Welcome Back Crew
It's time to set sail on our Adventure!!
Aaaargh! Ahoy Hearties... It's time to let your inner Pirate out!
We are fortunate to have some new crew members. Please take the time to introduce yourself and make them feel welcome on our ship. We will greatly miss those that have walked the plank at SAS for the last time, but wish them well on their next adventures.
ALL Crew members (this means you Marian, Tom, and everyone else!!!) will attend our team building session on Wednesday, August 22nd starting at 8:30 (8:00 for treats and socializing) in the church hall (where the AC is!). Feel free to bring a comfy camp chair! We will break for lunch at 12:30 (provided) and spend our afternoon learning from each other.
All Crew members not prepping the school or office to open, will meet on Friday, August 24th at 8:30 (come at 8:00 for those awesome treats!) in room TBD. We will have some fun, do our epi pen training, and prep for our opening day shenanigans!
From the Nurse
Please take time to do the school allergy training (about 30min.) and take the quiz. We will be collecting your certificates at the August 24th meeting (or you can email them to me):
TAKE THE QUIZ .... click School Staff Quiz
Another resource to review CDC power point: https://docs.google.com/a/stannaleom.org/presentation/d/1sbf-6UHFghOv5T9To88ycDAxFS4UJezEMLD8CmKsbKc/edit?usp=sharing
Are you CPR certified? We will be offering a CPR training the beginning of the year and ALL are encouraged to attend.
Kudos...
It was all hands on deck this summer...
A big shout out to first mate, Tom for all he does over the summer. The floors look great and the paint touch ups give the walls a fresh look.. Not to mention moving lots of furniture around the building for our scroungers looking for treasure.
Thank you Alissa and volunteers for giving our bathrooms a face lift and bathrooms our students can take pride in.
Thank you to Marian to make sure all of our paperwork is in order and we can have a smooth opening to the new year. All of your class lists should be ready in Option C. Lots of new students this year!!!!
I know this will be the best year yet!!! #SASBestYearYet
#BestSchoolYearYet
Expect nothing less when we're all becoming Pirates and bringing the excitement and adventure to the classroom.
How will you transform your lessons into experiences?
Take a risk... your crew is here to support you along the way.
Employee Handbook
2018-2019 Employee Handbook
Handbook Sign off:
AGENDA for August 22nd and 24th
We will start at 8:30 in church hall on Wednesday and Room 7 on Friday
Lunch will be provided!
- Katrina Couture, school nurse, will review Allergies & Epi Pen use
- Jeopardy
- Google Classroom
- Responsive Classroom
- Teach Like a Pirate
- FlipGrid
- Kahoot
- Sphero's
- Procedures, Procedures, Procedures
- School Jobs
- Advisory/WIN Blocks
How will YOU change the first week of school???? Don't get Marooned...
Back to School Info
- FORMS- Please see Marian to fill out a new CORI .Employees need to complete a CORI form yearly.
- TEAM DRIVE- SAS Staff Hub : We have new 'team drives'. This is in Google Drive and it allows us to 'share' documents and once they are in the drive- there's no owner... I put all of the staff forms you need in the SAS Staff Hub Team Drive. We also have a Team Drive for NEASC in order to keep all those forms/documents in one place as we gather them this year!
- LUNCH- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VIuuMBjI0SQkfpp-NX0CNA_3nOfIjluPp_suLOgLfwk/edit?usp=sharing
- SALAD BAR- We will again offer a salad bar to staff for $2/day. We will make sure to have Romain lettuce and baby spinach as well as a variety of fixings which may change daily/weekly. We take requests, let us know what you want on your salad! We will have a tracking form in the cafe so you can pay ahead or pay up etc.
- HOMEWORK CLUB- we will be looking for staff to sign up to help with Homework Club Monday-Thursday 3:15-4:15. You can sign up to do a certain day each week or on a rotating basis, if all teachers sign up- you'd only have to do a day every few weeks. You can sign up here:
- PTO- We will be asking teachers to 'host' the PTO meeting each week. The PTO meeting would be in your classroom. You can highlight what you're doing in class (even invite students to share), your room parent can organize snacks. Let me know what month you'd like to host!
- SUNSHINE CLUB- Staff members all contribute to the sunshine club ($25/$15). These funds are used throughout the year for birthday cards, flowers of sympathy or joy, special days (Boss' Day!!!) and at Christmas and end of year etc. See Michelle to pay or for more information....
Back to School Checklist for Teachers
- Set up Google Classroom!
- Choose Room Parent/Books & Beyond---- please run them by me first but feel free to keep good ones from last year!...
- Put Back to School BBQ on your calendar- September 21st 5:00-8:00. How will you show your Beachy Spirit! Staff get 2 FREE tickets!
- Download Kahoot! onto your phone or chromebook (we will be using this at our meeting on the 22nd!)
- Pay your Sunshine Club dues (FT staff $25/ PT $15)
- Fill out the SAS Staff Favorites Form below! Thank you :)
Staffing Updates!
We have several (too many) staffing changes this year. We are excited about the new crew members coming aboard but will also miss those that are setting sail on a new adventure.
Mary is staying home with her family, Beth needed a change to spend more time at home and is doing a 2nd grade job share. Kim has also found a different position that allows her to also do an internship.
NEW CREW MEMBERS:
4th- Tom Jacobs
5th- Kimberly Cook
preschool- TBD
morning EC- TBD
PK3 Aide- Kaitlin Mann
Instructional Aide- Val McGregor
music teacher- TBD
Welcome Aboard!!!
Challenges...
Challenge #1- Join Twitter (choose a school/teacher or personal handle and then tag me (@bobbiefrench) in your first tweet (if you're already on twitter- tag me and include #TLAP = 10 tickets!
Challenge #2- Join Voxer... download this 'voice app' to your phone and add me @bobbiefrench to your contacts, send me a 'side vox' = 10 tickets!
Challenge #3- Do you Bitmoji? Send me a bitmoji of yourself that I can use in place of your photo on the website to start the school year... extra tickets if you also send me a 'pirate' bitmoji too = 5 tickets
Challenge #4- Remember the Summer Selfie Challenge? Anyone that has posted their selfies will get 3 tickets for each selfie! Keep Posting
more challenges to be announced....