Slate Hill Newsletter
November 5, 2023
Principal's Corner
Dear Slate Hill Families,
If you signed up for the Smile Mobile Dentist, don't forget that they will be here on November 8th during the school day!
Just a few days left to fill out this form for Holiday Assistance
If you are still in need of Holiday assistance, please click on the Google form link to enter your information. The St. Vincent de Paul Society at St. Michael Church deadline has passed, but we still have a few other resources to help families this holiday. If you have already applied for help from St. Vincent in the last newsletter, we ask that you do not fill this form out again.
Please join us this week at our Slate Hill PTA meeting on Thursday, November 9th at 7pm in the library. Again our staff will be sharing information that will be helpful to parents. Also Randy Banks, Assistant Superintendent will be here to talk about Phase 2 construction progress and Phase 3 (elementary). See you at 7pm!
Don't forget to BE HERE by 8, So you are not late STARS! Breakfast is served from 7:55-8:10am every day!
Julie (=
Mrs.Julie Gulley
Principal, Slate Hill Elementary
Veterans Day @ Slate Hill
Polaris Gift Shop!
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Where: Grace Polaris Church Ministry Center
Worthington Park shared this fundraiser with Slate Hill, so please take advantage of this great opportunity! Please see the attached flyer below with all the details as well as this link!
Flu Vaccine Clinics on November 7th
Slate Hill is again collecting pop tabs throughout the school year for donation to the Ronald McDonald House.
The Ronald McDonald House collects the aluminum pop tabs from cans. They are able to generate thousands of dollars from our pop tab collection program every year and that helps them keep the lights on! For more information, email mhiestand@wscloud.org
How can I collect my tabs? Grab a clean container and start collecting your tabs! It could be a plastic bag, a jar, a bucket, or whatever else you have around. Please bring collected tabs to the Slate Hill Office and place in the Pop Tab Bucket. We are collecting all year long!
PTA Corner
The PTA will be doing a Krispy Kreme fundraiser from October 22nd - November 12th! The link with all the details and to donate is here!
Join us for our next PTA meeting, Thursday, November 9th at 7pm in the Slate Hill Library. Please join us to hear from Mr. Randy Banks, our assistant superintendent about updates on our current building projects and Phase 3 (elementary).
We hope that you will join our PTA this year and support great things that we are doing for our Slate Hill Stars! Please go to our PTA website and sign up today!
Active and Engaged Learning Times
DOORS OPEN: 7:55am
START TIME: 8:10am
TARDY after: 8:10am
Breakfast served from 7:55-8:10am
Dismissal begins at 2:50pm for all students
Capoeira Lessons at Slate Hill Elementary!
Annual Food Drive through November 16th!
- Canned Soup
- Canned Pasta
- Granola Bars
- Rice-a-Roni
- Body Wash
- Shampoo
Slate Hill Elementary will have donation boxes set up in the front hallway of the school through November 16th if you are able to donate. Thank you for your support of our community!
Contest For Dr. Martin Luther King Day
The 2024 Worthington Martin Luther King Community Celebration will feature a youth oratorical contest for students K-12. The theme is "His Light Still Shines." The student application is at this website.
MLK Youth Oratorical Contest - Student Flyer
MLK Youth Oratorical Contest - Rules & Regulations
Upcoming Events/Dates to Remember
November 7th: No School
November 8th: Butter Braid pick up in the Music Room (3-6pm)
November 8th: Brazilian Family Night/Capoeira Lessons 6-7p
November 10th: Veteran's Day Assembly @ 9:15am
through November 16th: Canned Food Drive
November 22nd-24th: Thanksgiving Holiday Break (No School)
School Counselor's Corner - Helping Your Child Cope With Spooky Thoughts
Hello Slate Hill Families!
Happy October to you all! I hope you are soaking in the fall weather, colors, and all the festivities that come with this time of year.
