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Tiffany Ridge Elementary School

School Hours: 9:10-4:10

School Phone: 816-359-4400

Principal: Sasha Kalis Assistant Principal: Laura Coughlin

Counselor: Alisha Brunk Social Worker: Gayle Laney

Office Staff: Robin Meyers and Andrea Berka

Nurse: Nicole Snodgrass

August 28: Title I Annual Meeting (12:00-12:30pm) Title I Annual Meeting Teams Link

September 2: NO SCHOOL, Labor Day

September 6: TR T-Shirt Orders Due

September 6: PTA Pastries with Your Pack, 8:15-8:50am (gym)

September 6: Virtual Parent Orientation (electronic format)

September 13: Fall Picture Day

September 17: PTA Meeting, 6:00-7:30pm (library)

ALL ORDERS DUE BACK TO THE OFFICE BY SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Orders will be filled once received back from the print company.

Please remember that the arrival time for Tiffany Ridge is 8:50. Prior to that time, there is no adult supervision for students. Students are tardy if they arrive after 9:10. If your child will be absent, please contact the school office by 9:00am.

ARRIVAL

Adventure Club

• Drop-off begins at 6:30am and parents must check in their child through the lower level entrance. Students must be enrolled in Adventure Club to participate.

Walkers

• Students may enter the building starting at 8:50am. We have two entry points; the main entrance or the lower level entrance.

Bus Riders

• Students will be released from the buses as soon as they arrive at Tiffany Ridge and will either report to the cafeteria for breakfast or go directly to their classrooms.

Car Riders

• Drop-off begins at 8:50am.
• Students will report for breakfast in the cafeteria or go to their classrooms. Outside food may not be brought in for breakfast.
• If your child is late, arriving after 9:10, please escort them to the office to sign your child in.

DISMISSAL

Adventure Club

• Pick-up begins at 4:15pm through the lower level entrance.

Bus Riders

• Students riding buses will be escorted by their classroom teacher to their bus starting at 4:05pm.

Walkers

• Students will be escorted by staff until they are off property.
• Parents cannot park in the parking lot to pickup walkers. All walkers must walk.

Car Riders

• Pick-up begins at 4:10pm. Cars will begin to line up in Loop A and Loop B along the curb. Loop A is a double lane in the afternoon.
  
• You MUST have a car placard that was provided by Tiffany Ridge in your windshield. Car placards will be provided at Back to School Night. Please keep your placard in your windshild until your child(ren) is in your vehicle.
  
• If you do not have your placard, you will have to show photo identification, which slows down the car rider line.

We’re interested in your views of the Park Hill School District. Your voice is so important to contributing to how we all feel about our school district. If you receive a phone call from Creative Entourage Research in the next few weeks, we hope you will take part in their brief 5-to-10-minute telephone survey. These calls are randomly selected from our community.

This phone survey is just one part of our process. Soon, we’ll also have an online survey for our community to provide additional, more in-depth feedback. The online survey will be available in the coming months. Stay tuned – as again, we want you to be aware of these opportunities to share your thoughts with us.

DESE recently announced that Missouri has been approved to administer Summer EBT 2024. Summer EBT provides Missouri children who are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals the opportunity to receive critical nutrition benefits. This program is a dedication and commitment between the lead agency, the Department of Social Services (DSS), along with DESE. Families can use the Missouri SuN Bucks Eligibility Navigator to see if they need to complete an application. Households who need to apply must submit the application online by August 31, 2024.

Eligible households will receive a one-time $120.00 benefit per eligible student. Families with children who meet the criteria will receive an EBT card by mail, or the benefit will be added to their existing EBT card.

Criteria for automatic eligibility includes:

• The household already participates in SNAP or Temporary Assistance; including extended eligible household members, or
• The child is age 7-17 and in foster care, homeless, a migrant, or
• The child attends a school that offers the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and the household income meets the requirements for free or reduced-price school meals.

The Eligibility Navigator asks a few key questions based on the information above to determine if families automatically qualify or instructs them to complete an application.

All families with students enrolled in the Park Hill School District during 2023-2024 should select:

"My child attends a school that participates in the School Breakfast Program or National School Lunch Program" in the Eligibility Navigator tool. If students were enrolled in a different school district last school year, they may still be eligible but we will not be able to verify in Park Hill.

Park Hill School District uses Infinite Campus as our student information system. With Infinite Campus, you can access the following for your elementary child:

• Attendance
• Grades
• Bus Information
• Technology Fees

To be able to access your child’s information, you must set up an account. You will need to log-in and enter the Activation Key, followed by setting up your own username and password.

