Trafalgar Gazette

If you purchased pictures and would like a retake, please bring the picture packet to school on Friday and let your teacher know your child will be taking a retake. Also, if your child missed picture day, please let the teacher know your child will need to get his/her picture taken on Friday.

Thanks!

Stocking Roulette for our Trafalgar Teachers and Staff is right around the corner, and we’re collecting gift card donations to make this annual PTO tradition extra special for our amazing teachers and staff!

Each year, our staff gets to participate in Stocking Roulette, where they have the chance to walk away with a fun surprise gift card. From coffee and restaurants to shopping and everyday favorites, every gift card helps make the event more exciting!

How can you help?

🎁 Donate a gift card $15 or. You can contribute here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E44AAAE23A2F9C34-66087853-stocking

Have a favorite local business that might donate? We'd love an introduction!

Own a business and want to contribute? Please sign up and we will mention you as a sponsor of the event. You are also welcome to add your business card or any promo that you're offering and we'll add it to every stocking.

Our goal is to collect enough gift cards to make sure we can celebrate as many of our hardworking staff members as possible.

Turkey Trot

November 20, 2026

9:30 AM

Turkey Trot Student Permission and Visitor Pass Form

On Friday, November 20, the Physical Education Department will hold our 1-mile Turkey Trot race. The race is open to interested 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders who complete this permission slip and return it to their classroom teacher by the deadline. Late permission slips will not be accepted for any reason. The race will be on campus taking runners around our entire campus and back on the track for the finish.

Runners may wear running clothes to school and then change into their uniform after the race. Runners are expected to remain in school until dismissal.

Printable Turkey Trot permission slip below!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoYQQD1w2j3n-R-jeipM3oovd_kHaL4S/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107041393727991085994&rtpof=true&sd=true

Please do not allow your child to bring toys to school. This includes stuffies and toys hanging on backpacks that students take off during the school day. These toys become a distraction to learning in the classroom and often cause conflict between classmates. Thank you for your understanding!

Reminder: All jackets and sweatshirts must be plain with no words, designs, or characters unless it is a Trafalgar sweatshirt. We have begun to see a few Spiderman and other characters on sweatshirts. Your child will be asked to turn the clothing inside out if it is worn to school. Thank you for helping support our dress code and keeping our students focused on learning! See below to purchase a Trafalgar sweatshirt.

Please check your FOCUS account often. If you have not already so, please locate the green bar directing you to fill out important school forms regarding clinic, photographing students, etc. These forms can be completed at any time, are a district requirement. Once forms are complete, you will have access to student grades and all information added to the FOCUS portal. Interims will be published in the portal soon, so we want you to be able to access your student's grades. If you do not yet have a FOCUS account or have difficulty, please contact Cammy Gibson in the Trafalgar office. She is always eager to help. Also remember to update your FOCUS portal with new phone numbers and addresses whenever you make changes to your contact information. See below for information!

The school clinic is in need of uniform bottoms (shorts, pants, skirts) for both boys and girls sizes 14, 16, and 18.

We also need shorts and pants for boys only sizes 8, 10, and 12.

Thanks for your help!

Information on Asbestos Inspection May /June 2026

Next Inspection December 2026

Notification of the Presence of Asbestos-Containing Materials in the School

To the Chairperson of the Parents Teachers Organization and the Students of Trafalgar Elementary,

This school has recently been inspected and certain asbestos-containing materials or assumed asbestos-containing materials such as: fire doors or roofing materials that are tested prior to repairs or removal as needed, may have been located in the school buildings. Please be aware that the School District of Lee County has an active management plan designed to ensure that the building is maintained safely for all occupants. These materials are being controlled in accordance with the Asbestos Management Program for the School and following the limitations and procedures of the policies and requirements of the Asbestos Operations and Maintenance Program of the School District of Lee County.

The report listing the location, quantities, and condition of all known materials and contains the details of the control procedures is available at the school office for your inspection during normal school hours. Copies of the whole or parts of the school’s asbestos file can be supplied to you at a cost of $0.15 per page.

Respectfully,

Trafalgar Administration

Notificación de la presencia de materiales que contienen amianto en la escuela

Al Presidente de la Organización de Padres y Maestros y a los estudiantes de Trafalgar Elementary,

Esta escuela ha sido inspeccionada recientemente y ciertos materiales que contienen asbesto o materiales que supuestamente contienen asbesto, tales como: puertas cortafuegos o materiales para techos que se prueban antes de las reparaciones o remoción según sea necesario, pueden haber sido ubicados en los edificios escolares. Tenga en cuenta que el Distrito Escolar del Condado de Lee tiene un plan de gestión activo diseñado para garantizar que el edificio se mantenga de manera segura para todos los ocupantes. Estos materiales están siendo controlados de acuerdo con el Programa de Manejo de Asbesto para la Escuela y siguiendo las limitaciones y procedimientos de las políticas y requisitos del Programa de Operaciones y Mantenimiento de Asbesto del Distrito Escolar del Condado de Lee.

El informe que enumera la ubicación, cantidades y condición de todos los materiales conocidos y contiene los detalles de los procedimientos de control está disponible en la oficina de la escuela para su inspección durante el horario escolar normal. Se le pueden proporcionar copias de la totalidad o partes del archivo de asbesto de la escuela a un costo de $ 0.15 por página.

