MAY 2022

5/18 - Early Release Day (PM PreK attends)

5/20 - BMX School Assembly

5/23 - 4th Grade visiting CMS

5/25 - Grade 3 & 4 Field Trip with RI Philharmonic at Wilcox Park in Westerly (rain date 5/26)

5/30 - No School for students and staff

JUNE 2022

6/1 - Kindergarten Field Trip to Kettle Pond

6/2 - SIT meeting at 4:00

6/3 - 3rd Grade Field Trip to Biomes

6/3 - Scoops of Kindness Ice Cream Social - PTO Event at 6:00pm

6/7 - CHS Seniors from HV to visit and parade through the school

6/10 - 1st Grade Field Trip to Casey Farm

6/14 - Field Day (rain date of 6/15)

6/16 - 2nd Grade Field Trip to I-Max Theater

6/16 - 4th Grade Field Trip to State House

6/17 - 4th Grade Sendoff

6/20 - Talent Show

6/21 - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Attention Fourth Grade Families: The Chariho Middle School Program for grade five Highly Capable students offers a research path for out-of-the-classroom differentiated instruction. Students must commit to rigorous and long-term guided research aligned with grade-level curricula. Students who participate in the research path will miss two or three classes per week, usually two blocks of ELA. Please visit the CMS school webpage for more information or click here. A PDF file is linked as well with more information. If you are interested, please submit all necessary forms by May 19, 2022 to the Chariho Middle School Main Office or email to one of the Program Coordinators, Alison Ward, at: alison.ward@chariho.k12.ri.us

For K-3 Families: If any K-3 parent is interested in nominating their child for Hi-C in the 2022-2023 school year, please submit all necessary forms by May 27, 2022 to the Hope Valley School Main Office or email the Program Coordinator, Alison Ward, at

alison.ward@chariho.k12.ri.us. More information can be found HERE.

RIDE opportunities for families to sign up for available courses. Great opportunity for this wanting to enrichment. Check it out below.

New ACN courses for the upcoming 2022 summer and 2022-2023 school year are here! There are over 225 courses available from 45 different providers! Students and families can view and pre-register for all courses through Friday, June 3rd. Following the close of this pre-registration window, lotteries will run for summer courses only. Students and families will be notified of the summer lottery results no later than June 7th.

Course lotteries for Fall 2022 will run in late August, and Spring 2023 courses will run in December 2022 to ensure students and families have ample time to make course choices! Please e-mail acn@ride.ri.gov with any questions.

Link https://www.ride.ri.gov/StudentsFamilies/EducationPrograms/AllCourseNetwork.aspx to ACN information.

Preschool Registration - Hope Valley Elementary School is now accepting applications for our Chariho Integrated Preschool Program. Click here for more information.

Click on the link or picture below to browse the virtual galleries featuring work from Chariho students in grades K through 12. Enjoy the show!

https://sites.google.com/chariho.k12.ri.us/chariho2022artshow/home?authuser=0

Please click on the link for safety tips for your family! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p3nZnJrGOnD16ibGX9AE_kqkZSbMZGVhopXWNO_6XEM/edit#

Asymptomatic household contacts regardless of vaccination status can return to school as long as they agree to test on the day of return and up through day 5 (if over a weekend for day 5, the student will test upon return).

It is important to understand that if the student has any single symptom they will be sent home and will be unable to return to school unless there is consent to have an antigen test completed at school when symptom-free or the family completes two home tests that are 48 hours apart from symptom onset. If any of these conditions are not met the student will follow the current RIDOH guidelines for quarantining and returning to school, which states, “Household members who are not vaccinated and who do not consent to have antigen testing completed must quarantine while the infected household individual is in isolation, then start their 5-day quarantine.”

Mask wearing will be recommended for household contacts for 10 days from the date of exposure.

Families have the opportunity to get your child COVID-19 tested using the antigen (or rapid) test at school if your child develops symptoms. This is NOT part of our weekly PCR testing. Therefore, if a child is already in the weekly PCR testing, you will also need to complete this form for antigen testing. What is great about this option is that we get the results within 15 minutes.

BY COMPLETING THE GOOGLE FORM LINK BELOW, YOU ARE GIVING CONSENT FOR YOUR CHILD TO PARTICIPATE IN ANTIGEN COVID TESTING AT SCHOOL. CLICK ON THE LINK TO ACCESS THE GOOGLE FORM TO OPT-IN TO ANTIGEN TESTING.

https://forms.gle/qGwoXXuFFmPvZytz9

Welcome, Class of 2035!

