CWE Families,
Soon will be the time that we begin planning for the upcoming school year. In a few weeks teachers will begin forming classes for the 2025-2026 school year. They use a number of criteria to help them with the process including: balances in gender, race, and academic levels just to name a few. Because there are so many factors we have to take into consideration, we do not honor parent requests. Our teachers spend countless hours in an effort to create the best possible matches to ensure success for every child. If your child has unique needs that would be important for administration to be aware of, please send in a written letter or send an email explaining your child’s unique needs for administration to consider when reviewing class lists during the summer months. Letters will not be accepted which include specific requests for teachers. These letters need to be submitted to Mr. Stevens by May 2nd. Please adhere to this deadline.
Thank You and Go Eagles!!
Mr. Stevens
MARK YOUR CALENDERS
- Report Cards Go Home 4/3
- 1st Grade Concert 4/3
- Eagle Fest 4/12
- Crack a Joke 4/14-4/18
- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night 4/16
- Scholastic Book Fair 4/17
- Focus on Achievement Night 4/17
- Classroom Student Led Conferences
- SEM Projects
- Drum and Orff and Chorus Spring Concert
- No Student Day 4/18 & 4/21
- 5th Grade Field Trip 4/24
- Last Day to Pay by Check 4/25
- Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon 4/30
- String Concert 5/1
- PTA Threshers Game 5/2
- Staff Appreciation Week 5/12-5/16
- Memorial Day (No Student Day) 5/26
- 5th Grade Clap Out 5/27
- 5th Grade Moving Up Ceremony 5/28
- Last Day of School (Full Student Day) 5/29
Did you know we are on social media?
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CypressWoodsES/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cypresswoodselementary
School Website: https://www.pcsb.org/cypress-es
ATTENDANCE MATTERS
When a student is absent from school for any reason, parents are to send in a written note to the teacher explaining the absence or email the school at cypresswoodses.absence@pcsb.org and copy the teacher on the email. Absences will remain unexcused until such documentation is received by the school. Children with poor attendance patterns may be referred to the Pinellas County Truancy Intervention Program. Class work is required to be made up during or after an excused absence. Upon returning to school following an excused absence, a student has as many days to make up the work as days absent. A doctor’s note is required to excuse a student from PE for more than 3 days and documentation is required for absences exceeding 5 days.
Students in Kindergarten – Grade 2 will begin participating in STAR Testing on April 14th – May 2nd. Students in Grades K-2 will participate in Star Early Literacy or Star Reading and Star Math. Your child’s teacher will send home specific dates for testing. Students in VPK will participate in STAR Early Literacy beginning in May.
In April students in Grades 4 and 5 will participate in the B.E.S.T Writing Assessment. Students in grades 3-5 will participate in FAST testing. Students in grades 4 and 5 will participate in Math and Reading, while students in grade 5 will participate in Math, Reading, and Science. Your child’s teacher will send additional information home regarding specific dates and other important details.
Grade 3:
Reading: Tuesday, May 6th
Math: Tuesday, May 20th
Grade 4:
Writing: Wednesday, April 9th
Reading: Wednesday, May 7th
Math: Wednesday, May 21st
Grade 5:
Writing: Tuesday, April 8th
Reading: Thursday, May 8th
Science: Wednesday, May 14th
Math: Thursday, May 22nd
You can support your student in doing their best to show what they’ve learned this year, by ensuring they attend on their scheduled day, getting a good night sleep the night before their test and a healthy breakfast the morning of.
If you or your student would like to interact with the online testing platform or review sample items at home, sample test items and released tests at certain grades/subjects are available at https://flfast.org/families.html.
Updates from Mrs. Shipley!!
Hello Volunteers!
Thank you, so much, for continuing to enter your volunteer hours! We usually have over 15K hours, as of today, we are only showing about 4K. Please take a few minutes to enter your hours if you haven’t done so yet by logging into the volunteer system and under “Add Hours” use the current date and add the hours in one or two chunks as the dates aren't as important as the hours themselves. The last day to record hours for the school year will be Thursday, May 23rd. We will be reporting these hours to Tallahassee, the Department of Education, to show our community involvement and how it directly impacts our school’s success. Every hour counts whether you give your time at school, on field trips or helping from home. Please be sure to log your hours for being a Lunch Pal, a Tutor, a Classroom Assistant, a Field Trip Chaperone, helping with Book Fairs and in the Media Center, to serve in the PTA or SAC (this includes meetings), helping with Special Events, completing projects at the Volunteer Café and more. If you need assistance on navigating the volunteer system and recording your hours, please see the attached instructions or let me know.
Upcoming Dates & Volunteer Opportunities:
- STAR & FAST Testing begins in April and continues until May 23rd, different grades will test on different days. That said, we want to limit distractions and create a calm and quiet testing environment to allow students the best opportunity for success. This means that our campus will be closed to volunteering on testing dates unless the teacher has made special arrangements with administration in advance. This includes volunteering in the Media Center. Please see the dates below and consult with the teacher or Ms. Reyes (Library) before volunteering in April and May.
- 4/8 5th grade testing – no volunteers in building 18 until after lunch period
- 4/9 4th grade testing – no volunteers in building 18 until after lunch period
- 4/14 - 4/29 K thru 2nd testing – no volunteering in buildings where testing is in process
- 5/5 – 5/23 VPK, 3rd grade thru 5th grade testing – no volunteering in buildings where testing is in process
***The only exception is our Lunch Pal Mentors who will continue their normal schedule during testing thru May 9th ***
- Thursday, April 3rd – 1st Grade Music Program 6:30 PM Cafeteria
- Thursday, April 3rd SAC Meeting 3:15 PM - School Advisory Committee final meeting of 24 25 school year
- Saturday, April 12 – Eagle Fest 3:00 – 6:00 PM – Food, Fun, and Auction Baskets! This is a PTA Fundraiser, please watch for more information or contact our PTA with any questions at cweptaboard@gmail.com
- Wednesday, April 16th Chick Fil A Oldsmar Spirit Night 5:30 – 7:30 PM – Dine in and spin the wheel ($1 per spin) for great prizes, meet the Cow, and enjoy some delicious food or Drive Thru YOU MUST MENTION CYPRESS WOODS WHEN ORDERUING FOR YOUR PURCHASE TO COUNT TOWARD OUR FUNDRAISER. A percentage of your purchase will be donated back to our school, please see the attached flyer for details.
- Thursday, April 17th Book Fair & Focus on Achievement Night 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Visit our one day only book fair and experience all the hard work and successes our students have achieved this school year.
- Friday, April 18th & Monday, April 21st – No School for students
- Tuesday, April 30th Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM. Please see the attached invite and RSVP at https://forms.office.com/r/BfptxPQN3K by 4/23/25.
**Currently, we are looking for door prize giveaways**. If you own a business or have a contact that would willing to donate something for this event, please let me know ASAP. It can be a gift certificate, basket/bag of products, or coupons/offers for the goodie bags, anything is welcome and appreciated! We usually have about 40 – 50 attendees and it is an excellent source for advertising as we will honorably mention your business in the CWE newsletter and on our Marquee.
Thank you for all you do to support our school through volunteering and more! We hope you can join us at the appreciation event so we can celebrate YOU!
Cypress Woods PTA
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https://www.cypresswoodspta.com/
