Wolf Creek Weekly
Building Pathways To Success
From The Principal's Desk October 29, 2017
Greetings!
Thanks for another great week at WCES! It was a fun and busy week.
Thanks so much for your participation in all of our events this month. We held our first All Pro Dads Chapter meeting on Friday. We want to thank Mr. Conley, on of our dads, for his organization of our new chapter. We had an awesome turnout! We are looking forward to a great year with DADS! Please contact him at: iamrobconley@gmail.com for more information. Chapter information can be found at www.allprodadsday.com/chapters/10640. The next Chapter meeting will be held on November 17th at 6:45 AM int eh school cafeteria. We look forward to seeing you there.
Be reminded that students should not wear Halloween costumes to school on Tuesday.
Join in our celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness on Tuesday, October 31st as we end the month of October with Think Pink Tuesday! Students may wear something pink to celebrate.
Please check the school website for updates and calendar events.
***If you are interested in joining the School Governance Council, please contact Mrs. Glass. We need a parent representative to serve on the SGC this year.
We are looking forward to a great week!
Thanks for all you do! Let's Go Wolves!
In Partnership,
Principal Glass
Parent Resource Center - Open Daily 8:00 - 4:00 PM
Please stop by our Parent Resource Center. We have great resources for check-out that you can use at home to assist your child. Let us know what you need. We look forward to your visits. For more information, please contact, Ms. Sims, our Parent Liaison. SimsN@fultonschools.org.
Georgia Parent Survey
Parents, the 2017 -18 Georgia Parent Survey is open for this school year. The Georgia Parent Survey contains 24 questions. Parents may complete the survey using their personal computer, smartphone or tablet. For parents that do not have access to the Internet, you may use computers at the school. Please visit our Parent Resource Center. Be reminded that this rating is open to the public and establishes the overall climate rating for our school community. We want to ensure that we are supporting our school in the most positive way. As shared in our results from last year, we had an awesome 2016-17 school year and want to do even better this year. If there are specific concerns, we ask that you contact the school directly and allow the school to address those concerns. Copies of the 2016-17 results are available in our Parent Resource Center.
All parents are encouraged to participate in the Georgia Parent Survey because the data will be used as part of the calculation of the School Climate Star Rating. Survey responses are anonymous and will be submitted directly to the Georgia Department of Education for analysis. The Georgia Parent Survey is also available in Spanish. Parents may select the Spanish version within the survey. Results from the Georgia Parent Survey will not be available to the public and will not be posted online. The Georgia Parent Survey link is posted below.
Georgia Parent Survey:
Thanks for your support.
We are a Leader In Me School!
Uniforms! Thanks for your participation.
Attendance Awareness Month/Safety
We will award our fist recipient of a our Bike Give-a-way this week! All students that have had perfect attendance for the month of September will be entered into a drawing for the bike. We will award a bike each month. Thanks to our partners from NTA - National Teachers Associates, APEC and parent, Ms. Ericka Thompson we will are hoping to award a perfect attendance student each month with a brand new bike! Thanks so much for your support.
Attendance in school makes a huge difference in how students perform.
This month begins our Attendance Awareness Month. Students perform better when they have "time in the seat". We need students present each day and on time.
We currently have 251 students with 1-3 absences, 29 with 4-5 absences , 18 with 6+ absences and 3 with 11+ absences. Be reminded students not present before 11:15 AM are absent for the day. Early checkouts before 11:15 AM and check-ins after 11:15 AM are counted as absences. Our tardy numbers are high, please help us by getting our little ones to school on time each day. Don't forget, we begin instruction at 7:40 AM each day. Students that arrive after 7:40 AM are tardy. Parents are asked to sign their children in and get a tardy pass prior to reporting to class. Parents who wish to walk their child to class must also sign in at the front desk. So many of you have been awesome about being asked to return to the front desk to sign in. Thanks!
We still need your patience and support as we execute the morning drop off process and afternoon pick up. The cafeteria doors close at 7:35 AM each morning. Breakfast ends at that time. Get them there early for breakfast!
Please help us by using the car rider loop in the front of the building for all student drop-offs in the mornings. The car rider loop moves fast but it does require some wait time and patience. This is the safest area for student drop offs. We have assigned staff to support students as they get out of cars. The bus ramp in the back is reserved for buses only. If parents are using the parking lot near the bus ramp area for parking, they are asked to park their vehicles and escort their child into the building. Students should not be dropped off and allowed to run across the bus ramp to enter the building. We want students to be safe. We had a few cars moving fairly fast in this area. This is a safety concern. Remember, the doors open at 7:10 AM for student arrival. Thanks in advance for your support. If we have parents that can volunteer in for morning arrival, please let us know. We could use the extra hands and eyes to ensure safety for the students.
Thanks for your support!
REMINDERS
- Check the school calendar.
