We Are South, We Are One!

Email: msattendance@avon-schools.org
Website: https://www.avon-schools.org/mssouth
Location: 7199 East US Highway 36, Avon, IN, USA
Phone: 317-544-5700
Twitter: @avonsouth

Aug. 15 - Back to School Night - 6:30PM - 8:00PM

Sept. 2 - NO SCHOOL - Labor Day!!!

Sept. 4 - School Picture Retake Day - more information below

Sept. 26 - 27 - Parent/Teacher Conferences - more information to come

If you were unable to attend Oriole Preview Day below is the link to our Parent page on AMS South's webpage.

There is a tab that says "Oriole Preview Day Packet 2024 - 2025", click this link to view/print/download beginning of the year helpful student information. This information was handed out on Oriole Preview Day. Just under that are also other helpful links.

Parents please join us on August 15th for our Meet the Teacher Night.

This time is set aside for parents to connect with their child's teachers, please do not plan on bringing your student.

Parents will start out in their child's 1st period class and follow their schedule to meet all their teachers. You will spend about 10 - 15 minutes with each teacher being dismissed to the next class by the bell, just like your child does, with the exception of period 2, WINN.

August 15, 2024 from 6:30 - 8:00PM

Below are links to our AMS South Spirit Wear order forms. The form is 2 pages of options to choose from.

Order forms are due to the Main Office by Wednesday, August 28th.

Additionally, extra order forms can be picked up in the main office.

Scott Adams - Athletic Director

Joni Johnson - Athletic Trainer

Upcoming sporting events will be listed in next week's Oriole's Nest, check back next week!

Morning Drop-Off

If you choose to drop your child off at school, please anticipate this process will take 10-15 minutes or more depending on how many families drive their child to school. The first cars will not be able to drop off students until 9:05 am. Please follow the traffic pattern shown below to drop off or pick up your child at the AMS South main entrance. We have created stack up lanes to accommodate as many cars as possible in our parking lot. These stack up lanes begin at the southwest corner of the parking lot behind the school. You can enter the pickup lane two ways:

• Enter from the roundabout at Avon Avenue (IN 267) and East County Road 25 South.
• Enter from Rockville Road (US Highway 36). Drive south and turn right just past the Avon Schools Police Department and proceed to the stack up lanes.

Enter one of the stack up lanes and prepare to merge back to one lane alternating left to right. This single lane proceeds along the west side of the school and turns toward the front of our school. Please follow the directions of staff as they ask you to pull as far forward as possible so we can unload several cars at one time. Do not pull out of line or create a second lane in front of the school.

Afternoon Pick-Up

Please anticipate this process will take 15-20 minutes or more depending on how many families drive their child to school. The all students will be dismissed at 4:05 pm.

Questions regarding transportation can be directed to our Transportation Dept.

Contact Info
p: (317) 544-6140
f: (317) 544-6141
email: transportation@avon-schools.org
webpage: avon-schools.org/transportation

ABSENCE PROCEDURE

If a student is absent from school, the PARENT must call the school by 10:00 A.M. to report the absence. If no call is received, the automated school system will make an effort to contact the parent, but if NO PARENT CALL has been received by 3:00 P.M. the day following the absence, the student will be charged with an unexcused absence. You may also send an email to us to notify us of your child's absence at msattendance@avon-schools.org.

EARLY DISMISSALS

Please be advised that we cannot take early dismissal information over the telephone.

If your child needs to leave school early during the school day please send a note in with your child to bring to the office first thing in the morning or email us at

msattendance@avon-schools.org with all the necessary information: students name, date and time picking up, and the name of the person picking your child up if someone other than a parent or guardian will be picking up. This email will go directly to the front office secretaries and they will be able to get your child an early dismissal pass so that they can be in the front office when you are ready to pick them up. If leaving early for a doctor/dentist appointment, please provide doctor/dentist verification to ensure that the absence is excused.

If someone other than a parent or guardian will be picking up your child we MUST have this information in writing from a parent/guardian, please include his or her name on the note or email. Once we verify their photo ID then the student can sign out and leave. If you are unable to email us we will need you to come into the office with your valid ID, once we verify it is a parent/guardian picking up we will be able to call the student down for dismissal.

