Queens Creek Elementary School
Parent Newsletter - January 8, 2021
Important Dates
- December 19-January 4: No School (Winter Break)
- January 5: Students return to school
- January 5-29: iReady Math & Reading Diagnostic Window.
- January 11-15: 5th Earth Sciences Benchmark Window
- January 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday - No School
- January 21: Sweeter Things Spirit Night
Links to the School and OCS Websites
Family and Community
December Choice Board (January will be coming soon)
Relay for Life 2020-2021
- What is Relay for Life?
- How does it help with cancer research and treatments?
- How do I donate?
- How can I help?
Title 1 Parent Information
Car Rider Line!!
A Message from the Nurse Savage
New Screening Protocols and Flow Charts
- Do you know if you have been around anyone diagnosed with COVID-19?
- Since you were last at school, have you had a fever, chills, had trouble breathing, been coughing, or lost your sense of taste or smell?
- Since you were last at school, has anyone in your household developed a fever, chills, had trouble breathing, been coughing, or lost your sense of taste or smell?
- Have you been diagnosed with COVID-19?
General Information Topics
Free Breakfast & Lunch
Good afternoon! Great news! Breakfast and lunch will be free for students through the rest of the year! What a relief for so many families during such a difficult time. The last thing families should worry about is having the funds to feed their children.
Message from Mrs. Ross - Media Center
Student chargers can easily get mixed up between siblings and friends. At the beginning of the school year all chargers were checked out labeled with the student's name.
Please review with your child/children the importance of this tape.
- It identifies their charger as belonging to them.
- If they do not turn in their charger at the end of the school year, it is a $17.00 replacement cost.
- The tape should be covering the QR code. The QR code can get worn off over time and if it can't be scanned, I can't be sure that it is their charger.
SchoolCashOnline
Afternoon School Dismissal
Car Rider Parents, Please continue to display the yellow window card until your child enters your car. The best place to display the yellow card is over the passenger side visor. This will assist the staff to quickly load the students into the cars safely.
All afternoon transportation changes will happen within the School Dismissal Manager system. This eliminates the need for notes that don't always reach the teachers or emails to the front office that might not be seen until after dismissal. All changes need to happen before 2:00pm. At 2:15pm each teacher is sent an email with a list of all his/her students and how each one is getting home.
If you still have not claimed your account, please email either the jill.yager@onslow.k12.nc.us or michelle.staley@onslow.k12.nc.us and they will assist you.
Green and Global Topics
A message from Ms. Dailey!!
PLASTIC:
- Five plastic bottles (PET) recycled provides enough fiber to create one square feet of carpet or enough fiber fill to fill one ski jacket.
- Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
- Recycling one ton of plastic bottles saves the equivalent energy usage of a two person household for one year.
(Source: https://www.recycleacrossamerica.org/recycling-facts)
*PLEASE make sure to recycle your plastic bottles!!