Cougar Chronicle
Volume 15 Issue 27 February 28, 2020
Hamilton Southeastern District Art Show
If you have questions, contact Ms. McDuffee, SCE Art teacher.
Upcoming Events on the SCE Calendar
Girls on the Run every Tuesday and Wednesday until 5:00PM
Read Across America Monday, March 2, all day
Foodie Club Tuesday, March 3, 8AM
Fourth Grade Conner Prairie Trip Meihofer and Brownell, March 3 and 4
Second Grade Field Trip to IN State Museum, March 4
Culture Club Thursday, March 5 and Friday March 13, 8:10AM
International Fair Thursday, March 5, 6-7:30PM
School Breakfast Week March 2-6, before school in the Cafe
Beach Bash Saturday, March 7, 11AM-2PM
HSE District Art Show March 7-8 at HSE, 2PM-5PM
Spring Pictures March 11 *Preorders Only*
Best Buddies March 18 3:40-5PM Gym
Second Grade Program Wednesday, March 25, 6PM SCE Gym
SCE Agriculture Day Friday, March 27 9:30AM-1:30PM
Beach Bash March 7th, 11AM-2PM
Wristband pre-order forms went home February 7.
Wristbands are $10 pre-order, $15 at the door.
Wristband pre-orders are due Monday, March 2.
Beach Bash Candy Bar Walk
To make it work, we need candy bar donations.
Please send in full-sized candy bars by March 4, marked PTO.
Silent Auction
This year's Beach Bash silent auction is going to be great! Lots of favorites from past years, and some great new items as well.
Silent auction runs from 11AM-1:30PM and you do not have to be present to win.
Time to Order a Yearbook!
Click on the image above to visit InterState's website.
USE CODE 48518C
Order forms are available in the Main Office.
PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO SCE
(Not to InterState - the order form is wrong. Sorry.)
Questions? Email the Office!
Textbook and iPad Fees
Colette Arnold, Treasurer
Enrollment and SafeVisitor Background Checks
Cher McCord, Registrar
Attendance
Alison Jones, Attendance Sec.
Spring Picture Day is March 11
We will not be photographing every child as we do in the fall.
Order now on Inter-State's website. Click here.
VERIFYING SKYLERT INFORMATION
Please keep Skyward updated with your current information. Please read the directions below on how you can make sure all your information is correct.
- Log into your Skyward Family Access account.
- Click on the Skylert button on the left.
- Update your contact numbers and email addresses.
- Make sure you check all buttons (Emergency, Attendance, General, and Survey).
Keeping your information updated will ensure you receive notifications and the Friday Newsletter.
HSE Illness Policy - Notes from the Nurse
- In order to attend school, your child must be fever-free for 24 hours without the aid of Tylenol/Ibuprofen. A fever is defined by HSE policy as 100° F/38 C.
- In order to attend school, your child must be free of vomiting and diarrhea for 24 hours.
- If your child is sent home from school with a fever, vomiting, or diarrhea, they MAY NOT RETURN the following day. They must be symptom-free for 24 hours before returning.
- Strep Throat - fever free and on antibiotics for 24 hours.
- Pink Eye - after 24 hours of antibiotics and eyes are no longer swollen or weeping.
- Chicken pox - home 6 days or longer until all pox are scabbed over.
- Impetigo - 24 hours on antibiotics and no longer draining, or able to cover lesions completely.
- Scarlet Fever - home until fever free AND on antibiotics for 24 hours.
- Scabies - completed treatment under the care of a doctor.
- Staph & MRSA - children are not excluded from school as long as lesions can be covered and good hand hygiene is practiced.
- Lice - children are not excluded from school. Lice do not spread disease and are not a health issue.
Accidents Happen
If your child is prone to bathroom accidents, please be sure to include underpants and socks.
Clothing Donations Needed
Please Return Borrowed Clothes to the Nurse
We know another student will need them soon!
School Address
Sand Creek Elementary
11420 E. 131st Street
Fishers, IN 46038
317-915-4270
Fax: 317-915-4279
Specials Schedule
Day 5: Tuesday, March 3
Day 1: Wednesday, March 4
Day 2: Thursday, March 5
Day 3: Friday, March 6
PTO at SCE
SafeVisitor Badge for Volunteers
Looking up names can lead to the wrong person being signed in. The badge is required.
When you leave, please give your printed badge back to the office staff for a quick check-out. Please don't leave without checking out.
If you need your badge emailed to you or have any questions, contact Tobi Fields 317-594-4100.
Would you like to have lunch with your student? Here's how!
- You must have a SafeVisitor background check on file.
- Contact the Main Office at 317-915-4270 from 8:00-9:30am on the day you would like to come in.
- Call as early as you can. We have space for up to 4 adults per grade, per day.
- Siblings are not permitted to have lunch in the cafeteria with students.
- Take-out or fast food is not permitted. A packed lunch is fine, or you can buy an adult lunch for $3.45. Exact cash or checks are accepted (no credit cards).
- You cannot use your child's lunch account to purchase your lunch.
- Please have the barcode ready to scan when you arrive at school.
- Arrive just a few minutes before your student's scheduled lunch time to check in at the Main Office.
- NO PHOTOGRAPHY due to FERPA policy.
- After lunch, please sign out in the Main Office. If you plan to volunteer in your child's classroom before or after lunch, please inform the Main Office.
Focus on Car Riders -> Safe Drop-Off and Pick-Up
- Your student must stay with you in your car until teachers come out to welcome them.
- Please stay in your car during pick-up or drop-off.
- Please adjust car seats so students can get out of the car on the curb.
- Please remain in line. Do not go around other cars. Only turn around in the circle, no U-turns anywhere else.
- Please let your student out on the sidewalk in front of the main doors, not on the side by the playgrounds.
- Please walk your student in to the school and sign in in the Main Office if there are no teachers outside when you drop off your student, which is after the 8:55 bell rings.
These requests are made for the safety of all students, including yours!
Remember, if the car rider line isn't working for you, there's always the bus.
Outdoor Recess in Winter
- Please send your child prepared for the weather with coats, hats, and gloves.
- Children will go outside for recess as long as the temperature and wind chill are above 15 degrees.
- From the School Handbook: "Recess will be held outdoors whenever possible. Precipitation, sunshine, cloud cover, wind chill, temperature, etc. are all considered when a decision is made for indoor recess. In general, recess will be held indoors when it is raining or the temperature/wind chill falls below 15 degrees Fahrenheit.
A Change in Transportation
- In writing to your child's teacher.
- By phone call to the front office at 317-915-4270.
Please do not rely on your student telling the teacher of a transportation change.
Please do not rely on an email to the teacher. Teachers don't always check their email in time.
All Transportation changes must be called in before 2:00pm.
Thank you!