Message from Mr. Tempel 3/14

12 Mar 2025

Greetings Middle School and Secondary Families and Students!

Here is what's happening with our Middle School and Secondary students:

Reminder:

Quintile 4 Began - Wednesday, 26 February

Quintile 4 Ends - Monday, 28 April

CEESA Events:

Upcoming:

CEESA Middle School Strings - Riga, Latvia - 2-5 April

CEESA Middle School Knowledge Bowl - Skopje, North Macedonia - 24-26 April

Week Without Walls

Secondary students signed up for trips this week!

On Monday, 17 March, trip agreements will be passed out to students for their specific trip. Costs for each trip will be on the trip agreements.

For Secondary, the trip agreements, along with the 200 Euro deposit will be due Friday, 21 March. The rest of the payment will be due on 4 April. (The deposit goes towards the final payment.)

For Middle School, trip agreements will be passed out on 17 March and are due on 21 March with full payment due on 4 April.

Here are the links to the two Week Without Walls presentations. Information about all trips have been updated including pricing.
- Middle School Week Without Walls Presentation
- Secondary Week Without Walls Presentation

Please let me know if you have any questions at any time. Thanks!

Arrival/Dismissal:

We are still seeing many students arriving after 8:00am in the morning. I have been running "Tardy Sweeps" at 8:00am for any students arriving to school after 8:00am. This means that I meet directly with the students and discuss reasons why they are late. We are asking for your help to get all students to school on time!

Please work with us to get your students to school by 7:50 so they have time to arrive to class prior to 8:00am. Thank you!

Dismissal is at 3:20pm daily (unless you are informed otherwise).

If your student rides the bus and the bus arrives late, your student will not be counted tardy.

ASAs:

Session 3 Begins on 1 April:

If you student rides the bus, they will be put on a late bus for ASAs. If you student is not a bus rider, but needs a late bus home from ASAs, please contact Blerta Sadiku at blerta-sadiku@tirana.qsi.org.

There is much more to follow, but that's all for now.

I am excited for all the wonderful things that are coming in 2025! Thank you so much for your support for our TIS community and your students!

Jeff Tempel

Middle School/Secondary Director of Instruction

jeff-tempel@tirana.qsi.org