Using this email will ensure your child will get a pass out of class to be in the office. Please do not use Parent Square to send a message to your child's teachers as we cannot guarantee that this message will get to the front office to get your child a pass. Our teachers are very busy throughout the day and may not be able to check Parent Square often, or if the teacher is out that day we would not get that message in the front office in time to get your child an early dismissal pass.

We want to make sure that your information is getting to the right person in a timely manner, and hopefully prevent any miscommunication or missed messages.

If your child will be absent from school due to a virtual doctor appointment, whether leaving early or coming to school late, to ensure that the absence is excused we will need you to provide written documentation of the appointment from the doctor. Please be sure to ask your doctor to email you a note to provide to school for the appointment. You can either print the email out and send to school with your child to bring to the office, or you can email it to our attendance line at

msattendance@avon-schools.org.

It is our belief that students can best achieve academic success by being in school every day. We also understand that a student may occasionally have an opportunity to experience extraordinary opportunities that may result in a missed day of school. The principal or designee may grant a pre-arranged absence if the absence provides an extraordinary opportunity for the student and/or family. The request must be submitted at least five school days in advance of the requested absence. The student will be required to complete all missed work upon his/her return to school.

No more than three days of pre-arranged absences will be approved each year.

Pre-arranged absences will not be granted during the following circumstances:

• NWEA and ILEARN testing
• End of Quarter Assessments
• Last three days of a semester
• When the requested absence would push the student’s attendance record into excessive absence status or if the student has surpassed the allowable number of absences.

You can either print this form out and complete the information requested and send into school with your child to bring to the front office, or you can fill it out and email it to our attendance email address at msattendance@avon-schools.org

For Visitors to our Building

Avon Schools require all visitors to check-in at the front office using our visitor management system, Safe Visitor. This system requires visitors to scan their driver's license or state identification card for a check of their record. A temporary badge is provided to all visitors to wear while in our buildings. As our visitors leave school, they scan and return that badge to front office staff.

Entering the Building

Anyone entering our building beyond the front office will need to have a valid photo ID with them so that they can be checked in through our Safe Visitor Solutions system. You will be given a badge to wear while in the building so that you are identified as a visitor. When leaving you will return to the front office so that we can check you out of Safe Visitor Solutions and take your badge.

Visiting Students during Lunch

At this time, we are allowing parents/guardians to have lunch with their child during their specified lunch time in our commons area outside of the cafeteria. Parents must follow our policy for entering our building listed above; present a valid photo ID and be checked into our Safe Visitor system. Please take note that this process may take a few minutes to get you checked into our system so please allow for a few extra minutes for that process.

**If someone other than a parent/guardian would like to have lunch with your student, we MUST have that information in writing in advance from a parent/guardian. You can either send a note in with your student to bring to the office when they arrive at school in the morning, or you can email our attendance line with the information at msattendance@avon-schools.org

If you are having trouble accessing your PowerParent account try uninstalling and then reinstalling from your device.

Users of the Mobile app will need to logout of the mobile app and then sign in again, or uninstalling the app and reinstalling it.

If the join code is needed to re-establish a mobile app connection from a phone or device the school code is KCTN.

If you are still having trouble accessing PowerParent,

please call Mrs. Diaz at 317-544-5700, ext. 5719

ParentSquare is your primary communication link with Avon Schools. Whenever there is timely and important news or updates, you can expect to hear it first through ParentSquare.

And, the best way to interact with ParentSquare is through the mobile app. It's available in the App Store and Google Play.

If you need help setting up your account and configuring your notifications, refer to this helpful quick-start guide.

Schoology is an online learning management system that allows teachers to create and share course material with students and parents. Teachers can share content, assign homework (collaborate on homework), give quizzes/tests, and more.

How do students access Schoology?

Students log in to Schoology at avon.schoology.com with their school email for username (student ID@students.avon-schools.org) and their network password (school-provided for grades K-4; self-created for grades 5-12).

