ECSE Updates and Information
Fargo Public Elementary Schools
Welcome!
Hello Families,
Welcome back to the 2020-2021 school year! We are so excited to have all of our students and families back for another school year! This year will be unique and give us all the opportunity to grow and learn together. Based on the Fargo Public Schools Smart Restart Plan, we will begin the school year in Level 3--Hybrid Instruction. Please read the following information to get up to date with how school will look starting this school year.
Class rosters are being balanced to reflect close to 50% of students attending on an alternate schedule. Group 1 will be attending Mondays and Tuesdays. Group 2 will be attending Thursdays and Fridays. Please see the calendar below for the Level 3--Hybrid Instruction group schedule. Our ECSE staff will be calling you later today and Monday to let you know which group your child was placed in.
We will not have a Back to School Night as normal this year. We will have Back to School conference times for individual students and their parents. When our staff contacts you about your child's group, they will also schedule your conference time.
We will start back to school on Thursday, September 3rd!
School Changes
In the Level 3--Hybrid Instruction model, our school day is adjusted to support planning for students on distance learning days and to provide time to disinfect classrooms between our morning and afternoon sessions.
Morning session 8:00-10:30
Afternoon session 12:10-2:40
For parents dropping and picking up their child, the doors will not open until 5 minutes before the start and end times for each session. We ask that you wait in the doorways/vestibules until staff arrive to pick up your child. Parents will not be able to walk their child to the classroom, but staff will take the children to the classroom.
Group Transfer Request
Your name
Your child's name
Your email address
Reason for requesting a Level 3-Hybrid Instruction Group Transfer
Requests will be honored based on allowable cohort size and balancing classrooms.
The decision will be made by the ECSE Administrator and will be considered final. All requests will be reviewed and decisions communicated to families the week of August 17.
This email transfer request needs to be sent by August 19th, 2020 at 11:59 PM.
School Supply List
- One face mask for each student, one will also be provided by FPS
- A water bottle for students to use during the day
- Large backpack
- Change of clothes in plastic bag (labeled)
- Diapers or pull ups and a container of unscented diaper wipes
- 2- Boxes of Kleenex
- 2- Clorox Disinfecting Wipes
We are asking that parents do their best to get the items on the list. If there are items that cannot be found, like sanitizing wipes, we understand and know the circumstances that are going on currently.
FPS Early Childhood Education
Administrator
ECSE
Fargo Public Schools
Email: johnsod9@fargo.k12.nd.us
Website: fargo.k12.nd.us/ecse
Location: 1305 9th Avenue South, Fargo, ND, USA
Phone: 701-446-3100