**Please check the Meeting Schedules (in the sidebar) and the calendar at the bottom for information regarding this week's meetings and events. Laptops are not required unless requested. Thank you for leaving them in your classrooms.
***Please bookmark the Mindset link so you can access it easily.
August
31 - ASA/HC Session 1: First Day *Please see Associate Principal's Section about Duty
31- 2W & 2K Forest Walks
September
Assessment Month
1-New Substitute Orientation
1-KV & MAW Forest Walks
1-ES Faculty Conversation (see Conversation Schedule for details)
2-MAB, MAG, KP, & Gr. 1 Forest Walks
4- Big Sing
4- KG, 2C, & 2R Forest Walks
~from the ES BBE
Congratulations on a great first week. Pick up and drop off has gone off without a hitch, students are excited to be back on campus and are engaged in learning, and parent are excited they are back at school in the hands of the experts. You have been patient and flexible as the goal posts continue to move. You have all rolled up your sleeves and jumped right in to support one another. I sleep soundly a night because I know our children are in good hands. Thank you for making my job easier.
Thank you to all who participated in and attended (virtually and in person) our first assembly of the school year. The livestream is available in the sidebar of the Parent Update.
We have a faculty conversation scheduled for next Tuesday, September 1st. We will continue our conversations form August 14th. Our learning target is to Identify opportunities that will support learning (onsite and distance). Our focus will be parent education and how to support continued parent learning at a distance.
We have one response regarding international week. I will plan to cancel the week unless we have enough support for the event is expressed by Monday, August 31st. If interested, please complete this form.
I wish you all a wonderful weekend. Relax and revitalize for our first full week.
~from the Associate Principal
The first week went very well, especially since most of the children haven't been in school since March. Thank you to all of the teachers and assistants who taught and reinforced all of our new (and old) routines.
In terms of duties, we remain aligned with the Phase R protocol (in place for the first 14 days of school). Playground B will be open for Grades 1-5 in the morning. The play structure is only for Grades 3-5, please ensure that Grades 1-2 do not use it. Otherwise, the same morning drop off duties continue next week. It is extremely helpful to have all hands on deck in the morning. Thank you, all, for your continued support.
Since ASAs and Hosted Clubs start on Monday, we have updated the pick up duties. We greatly appreciate your flexibility as we make adjustments these first few weeks. Please review the new EL and EC End of Day (August 31) schedules If you are scheduled to supervise faculty children you will need to wait for faculty to finish their own duty. Please see Diane for clarifications and possible conflicts.
~from the ASA Coordinator (Mr. Gareth Lloyd)
Please look over the Fall ASA Schedule. If you are an ASA Facilitator for Session 1, please also see our guide to being an ASA Facilitator.
Please review the following process and procedures to ensure we create safe opportunities for our students::
- If you do not see a student's name on your ASA list but the child insists that she has signed up for it, please call me Gareth Lloyd (+36 302 516 277) to confirm.
- If a student leaves school after morning attendance has been taken, Please update Veracross with the child's absence. This ensures that the information I provide to the ASA and HC leaders is correct.
- If a parent contacts you with a change to the students after school schedule, please thank them for the information, let them know to contact me (Gareth) directly (+36 302 516 277), and forward me the communication. This way we ensure no student is left unaccounted for.
- If you have a planned absence, please contact me with your replacement ([email protected]) as soon as the absence is approved. If it is an unexpected absence, please call me (+36 302 516 277) as soon as you know so I can see if I can arrange coverage or need to cancel the ASA.
- If you are a facilitator, please call me before 3:40 pm regarding any student that is showing in Veracross as a present but is absent from your class. My phone number is the following (+36 302 516 277).
The same Phase R protocols apply during the after school program as it would during your daily routine. Please remember the following:
- Hand sanitizing entering and leaving spaces
- Masks worn when transitioning
- Social distancing of 1.5 meters
- If a student exhibits any symptoms of illness, they must be taken to the nurse immediately
- No intermixing of activities
- Buses (not sure if they will be out front or in the back, I will let you know asap)
- Equipment to be sanitized if your activity is sport-related.
~from the DTL
At the start of the year, we invest time in better understanding our students’ strengths and needs in order to inform our instruction. The earlier you can complete these, the better prepared we will be in the event of off campus learning. Curriculum Leads are available to support you in understanding the hows and whys of these beginning-of-the-year assessments. Please input all data (Math, F&P, Writing, WIDA, and LSS) in the data dashboard by Friday, Sep. 25.
Literacy Assessments
~from Karen Ramirez (Literacy Lead)
- All links can be found on the Literacy tab on the ES Curriculum site.
- If you would like a refresher on how to administer F&P or writing prompts, please see Karen/Leigh.
- Kindergarten will assess with F&P and writing prompts twice a year (January and May)
- Grades 1 & 2 will assess reading with F&P 3 times a year (September, January, May)
- Grades 3-5 will assess with F&P twice a year (September and May) with the option of assessing in January if necessary.
- Grades 1-5 will give the writing prompt twice a year (September and May)
- Please enter F&P and writing prompt scores into the Data Dashboard by Friday, Sep. 25.
Fountas and Pinnell Reading Inventory Grades 1-5
- Grade 3-5 EAL/LSS students who may be reading below an Instructional Level J, should be tested before Friday, Sep. 11 to inform our MAP testing roster.
- Assistants will receive substitute pay for 6 periods in grades K-2, but there will not be an additional substitute. Assistants and/or substitutes will be provided for 6 periods in grades 3-5.
- Grades 3-5 please fill in one team blank schedule for testing times and give to Erika one week before testing.
- ALL teachers need to fill in a leave form with the 6 hours (on one slip) to ensure that the assistant is paid for the hours.
- If your grade level is missing books or forms in your F&P kits), please print additional copies from this shared folder, which can be found under the Literacy resources tab on the ES Curriculum site.
Writing On-Demand Assessments Grades 1-5
- Please administer on-demand writing assessment by Friday, Sep. 11.
- Score the writing assessments using your grade level rubric, which can be found within the Assessments tab on the ES Curriculum site.
- Check writing exemplars on ES Curriculum site to align scoring and score 2-3 together as a team.
Thank you for investing the extra time that these assessments require. Our children will benefit from our increased understanding of their strengths and needs as learners.
Head on over to the Parent Update to view images of learning from this week. Thanks, Paul!