The Journey and Legacy Teams are excited to announce that we are taking our first field trip of the year. On Tuesday, October 4th, we will be traveling by Perkiomen Tours to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire at the Mount Hope Estate in Manheim, PA. We will be departing at 7:45 am returning back to Tamanend at 4:15 pm. Please pick up your student up at Tamanend Middle School at 4:15. We are thrilled that our students will be able to experience the language, culture and life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance time periods as a 7th Grade class. All students must be dressed in period attire costume. They must also bring a brown bag lunch or enough money to purchase a lunch.

The cost of the trip is $55. You must sign the permission form and pay for this trip by using MyPaymentsPlus. My Payments Plus is now open and the due date for all payments and permission forms is Friday, September 30. As always, if you have a financial concern, please contact our school social worker Mrs. Raquel Riad or your child’s team leader, Mrs. Lisa Mancini (Legacy team) or Ms. Maria Vitacco (Journey team).

Monday, October 3

• Girls Tennis @ Lenape (Away; 3:15); bus leaves at 2:15
• 7th Grade Field Hockey vs. Lenape (Home; 3:15)
• 7th Grade Soccer vs. Lenape (Home; 3:15)
• 8th Grade Field Hockey @ Holicong (Away; 3:15); bus leaves at 2:15
• 8th Grade Soccer @ Holicong (Away; 3:15); bus leaves at 2:15
• Volleyball @ Lenape (Away; 3:15 & 4:15); bus leave at 2:15

Tuesday, October 4

• No Contests

Wednesday, October 5

• No School

Thursday, October 6

• 8th Grade Field Hockey vs. Log College (Home; 3:15)
• 8th Grade Soccer vs. Log College (Home; 3:15)

Friday, October 7

• Girls Tennis vs. Holicong (Home; 3:15)
• 7th Grade Field Hockey @ Holicong (Away; 3:15); bus leaves at 2:15
• 7th Grade Soccer @ Holicong (Away; 3:15); bus leaves at 2:15
• 7th Grade Football @ Holicong (Away; 3:15); bus leaves at 2:15
• Volleyball vs. Holicong (Home; 3:15 & 4:15)

Are you ready to boogie down? Our first school dance of the year is next Friday, September 30th in the Tamanend Gym. The dance is from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm and tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at the door Friday night on MyPaymentsPlus. Our theme for the dance is Disco fever! Complementary food and drinks will be served in the Cafeteria during the dance as well! We can’t wait to see all of you there!

Our annual fundraiser is underway. Students brought home a packet of information and instructions. If they don’t have the packet, the following link will help you support our effort. Please click this link and watch the one-minute video which provides details and instructions on supporting our fundraiser this year. With the holidays just around the corner, you will find over 500 gift items to shop from within the “ship to home” side of the store. Find our frozen, brochure items within the “ship to school” side of the store. All proceeds benefit all students here at school. Please click the link and help your student get started! https://seller.clubschoicefundraising.com/Home/SchoolPage/TAMA28 For questions, please contact Mr. Dudley at kdudley@cbsd.org

Attention French students. There will be an informational meeting on Monday, October 3rd at CB High School South for students interested in learning more about the France 2023 Study Abroad experience. Students and parents are welcome to learn about this exciting opportunity beginning at 6:00pm in the CB South Library. Please be sure to reach out to your French teacher if you have any additional questions.

Program Description

Central Bucks School District has partnered with Dr. Anne Morse and her sleep team from Janet Weis Children’s Hospital (JWCH) at Geisinger Medical Center to offer a new school-based sleep education program. Dr. Morse delivered an educational overview of the purpose and details of the program at the August school board meeting.

As part of this program, students complete sleep surveys a few times throughout the school year. These surveys help identify students that may benefit from further education and support related to their sleep patterns.

Your child will be given the opportunity to participate in a sleep survey. The questions on the survey will indicate if they are experiencing symptoms that can be caused by a sleep disorder. Participation is voluntary and if you do not want your child to participate you need to complete opt out using the directions listed in item 4. If you would like to review the survey questions prior to allowing your child to participate, please email Justin Rubenstein, Central Bucks Supervisor of Student Services, at jrubenstein@cbsd.org.

What will my child be asked to do?

