Centennial Friday File
October 15, 2021
Weekly Activities:
Monday: Folk Dance (4th & 5th) | 2:45-3:15 pm
Tuesday: 4th Gr. Choir | 7:30 am
4th & 5th Gr. Afterschool Gym | 2:35-3:30 pm
Wednesday: Hand Chimes (5th) | 7:30 am
Thursday: 5th Gr. Choir | 7:30 am
4th & 5th Gr. Afterschool Gym | 2:35-3:30 pm
Friday: 5th Gr. Orchestra | 7:20 am
OCTOBER:
18 - Conferences
21-22 - NO SCHOOL
29 - Fall Festival
Scholastic Book Fair
Tuesday, October 26th through Monday, November 1st
Hours- 8:30-2:45
The Book Fair will be in the Library. Shopping will only be during the school day. Students will shop with their class during their regular scheduled library time.
More information will be coming home with students soon!
Backpack Food Survey
If your family participates in the Backpack Food Program. Please complete this survey by November 5th.
Coats for Kids & Families Distribution Registration
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley (BGC) offers affordable youth development programs for before school, after school, and school out days for youth K-5th grades, and Teen Club after school and summer for teens 6th through 12th grade.
Visit our website at www.bgcrrv.org for more information.
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley
Scheduling, Registration, & General Information
701-235-2147 | schedule@bgcrrv.org | www.bgcrrv.org
Centennial PTO
2021 Fall Festival
The Fall Festival will be completely free this year (with the exception of bingo). In order to make it free, we are counting on our wonderful Centennial families to lend a hand, either by donating or volunteering your time. If you don't have time to shop you can always send money to our Venmo account and we can shop for you.
Sign up: https://signup.com/go/RzTjPYA
Venmo: @CentennialPTO https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3339611615002624109
If you have any questions please email: centennialcubspto@gmail.com
Written Notification of School Accountability Report
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Now more than ever, it is important for schools to be transparent to its stakeholders. The world is in an unprecedented pandemic, and much has changed in our schools and education in general due to COVID-19.
Transparency to the Public
North Dakota is committed to informing communities about how well its schools are doing. North
Dakota’s future success depends on tapping into the potential of all students, so they graduate choice ready with the knowledge, skills, and disposition to be successful.
State education departments are required to annually create an accountability report for every public school in the state. The School Accountability Report outlines how schools are performing on the accountability elements North Dakota selected within its ESSA plan.
North Dakota has a public dashboard designed to help communities across the state access important data regarding K-12 districts and schools, including COVID-19 Response. Insights features easy-to-read reports on multiple measures of school success, including test scores, graduation rates, English Learner progress, student engagement results, and state accountability. To find out information about our school, visit the dashboard at Insights.nd.gov, select “Find My School” and search alphabetically.
Please note, data made available to the public masks or hides data for groups with less than 10 students to protect confidential information about individual students and will say “no data available”.
Family Engagement
We have robust plans for working to continuously improve educational programs at our school, even in the midst of a pandemic. We would like you and your child(ren) to continue to be active participants in our educational system. Please help support our high expectations for student achievement by participating in school initiatives, offering input and support in our endeavors to raise student achievement, and volunteering at school. Meeting our school’s goals will take a united effort, and we look forward to working with families to ensure success for each student.
Continuous Improvement
All schools engage in continuous improvement for general support; therefore, our school has completed a continuous improvement plan. As part of the overall school improvement plan, a strategy map is generated for each school. Our strategy map, outlining our key school improvement initiatives, is also available on the Insights Dashboard.
Centennial is not a participating Title I school, with a student membership count of 556.
If you have any questions regarding the information in the memorandum, please contact Bobby Olson, Principal, 701.446.4304.
Sincerely,
Bobby Olson
FPS COVID-19 Testing for Non Symptomatic Individuals
You can send your students and staff here for the close contact testing or for people who want to test on a regular basis. This is not for symptomatic individuals. Symptomatic individuals should get a PCR test from their healthcare provider or Fargo Cass Public Health.
Register using the QR code before coming to testing. This is a different registration link than the Fargo Cass testing.
Fargo Cass Public Health COVID Testing Program
- If a student or staff member is deemed an unmasked close contact, they can use this program to remain in school. In order to participate in the testing program, parents must fill out the testing consent form for their child in PowerSchool.
- The student or staff member must test at least every other day and remain asymptomatic during the duration of the testing program. Students and staff members should work with their building administration and testing staff to determine which days to test and work around scheduling conflicts.
- Fargo Cass Public Health will provide testing for students and staff. Testing is available from Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The testing site is located at 3051 25th Street South, Fargo, Suite K, in the Family Fare Strip Mall. Those being tested must register in advance at testreg.nd.gov. It is a one-time registration process.
Weekly Building COVID Communication
The week of October 11, 2021, Centennial had 6 positive student and staff COVID-19 cases. Out of those cases, 2 had close contacts due to school or school related activities or athletics. Centennial administration has reached out to all those deemed close contacts. If you have not been contacted, you or your student are not identified as a close contact in the school setting.
Close contacts include students and staff members who were within six (6) feet of the individual for at least 15 cumulative minutes in a classroom or in other school spaces. Due to guidelines from the North Dakota Department of Health, if the close contact is fully vaccinated OR the close contact and the positive individual were both wearing masks, the close contact does not need to quarantine if asymptomatic.
Sincerely,
Bobby Olson
Principal
Centennial Elementary
Kellie Haaby, Assistant Principal | haabyk@fargo.k12.nd.us
Chris Hayden, Admin. Assistant | haydenc@fargo.k12.nd.us
Website: https://www.fargo.k12.nd.us/centennial
Location: 4201 25th Street South, Fargo, ND, USA
Phone: 701-446-4300
Facebook: facebook.com/CentennialPTO/