- Don't forget to register in the Home Access Center to receive access to your child's attendance and grades. You can receive your Home Access Center code from Ms. Lyles, the School Data Clerk. This is a highly sensitive code and must be signed out.
- Check for homework and sign your child's agenda each night.
- Student projects from home are looking great! Thanks for your support.
- Ask your child about his Essential Questions daily. These EQ's align to their curriculum standards being taught in class daily.
- Make sure your child knows his/her math facts and sight words. Ask your child's teacher how you can help them to master these skills. Ask about the number of sight words your child knows at K- 2nd. Research indicates that by 3rd grade students should be reading to learn instead of learning to read. Learning math facts helps students conquer the more difficult math concepts that require students to apply certain skills. Students are know longer only asked to simply add/subtract or multiply/divide. They are now required to explain the how and why behind the math. See more information regarding Georgia Performance Standards here: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Pages/default.aspx and here: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Pages/Parents.aspx
- Remember to sign up for Class Dojo. This is a school wide expectations. It is an effective school-home communication tool that each teacher uses with their class.
- Inquire with your child's teacher about how they are communicating with parents regarding school updates, homework and class events. Each grade level has a consistent communication tool. Some use newsletters, websites, remind 101, weekly homework sheets, etc. We want to make sure you are informed of school news.
- Check out your child's Fulton County Launch Pad site. Here you will find online tools that you can use at home with your child. www.launchpad.fultonschools.org Encourage your child to practice the online keyboarding tool. Most of our assessments are online now. Students would benefit from practicing keyboarding.
Title 1 News
Congratulations to Ms. Flower's 4th grade class for returning signed Home-School Title 1 compacts. They will receive Wendy's and Chic-fil-A coupons! There is still time to get Compacts in. We would like 100% participation. Please sign the compacts and return them to your child's teacher.
Wolf Creek is a Schoolwide Title 1 school this year. Last year as a first year school, we were a Targeted Assistance school. See more information regarding Title 1 at : http://www.fultonschools.org/en/divisions/acd/supportserv/TitleI/Pages/default.aspx
What is Title I?
Title I is a federally funded program designed to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic standards and state academic assessments.
The Title I mission is to ensure that each child successfully meets or exceeds Georgia's proficient and advanced levels of student performance and meets or exceeds expectations on local, state, and national assessments.
Our Title 1 funds have afforded us the opportunities to:
Host Extended Learning Program for at risk students
Purchase technology for students - iPad Carts, Virtual Learning tools
Add teachers and a Parent Liaison to the staff
Purchase classroom resources to enhance learning for all students
Our Parent Involvement Plan and School Home Compact will be sent home soon. Please read, sign and send the compacts back to school Our goal is 100% compacts signed.
Our Title 1 Schoolwide plan and budget has been approved by the State Department! We are looking forward to providing more resources to enhance our school instructional program this year.
Thanks for your support.
2016-17 Yearbooks - Reduced Price!
We appreciate your support of our first yearbook last year. There are a few more available for purchase at a reduced price of $5.00. Please see Ms. Keel, our Clinic Assistant.
Wolf Creek Elementary PTA News
NEEDED! Volunteers to support upcoming PTA events and officers for vacant positions. Please contact PTA for more information.
Check out PTA information at our PTA Facebook page and on our school website under the PTA tab. Let's make this year another great year with increased membership and support.
Join us with just a minimum commitment of PTA dues of $20.00. There are also options for making monetary pledges on the PTA membership form. Our PTA is sponsoring our Grade Level Spirit t-shirts and the school uniform initiative. We hope you will support us!
If you are interested in being apart of the PTA, please contact them at:
wolfcreekelementarypta@gmail.com
Follow us: Instagram @wolfcreekpta and Facebook @wolfcreekelementarypta
and let the team know.
Thanks PTA!
Our School Day Start/End Times
Thanks in advance for your support in ensuring that our students get to school each day on time and ready for instruction. Breakfast begins at 7:10 a.m. and ends at 7:35 a.m. daily so that we can ensure that students are in class on time to begin their instructional day. School instructional hours are from 7:40 a.m. —2:20 p.m. each day. Parents are asked to escort their children inside and sign them in if they are tardy. Help us protect the instructional day. Please limit early dismissal/check-outs. If needed, please do so before 2:00 PM. Remember keep your child’s pick up and emergency contacts updated and to sign in during each visit. ID is required for anyone visiting or checking your child our of school.
Wolf Creek Elementary School
Check out our school website for our school calendar and school updates.
A. Nicole Canty, Assistant Principal
Website: http://school.fultonschools.org/es/wolfcreek/Pages/default.aspx
Location: 4440 Derrick Road, Atlanta, GA 30349, United States
Phone: 470.254.2760
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfcreekwolves/
Twitter: @wolfcreekwolves