Have a wonderful Wagner Day!

Dear Wagner Family:

Welcome to the 25-26 school year! My entire team and I are excited and ready to safely welcome all of our students back to school starting August 25, 7:30 AM – the first day of school.

Wagner provides several supports that are unique and/or ONLY available at our school. We look forward to supporting your scholar’s progress with the following:

7 Mindsets Social Emotional Scholar-Centered Programming
Multiple Community Partners providing Mentoring, Career Exposure , etc.
#TheTRADESAtWagner : Monthly hands-on access to the Building Trades
Culinary Arts and Digital Literacy as full electives offered to ALL scholars
PBIS: Rewards and Prizes for scholars engaged in positivity
And more!

All summer, we have been preparing for an incredible new school year. We are adding both physical and academic processes and tools to continue to protect everyone’s health and wellbeing in our school. One of those includes our mandate regarding footwear. Three important reminders:

All scholars are to wear sneakers or closed toe rubber bottomed footwear. Middle schoolers are often very active, and non-rubberized bottoms are not ideal.
Scholar dress must be in line with the dress code outlined in our scholar handbook.
Scholars are not permitted to have their cellphones on their person during the school day

Our teachers and school staff are attending special training sessions to continue to support our students’ social, emotional and educational needs. Student schedules are being created. Our hard-working custodians have been cleaning and sanitizing our school. And, our cafeteria workers are preparing to serve your children a delicious and healthy breakfast and lunch each school day.

This year, we’re delighted to welcome a few new additions to our staff! Our Wagner team is growing and providing so many new wonderful things for our scholars!

Our first public gathering as a school community will be announced on Class Dojo! This will be a great time to meet key staff members, learn more about the new school year and tour our school. In the meantime, I encourage you to take a few minutes to visit www.philasd.org/ringthebell for the latest back-to-school information in multiple languages.

We will continue to use Class Dojo for announcements and school event notifications.  Click this link to get connected in ClassDojo!!

All of us at General Louis Wagner Middle School  look forward to welcoming students back to school in person on August 25! As always, please feel free to reach out to me at 215-400-3560 or cgrier2@philasd.org with any questions.

Connie Grier, Principal

#JusticeAlways

VISION
Wagner Middle School in partnership with our families, partners, and greater community, strives to develop a commitment to active learning and citizenship fueled by engaging instructional practices and preparation for high school and post-secondary success. As we believe #OptionsAreNOTOptional, this preparation includes equitable access to college and careers.

The Wagner Way

Wagner Middle School is located in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia and serves over 500 children in 6th through 8th grade.
We are a caring school community that is on the rise.

Remember, our school day is from 7:30am to 2:34pm

Please see our Bell Schedule HERE

School Plan
To view Wagner’s 2023-2024 School Plan and to leave your feedback, please click HERE.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

“Attention families: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires that a school with certain exceptions obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child’s education records. However, a school may disclose appropriately designated “directory information” without written consent, unless you have advised the school to the contrary in accordance with school district procedures.

Parents who wish to opt their students out of directory information releases must complete an Opt-Out Form for each of their students, and must return each form to the school at which each student is enrolled by December 13, 2024.

Find more information, including the forms you need HERE

How swiftly the first quarter has flown by!!

We are closing in on Winter recess, and while everyone (scholars and staff included…lol) looks forward to the break, it is also a time when our scholars are on our minds and we wonder how they are faring outside of their routines. We wish you a joyous Winter Break, and look forward to seeing our scholars on Wednesday January 3, 2024!!

Currently, we are in the midst of STAR Testing (ask your scholars how that is going for them) excursions and award assemblies (PBIS, Honor Roll, Perfect Attendance, College Trips, Museum Trips) and more!

As we move forward into quarter two, I wanted to take the opportunity to welcome you, either by attending our Community Cafes (our next one is this Wednesday, December 15th at 10 AM) or by emailing me (email at the bottom of this webpage) to engage with the Wagner community and share ideas about things you would like to help us to create space for.

We have an exciting event, #TheTRADESAtWagner happening on Saturday December 16th from 9 AM-12 PM. It is an opportunity for our middle school scholars to have HANDS ON access to the building trades!  We are so excited!

Continue to encourage greatness in your scholar. We are honored to be in service to them and will continue to support them as they navigate the often bumpy middle school road

Have a wonderful week!
Principal Grier