CES Bison Beat
February 2016
Great Things Are Happening Here! Join Our Journey
Dear CES Families,
February is here and I am so excited that we made it through January with only one snow day! Please keep in mind that due to that snow day school WILL be in session on February 15th. This will prove to be a busy month as we have Parent-Teacher Conferences on Thursday, February 11th and Valentine's Day Parties on Friday, February 12th. Notes detailing each of these events will be sent home next week.
Each year the Arkansas Department of Education sets test score goals for every school in the state of Arkansas. Each school must grow/improve each year to meet those goals. The goals are set for Literacy, Math, Number of Students Tested, and Attendance. In the Math and Literacy categories, there are several subcategories and goals are set for EACH of these categories. Each goal not met (% increases every year), is highlighted in RED and for each goal met the highlight is GREEN.
I am so proud of our students and CES Team AWESOME because for the first time since this report was released several years ago, we are all GREEN!! This means our achievement gap is getting smaller and that is what we push for every day! Thank you for being our partners in education. It takes all of us working together to build a school where dreams are supported and children are encouraged to reach their full potential!
We are still classified as a Needs Improvement School because the state requires us to meet the annual objectives for two years in a row. Once this happens a school is moved from the Needs Improvement to Achieving list. Achieving is not enough for Team AWESOME or our students. Our aim is high and we are aiming for Exemplary! Thank you for helping us move one step closer to this goal.
We are Team AWESOME and we ARE your Partners in Education!
Mrs. Norton
CES Family Blog
Blogging provides an opportunity to model digital citizenship, reflect, exercise voice and empower our school family to join in the education conversation. This blog will be a place where ALL stakeholders have the opportunity to contribute and share. Submitting a post is easy! Just type it up and send email it to Mrs. Norton knorton@carlisle.k12.ar.us. She will make sure it gets posted to the blog site. If you have pictures to add to the post, insert those into the doc as well (or we can find some to add).
Let's use this opportunity to shine and share! If we don't tell our story...someone else will and we want it told correctly!!
We hope you take advantage of this oppportunity!! #gamechanger
Check out the blog post below!
Morning Drop Off - Afternoon Pick Up
Please remember to have your car tag visible in the afternoons during pick up time. This is another added safety measure and it speeds up the loading of our students.
Box Tops for Education
The 100th Day of School
Mrs. Kelly's class even counted to see where 100 steps would take them! It was a fun day of learning at Carlisle Elementary School!
Important Dates: February
Friday 2-5
Winter Book Fair Begins
Monday 2-8
Honor Assemblies
K-2 9:30 am
3-6 1:30 pm
Thursday 2-11
Parent-Teacher Conferences 2:30 pm-7:30 pm
Winter Book Fair ends
Friday 2/12
Valentine Parties (Times will be shared by teachers)
Monday 2/15
School WILL be in Session
Carlisle Elementary School
Email: knorton@carlisle.k12.ar.us
Website: http://bison.wmsc.k12.ar.us/elementary1.html
Phone: 870-552-3261
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carlisle-Elementary-School/494272194050755
Twitter: @CarlisleElem