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| Since the district integrated Reading and Language arts, there are only 4 team subjects: IRLA ('''I'''ntegrated '''R'''eading and '''L'''anguage '''A'''rts), Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science. In this case, the team subjects (IRLA, get an extended period of time, averaging 60 minutes each, while the other subjects get 40 minutes. As a result, in a typical school day there are 4 60-minute classes and 4 40-minute classes. | Since the district integrated Reading and Language arts, there are only 4 team subjects: IRLA ('''I'''ntegrated '''R'''eading and '''L'''anguage '''A'''rts), Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science. In this case, the team subjects (IRLA, get an extended period of time, averaging 60 minutes each, while the other subjects get 40 minutes. As a result, in a typical school day there are 4 60-minute classes and 4 40-minute classes. | ||
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| The school has many after school programs, also known as clubs, ranging from Homework tutorial to ] and Debate Club. All clubs must be supervised by a teacher. A club usually has a range of about 20-25 kids. Most clubs are listed on a form one can receive however, clubs such as ] may require a nomination by a science teacher. | |||
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| The Jagazine is a monthly schoolwide magazine published by the students. It is usually composed of a ], several essays, articles, and a drawing. | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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Thomas R. Grover Middle School | |
| Type | Middle school |
| Principal | Dennis J. Leopold |
| Location | 10 Southfield Road Princeton Junction, NJ U.S. 08550 |
| Phone | (609)716-5250 |
| District | West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District |
| Enrollment | 1043 students (June 2006) |
| Grades | 6th to 8th Grade |
| Website | Grover Middle School |
Thomas R. Grover Middle School is a middle school located in Princeton Junction in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, and serves grades six through eight. Grover's mascot is a jaguar, and its students are self-dubbed 'Jags'. The official colors are black and gold.
The school is named after Thomas Grover, the son of a farmer in the neighborhood, who died in the Vietnam War. The Grover Farm is located next to the school.
Facilities
The two-story school building was built in 1999 at a total cost of $18.5 million and opened in September of that year. The building, designed by Faridy Thorne Fraytak Architects/Planners, with 175,000 square feet, was built to educate as many as 1,150 students.
Awards and recognition
In April 2005, Ming-Ming Tran, a sixth-grade student at the school, won the $25,000 first-place national championship of the Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge, a vocabulary competition. A total of 1.6 million fourth through eighth grade students nationwide participated in the event.
Another student at the school, Michael Wu, won first place in the 2007 New Jersey state contest of the National MathCounts Competition. The school has competed successfully in the state contest before. Both Michael Wu (second place) and Ming-Ming Tran (third place) were on the New Jersey state team competing for the National MathCounts Competition in 2006. In 2000, TRG student Venkat Chandar won first place and Dan Le, also a student at the school, won third place, while the school's team coach, Cecelia Jancola, was selected to coach the New Jersey state team in the national competition.
Student division system
The students are divided by "teams" that go from A to E. The number of the grade of the team is first, followed by the letter. Teams A-D consist of 4 teachers at least 1 special education teacher. The teachers teach Math, Science, Social Studies, and IRLA. Teams 7E and 8E share their science and math teacher and have an individual teacher who teaches Social Studies and IRLA. Team 7E and 8E are unique; they have half the number of students as any other team.
Curriculum and extracurricular activities
Grover Middle School (GMS) students take classes in music, art, performing arts, media, health, computer, life skills, and technology. Students also participate in choral, orchestra, and band programs that provide group and individual instruction. The elective program includes a class in which students produce their own television program via an intra-school cable network.
Students in Grover are required to pick one world language for their 3 year education at middle school. Languages offered are Spanish, French, Chinese and German.
Seventh graders get to pick one elective, and eighth graders get to pick two electives. In sixth and seventh grade, students have their electives every other day and have physical education in place of the days that do not have electives. Eighth grade students have electives opposite each other in somewhat complicated 2-day schedules.
Cycles are extracurricular classes that each student is assigned to every year. Each cycle is a roughly equal fraction of the year, and each cycle is a different subject. For example, in the 7th grade each cycle lasts about 2/3 of a marking period (a quarter of a school year), and are Technology, Health, Music, Computers, Art, or Life Skills.
A Day and B Day Classes
A and B Day Classes are two forms of the standard schedules that alternate every day. Throughout the year, students go to their A and B Day Classes depending upon if it is a B Day or an A Day. For example, if a student had Gym on an A Day, he or she is required to attend their elective on a B Day. As of 2006, the above schedule system is only used by grades 6-7. 8th graders schedules had them attending gym every day for 30 days, followed by 30 days of cycle classes. On A and B days, their two chosen electives would alternate. As of 2007, though, the 8th grade just follows a modified form of the 6th and 7th grade schedule.
Schedules
Since the district integrated Reading and Language arts, there are only 4 team subjects: IRLA (Integrated Reading and Language Arts), Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science. In this case, the team subjects (IRLA, get an extended period of time, averaging 60 minutes each, while the other subjects get 40 minutes. As a result, in a typical school day there are 4 60-minute classes and 4 40-minute classes.
Clubs
The school has many after school programs, also known as clubs, ranging from Homework tutorial to Science Olympiad and Debate Club. All clubs must be supervised by a teacher. A club usually has a range of about 20-25 kids. Most clubs are listed on a form one can receive however, clubs such as Science Olympiad may require a nomination by a science teacher.
Jagazine
The Jagazine is a monthly schoolwide magazine published by the students. It is usually composed of a cartoon, several essays, articles, and a drawing.
References
- Brief article in "American School and University" periodical, November 1, 2000, article summary accessed from the "High Beam Research" Web site, September 10, 2007.
- "New Jersey Student Wins Third Annual Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge(SM); Ming-Ming Tran of Princeton Junction, New Jersey Awarded $25,000 College Scholarship.", news release, Reader's Digest Association Inc., Pleasantville, New York, April 19, 2005, distributed through PR Newswire, as quoted in a summary at "High Beam Research" Web site, accessed September 10, 2007.
- "New Jersey MathCounts / 2007 New Jersey State Competition Results", at the New Jersey MathCounts Web site, accessed September 10, 2007.
- Untitled news release dated March 20, 2007 from the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, first sentence: "Ten teams and approximately 54 individuals participated in the State Mathcounts competition", accessed September 10, 2007
- "New Jersey Student Team to Compete in National Mathematics Finals in Washington, D.C.", news release from the New Jersey MathCounts Web site, dated March 14, 2007, accessed September 10, 2007.
External links
- Thomas Grover Middle School
- School Performance Report for Thomas Grover Middle School, New Jersey Department of Education
- National Center for Education Statistics data for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District