The students are learning full force in the classroom and continue to grow and develop in wonderful ways. You may even be seeing and hearing about all the fun things they have been up to with their teachers and classmates!
As students continue to learn and be challenged, they may start experiencing unhelpful, negative thoughts. These thoughts are totally normal and natural. However, it is important that we help our kids recognize them and cope with them. Check out the attached link to teach your child how to R.A.I.N on negative thoughts.
As the article says, we can help our kids learn to be more kind to themselves instead of being their own worst critic.
Warmly,
The Slate Hill Counseling Team
Gymnastics Clinic for Girls Grades K-5
Time: 9:00am-12:30pm
Location: WKHS (1499 Hard Rd.), Auxiliary Gym Court C
Cost: $35
All the details are in the flyer attached here and in the eBackpack!
Clothes Needed in the Health Clinic
Panorama SEL Survey
Dear Slate Hill Families,
We thank you and your family for being our valued partners as we work together to educate the children in our district. As you may already be aware, building our well-being and social-emotional learning skills is an important goal for our school this year and every year. Over the next few weeks, students will participate in several exercises to better understand these concepts and to reflect on how they perceive these skills in themselves.
As we have done for the last five years, we will be asking your child to reflect on his/her own mindsets and approaches to learning via an online survey. The survey shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes to complete and will be administered during a two-week window from November 6-17, 2023.
We are partnering with Panorama Education, a third-party vendor, to support us in administering these surveys. The survey content will ask students in grades 3-12 to self-reflect on School Safety, Teacher-Student Relationships, Sense of Belonging, Rigorous Expectations, and Self-Efficacy. Our students in grades 6-12 will also be asked to self-reflect on two additional topics; Diversity and Inclusion and Cultural Awareness.
Student voice matters to us, and their responses will provide invaluable insights into their experiences in how we can improve and adapt our instruction to meet their needs. If a student doesn’t feel like they have enough information to answer a question, they will be able to skip the item altogether.
If you have any questions about the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) survey, please don’t hesitate to contact us in the office at 614-450-5000.
Respectfully,
Julie Gulley
MUST DO THIS for your child to attend a Field trip!
Have you completed your Emergency Data Review for your child?
Parents can access their own login credentials by clicking the Password Recovery link under Quick Links on the Worthington Schools main page. They enter their email address (it needs to be the email that we have on file for them) and will immediately get an email sent to them with their district-provided username and password, which they can use to login to the Parent Portal as well as Infinite Campus.
FYI from Tech Services
Low Balance Alerts were reset by My Payments Plus. Parents should check their settings and update them if necessary by logging in at My Payments Plus with their personal account, go to My Account (left panel) and then view the Low Balance Alerts to update their settings.
MyPayments Plus
My Payments Plus is where you will pay school fees, Full day Kindergarten tuition, school field trips and put money on your child's lunch account. Look under parent resources for this website.
For My Payments Plus, parents can find their child's 9-digit Student ID # by logging in to Infinite Campus and clicking on Today. The 9-digit student number is under student name, visible on both the app and when accessing Infinite Campus through the Parent Portal or the Infinite Campus website.
School Fees for the 2023-24:
Kindergarten: $24.00
Grade 1-3: $42.00
Grade 4-5: $36.00
If you feel you qualify for free and reduced lunch, we suggest you fill this form out online or print out a paper copy and turn into the office. If you qualify your student's fees or Kindergarten tuition could be free or reduced.
HERE is the free and reduced application. Here is the link to the printable applications. You never know if you will qualify and it could help with reduced school student fees as well as Kindergarten tuition. If you have any questions or I can help you in anyway, please reach out to me.
Slate Hill Elementary School
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Email: jgulley@wscloud.org
Website: https://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/Domain/21
Location: 7625 Alta View Boulevard, Columbus, OH, USA
Phone: 614-450-5000
Facebook: facebook.com/ourschool
Twitter: @SlateHillstars