Slate Hill Newsletter
September 17, 2023
Principal's Corner
Hello Slate Hill Families,
Friday was our first Constellation Group (family group) and we were able to get together and celebrate how we are similar and how we are different! We reconnected and enjoyed a special time as a famiy! Ask your child to share what they learned about their family.
This is the week of our first McTeacher Night at the Wilson Bridge Road McDonald's on Thursday, September 21st! Some of our Slate Hill staff will be working at McDonald's from 5-7 pm that evening and 20% of our sales from 5-7pm will be going to support fun activities for your Slate Hill stars! Whether you come in or order digitally to pick it up, we will benefit! Thank you for supporting our staff and our Slate Hill Stars!
Just a friendly reminder that we are a Nut Free School. Recognizing that allergy reactions to nuts may be especially severe and even life threatening, during school hours, all schools will be nut and peanut free facilities. School provided meals will be nut and peanut free. To protect the health and safety of all of our students, we ask that parents/guardians be diligent in making sure that food sent with their child to school is nut and peanut free. This includes refraining from bringing any food item to school, including field trips and other school-sponsored events, that contains peanuts or tree nuts, or that, according to its label “may include peanuts or tree nuts.” Please remind your child of the importance of not sharing thier food with their friends. Also, it is important to send your child with something healthy to drink for lunch. Please refrain from sending pop/soda, energy drinks or other caffeinated beverages in their lunch as well as any glass containers. We appreciate your help with this!
We love to celebrate the birthdays of our Slate Hill stars, but as a reminder we are only allowed to have NONedible birthday treats. Please work with your child's teacher to send in other items if you wish like pencils, erasers, stickers, etc. Thank you for helping to keep our kids safe.
Our 5th grade EPP students have started to track our tardies by grade level. See the picture above. Each week they will announce the grade level with the least amount of tardies! They will be tracking this for the first trimester. Our goal this year is to have all of our students arrive on time EACH and EVERY day! We can do this!
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.
The September WABFE (Worthington Alliance of Black Families and Educators) newsletter can be found here - WABFE September Newsletter
Julie (=
Julie Gulley, Slate Hill Elementary Principal
Follow us on Twitter @Slatehillstars
Active and Engaged Learning Times
DOORS OPEN: 7:55am
START TIME is 8:10am
TARDY after: 8:10am
Breakfast served from 7:55-8:10am
Dismissal begins at 2:50pm for all students
Slate Hill PTA Corner
Thank you to all the families who ordered mums as part of our fundraiser! A total of $2,580.50 raised!
The pick-up day is day, September 27th from 3:30pm-6:30pm. Below is a sign up link for volunteers to help unload and distribute the mums. Please feel free to sign up if you are available! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084BA5AA22A5FC1-44339966-mumbuddies#/
Congratulations to the top earning students who will get a McDonald's lunch with Mrs. Gulley!
1. Max Kelly from Mrs. Hale's class raised $438
3. Derrick Peabody from Mrs. Rankey's class raised $293
4. Theo Lee from Mrs. McHugh's class raised $291
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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!
ST Math Family Workshop for Grades 2nd-4th!
Please join us at Slate Hill on Wednesday, September 27th from 6pm-7pm for a workshop on ST Math in our cafeteria. This workshop offers parents tips on how to support their students at home with ST Math. The night will be led by our ST Math Representative. For families who speak another language, we are working to provide interpreters.
Your Slate Hill students are invited to attend with you; however, this workshop is to help parents.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Upcoming Events/Dates to Remember
September 21st: McTeacher Night 5pm-7pm (E. Wilson Bridge Rd. location)
September 27th: Mum pick-up (PTA Fundraiser) 3:30pm-6:30pm
September 27th: ST Math Family Workshop 6pm-7pm
October 6th: PTA Fall Fun Fest from 5pm-7pm
October 11th: Picture Retake Day!
Cincinnati Author coming to our area- Jasmine Warga
Author visit: Jasmine Warga
OCTOBER 4, 2023
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Jasmine Warga will discuss her writing process as well as her award-winning books, which include Other Words for Home, The Shape of Thunder and A Rover’s Story. For ages 8-18.
She is from Cincinnati and her father is an immigrant from Jordan. She is known for her Newbery Honor book Other Words for Home which is about Syrian refugees.
Ready for Reading Volunteers
Counselor's Corner
Please click the button below for information from our School Counselor, Stefanee Loges and her school counseling interns, Mrs. Sammy Tomusko and Miss Clarke Fann!
Start With Hello
Slate Hill will join other Worthington elementary schools with participation in "Start With Hello" week. Start With Hello is an initiative started by the Sandy Hook Promise Organization aimed at creating connection and community among students with a goal of ending social isolation. Throughout the week of September 18th, Start With Hello programming in our school will promote student leadership in decreasing social isolation and increasing empathy, by working towards cultures of inclusion and connectedness. Below is an overview of themes from each day.
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.
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.
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