I hope the first few weeks of school are going great for everyone! We have now settled in and things are really going well at Creekside Primary and across our whole campus.
Thank you for all of your hard work each and every day. Things would not run so smoothly w/o the team work effort that goes on here @ Creekside.
We will not have a Faculty Meeting until Sept 27, so I decided to send out info for everyone to review.
Mornings
I appreciate all of our morning duty staff members. We could not operate our mornings if it were not for everyone at their duty stations.
7:05 - Please make sure you are @ your duty station by 7:05. We have to make sure we are supervising students at all times.
Morning car line is going great on north and south but it is still running late. We are currently not counting tardies unless a child is coming in after 7:50. Things should be better soon with more students starting to ride the bus and parents starting to carpool. Please be patient during this time.
Breakfast - breakfast is again sit down in the lunchroom and grab and go. There is no change from last year. If students come to your room with their grab and go bag - do not send them back to the lunchroom. Do not sit them in the hallway. Please do not make them feel like they are doing something wrong because they are eating free breakfast. Allow the students to eat their breakfast in the classroom quickly and then start their morning. Students should not take very long to eat, clean up and then move on. Our free breakfast service is a great program but we have had several issues that could be just some miscommunication. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Communication
Phone calls - Please call parents on a daily basis. Making phone calls during August and September can really help you make solid connections with your parents. Emails are great for relaying simple information to parents but more detailed information should be handled through phone calls. Also, this will avoid parents taking things the wrong way. Hearing your voice helps them understand your viewpoint and how much you love their child.
Newsletters - Everyone should be communicating with parents through some sort of newsletter on a weekly basis. Newsletters should be easily understood by parents and they should communicate your weekly goals, what's going on in your room, expectations, and guidelines for things that parents can do to help their child.
Mr. Scott - 256-777-9710
Mrs. Adams - 256-777-5065
You are welcome to call or text anytime
Office - call the office if you need an admin in your classroom. Our front desk will radio us to come to your room.
Nurse - if you need immediate help from the nurse in an emergency situation. Call the office and we will radio a nurse to your room.
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Supervision
Make sure students are being supervised at all times. There should not be a time where students are alone in a classroom. If you have to step out in an emergency situation - call the office or a neighbor to help watch your classroom.
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Lunch
Please be sure to clean up your lunch table and around your lunch table. Talk to your students about cleaning up after themselves and taking pride in our school.
Watch your lunch times and stay on schedule as much as possible.
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Break times
Watch your break times and stay on schedule. Clean up your areas after having snack.
All classes should stay inside. We should not have any classes going out at this time. The south side is very busy with traffic on the CES side. We are looking at fencing in an area on the north side of the primary building for classes to have a place to go outside.
If there are PE classes on the playground please do not go out to the playground area. We do not need to mix classes. This has been an issue in the past.
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Afternoons
Our afternoons are really going great. Our new areas seem to be flowing with a good traffic pattern.
If you have a new student, please walk this student to their bus and talk to the driver and hand them a written copy of their address.
If you have a question about a child's afternoon procedures please contact the parent as early in the day as possible.
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Attendance
Attendance is a big goal at our school again this year. We plan on recognizing our perfect attendance each month again this year and giving them an attendance reward of some sort.
Please make sure we are taking attendance in a timely manner each morning and we are communicating withe parents when a child needs to turn in a note for an excused absence.
We want to avoid any child accumulating unexcused absences.
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Boosterthon
Boosterthon starts on Sep 5 and goes through Sep 15. We will have a faculty meeting kick off on September 6th in the primary library right after school. The fun run will be a "glow run" in the new gym on September 15.
We are using funds collected to help purchase a "MacBook" cart & 20+ MacBooks. This will be shared by both schools.
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Leader in Me
We have not purchased workbooks through LIM. This is something we need to discuss as a team.
All materials plus videos are on the LIM website.
Leader in Me - ONLINE - great resource!
LINK
If you are new, we will need to go in and add you. We are in the process of doing this ASAP.
Lighthouse Team for CPS - I am looking forward to moving with our LIM process. If you are interested in serving on the Lighthouse Team please let me know.
Sept 11 - PD Day
Our Sep 11 PD day will focus
on "The Leader in Me". This training will be at Creekside and we will
be combined with the CES faculty. We are looking to renew our vision of
The Leader in Me and help kick start our school year with TLIM
trainings. I am not sure of our meeting location.
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Faculty Meetings - LINK
Data Meetings - LINK
Please bookmark these pages and / or put them down in your calendars.
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PTO Meetings - LINK
Please make efforts to attend PTO meetings if possible. We have a strong group of parents heading up our PTO leadership team this year and it would really encourage them to have a strong showing from our faculty at our meetings.
Agenda for tonight:
Mr. Scott/Mrs. Rhinehart- Welcome
Lori Carter-read minutes & approve from last meeting.
Michelle Coker- financial update
Kelly Hartley- box tops update
Jennifer Turner- Boosterthon Glow Run & Upcoming dates
Officer Sarah- internet safety
Turn meeting back over to the principals. :)
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Field Trips
Please email me dates as you schedule them
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Lesson Plans
We are going to start putting lesson plans in a Google folder. More info to come in an email.
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Important Dates:
LINK
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I know this was a lot of info but with not have a FM meeting scheduled for a while and I just wanted to send out several reminders.
Thank you for all you do!
Thx MS
