What's Happening at Midtown!

Midtown Family,

Happy Mother's Day to all of our Wildcat mothers and guardians!

The iReady testing window continues this week. Please encourage your child to do their very best!

My name is Savannah Demeester and I have the honor of being the principal at Midtown Elementary. I did want to make you aware that this newsletter is shared through a no reply platform. Please feel free to email me directly if you ever have any questions. My email address is sademeester@madisoncity.k12.al.us.

Please take a minute to fill out our Midtown Parent Survey. This helps inform our summer planning for next year. Thank you!

Click here to fill out the Midtown Parent Survey

5th Grade Parents and Guardians,

We are thrilled to celebrate our 5th grade students with you. Each child will be given two tickets to use during Awards Day. We can only accommodate two guests per child. There will be a virtual option as well.

Please click the attachment below.

Information attached below.

Exciting news! Parents may come in to have lunch with their child starting this week. You MUST sign up on the sign up genius to attend. Please sign up to make sure there is enough space for you to attend. Please only sign up once per nine weeks in an effort to give all families an opportunity. Please also understand this is only for lunch. Please email your child's teacher for exact lunch times as each grade level is staggered. Please notice kindergarten is now included! Please sign in the front office, meet your child in the cafeteria, and then exit out the front office after lunch. Click here to sign up. Please email Mrs. Demeester if you have any questions about this. Thank you!

Please click here when you want to brag on a staff member or student! Mrs. Demeester will share these on the morning announcements. We are always looking for good character at Midtown!

Join Coach Chad McGehee and Coach Amy McGehee for “Camp Fun” this June at Horizon. It will be a Fun camp with various activities. Including daily life inspirations! We will host 3 sessions June 9-13 16-19 23-26. 7:30am check in, 8-11am camp! Ages will be rising 2nd grade to rising 5th graders! It will be a blast! We will cap the sessions at 60 so space is limited.

Coach Chad McGehee was most recently the Head Football Coach at James Clemens High School. He is currently teaching PE at Horizon Elementary. Amy McGehee has taught in Madison City for four years. She is now an adapted PE teacher for Madison City Schools. Both Chad and Amy are Certified PE teachers and CPR certified. They have over 25 years each of experience in Education and FUN!

Attached is the flyer which you can click the link or use the QR code to register.

Camp Fun Flyer Click Here

May 19th: E-Learning Day

May 20th: Half Day for Students and 5th Grade Awards Day-11:30am Dismissal

May 21st: Half Day and Last Day for Students-11:30am Dismissal

All students are enjoying their specials classes. Please click here to view their team newsletter! These classes include the following:

Art: Mr. Newquist

Spanish: Senora Clemons

STEM: Mrs. Corley

Music: Mrs. Francis

Please ask your child about these wonderful offerings!

Safety is our number one prioirty at Midtown. We are thrilled to share that we will be staffed with an SRO and two security guards this year.

After morning carline ends, there will only be one entrance and exit option at Midtown. This will be by the guard shack. Upon entry, the security guard will ask your need to be on campus.

We lock our playground on evenings and weekends. Unfortunately, there has previously been damage to our playground. Our priority is to keep our playground and grounds safe and functioning well for our students.

We feel encouraged and thankful for these many efforts to keep Midtown as safe as possible.

Midtown Elementary School is very thrilled to partner with Service Dogs of Alabama and the Alabama State Department of Education by having a trained facility dog at Midtown. Daryl is our four legged best friend. Daryl is a Labradoodle!

Uses of a facility dog at Midtown Elementary

• Helps reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression
• Helps process grief and loss
• Helps students open up about issues impacting them emotionally/academically
• Helps students with social communication difficulties to improve social skills
• Helps students with sensory integration needs to improve language production and social interaction
• Helps reluctant readers improve fluency
• Helps make the school a more welcoming and inviting place
• Helps increase overall staff and and student morale and positive connection to school

Please click here to fill out the Facility Dog Opt Out Form. This is only if you do not want your child to participate with Daryl.

