The link below provides a student calendar of events for the 2023-2024 school year. The calendar informs everyone of dates for school activities, progress reports and report cards, breaks, and celebrations. Please check this calendar out to keep up to date with what's going on at SCES.

Seminole County School System Attendance Policy & Procedure:

• Upon enrollment Parents/Guardians receive State Compulsory Law and County Attendance Policy

• 1-3 Unexcused absences parent and student contact made by teacher(s)

• 4 Unexcused absences parent & student contact made by principal designee(s)

• 5 Unexcused absences parent contact via letter

• 6 Unexcused absences parent contact via home visit from school social worker

• 7 Unexcused absences Attendance Support Team meets and creates an attendance contract. A certified letter is mailed to the parents/guardians requesting a meeting to discuss and sign the contract.

• 8+ Unexcused absences which breaks attendance contract; parent contact via home visit from the school social worker with a recommendation for referral to law enforcement and complaint filed with the court system.

• Further unexcused absences will result in continued referral to law enforcement

The full attendance protocol is attached below. Please be mindful of the number of days your students miss. If no action is taken after an absence, it will be classified as an unexcused absence.

Our school-wide AR goal at SCES is 25 million words read with at least an 80% accuracy. So far this school year, we have read almost 16 million words and are at 81% accuracy on our AR comprehension tests. Please encourage your student to read and take the time to read with them. Our students are able to check our progress daily with our AR Meter in the hallway.

Check out the February Indians and Staff of the Month. We will anounce our Indians and staff members on Monday and get a picture afterwards. Go Indians!

We will celebrate Read Across America Week March 4-8. The flyer below details the themes for each day that week. Please share the flyer with parents today.

We will have our traditional Book Character Parade on Friday, March 8 at 8:30 (Let's pray for warm and sunny weather this year). Students may dress as any book character and are asked to bring the book associated with their outfit to the parade. The link below gives directions for where each grade level will line up and where parents are to park and view the parade. Please check out the link for your directions and share with parents throughout the week.

Seminole County Family Connections along with SCES will host Literacy on the Lawn on Friday, March 8 at 6:30. Gates will open at 5:30 and concessions, games, and inflatables will be available for families. The mystery readers will be revealed at 6:20 and the movie will begin at 6:30. We will need volunteers to work in the concession stand, greet families and hand out books. Please sign up on the spreadsheet linked below. Look forward to seeing you there.

School Board Appreciation Week will be celebrated March 11-15. Please let your school board member know how much you appreciate their hard work providing all the resources you need to be successful.

Congratulatulation to Raige Brock, Lan'dyn Martin and Ja'Braylin Smith for earning the right to compete in the Georgia Student Technology Competition in Atlanta. These students placed first or second place in the local and regional competition to earn the right to compete at state. We also would like to thank Mrs. Gina Newberry, Mrs. Mary Hartzog and Mrs. Kristy Johnson for their hard work with all of our Tech Team participants.

Congratulations to our Young Georgia Author winners. All of our students did an excellent job and we had some great writing pieces to choose from. You are doing a great job with writing in your classroom.

Seminole County Elementary School Young Georgia Authors

Kindergarten

1st Scarlett Roland

2nd Isabella McGee

3rd Eden Hunter

1st Grade

1st Ella Hawkins

2nd Cole Wright

3rd Chloe Smith

2nd Grade

1st Serenity Boyd

2nd Kendall Duarte Ubaldo

3rd Kate Shingler

3rd Grade

1st Destiney Kirby

2nd Emerson Roland

3rd Savanna Stewart

4th Grade

1st Savannah Chapman

2nd Dani Aycock

3rd Cadee Gross

5th Grade

1st Dalis Lomineck

2nd Layla DeVaugn

3rd Waylon Lehman

PreK and Kindergarten registration for the 2024-2025 school term began on February 1. We currently have spots still available. Parents can scan the QR code attached below to fill out the google form for each registration. Current SCES K3 students will automatically be enrolled into the PreK program and can bypass this process. Current SCES PreK students will automatically be enrolled into Kindergarten and can bypass this process.

Join us at SCES and eat lunch with your 2nd Grade student on Friday, March 8th. There will be some entertainment along with some academic instruction. The deadline to reserve your plate for this lunch has already passed. However, if you want to still attend, you are welcome to come and sit with your student. We may have extra plates for sale in the lunchroom on this day. We look forward to seeing you at this event. Parents may enter the building at 11:45 and join their student in his/her classroom.

Tuesday, March 12 will be the end of the 3rd 9 weeks. Report Cards will be sent home on Monday, March 18.

March Club Days will be March 7 for Rotation A and March 21 for Rotation B.

Mr. Tony Wesley, our Regional Boy/Girl Scouts Leader, will be on campus visiting classrooms on Monday, March 11. We will have a Boy/Girl Scouts membership drive in the SCES Lunchroom Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30.

EOY MAP Assessments for 3-5 graders will begin March 18. We will follow up in the next couple of weeks with schedules and directions for these students.

GMAS- The schedule for GMAS testing for 3-5 graders is listed below. Included in this schedule is a practice test day. Additional directions and schedules will be shared soon. Please use the link below for GMAS assessment resources.

Students in possession of phones at school has become a major discipline issue since we've returned from Christmas Break. Students are not permitted to have phones at school. The student code of conduct in the SCES Student Handbook states:

Electronic Devices/Telephone Use

Students are not allowed to make or receive personal telephone calls at school. Members of the office staff will make emergency phone calls to parents or relay emergency messages to a student or teacher. Students are not allowed to have cell phones or other personal electronic devices, such as smart watches, tablets, laptops, game consoles, etc., at school. In special circumstances that MUST PREVIOUSLY BE APPROVED BY AN ADMINISTRATOR, students MUST turn in the cell phone to their teacher or the front office before the start of the school day. They will receive the cell phone back at 3:10 when school ends. Students in possession of cell phones or other electronic devices without permission or students who fail to turn devices into the proper authorities will face disciplinary consequences. Since these items are prohibited at school, Seminole County Elementary School will not be responsible for lost, stolen or damaged cell phones or electronic devices.

For true emergencies, i.e., sickness, hospital stays, etc, parents can communicate with teachers on a case by case basis. However, this should only be for one instance and not every day. In those instances, students should give the phone to thier teacher or the office in the morning and it will be returned at dismissal.

Violation of this policy will result in the phone being confiscated and a parent contact on each occasion. The phone will be returned at the end of the day on the first offense. On the second offense, the student will be punished and the phone must be picked up by a parent from the office. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact Mr. Johnson or Mrs. Miller.