CBA Elementary Lion Link 🐾
Your link between home and school | January 26, 2024
Dear Chesterbrook Academy Elementary Families,
Happy February! 🐰🐰
As we wrap up our priority re-enrollment period, we want to send a big THANK YOU to all of our families for choosing CBA Elementary! We are thrilled that you have chosen CBA for your family and look forward to continuing the journey with you.
If you did not re-enroll during the priority re-enrollment period, it's not too late! You can still re-enroll through the Campus Connect portal. Please log in to re-enroll today and unleash the lion within!
It's Souper Bowl Time! This week, Pre-K kicked off their community service project, The Souper Bowl Canned Food Drive! They are off to a great start, having collected over 300 cans! All families are welcome to participate! All cans will be donated to the Chester County Food Bank. Way to go, CBA!
We had two guest teachers in Music and PE this week! 1st grade student Arya taught PE for Mr. McCall, and 3rd grade student Lucas taught Music Class for Ms. Aber! Teacher for a Day is a prize students can win during our spring community event, the Mane Event! Thanks for stepping in, Arya and Lucas!
Pre-K held their very first Habitat Exhibit on Friday! Students and their families created incredible habitat dioramas, completed with caves, logs, and hibernating animals! They presented them to their classmates and to our Kindergarten through 5th Grade students during their exhibit. We are so very proud of them!
Next week, the Souper Bowl Canned Food Drive, Penny Wars, and American Heart Association Fundraising continue! See below for more information.
Coming up at CBA Elementary:
- 2/6: 4th & 5th Grade Lancaster Science Factory Field Trip
- 2/6: February PAC meeting
- 2/6: Penny Wars End
- 2/7: World Read Aloud Day (look out for an email from your child's teacher)
- 2/7: 2nd Grade DE Children's Museum Field Trip
- 2/7: Girl Scouts Meeting
- 2/8: 3rd-5th Grade Spanish Food Truck Festival
- 2/9: 100th Day of School
- 2/9: Pre-K Souper Bowl Canned Food Drive Ends
- 2/9: PAC BINGO Night
Thank you to all of our families for your continued support and involvement! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.
Thank you,
Joe Rodia, Head of School
Mandi Capotrio, Principal
🤍 February Calendar 🤍
**Lunch Program - NEW**
Lunches are billed to Alma at the end of each month.
World Read Aloud Day | February 7th
🥫 Souper Bowl Canned Food Drive 🥫
🌮 3rd-5th Grade Food Truck Festival 🍔
🏀 Hoops for Heart 🤍
🍄 Gal Pal 🌱
A Message from our PAC
Yearbook Editors Wanted!
CBA PAC is looking for a few parents to help with this year's Lion's Pride (2023-2024 CBA Yearbook). Last year's book turned out awesome and we are excited to get this year's book rolling. It would be great if we had a parent Editor from each grade.
If you are interested in helping, please fill out the Google Form below.
Penny Wars is Here!
Family Bingo Night is Back!
Our Week In Pictures
🕶️ Summer Camp at CBA ☀️
Join us for School-Age Summer Camp
At our summer camps, we measure time not in minutes but in moments. Like the moment your child jumps for joy when scoring their first goal. The look on their face when the rocket they built actually launches. The thrill of performing on a stage, solving a math challenge, or creating digital art. Epic moments like these happen all summer long at our day camps, sports camps, specialty camps, and academic camps. This is the place where epic moments happen!
We require all students to wear a school uniform unless otherwise directed.
- Daily Uniform: Girls and boys should wear a green or blue polo shirt with khaki shorts/pants/skirt.
- PE Uniform: PE t-shirt and mesh shorts or sweatpants with sneakers are required on PE days.
- Shoes & Socks: On Daily Uniform days, students must wear brown shoes with white, green or blue socks. Students should wear sneakers on PE days.
**Please note, students should not wear Ugg boots to school**
Sick Policy
Sick Policy
Families assist us in maintaining a safe and healthy environment for all our Children by keeping sick Children at home. The purpose of our sick child policy is to:
- Reduce the spread of illness from a sick Child to other Children and members of School staff.
- Promote complete recuperation of the sick Child.
- Prevent the constant spread of cold, flu and diarrhea and other communicable diseases that are common among small children.
Children who become ill at school will be made comfortable and families will be notified to pick them up within one hour. Families must keep sick children at home until they have been symptom-free for at least 24 hours* if they display any of the following:
- Fever of 100.4 degrees or more. Children must be free of fever for at least 24 hours, unassisted by fever-reducing medication before returning to school.
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Sore Throat
- Skin Rash
- Head Lice
- Heavy nasal discharge requiring frequent wiping every 3-5 minutes
- Persistent, non-productive or barking cough
- Fussy, cranky behavior unlike the Child
- Symptoms of communicable disease such as pink eye, measles, chicken pox, mumps, or strep throat
Alma Parent Portal
Alma - Parent Portal
Payment and contact information can be managed through the online parent portal, Alma. The link to Alma is below.
Please follow the instructions for logging in and contact Miss Jess with any questions or concerns.
1. Click on the link below to access ALMA to set up your account
2. Click “Forgot Password”
3. Username is firstname.lastname of primary account holder
4. Enter Email