Davis Elementary E-news

In D303, we value the opportunity to provide a community of care and support to our families, particularly those facing financial hardship. If your family is currently experiencing a significant financial need, our community partnerships offer several supports for families, including school clothes/shoes, winter coats/accessories, school supplies, toiletries, holiday meals, and/or holiday gifts. If you would like to be considered for any of these supports, please complete the Family Resource Form by September 12, 2025.

En D303, valoramos la oportunidad de proveer una comunidad de cuidado y apoyo a nuestras familias, especialmente a aquellas que enfrentan dificultades financieras. Si su familia está experimentando actualmente una necesidad financiera significativa, nuestras asociaciones comunitarias tienen varios apoyos disponibles para las familias, incluyendo: ropa/calzado para la escuela, abrigos/accesorios de invierno, materiales escolares, artículos de aseo personal, comidas para los días festivos, y/o regalos para navidad. Si desea que se le tenga en cuenta para cualquiera de estas ayudas, por favor, rellene este formulario. Para ser considerado, es fundamental que complete esta encuesta a más tardar el viernes 12 de septiembre.

Family Needs Assessment Form (English)

Family Needs Assessment Form (Spanish)

We love to celebrate birthdays at Davis. Your child’s birthday will be announced on our morning announcements and your child will receive a free book courtesy of the PTO. We do not allow any food passed out for celebrations; and we do not allow balloons at school. Please do not send any birthday food treats to school or drop them off, they will not be accepted. If you would like to send in non-edible treats (such as pencils/stickers/non food items) that is ok.

We appreciate our Davis Dragon Neighborhood!!

Registration is now open for 5th Grade Choir! Choir will meet on Monday mornings at Davis Elementary School from 8:10-8:50 a.m. Students may also participate in Band and/or Orchestra as the schedules will not conflict with each other. Please click HERE for more information and to sign up! Registration will be open through 9/20.

• Calling all Dads/male guardians/grandpas/uncles/adult brothers etc. to volunteer in school & provide positive male role models for students!!

• Volunteers will support students during all lunch periods both inside and outside. Watch Dog day will be on Fridays. Volunteers will eat lunch with their own child/children and help all students during mealtime as needed and interact with students at recess. Times will be from 11:00-1:15.

• 4 Volunteers are permitted every Friday. Please click HERE for more information, and for signup links. Thank you!

Click HERE for Davis Google Calendar

August:

28th, Thursday - Wendy's Fundraiser (all day!)

29th, Friday - No School for Students - Teacher Institute Day

September:

1st, Monday - Labor Day Holiday - No School

2nd, Tuesday - (Monday "Specials" schedule) - bring instruments if you have a Monday lesson

9th, Tuesday - Grades K-2 Curriculum Night (6:30-6:55 and 7:05-7:30

18th, Thursday - PTO Meeting in the LRC at 6:00pm

24th, Wed - School Picture Day

24th, Wed - 2:35pm Early Dismissal (11:15 for A.M. Kindergarten)

25th, Thursday - PTO Bingo Night (5:45-7:00)

To make sure all students get equal learning time throughout the year, we adjust the schedule when there's a day off (like a Monday holiday). Instead of skipping that day, we ‘move’ the missed day to another day that week. This way, classes like PE, STEM, Art, and Music stay balanced for everyone!

• No school on Monday, Sept 1 → We follow a Monday schedule on Tuesday, Sept 2

Across our schools, we’re seeing how effective collaboration is making a major difference in the quality of education we’re providing to our students. For our educators, that happens in our Professional Learning Communities–teams of teachers coming together on a regular basis to share effective classroom strategies, problem solve, and provide feedback. For our entire community, that has happened with our new districtwide Cell Phone Procedures–a community-written set of standards that took effect at the start of this school year as a way of enhancing focus in the classroom.

In D303, we are unapologetically a learning organization. Everything we do centers around our care for our students and our dedication to providing them the best possible classroom instruction and experience.

Every day of instruction and learning is important. This year, we’re making it a priority to collaborate with our families and our community about the importance of student attendance and establishing high standards that lay the groundwork for students to find their pathway and to get them ready to pursue their dreams when they graduate from D303.

Over the summer, we revised our D303 Student Handbook, with updated student-attendance procedures and expectations. I encourage all of our families to review it.

We also want our families to collaborate with us on how best to set high attendance expectations for our students and provide the necessary support. We invite D303 parents and caregivers to be a part of our Parent Attendance Committee, which is charged with engaging families in understanding and improving attendance practices across D303 by gathering parent and caregiver perspectives, identifying barriers to attendance, and partnering on solutions that promote student success through consistent school attendance. The Committee will meet four times during the school year for discussion and collaboration. Full details are here. We ask parents to submit their Committee application before the application deadline of 5 p.m. on Sept. 1.

Thank you for being a part of the D303 community and for working together with us in setting high expectations for our students and supporting them in finding their pathway to excellence.

Paul Gordon

Superintendent

Email: linda.jezek@d303.org
Website: https://davis.d303.org/
Location: 1125 S 7th St, St. Charles, IL, 60174
Phone: 331-228-2200
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavisElementaryD303
Twitter: @StCharlesD303