Commerce High School

REMINDER - Mandatory School Property Return (Including Chromebooks) and Personal Property Pickup All CPS property including Chromebooks, chargers, library books, textbooks, and activity equipment must be returned. The replacement fees for a Chromebook charger is $25 and Chromebook is $200. These replacement fees can be paid during our drop off days. The district will have a drop off setup to return Chromebooks at CMS and CHS and any other school property. AES will have cafeteria windows open and labeled to turn in school property and receive personal property. We will ask that you return school property and then move to the separate lines to pick up personal property including grade cards and award certificates. All athletic equipment will be returned to the back door of the coaches office. Coaches will be available to check your gear in. Track fundraiser apparel will be available for pickup in the coaches office as well. DATES AND TIME: May 19th from 10am - 6pm & May 20 from 10am - 2pm

I am reminding everyone, even though school is out for the summer, we are still serving meals at the same times and locations.

Commerce Lunch Bills - All Lunch bills can be paid at the Superintendent's office from 8am-12pm on Monday through Friday.

Dear Tiger Family/Community, You are invited to help us recognize and congratulate our Seniors this coming Sunday afternoon. Since we have had to postpone your “Traditional Graduation” until June 28th, we would like to honor our Seniors by having a Senior Parade beginning at the High School this Sunday, May 3, at 4:00 p.m. This was the scheduled date and time for our postponed graduation ceremony. The Senior Parade will leave the High School shortly after 4:00 p.m. and follow the following route. Parade Path (led by the Commerce Fire/Police Departments): 1. Starting at Commerce High School traveling East on Doug Furnas Blvd., 2. Turn left/North on Mickey Mantle Blvd., 3. Turn left/West on 6th Street to pass by Alexander Elementary School, 4. Turn left/South on Main Street, 5. Turn left/East on Commerce Street, Seniors will be announced as they pass by the Superintendent’s Office on Commerce Street Continue past Commerce Middle School 6. Ending at the Tiger Stop. Please line the parade route with your signs (optional) to show your support and Tiger Pride for our graduating Seniors.

Parents and Guardians - 2020-2021 Course Requests are now available in PowerSchool for all 5th-11th grade students. Please assist us in getting your students course requests put in as soon as possible. Don't let your student wait and miss out on the electives that fill up first. Thank you for your assistance.

Commerce Schools have set two sets of possible dates for HS Prom, MS Promotion and HS Graduation. It is our sincere hope to have these events on one of the below scheduled dates. The first dates are June 25, 2020 - Prom - Rustic Oaks - 7:00 pm June 26, 2020 - 8th Grade Promotion @ CHS - 6:30pm June 28, 2020 - HS Graduation @ CHS - 4:00pm The second dates are July 16, 2020 - Prom - Rustic Oaks - 7:00 pm July 17, 2020 - 8th Grade Promotion @ CHS - 6:30pm July 19, 2020 - HS Graduation @ CHS - 4:00pm These dates are pending subject to our social distancing directives from the government. If social distancing is not allowing these events by June 11th, 2020 we will move to the July dates.

Commerce Schools is reminding parents and students of our virtual office hours service. We're adjusting teacher open office hours this week. All teachers will be available every morning from 10am-Noon, for video conference and other times by appointment. If you have a question or would like to speak with a teacher please use this available service. Your students have the link to every teacher in a document in their Google Drive. If you would like a copy of the links for yourself please email me at smoss@commercetigers.net and I will send it to you.

The Commerce Public School Storm Shelters “WILL” be opened in the event of an imminent threat, such as an issued call to shelter under a tornado/severe storm warning. While utilizing our shelters, existing CDC protocol for the COVID-19 pandemic should be exercised as possible.

Yearbooks are on sale for $35 until May 8. You can order online by going to yearbookforever.com or you can mail a check to the central office, 500 Commerce Street, and writing attention: yearbook on the envelope. Also, senior tribute ads can be purchased for $60 or $90 by contacting Mrs. Rhodes at srhodes@commercetigers.net.

Parents - All 8th-11th grade students received instructions for completing their 2020-2021 school year course requests in their email today. Please assist us in getting them completed by the end of the day on Friday - 04/10/20. Thank You!

Parents your students were emailed a list of zoom links for their teachers virtual office hours yesterday. All teachers will be available every morning from 9am-11am, for video conference and other times by appointment. High School teachers will also be available 1pm-3pm. If you have a question or would like to speak with a teacher please use this available service. If you would like a copy of the links for yourself please email me at smoss@commercetigers.net and I will send it to you.

Parents and Students - If you're participating in the zoom try out today, 4/4/2020, from 1:00-2:30 please go to the students school email to get the link. Zoom changed some security settings since my message yesterday and they now require passwords for meetings. The link I sent everyone in their email has the password included. Just click the link and you'll be directed to the meeting tryout.

Parents and Students - There will be one last zoom meeting trial window from 1:00-2:30 pm on Saturday, April 4th. If you have not tried your student Chromebook or home device and want to before Monday, please take advantage of this time. It is short, come and go, if you can see and hear me on Zoom when you arrive you're good to go for Monday. You can click around in zoom to become familiar with it and then leave. If you have issues we can work through them at that time. If you have issues and can't talk to me on zoom you can phone my cell at 918-541-0933. The meeting link is - https://zoom.us/j/7846646553 Thanks, Coach Moss Go Tigers!

Mental Health Resources

Coach Moss will be having virtual office hours from 1:30-2:30 today, April 1, 2020, in Zoom. This is for students to try out their chromebook or home device and make sure they're able to access their teachers using zoom next week. Please reboot your chromebook before trying. It is not required, but a chance to make sure it's working well for you. If you tried it yesterday there is no need to go again today. Here is the link - https://zoom.us/j/7846646553

Students/Parents - I will have a zoom virtual office open from 2 pm to 3 pm today if you would like to come in and see if your chromebook is ready to go for next week. Go to this link to try- https://zoom.us/j/7846646553

Commerce Parents and Students - Please assist us in our planning by completing this survey for each student in your household - https://forms.gle/TXswSqLXSuLLAAtS6 Thank you for your assistance!

Commerce Parents and Students - Please assist us in our planning by completing this survey for each student in your household - https://forms.gle/TXswSqLXSuLLAAtS6 Thank you for your assistance!

Commerce schools will be providing free meals for children aged 0-18 during the COVID-19 school closings. Please complete the survey at the following link if you're planning on receiving meals - https://forms.gle/wU1fCY3SszB8bE5f9

Online Academic Resources Available - We have created a website that links to websites Commerce Public Schools subscribes to for our students as well as free academic resources. It's available here - https://www.commercetigers.net/o/cps/page/academic-websites--2