DLJ Family Updates

Every minute of the school day matters! Our Magnet Agreement outlines expectations for regular attendance, arriving on time, limiting early dismissals, and ensuring students are picked up promptly each day.

School begins at 8:15 AM and dismisses at 2:55 PM. Thank you for helping us protect valuable instructional time and supporting your child’s success each day!

Trailblazer Families, we would love your feedback regarding our Home Challenge!

The Home Challenge has been a longstanding DLJ tradition designed to support continued learning at home. It has been a schoolwide effort that requires significant coordination and volunteer support to help grade and track student participation.

We absolutely want to continue recognizing and rewarding our students for their hard work—this will remain! At this time, we are looking for family feedback specifically around the Home Challenge process and how we can continue to make it meaningful and effective for our students and families.

To clarify, this survey is about the weekly Home Challenge program—DreamBox and math/reading worksheets students completed to earn points and rewards throughout the year.

It is NOT about Home Design Challenges, such as the 4th-grade totem poles or Kindergarten

pumpkin wagons. Those are separate at-home projects.

Thank you for taking a few moments to share your feedback!

Sept. 2nd Kona Ice

Sept. 7st - Labor Day – No School for all

Sept 8th Popcorn Store

Sept. 9th - Mid-Period Progress Reports go home

Sept. 14th – Oct. 9th PTA Read-a-thon

Sept. 15th - International DOT Day

Sept. 15th - PBIS Book Store

**Sept. 22nd (Tuesday) - SAC Meeting 6pm

Sept. 21st -Sept. 25th - Start with Hello Week

Sept. 22nd PBIS School Store

Sept. 24th - PBIS Fall Festival

Sept. 30th - 3rd Grade Field Trip - Cracker Country

Sept. 30th PTA Read-a-thon Breakfast

Oct 2nd - School Custodian Appreciation Day

Oct. 6th – Picture Retakes

Oct. 7th – Kona Ice

Oct. 8th – Kindy Field Trip – Patti Johnson Farm (Muha, Tweed, ASD)

Oct. 9th – Kindy Field Trip – Patti Johnson Farm (Burns, Copeland, Ulasi)

Oct. 9th - End of First Quarter

Oct. 12th Non-Student Day

Oct. 13th - PBIS Popcorn Store

Oct. 16th Jamerson Day (Douglas L. Jamerson Jr.’s birthday)

Oct. 19-27 – Boo Gram sales

Oct. 20th - PBIS Book Store

Oct. 23rd – 31st - Red Ribbon/Safe Schools Week

Oct. 22nd - Report Cards Distributed

Oct. 23rd - Quarter 1 Trailblazer Assembly 9:30 & 10:00 Jammers

Oct 24th - All County DAP Information Fair PPark High (9-11:30AM)

Oct. 27th – PBIS School Store

Oct 28th - South County DAP Information Fair, Gibbs (6-7:30PM)

Oct. 29th - Howl-o-Fun, 5:00 PM -7:30 PM

Oct. 30th – Boo Gram Delivery

Our monthly stores include Kona Ice, Popcorn Store, Book Store, and School Store. These are typically held once a month unless there is a school break or a schedule change.

Please see the sign-ups below for opportunities to volunteer at our different monthly stores throughout the school year. Whether you can help with one store or several, we would love to have you!

All volunteers must be Level 2 approved. If you need assistance completing the Level 2 volunteer process, please contact Jessica Marinari Bishop at marinari-bishopj@pcsb.org.

Come share your hobbies, interests, and profession with our students!! They have changed the process and there is a form to fill out to participate this year. Please click the link below to sign up. If you have any questions, please email Jessica Marinari Bishop at marinari-bishopj@pcsb.org

Please see the attached guide with information to help you complete the process to become a Level 2 volunteer.

We are grateful for the many families who give their time to support our students, staff, and school events throughout the year. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Level 2 process, please contact Ms. Jessica Marinari Bishop at marinari-bishopj@pcsb.org for assistance.

Pinellas County Schools is excited to introduce SchoolCash Online, a convenient and secure online payment system for school-related fees, activities, and items.

Once registered, families will be able to view and pay for items such as:

• Field trips
• Classroom activities
• Student activity fees
• Parking passes
• Yearbooks
• School items
• Optional donations and other school-related payments

If you were unable to attend Open House, please take a moment to review the attached presentation and complete the brief feedback survey.

Your input is important to us and helps us continue improving the experience for our students and families.

Please take a moment to review the DLJ Family Handbook (attached below), which includes important information about appropriate snacks for school and guidelines for birthday celebrations.

In accordance with District Wellness Guidelines, candy, cupcakes, sweets, soft drinks, and similar treats are not permitted for birthday celebrations at school. Families are encouraged to choose healthier options instead.

The district has also provided a great list of approved birthday celebration alternatives that still allow students to feel special while supporting healthy school practices.

Please see the link above for ideas and approved alternatives.

Monthly grade-level and coach newsletters will once again be included in our Family Smore, just as we did last year. This helps create a one-stop shop for families and allows us to continue streamlining important updates, resources, and information in one place.

Jamerson Families:

Look out for a challenge sheet, coming home from their classroom teacher. Students need to identify each zoomed-In book cover and write the name of each book on the back of their sheet.

Entries are due by 9/17, and WINNERS will be drawn and announced on our 9/18 DLJ Live News Show! Winners will receive a GOLDEN TOKEN to our BOOK VENDING MACHINE and a BRAND NEW BOOK!

