I wanted to take a moment to remind families about Padilla's policies around students arriving late at school.

Students arriving prior to 7:50 AM:

- Students are present as long as they are in the building prior to 7:50 AM

Students arriving between 7:50 AM and 8:00 AM:

- Students are tardy

- If your student arrives during this window of time they do not need to be signed in at the office

Students arriving after 8:00 AM:

- Students are partially absent

- If your student arrives after this time, a parent or guardian will need to walk their child into the office and sign them in

Thank you for your help with this!

Safety Information:

There is an evacuation scheduled for Tuesday the 13th (depending upon the weather). We will share the results with you in next week’s Post. As always, please contact us if you are interested in observing or being a part of any of the emergency drills we practice at Padilla Elementary.

Guardians on Guard:

Through our community survey, we are aware of the desire for our community to be involved more in an everyday setting! With that, we would like to invite all that are interested to help ensure the safety of our students before school, after school or during lunch recess. We are always looking for more adult supervision during these unstructured times in our daily schedule and would welcome anyone that has time to help! If you are interested in volunteering your time at any point during the school day for Guardians on Guard, please reach out to Josh Hawkins at your convenience!

No Parking In the Drop Off Lane During Morning Drop Off or Afterschool Pick Up:

As the weather is getting colder, many parents are parking in the drop off lane in order to walk their students into school. Please park in the lot or on the street near the school if you need to walk your student into the building or to the kindergarten playground gates. Thank you for your help as we do our best to ensure a safe drop off and pick up for all of our students!

A.M. Bus Lane Reminders:

In the morning please use the bus lanes to drop off your students only if the buses are not in the lane at the time of your drop off. We do want you to use this lane as a drop off because of the stress it alleviates in our parking lot especially on colder mornings but please remember that the buses will always have the right away and they need you to stay out of the lane until they are gone. They are pretty consistent about times and seem to depart our school every morning by 7:35ish. Thank you for your help with this!!

• Student Council Candy Grams - December 1st through December 16th
  
• Artic Award Assembly (AM Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade) - Friday, December 16th at 9:00 AM
  
• Artic Award Assembly (PM Preschool, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade) - Friday, December 16th at 2:15 PM
• Spirit Week! - December 13th through December 16th
• 3rd Grade Community Event - Wednesday, December 21st
• Winter Break - December 24th through January 9th

We are incredibly lucky to have partnerships in our community who help support Padilla! Three businesses have programs set up to helps us! Please be sure to check the links below for details about how to support Padilla through these businesses!

King Soopers Community Rewards - Link your rewards card to Padilla and a portion of every purchase will be donated to Padilla!

American Furniture Warehouse Partnership - Mention Padilla Elementary School when shopping at AFW and they will donate 2-4% of the purchase to Padilla!

Please note that, due to product availability shortages, there may be last minute substitutions to nutrition services menus from time to time.