Dear Parents and Guardians,
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Today, we had our first assembly! One of the ways that we encourage positive behavior throughout our school is to award STARS to students for doing the right thing! STARS stands for:
Safety
Teamwork
Academic Attitude
Respect
Success
Ask your students if they can sing you the song that goes along with it!
We will be recognizing our STARS each Friday through a random drawing announced to the school. Then students get a group picture taken for social media and the newsletter. Throughout the year we have special incentives. Right now, each class is working on earning special blue class stars for an extra recess! Other incentives in the past have included a school bingo event, dress up days, and the most popular: Box Day! We love celebrating students who are demonstrating these positive behaviors.
Today we recognized some special visitors by giving them giant STARS: our maintenance department workers! Without their tireless efforts, we wouldn't have working doors, lights, a new nurse's office, our cubbies and whiteboards from the other building, working AC, and many other essential aspects of our school. We simply wouldn't be here without them, and it was so special that we were able to honor them. Check out the pictures below!
We look forward to seeing you at Open House next week!
Warmly,
Courtney Gilkison, Principal
During the first four days of school, I had the opportunity to visit every classroom to read The Magical Yet. This book is about the power of a growth mindset, lifelong learning, and recognizing that it is OK to not know something...yet. It focuses on practice, hard work, and determination. I hope you will join me in reinforcing these ideas with your children throughout the year (and the rest of their lives!).
We also discussed ways to be safe at school, and bus expectations. Each class had such great ideas and thoughtful responses to questions. It is one of my favorite activities of the start of school!
Absence requests can easily be made on the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. Parents and guardians can use the Absence Request tool to submit a request that informs the office in advance when their student is not going to be in school. After the request is processed, Campus creates an attendance record for the student.
Absences can be reported 24/7 for ONLY future absences.
Current day absences can be reported prior to the end of the school day.
Parents can report more than one child absent at the same time.
Absences reported through the Parent Portal do not require a phone call to the school office.
For step-by-step instruction on how to submit an absence online, see the link below. If you need help creating your Parent Portal login or resetting your password, contact Parent Tech Support.
This week, students began their weekly Sown to Grow check in with their classroom teacher. Sown to Grow is a short social emotional check in where students are asked to rate how they are feeling and then answer a short reflection question. Teachers will read and respond to each student's Sown to Grow weekly.
If you have any questions about the weekly Sown to Grow check in please contact your student's teacher.
2% or Chocolate Milk is available for purchase for the school year. Parents/guardians who would like their student to receive milk at lunch should log in to the Parent Portal and follow these steps to purchase milk before the first day of school.
Our lunch supervisors will do their best to ensure students signed up for milk receive it daily.
School hours: 8:40-3:17
Supervision available at 8:30am