Rocky Creek Elementary School
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Creek News: February 3 - 7, 2020
Rangers are self-directed learners, caring citizens, and positive world changers.
Important Happenings at The Creek!
February
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 am: Ranger 'Robics for 2nd grade
4K and 5K registration is taking place now!
4-6: Pastries with People we Love 7:00-7:30 am
6: RCE Dine out with Marco's (Delivery counts...just mention RCE!)
6: RCE office open until 6:00 pm for 4K/5K registration
7: Chick-fil-A biscuit sale ($3 each)
9-13: PTO flower sale
11: class pictures
14: no school for students
17: regular school day (weather makeup)
19: RCE dine out with Wendy's
20: 4th/5th grade PTO variety show
In honor of RCES's 10th birthday, there will be a photo booth set up in the cafeteria during "Pastries with People We Love" ! We hope our families will stop by and take a picture! We would love for our families to share, post, and tweet pics of all the reasons we love Rocky Creek Elementary School. Please use the hash tags #oneRCE and #10YearsStrong when posting pictures!
Important Announcements
NEW Security Procedures
A Note from Nurse Lindsey
As a reminder, if your child complains of not feeling well, please check your child's temperature. If it is greater than 100 degrees (before any medicine) please keep your child home from school. Our school policy for fever is the student must be fever free for 24 hours without medication. For vomiting and diarrhea, please keep home for 24 hours after the last time he/she was sick.
We love all of our Rangers and want to keep them healthy.
4K and 5K registration continues this week!
Please note: there will be no 4K screenings after May, so it is important to register early!
Important information for rising kindergarteners:
Attention 5th grade parents!
Morning Drop-off Reminders
1. School doors open when a STAFF member comes outside. Please do not drop off children and pull away before a RCE staff member comes outside. Doors are unlocked by a staff member at 7:00, and dropping them off before an adult comes out means that they are outside unsupervised. For the safety of your children, please wait until you see an adult open the school doors to let your children out of the car. Thank you for putting safety first!
2. Do NOT get out of your car in the car line. It is not a safe practice to get out of your car and unload your child, or get something out of the trunk, etc. since there are moving vehicles in the left lane. If you need to get out of your car, please park in the parking lot so the flow of traffic can continue.
3. Please pull forward. Cars should pull all the way to the stop sign if in front, and then consecutively behind the first car. Leaving large gaps creates traffic jams, so please be mindful.
4. Do NOT drop your child off in the parking lot. If you do not go through the car line, you must park and walk your child all the way across the crosswalk. Then, you will need to wait until traffic is stopped again to proceed back to your car. It is not ever safe to drop off children and send them across the crosswalk alone.
5. Students arriving after 7:40 must be walked inside. Please do not drop children off, watch them enter the doors, and pull off. This is not a safe practice, and we ask you for the safety of your children to please walk them inside. This will be ESPECIALLY important when our new security procedures go into effect on February 10.
Rangers Support Relay for Life!
Support RCE when you shop at Publix!
Simply Log on to https://www.publix.com/myaccount/register
Create an account
You’ll receive a confirmation email.
Click on the link and open the My Account Settings tab.
At the bottom of the middle column choose RCE as your school.
You’re done!
Thank you for supporting our RCE and our community partner Publix.
Student Attendance
Due to chronic absenteeism reporting procedures for the state, students are required to be at school for 50% of the day in order to be counted present, regardless of whether the absence is excused or unexcused. At the elementary level, students that arrive after 11:10 am, or who are dismissed prior to 11:10 am, are not counted present for the day. On Early Release Days, students who arrive after 9:45 am, or are dismissed before 9:45 am, will not be counted present for the day.
Taking Photos at School
Parent Tables at Lunch
Transportation Changes
New App for Box Tops
Coca-Cola Gives Program
This opens up Rocky Creek to new funding opportunities to help improve learning environments for students. The best part? Donations don’t come out of your own pocket. When you make Coca-Cola purchases, you simply enter the product codes here: https://us.coca-cola.com/give/schools/ and our school receives a donation.
Please help Rocky Creek make the most of this program and learn more at Coke.com/give.
A Message from Security Federal Bank
RCE is on the Energy Bus!
We will be using School Messenger to TEXT important messages to you about school happenings. Please click on the link below to find out more information.
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