Montgomery County Public Schools is taking an active role in the prevention of child abuse and neglect through early prevention and intervention education.

During the week of November 14, our school counselors will be presenting Personal Body Safety Lessons through Science classes. Their purpose is to help students to:

• Develop knowledge, decision making skills, and behaviors which promote safe living in the home, school, and community;

• Learn skills for self-protection and identifying child abuse and neglect;

• Learn skills for asking for help for self and others and practice reporting to a trusted adult; and

• Engage in positive and appropriate interactions with peers and adults.

If you have any questions or concerns about the topics that will be covered, please check out the MCPS PBSL website. If you have further questions, please contact me or your child’s school counselor.

Let your voice be heard and share your input by Monday, Nov. 30. Access the survey.

Bowie Baysox is bringing back Baseball in Education program for our 2023 season. There are two dates available this year. Tuesday, April 25th, and Tuesday May 2nd. Both games start @ 11:05am and Gates open @ 9:30am

The 2022-2023 Cabin John Yearbook is now available for purchase. Order your yearbook now!

Need something for your child to do when school is out? How about a day of fun and supervised activities by the Montgomery County Recreation Department!

All MCPS students can receive a free scholarship by using the code: MCPSkid2022 during registration.

When? Nov. 7, Jan. 27, March 31, April 21

Where? Montgomery County Recreation locations: Damascus, Mid County, N. Potomac, Plum Gar, Praisner, Upper County, White Oak, Bauer (for youth and teens with disabilities), East County, Long Branch, Coffield, Clara Barton, Potomac

How? Visit ActiveMontgomery.org or call 240-777-6840.

What Happens When My Bus Is Delayed or Canceled

There is a local and national challenge with recruiting, hiring and retaining bus drivers for school systems and the transportation industry. When a bus driver or attendant is unable to come to work due to illness or unexpected leave, it puts a strain on the system to keep that bus on the road. The MCPS Department of Transportation uses substitute drivers and multiple runs to ensure that it has as many buses as possible on the roads to deliver students to school every day. Canceling a bus route is a last resort.

If your child’s route is delayed or canceled, here is how we let you know:

• Impacted routes are published the day before or the morning of by 6:15 a.m.
• Information published on MCPS website and ConnectEd message is sent to families
• Department of Transportation continues to identify possible drivers for impacted route
• Bus route information dashboard updated every half hour until 9:30 a.m.

Updates for afternoon routes

• Bus route information dashboard updated by 1:30 p.m.

The webinars are available on the Parent Academy website. Registration is available here.

If you can donate individually packaged non-perishable snacks, it would be much appreciated! You can drop these snacks off in the main office with attention to CARES tutoring.

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Kumar (Kamini_K_Kumar@mcpsmd.org)

This has made getting into events much easier and faster when our fans have purchased tickets ahead of the event. WCHS GoFan Directions. But we do understand that some students don’t have a cellphone to pull up the tickets on. If your student doesn’t have a cell phone, we ask that you purchase those tickets for them ahead of time to show our ticket takers.

Again, we love having your future Bulldog at games! So buy those tickets ahead of time or even better, buy one of our Season Passes that will get them into any paid athletic event by season or all year! Athletic Events HERE

If you ever have questions, reach out anytime. Jesse_R_Smith@mcpsmd.org

Click here to read a message from our PTSA President and learn how you can support CJMS throughout the year!

Montgomery County Public Schools requires school volunteers and partnership agencies to complete certain compliance measures in order to volunteer within our school district.

• Online Recognizing Child Abuse and Neglect Training via their myMCPS Classroom/Canvas account
• Background check (dependent upon the type of volunteer service, per the Volunteers regulation and FAQ)
• COVID-19 Vaccination Attestation - NEW!

MCPS has created a step-by-step User-Guide (with pictures) on how to access create and access their myMCPS Classroom/Canvas account to complete the Online Recognizing Child Abuse and Neglect Training module AND upload the Certificate of COVID-19 Vaccination from the state Department of Health.

The online course grade sheet will show a total of 183.3% for completion of both compliance modules. You can show the gradesheet as evidence of successful completion to schools and your name will appear on the MCPS volunteer roster after October 1.

MCPS is asking for a pdf copy of your vaccination certificate in order to upload it to this module, you can download a copy from Maryland MyIR (directions for completing this process are located in this support guide). As an alternative, you may also upload a copy of one of the following:

• State Department of Health Certificate of COVID-19 Vaccination (DC, VA, WV)
• Vaccination verification provided by the volunteer's health insurance provider
• A letter from a primary care physician attesting to your vaccine status

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