Dear Parent/Guardian,

Due to challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, your child has not received a vision or hearing screening. Vision and hearing problems can affect a child’s wellbeing and their ability to learn.

The Department of State Health Services encourages you to take your child(ren) to a medical provider for well-child exams. During these appointments you may ask for vision and hearing screenings. If your provider screens your child, please provide those results to the district (pass or fail) for our records.

Signs of vision problems include (but are not limited to):

• Squinting

• Tilting the head

• Sitting too close to the television

• Rubbing eyes constantly

• Moving eyes in abnormal alignment

Signs of hearing problems include (but are not limited to):

• Your child wants volumes louder than other members of the family

• Your child often responds “What?” when spoken to

• Is seems as though your child isn’t listening

• Your child seems to hear fine sometimes and not others

If you have a concern regarding your child’s vision or hearing and would like your student screened, please submit a Student Vision/Hearing Screen Request. If your child was screened at their annual well-child exam, please submit those screening results to your campus nurse. Please note, if you choose not to submit a screening request at this time, you may still contact your campus nurse at a later date if a new concern arises, and they will be happy to screen your child.

Thank you,

Nurse Lindsay

Now that the 2021-2022 school year is in full stride, it is time to plan for our work in collaboration with campus staff, parents, community members and business partners through our campus site-based planning committee (SBPC). SBPC members provide input on a wide variety of subjects, with an aim of improving the achievement of all students. One focus of our SBPC this year will be our campus mobility rate of approximately 20% & how to support the students who transition to and from our campus throughout the school year.

The SBPC committee is composed of district employees, community members, business partners and parents. We are seeking at least two parent representatives on our SBPC. We work hard to ensure all interested parents in being a SBPC member can participate. However, depending upon interest, it may be necessary to hold an election to select parent representatives. If this is the case, communication and information will be provided later this month. If you are a parent, but also serve the LISD community as a community member and/or business partner, please indicate that on the SBPC interest form below.

SBPC meetings are held on campus and meet four times throughout the school year. The dates for the 2021-2022 SBPC Meetings: October 20th, December 1st, February 16th and April 27th. The times of those meetings will be set at a later date depending upon SBPC member availability.

In order to be considered for membership on the campus SBPC, please complete this form.

Thank you for considering to be a part of this important campus committee.

Sincerely,

Tina Pasak

Principal

River Place Elementary School