Slate Hill Newsletter
October 22, 2023
Principal's Corner
Holiday Assistance
If you are still in need of Holiday assistance, please click on the Google form link to enter your information by 10/31/23. 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.
Have you seen the fliers about the Smile Program Mobile Dentist coming to Slate Hill on November 8th? Fliers went home about a week ago but if you haven't signed up. Here is a link to the website where you can still sign up. Here is a link to the form in Portuguese is needed. Please be sure to turn these forms in by Wednesday, October 25th!
The Worthington Alliance of Black Families & Educators (WABFE) most recent newsletter is now available HERE.
Our Halloween parade will be this Friday, October 27th starting at 2pm. All families are invited to watch the parade. More information below.
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
Halloween 2023
Our students may wear their costume to school or bring something that can go over their clothes. We are not allowing costumes with blood, gore or any weapons. Students may have a mask if they can see out of it for the parade. Students will not be allowed to do any costume changing in the restroom.
Our AM Kindergarten students are invited back to participate in the parade and classroom fun starting at 1:45pm. Our teachers will plan some classroom fun and parents are invited to come and be parade watchers. Our Parade will begin at 2pm. If we are able to live stream it, information will be sent out to all parents.
Halloween Parade Route and Plan for Outdoors:
Parents are asked to stand on the playground and around the side of the building starting in the back.
5th Grade will start the parade. The classroom order for the parade will be Rosengarten, Myers, Murphy, Wilson, Srai Gaydos, Rankey, Osgood, McCort, Fischer, Hollingsworth, Hale, Hainsey, Harrington, Hollinger, McHugh, Fago,Richardson, Bryan and Hoffman.
The parade will exit out the far right gym door and walk across the playground and circle toward the building along the sidewalk and around the building to reenter the front door. Once inside the building, teachers will reenter their classrooms and have some classroom fun with their students.
Staff Costume Contest:
We will have our 4th annual staff costume contest and each classroom will vote for two groups.The winning group will be announced at the end of the day.
Halloween Parade Rain Plan:
If it is raining, parents and staff will receive an email by noon letting everyone know the parade will move indoors. Parents will gather in the cafeteria and gym and students will parade through the classrooms.
Classrooms will parade going through the gym, cafeteria and then the classrooms and will follow the same order listed below.
Coat Drive through October 26th
Clothes Needed in the Health Clinic
PTA Corner
Thank you to all the families who donated food and goodies for the Parent Teacher Conference Dinner; the staff and teachers loved it!!
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.
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!
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
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!
Veterans Day @ Slate Hill
School Counselor's Corner
As we know, the weather is changing and the cold months are approaching fast! This time of the year can be hard, as some of us may struggle with the changing environment. It's normal for us to take care of our bodies first, as we dig out warm jackets and heavy sweaters. However, taking care of our minds is just as important.
It can be hard to do hard things, and sometimes we need some extra support while facing those challenges.The counseling department wanted to share another Big Life Journal gem about "Choosing Your Hard". This encourages students to make healthy choices about a difficult decision, building on their strengths and resilience. "Choose Your Hard" is a great everyday tool caregivers can use at home!
Upcoming Events/Dates to Remember
October 27th: Halloween Parade 2pm
November 7th: No School
November 8th: Brazilian Family Night/Capoeira Lessons 6-7p
November 10th: Veteran's Day Assembly @ 9:15am
November 22nd-24th: Thanksgiving Holiday Break (No School)
Upcoming Sporting Events
October 20th - Pumpkin Spice Girls Fall LAX Clinic - details on the form included here!
October 27th @ 7-8pm - LAXtober Fest Girls lacrosse clinic at Worthington Kilbourne High School. Additional details are in the flyers in the Ebackpack above!
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.
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.
Title I Information
Title I, Part A (Title I) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA), provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. Our school receives Title IA funding.
Parents/families of students in our building have a right to know about teacher qualifications and state-mandated assessments. All teachers providing Title I interventions are properly licensed for their positions and anyone can search licensure information on any educator at https://core.ode.state.oh.us/Core4/ODE.CORE.Lic.Profile.Public.UI/ . In addition to being linked here, these documents are available on the Title IA page of our school website.
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
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