Campus supervisors begin supervising students at 8:00 am. Students will not be allowed to enter campus before 8:00 am without supervision. Students should refrain from loitering in groups in front of the school and near our neighbors' yards.

As you drop off your students, please be aware of students crossing the street. Please remind your students to walk their bikes and scooters on sidewalks. Please refrain from pulling in and out of neighbors' driveways.

White-painted curbs along Goodwin, Connecticut, Maddux, and Washington Avenues are also drop-off zones. Please be aware of the bus loading zones. Avoid parking in the bus zone on Goodwin Avenue near the school office. Avoid parking in the SamTrans loading zone on Washington Avenue. Kennedy staff will ask drivers to move if they are parked in loading zones before buses arrive.

For safety reasons, students have one entry point in the morning between 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. After 8:30 am., students must enter through the front office for a late pass.

At dismissal, students can exit from any unlocked gate. If you are picking up your student, be sure to tell them where you plan to pick them up.

Students should practice bicycle, skateboard, and scooter safety while traveling to and from school. Bicycles, skateboards, and scooters should not be ridden on campus. Kennedy staff will ask students to walk all bikes, skateboards, and scooters until they exit the campus.

Please wear a helmet!

Our 6th-graders will have separate brunch and lunch breaks from their 7th and 8th-grade peers.

School dismissal is 3:15 pm.

Minimum Day dismissal is 1:50 pm. on Thursday.

The bell schedules for each grade level can be found on pages five and six of our Maze Day packet. Click here to view.

• The Redwood City School District has been sending out reminders to complete the First Day of School registration packet. These forms are digital.
• We need 100% of all Kennedy families to complete these forms by August 16th.
• The First Day of School packet includes emergency contact information, parent permission forms, state funding for district services, and district policies.
• This school year, the Student Benefit Form is embedded in the First Day of School Packet. Completing this form is very important for our school as it will determine funding for our after-school program. The Student Benefit Form determines resources and services for our students in a variety of areas in addition to children having access to healthy and nutritious meals at school. Depending on the number of families who complete the survey, it will determine several other services and resources such as school library services, school funding, internet access, and teacher grants.
• If you need assistance, please contact the Kennedy office 650-482-2409.

You can find the Maze Day packet by clicking here. Hard copies are available in the office upon request.

On Wednesday morning, students can begin to pick up their schedules at 8:00 am at the Kennedy Library.

The only immediate changes we will make to students' schedules are if they are missing a class or if they have the same class twice. Please give us up to 10 days to assess class numbers before allowing changes to electives or other schedule requests. We will email students and give them directions about this process in our morning announcements.

Students should have the materials listed above each school day. If families need support getting these materials, please contact our Family Center. School Chromebooks will be distributed the week of August 28, so Chromebooks will not be needed for the first two weeks.

In order to make our handbook for students and families more accessible, we have digitized it. Please know that the information in the handbook will be continually updated to ensure families are informed. Students will receive planners during the second week of school, and included in the planner is the student handbook.

Click to view and save the Kennedy Student & Family Handbook.

Thank you to the following families who purchased items off of our Kennedy Wishlist.

Gloria Comfort, Lisa Eli, and Jessica Osaki purchased pencil sharpeners, x-y axis whiteboards, whiteboard erasers, folders, timers, pencils, erasers, and multiple other things for teachers. An anonymous supporter also purchased Kleenex and construction paper for our teachers.

These items were given to teachers and we are all incredibly thankful for your support! I will continuously update our Kennedy Amazon wishlist based on classroom needs.

Kennedy's Amazon Wishlist

$5 of every ticket purchased will go directly back to Kennedy.

Please use this link: https://fevo.me/giantsschoolfundraiser3

Please use this code: Kennedy

**Please note: SF Giants has a very strict no-resale policy for these tickets. Any resold tickets using school promo codes may be subject to termination of the school promo program.**

English Learner Advisory Committee (ELAC) and School Site Council (SSC).

Our first meeting will be Wednesday, August 30 at 5:00 pm in the Kennedy Library. Please email Mrs. Leonardo for more details. More information will be communicated in the next week.

• First Day of School Aug 16
• 6th-8th Grade Social Aug. 24, 6:00-8:00 pm Kennedy Blacktop
• 7th-Grade Grand Canyon Info Meeting Aug. 24, Kennedy Gym 7:00-8:00 pm
• 7th Grade Yosemite Trip Info Meeting Aug. 24, Kennedy Gym 7:00-8:00 pm
• 8th-Grade Activities Info Meeting Aug. 24, Kennedy Library 7:00-8:00 pm
  
• PTO Meeting Aug. 29 Zoom, 7:00 pm (link will be available soon)
• Site Council & ELAC Aug. 30 Kennedy Library 5:00-6:00 pm
• Principal's Coffee Sept. 7, Kennedy Library 8:45-10 am
• Kennedy Food Distribution Sept. 19, Kennedy Gym 9:00-10:30 am

Click here to view the most up-to-date version of the Kennedy Calendar of Events.

There have been a few edits since Maze Day. These edits were made to fix typographical errors and the location of the 7th-grade Yosemite Info meeting. This meeting will be held at the same time as the Grand Canyon Info meeting in the gym. Seventh-graders will actually go to Yosemite next year, so this meeting is just to prepare families for fundraising and to answer any questions about the trip.

Thank you to all of our 8th-grade mentors. They did a great job supporting our 6th graders last week, and I am very proud of them. I didn't get a picture of everyone last week, so hopefully we will get to get a group picture this week!

See you soon!

Mrs. Leonardo