How do I create a Schoology Parent account?

With a Schoology Parent account, parents get view-only access to see their student's courses, groups, announcements, upcoming homework, calendar, and submitted assignments.

Please click on LINQ Connect below to take you to our web page for more information on how to add lunch money to your child's account.

We're excited to bring you our new and improved menus with the help of the Nutrislice app. Visit the website to create an account and view menus. You can also download the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Contact Food Services if you have questions or if you need assistance.

Cell phone and all other electronic devices, including smart watches, are not to be used during the school day. Students are expected to keep all electronic devices in their locker.

Our picture retake day at AMS South will be on Wednesday, September 4, 2024.

As soon as we receive the ordering information from LifeTouch we will add it in the newsletter - watch our upcoming issues of the Oriole's Nest for this information.

If your student missed Oriole Preview Day they will need to have their picture taken this day.

Good afternoon, Avon Middle School South students and families!

This is Dr. Peo, the proud principal of South! I'm writing to share information on laptop insurance. I urge you to purchase laptop insurance for your student's laptop. The cost of insurance than most repairs such as screen replacements. Please visit our website for information on laptop insurance. The deadline to enroll for this school year is September 6th. Let us know if you have any questions by calling at (317) 544-5700. Thank you!

Grade 7 laptop repair costs

Grade 8 laptop repair costs

Dr. Dan Peo, Principal
Avon Middle School South

Avon Community Schools has chosen Worth Ave. Group as the vendor of choice to insure school-issued laptops rented by students. Insurance with Worth Ave. Group will protect the device against: Accidental Damage, Theft, Fire, Flood, Natural Disasters, Power Surge and Vandalism. This insurance policy will provide full replacement cost coverage and will protect the item worldwide (on and off school grounds). The policy is also transferable to a replacement unit. Insurance plans may be purchased online.

• Coverage Term: July 18, 2022 - July 18, 2023
• It is up to you to renew yearly.

• Deadline to Purchase Coverage: September 5, 2022

• Yearly Insurance Rates:
• 6th-12 Grade: Lenovo 11e Laptop $45.00
• Costs are prorated for enrollment after September 5.

Each week your child's team teachers, as well as Encore classes, will give an update about the current week or week ahead.

This information will start in next week's newsletter!

Our 7th grade Social Studies teacher, Mrs. Weinstein and 8th grade Spanish teacher, Señora Barker, are offering an international travel experience for Spring Break 2026. Students will have the opportunity to travel to Panama in collaboration with EF Tours. This is a student-focused educational tour, with an emphasis on learning about the country, its history, culture, biodiversity, and language. Students will be accompanied by veteran teachers who have a passion for Spanish, Science, and Social Studies. Educational travel will help your child gain a more global perspective, shape their independence, and broaden their horizons. Highlights of this hands-on learning experience include seeing the modern and colonial areas of Panama City, visiting the Panama Canal, ziplining, jungle hikes, nature talks, surfing, whitewater rafting, and more. This opportunity is open to students in the Class of 2026 to Class of 2030.

Meeting date: Wednesday September 4, 2024, 6:00-7:00 PM in the AMS North Media Center (Door 27)

Please RSVP for the Panama meeting here: https://rsvp.eftours.com/vmrar5g , Questions? Email Mrs. Weinstein at eaweinstein@avon-schools.org or Señora Barker at habarker@avon-schools.org

*This opportunity is not school sponsored.

Need help with Math and Science homework?

Call the Homework Hotline

1-877-ASK-ROSE

Click below to visit their website

www.askrose.org

The Mary Lee Maier Community Pantry is available to Avon school families and employees.

Every Thursday from 5:00 - 6:00PM (when school is in session, see district calendar for these dates) at Avon Intermediate School East, southside of building enter door #13.

Please do not arrive before 4:30PM due to AIS bus/school traffic

Enrollment is simple. Please complete your 2024 - 2025 enrollment before you shop. Below you will find more information for enrollment, please click the link below.

Please click on Community Flyers below to take you to the ACSC web page of all the Educational Flyers and Community Events Flyers happening in our community.