Our Midtown PTA is phenomenal and a wonderful way to connect to our school! Please click here to join. We would love for as many families as possible to join!

Please view the school year calendar attached below. Please plan vacation plans during the provided breaks throughout the school year. It is extremely important that your child is in school as much as possible. Please view our Midtown Attendance Procedures below. Thank you for your help with this as it is vital to your child's education!

If you are interested in chaperoning field trips and some additional supervising volunteer opportunities, a background check will be required. Please click here to access the link. It takes time to process and needs to be renewed yearly. I would encourage you to complete this as soon as possible!

• Morning car line is from 7:10-7:40. Class begins at 7:40, so please arrive no later than 7:35. Please have your child sit on the right side of the vehicle and be ready to exit the vehicle as soon as the cars stop within the loop. If the student is able to get out of the vehicle once the cars are stopped and the staff gives the signal, we would like to highly encourage them to do so. Please drive with purpose as the staff is waving you forward. In the morning carline, please make sure your car is in PARK when stopped. This is VERY important for student safety. Thank you for your help!
• Please only enter for carline from Landers or Plaza. Car line entry is at the guard shack directly off of Coefer Blvd. All cars entering the car line should be turning right off of Coefer or proceeding straight across from Landers. There should be no left turns into the car line from Coefer. Please review the diagram below.
• The Kroger parking lot or front office parking lot are not approved drop off locations for students. This becomes a safety concern as staff are only expecting students to be bus riders, walkers, or be dropped off through the carline. We will have staff monitoring this as we want to make sure all students are safe. Thank you for your help!
  
• Afternoon Car line will begin around 2:45pm. Please follow the staff directions and do not switch lanes once directed. This will only result in longer wait times for all vehicles. The students are input into a system and there is a purpose for the lane you are directed in.
• Any pick up that does not have a carline number will be sent to the front office. Thank you for your understanding!

Mr. Holmes previously shared GPS tracking information. Please check your email for this information. This email came from Mrs. Pat Baldwin. The Edulog APP is the yellow one. The Midtown code is: 09858039. Please remember if your app is not working properly to restart it.

• Please make sure you live in the neighborhoods surrounding the school such as Cottonwood or Park Meadow to be a walker. Please do not pick up from April Dawn Drive if you do not reside in Cottonwood.
• We would like to discourage any families that are using the Kroger parking lot as a drop off and/or pick up. The crossing guard is allowing the students to cross Wall Triana, therefore we do not feel this Kroger option is safe. Thank you for your understanding of this.
  
• The crossing guard will only be at Wall Triana and Coefer until 7:40am. If you choose to walk your child, we wanted to make sure you were aware of this.

• Park Meadow Walkers: In the afternoon, please be prepared to meet your child on the sidewalk where the crossing guard is located at the intersection of Wall Triana and Coefer.

• April Dawn/Cottonwood Walkers: In the afternoon, please be prepared to meet your child by the gate closest to the neighborhood near carline.

We love celebrating our students at Midtown!

We strongly encourage one of these options to best celebrate your child:

• A nonedible treat such as a bouncy ball, slinky, sticker.
• A store bought prepackaged treat, not to include cupcakes.
• A popsicle if allowable by your child's teacher.

Unfortunately, we will not allow or suggest cupcakes to celebrate your child's birthday. Please also know the above options are completely optional and absolutely not required. Thank you for your understanding!

Our district lunch system is known as TITAN. LINQ Connect is our new family portal for online payments, free/reduced applications, and menus.

Please Click Here to Create Your LINQ Connect Account for Your Child

Student Breakfast Cost: $1.75

Student Lunch Cost: $2.75

Email: webmaster-midtown@madisoncity.k12.al.us
Website: https://www.madisoncity.k12.al.us/midtown
Location: 140 Coefer Blvd, Madison, AL, USA
Phone: 256-837-1189
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MidtownElementarySchool
Twitter: @midtownelem