CBA Elementary Lion Link 🐾
Your link between home and school | October 6, 2023
Hello CBA Families,
Welcome to your weekly edition of Lion Link, your link between home and school! This week's newsletter is chock full of upcoming events and reminders. Be sure to bookmark it, or save it to your home screen, to refer back to it throughout the week.
Thank you for your support of the Scholastic Book Fair! As of Thursday evening, the book fair total was over $5,000!! We well exceeded our goal! Your support helps us make purchases for our classrooms and our school! We also wanted to send an extra thank you to everyone who contributed to the classroom eWallets. This directly supports your childs classroom! The teachers have been very excited to shop! Many wonderful memories were made and we hope you and your children selected some titles to enjoy together! The book fair will return in March!
Parent-teacher conferences were held this past week and we are overjoyed at the participation of our families! Your involvement in your child's education is truly inspiriting. The conferences provided an excellent opportunity for families and teacher to have meaningful discussions about academic goals. These conversations help strengthen the home and school connection and we appreciate your valuable feedback.
Upcoming Events and Reminders:
School is closed on Monday, October 9th for a Professional Development Day. Teachers will be working with our Education Department on Analyzing Student Evidence and Webb's Depth of Knowledge and Levels of Instructional Rigor. We look forward to the opportunity to work together to bring the best educational practices back to our students.
Get ready for some fall fun! Our annual Parade of Pumpkins is just around the corner, Friday 10/13. Students will have the opportunity to support Bringing Hope Home by purchasing a pumpkin from CBA, carving it and returning it to school to be included in our Spook-Tacular display of Jack-o-Lanterns. Pumpkin sales begin Tuesday. Pumpkins are $15 each (cash only please). See below for more details!
Go Phillies!
Thank you,
The CBA Team
West Chester Parks & Rec Story Walk
After much hard work and collaboration between the West Chester Library, the Borough of West Chester, and with grant funding proved by the Chester County Department of Health, unveiled the Hoopes Park Story Walk.
Students joined Mayor Dibaptiste, West Chester Parks & Rec and the West Chester library on the inaugural walk! They were able to read the pages aloud in both English and Spanish as local families joined along! It was a wonderful opportunity to support our local community!
Family Survey
As valued members of our school community, your opinion is very important to us. You will be receiving a survey asking you to share your satisfaction of your school experience thus far between October 16th and October 20th. The information you provide will help us make our school better for our families. Thank you for your honest feedback.
School Uniforms
We require all students to wear a school uniform unless otherwise directed.
- Daily Uniform: Girls and boys should wear a green or blue polo shirt with khaki shorts/pants/skirt.
- PE Uniform: PE t-shirt and mesh shorts or sweatpants with sneakers are required on PE days.
- Shoes & Socks: On Daily Uniform days, students must wear brown shoes with white, green or blue socks. Students should wear sneakers on PE days.
Yay Lunch
Meet Yay! We’re excited to continue our school dining partnership, offering menus curated by Yay’s expert team custom made for our school. Check out your Lunch Calendar for nourishing, delicious meals made fresh daily, with options for every luncher.
To set up your Yay account, visit theyaycompany.com/get-started
Mr. Pat is a big fan of Yay Lunch!
Lenape Pizza
Cost: $7 per lunch (Includes entree, side & drink)
Now Serving Pepperoni Pizza!
Vendor: Lenape Pizza
**We are unable to adjust for sick/late days. Any changes must be made a week in advance and should be emailed to robyn.mickle@chesterbrookacademy.com.
- 10/9 - School Closed - PDD
- 10/10 - 4th & 5th Grade Field Trip to Paradise Farms
- 10/10 - Parade of Pumpkins pumpkin sale begins!
- 10/13 - 20th Annual Parade of Pumpkins - 6:00pm
Volunteers Needed!
CBA Elementary will be in the West Chester Halloween Parade on Wednesday, 10/25! Mr. Carter and the CBA bus will lead the float division. We are looking for a few families to join some of our teachers on the bus, to wave and celebrate! Additionally, we will have a table at the parade and would love to have some students join us to hand out candy and glow bracelets! Please note, parents must accompany children. If you are interested, please click below to sign up.
Coming up at CBA
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A Message from our PAC
Important PAC Links!
DIRECTORY: We understand that our families value our CBA community and are looking for ways to connect with one another. We would like to be able to share contact information via a CBA Directory. If you would like to be included, please add your information! THIS IS OPTIONAL. *All information given is for CBA families only.
HOMEROOM PARENT: Being a Homeroom Parent is a new and exciting opportunity to make a difference for our students, teachers and our school. Homeroom Parents will help our Parent Advisory Council, and facilitate communication the teacher and other classroom parents.
Our Week in Pictures
Family Resources
Sick Policy
Families assist us in maintaining a safe and healthy environment for all our Children by keeping sick Children at home. The purpose of our sick child policy is to:
- Reduce the spread of illness from a sick Child to other Children and members of School staff. x Promote complete recuperation of the sick Child.
- Prevent the constant spread of cold, flu and diarrhea and other communicable diseases that are common among small children.
Children who become ill at school will be made comfortable and families will be notified to pick them up within one hour. Families must keep sick children at home until they have been symptom-free for at least 24 hours* if they display any of the following:
- Fever of 100.4 degrees or more. Children must be free of fever for at least 24 hours, unassisted by fever-reducing medication before returning to school.
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Sore Throat
- Skin Rash
- Head Lice
- Heavy nasal discharge requiring frequent wiping every 3-5 minutes
- Persistent, non-productive or barking cough
- Fussy, cranky behavior unlike the Child
- Symptoms of communicable disease such as pink eye, measles, chicken pox, mumps, or strep throat
Alma - Parent Portal
Payment and contact information can be managed through the online parent portal, Alma. The link to Alma is below.
Please follow the instructions for logging in and contact Miss Jess with any questions or concerns.
1. Click on the link below to access ALMA to set up your account
2. Click “Forgot Password”
3. Username is firstname.lastname of primary account holder
4. Enter Email