In case you missed last Thursday’s District Newsletter #11, please view it here. Included is a message from Superintendent Annalee Bennin about a Community Education & Recreation expansion project. Details are shared about preliminary planning for a building facility and fields addition to the west of the ECC District Office. Please view all the details and offer your feedback before the FPS School Board next discusses this issue on March 22nd.

Wisconsin Bus Driver Appreciation week begins Monday, February 13th and runs to Friday, February 17th! If you click on the attached picture, you can print off a copy and have your child(ren) color the page and hand this to your bus driver as a way of showing appreciation! We are very thankful for the bus drivers that show up every day to help safely transport our kids to and from school. Thank you!

BONUS POINTS: Snap a picture of your child giving the bus driver the color sheet and send it to communications@franklin.k12.wi.us and we may feature it in an upcoming newsletter!

February 7-10 - FHS Counselors at FPMS: High School Counselors will work with all 8th graders in small groups and connect with each student individually to review and finalize their course selections for 9th grade. If you have a question regarding 8th grade course selections, please email our 8th grade counselor, Ms. Greco, at melinda.greco@franklin.k12.wi.us.

FHS Sabers Baseball is hosting a fundraising night at the Mod Pizza in Greenfield! 20% of your bill will go back to the program. Click on the attached flyer for the code to use so you can support Saber Baseball!

We are very proud as a district to be one of the hosting sites for the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band Run-Out Concert series! The event will take place at the Franklin High School Saber Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, March 4th @ 2pm. Get your tickets online here! They will go fast!

At the January 25, 2023 School Board Meeting, the FPS School Board approved (81) open enrollment seats for the 2023-24 school year. Online applications for open enrollment are accepted beginning Monday, February 6th through Friday, April 28, 2023 @ 4pm. For all other open enrollment information, please view our webpage here which includes the breakdown of open seats by grade level and directions to follow for those wishing to open enroll. For any questions, please contact Heidi Engel, FPS Auxiliary Service Coordinator by email or phone (414) 525-7634.

Click here or on the accompanying flyer for information about a teens (grades 6-12) cupcake event taking place at the Franklin Public Library on Saturday, February 11th.

Click here for the FPL Teen Winter-Spring Activity Booklet that offers plenty of volunteer opportunities and teen program information taking place at the Franklin Public Library now through May! Lots of great information and activities for your teens in grades 6-12!

Franklin Public Schools has a variety of positions available that you can view at the links below:

• Certified Staff (teaching positions, administration roles, substitutes, nurses)

• Support Staff (coaches, aides, custodial, food service, bus drivers, Rec Dept, Kids Club)

Franklin Lacrosse Club is looking for 1st-8th grade girls and boys to join our Spring 2023 season. Indoor practices start in mid February at the Milwaukee Yard twice weekly until spring break. Outdoor practice and games begin in April with the season closing in early June. Check out our flyer for more information including a $25 off coupon code and register at www.franklinlacrosseclub.org/register

Calling all middle schoolers who like to create! Your Rec Department is offering monthly crafting classes after school from 3:30 - 4:30 PM one Tuesday a month. There is still time to register for the Macrame Key Chain class on February 21. For more information on upcoming crafting classes and to register please visit https://franklinwi.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=29971

Our yearbook club is busy getting the yearbook ready! Yearbooks are currently on sale for the 2022-2023 school year! You can order your yearbook at jostens.com. You will also receive emails from Jostens with reminders to order a yearbook for your child! Yearbooks are $40.

If you have any questions about athletics or activities, please feel free to contact our athletic and activities coordinator, Karisa Stiglitz, at karisa.stiglitz@franklin.k12.wi.us

Students can purchase a new student ID by bringing $5 (cash only!) to the main office. Student IDs take approximately one week to get printed/shipped to us from the photography company. Once we receive the replacement we will get the new ID to your student.

We are proud to continue to partner with Clinical Psychology Associates (CPA) to offer on-site counseling services at Country Dale, Pleasant View, Forest Park and Franklin High School. For information about CPA’s services and therapists or to get started with an appointment, please visit our website.

As a reminder, when reporting a student absent for any reason, please communicate this using the online absence/attendance form here. This is a NEW form this year so if you bookmarked or made a shortcut to the old form from last year, please update. Thank you for taking the time to complete this form as it really helps to streamline our processes. The form is located on our website under Parent/Student Info as well as a big button on each school’s home page.

This form will require you to enter your child’s six-digit student ID number and birthdate before you can report your child absent. Student specific medical information collected by the form will remain confidential and only be shared within the health and nursing services team.

Please remember to use our attendance form for ANY attendance related notification including students leaving early, arriving late or full day absences.

If you have any attendance related questions, please contact our attendance secretary, Sadie, at sadie.gleason@franklin.k12.wi.us.

If your student will be riding an alternate bus home with a friend, please complete THIS FORM by 11am on the on the date of this change. The bus company requires consent from both parents/guardians; in other words, one parent/guardian for each student must submit this form in order for us to make this change happen. Staff in the school office will then complete the appropriate paperwork for each student to take with them on the bus.

Forms that are not completed by 11am on the date of the change run the risk of not being processed in time for dismissal. Bus drivers will not allow extra riders on a bus without proof of both parent and school approval.

If you have any questions, please call the Forest Park office at 414-529-8250.

If you come to pick up your student during the school day, we ask that you do not enter our building but instead pull up into the circle driveway outside of our main office. Your student will be watching for you and we will send them out to your car when they see that you have arrived. If you are waiting longer than a few minutes for your student, you may call our main office to check in (414-529-8250).

If you are dropping your student off late for any reason, you do not need to come into the school with your student. Please pull into our circle driveway outside of the main office where your student can enter and check in. We will give your student a pass to class and update their attendance at that time.

Please remember to use the absence reporting form on our website for ANY attendance related notification including students leaving early, arriving late or full day absences. Please do not send notes with your student to notify us of these changes.

If you are dropping off a forgotten item for your student (lunch, Chromebook, etc.), please use our drop off cart located inside the main entrance near the office. To limit the amount of traffic in/out of our main office, we ask that you leave the item(s) on the cart and clearly label the item(s) with your student's first and last name. Post it notes and pens are provided on the cart.

In an effort to reduce the amount of interruptions to students and teachers in the classroom, most items will be delivered to students during their 3rd hour class unless the item is clearly needed right away (for example, the student's Chromebook). If an item is dropped off after 3rd hour, we will get the item to the student as soon as possible.

Please be sure to read the newest District Newsletter that comes out now every Friday. You can access all the issues here.

Bernadette VanLith, 6th grade counselor

bernadette.vanlith@franklin.k12.wi.us

Ellen Montenero, 7th grade counselor

ellen.montenero@franklin.k12.wi.us

Mindy Greco, 8th grade counselor

melinda.greco@franklin.k12.wi.us