Infinite Campus organizes students by household, so you can access your family in just one account. If you have questions, need technical support, or have misplace your unique access key code, feel free to call us at 816-359-4400.

Students may bring their lunch from home or purchase a school lunch from the cafeteria. Students also have the option to purchase a breakfast upon arrival to school.

All enrolled students have an active school meal account in Park Hill. Parents are encouraged to register for a SchoolCafe account (attaching all students in the household to the account) to monitor meal account balances, set low balance notifications, set ala carte/snack restrictions, apply for family meal benefits, and make payments to student(s) meal account(s).

When registering for a SchoolCafe account, parents will need their student’s ID (“S”) number (5-digit number), minus the “S”. This number can be found on Infinite Campus.

Prices

Breakfast: $1.75

Lunch: $2.95

Milk: $0.70

Juice: $0.40

Breakfast: Students need to eat breakfast at home or order school breakfast. If students bring in outside (restaurants, coffee shops, gas stations) food or beverages, they will be sent to the cafeteria to finish it. If school has already started, students will finish it in the office before going to class. These items will not be allowed in classrooms.

Classroom Treats: To protect the health and safety of our students, homemade treats will not be distributed to students in the Park Hill School District. Due to allergies and other food intolerances, only birthday favors listed below are allowed.

Birthday Favors: Students may bring a birthday treat or favor to school to share with their classmates, as long as they come from our list of treats that contain none of the eight (8) major allergens - milk, wheat, egg, soy, peanut, tree nut, fish and shellfish.

Thank you for understanding that all classroom treats must come from this list, because we do not have the staff capacity to check for allergens that could threaten the health of some students. Please bring birthday treats ahead of time (two hours after the start of school, at the latest).

• Stickers

• Erasers

• Pencils

• Crazy straws

• Blow Pops

• Juice boxes

• Popcorn

• Smarties

• Dum Dum lollipops

• Jelly Belly

• Nerds

• Ring Pops

• Skittles

• Sour Patch Kids

• Starburst

• Swedish Fish

• Life Saver Gummies

Our employees are the real deal and the reason we are so successful. We would like to recognize them for all they do for our students. Each month, we recognize a pre-K or elementary teacher, a secondary teacher and a support staff member. Nominate an employee for this award by clicking the button below.

Nominate a Star (https://www.parkhilllistens.com/park-hill-stars)

Tiffany Ridge has an amazing PTA that supports students, staff and TR families. We are asking for your support, with no volunteering/meetings required! Your membership fees will help fund school needs, assemblies, field trips, and fun school events so sign up today!

The first meeting is on September 17 at 6:00pm in the library.

Join PTA HERE

2024-2025 PTA Board Members

• President: Kristin Kuhn
• Vice President of Membership: Kim Taylor
• Vice President of Fundraising: Amy Gallawa
• Secretary: Jennifer Duckworth
• Treasurer: Meghan Kudrna

In a year, we'll celebrate the opening of Angeline Washington Elementary School. With 12 elementary schools and four middle schools, we need to establish new boundaries that create a “direct feeder” model, where three elementary schools feed into one middle school. Balanced enrollments at Congress and Plaza Middle Schools will feed Park Hill High School, while Lakeview and Walden Middle Schools will feed Park Hill South.

We've formed a Redistricting Advisory Team to guide this process. Thank you to those who applied to join the team! This new team will evaluate criteria like enrollment numbers, socio-economic balance, transportation, neighborhood considerations and impact on the current attendance area. After the Park Hill Board of Education approves the criteria, the team will meet four times from August to November this fall.

Stay tuned for community engagement opportunities throughout the fall and visit our Redistricting – Fall 2024 webpage for updates. https://www.parkhill.k12.mo.us/about/redistricting

Tiffany Ridge is implementing Restorative Practices this school year. We are excited to be a part of the cohort 1 schools in Park Hill. Restorative Practices help strengthen relationships between individuals and build community among students, staff, and families. This year, we will be focusing on proactive circles. More information can be found HERE.

Call Box at Front Entrance: All schools in Park Hill have a Call Box at the locked Front Entrance Doors. Front entrance doors will be locked when school is in session. Office staff will ask for your name and the reason for your visit before the door is unlocked. Each time a parent or a family member visits Tiffany Ridge, a photo ID is required to check out a student or enter Tiffany RIdge beyond the school office area.

Student Check Out Process: Please be prepared to show a photo ID when picking up your child early from Tiffany Ridge. Students will not be allowed to leave with siblings or other family members unless the sibling or family member is listed on the child’s authorized pick-up list or verbal permission is granted by the parent by phone. A picture ID is required when picking up students.

Visiting Tiffany Ridge: Please be prepared to show a photo ID when visiting Tiffany Ridge during the school day or attending events during the school day, including class parties.