The team from Wake Up and Learn will email the Alliance Sleep Questionnaire link to your child’s school email address. Your child will answer the questions on the computer during a designated time during the school day. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. If a sleep problem is suspected based on the answers, we will send the parent or guardian a letter describing the potential problem and recommendations to consider for improving sleep. We will also share general educational materials about sleep and sleep disorders.

You will be asked if you would like the results to be shared with your child’s doctor and/or the school. All survey results will also be provided anonymously to the Wake Up and Learn team. You may also choose to have the results sent only to you.

Contact Information

Reach out to your child’s school counselor if you have any questions or concerns. You may also contact Dr. Anne Morse at 570-271-8254 or wakeupandlearn@geisinger.edu.

Wake Up and Learn Opt-Out Form

If you choose to opt out of the Wake-Up and learn program, you may do so on the Parent Portal starting on 9/19/22. Open the Parent Portal and select the Documents menu (see graphic below). Then select the Wake Up and Learn Opt-Out Form. Complete and sign the form online and discuss with your child that he/she will be participating in the surveys in class. Please email parentportal@cbsd.org with any questions about how to complete this form.

If you are a Tamanend parent/guardian interested in volunteering at Tamanend this year, please click on link below to our Sign Up Genius--https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0849AFA62CA4FB6-parent Our first volunteer opportunity will start next week. Please review the volunteer requirements below before signing up. Thank you for your support!

Dear Central Bucks Families:

We hope that you had a relaxing summer. Our team is gearing up for the 2022-23 school year which includes handing out student laptops.

The Technology and Innovation Department is excited to kick off our student device distribution. All Central Bucks’ students will either receive a device this year or continue to use the device that was issued last year. Below is a chart that lists the device that will be issued by grade level as well as the cost of the usage fee. On Thursday, August 25, we received a notification the 7th Grade laptops for CBSD middle school students are scheduled to arrive next week. We plan to distribute laptops to 7th Graders the first week of school.

Even if your child has his/her own device, we are asking that you participate in our program to allow for a consistent learning platform for our students. All students in a grade level will receive a device equipped with: internet filtering, software, tech support for break/fix, and access to instructional tools and resources used by our teachers. You can learn more on our FAQ page: https://www.cbsd.org/Page/38121

First Steps for Families:

The first step prior to distribution is to enroll online and pay a usage fee. The usage fee covers the at-home and in-school use of a device, a charger, and insurance for accidental breaks. We have different pricing structures for elementary students as they will pay $15 a year and secondary families will pay $60 in 7th grade and $60 in 10th grade. Each payment for secondary will be good for three years. We have prorated payments for all secondary students who are new to Central Bucks.

Who has to pay the fee?

All students in grades 3-6, 7, 10, 12+, and new families* must complete the steps below prior to receiving a device.

*New students to Central Bucks in secondary will pay a prorated fee. 8th and 11th grade students will pay $40. 9th and 12th grade students will pay $20. These students will complete the user agreement and bring a check made out to CBSD Schools to the device pick-up.

What steps does a family need to take prior to device handout?

1. Beginning on August 16th, all families in grades 3-12 should visit: https://www.cbsd.org/1to1
2. Parent/Guardian and Student will click on and read the 1:1 Handbook.
3. Parent/Guardian signs the user agreement and pays* the user fee via MyPaymentsPlus (MPP). Upon submitting the fee and MPP agreement, you are confirming that you have reviewed the information with your child.

The Fee Table:

*Please note that the fee is reduced for families who are economically disadvantaged. You will see the balance as $0 when entering MPP. All families still need to complete steps 1-3 even if the balance is $0. Additionally, new procedures for Free and Reduced guidelines are being established and sent out next week.

**If you were not given a bag last year, the school can provide one for you. Students in grade 3 will receive a new bag this year.

Questions?

If you are able to submit a Help Desk ticket for technical questions do so here.

Thank you for your support with the handout this year. We hope that you have an amazing year with your child. On behalf of the Technology and Innovation Department, good luck on the first day of school.

Dear Parents/Guardians,

CBSD is currently accepting applications for Free & Reduced Lunch. Students who qualify for the Free and Reduced School Meals Program may also qualify for a variety of needs-based assistance based on their program eligibility. Federal law requires the family’s consent before Central Bucks School District can use or share eligibility status for purposes other than the provision of free or reduced lunch. This information will only be shared if you consent to help provide needs-based assistance to your student that may be beneficial to your family. Your decision to share or not share this information will not in any way affect your eligibility status for the Free and Reduced School Meals Program; it is completely optional.

