UNION CHAPEL
MARCH 2017
2017-18 Kindergarten Registration and Roundup Information
We are now enrolling incoming kindergarteners for the 2017-18 school year. Children must turn 5 on or before July 31, 2017 to be enrolled in kindergarten. Kindergarten roundup will be held Monday, May 1 with 3 sessions beginning at 5:30pm. Please contact the Union Chapel office, 816.359.4310, to schedule a roundup time. Registration packets are available in the Union Chapel office - stop by and enroll today! Contact Susan Sadler in the Union Chapel office for more details.
Attention ALL incoming 2017-18 6th grade parents or guardians.
You're invited to the Plaza Middle School PTA meeting on March 6th. Please click here for more information.
Union Chapel Art Show
Union Chapel Science Fair
The Science Fair is a NON-competitive event and involves as few rules and requirements as possible. Our goal is for students to have fun learning about a science topic of their choice and to give them an opportunity to show what they’ve learned.
Union Chapel students are invited to be a part of the Science Fair on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Click here for more information.
Student Information Feedback Sheet
The Park Hill School District assigns students to their next year classes through collaborative efforts of the current classroom teacher, counselor, assistant principal and principal. When applicable, special education teachers and/or intervention specialists also provide input.
If you would like to offer input for your child's learning needs you can find the form here. Please print the form, complete it, and return it to your child’s current classroom teacher no later than Friday, March 31, 2017.
No-Tax-Increase Bond Issue - Vote April 4th!
Spotlight on Bond Projects: High School Plans
Among the projects in the no-tax-increase bond issue on the April 4 ballot is a facility for high-school students. Meeting the needs of our high-school students and their class sizes is part of the long-range facility plan, which is based on our enrollment growth.
The first step of this plan is a leased space, which will be the first home of the LEAD Innovation Studio. Starting next school year, some Park Hill High School and Park Hill South High School students will learn at LEAD. This will free up classroom space while giving these students a flexible, personalized learning environment, focused on problem-solving skills, project-based learning and professional experiences.
If approved, the no-tax-increase bond issue will pay to build a district-owned facility designed for the needs of the LEAD students. It would also be the first phase of a full high school, so that we could build onto it if we get enough enrollment. Although our current projections show that our growth could slow, our patrons told us during the public-input stages of our long-range planning process that they preferred a new high school.
In keeping with that feedback, this is a conservative plan that allows us to wait and see whether we need an entire high school.
Other Projects
The no-tax-increase bond issue also includes these projects:
- A new elementary school
- A new middle school
- A district warehouse and support services facility to support our classrooms and maintain our facilities
- Improvements to existing facilities
If economic conditions leave enough proceeds from the bond issue, we would also
- Build a transportation center, which could save us money on busing
- Pay for maintenance projects in our existing facilities
It is possible to pay for these projects with no tax increase because of our Board’s careful money management and good financial stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Thanks to good financial management by the district, Park Hill is in a position to ask for a bond without raising taxes. This is a result of aggressively paying off existing debts and refinancing for better rates. Local commercial and residential growth has also helped by expanding the local tax base. Because of these factors, we have room in our state-set debt limit to take on additional debt with no tax increase. We will continue to carefully monitor our debt and interest rates in order to save taxpayer dollars.
Thanks to their conservative budgeting, we have enough room in our debt service levy to issue bonds to cover the cost of these new schools and projects with no tax increase.
For more information about Park Hill’s no-tax-increase bond issue, please visit the district’s website at http://www.parkhill.k12.mo.us/.
Paid for by the Park Hill School District
Dr. Jeanette Cowherd, superintendent
7703 NW Barry Road
Kansas City, MO 64153
Park Hill Star
The Park Hill Star recognition program was started in 2015 to celebrate support staff and teachers whose work is especially noteworthy. Recently, PHSD Superintendent Dr. Jeanette Cowherd visited Union Chapel to congratulate three staff members who were nominated by parents and students. Pictures of these visits are below.
Click here to see who at Union Chapel has been recognized through the Park Hill Star Program last year and this year so far: UC Recognitions
The following is an overview of the Park Hill Star Program:
Our employees are the reason we are so successful here in the Park Hill School District, and we would like to recognize them for all they do for our students.
That is why we present the Park Hill Star award once a month to a pre-K or elementary teacher, a secondary teacher and a support employee.
Anyone can nominate an employee for this award by using the form below. It asks you to share how your nominee demonstrates our district values of continuous improvement, high expectations, integrity, visionary leadership and student focus. You can also share how your nominee supports the goals in our district’s strategic plan.
Please nominate a Park Hill Star today!
Park Hill Star nomination form
Important Dates
3/2 Mathletics (District competition at Lakeview @ 4:15 pm)
3/3 Spirit Wear - Favorite Color
3/9 Early Release (1:30 pm)
3/9 Kindergarten Musical (7:00 pm)
3/10 Fire Department Lunches
3/10 Spirit Wear - College Team
3/14 Spring Pictures/Class Pictures
3/16 End of third quarter
3/17 No School (Teacher work day)
3/20 - 3/24 Spring Break
3/30 Art Showcase
3/31 Spirit Wear - Gator or Wordle Shirts
Union Chapel Vision and Mission Statement
Our vision
Building Successful Futures * Each Student * Every Day
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Our Mission
Union Chapel is a safe, caring environment that upholds high standards and inspires students to achieve their personal best so they will become successful lifelong learners and citizens of character.
At Union Chapel Elementary School, we value:
- A positive and structured environment;
- Open line of clear and regular communication;
- Collaboration;
- Students feeling valued, respected and safe;
- Variety in learning approaches to meet individual learning needs, styles, and interests; and
- High standards and a clear purpose for learning.