Thank you for a great start to the 21-22 school year. It truly is a team effort and I appreciate everyone coming together to create some memorable moments in these opening days of school. Please review the bullet points below to help us make this school year even better:

• Make sure your child has 2 masks at school (one on, one extra in their back pack)
• All students need a water bottle each day at school. Our water fountains are turned off for safety reasons and students must use a water bottle filler.
• Do not park in the staff parking lot and walk through our bus loading area at any time.
• If you are walking to school grounds to meet your child after school, wait on the sidewalk behind the bike rack and nearest Center Ave. Do not wait in the blacktop area near the building where our students exit the building.
• Please do not arrange to have your child walk and meet you at your vehicle offsite. We are not able to supervise them once they have left school grounds and it may create an unsafe situation.
• Continue to follow our arrival and dismissal procedures and traffic patterns. We will have crossing guards and police assisting us with both of these critical times of day. We appreciate your patience and kindness.
• If you are in the carline, please help us by displaying the placard sent home today in your passenger window. (Child's Name, Grade, Teacher)
• Student cell phones are required to be off and in their bookbags. Do not contact your child directly with changes to their transportation. You can make changes to transportation by sending a note with your child or calling the office.
• Continue to communicate with your child's teacher and the main office should you have questions, need anything, or need to report an absence/early out/late arrival.

Over the weekend check out our PBIS page. Here you will find our schoolwide expectations and our school handbook.

If you would like to help Churchill with delivering lunches or monitoring recess throughout the school day, please complete this form. There will be more volunteer opportunities coming soon!

What is SHIELD?

SHIELD is a saliva test that Homewood School District 153 will be utilizing to screen for COVID-19 in our school community. The goal is to catch people who are asymptomatic but positive before they unknowingly spread COVID-19 to others.

Who will be tested?

Unless an opt-out form is turned in to the school nurse, all students and staff will be tested regardless of their vaccination status. All students, regardless of vaccination status, involved in band, choir and all other extra-curricular activities must participate in SHIELD testing in order to be involved in those activities.

How often will testing occur?

Testing will begin at Churchill on Wednesday, September 1st and will take place each week on Wednesdays.

Please watch this video at 2:24 to see the collection process in action. There will be a cart that travels to each homeroom classroom and staff to assist each student.

Recruitment and sign-up nights are underway for both orchestra and band. Please see our website for more information and reach out to our fabulous teachers - Mrs. Venutolo (Orchestra) and Mrs. Hoefle (Band).

Orchestra Information

Band Information

You are invited! We will be having an Open House on Thursday, 9/9. You will have the opportunity to learn more about Churchill and your child's classroom. Please use our Sign-Up Genius Link to sign-up for a 30 minute time slot. You must sign-up in order to attend in person. One adult/per student only. All attendees must be healthy, masked, and distanced from others. All families should check-in at their grade level doors on Center avenue before entering the building. If your family would like to access the information remotely, teachers will be emailing all families that same evening the admin/office, teacher, and specials/PE videos. We will send out some family feedback forms following the event and would love to hear from all of you.

Gus is presented with all kinds of challenges and pieces together some pretty great solutions for his friends and himself. It can be very satisfying to use our strengths and put our creativity to work. Thank you to Mrs. Austin for this fantastic Read Aloud!

All Children Will Learn. All Children Will Be Served.

Email: sara.schnoor@hsd153.org
Website: http://churchill.hsd153.org
Location: 1300 190th Street, Homewood, IL, USA
Phone: 708-798-3424
Twitter: @Ch_PrincipalS