Respetuosamente

Administración Trafalgar

Information and helpful tips:

• Please be sure your child is ready to get out of the car as you pull up to the school. Encourage your child to put tablets and toys away and get ready to unbuckle as you approach the teachers waiting in the line. Older children are encouraged to open their car doors. Thanks for your help in keeping the line moving.
• Please be sure you have your child exit and enter on the passenger side of the car. It is dangerous for students to walk around the back of the cars to enter or exit.
• Parents please do not exit the car in the pick up line. If your child is not waiting at the cone for you to arrive, please tell one of the teachers and move forward to the grassy area. A teacher will assist you.
• Please do not leave gaps in the line in order to find shade while waiting.
• Please refrain from making U turns in front of the school entrance and cutting off other cars that have been waiting in the desired direction.
• Remember to be kind to our school neighbors and not block private driveways.
• Please follow established traffic patterns and drive forward as far as possible when dropping off your student.
• Students will be assisted as they leave the car and will walk on the inside sidewalk area to the breezeway to enter the school.
• We begin moving the car line at 8:15 daily, and students may walk to class beginning at 8:20.
• Students are to be in class by 8:40am. Please be on campus prior to 8:40 in order for your child to be on time. If there is no line on the street (20th Avenue) and your car enters the gate after 8:40am, your child will be marked tardy and you will be asked to walk in the office and sign your child in.
• During pick up/dismissal please have your parent pick up car tag visible until your child enters the car. (These were passed out at Open House. Additional tags can be purchased in the school office for $3.) If you do not have your car tag when picking up your student, you will be asked to park and walk inside to have your ID checked. Please help us by following this process, and do not rely on our parent pick up dismissal teachers to remember names and student numbers. Pictures of the car tag are not acceptable.
• All parents please stay in the pick up line in your vehicle. With the exception of PreK students and examples below, parking and walking up to drop off or pick up students is not permitted for AM drop off or PM pick up.
• Example of permitted walk up to office: Clinic visit to drop off medicine or a new to school student.
• Example of non-permitted walk up: Food brought to the office. Please have students carry or arrange for these types of drop offs to be when it is not student arrival or dismissal time.
• If you plan to change your child's transportation on any day, please write a note in your child's planner and email darleneam@leeschools.net

We understand the lines may be long as all students and families learn the routines and ask for your patience and cooperation! Thank you!

Please be advised we have specific procedures for PreK morning drop off. PreK families will park in one of the 4 designated spaces in the second row of the front parking lot (See picture to right). The spaces face 20th Avenue. Parents will park and walk their PreK child across the crosswalk to the breezeway entrance of the school where they will be met by a paraprofessional. The paraprofessional will walk the PreK student to class. Trafalgar employees are not permitted to take your child out of the car, but we can assist in walking the student to class once he/she is out of the car. *Special note: This procedure is only for Prek K Schneck and Vergez students. All other students will use the parent drop off line and will be assisted as needed unless a special exception has been made by the teacher and communicated to administration.

PreK students are to be picked up at dismissal in the three spaces along the front of the school to the right (See Picture to right). These spaces are for PreK students only and are to be used for afternoon dismissal only. Using this space for morning drop off is potentially dangerous for our students and drivers. PreK parents using parent pick up lanes, please check with the teacher to determine the time you will need to be there. Thank you for understanding as we seek to address our safety concerns.

If your child is a bus rider, please be sure you have the Where's the Bus app so you are able to track your child while on the bus. Thank you for discussing bus safety with your child. Encourage your child to stay seated at all times while riding the bus.

Bus Information & Where's the Bus Link:

Bus Location and Arrival Information https://wheresthebus.com/

Bus Number and Bus Stop Information https://mapnet.leeschools.net/

August 24, 2026

Trafalgar Parents,

Florida State Statute 1012.42 recognizes that teachers at times must be assigned duties in a class outside the field in which the teacher is certified. The following teachers at Trafalgar Elementary are certified, but may be assigned one or more classes outside their areas of certification and are required to take appropriate steps to comply with the statutory regulation. The following teachers are engaged in training to add English for Speakers of other Languages or ESE to their certificate:

Jennifer Allo – Teacher Grade 3

Thomas Alotta – Teacher ESE

Kristina Hoefker – Teacher Grade 2

Martha Jones Smith – Teacher Grade 4

Megan McDaniel – Teacher Grade 5

Jeremy Moore – Teacher Grade 5

Melissa Neumann – Teacher Grade 2

Angelica Santiago – Teacher Grade 1

Jodi Davis – Teacher ESE

Thank you!

Lisa Murphy, Principal

Trafalgar Daily Transportation Changes Send email to: rachelrg@leeschools.net

Trafalgar Elementary Website http://tfe.leeschools.net/

Bus Location and Arrival Information https://wheresthebus.com/

Bus Number and Bus Stop Information https://mapnet.leeschools.net/

FOCUS Parent Portal http://focus.leeschools.net/

Create a FOCUS account English:

https://www.leeschools.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31897655

Create a FOCUS account Spanish:

https://www.leeschools.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31897653

Fortify: getfortifyfl.com

School Lunch Money: myschoolbucks.com

Trafalgar Parent Handbook: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zoYQQD1w2j3n-R-jeipM3oovd_kHaL4S/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107041393727991085994&rtpof=true&sd=true

1850 SW 20th Avenue

Cape Coral, FL 33991

Phone: 239-283-3043

Fax: 239-282-5595

http://tfe.leeschools.net