Dear CST Family,

I write this having just completed the 8th grade activity night. What a great event! I want to specifically thank our 8th grade parents for volunteering their time to plan and set up for the event, for facilitating bingo, and referring a dodge ball tournament (no easy task!). Truly, the event was greatly enhanced by your involvement and it helped to create a memorable experience for our kids. Only 7 more days of middle school for the 8th graders!

CST choirs lead off concert season Thursday night with a wonderful performance and our orchestra and band will continue shows next week on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We have so much talent at CST!

Twitter users may have noticed a new hashtag we're using these final 2 weeks of school: #CSTFinishLine. Our aim is to spring through the finish line with meaningful and engaging instruction, to harness the added energy from this time of year, and send our kids off to summer on a high note. Teachers are shouting each other out for some truly great things going on in the classroom. I hope you'll check it out as well!

There's only one more weekly after this one. We are so close, but there's so much still to do. Ask your child how it's going and I'm confident you'll here about some of the fun things going on right now at CST. As always, enjoy the ride!

Rick

• General Education bus registration opened May 9, 2022. Registration will be submitted through the InTouch payment portal. All registrations will be accepted without payment due at time of registration! If payment is required, payment instructions will be sent by email after status has been verified. Parents are encouraged to register early. See PDF documents below for more information.

• Special Services and Early Childhood transportation requests may be submitted online for ESY and 2022-23 school year. Both online links are active and open NOW! Families with eligible students are encouraged to visit www.olatheschools.org/transportation and click the appropriate link under the Registration tab.

Yearbooks can still be purchased on a first come first serve basis. 8th graders need to turn payments off $25 in by Monday with underclassmen beginning Tuesday. Supplies are limited.

Contact Sara Harris in the front office with questions about purchasing yearbooks.

Click the PDF below to open instructions on how to do online sign up. A paper sign-up is also available on the "paper registration" PDF.

The program runs from May 31-June 30 with sessions beginning at 8am in the CST weight room. Costs is $60 for the program.

• 6pm, Tuesday, May 24th
• All 8th grade students are invited and encouraged to attend
• All 8th grade students will receive a promotional certificate
• Program-specific recognition will also be presented
• Program to last about an hour
  

Budget Information Night

Apr. 12, 2022

Click HERE for budget info night recap.

Safety Town Hall

Apr. 19, 2022

Safety Town Hall - OPSD YouTube Video

We’re excited to announce that applications are open for the 2022-2023 Olathe Teen Council!

Teens will be able to meet with the City Council, learn how their local government works, how to be involved and how to amplify their voice. They’ll also be able to identify specific issues they are interested in learning more about and find a way to have an impact. We have multiple volunteer opportunities throughout the year. We also hope to take some teens to the National League of Cities conferences in Kansas City in 2022 and Washington DC in 2023.

This opportunity is open to any student who will be a high schooler in 2022-2023 and lives in Olathe. We generally accept between 10 and 20 members.

Students are encouraged to apply! The application is available at OlatheKS.org/TeenCouncil. It does require a short essay as well as two letters of recommendation. Applications are due July 1.

What is Go Guardian? (device monitoring software)

Go Guardian Parent was created to help provide additional educational support to administrators and teachers by allowing parents to see what sites and documents their children are browsing and providing parents with additional internet controls at home. The app gives parents and guardians a bird’s eye view of the apps and websites that their kids are on most often and control over school-issued devices during out-of-school hours. With this perspective, parents can be made aware of what types of browsing behavior schools are seeing from students so they can all work together to encourage more effective internet browsing habits at home and at school.

See the attached PDF for more information and directions on how to download the app.

The Counseling Department would like to take a moment to share a resource from Children’s Mercy Hospital with you. Please use this link https://www.childrensmercy.org/departments-and-clinics/developmental-and-behavioral-health/prepped-and-ready/ to access information about Prepped and Ready: Parenting into the Teen Years. This is set up as a short video series that you can watch as your schedule permits. There is no cost, and if you complete a short survey at the end, Children’s Mercy will send you a great safety kit.

Topics include eating disorder prevention, home safety (including storage of firearms, medications, etc.), screen time, self-care, substance use (including vaping), and suicide prevention.

This resource will only be available for a short time, so please don’t wait!

Contact your child's counselor with questions.

Two topics often asked about are cell phones and attire. The screenshots below are from the student handbook found on our website. We aim to promote a distraction-free learning environment as much as possible and we remind students that "Chisholm Trail is a school, not the pool". We want to promote a positive academic learning environment in the way we dress, speak, and behave. Teachers and admin will review a variety of topics with students as part of our beginning of year talks.

https://www.olatheschools.org/Page/8153

Access to school calendars, hour listings for buildings

District Calendar Page

Year-at-a-glance, single pager/downloadable

District Calendar PDF