Shorewood Hills Shark Tooth

Happy last official day of summer. After a couple of weeks of getting back into the routines of school, our classrooms and halls are buzzing with learning. We also are gearing up for a few events. Please see the Fall Clean-Up Day info below. As well, we are encouraging as many of our Shorewood family members as possible to become approved school volunteers. In order to chaperone field trips, support in the classroom, help out at recess, etc... you must go through the district's training. Even if you think you may not be able to volunteer for these activities, it is still great to have done just in case.

In partnership,

Anne Gillespie

Principal

Volunteer approval process

Volunteer expectations

Volunteer policy

Volunteer onboarding training module

For all Volunteers and non-MMSD Personnel, to be considered “approved”, you must complete the following steps:

1. Application (Volunteer Tracker) https://appgarden6.app-garden.com/VolTrackWI3269.nsf PLEASE Select the appropriate activities you are participating in or are interested in volunteering. For example, if you are planning to be a field trip chaperone, be sure to select the field trip chaperone activity

2. Background Check - MMSD will process all background checks for volunteers who have selected a Level 2 activity. Please note, this takes anywhere from 1 day to 7 days for it to process.

3. Training Requirements

• Building & Student Safety Protocols - Required (15 minutes)

• Onboarding - Highly Recommended (1 hour)

  
  

If a volunteer is supporting the school through special events like booster club or book fairs, etc, and they will not be alone with students, they do not need background checks. (Level 1 positions) However, if a volunteer may have unsupervised contact with students such as a tutor, field trip chaperone or classroom assistant, a background check is required. (Level 2 positions)

Social security numbers (SSN) or Visa Numbers are used for national criminal background checks. If you are unable to provide a SSN, please contact the partnerships department (partnerships@madison.k12.wi.us) for further instructions prior to filling out the volunteer application. A background check will still be completed, but will take longer. Please note that U.S. citizenship is not a requirement for volunteering, and citizenship status is not a part of a background check report.

Volunteers will need a background check every 365 days. Volunteers will receive an email when their application is due for renewal.

Level 1 Volunteers may NOT work alone with students.

Level 2 Volunteers may work with students (Field Trips, Classroom work, Tutoring, etc) If you need to change your status level, please log into your Volunteer Application, edit your profile, update the Activity to a Level 2 role.

• The application takes about 15 minutes to complete.

• The Background check takes 1-5 days.

• Training takes approximately 1-1.5 hours.

• If the status says you are "Approved" - you are all set and you may volunteer now!

• If the status says you are "Pending" - most likely we are waiting for the background check to come back. It takes 1-7 days.

• If the status says you are “PendingRenewal” - you need to renew your background check. Remember, this must be done every 365 days

Safety patrol is an important part of our school and community. 5th graders at Shorewood have the honor to show their leadership by keeping our students safe before and after school.

Their duties are to keep students safe when crossing roads. They will be wearing neon green belts and will have flags for crossing. This will help cars see that kids are crossing. The patrollers will allow cars to pass before crossing students. At times, cars will stop and allow kids to cross. This will only occur if the patrollers have made eye contact and believe it is safe to cross. Patrollers will have their arms out in case they need to hold back or grab a student that may cross in front of a car. They will also report any unsafe behaviors to me and I will relay it to the homeroom teachers and Principal Gillespie!

We expect both students and adults to:

*Respect and listen to your patrollers and wait until they allow you to cross.

*Stop at the crosswalks. Look right, left, right for cars.

*Walk your bikes across the street. Do not ride into the street.

*Thank your patrollers for keeping you safe!

Many thanks,

Mr. Wong

(Safety Patroller Advisor)

awong@madison.k12.wi.us

If you still need to complete a School Cafe account for any food or milk for your student, please do so right away.

Here's a slideshow for setting up an account, adding all the students in your household, making a payment, and applying for free or reduced cost meals benefits.

School Cafe Directions-Spanish
School Cafe Directions-English

Please find food service menus linked here. There is also an option to subscribe to the menus on iCal or Google calendar.

