Welcome to the "The Raider Lead" newsletter. This will be a communication tool to help us stay connected and keep everyone informed about upcoming events. I welcome your feedback and input moving forward to make this a helpful and informative resource. Get ready for an exciting year Raiders! It is going to be the best one yet!!

Hello, Raider Family,

Welcome to the February edition of the Raider Lead school newsletter! We are excited to share our learning and leadership with you and prepare you for our big rocks this month.

We will be studying Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw. Sharpen the Saw® is about balanced renewal in all four dimensions of human need: body, mind, heart, and spirit. As we renew ourselves in these four areas, we create growth and change in our lives. To Sharpen the Saw, spend time each day in a routine way renewing body, mind, heart, and spirit. This Daily Private Victory increases our capacity to produce and handle the challenges around us. You can learn more about Habit 7 below by exploring our Home Habit Huddle activity with your family.

We will be celebrating Black History Month and Bus Driver Appreciation Week. This month also closes out basketball, and academic challenge. All of our monthly activities are listed below. Make sure you review the BIG ROCKS calendar below for all the details!

Let's practice habit 7 this month as we partner together to be amazing Raiders!

Inspiring life-ready leaders!

Angela A. Tanner

• We will be celebrating Black History Month all month with activities at school
• 2/2- Academic Challenge Match (Virtual); SIC meeting 5:30 (Media Center); Student-Led conferences 6:00-7:30 (Meet in the cafeteria)
• 2/3- Disney Day honoring Ms. McElveen
• 2/6- 3rd Quarter Interims emailed; Regional Spelling Bee @ FMU 5:00; Basketball game 5:30 (Home) "8th Grade Parent Night!";
• 2/13-2/17- Bus Driver Appreciation Week
• 2/16-2/17- Winter Break (No School)
• 2/20- President's Day (No School)

Our students and homerooms are tracking their iReady WIGs for Reading and Math. We will keep you updated each nine weeks on our progress!

ALL STUDENTS will receive breakfast and lunch at NO COST for the 2022-2023 school year.

https://fsd2.nutrislice.com/menu/hannah-pamplico-middle/breakfast/2022-07-30 (Breakfast)

https://fsd2.nutrislice.com/menu/hannah-pamplico-middle/lunch/2022-07-30 (Lunch)

Happy February, Raiders!

We now have the combination swab for COVID and Flu A/B. This works the same way our COVID testing did, but now one swab will test for both COVID and FLU. Just like before, we have to have consents signed. I have attached the new consent form below. You can complete it and email it back to me at mfaulkenberry@fsd2.org.

We are still working towards being able to provideTelehealth thru McLeod Hospital. We will be able to do a visit with a provider for simple complaints here in the nurse's office just like if you walked into an Urgent Care. We have special equipment that will allow for the provider to see your child, listen to their lung sounds, look into their ears and look at their throats. We are very excited about this and hope this will help decrease stress of having a sick child all while getting them well and back to school sooner. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please complete the attached forms and email it back to me at mfaulkenberry@fsd2.org. We will never have your child seen without notifying you first, and there is the option for you to be present in person or via a virtual link. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at any time.

Thank you for allowing us to take care of your child. Please feel free to contact one of us with any questions or concerns.

Sincerely your school Nurses,

Contact Information:

Mary Alice Faulkenberry,RN

Florence County School District Two Lead Nurse

Hannah-Pamplico Elementary/Middle School Nurse

mfaulkenberry@fsd2.org

843-493-9235 (W)

843-319-7613 (C)

Jodi Cox,RN

Hannah-Pamplico Elementary/Middle School Nurse

jjcox@fsd2.org

843-493-9266 (W)

Fax:843-493-5461

We are learning about habit 7 for the month of February. Use the February Home Habit Huddle activities below to connect as a family and have some fun together.

We had no submissions for January. Please submit your February Home Habit Huddle form to your child's teacher to be entered into our gift drawing for the month!

Each month, we would like to feature a Raider family sharing how they use the habit of the month. If you would like an opportunity for your family to be featured, then just submit our Family Leadership Feature survey below!

The importance of reading with your students cannot be underestimated!

https://phonicsandstuff.com/

Great website that includes games and decodable readers that can be used at home.

GT Link- Motivation and Learning

https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parents/motivation-and-learning

Our yearly average for absences was 9% for 2021-2022. We need to significantly reduce this percentage for the 2022-2023 school year. Research shows that students who are chronically absent from school perform much lower academically than their peers. Student attendance is critically important to student academic achievement. Please make every effort to ensure that your student(s) are at school on time each day ready to learn!

In January, our average for absences was 7%. There was a decrease from December! Let's try to continue to move this number down in February

"Awesome happens here!"

Inspiring learning, leading, and caring.

Email: atanner@fsd2.org
Website: https://www.fsd2.org/Page/24
Location: 2131 S Pamplico Hwy, Pamplico, SC 29583
Phone: (843)493-2061
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hannah-Pamplico-Elementary-Middle-School-343699965781757