November 09-color - Battlefield High School

School Fusion
School Fusion which hosts all PWC websites is our primary
communication tool within the school community.
Announcements, class syllabi, homework assignment,
class notes, blogs, student activities, and much more are
available on our School Fusion site. Access is provided to
our parents, students, and staff. This year all parents had
to create new user accounts and the students were given
new accounts. For information on how to create a new
account, go to www.battlefieldhighschool.org and select the
“New User Registration” link on the left. Parents will
need to obtain their child’s passcode (not password) from
the school in order to create their account. We encourage
all parents to have accounts. If you have multiple students
in PWC schools, you only need one account to access
your children’s information from each of their schools.
We ask that all users, parents and students, to update their
email address. Email addresses are used for automatically
resetting forgotten passwords, receiving class specific
information from teachers, and receiving the Daily Digest
which contains new announcements, upcoming events,
and assignments that will be due over the next 2-3 days in
your children’s classes. Please encourage all members in
the family who have an account to update their email
address. To do this, logon to School Fusion, select “My
Personal Settings” link on the left, and then the “My
Personal Info” tab. You will then see a location to enter
your email address. Remember to select the button,
“Change Information”. You will be sent an email asking
you to verify the email address. Follow the instructions in
the email to accomplish this. If you don’t receive an
email, then an incorrect email address was entered.
Google Translate Feature
A Tip to Share...
Did you know that you can click on the flag
symbols of the different countries that are
located at the bottom of your school’s
SchoolFusion Web page to view the page in
that country’s language?
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SAT Information
A SAT score is typically made up of several different sections;
almost every College looks at your overall SAT
score and also your section scores in isolation.
For an optimum math score on your SAT, remember that
focusing and brushing up on your fundamentals, armed
with the standard tips and techniques that are relevant to
each question can be as important as preparing for the
final test.
You must prepare in such a way that you will be able to
create your own shortcuts and tips for yourself, tips that
will stand you in good stead when you are doing your
quantitative section of the SAT.
Never forget that the math section has been designed to
test your problem solving skills, your ability to deal with
problems of a similar nature when they crop up in real
life, and NOT merely to test your mathematical skills.
Do not spend too much time on practicing solving long
problems; aim your energies and orient yourself towards
spotting the short and often very simple solutions to the
problem that has been presented to you. This will save
you a lot of time, and you will be able to cross check your
answers before you hand them over.
Battlefield’s First Book Drive
Battlefield’s first book drive was launched by the Literacy
Committee on September 25, 2009! Thanks to the generosity
of students, parents, and staff, hundreds of quality books
and magazines poured in to support Battlefield’s schoolwide
silent sustained reading initiative: Read to Succeed.
The need for such materials will continue for the rest of the
school year; so if you have books and magazines at home
that you believe Battlefield students would enjoy and you
no longer have a use for, please continue to drop them off in
the Main Office.
Book Drive News
The Literacy Committee continues to be thrilled with the
books and magazines that staff, students, and parents have
donated to support Read to Succeed. The Literacy
Committee would like to recognize two parents in particular
for their generous contributions to the Book Drive: Mrs.
Husser, who donated a very large number of books and Mrs.
Kennedy, who donated hundreds of magazines. Mrs.
Kennedy, through her work with Cavendish Media of
Sterling, VA, will be donating magazines every month.