it will probably be with their child's entire team. Team leaders, called IRTs, are noted in the Staff List on pages 2-3 of this Handbook.
All students have a summer reading and writing assignment that is due the first week of school.
Every student should receive the assignment before school ends in June or through the mail. For more information, contact your child's English teacher or look at detailed information on TPMS's web site at . Testing Students take a variety of tests during the school year. Some of the tests are being revised and new information will be sent home during the school year. Test dates are listed in the school calendar in this Handbook.