Our Learning Community...
Fall is a busy month for our PTA! The Fall Festival is two weeks away on Friday, October 25th, make sure you save the date! For those of you that have signed up to participate in the Trunk or Treat, donated bags of candy and cobwebs, or volunteered to help the night of the event we appreciate you so much! There is still time to volunteer and help out! Check out the Fall Festival section of this newsletter or click here to go directly to the Sign Up Genius.
And don't forget, for one week only the PTA will be selling Spooky Grams! They will be on sale before and after school this week! Scroll down to the flyer below for all the details!
October
7-28 - PTA Julian Pie Fundraiser
14-18 - PTA Spooky Gram Sales
15 - Water Works Assembly: UTK-3rd
17 - California Shake-Out - State wide Earthquake Drill
17 - Visual & Performing Arts Rotation (VAPA): UTK, 3rd, 2nd
22 - SSC/SGT Meeting
25 - Spotlight Leadership Assembly Habit #2
25 - Fall Festival - 5:30 - 7:30 pm
November
5- Election Day: Jones Auditorium is a Neighborhood Polling Location
5 - PTA Julian Pie Fundraiser Delivery
6 - PTA Dine Out: Panda Express
7 - Visual & Performing Arts Rotation (VAPA): Kinder, 1st, 4th, 5th
11 - No School: Veterans Day
14 - Visual & Performing Arts Rotation (VAPA): UTK, 3rd, 2nd
18 - 22 - Fall Parent/Guardian & Teacher Conferences - Minimum Days all Week
18 - 22 - Scholastic Book Fair
18 - 22 - Health & Wellness Week
21 - Turkey Trot (morning family event)
22 - Spotlight Leadership Assembly Habit #3
25 - 29 - No School: Fall Break
Choice Priority Window Now Open
San Diego Unified's Choice Application window is now open. The Choice Application "Priority Window" for School Year 2025-2026 is from September 23, 2024 to November 4, 2024 and will be part of the lottery process which will be completed in February 2025.
Below is a link to the district's Choice Enrollment Website and a link to Frequently Asked Questions. We are also including some bullet points to address many of the commonly asked questions connected to our Jones Community...
- Students within our neighborhood boundaries or who have already been accepted through the Choice process do not need to apply.
- New siblings of students who have been accepted through Choice do need to apply.
- If your family has moved out of the Jones boundaries, but you would like your students to remain at Jones you do need to apply.
- UTK students who live within our boundaries, but were placed at other sites for UTK do not need to apply, a spot in Kindergarten is guaranteed.
- UTK students who attend Jones, but have a different neighborhood school do need to apply for a Choice spot to attend kindergarten at Jones.
- 5th grade families planning for middle school do need to apply if you are interested in a school site other than our neighborhood school Taft Middle. We encourage you to visit Taft and/or any Middle School you are considering so that you can see and hear about all of the amazing offerings each campus provides for students.
Here is a link to the San Diego Unified Food Services Website where you can find allergy and nutritional information on foods served at schools. Foods not found on our regular school site menu will be listed individually under the "Alternate Menu Items" section.
If you ever have general questions about the food services at school sites you can reach out to foodandnutritionservices@sandi.net. To connect directly with the Jones Cafe Manager you can email jonecafe@sandi.net (yes, that email is correct, there is no "s").
San Diego Unified is dedicated to fostering a vibrant, informed, and engaged community through the power of education and dialogue. To help our students to be collaborative communicators, socially-aware agents of change, and critically-thinking digital citizens, our nonpartisan SD Unified for Democracy project offers resources to develop skills to engage in civil discourse, identify bias and credibility, debate and maintain a focus on issues, and repair harm that arises from political rhetoric.
The link below offers resources and tools adults can use to engage with and learn alongside children and teens during the election cycle and beyond.
Jones Elementary
Check out our school website for PeachJar Flyers, Counseling Resources, Family Handbook, Staff Contact Lists, After School Programs, Enrollment Information and so much more!
Email: contact@sandi.net
Website: https://jones.sandiegounified.org/
Location: 2751 Greyling Drive, San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: (619) 605-8800
Facebook: facebook.com/JonesElementary
Instagram: @jonesdolphins
Jones Elementary PTA
Our Parent Teacher Association works with Jones Elementary to provide programs and support to benefit the students, their families, teachers, school administration and the community. Run entirely by volunteers, the PTA raises money to support enrichment programs, program instructors, educational assemblies and field trips, family events, and special classroom supplies.
As always, we need your membership, support and ability to volunteer. You can become a member using Totem, a respected membership management service. Please contact us with other thoughts on how we are doing, and your ideas on how you can become involved. We look forward to hearing from you.
Email: jonesdolphinspta@gmail.com
Website: https://jpjonespta.org/
Location: 2751 Greyling Drive, San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: (619)605-8800
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonesPTA/
