2/12 No School

2/13-2/16 Kindness Spirit Week (see info below)

2/15 APEX fun run (see info below)

2/19 No School

2/26-3/1 Elementary Spring Conferences (min. days)

2/29-3/1 Middle School Spring Conferences (min. days)

A districtwide bond will be placed on the March Ballot. Measure B will immensely help to improve our school's facilities, including building a much needed gym and larger cafeteria for our students. If you missed the informational meeting, please view the Powerpoints below.

Thank you for supporting our APEX school fundraiser. The Fun Run is 2/15. Families may come watch their student run. You must come through the office to sign in and get a visitor's pass.

8:00ish-9:00 TK, 2nd, 3rd

9:00-10:00 4th, 5th, 6th

10:00-11:00 7th and 8th

12:15-1:00 K and 1st

2/26-3/1 Elementary Conferences-minimum days

K-11:40

1st-3rd-11:50

4th-5th-12:00

2/29-3/1 Middle School Conferences-minimum days

6th-8th-11:45

Last month's theme was "You're all that and a bag of chips for having great attendance". The grade levels that won were 2nd, 3rd, and 6th.

This month's theme is "We love seeing you at school". The class and top two homerooms, in each group, with the best attendance (TK-2, 3rd-5th, and 6th-8th) will earn a yummy treat.

Please call in all absences to 925-779-7445. Absences that are not reported are considered truant. Three truancies start the SART/SARB attendance process. For more information on attendance, please visit our district webpage Attendance | Antioch Unified School District (antiochschools.net)

With the gift giving season recently behind us, many students may have received gifts that they want to bring to school to show their friends. The following is a reminder to all and taken directly out of our OPS handbook:

The School and District are not responsible for the loss, theft, or damage of any student’s personal property, including vehicles parked on District property, cell phones, money, jewelry, etc. Students are responsible for their own items. Do not trade or loan clothing, jewelry, electronic devices, or other personal items. Do not bring any expensive items and/or large sums of money to school.

Electronic Devices (Cell Phones)

Education Code and Board of Education policy allow students to possess electronic signaling devices (cellular phones) as long as school site rules are followed. Students in possession of an electronic signaling device must have the device turned off and put away/out of sight while at school or while attending a school sponsored activity. To get a message to your child during the school day, please call the school office. Students needing to contact their parent during the school day will be required to use the school phone. This does not apply to students who must use an electronic signaling device that is determined by a licensed physician to be essential for the health of the student. Students should leave iPods and earphones at home. These items frequently get lost or damaged. Videoing students or staff, while at school, is not permitted.

Money

Money should not be brought to school unless needed for lunch, or other special needs. Money for pictures, fundraisers, field trip expenses, etc. should be paid by check, unless otherwise directed by the classroom teacher. Students are responsible for their own money. Please send all money in an envelope with your child’s name. Loose money is very quickly lost.

Things to Leave at Home

We ask students to be thoughtful of others both inside and outside the school buildings. Items that might disrupt class or cause injuries should be left at home. These include such things as electronic games, baseballs, bats, radios, fidget spinners, headphones, trading cards, candy, chewing gum, toys, and other similar objects. Only balls larger than and softer than tennis balls may be brought to school. Personal items should be clearly labeled with the student’s name. If the item is to be used on the playground during recess, the student is expected to share. Once again, the School and District are not responsible for the loss, theft, or damage of any student’s personal property

Click on the link below for more detailed information. this club is for 1st-8th graders. As a reminder, all students showing up to Running club must participate. Siblings and friends cannot hangout after school to wait for the other student participating. All students that are not participating will be asked to exit campus and go home.

1. The parking lot entrance is the one by the marquee and the exit is the one by the multiuse room. Please do not enter or exit in the wrong driveways.

2. If you would like to park and walk up to meet your child after school, please use a parking space.

3. If you would like to park and wait with your child before school, please use a parking space.

4. The curb area along the loop is for drop off and pick up. This is not a parking area. You cannot leave your car unattended here.

5. Neither lane in the loop is a place to park, especially the passing lane. Please do not park and block everyone behind you.

6. Please pull up to keep the flow of traffic moving.

7. Do not double park and allow your child to run across the parking lot to get to class or call your child to run across the parking lot to get to your car or park across the street and have your child run across traffic. These are both safety issues.

8. If a staff member asks you to pull up or move your car, please do so. They are doing this for either the safety of the students or to keep the flow of traffic moving.

9. Please do not speed through the parking lot for the safety of our students, staff, and families.

10. School drop off and pick up times are busy at any school. Expect the process to be a little time consuming.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Morning Routine:

• Students should not arrive at school before 7:50 AM. Since formal supervision does not begin until 7:50 AM, any elementary student who must arrive earlier is to wait in the main courtyard area only on the yellow line. Students are not to be on the playground before 7:50 AM.
• All elementary students arriving between 7:50 and 8:00 AM should go directly to the playground.
• Middle school students who arrive before 7:50 should wait at the picnic table area outside the cafeteria.
• All bikes, scooters, skateboards are to be walked at all times on campus.
• Breakfast is served in the cafeteria daily from 7:30-8:00.

After School Pick-Up Routine:

Formal supervision ends 15 minutes after the dismissal bell rings. Please be on-time to pick up your student because staff has meetings and other duties to attend after school lets out.

· Kindergarten: Top of the Loop in front of the Kindergarten Classroom

· 1-3 Grades: Loading zone adjacent to Primary Loop/Main Office

· 4-8 Grades: Loading zone adjacent to Multi use room/Library

Elementary and Middle School siblings should meet at the lunch tables outside the cafeteria and be picked up at the older siblings pick up area. Elementary and middle school students are not to wait outside siblings classrooms.

For the safety of students and staff, all AUSD campuses are closed campuses. Therefore, parents/guardians will need to say their morning goodbyes at the gate and/or wait at the gate for pick-ups. Anyone without a visitors pass, will be asked to leave campus. We thank you in advance for complying with our safety policy.

For more information about our school's policies and procedures, please view our handbook.

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The following was taken directly out of the district handbook (link: https://tinyurl.com/56jaewxr ) Please encourage your child to solve issues in a non-violent way.

SELF-DEFENSE AND FIGHTING

From time to time, students may have disagreements (verbal confrontations) which result in physical altercations. Any student involved in an exchange of blows WILL BE SUSPENDED FOR FIGHTING, regardless of who/what precipitated the exchange of blows. When blows are exchanged, this is a fight. Self-defense is the act of pushing away, holding off the aggressor, or otherwise avoiding the physical altercation. Please understand that if you encourage your child to “hit back” and he/she does, he/she WILL BE SUSPENDED. Hitting back is not self-defense, it is fighting. Encourage your student to resolve conflicts peacefully, find an adult to help, or talk to an adult at the school for assistance.

As a reminder, students may not carry medication of any sort on them including over the counter medications like allergy pills, aspirin, or even cough drops. If you would like to have medication available for your child at school, please contact the office for our procedures on doing this.