The Maple Glen Gazette

We are so excited to kick off the new school year This newsletter is full of reminders and helpful information to help you and your child feel prepared. We can't wait to see our students' smiling faces walking through the doors—it's going to be a fantastic year!

Exciting news to share! This year we have three new teachers joining us at Maple Glen.

Brittany Gray - Resource teacher. Mrs. Gray comes to us from Washington Woods Elementary in Westfield, and we are thrilled to have her join our staff.

Jessica Russ - 3rd Grade Teacher. Mrs. Russ may be a familiar face to our Maple Glen families as she completed a maternity leave for us at the end of the school year. Mrs. Russ was a teacher in Carmel prior to joining us in Westfield.

Katie Demo - 1st Grade Teacher. Ms. Demo has been a kindergarten teacher prior and has a love for teaching our littles. She has been teaching in Indianapolis prior to coming to Maple Glen.

PowerSchool Access: Everyone should have access to your student's PowerSchool account by 4 p.m. Please give us a call in the office if you are having difficulty accessing.

We would love to see everyone on August 4th for our Back to School Social. Kindergarten families will meet from 5:30-6:00p.m. in your child's classroom.

Grades 1-4: Please stop by any time between 6-7 pm to drop off school supplies and say hello to your child's new teacher.

Looking forward to a great year,

Tiffany Buzan

Supply kits will be available for pick up at our Back to School Social on Monday, August 4th!

Our transportation department is committed to the safe and efficient transport of your children - whether for daily trips to school, field trips, or other special events or sporting events. Click the button below to learn about the bus tracking app, bus route information and much more.

We will have 2 Parent drop off/pick up lines this year.

• 1st - 4th Graders (Green Line) will unload and enter door 21 7:35-7:50. Students dropped off after will be marked Tardy.

• Kindergarteners & Siblings (Pink Line) will unload and enter door 7 from 7:40-7:50. Students dropped off after will be marked Tardy

• Walkers/Bike Riders (Blue line) - will enter door 7 from 7:40-7:50. Students dropped off after will be marked Tardy

If you are picking up at the end of the day in either location, please have your yellow sign ready. Need a yellow sign? Contact the front office! Kindergarten Families will receive theirs MONDAY 8/4 at the Kindergarten Info Night.

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 can't wait to welcome lunch visitors this year! Watch this space for a Sign Up Genius link in Late August!

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
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