The Maple Glen Gazette

Dear Maple Glen Families,

We have had a great week at Maple Glen! First and foremost, I need to say WOW! We are incredibly proud to share that our students and families raised nearly 2,000 pounds of food during this year’s food drive for Open Doors in Westfield. Our students showed tremendous generosity and spirit, and we’re grateful for their commitment to giving back to the community.

A huge thank you to our PTO for helping organize and support this effort—we couldn’t have done it without you.

This week we started something new at Maple Glen - ARTISTS OF THE TRIMESTER. Mrs. Coleman and her students created beautiful art this trimester, and we look forward to showcasing some of the creations in our office. Congratulations to Every Sachs, Isla Sue Niekan, Holland Everline, James Ogrzewalla, Malin Hall, Gracelyn Petrowski, and Pravasthi Konijeti. Their artwork will be showcased in the office during second trimester.

Enjoy this lovely fall weather and we look forward to another great week,

Tiffany Buzan

Just a friendly reminder that all cars should enter into Maple Glen from 169th/171st street. The bus lot is NOT a thorough fare to drop off students. Thank you for your flexibility.

disAbility Awareness

This month is an exciting one—it’s really what we’ve been building up to all year! In our Circle Up Morning Meetings, we have learned how to identify our emotions and use coping skills to help our bodies and minds stay calm. Once we could manage our own feelings, we practiced important teamwork skills like collaboration and conflict resolution—things we use every day at school and at home.

Now, we’re bringing it all together! Students are learning that everyone has different needs, and through social and self-awareness, we can work together to make sure everyone feels seen, heard, and supported. It’s amazing to see how all of these skills connect!

We are thrilled to continue our partnership with the Joseph Maley Foundation to bring our Disability Awareness program to Maple Glen! Disability Awareness is a developmentally-appropriate, standards-based curriculum that aims to build understanding and awareness of people with disabilities. Our engaging program fosters respect, empathy, and acceptance of all.

We invite you to talk with your children about what they experience and learn as part of the Disability Awareness program. Ask questions, share your own experiences, and join together to celebrate the differences that make us all unique.

If you are interested in finding out more about Joseph Maley Foundation and how you can be involved, please visit our website josephmaley.org or contact me via email at sbecher@josephmaley.org.

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Holiday Giving

Our WWS Holiday Giving program is underway and we need your help to support over 1000 students in our community!

If your family or organization would like to brighten the holidays for a WWS family, please read the info on our PTO Holiday Sign Up: http://bit.ly/47Uxrw4

When returning the purchased gifts to Maple Glen or the drop off location, please label them using the Family Number on the sign up to assist our awesome PTO in sorting! See the example below!

Would you prefer to make a Financial Donation? Use this site: https://bit.ly/2025HolidayGivngDonation

If you have any questions or need support, please reach out to Nicole Newman, our School Counselor, at 317-896-4700 ext 17006, NewmanN@wws.k12.in.us, or on TalkingPoints.

We appreciate your support!

Greetings Maple Glen Families:

You should have received a catalog with stickers of your child’s Art from Square1Art. This is our yearly Art Fundraiser that allows you to purchase various items with your child’s creation printed on them. All orders are shipped directly to your home and will arrive before the holiday season if purchased before the order deadline of November 15.

If you want to upload additional artwork you are welcome to do that as well. If you would like to search for your student’s work the link is here:https://shop.square1art.com/Shop/artwork/search.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for supporting our school!

Jessica Coleman

watsoncolemanj@wws.k12.in.us

If your child will be absent or late - Please call the attendance line and leave a message (317) 896-4700 ext 17001, or email mgesattendance@wws.k12.in.us

Please do this even if you let your child's classroom teacher know about the absence. This will ensure that our attendance secretary receives the information.

If you have a dismissal change, please let the front office know by 1:00pm. This gives the office enough time to notify your child is where they’re supposed to be at the end of the day! Please DO NOT leave dismissal changes on the attendance line.

To notify the front office of a dismissal change, call (317) 896-4700 ext 17011, or email:

mgesattendance@wws.k12.in.us

We are opening up the opportunity for family members to join their child/children for lunch! For student safety and to accommodate our limited cafeteria seating, we are allowing our families to visit once a trimester. To be prepared for our guests and to check the Safe Visitor Registration of incoming visitors (this is required for every visitor) please make sure you register 24 hours in advance.

We do have a few procedures in place to make sure everyone is safe and lunch flows smoothly.

Tables will be set up on the NORTH side of the cafeteria for you and your child.

1. Please only bring food for your child and your child only.

2. Please refrain from posting picture of other children on social media.

3. To ensure space, lunch tables are reserved for you and your child only.

A new application must be completed each school year. The Application for Free or Reduced Meals and Other Benefits is now available on-line by clicking the button below. You can also come to the Administration Building between the hours of 7 am - 4 pm to complete an application on-line. Please feel free to contact Stacy Luedke, at (317) 867-8000 or email at luedkes@wws.k12.in.us.

In an effort to constantly improve and enhance school safety, we use a visitor management system at all nine WWS schools. This comprehensive system will enhance our school entrance security and better ensure that every visitor to our schools is permitted and authorized to be in our school buildings.

Background checks are good for four years at any school in the district. These background checks will cost $12.95 and can be acquired via the link below.

Westfield Washington Schools usesTalkingPoints to communicate with families! TalkingPoints allows for seamless multilingual two-way communication between teachers and families. Families can choose to receive messages via SMS text messaging or through the free FAMILIES | TalkingPoints mobile app for Apple or Android.

This platform has enhanced translation capabilities, so families can receive and send messages in their preferred language. Additional tools like speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and closed captioned videos make this program accessible to all of our Westfield families.

The most important thing you can do to ensure you are receiving messages from your child’s teacher is to make sure your contact information for the “Father” and “Mother” fields in PowerSchool is correct. When a teacher sends out a message, TalkingPoints will automatically use those two phone numbers. If you’d like to add additional contacts, please reach out to your child’s teachers.

Website: mge.wws.k12.in.us
Location: 17171 Ditch Road, Westfield, IN, USA
Phone: 317-896-4700
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Maple-Glen-Elementary-153896671714866/
Twitter: @shakeleaves