Big News for This Week!
Dear Carman Families,
Just as a reminder, there is no school on Monday, September 6th, for the Labor Day holiday. Have a wonderful long weekend and we will see everyone back on Tuesday!
Also on Tuesday, Sept. 7th, our amazing PTO is having a Zoom Meeting for everyone to virtually attend at 6:30 p.m. The link to join the meeting is below in this issue of the Paw Print. We hope to see you there and welcome in our new Board members!
Another important virtual event during the week takes place on Thursday, September 9th: it's Virtual Curriculum Night! Just click on the link below to connect with your child's grade level teachers! Virtual Curriculum Night will begin at 6:30 p.m.
With CT pride,
Allison
Important Title I Information to Know
Here are some documents that will be referenced at the meeting in addition, these documents will be reshared via email to all families too.
- Parents' Right to Know document
- School, Parent, and Family Engagement Policy
- Carman Trails Schoolwide Title I Program Plan
- ESSA Complaint Procedure
- School-Parent-Student Compact - After reading this document, please sign this form as a final step for our record keeping. It is essential to get all of our families to complete this form.
We will go over more details about Title I programming this Tuesday, September 7 via Zoom at our PTO meeting.
IMPORTANT Covid Guidelines
We must ask each parent or guardian to perform a daily health assessment of your child before sending them to school, in order to maintain our goals for this year in keeping everyone healthy and to avoid disruptions to in-person learning as much as possible. Please refer to the Student Symptom Decision Tree below if your child is exhibiting any symptoms.
Attendance
Interested in Girl Scouts/Daisy Scouts?
Please contact Jeni Oliver at Girl Scouts 314.400.4632 and joliver@girlscoutsem.org or Christine Helmbrecht at christinehelmbrecht@gmail.com or 314-409-0561for more information!
Sustainable Schools Challenge
What is the Sustainable Schools Challenge?
This is an annual Parkway program for all students, staff, and families to participate in sustainability activities while competing for prizes for their school running Sept 1, 2021 - April 29, 2022. It's designed to connect our district mission of preparing students to respond to an ever-changing world with our district sustainability goals incentivizing actions that reduce our environmental impact.
What you can do:
- Share and watch the 21-22 Sustainable Schools Challenge video presentation (6 mins) introducing the program, new updates, and a walkthrough of the website.
- Sign up now! Each student, staff, and family can sign up to earn a point for their school and receive the monthly newsletter with activities.
- Get the word out - schools have had success encouraging participation through their school newsletters and websites
Updates to the program include:
- Monthly prize winners will be selected through a drawing
- 50 points = 1 drawing entry
- New Mini-Grant program to fund projects up to $400
- Virtual Elementary, Middle, and High added as competing schools
Sustainable Schools Challenge homepage
Stay Connected with These Updates!
September
September 6: Labor Day - No School
September 7: General PTO meeting - Everyone is invited and encouraged to welcome the new board - see the link at the top of this newsletter
September 7: Title I Updates at the PTO meeting
September 9: VIRTUAL Curriculum Night - 6:30 - 7:35 see details above
September 9: PTO Fundraiser Night at El Maguey
September 15: Early Release - Dismissal at 2:00 PM
September 17: Kona Ice Night (previously called the Ice Cream Social) 6:00-7:00 on the campus of First Free Church to allow for more space and restroom usage (more info coming soon)
