Please click HERE for a calendar for details. Spanish calendar HERE.

Our first early release this year is Wednesday, August 31st. School will end at 2:10 p.m. Half Day kindergarten ends at 10:30 am.

District 303 is beginning to use Schoology, an integrated learning management system that provides course management, mobile learning, and support for system-wide communication. Full implementation across the district starts this fall with grades 6-12+. District-wide implementation begins in the fall of 2023. However, you will see Schoology being utilized at the elementary level with courses such as Empower, LRC, and possibly by your child’s classroom teacher. Schoology enables our students, parents and teachers to engage with learning materials and their school community from the classroom and beyond. We look forward to using Schoology in our classrooms to enhance connectivity and communication across our district.

You should have received an e-mail with an invitation to Schoology. If you have not, please check your spam folder. If you need further assistance, you can visit the D303 Instructional Tech Support for Families Site or contact your LRC Director: Melissa Bradley at melissa.bradley@d303.org for Davis or Christine Heins at christine.heins@d303.org for Richmond.

Students are able to bring their lunch each day to school or they can get lunch at school through our food service provider, Organic Life. We do not accept fast food for students at Davis & Richmond. Please do not drop off or have food sent to Davis or Richmond for your child. If you would like to have lunch with your child, you can come to the main office and sign them out during their lunch period. Thank you for your cooperation.

• For healthy snack ideas please click HERE
  
• For lunch/breakfast pricing, application for free/reduced pricing and more, please see the D303Food Services Webpage.
  

Parents can access the electronic version of the Elementary Handbook on the D303 website. Go to the D303 website - Our Schools - Student Handbooks - 2022-2023 - Elementary Handbook and Discipline Procedures Addendum. Please note that you will not be receiving a paper copy this year. It is the responsibility of each family to review both handbooks with their children. Thank you for your support.

An email was sent to families this summer with an updated COVID Mitigation Plan, but we wanted to send the direct link to that information for your reference.

We love to celebrate birthdays at Davis and Richmond. Your child’s birthday will be announced on our morning announcements and your child will be able to choose a book from our birthday book cart. We do not allow in food for celebrations so please do not send them to school or drop them off, they will not be accepted. If you would like to send in non-edible treats (such as a pencil or non food item) that is ok.

The first meeting is Thursday, August 18th at 7pm in the Davis LRC. Join us IN PERSON (yay!) to meet the board, learn about the ways the PTO supports students and teachers and find out ways you can volunteer for upcoming events.

There are lots of ways you can participate in PTO sponsored events outside of the school day. Check out this sign up genius.

Organic Life, the K-8 Food Service provider is looking for candidates to serve as Cashiers, Food Service Workers & Lunchroom Supervisors for the 2022-2023 school year in School District 303. Please contact Patricia Burton at 331-228-5242 or patricia.burton@d303.org for more information.

Executive function refers to a set of essential skills that help us focus, plan, prioritize, work toward goals, self-regulate behaviors and emotions, adapt to new and unexpected situations, and ultimately engage in abstract thinking, planning and learning. Executive function is what gets us down to business even when we'd rather just hang out and do nothing. This month Davis is focusing on the executive functioning skill of sustained attention. This means we will be teaching students about their ability to maintain focus on something, even if there are distractions happening at the same time. Some things you can do at home to work on sustained attention with your child are; encouraging your child to talk about the smaller portions of an activity, involve your child in activities that require them to teach or assist others, allow for interesting or stimulating tasks to follow boring or mundane ones, and give clear and concise instructions.

If you are planning on a different plan for your child for dismissal, please make sure to notify the office by 2 p.m. at the latest.

First and second graders will take their fall i-Ready test starting next week, August 15th. Make-ups will start the week of August 22nd. Teachers will use this information to help plan for interventions this fall. The diagnostic assessment sets the personalized online instruction for each student to start the year and readjust during the year. Teachers monitor student pathways with check-ins and ability to make adjustments. Please click HERE for more details.

Spanish Language diagnostic/benchmark assessments will start next week, August 15th. The diagnostic sets the personalized online instruction for each student to start the year and readjust during the year. Teachers monitor student pathways with check-ins and ability to make adjustments.

Every day we start our mornings at Richmond with a morning meeting. We call our meetings CARE meetings. CARE stands for Creating A Respectful Environment. The purpose of these meetings is to build strong teacher to student and student to student relationships and have strong classroom communities. We want all of our students to feel connected to Richmond and our goal is to be responsive and proactive in meeting the needs of students and to build trust and positive relationships. Many of the skills learned in CARE meetings, students will be able to apply throughout life. We have a variety of themes such as gratitude, respecting differences, growth mindset, kindness and more. Your child’s classroom teacher will highlight in his/her newsletters more info about each month’s theme.

If you are planning on a different plan for your child for dismissal, please make sure to notify the office by 2 p.m. at the latest.

Students will take their fall i-Ready test starting next week, August 15th. Make-ups will start the week of August 22nd. Teachers will use this information to help plan for interventions this fall. The diagnostic assessment sets the personalized online instruction for each student to start the year and readjust during the year. Teachers monitor student pathways with check-ins and ability to make adjustments. Please click HERE for more details.

The Panorama Screener will be given to students beginning September 26th. SEL screener highlights areas of strength and provides insights to the student, parent, and staff on areas for development and growth.