The Parsons Happenings
March 26, 2021
In this edition...
GCPS Announces Plans for Fall 2021
In Person Learning Opt-Out Survey
AKS at Home
In Person Field Day
Hard Lockdown Drill
Kindergarten Registration
GCPS 2021-2022 Approved Calendar
Gwinnett Online Campus Registration
Relay for Life Campaign
Autism Awareness
Middle School Summer Career Academy
Weekly Events
Updated COVID Travel Guidelines
Media Center Updates
PTA News
Business Partners
GCPS Plans for Fall 2021
2021-22 In-Person Learning Opt-Out Survey
The 2021-22 In-Person Learning Opt-Out Survey will allow parents to opt-out of in-person learning for the 2021-22 school year. Below are the upcoming steps and processes related to this survey:
- The 2021-22 In-Person Learning Opt-Out survey for parents will open March 22nd at 12:00 AM and will close on April 4th at 11:59 PM.
- The survey should be completed by parents who are opting out of in-person learning for the 2021-22 school year.
- Parents decision is not final until 11:59 PM on Sunday, April 4.
- Parents may access this survey via the Parent Portal to make a change at any time during the survey period.
- If you choose digital for your students, they are not guaranteed a teacher from Parsons Elementary.
- Students in the Korean Dual Language Immersion program are limited to in person instruction.
Thank you 1st Grade Parents and our AMAZING PTA for organizing another Staff Goody Day! Our teachers definitely felt the love!
- We invite our families to sign up for a virtual session to learn more about how they can help their child. Please click on the link below for your child’s grade level and subject area to register.
Kindergarten
English/Language Arts, Mon., March 29, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Math, Mon., March 29, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
1st Grade
English/Language Arts, Wed., March 24, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Math, Tues., March 30, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
2nd Grade
English/Language Arts, Thurs., March 25, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Math, Wed., March 31, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
3rd Grade
English/Language Arts, Mon., March 22, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Math, Thurs., March 25, 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
4th Grade
English/Language Arts, Fri., April 2, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Math, Wed., March 24, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
5th Grade
English/Language Arts, Tues., March 23, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Math, Wed., March 31, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
In-Person Field Day
Parsons' Hard Lock Down Drill
Our school, in coordination with our cluster School Resource Officers, will be participating in our school wide Lock Down Drill on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. A lock down drill is part of our local school's comprehensive safety plan and allows staff and students the opportunity to practice in case there was ever a potential threat within our school. The goal of practicing drills is to help our students feel safe at school and to know what to do should an emergency arise. During the lock down drill, students will practice staying quiet and unseen within classrooms. Nobody may leave their classroom during the lockdown drill and entry to the school is not permitted. We encourage you to talk to your child about the lockdown drill, and please let us know if you have any questions.
Kindergarten Registration Information
GCPS 2021-22 Approved Calendar
Gwinnett Online Campus Registration 2021-2022 School Year
Parsons Elementary School
Relay for Life Stronger Together One Time Gift Campaign
February 24th – March 31st , 2021
We are Stronger Together! We can do so much more together to beat cancer! We would like to challenge each family to give a one-time donation to help us reach our Parsons 2021 Relay for Life goal of $2,000. If we could have 200 families give $10/each, it is within our reach!
This year has been a very challenging one with only half of our students here in the building. So, this would be a fundraiser that would be easy for every student and staff member to be able to support, whether you are a Roomie or a Zoomie.
As the American Cancer Society's most successful fundraiser and the organization's signature event, the mission of Relay for Life is to raise funds to improve cancer survival, decrease the incidence of cancer, and improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their caretakers. Won’t you help us with this most important mission of raising money to help cancer patients?
We all have someone in our life that we know or love that has had cancer. You can make a donation in honor or in memory of that person. Once your donation of $10 or more has processed on MyPaymentsPlus, you will receive a link to a Padlet that you will be able to upload information and a picture about your person you are honoring with your donation.
Support Autism Awareness
Please keep these dates in mind for planned Autism activities:
On April 2nd and April 30th, students may wear something blue to school and donate $1.00.
We need your participation to make this event a success! All proceeds will go towards Autism Speaks Organization. Brought to you by the Parsons Special Education Department.
Thank you for helping to support a great cause!
Middle School Summer Career Academy (For Rising 6th Graders)
Monday, 3/29/21
- Holi (Hindu, Sikh)
Tuesday, 3/30/21
Wednesday, 3/31/21
- Hard Lock Down Drill
Thursday, 4/1/21
- April Fool's Day
- Community Service Month
- National Poetry Month
- School Library Month
Friday, 4/2/21
- Box Top Collection Day
- Good Friday (Christian)
- Wear Blue for Autism donate $1
- 9:00 am ~ PTA Meeting ZOOM
Spring Break is April 5-April 9
GCPS shares CDC guidelines for international travel
If your family has international travel plans for Spring Break, make sure to build in an extra week away from school to self-quarantine. Gwinnett County Public Schools follows guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding international travel.
Media Center Information
All students can still get library books during digital days using curbside checkout. When ANY student is digital, curbside checkout is available. Curbside is not available for in-person students when they are actually in the school building. The Media Center staff always wears gloves and a mask when they handle books and also quarantine books based on GCPS guidelines. It is easy to check out books even if students are at home learning digitally. Here are some guidelines:
- Books must be placed on hold by midnight each Sunday night for pickup that week. They will go off hold if they are not picked up. All books are shelved each Friday and not held over to the following week. Students should only place books on hold if their parent/ neighbor/relative is able to pick up the books that particular week.
- Parents will receive an email on Monday morning letting them know the books are ready to pick up.
- Parents drive through the car rider lane on Wednesday or Thursday between 11:30 - 1:00 based on the first letter of their last name. A-M come on Wednesday & N-Z come on Thursday. Library books will be given through the window or placed in the trunk as requested. Parents will not exit their car.
- Students should place only one graphic novel and one book from a series on hold at a time so others can enjoy these books too.
Library books can be kept for 2 weeks before they need to be returned. When students are finished with a library book, they can return it either to curbside checkout or to the book return outside the front of the school. Books must be returned before new books are checked out. If students checked out books this week at school, those books need to be returned before getting new books.
- Students who are digital get to place one extra book on hold since they might not be able to get library books as often as in-person students. When students are learning from home, they are all considered digital learners for library curbside pickup.
- The Gwinnett County Public Library also offers curbside pickup with later hours and weekend pickup options. Students can login to the Public Library using their student number and 4-digit birthday as their pin just as they use for Beanstack to log reading minutes for the Parsons Schoolwide Reading Challenge.
- Visit Ms. Britt's eCLASS page for more information about curbside checkout along with videos to learn how to place a book on hold.
For President: Mabel Goldsmith and Janet Shin
For Vice President: Greta Aramburu and Jennifer Lee
For Secretary: Katherine Johnson
For Treasurer: Natasha Enos
Signed and Dated:
Qiong Ly 3/5/2021
Jenni Yoon 3/5/2021
Liz Oh 3/5/2021
Parsons Business Partners 2020-2021
Proud Principal Laura Clark
Email: laura.j.clark@gcpsk12.org
Website: https://www.gcpsk12.org
Location: 1615 Old Peachtree Road Northwest, Suwanee, GA, USA
Phone: 678-957-3050