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Weekly IMPACT Started! IMPACT is a fast pace circuit training course that builds student's locomotor skills, flexibility, endurance, and muscle strength. As music plays, Coach Jensen supports across the blacktop as teachers lead their classrooms through the IMPACT rotation twice a week for 20 minutes. Check out some pictures below!

Don't forget this coming week we are hosting Back-To-School Night on Thursday evening! The flyer with all the details is below, we hope to see you there!

Jones has partnered with Sing & Speak Spanish to offer families the opportunity to enroll their student in a fun language program as an after school extracurricular activity. Sing & Speak Spanish is now enrolling, check out the links below if you are interested.

• A glimpse into the Sing & Speak program...VIDEO
• More information about Sing & Speak Spanish HERE
• Registration and pricing information for 30 weeks of Sing & Speak Spanish HERE

We are thrilled to welcome Tiffani Barthelmes to the Jones team. As many of you know our previous clerk Ms. Ruth Bustamante took an extended leave of absence to care for a family member. As that leave has continued, we will now have consistency in our front office with Mrs. Barthelmes.

Mrs. Barthelmes will likely be the first face you see when entering the office or the first voice you hear when calling the school. She is here to support questions you may have, daily attendance, new student enrollment, records requests, Independent Study Contracts, and so much more. She can be reached by calling our Front Office at 619-605-8800 or emailing tbarthelmes@sandi.net.

School is critical to building a strong foundation for learning that will help your child succeed in middle school, high school and beyond. You cannot make up for too many absences with homework or take-home assignments and interactions between the teacher and peers cannot be replicated outside of the classroom. Help your child succeed by making sure they are in school every day!

The California Education Code (Article 6, Chapter 2, Part 27) requires that parents send their children to school. Attendance is the student’s and parent’s/guardian's responsibility and if a student is to be absent from school, there are three options for verifying the absence...

• Parent/guardians must call the office at (619-605-8800), come to the front office in person to report the absence, or fill out the Google Form (linked below). This form is conveniently listed on the main page of our Jones Elementary Website if you need it in the future.

As a school district our COIVD-19 health and safety guidelines continue to evolve. Here are the 2024-2025 updates. These guidelines and Contact Tracing will continue per Cal/OSHA requirements until February 3, 2025. If you have additional questions, please reach out to our Health Office.

Positive Cases:

• Employees and students may return to school when their symptoms are mild and improving, and no fever for 24 hours without fever reducing medications.
• Asymptomatic positive individuals may remain at school.
• Employees who return from work after a positive COVID test must mask for 10 days from when their symptoms started. Asymptomatic positive employees must mask for 10 days from when they tested positive.
• Masking for students after testing positive is optional and not required.

• Information on positive cases by school site can be found on the SDUSD COVID-19 Dashboard.

Close Contacts/Outbreaks:

• Student close contacts will no longer be collected or notified unless there is an outbreak.

• An outbreak is defined by at least three cases within a 7-day period among people who are linked in the same location, and are not known to be close contacts of each other in other cases.

Prevention:

• Masks are not required but are available at all school and district sites. They are available in the front office, health office, and all classrooms.

• The use of hand sanitizer and hand washing continues to be promoted to all students and staff.

• A combination of MERV-13 air filters in our HVAC units and portable Air Purifiers (HEPA filtration units) continue to be utilized across the campus.

Home Test Kits:

• COVID OTC test kits are available at all district site health offices. You can request a kit in person in our front office or call/email the health office and a kit can be sent home with your child.

• COVID tests are all home test kits only. Students can only test at home or by a parent.

August

29 - Back-To-School Night - 5:00 - 6:30 pm

30 - Leader in Me Back to School Morning Assembly - 7:50 am Dolphin Mural (Families Welcome!)

September

2 - No School - Labor Day

4 - PTA Round Table Pizza Fundraiser: Tierrasanta - 11 am - 8 pm

6 - PTA Cup of Collaboration: Auditorium - &:45 - 8:15 am

6 - PTA Kona Ice

13 - PTA Family Bike Rodeo - 5:30 - 7:30 pm

27 - School Picture Day

27 - Spotlight Leadership Assembly Habit #1 (All families are welcome, specific invitations will be sent home with those students who are being recognized.)

October

3 - Extra Minimum Day: Intervention Conferences

4 - No School: Non-Instructional Day

17 - California Shake-Out

25 - Spotlight Leadership Assembly Habit #2

25 - Fall Festival

Breakfast is served every morning! Students can enter the cafe door between 7:35 am -7:40 am, pick their breakfast selection and eat at our cafe tables. It is a short window, so in order to ensure enough time for your child to eat, make sure they arrive between 7:35 - 7:40 am.

Here is a link to the San Diego Unified Food Services Website where you can find allergy and nutritional information on foods served at schools. Foods not found on our regular school site menu will be listed individually under the "Alternate Menu Items" section.

If you ever have general questions about the food services at school sites you can reach out to foodandnutritionservices@sandi.net. To connect directly with the Jones Cafe Manager you can email jonecafe@sandi.net (yes, that email is correct, there is no "s").

San Diego Unified is dedicated to fostering a vibrant, informed, and engaged community through the power of education and dialogue. To help our students to be collaborative communicators, socially-aware agents of change, and critically-thinking digital citizens, our nonpartisan SD Unified for Democracy project offers resources to develop skills to engage in civil discourse, identify bias and credibility, debate and maintain a focus on issues, and repair harm that arises from political rhetoric.

The link below offers resources and tools adults can use to engage with and learn alongside children and teens during the election cycle and beyond.

Our mission is to ensure ALL students meet or exceed grade level expectations through rigorous, high-quality, standards based instruction in a safe, nurturing, collaborative learning environment where all students are preparing to be global citizens, college and career ready.

Check out our school website for PeachJar Flyers, Counseling Resources, Family Handbook, Staff Contact Lists, After School Programs, Enrollment Information and so much more!

Email: contact@sandi.net
Website: https://jones.sandiegounified.org/
Location: 2751 Greyling Drive, San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: (619) 605-8800
Facebook: facebook.com/JonesElementary
Instagram: @jonesdolphins

Our Parent Teacher Association works with Jones Elementary to provide programs and support to benefit the students, their families, teachers, school administration and the community. Run entirely by volunteers, the PTA raises money to support enrichment programs, program instructors, educational assemblies and field trips, family events, and special classroom supplies.

As always, we need your membership, support and ability to volunteer. You can become a member using Totem, a respected membership management service. Please contact us with other thoughts on how we are doing, and your ideas on how you can become involved. We look forward to hearing from you.

Email: jonesdolphinspta@gmail.com
Website: https://jpjonespta.org/
Location: 2751 Greyling Drive, San Diego, CA, USA
Phone: (619)605-8800
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonesPTA/