The Weekly Update #4

Please see our flyer about DCPS's new fundraiser that begins Monday, October 16. Order your rolls just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Please see our flyer about DCPS's upcoming Literacy Night. We hope parents and students will come out Tuesday, October 27. This is a come and go event from 5-6:30 PM.

Please consider supporting our troops. The classroom at DCPS that collects the most will win a popsicle party.

All DeSoto Central Area Schools will have their combined Mental Health Awareness Night, Wednesday, October 28, from 5-6 at DeSoto Central Middle School at 2611 Central Parkway. We hope families will come out and see all the resources available in our community that help support mental health and overall well-being.

Friday, October 30, our Lil' Jags can wear their Halloween costumes to school. Please make sure your student can easily play on the playground and go to the restroom in the costume. No masks or props are allowed.

Yearbook sales continue. Remember the class who buys the most by November 1, will win a pizza party, and their teacher will win a gift card.

Every day at DCPS we have Roar and Soar time - our intervention block where our teachers and teacher assistants work with our Lil' Jags on accelerating reading and math growth. It is essential for our Lil' Jags to be at school on time each day so that they are not missing this crucial intervention time. Our intervention block starts at 8:35 each day. Students are considered tardy after 8:25.

The MS Attendance Law has changed. In order to help us reduce chronic absenteeism and truancy, we are rewarding and recognizing students each nine weeks who consistently show up to school. We are hopeful this incentive will help to increase student attendance.

Please see the flyer from DCS regarding the new attendance policy.

Please see the infographic that explains what the attendance policy was prior to this year vs. the new policy for the 2026-2027 School Year.

Please see the flyers attached for our School-Wide Behavior System. If your child's teacher uses the Clip System for behavior management, she will follow what is outlined in this flyer. If your child's teacher does not implement the clip system, she will communicate her behavior management system for her classroom during Meet the Teacher.

Please see the flyer attached for our School-Wide Behavior System - page 2

Please see the link in the flyer to access DCPS's school supply lists for the 2026-2027 School Year.

Please see the flyer regarding lunch prices for the 2026-2027 School Year.

Attached is the calendar of days for when Domino's pizza will be served in the cafeteria.

Child Nutrition resources are listed in the flyer with QR Codes.

Please see our DCPS Strategic Plan for the 2026-2027 School Year.

Please remember when you are dropping off and picking up students in the car rider lines that your students are exiting and entering the car closest to the building side of your car, regardless of which line. Please refer to the map to see where to drop off and pick up according to grade level, and where each line enters and exits the school grounds. If you are not in the appropriate line, you will be asked to go back around and rejoin the correct line. K-1 and siblings should be in the left entrance lane, and 2nd grade should be in the right entrance lane. No one should enter in exit lanes. This is a traffic violation and safety hazard. Cones will block the car rider line from 8:25 AM until 2:15 PM every day for the safety of our students. Please make sure your students' names and numbers are on your car rider signs hanging from your rearview mirror. If you do not have a car rider sign, we will ask you to pull around to the office in order to pick up one. This is for the safety of all students. Please be patient with our staff the first weeks of school as learning a new procedure takes time in the beginning. Smiles and kindness go a long way to help our systems run smoothly. Car riders - please remember that when you leave our campus, there is a STOP SIGN which means you must stop. Southaven Police Department will begin issuing warnings and will give citations after that for non-compliance.

We love parental involvement and know that dropping by to eat with your student can be a special time. Our procedures for eating with your child at lunch are listed below:

1. No eating in the lunchroom with your child is permitted during the months of August and May unless your child has a birthday that month. These months are crucial to beginning the year well with children acclimating to school and wrapping up the year.

2. You may eat with your child twice during the year - once between September and December and again between January and April.

Please make sure you let your child's teacher know ahead of time if and when you are planning to visit.