DATES
Thursday, August 16
Welcome to Montgomery Blair High School
- 8/27 First day for teachers
- 8/30 Ninth Grade & New Students Orientation: CAP and Magnet students stay until 12:15 PM; 7:45 AM – 11:30 AM
- 9/3 Labor Day: Offices and schools closed
- 9/4 First day of school for students
- 9/6 Ninth Grade Parents Information Meeting; Alumni Auditorium; 7:00 PM
- 9/10 No school for students and teachers
- 9/17 Twelfth Grade Parent Meeting; Alumni Auditorium; 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM
- 9/17 Back-to-School Night: Arrive early for parking; 7:00 PM
NEWS
- All ninth graders will be assigned a locker; tenth-twelfth graders who wish to be assigned a locker must sign-up for one at https://goo.gl/forms/g702hoYYTBfFknUU2 by 8/22
- Opening of school information, including info about summer assignments, Senior portraits, bus schedules, and much more, is available here
Silver Chips Online: Click to see our top stories
Siemens Winner
Congratulations to Andrew Komo, Class of 2018, who as the current Grand Prize winner of the SIEMENS Competition in Math, Science and Technology, took home a $100,000 scholarship!
POSSE Scholars
Congratulations to Samuel Teshome, Marc Monteil, and Darien Price for being awarded full four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation
Councilmember for the Day
Moira Johnson, Class of 2018, was selected as this year's Councilmember for the Day
2018 C-SPAN Teacher Fellow
Congratulations George Mayo, named a 2018 C-SPAN Teacher Fellow
- Parents/Guardians! To receive Connect Ed Emergency Messages and other important informational emails from Blair, we must have your email address on file; if you do not receive Connect Ed emails, please fill out this form and return it to the Main Office so we can contact you!
- Help Blair and the PTSA...painlessly! There are many ways to raise funds for Blair with little or no effort! For example, sign up your Giant/Safeway/Target/Amazon accounts and cards so they support Blair with every purchase! Please note that many of these links have to reactivated annually, so update your cards today!
- Academic Support times and locations are available
- Subscriptions to Silver Chips, our award-winning newspaper, are available here
- Testing help: Find resources to help with success in the SAT and/or ACT
- Find out what you need to know about Student Service Learning (SSL)
- Congratulations Principal Renay Johnson for being recognized as one of the 100 most influential people for the Nations Capital Metro Area Latinos
- Learn about the George B. Thomas, Sr. Learning Academy, a Saturday morning tutoring/mentoring program 2 more news items here
