Monday, May 14, 2018

Week of May 14th


Parent Portal -- PowerSchool parent portal information to your parents. This includes new students.  All schools must have the parent portal open and encourage parents to use it.  Even though we do not display grades at all elementary schools, we do have school assignment and transportation information available in the portal.

Information is available on the Internet for parents.

Transportation for 2018-19 School Year 
  • Bus Rider Registration 2018-19 School Year: On Friday, May 11, 2018, we will begin receiving (via the web and the Transportation Module) requests from transportation eligible families for the 2018-19 school year. This also applies for middle school. 
  • Cut off Dates to Ensure First Day Service: Any transportation eligible family who needs to make a change for 2018-19 is requested to meet the following deadlines to ensure service on the first day of school is July 30 for Traditional calendar schools
Requests received after these cut off dates will be processed in the order received and WCPSS Transportation will make every effort to provide service as quickly as possible.

School-wide behavior expectations
As a staff we are continuing to analyze how to prepare our students for the real-world, in regards to how we treat ourselves and others. As a school, we are currently using some of the PBIS principles (Positive Behavior Intervention Support) and some of the structures of Conscious Discipline. Our goal for next year is to provide our students and staff with consistent expectations across all settings, provide students with structures to increase their ability to regulate emotions and communicate effectively with their peers and adults.

Quarter 4 Electives
If you would like to learn more about your child’s electives-be sure to visit the elective letter website found here.  These letters contain an overview of the course, standards that will be taught as well as contact information for the elective teacher.  


Calendar Updates
  • Fifth grade families:  Save the date for the afternoon of June 8th for the end of year celebration! A Memberhub announcement and letter will be going home soon to give details for our awesome fifth graders send off.
  • Field Day is now on Wednesday June 6th (this has been changed based on the students last day being back on June 8th).
  • EOG Dates:
May 29-  3rd and 4th ELA
May 30-  3rd and 4th Math
May 31-  Nightingale/Vinson Science (computer) Make-ups
June 1 -  Goto/FV Science (computer)/Make-ups
June 4-  5th Math/Make-ups
June 5-  5th ELA/Make-ups
June 6-  Make-ups
June 7-  Make-ups

What we want our students to learn --
Teachers are to share out with our families on a weekly basis the areas of focuses for academics, announcements, and other pertain items. Most of our teachers are utilizing Memberhub, if you are not receiving updates please email or contact the teacher and/or Mr. Shillings.