Paramount Elementary
January 29th, 2024
Important Information
- Important Dates
- Message from Mrs. Roy
- School Closure Work Packets
- Volunteer Sign-Ups
- Kindergarten Registration
- Book Fair
- LINQ School Lunch Accounts
- Progress Reports and Report Cards
- Lost and Found
- Yearbook
- Class Pictures
- Attendance
- PTA Dine-Out Night
- PTA General Meeting
Mark Your Calendar: Important Dates
- Tuesday, January 30th: PTA General Meeting @ 4:15
- Friday, February 2nd: PTA School Store & 100th Day of School Celebration (K and 1st)
- Monday, February 5th-Friday, February 9th: Book Fair
- Monday, February 12-Thursday, February 15th: PTA Love Week
- Friday, February 16th: No School
- Friday, February 19th: No School-Presidents' Day
- Friday, March 1st: Class Pictures
- Monday, March 4th-Friday, March 8th: Read Week
- Wednesday, March 6th: District-Wide PLC/PD Day
- Friday, March 15th: Yearbook Purchase Deadline; Wagon's Ho for 4th-Grade
- Monday, March18th-Friday, March 22nd: Spring Break
- Thursday, March 28th: Kindergarten Screener from 12:00-4:00 pm.
Message from Mrs. Roy
Paramount Families,
As we enter the second semester of our school year, we are feeling the crunch to ensure our students are obtaining and mastering the learning goals for their grade level. We need your help in ensuring they are meeting their goals. It is imperative students consistently attend class, especially during their core instruction time.
"Teacher effectiveness is the strongest determining factor for student success. But a student who misses school cannot benefit from the hard work of even the best educators who seek to inspire curiosity, interest, confidence, and passion in learning" (E3Alliance, 2023).
If you like to discuss ways in which we can partner with you to increase your student's attendance, please contact Brooke Roy (principal) or Lisa Hale (counselor) at (208)350-4120.
*E3Alliance. (2023). Why attendance matters. ACE: Attend, commit, engage. https://ace.e3alliance.org/why-attendance-matters
School Closure Packets--JUST IN CASE!!
You should be noticing students now have a "Choice Board" packet of work included in their take-home folders or binders. This packet of work is being sent home JUST IN CASE! If we were to have an additional school closure due to weather or an emergency, we have the ability to offer remote work for students to complete. This would allow us to potentially count the closure day as seat time for students, if they complete the work. Our district has an allotted amount of days built into our calendar for closures, but if we were to miss too many days, we would have to add one or more back onto the calendar to make up for the missed class time.
At this time, please just keep the packet where it has been placed. Students DO NOT need to do anything with it, other than keep it safe. If we were to need a remote day, you will be notified of this. We will provide a more specific explanation if the need arises.
Volunteer Sign-Ups
We would love your help for two events coming up: PTA School Store and Read Week. If you are able to volunteer, please sign up using the links below:
PTA School Store: Friday, February 2nd: PTA School Store Sign-Up
Read Week: February 5th-9th: Book Fair Sign-Up
We appreciate all of the volunteers who continue to make activities a success at Paramount!
Kindergarten Registration is OPEN!
Do you have a student who will be attending kindergarten next year? You can begin the registration process NOW! Visit the link to start the process: https://www.westada.org/o/wasd/page/school-registration
We will have a Kindergarten Screener event on Thursday, March 28th for those who have registered for kindergarten. Parents call the school to sign up for a time slot for the event. This event allows us to meet your student and help determine how to meet their needs in school.
Book Fair: February 5th-9th
Our Book Fair will be held in the Green Room. Here is the schedule for when it is "open" to purchase books:
- Monday, February 5th: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
- Tuesday, February 6th: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
- Wednesday, February 7th: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
- Thursday, February 8th: 8:30 am to 7:00 pm
- Friday, February 9th: 8:30 am to 10:30 am
School Meal Accounts: LINQ
School meals can be paid for through your LINQ Connect.
Setting up a LINQ Connect account is free. From your account, you can monitor your student's activity, view menus, add funds (credit card only, transaction fee applies), and apply for free/reduced lunch.
Payments can also be made directly to our school's kitchen staff with cash or check (payable to School Nutrition). There are no transaction fees associated with these types of payments.
Click the button below to access our district website with more information regarding school nutrition, menus, and payment options.
Progress Reports and Report Cards
Progress reports were sent home next week. Please look for this paper in your student' backpack. This will have updated assessment information from our state ISIP test and from the IReady diagnostics.
Parents will be sent an email with a link to view each student's grade (report card). Please be on the look-out for this email. The link will require parents to verify student information before showing the report card.
Lost and Found
Is your students missing any items? Hats? Gloves? Coat? Sweatshirt? Water bottle? Remind your student to check in the Lost and Found for any missing items. Parents can stop by the school to look for missing items. We want them to find their owners!
Purchase a Yearbook
The 2023-2024 Paramount Yearbooks are now on sale for $13. All sales will be completed online using the link below. Yearbooks will be available for purchase through March 15th.