More information can be found in the Park Hill Parent and Student Handbook

As you probably know, teachers like candy and snacks! We have created a Tiffany Ridge Amazon Wish List with goodies that we can have on hand at meetings. We'd appreaciate any donations!

ALL students at Tiffany Ridge Elementary will receive a photo badge and lanyard which they will use each day to access their lunch account, check out library books, access print jobs and ride the bus. Students will be responsible for bringing their ID badge and lanyard to and from school each day. Students will wear badges all day. If a student is unable to find their badge, there will be a $5.00 replacement fee. Your help with this process is very much appreciated.

Mrs. Hoban and Mrs. Walsh, our reading interventionists, will be hosting a short informational session to present Title I information. This will be an online meeting on Wednesday, August 28 from 12:00-12:30pm. We look forward to seeing you there! Title I Annual Meeting Teams Link

Visitors: Visitors are welcome at Tiffany Ridge! Visits should be prearranged with the appropriate Tiffany Ridge Staff member at least one day in advance of the visit. All visitors must check in at the office, identify the purpose of the visit, and will receive an ID sticker to wear during the visit.

Lunch Visits: Parents are welcome to join their students for lunch at school. Lunch visitors must check in at the office. We have a designated area for students with lunch guests to accommodate space for visitors. Lunch visitors may only have lunch with their own children. Any visitors who are not listed as a contact for the student will require advanced permission from the student's parent or guardian. Please contact the office to schedule lunch visits with students.

Volunteers: We welcome all volunteers into our schools and classrooms, with prior arrangements made with Tiffany Ridge staff. All volunteers who work with our students or attend field trips need to complete background screening by Park Hill. Forms for the screening are available in the Tiffany Ridge office. Volunteers must check in at the office and wear an ID sticker.

Parents can purchase additional insurance protection for accidents that may occur during school classes and while students are away from school, at home, during weekends and vacation periods, including the summer months. For information regarding this optional coverage, visit www.kidguardinsurance.com for additional benefit and on-line enrollment information.

Families who think they qualify for the Free/Reduced Lunch Program will need to apply after August 1, 2024. This is a program you must reapply for each school year. If your child is eligible for free or reduced meal benefits, you can also receive additional benefits at Park Hill High School such as fee waivers, activity passes, free screenings and more.

Click HERE for more information.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our school social worker, Gayle Laney, 816-359-5747 or erikson-laneyg@parkhill.k12.mo.us.

If you need the application translated, please use this link. https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/translated-applications

Miles of Smiles, a program of LevelUp Kids, provides free dental care to children in the Northland who do not have access to oral health services. The dental care will be provided to students at TIFFANY RIDGE during the school day August 21 – September 9, 2024! All care is provided by a licensed dentist and assistants and all patients receive a comprehensive exam, cleaning and x-rays.

Please register your student NOW so that we can provide care at the beginning of school. We highly encourage online registration, which is quick, easy and convenient! You can register right from your phone!

• https://practisforms.com/milesofsmilesinc/forms/milesofsmilesinc-registration-form
• https://practisforms.com/milesofsmilesinc/forms/milesofsmilesinc-formulario-de-inscripcion
• https://levelupkidsinc.org/

Paper forms are also available. We will have hard copies at Back to School Night and will be sending forms home the first day of school…so keep an eye out!

Please contact Karen Schaff (816-359-6175) or Gayle Erickson-Laney (816-359-5747) if you have any questions or need help registering your student.

The PTA of the Park Hill School District runs a clothing center that provides free, gently used clothing and new socks and underwear to district students.

The PTA Clothing Center serves all Park Hill School District students from Kindergarten through 12th grade, and the PTA asks you to bring some proof that you are enrolled in a Park Hill school. This could be a student ID, bus pass, dated letter from a principal or social worker, class schedule or enrollment form.

Donations are welcome at the Clothing Center. Please make sure your donations are clean, in good condition and bagged in kitchen-sized bags that the volunteers can lift.

2024-2025 Park Hill PTA Clothing Center Shopping Dates

• September 3 & 17, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm
  
• October 1 & 15, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm

• November 5 & 19, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm

• December 3 & 17, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm

• January 7 & 21, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm
• February 4 & 18, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm
• March 4 & 18, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm
• April 1 & 15, 10am-12pm and 5pm-7pm
• May 6, 4pm-6pm

Website: Tiffany Ridge Website

Facebook: Tiffany Ridge Facebook

Email: TiffanyRidgeAdministrativeAssistants@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Address: 5301 NW Tiffany Springs Road, KCMO, MO, United States
Phone: (816) 359-4400