Mill Creek Magic Messages
News and Updates from Mr. Ortman and Miss Braksator - 3/30
Spirit Days
April
- 21st: Fitness Thursday (Magic Miles 5K 4/24)
- 29th: MC Day - Silver and Burgundy Day (Pep Rally)
May
- 6th: Field Day - Silver and Burgundy Day
- 27th: Red, White, and Blue Day (Memorial Day Monday 5/30)
June
- 3rd: Tropical Day
- 15th: Last Day of School: MC Day - Silver and Burgundy Day (Pep Rally)
2016-2017 Classroom Placement Procedures
The purpose of this article is to help you understand the process we will be using at Mill Creek Elementary School to decide your child’s placement for the next school year. Obviously this process is an important and challenging task.
The professional staff is involved in placement decisions for our students. Classroom teachers are asked to summarize the academic and social growth of the students in their classes in preparation for classroom placement decisions. The entire grade level team cooperates with the Student Support Counselors, Reading Specialist, Miss Braksator, and me to determine each individual child’s placement. The whole team takes part in creating combinations of children to form balanced classrooms. The classes are designed to be heterogeneous with a wide range of characteristics, needs, and abilities (academic, social and emotional). We carefully examine the strengths, needs, and personalities within each homeroom group. The grade level team reviews each child’s needs in relation to the classroom groups created. Once we believe the classrooms are well balanced, the teachers have completed their part of the process.
Following the completion of the professional staff phases, I review the class groupings again, but from a school-wide perspective. It is my responsibility to match the class with a specific teacher.
Students will have an opportunity to meet the teachers of the next grade level on June 14th, Move-Up Day. The objective of that day is to reduce student anxiety over their teacher prior to the summer break.
If you have information about your child’s learning style that you feel is important for the Mill Creek placement team to have prior to placement, please write a letter or send an e-mail to me that includes that information on or before Monday, May 16th. Although we value any information you provide and will give it careful consideration, there is no guarantee about specific placement requests.
Please do not request a teacher or request that specific students be placed with your child.
We conduct Back to School nights during the month of September for parents to meet and discuss the classroom and grade level programs for the year.
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Sincerely,
Shawn M. Ortman
Principal
PSSA Reminders
Mill Creek students in grades 3-6 will be completing the PSSA assessments beginning the week of April 11th. The testing dates for the students at Mill Creek are posted below.
Students are reminded to leave all electronic devices at home during the testing window.
For additional information about the PSSA testing process please visit the Central Bucks School District website Curriculum Assessment Page: http://www.cbsd.org/domain/65 .
2015 - 2016 Calendar
Volunteer Clearances
As a reminder if you are hoping to volunteer at Mill Creek or be a chaperone for your child's field trip this year... or in the coming years, volunteer clearances are needed.
New regulations require that you have certain clearances/certifications. We are encouraging all parents who are even considering volunteering at the school or chaperoning to be proactive and follow the steps to receive the required clearances/certifications.
If you have lived in PA for the last 10 (or more) consecutive years, you need the following:
- PA Criminal Record Check ($0) - Click Here
- PA Child Abuse History Clearance ($0) - Click Here
- Notarized Volunteer Affidavit and CBSD Volunteer Agreement- Click Here for CB Volunteer Document Links
If you have not lived in PA for the last 10 consecutive years, you need the following:
- PA Criminal Record Check ($0) - Click Here
- PA Child Abuse History Clearance ($0) - Click Here
- FBI Federal Criminal History Record Check ($27) - Click Here
- CBSD Volunteer Agreement- Click Here for CB Volunteer Document Links
We appreciate your willingness to support Mill Creek as a volunteer or chaperone.
Open Your Heart Project
Mill Creek Elementary School
Email: sortman@cbsd.org
Website: http://www.cbsd.org/millcreek
Location: 638 Bellflower Boulevard, Warrington, PA, United States
Phone: 267-893-3600