STAYING HOME WHEN SICK

Our school community, like the greater Madison area, is seeing an uptick in viruses, both Covid and plenty of non-Covid colds and viruses.

As a reminder, staff and students are encouraged to stay home and test for Covid-19 if they are experiencing symptoms of illness such as cough, shortness of breath or loss of taste or smell, sore throat, muscle pain or body aches,headache, fever (100.4 degrees F or greater), runny nose, nasal congestion, vomiting or diarrhea.

If symptoms are mild, students may return to school (or stay in school) provided:

1. No fever, no vomiting, no diarrhea for at least 24 hours, without taking fever reducing medications.
2. They should mask if having respiratory symptoms (cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, runny nose or congestion and should continue to mask until symptoms are nearly resolved.
3. Energy levels are good and they are generally well enough to finish the school day.
   
4. The student agrees to return to the Health Office if symptoms worsen
5. * Student's that are positive for Strep throat may return to school after they are fever free x 24 hours and have completed 24 hours of antibiotics.

The Health Office does have a supply of home rapid antigen Covid tests to give out to students and staff in need and our local Public libraries and Public Health clinics also offer free home test kits.

The Public Health of Madison and Dane County website has great information on their services, where you can get vaccines including the updated booster vaccines, tests, and other local data.

Please fill out the MMSD SYMPTOM SCREENER if your student has symptoms of Covid, has tested positive for Covid or is a close contact to someone that has tested positive.

CELEBRATE SMILES

The amazing staff of Access Community Health will be at Shorewood providing dental screening and fluoride treatments next Monday 09/25 and Tuesday 09/26 and there is still time to register. There is no cost to families for services, they will bill your insurance or Badgercare for services or offer free services to students without insurance. IF you said yes to services during school registration, you should have received an email regarding the consent/medical history. This form must be filled out in order to receive services.

Here is a link to the online consent form which goes straight to Access or here is a PDF of the consent form that can be filled out and returned to school. Please fill it out by Monday 09/25 if you would like your child to be seen next week.

Please reach out to the School Nurse, Lucy McCluskey at 608-204-1204 or email lgmccluskey1@madison.k12.wi.us with any questions.

Good health wishes to all!

Lucy McCluskey, School Nurse

She/Her/Hers

Shorewood Elementary

1105 Shorewood Blvd

Email: lgmccluskey1@madison.k12.wi.us

Mondays, Tues AM, Wed AM, Thurs PM

Health Office Phone (608) 204-1204

Google Voice/Text (608) 492-1916

Health Office Fax (608) 467-0581

Shorewood Hills Elementary School grounds

Saturday October 14

1-4pm

Please bring your clippers, rakes, and any other yard tools.

All families are invited to join in on the fun.

There will be donuts!

Please contact SHES PTO if you have any questions

Shorewood.pto@gmail.com

Upcoming Dates:

• Friday, October 6th: 3:30 Popcorn sale
• Monday, October 9th: Picture Day
• Saturday, October 14th: 9:00-11:00 Fall Clean-Up Day (see info above)
• Monday, October 16th: Costume collection starts
• Thursday, October 19th: 3:30 Costume Give-a-Way
• Friday, October 20th: No School
• Friday, October 27th: 3:30 Popcorn sale
• Saturday, October 28th: 1:00-4:00 Fall Festival
• Monday, October 30th: Winter gear collection starts
• Tuesday, October 31st: **Mid-day Release at 11:30**
• November: Native American Heritage Month
• Thursday, November 2nd: Evening Family Conferences (Winter Gear Give-a-Way)
• Friday, November 3rd: No school--Family Conferences (Winter gear Give-a-Way)

Help Lines:

• Text “HOPELINE” to 741741

• Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 608-280-2600 or 1-800-273-8255

• Briarpatch Helpline: 1-800-798-1126

• Trevor Lifeline for LGBTQ+: 1-866-488-7386 or click here for Trevor Text & Trevor Chat

• 24/7 SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline - 1-800-985-5990

• 24/7 Parental Stress Line - 1-800-632-8188

• Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) Help Line: 608-251-4445 or 800-747-4045, If you are in immediate danger, call 911.