Good luck, book-zoom detectives! 🕵️‍♀️📚🔎

Please make sure your child’s classroom teacher knows exactly how your child will go home each day. All dismissal changes must be communicated through the main office. If your child’s regular dismissal method needs to change, you must contact the main office as soon as possible and no later than 2:15 p.m. For third-grade students, please call by 1:30 p.m., as they end their school day at specials, which makes it more difficult to deliver last-minute messages

Campus gates open at 8:15 a.m. Please do not drop students off before this time, as supervision is not available. Students should arrive between 8:15–8:45 a.m. School begins promptly at 8:45 a.m.

Students arriving after 8:45 a.m. must enter through the front office with an adult and receive a tardy slip. Any student who is not in class by 8:45 a.m. will be marked tardy.

Families arriving after 3:15 p.m. must park, enter the front office, and sign their child out as a late pickup.

Dismissal begins at 2:55 p.m. For the safety and security of all students, your official Driveline car tag is your dismissal credential and must be presented for car pickup, parent walk-up, and 13th Avenue dismissal.

We have always required Driveline car tags for car circle. This year, we are strengthening our dismissal procedures by ensuring this same safety process is consistently followed for all students and all dismissal methods, so every child is released only to an authorized adult, regardless of how they are picked up.

Each family was provided three additional car tags to share with family members or other authorized adults who are approved to pick up your student.

Car tags were provided at the Back-to-School Picnic. If you were unable to attend, you may pick up your Back-to-School Packet and Driveline car tag:

• Monday, August 10 | 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, August 11 | First Day of School — from your child’s classroom teacher at the classroom door or from the main office before dismissal.

You MUST have your car tag before dismissal.

If a person does not have an official Driveline placard, a valid physical photo ID will be required so staff can verify identity and pickup authorization before the student is released.

Every two weeks the Bartlett's Blurb will keep you updated on things happening around campus, important assessment dates, and Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS) updates. See the first version of the new school year, below.

As many of our Jamerson families prepare for back-to-school shopping, we'd like to share a simple opportunity to support our teachers and staff.

Last year, thanks to the incredible generosity of our PTA, families, local businesses, and community partners, we transformed the Teacher & Staff Lounge into a welcoming space where our teachers and staff can enjoy a cup of coffee, grab a snack, and take a well-deserved moment to recharge during the day. It has truly become a favorite space on campus.

As we begin a new school year, we're working to restock the lounge with the everyday items that keep it running, including coffee pods, tea, disposable coffee cups, and snacks.

We've created an Amazon Wish List to provide ideas for the types of items we use most often, but it is simply a guide. If you're already shopping at your favorite store, we gladly welcome similar donations from anywhere and you can drop them at the front office.

Please know that this is completely optional and we are grateful for the many ways our Jamerson community supports our school throughout the year.

If you'd like to help, you can view our Wish List & Donation Ideas link above.

Thank you for helping us continue to care for the incredible teachers and staff who care for our students each and every day.

—DLJ Staff Appreciation Committee

Help Support Our Students! We are collecting donations of clean, gently used and new clothes to help students stay comfortable and confident throughout the school day when accidents or spills happen. Currently we are in need of girls small, medium, and large t-shirts. Girls small, medium, and large stretch pants and shorts.

Girls small (5/6, 6/7, 7/8) undies in new condition only. We also need boys medium and large t-shirts. Boys medium and large stretch shorts (think basketball or pull on shorts). Boys small (5/6, 6/7, 7/8) undies in new condition only. Your generosity helps ensure our students can quickly return to learning with comfort and confidence.

Thank you for supporting our school community!

Douglas Jamerson Elementary receives a portion of sales from this event.

100% of the proceeds go to support staff appreciation.

Our PTA will be at the Back-to-School Picnic ready to welcome new and returning families!

Stop by to:

• 🤝 Become a PTA member (only $7 per person!)
• 👕 Purchase your favorite Jamerson spirit wear
• 💙 Learn how you can support our students, staff, and school throughout the year

Every membership makes a difference. We hope you'll join our amazing PTA and help make the 2026–2027 school year the best one yet!

SAC gives families an opportunity to learn more about our School Improvement Plan, review schoolwide goals and data, and share their ideas and perspectives focused on SIP Goals. Your voice matters as we work together to make decisions that support student success and strengthen our school community. We hope you will join us!

Pinellas County Schools has partnered with Sandy Hook Promise to offer the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System. Say Something allows you to submit secure & anonymous safety concerns to help identify and intervene upon at-risk individuals BEFORE they hurt themselves or others. Tips made to the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System are passed along to the appropriate law enforcement agencies and school officials.

Additionally, the district utilizes Fortify FL, a school-related suspicious activity reporting tool that allows Florida students and the community the ability to instantly relay information anonymously concerning unsafe, potentially harmful, dangerous, violent or criminal activities, or the threat of these activities, to the appropriate law enforcement agencies and school officials. Fortify FL was created and funded by the 2018 Florida Legislature as part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act.

• August 2nd: https://app.smore.com/n/w8m21
• August 9th: https://app.smore.com/n/wzdg6e
• August 16th: https://app.smore.com/n/924q8
• August 23rd: https://app.smore.com/n/nhdsa

Website: https://www.pcsb.org/jamerson-es

Location: 1200 37th St. S, St. Petersburg, FL 33711

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