Our Last Evening Recruitment Tour!!!

Okay, so I am a bit late posting information to my blog tonight! We stayed late tonight answering questions from parents and students. After all the recruitment activities were over many of our new staff stayed to celebrate our last evening of recruitment! Wow - have we had a great time meeting so many amazing students during January and February!

I really enjoyed talking with the students and parents tonight! I had some great questions from students who currently attend Stockton Elementary and Holiday Hill. It appears students tonight were interested in what it was like to have lockers! In my group we talked about how students at Julia Landon will be able to go to their lockers at the start of school, before their lunch period, and before 6th period. We talked about the fact that students don't go to their locker after school, because we want to make sure that they are not late to their buses!

My group also had some discussion about the slushy machine in the cafeteria! Students continue to be excited about the snack bar line in the cafeteria! It seems that some of our prospective students are more interested in ice cream and pizza than choosing a well balanced meal from our hot lunch line!

I continue to be so appreciative of all the parents and students who have expressed an interest in our program at Julia Landon! I am so excited that we are creating a school that will encourage students to grow academically, while also developing their leadership skills. I continue to encourage parents to call us if they have any further questions! Also, don't forget to get those magnet applications in on time!!!

Have a great weekend!

Valentine's Day Recruiting!

We continued our recruiting this evening with a Valentine's Day Open House! We had some great students on our tour. I was particularly entertained by the number of students wearing red and pink for the holiday! I also had fun listening to the various activities they had done in their elementary schools today to celebrate the holiday.

The group this evening saw our program overview presentation and took a tour of our school. Once again, the television production studio was a big hit! It has become very clear that everyone wants to have this elective during their middle school experience at Julia Landon College Prep.

The students on my tour were particularly entertaining this evening! I especially liked the students from Jax Beach who reminded me about the "slushie machine" discussion during the Jax Beach 5th Grade Parent Information Night! It appears that middle school students are excited about having slushies during their middle school lunch.

I also had some students on my tour who I can tell are going to be great in the athletics program at the middle school level. In particular, I had some fun discussion about playing football at the middle school level with a few of the prospective applicants.

As always, I continue to appreciate the many students and parents who are considering our program. We hope that we have answered all the questions from the tours this evening, but if you have any additional questions please give us a call!

County Spelling Bee and More Recruiting Activities!

This week Julia Landon was excited to host the annual Duval County Oral Spelling Bee! Contestants from throughout the county came to our campus to be a part of this tremendous event. I was amazed with each of the students who participated!

We continued a good number of recruiting activities this past week. We were excited to speak at the Awards Assesmbly at Holiday Hill Elementary. What a great group of 5th graders they have at their school!

We were also excited about the students who came on our tour this past Thursday! Due to the Spelling Bee, we had to do our program overview in the gymnasium. The students and parents seemed to enjoy this venue. After the tours we even had some students who decided to shoot some hoops and see what it is like to play ball in a middle school gym!

We have two more evening tours left. They are at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 14th and Thursday, February 21st. Anyone who has not already checked out our new program is invited to come see what our new dedicated magnet program is all about!

On Thursday, February 14th I will be posting a new question for my blog. This week it will have to do with the types of clubs and extracurricular activities which students would like at the middle school level. Be sure to log back in on Thursday to cast your vote!