Totem Middle School
May 2021
Message from Principal Watkins
Dear Thunderbird Families,
We have been enjoying having our scholars back in our building. The energy is up and our building feels alive again. Our commitment to ensuring scholar safety in our hybrid return has been our top priority. I want to thank all of our hybrid families for their partnership in completing the daily Health Survey. As a reminder, when completing the survey, please make sure you correctly mark any symptoms your scholar might be showing on that day. The system will determine if it is safe for your scholar to attend school. If the system tells you to keep your scholar home, please comply with this. This is for the health and safety of all scholars and staff at Totem. It ensures we have safe classrooms and bus transportation.
This week is teacher appreciation week. All week, we will be celebrating our amazing teachers for all they do. If you would like to celebrate your teachers, please submit a photo showing your appreciation for your teacher to socialmedia@fwps.org today!
Our new school is coming along! We are still on target for opening the new school in January 2022. If you haven’t had a chance to drive by lately, here are some current pictures of the new construction (below):
I wish all of you a healthy and safe May. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to any of us if you have any questions are need support.
In Partnership,
Shana Watkins
Principal
Attention Hybrid Families!
Complete Health Survey EACH morning by 7:00 AM
You should be receiving a reminder each morning at 6:00 AM to complete the health screening for your child. A follow up message will be made at 7:00.
We are asking all families complete the survey by 7:00 so that we can quickly process our scholars into the building and not delay their instructional learning. Even if your child is staying home, please indicate that on the health survey.
Thank you for your help to be sure this happens.
You can use this link; Daily Required Health Screening for Families
or use the QR code below;
For information in:
- Spanish, click here
- Ukrainian, click here
- Russian, click here
- Somali, click here
- Vietnamese, click here
- Dari, click here
- Korean, click here
ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
Don't miss out on this unprecedented year chronicled in this year's yearbook!
See our website to find out how to order. www.fwps.org/totem
Washington P-EBT
I received the letter. Where’s the P-EBT card?
Our EBT vendor started mailing the P-EBT cards March 23, 2021. Cards are being mailed out in batches every day to eligible students. We anticipate our card vendor to mail the last batch of P-EBT cards on April 27. Once mailed out, cards can take seven to 10 days to arrive. These P-EBT cards will contain the one-time, retroactive benefit from the months of September 2020 to January 2021. And, dependent on when you receive yours, may contain February and March benefits as well. Keep your cards!
Updates and additional questions please click here for the DSHS website.
(information from www.dshs.wa.gov)
Wearing Your Mask
Safety is a Top Priority
As we prepare to return for in person options, we want to emphasize we have a detailed and specific plan to support a safe and healthy learning environment for all students that return to in-person learning:
- All staff and scholars are required to wear masks at ALL times at our school campus and on the bus. If a scholar doesn't comply with wearing a mask, the school principal will call the parent/guardian to come and pick up the child.
- Social distancing will be enforced in all areas and there will be regular handwashing throughout the day.
- Visitors will not be allowed on campus in order to minimize the number of people on campus.
- You can find more details around our safety protocols in our Hybrid Model Family Guide at: https://www.fwps.org/hybridmodelfamilyguide or the Hybrid Model Staff Guide at: https://www.fwps.org/hybridmodelstaffguide
Totem Middle School
Email: mnelsen@fwps.org
Website: https://www.fwps.org/totem
Location: 26630 40th Ave S, Kent, WA, USA
Phone: 253.945.5100
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TotemFWPS/