Morris Memo
September 10, 2018 LWE Newsletter
Principal's Letter
Dear LWE Families,
Thank you to all of the families who came to LWE's Curriculum Nights. Our teachers appreciate you taking the time to learn more about your child's classroom expectations and curriculum.
Our School Governance Council (SGC) recently met and is ready to start the important work laid out in our school's new strategic plan. As many of you know, over the last 3-4 years our school has done a lot of work to provide an engaging, academically challenging environment for our students. We will continue this work as well as work to increase our parents' knowledge on how to help their children at home by creating a LWE University. In addition, we will be working to get positive stories about our school out to the whole community by forming a Public Relations committee. We are very proud of the work that the SGC has accomplished over the past 3 years and we look forward to working on some additional initiatives going forward. Please stay tuned for more information throughout the school year. You can learn more about our SGC by going to our website or clicking on this link: http://school.fultonschools.org/es/lakewindward/Pages/School-Governance-Council.aspx
Have a wonderful week!
Warm Regards,
Julie Morris
Partners In Education
3rd Graders in STEM Lab
3rd Graders in STEM Lab
3rd Graders in STEM Lab
Vision & Hearing Screening
It's the time of year when Fulton County Schools conducts vision and hearing screenings. LWE first and third graders will have hearing screening on Tuesday the 11th and third and fifth graders have vision screening on Wednesday the 12th. Those with glasses or contacts should come to school with them on Wednesday. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Farrar at farrar@fultonschools.org.
LWE Cafe News
LWE Calendar- What's coming up?
September 18th- Katie Reeves Community Meeting - 9:30 am- Webb Bridge MS
September 25th- Family Fun Night and Book Fair at LWE- 5:30 pm- 7:30 pm
VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION
All parents wanting to participate or visit classrooms must go through the volunteer registration process. Any person who has not gone through the training since June 2, 2018 must go through it again even if you did it last school year.
Applicants should be prepared to spend about 10—15 minutes for the training application process. In accordance with State Law, all volunteers must be current with Child Abuse Reporting Protocol Training BEFORE being allowed to volunteer in our schools.
It is very important that volunteers enter their full legal name as it appears on their government issued ID (please do not use nicknames or ‘goes by’ names on the application).
All applicants must wait 24 hours after applying for application processing and approval, before volunteering in our schools. When coming to the school to volunteer, you must bring your government issued photo ID to use when checking in at the front office.
For your convenience see link below:
http://www.fultonschools.org/en/community/Pages/volunteer.aspx
Updated Procedure for Absence Approval in Extenuating Circumstances
Students should be present in school every day unless illness or other extenuating circumstances exist. The Georgia Board of Education lawfully excuses students for the following reasons: personal illness, death in the immediate family, religious holidays, and other educational days as pre-approved by the school principal. The principal has at his/her discretion according to Board Policy the option to approve a maximum of six (6) days per student per school year in extenuating circumstances. Parents/guardians must notify the principal of their request by completing the request form located on the school website at least two weeks prior to the absence. Submission of parental/guardian request does not grant automatic approval. A school administrator or designee will contact the parents/guardian upon the final decision. As in the past, absences for illness, death in the family or religious holidays can be approved by your child's teacher by sending in a signed note from you.
- The principal approval form is to be used for extenuating circumstances only, as stated in the information above.
- Two weeks ahead of the planned absence, print and complete the request form located on the Lake Windward website.
- One form is required per student.
- Submit the completed, signed, and dated form to the Lake Windward front office.
- Your student’s attendance record will be taken into consideration when reviewing your request.
- A copy of the decision to accept, decline or amend your request, will be sent to you and your child’s homeroom teacher.
Email requests will not be accepted.
Are you a Dad looking for an easy way to volunteer?
We need a few (a lot) of good men! Come and join the Super Dads every Friday morning for carpool, starting at 7:00am. It only takes 45 minutes of your time on the Fridays that you choose. This is your chance to earn bragging rights for your child!! Be a Super Dad!! Please sign up at tiny.cc/superdads to help out! See you next Friday!
Stay in contact!
Email: morrisja@fultonschools.org
Website: http://school.fultonschools.org/es/lakewindward/Pages/default.aspx
Location: 11770 East Fox Court, Alpharetta, GA, USA
Phone: 470-254-7050
Twitter: @lwesprincipal