Kindergarten Registration is NOW OPEN!!! Child must be 5 on or before September 1. You can begin the process by visiting our registration website linked HERE. We have transitioned to electronic registrations. Paper copies are available upon request. If you have any questions please contact Kerri Fisher at Kerri.Fisher@chariho.k12.ri.us or call 401-364-3260.

**For New Chariho Kindergarten Students NOT in a Chariho Preschool program**

For any new student registering for Kindergarten and is NOT in a Chariho PreK program, you will pre-register online HERE. If you have any questions (401-539-2321).

**For students currently enrolled in the Chariho Preschool program**

Specific to Chariho PreK families ONLY, parents will need to log into your Parent PowerSchool at PowerSchool Public Portal and complete the form called Intent to attend Kindergarten in Chariho. For step-by-step directions on how to do this, please see Chariho Preschool Parents.pdf directly below. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact central registration at 401-364-3260 or send an email at Kerri.Fisher@chariho.k12.ri.us. You can also call Donna Sunderland if you need help logging into PowerSchool at 401-539-2321.

Invitations - We can once again hand out invitations to celebrations. As a reminder, if invitations go out they MUST go out to all students in the classroom.

Students Late to School - If you are bringing your child to school late, the expectation is that you come to the front door of the school to sign your child in. For safety reasons, please do not leave your child at the school to walk to the front door by themselves.

Absences - If your child is going to be absent, please call the school office at 401-539-2321. If your child happens to test positive for COVID, PLEASE be sure to email Nurse Tara, Ms. Donna, and Mr. G with that information.

• Nurse Tara: Tara.McAloon@chariho.k12.ri.us
• Ms. Donna: Donna.Sunderland@chariho.k12.ri.us
• Mr. G, Principal: giuseppe.gencarelli@chariho.k12.ri.us

Student Devices - Students in grades 1-4 have devices that MUST go back and forth to and from school everyday. Please ensure your child has his/her charged chromebook on a daily basis.

Snow/DL Day Information - Devices will need to be used if there is a snow day. Please see information regarding DL days for inclement weather days here. The emergency plan used as last resort is linked here as well. In case of a DL day I will be sure to inform parents like I did for the Jan 7th DL day.

Dismissal - Parent pick up for students in K-4 are arriving while prek dismissal is happening. PLEASE be mindful of our pre-school population and do not arrive prior to 3:10. The entire dismissal process for K-4 takes roughly 10-12 min. We have some amazing staff getting our students out quickly and safely.

Peanut & Tree Nut Free School - We continue to be a nut free school which means no peanut butter and no tree nuts including Nutella.

TOYS - Please make sure that your children do not take any toys from home to school. We continue to see an uptick in this and it is causing problems at school.

Identification - PLEASE be sure parents who are picking up children early from school have proper identification with them when they come to the front door. Ms. Donna is not always the one in the office and we must verify who is picking up the children. Thank you for your undivided attention to this request.

Parking at HVES - The parking spots that are numbered in the school lot are for staff ONLY. We are having issues with parents dropping off children in the morning and taking up a staff parking spot which is causing staff members to be late which is becoming problematic. Also, some staff end up getting blocked since we have double parking at the end of the day. If parents need to come to the building, PLEASE either park in front of the school or at Langworthy Field and walk up the stairs to the main front door.

Here are the PTO meeting dates for the rest of the year. All parents are welcome to attend any of the PTO meetings. Hope to see you there!

May 9th at 6:30pm

PTO Members

Co-President: Kristin Clarke > kristinc49@aol.com

Co-President: Leah Sousa > leah.sousa@hotmail.com

Treasurer: Stephanie DaPonte > sdaponte14@gmail.com

Secretary: Chloe Morgan > cmako28@yahoo.com

Communication: Chelsea Vandeveer> chelseabaker101@yahoo.com

School Contact Information

School Principal: Giuseppe Gencarelli – Giuseppe.Gencarelli@chariho.k12.ri.us

School Secretary: Donna Sunderland – Donna.Sunderland@chariho.k12.ri.us

School Webpage: https://hopevalley.chariho.k12.ri.us/

School Contact Info: Phone - 401-539-2321 Fax - 401-633-7099