If your student(s) qualifies for the Free and Reduced School Meals Program, you will receive a notification of a document that needs your attention in the Parent Portal. The Free/Reduced Lunch Information Sharing Consent Form requests permission to use the eligibility status to qualify for various needs-based assistance and programming. You may consent for all areas listed below, decline consent to all areas, or provide partial consent. See the link below for instructions to complete this consent form.

Free/Reduced Lunch Information Sharing Consent Form Instructions

Best wishes for a wonderful start to the school year.

If parents/guardians decide to drive students to school, please plan enough travel time to allow for safety and congestion on Stuckert Road and in our school parking lot. The speed limit in our lot is 15 mph.

Below is a map of how the student drop-off will work in our parking lot. Drop off should only happen along the sidewalk in the front parking lot up to the Main Entrance, as indicated by the yellow highlighted area on the map. For your safety and the safety of our students, please follow these directions and do not drop your student off on Stuckert Road, the Visitor's Parking area, or in the middle of the Main Parking Area.

When dropping off your child, please remember that you should MAKE A RIGHT-HAND TURN INTO/OUT OF THE PARKING LOT. Please stay to the right of the parking lot, along the sidewalk, all the way up to the Stop Sign across from the Tennis Courts. Pull up as far as you can when the cars in front of you clear, and let your child out on the sidewalk. PLEASE STAY IN A SINGLE-FILE LINE WHILE IN THE PARKING LOT.

When picking up your child, please remember that YOU SHOULD ONLY MAKE A RIGHT-HAND TURN INTO THE PARKING LOT. The line of traffic will extend back toward the baseball field (Kelly Rd.). Please stay in the line of traffic and continue moving up as the car(s) in front of you move up. If we follow this procedure, all cars we be gone by 2:40.

When the weather is poor (heavy rain, low temperatures, etc.), more and more parents/guardians choose to drive their children to school. A reminder that students are expected to be in their 1st Period classes by 7:30 AM. If a child is late to school because of CBSD transportation, their tardiness will be excused. If a student is late to school because of car trouble, over-sleeping, or they are in the car drop-off line, their tardiness is unexcused. Typically, there are few cars in the drop off line from when the doors open at 7:10 until about 7:20. After 7:20, the line begins to get very long.

If you drive your child to school and the weather is poor, please consider leaving home earlier so that your child arrives to class on time.

Thanks for your assistance!

Last year, CB middle schools began running a weekly intervention and enrichment period. The purpose of this period is to provide time, space, and support for students to receive help from a teacher, to participate in enrichment activities, and to prepare for upcoming assessments and projects. At Tamanend, we called this time Tiger's i. For the 2022-2023 school year, our middle schools will be expanding this from a weekly program to a daily program. Students' Tiger's i groups will meet during the I & E block on their schedule.

Any Central Bucks family who may need a little extra food assistance is welcome to join on us at Barclay Elementary School. Our 2022-23 drive-up food distribution runs from 4:30 to 5:30 PM on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. We generally have free dry goods, fresh produce, milk, eggs, and bread, and often have some frozen meat and poultry. At each event we pass out an average of 10,000 pounds of food. No advanced sign-up is necessary. We kindly ask that you do not line up before 4:30 so as not to interfere with our student dismissal, and that you do not block our neighbors’ driveways. If you do line up during our student dismissal, you will be kindly asked to leave. Also, do not pull forward until you are certain that you have enough room and will not block someone’s driveway. Our neighbors are very understanding and supportive of our work, but also need to come and go during our events.

¡Bienvenidos a Tamanend! Yo soy Brian Caughie, Director de Tamanend Middle School. Soy hispanohablante. Pasé mucho de mi vida en España. Estoy aquí para apoyarles a todos los estudiantes y familias en Tamanend. Favor de llamarme or escribirme (en inglés o en español) si Ud. tiene cualquier duda o pregunta.

Correo electrónico: bcaughie@cbsd.org

Oficina: (267) 893-2900

Tamanend students make a difference in our community. Share your story about the accomplishments and good work of a Tamanend student with Dr. Caughie at bcaughie@cbsd.org so that he may highlight this good news in an upcoming edition of Tamanend Connections.