Principal Update

Happy Friday!

Ramadan mubarak! To all of our families who celebrate, may this Ramadan bring joy, happiness, and prosperity to you.

While one of the main goals of my weekly newsletter is to share important information, it is also an opportunity to reflect on all the great things happening in our school. These wonderful things could not happen without our wonderful staff. One of the best ways you could show appreciation is to consider nominating an LP staff person for the 2023 Outstanding Lancer Educator or Staff Member Awards. I think it would be pretty great to have a huge representation from our school! For more information and to nominate someone: https://www.eastiron.org/page/outstanding-lancer

We have a busy week coming up with our One School One Book adventure starting. We kick off the experience with a school field trip to the Strong Museum of Play on Thursday, March 30. The kids are really excited for this field trip!

One final note- April break is just around the corner (April 3- April 7). While we are all looking forward to the time off, please help us remind students that we still have one week of learning, making good choices, and keeping our hands and feet to ourselves. We appreciate the support!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Dr. Bello

In celebration of Music in Our Schools Month, join us for the Music in Our School Concert on March 30th at 6:30pm in the Eastridge High School Auditorium. Featuring vocal and instrumental performances from K-12 students.

Flyers went home this week with information about purchasing a yearbook. Our yearbook club, along with their advisor Mrs. Antonelli have been working hard to create LP's first ever yearbook. We are really excited to offer this opportunity to students!

Yearbooks are $15 and we are accepting exact CASH only! If you need another form, please reach out to your child's teacher. All orders are due by April 14th!

ps: We will have a table set up at the science fair to collect money and slips for yearbooks!

In case you didn't hear the fun news, LP will be having its first published yearbook this year!

Fifth Grade Families: You should have received the flier/envelope for that on Monday. Another exciting part of the yearbook is to celebrate your babies moving up to the next part of their schooling career! You have the option to submit your child's baby picture to be put in the yearbook with a message for $5 (the money will go toward the 5th grade picnic). Please see the attached flier for more information! 😊

We hope you will join us June 4th at the Red Wings game! All four East Irondequoit Elementary schools are planning a night of family fun at the ball field. Make sure you get your tickets before they run out!

Tickets can be purchased here:

https://www.ticketreturn.com/prod2/signin.asp?UserID=EIronSchools&Password=RedWings&submit=Continue&Cookies=yes&HoldID=22973

For any student who identifies as Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Indigenous/Alaska Native, or Multi-Racial, there is a unique opportunity to apply for a scholarship towards an arts or sciences related camp or summer learning program. Please check out the attached flyer below for more information!

Application details are below and also available online: https://forms.gle/NvgnxL6yFV7XaCLJ9

East Irondequoit CSD is excited to announce the addition of Full-Day Pre-Kindergarten beginning in the fall of 2023. If you are interested in receiving information about the pre-k lottery, fill out the form at the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/MKDC050B6U. For more information on our Pre-K Program, visit our website: https://www.eastiron.org/page/pre-kindergarten-program or call the registration office at 585-339-1213.

Herb Smith, a classical and jazz musician for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra spent some time working with the Laurelton-Pardee 5th grade band. It was an epic day for our students. We are so grateful for the opportunity to work with him and know the kids learned so much from this experience!

Laurelton-Pardee was musically represented at the Monroe All-County Music festival this past weekend by Lena Soanes and Grace Grayko-Tappon. Lena and Grace sang in the All-County Chorus along with 150 singers from around the area. Their teachers, Ms. Kimber and Mrs. Ragusa also came out for the concert Saturday to support our young singers.

Schedule:

3rd graders will be every Tuesday.

4th graders will be every Wednesday.

5th graders will be every Thursday.

Time: 7:30am to 8:20am

There is no transportation available, parents will need to transport children. Students can only attend the day that matches their current grade level. Sneakers are mandatory for participation in this program.

Thank you,

Jake Klossner

Due to low interest, we need to cancel our scheduled PTA event: Spring Fling this Friday, 3/24. If any money was paid to attend the event, the money will be returned to you.

We hope families will join us at our next PTA meeting to think about events that will appeal to our students and families. Thank you!

Hi Friends!

Teacher appreciation will be here before we know it! And we need your help.

Please email elenamatthews13@gmail.com if you can help with teacher appreciation on Weds 5/3/23!

Thanks!

LP PTA Board

The PTA is looking for more members!

Please click on the link below for sign-up information:

https://laurelton-pardeepta.memberhub.com/store/items/718050

There are many great perks to being a PTA member...free admission to any of our events for our members!

Kristin Hart Daly President khart@lumetrics.com

Still Needed!! Vice President

Marjorie Hart Treasurer mhart001@rochester.rr.com

Dee Villalona Recording Secretary villadee@aol.com

Our PTA email: LaureltonPardeePTA@gmail.com

Mar. 29: One School, One Book starts!

Mar. 30: Field trip to Strong Museum of Play!

Mar. 30: District Music Prism Concert @ Eastridge High School 6:30pm

Apr. 3-7: Spring Recess; No school

Apr. 13: LP PTA Meeting @ 7:00pm

Apr. 14: Half day for students; Parent/Teacher conferences

The district is looking to hire teacher aides, bus drivers, and cleaners. For more information, job descriptions and to apply, click the links below:

• Teacher aides
• Bus Drivers
• Cleaners

This summer, LP will be the recipient to some much needed upgrades through our capital improvement project. More to come on that!

For now though, one of our projects needs to start early if we are to finish on time. Our gymnasium will be receiving a new air handling unit. In order to do this work, we have to partition off half of the gym. To start, we will focus on the right side of the gym. This work will begin over February break and will take several weeks. Once the right side is complete, construction will move to the left side of the gym.

What does this mean for our students and you?!

Students will only use the left side of the gym for now. We are hoping for some great weather so we can get students outside as much as possible!

Pick-up and Drop-off changes: The location of the gym door students enter is the only thing that will need to change for this procedure. Instead of driving up to the current gym door on the right side of the gym, we will have you continue forward (towards Norton St.) until you get to the second gym door, located on the left side of the building. We will have signs and staff to help with this transition. This change will take effect Monday, February 27th. We appreciate your flexibility as we navigate this new construction.

Email: meghan_bello@eastiron.monroe.edu
Website: https://www.eastiron.org/Domain/11
Location: 600 Pardee Road, Rochester, NY, USA
Phone: (585) 339-1370
Twitter: @LaureltonPardee