Homework Club is back! It begins on Monday, September 20, for grades 1st-5th. We want to provide students with a calm environment to complete their homework and access extra support, books, and computers. Ms. Linda Henderson will supervise and assist students. She has an abundance of knowledge of our curriculum and experience in teaching as a classroom paraeducator.

Homework Club meets Monday-Wednesday in the library, after school:

• Monday 2:30-3:30
• Tuesday 2:30-3:30
• Wednesday 12:50-1:50.

The club will not meet on minimum days.

The cost is $10 per hour, and the proceeds will fund our science lab program. This school year, we added a second science lab class for grades 1st-5th, doubling consumable materials expense. PTA is subsidizing Ms. Henderson's time giving 100% of the proceeds to science. Thank you, PTA! Look for more information from Ms. Henderson in the next couple of days on how to sign up.

Below are the time limits for elementary homework:

K-1 no more than 30 minutes of homework per night (reading included)

2-3 no more than 45 minutes of homework per night (reading included)

4-5 no more than 60 minutes of homework per night (reading included)

Click HERE for SRVUSD Homework Policy.

This Tuesday is a minimum day, and lunch is Grab-n-Go. Students grades 1st-5th could pick up lunch from the MPR immediately after school, at noon, to take with them.

Have a great week!

Kindly,

Principal Salazar

Sponsorships Needed!!! The Run for Education is Back October 9-10!!! Thank you to Michelle Parkinson for her dedication to this important revenue builder for our school. Did you know, Alamo School receives 70% of all sponsorship dollars and this money goes directly to our school discretionary budget? This money allows our Principal much needed flexibility in spending power on things like water refilling stations, hand sanitizing stations, permanent shade structures, active education, additional science programming and so much more. If you want to learn more, email michelleparky@gmail.com and please consider being a parent volunteer for this program!!! Specific details on RFE HERE

-PTA

Permission slips will go home with more details about the program.

Attendance Procedure

If your child is going to be absent, please email AlamoAttendance@srvusd.net , giving your child's name, and the reason for the absence, as soon as you are aware he/she won't be in school. Additionally, if you know your child is going to be late for school, please follow the same procedure. Please copy your child's teacher on these emails.

Student safety is our number one priority. In order to ensure that every student is safely where they are supposed to be at the beginning of each school day, we are implementing a new attendance safety protocol. Our priority is to make contact with families for any absent students within 30 minutes of their arrival time at school.

Within the first thirty minutes of your child’s start time, if your student is not at school, you will receive an automated message alerting you to the fact that your child has been marked absent. If you receive an automated call alerting you that your student is absent and you sent your child to school, please call the school office right away.

Per our school’s regular guidelines and protocols, we ask that you email AlamoAttendance@srvusd.net as soon as possible and provide a brief explanation of why your student will be absent that day, including a list of their symptoms if they are sick, as this helps us with our Covid tracking. Please copy your child’s teacher on the email to Alamo Attendance.

Please keep in mind that if your student is tardy, you may receive a call, because it takes time to update the information in our system from absent to tardy. For some, an automated message may be a change from past practice, but we know you will understand that this is the most effective way to ensure the safety of every student.

We ask for your patience as everyone gets accustomed to this new process. There may be times that you have already called or emailed about your student’s absence, but you may still receive a robocall, as the school office has not had the time to input that information in the system.

We appreciate your support and partnership in keeping our students safe. If you have questions about the new process, please contact your school office.

Tardy Policy

Rationale - Tardiness is unacceptable because:

• Tardiness reduces the instructional time of the student who is late.
• A student's tardiness interrupts the class he or she is coming into, resulting in a loss of instructional quality and time for all students.
• Punctuality is a practice valued by business and society; students should be trained in this practice while in school.

With the above as a rationale, the following is our policy:

1. Tardiness is defined as arriving after 8:00.
2. The student must go to the main office for a tardy pass before going to class.

OFFICE HOURS: 7:30 - 4:00 PM (925) 855-4800

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