O'Bryant Gateway to the LMA

Grade 9 Parent Meeting - Oct. 9

The first Gateway Grade 9 Parent Meeting of the year will be held on Tuesday, October 9 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM in the Science Building Auditorium. This will be the first of three parent meetings to be held this year for parents and guardians of the Class of 2011.

Hello, Gateway Students - Like the Laptops?

This week, Mr. Figueroa is introducing mathematical "gizmos" to the students in the extended-day program, using our classroom set of laptops. Published by ExploreLearning.com, the "gizmos" are online mathematical simulations that are aligned with the BPS curriculum standards.

Students, feel free to comment on this blog! This is where your academic and extracurricular achievements will be recorded, for the world to see. Check out your classmates' photos below...

Biomedical/Health Club Kickoff Meeting 9/21

The kickoff meeting of the new Biomedical/Health Club (placeholder name) for O'Bryant high school students will be held this Friday, September 21, from 2-3 PM in Room 3-317. Come hear about our exciting plans for the year!

Extended-Day Schedule Starts Sept. 17

The extended-day programming for all Gateway students will begin on Monday, September 17. In preparation for this launch, there will be a required afterschool assembly on Friday, September 14, ending at approximately 2:15 PM. During this assembly, we will distribute the students' extended-day schedules and explain the rules and procedures of the extended-day program.

Freshman Orientation Week 2007: We're Off and Running!

From August 27 through August 30, forty-nine members of the O'Bryant Gateway Class of 2011 came together for a four-day program orientation, led by the Grade 9 Gateway staff. This week was packed with activities designed to give the students a road map to success in high school, college and their future careers.

Highlights of the week included:

Challenging our students to solve an unsolved mathematics problem in graph theory;

Taking our first (half) practice PSAT exam;

Learning memorization techniques used by medical and law students;

Designing our class emblem (First-Class Tigers!);

A visit from Tony Jack, this year's Obed Finch Slingerland Prize winner from Amherst College;

Writing fantasy resumes; and

A closing luncheon hosted by We ntworth Institute of Technology.

During the orientation, all students were challenged to master a memorization task with 100% accuracy, using study aids they had created themselves. Twelve students met this standard of perfection on their first try, while an additional twenty-three students achieved near-perfect scores. On the first re-test administered one day later, twenty-two students attained the 100% passing score, with an additional seven barely missing the mark. We're going to persist with this challenge until every member of the class is over the bar!

Congratulations to all forty-nine students for your hard work this week!

Learning how to work together ....

("Thinking Interdependently")