A Message from the

To Our Saucon Valley Families,

It is with great pleasure that I extend a warm “welcome” to both our returning families and those who are new to the Saucon Valley School District for the 2022-23 school year.

The summer has allowed our teachers and staff a much needed rest, our families time together and our administration an opportunity to prepare for the upcoming year while welcoming our newest members of the Saucon Valley Panther Family.

There has been a concerted effort to ensure that our students, families, staff and teachers walk into a safe, healthy and supportive school environment, knowing that many of our families continue to experience hardships climbing out of the pandemic and anxieties that come with challenges both nationally and in our own backyard.

The District has continued maintenance and upgrades to our facilities, has strengthened our mental health and behavioral supports and added a layer of security, with our Armed Security Specialist, who will be internally and externally monitoring the District facilities, ready to respond if and when a crisis should arise. Our teachers and staff will spend the days prior to our students arriving receiving training and professional development in physical, behavioral and mental health interventions that can better prepare themselves and the students for the year ahead.

Our high expectations and standard of excellence has not wavered and we continue to hold our teachers, staff and students to this as we start the 2022-23 school year in the Saucon Valley School District. We will continue our quest to provide each child with exceptional academics, enhanced opportunities and support, and dedicated staff and teachers who are skilled and passionate in bringing out the potential in each of them.

The Saucon Valley School District community is second to none and we will be making every effort to engage and inform our community through district and school wide events and activities, and proactively connect with families to build a team that works collaboratively to enhance student learning and well being.

Words cannot begin to fully convey my gratitude and appreciation to you, our students, families, employees, Board of Education and community partners for your continued support of the Saucon Valley School District.

The Saucon Valley School District is offering to currently enrolled students an opportunity to purchase a used iPad for $120. Please note that grade 6-12 students may purchase their assigned iPad. Grade K-5 purchases will not be guaranteed to be the iPad your student was assigned in the 2021-22 school year.

Model

iPad Generation 6

Terms of Sale

The electronic tablets/computers being sold by the Saucon Valley School District are being sold “As Is” and the District makes no warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, regarding or relating to the electronic equipment being sold. To the fullest extent allowed by law, the Saucon Valley School District specifically disclaims all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Enrollment will be verified before the iPad is released for pick-up.

Please use the link below to purchase your iPad by August 30, 2022

Purchase iPad

We have made an effort to ensure all of our students, parent drop off or by bus, arrive at the school during a time which decreases the number of minutes students are waiting on buses, minimizes congregation, maximizes traffic flow and allows for supervision by all staff once inside of the building. We are asking parents who are dropping their students off in the morning to do so as close to the times below:

Elementary School : 8:40am

Middle School and High School: 7:25am

If your child is dropped off prior to this time, they will wait outside. We ask that you please make adjustments to your schedule to ensure that your student is not outside unsupervised or in inclement weather.

In addition, when picking your child up, please be prepared to show your child’s ID or your ID each time for the duration of the school year. Our staff knows many of our families but it is the expectation that our staff, teachers and administration are implementing the procedures consistently and fairly with all families regardless of familiarity. If no ID is shown, the student will not be released.

The procedures set forth below are put in place to enhance the safety of students and staff while maintaining a welcoming environment. It will help identify visitors, volunteers and parents and help identify the names of people in the school in the event of an emergency.

When visiting your child’s school:

• Enter/ exit only through the main entrance/ exit

• If you are not entering the building for a previously scheduled event, conference or meeting, you will be let into the man trap by the building administrative assistant. Please note that only one person may be in the man trap at a time, so please be patient when our administrative professionals are assisting the parent/ guardian ahead of you.

• If you need to enter the building, you will be asked to go immediately to the main office where you will sign in and at which time, you will be provided a visitor badge.

• An escort will be provided to the location of your visit.

• When you are completed with your visit, you will be escorted back to the main office where you will return your visitor badge, sign out and exit the building.

• Community members and parents/ guardians who are volunteering are expected to follow the same procedure, but will be provided a volunteer badge.

• Visitors attending school functions that are open to the public, such as parent-teacher organization meetings or public gatherings, are not required to sign in at the main office.

While some of these measures may be perceived as creating inconvenience or delay, they are necessary steps to provide the safest and most secure learning environment possible. Our staff knows many of our families but it is the expectation that our staff, teachers and administration are implementing the procedures consistently and fairly with all families regardless of familiarity. Thank you for being a partner in this important effort.

Birthday celebrations can be an undertaking for many of our parents and remembering what food is allowed in our classrooms can be hard to navigate! We want to make this easier for you while still making your child feel extra special on his/ her important day!

The Saucon Valley Food Service Cafeteria can help celebrate your student in grades K-4 when you order a Classroom Birthday Basket from the Food Service Department and all of the work is left to us!

Birthday Baskets can be ordered using the form below and the treats will be delivered to your child’s classroom on the date/ time you specify!

Order Form