Creative Arts Friday Newsletter
October 2, 2023
Hello Families:
We are incredibly grateful for our beautiful community and looking forward to next week's Fall Break! We wanted to be sure to note that Fernando's Executive Director’s Open Office Hours have returned this week If you would like to talk, one on one, about any and all things CACS, please reach out directly at fnaguilar@creativeartscharter.org or message me through Schoology. Fernando will schedule a 15-30 minute meeting. He will be offering two different 1-hour blocks, Wednesday at 4pm and Thursday at 9am. Please know that these can happen in-person or virtually.
Wishing you a restful break!
In gratitude,
The Leadership Team
Leadership Team
Fernando Aguilar
Executive Director
Ja'Melia Pugh
Director of African American Achievement Initiative
Ann Ledo-Lane
Director of Instructional Programming & The Arts/K-4 Admin
Jill Lounibos
Director of Operations
Ayana Labossiere Burks
Zoey Cumings
Director of Afterschool
Is your child out sick? Email attendance@creativeartscharter.org
Important Updates for the School Year
- FAMILIES- if you are parking on Pierce st in the WHITE ZONE then you are preventing bus access for students with special needs. PLEASE stop parking there- this space does not belong to us.
- Parents need all of the new driving/chaperone requirements. Families that have been here since kinder (and now are in MS) still do not have the minimum for bodily injury. This is important- please update!
- Please come to the Elm Alley gate (not Turk) between the hours of 9am and 3:20pm.
- Families, please update your contact information ( address and phone numbers) with Roberta at rfudim@creativeartscharter.org. This is so important in support of your child(ren)!
For the school year 2023-2024 all meals will be served at no cost to the families/students regardless of the student's eligibility. Please click on the button below to fill out the application.
NEW REQUIREMENTS for CHAPERONING & DRIVING FIELDTRIPS
- DMV Driving Record
- TB Test of Risk Assessment
- LIveScan (fingerprinting)
- CALIFORNIA DRIVERS LICENSE
- Declarations Page of Car Ins with a minimum of 100,000/300,000 in bodily Injury
- Signed Chaperone/Driver Agreement
What to do if your child tests positive for COVID
If your child has symptoms and tested positive for COVID-19, stay home and away from others for at least 5 days. Day 0 is when your symptoms started.
- After 5 days (on day 6 or later), you can leave home when:
- You have had no fever for the last 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications
- Your symptoms are getting better
- You should wear a well-fitting mask any time you have to be around others until day 11.
Family Association
Rhaetia Hanscum, Co Chair
Erin Mittelstaedt, Co Chair
Lisa Black, Class Rep Coordinator
Family Association Parent Education: Responsive Classroom Approach
Thank you for joining us on November 2 for our Responsive Classroom Approach Workshop facilitated by our fabulous teachers- Ron, Max & Brooke! Click below for the handout that was shared.
Family Association
ALL-SCHOOL VOLUNTEER NEEDS
Would you like to get involved with an FA committee? Fill out this form!
These jobs are open to anyone from any grade! Email volunteer@creativeartscharter.org if you have questions, or are having a hard time using the volunteer tracker.
GRADE ASSIGNMENTS
GRADE ASSIGNMENTS
These are grade-specific volunteer duties that your class reps will remind you about!
White Zone duty (Click here for an overview on how White Zone works!)
11/13 - 11/17: 6th Grade (Sign up here!)
11/27 - 12/1: 5th Grade (Sign up here!)
12/4 - 12/8: 1st Grade (Sign up here!)
Community Meeting and Coffee (Click here to learn more about the coffee job)
Friday, 12/1: 5th Grade (Sign up here!)
Friday, 12/8: Kindergarten (Sign up here!)
Popsicle Duty: 8th Grade
Every Friday the kids need a couple adult volunteers to monitor the line! Sign up here.
IMPORTANT DATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
EVERYDAY FUNDRAISING
Holiday shopping couldn’t be better time to raise money for CACS with Everyday Fundraising for things like holiday foods, gifts, and essentials for gathering… Read about every single program we have going on when you download Updated pocket guide:
CACS Everyday Fundraising Pocket Guide.
Everyday Fundraising is excited to present our first holiday event to support CACS:
A virtual event on zoom to capture your heart and maybe your soul of your child in silhouette art! This is a zoom event on Thursday evening, December 7. The link to sign up is here: https://tinyurl.com/CAC-School
More details to follow. Space is limited, so sign up early!
If this event is very popular and fills up quickly, we will host another event in the spring!
See the flyer below for more information:
HELP!!! Do you have ideas for adding Everyday Fundraising opportunities to support our community? Please email me, your coordinator, Angela Rosoff at angelarosoff@me.com.
EVERYDAY FUNDRAISING
Did you know that your everyday spending like groceries, dining out, and shopping can benefit our school! We have partnerships that make it easy for us to leverage this kind of spending to help pay for CACS programming to add to our fundraising goal! All together, we can help our school by supporting our partnerships!
Please continue to help our school with your Everyday Fundraising efforts in these ways:
➡️Share this with friends & family! ➡️Download Updated pocket guide:
CACS Everyday Fundraising Pocket Guide.
➡️Fill in Gus’s Markets Community Card Registration form below and you will begin donating 6% every time you shop… ongoing! This kind of EF fundraising boosts all of the CACS arts-based programming for our students.
➡️Follow us on Instagram @creativeartscharter
We are working on new dine out opportunities. Please stay tuned!
Holiday shopping couldn’t be a better time to raise money for CACS with Everyday Fundraising for things like holiday foods, gifts, and essentials for gathering… Read about every single program we have going on when you download Updated pocket guide:
CACS Everyday Fundraising Pocket Guide.
Thank you to everyone who has shopped with Sloat Garden to support CACS. The next Sloat Garden Center fundraising event begins November 24!
➡️Fill in Gus’s Markets Community Card Registration form below and you will begin donating 6% every time you shop… ongoing! If you spend $150 every week for 52 weeks, CACS will receive a $468 donation from your purchases! It’s that easy to help us reach our fundraising goals!
Fill out this form here:
- Monday, November 20-24: FALL BREAK: NO SCHOOL
- Wednesday, November 29: GREEN APPLE BOOKS FUNDRAISER: Online
- Thursday, November 30: GREEN APPLE BOOKS FUNDRAISER: In person-All day long!
- Friday, December 8: Community Meeting/Music Show ( 9-9:30-am); Exhibition of Learning! 5pm-8pm; Hanukah Menorah Lighting Ceremony
- Monday, December 11: NO SCHOOL for Students (Teacher Report Card Writing Day)
- Friday, December 22-Monday, January 8: WINTER BREAK: NO SCHOOL
LOST & FOUND: will be cleared out this Friday before Fall break at 330.
The lost and found is cleared out at the end of every month.
Lost and Found is located just inside the west entrance off the yard.
Please come by before then to look for your family's items.
Here's a doc to breakdown who to ask if you have questions, comments or concerns
Follow Us on Social Media! We post 2-3 times a week!
It belongs to SFUSD for students who are bussed across the city and generally those students on the buses are students with disabilities. Turk can accommodate all of our students and families.
Any questions?
Email Zoey Cumings, Director of Afterschool at zcumings@creativeartscharter.org