Cougar Chronicle
Volume 15 Issue 26 February 21, 2020
Upcoming Events on the SCE Calendar
Riley Week February 24-28
Riley Mini Dance Marathon Friday, Feb.28 after school to 5PM
Girls on the Run starts Tuesday, Feb. 25 after school until 5:00PM
Girls on the Run every Tuesday and Wednesday until 5:00PM
Culture Club meets Friday, Feb. 28, March 13, 8:10AM
International Fair Thursday, March 5 6-8PM
Beach Bash Saturday, March 7, 11AM-2PM
Second Grade Program Wednesday, March 25, 6PM SCE Gym
Read Across America Monday, March 2
Beach Bash March 7th, 11AM-2PM
Wristband pre-order forms went home February 7.
Wristbands are $10 pre-order, $15 at the door.
Wristband pre-orders are due March 2.
Beach Bash Candy Bar Walk
To make it work, we need candy bar donations.
Please send in full-sized candy bars by March 4, marked PTO.
NEW PLAYGROUND GOALS
Thanks to your pajamas and your donations, we raised $700 to help upgrade the playground.
We are really close to our new playground goal of $30,000.
Time to Order a Yearbook!
Click on the image above to visit InterState's website.
USE CODE 48518C
Order forms are available in the Main Office.
PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO SCE
(Not to InterState - the order form is wrong. Sorry.)
Questions? Email the Office!
Textbook and iPad Fees
Colette Arnold, Treasurer
Enrollment and SafeVisitor Background Checks
Cher McCord, Registrar
Attendance
Alison Jones, Attendance Sec.
Riley Week! February 24-28
Tuesday: PJ Day - No time to sleep!
Wednesday: Decades day - we've been fighting for years!
Thursday: Sports Gear - Team up for Riley
Friday: Wear RED for Riley to the Dance Marathon!
VERIFYING SKYLERT INFORMATION
Please keep Skyward updated with your current information. Please read the directions below on how you can make sure all your information is correct.
- Log into your Skyward Family Access account.
- Click on the Skylert button on the left.
- Update your contact numbers and email addresses.
- Make sure you check all buttons (Emergency, Attendance, General, and Survey).
Keeping your information updated will ensure you receive notifications and the Friday Newsletter.
HSE Illness Policy - Notes from the Nurse
- In order to attend school, your child must be fever-free for 24 hours without the aid of Tylenol/Ibuprofen. A fever is defined by HSE policy as 100° F/38 C.
- In order to attend school, your child must be free of vomiting and diarrhea for 24 hours.
- If your child is sent home from school with a fever, vomiting, or diarrhea, they MAY NOT RETURN the following day. They must be symptom-free for 24 hours before returning.
- Strep Throat - fever free and on antibiotics for 24 hours.
- Pink Eye - after 24 hours of antibiotics and eyes are no longer swollen or weeping.
- Chicken pox - home 6 days or longer until all pox are scabbed over.
- Impetigo - 24 hours on antibiotics and no longer draining, or able to cover lesions completely.
- Scarlet Fever - home until fever free AND on antibiotics for 24 hours.
- Scabies - completed treatment under the care of a doctor.
- Staph & MRSA - children are not excluded from school as long as lesions can be covered and good hand hygiene is practiced.
- Lice - children are not excluded from school. Lice do not spread disease and are not a health issue.
Accidents Happen
If your child is prone to bathroom accidents, please be sure to include underpants and socks.
Clothing Donations Needed
Please Return Borrowed Clothes to the Nurse
We know another student will need them soon!
School Address
Sand Creek Elementary
11420 E. 131st Street
Fishers, IN 46038
317-915-4270
Fax: 317-915-4279
Specials Schedule
Day 5: Tuesday, February 25
Day 1: Wednesday, February 26
Day 2: Thursday, February 27
Day 3: Friday, February 28
PTO at SCE
SafeVisitor Badge for Volunteers
Looking up names can lead to the wrong person being signed in. The badge is required.
When you leave, please give your printed badge back to the office staff for a quick check-out. Please don't leave without checking out.
If you need your badge emailed to you or have any questions, contact Tobi Fields 317-594-4100.
Would you like to have lunch with your student? Here's how!
- You must have a SafeVisitor background check on file.
- Contact the Main Office at 317-915-4270 from 8:00-9:30am on the day you would like to come in.
- Call as early as you can. We have space for up to 4 adults per grade, per day.
- Siblings are not permitted to have lunch in the cafeteria with students.
- Take-out or fast food is not permitted. A packed lunch is fine, or you can buy an adult lunch for $3.45. Exact cash or checks are accepted (no credit cards).
- You cannot use your child's lunch account to purchase your lunch.
- Please have the barcode ready to scan when you arrive at school.
- Arrive just a few minutes before your student's scheduled lunch time to check in at the Main Office.
- NO PHOTOGRAPHY due to FERPA policy.
- After lunch, please sign out in the Main Office. If you plan to volunteer in your child's classroom before or after lunch, please inform the Main Office.
Focus on Car Riders -> Safe Drop-Off and Pick-Up
- Your student must stay with you in your car until teachers come out to welcome them.
- Please stay in your car during pick-up or drop-off.
- Please adjust car seats so students can get out of the car on the curb.
- Please remain in line. Do not go around other cars. Only turn around in the circle, no U-turns anywhere else.
- Please let your student out on the sidewalk in front of the main doors, not on the side by the playgrounds.
- Please walk your student in to the school and sign in in the Main Office if there are no teachers outside when you drop off your student, which is after the 8:55 bell rings.
These requests are made for the safety of all students, including yours!
Remember, if the car rider line isn't working for you, there's always the bus.
Outdoor Recess in Winter
- Please send your child prepared for the weather with coats, hats, and gloves.
- Children will go outside for recess as long as the temperature and wind chill are above 15 degrees.
- From the School Handbook: "Recess will be held outdoors whenever possible. Precipitation, sunshine, cloud cover, wind chill, temperature, etc. are all considered when a decision is made for indoor recess. In general, recess will be held indoors when it is raining or the temperature/wind chill falls below 15 degrees Fahrenheit.
A Change in Transportation
- In writing to your child's teacher.
- By phone call to the front office at 317-915-4270.
Please do not rely on your student telling the teacher of a transportation change.
Please do not rely on an email to the teacher. Teachers don't always check their email in time.
All Transportation changes must be called in before 2:00pm.
Thank you!