Class Photos
Each class will take a class photo on Friday, March 1st. This is a change from the previous date of Friday, February 2nd. We will be sending more information as this date gets closer.
PARAMOUNT PTA
PTA Dine-Out Night: Panda Express
The next Dine-Out night will be Thursday, January 25th from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm at the Ten Mile Panda Express. See the Flyer below for more details.
PTA School Store
The next School Store will be Friday, February 2nd during lunch. The theme will be Valentine's Day and Love. Students can bring in money to purchase items. Items typically range in price from $0.50-$6.00.
The PTA will need volunteers to help with the School Store. A sign-up will be sent out.
PTA General Board Meeting
The next PTA General Board Meeting will be on Tuesday, January 30th @ 4:15. This meeting is open to any parents/guardians that wish to attend. The meeting will be held in the Paramount Green Room. Check in at the front office for directions to the room.
Follow Paramount on Social Media
- Follow our Paramount PTA on Instagram: paramountpta
- Follow our Paramount PTA on Facebook (private group, click "join group"): paramount pta
Paramount Elementary (teacher-created posts):
- Follow on Instagram: paramountes_wasd
- Follow on Facebook: Paramount Elementary School
Additional Community Events
There are free reading events like Reading is Lit, Halloween activities and events, and sports opportunities.
Previous Information
A Paramount Mindset
This year's school theme is having a Paramount MINDSET--maintaining high expectations of ourselves/students behaviorally and academically in order to be at our "PEAK" capabilities. While we will focus on a growth mindset with students and staff, we will also be emphasizing how to adjust our mindsets in other areas within our lives beyond our learning--how we are thinking about challenging situations and not just focusing on the negative.
We spent some time with our students defining "paramount"--helping them understand this word means more than just the name of our school or subdivision. We explained that paramount means the following:
- More important than anything else
- Superior to all others
- Ranking higher than any other
- Of the greatest importance or significance
We are emphasizing that our mindsets--our Paramount Mindsets--are more important than anything else in our learning journey. We are excited to see how this will become a positive impact with our students.
~"Our mindsets are everything; what we think, we become."
Student Drop-Off Times
Please help us keep your students safe! DO NOT drop students off for school before 8:50 am. (M, T, Th, F) or 9:00 am (W). If a student is eating breakfast, they can be dropped off to enter the building at 8:45 am. Breakfast is not served until this time.
Because we cannot guarantee the supervision of students prior to this time, we cannot allow students to enter the building or be on campus. Please help us with this.
Recess Times
Morning Recess: 10:15 -10:30
Lunch/Recess Schedule:
- Kinder Lunch/Recess: 11:30-12:15
- 1st-Grade Lunch/Recess: 11:40-12:25
- 2nd-Grade Lunch/Recess: 11:45-12:30
- 3rd-Grade Lunch/Recess: 12:05-12:50
- 4th-Grade Lunch/Recess: 12:10-12:55
- 5th-Grade Lunch/Recess: 12:30-1:15
Afternoon Recess: 2:30-2:45
Important Safety Reminders
Our #1 priority is to ensure a SAFE campus for our students and staff. In order to do this effectively, we do need your help. Please read our safety reminders below:
- Paramount is a CLOSED CAMPUS during the school hours of 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Any visitors will need to check in at the front office during these times if they plan to enter the building or be on campus beyond our drop-off locations. For the first week of school, we will allow parents to escort students to line-up locations. After the first week, we will expect parents to adhere to remaining behind our gates when dropping off students.
- Please bring your ID with you when checking in at the front office. Please avoided checking your student out during recess times; please plan ahead to let us know if a student will need to wait for a parent during recess.
- We cannot allow anyone on our fields or playgrounds during the school day that are not approved to be here. Please do not bring young children to play on our equipment during the school day. Our staff is trained to report anyone they believe is not approved to be on campus.
- For students or parents riding bikes to school, please plan on “walking” bikes once on campus. This will help ensure the biker’s safety through the parking lot.
- For parents who will be dropping students off at school, or picking them up, PLEASE adhere to our “Drop-Off/Pick-Up” Zones. This helps ensure students are only entering/exiting cars in a safe area, where other drivers can see them.
- Students and parents are expected to use the crosswalk and wait for the Crossing Guard to indicate it is safe to cross. Please help us with this.
- No dogs are allowed on campus during the school day. Please do not bring animals on our campus without permission. If you bring them with you during drop-off or pick-up, they must be on a leash or remain in your vehicle (and remain in the parking lot area). Again, this is for the safety of all—our students and staff AND your pet!
- If you are accessing the school grounds outside of school hours with a dog, please be sure to clean up after them. We often find dog waste left in the fields. As you can imagine, if a student steps into this, it creates a major disruption and hygiene issue for our students, parents, and school. Please spread the word for us to help keep our fields free of pet waste.
- Throughout the year, we will practice a variety of safety drills: Lockdowns, Fire drills, Reverse Evacuations, Evacuations, etc. We work in conjunction with the Meridian Police Department and the Meridian Fire Department to establish the best practices for these drills. We will communicate when these occur, so you are aware of the drills. We will also send more communication regarding the types of emergencies and the procedures we will practice with our students.