Roadrunner Weekly

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Hello Roadrunner Families!

Welcome to our first, official weekly newsletter! This is intended to be a one stop shop for all of the school-wide information you will need to ensure your student has a great year. Be sure to check it out each week for information on school events, what we're learning as a school, and more!

As you prepare for the school year, consider creating a morning routine for your students starting now. Elementary age students can be responsible for more than we give them credit for when they have the right support. Even students in our TK classes can be responsible for things like laying their clothes out the night before, making sure their shoes and backpack are by the door for the next day, and double checking that they have their supplies for learning. A visual checklist like the ones below can help students take responsibility to help everyone get to school on time. We can't wait to see your Roadrunner on August 15th!

Class lists will be posted outside the front office at four in the afternoon on August ninth. Our teachers work hard each year to carefully consider the needs of each student to ensure that they are grouped for success. For this reason, requests for teacher changes will not be considered during the first fifteen days of the school year. If a class change is desired after the first fifteen days, a parent will need to meet with the teacher and principal to discuss the desire for the reason for the change and the availability of space in other classrooms.

Our office will reopen this Tuesday, August 6th and will be open daily from 7:30am-4:00pm. Registration is still open for students in all grade levels, so if you know anyone who still needs to register their students, we hope you will send them our way so we can help!

Moving forward, our weekly newsletters will be released each Sunday evening at 7:00pm. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, as they help guide the information I put in my newsletters!

Have a great week, Roadrunners!

Lyndsay Reynolds

Proud Principal

First Street School

School: 916 645-6330

Call/Text: 916 409-6808

lreynolds@wpusd.org

August 6th - First Street School Office Opens

August 14th - Kindergarten Meet the Teacher, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Kinder Classrooms

August 14th - No Cost Live Scan Event, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Cafeteria

August 15th - First Day of School

August 16th - First Street Spirit Wear Day!

August 16th - Coffee Chat with Ms. Reynolds, 9:00am-10:00am, Cafeteria

August 22nd - Back to School Night, 5:00pm-7:00pm

August 23rd - First Street Spirit Wear Day!

August 30th - First Street Spirit Wear Day!

September 2nd - No School, Labor Day

September 4th - PTO Meeting, 6:00pm, Library

September 6th - College Wear Spirit Day!

September 12th - Coffee Chat with Ms. Reynolds, 8:15am-9:15am, Cafeteria

September 13th - BEEP Store for Students!

September 13th - First Street Spirit Wear Day!

September 20th - First Street Spirit Wear Day!

September 24th - Fall Picture Day

September 26th - Family Science Night, 5:00pm-7:00pm, Cafeteria

September 27th - First Street Spirit Wear Day!

If you have an incoming TK or Kinder student, we would like to invite you and your student to a Meet the Teacher event on August 14th from 4:00pm-5:00pm.

This event will provide an opportunity for your student to see their classroom and meet their teacher before the school year starts, which is helpful and comforting for many students!

While you are on campus that evening, be sure to stop by our no-cost Live Scan event so that you are ready to volunteer at our school if the opportunity arises! We hope you will be able to join us!

Join us on August 14th anytime between 4:00pm-6:00pm to take advantage of our no-cost Live Scan event. Our mobile Live Scan vendor will be on site completing this important step in our volunteer process at no cost to you!

What to bring:

• Your government ID (ID card, drivers license, passport)

Please note: once you have been Live Scanned in our district, your Live Scan remains valid until your youngest student graduates from high school! If you have already been Live Scanned with us, you do not need to do it again!

Can't remember if you have done a Live Scan with us? Feel free to call our office and we can look it up for you!

We are excited to welcome your students back on August 15th!

Our TK and Kinder classes begin promptly at 8:00am and our 1st-5th grade classes start at 8:15am. We will be focused this year on celebrating school attendance, so please be sure to have your student at school on time to start the year off with success!

We look forward to seeing your Roadrunner bright and early on August 15th!

Join us August 16th from 9:00am-10:00am for our first Coffee Chat of the year! I'm excited to see you and chat about your summer, your hopes and dreams for your students this year, and to answer any questions you might have about the school year! We hope to see you there!

For those of you who are new to our school, or just new to Coffee Chats, these events are an open forum opportunity to share ideas, get to know each other, and make our school better together as a team. We have seen wonderful changes on our campus as a result of our collaborative Coffee Chats! I hope you will join us this year!

Coffee chats will be held monthly on Thursdays from 8:15am-9:15am, all families are welcome! Spanish translation will be available at all Coffee Chats!

Mark your calendars!

This year's Back to School Night event will be on August 22nd from 5:00pm-7:00pm. This is an important evening of information that will help you navigate the school year smoothly. From site-wide information from the principal, to classroom specific information from your students' teacher - it is a night you will not want to miss!

Teachers will hold two sessions, each session will be the same so that families with multiple students can visit more than one teacher.

Please note that this is an informational night for parents only, so please make arrangements for childcare ahead of time.

Schedule:

5:00pm-6:00pm - Principal's Message, Volunteer Sign Ups, Cafeteria

6:00pm-6:25pm - Session 1, Classrooms

6:30pm-6:55pm - Session 2, Classrooms

7:00 - End of Event

Registration for the 2024-2025 school year is still open! Please spread the word to anyone you know who has a new student, an incoming TK student, or an incoming Kinder student. They can find the link to register here: https://www.wpusd.org/in-our-schools/enrollment/new-student-registration/next-year-2024-2025

If your student currently attends First Street School on an intra-district transfer, you will need to request to have their intra-district transfer renewed each year. This process will open on January 19th. The link to submit your intra-district transfer can be found here: https://www.wpusd.org/in-our-schools/enrollment/transfers/intra-district-transfers

Students who currently attend First Street School and live in the First Street School boundaries do not need to do anything with registration. GATE students also do not need to submit an intra-district transfer as their enrollment rolls forward year over year at First Street School.

This year, we will be offering a Student Chromebook Service Plan for families to purchase to cover basic repair or replacement of the student's Chromebook for the year. Please see the information below to decide if this service plan is right for you and your student. To register your student for this plan, complete the form at the bottom of the page linked here:

https://www.wpusd.org/departments/administrative-services/it/chromebook-service-plan

Service Plan Option

• A District Chromebook service plan is available for $40 per year.
• Protection plan is effective from the First Date of Registration to June 30 of each year. It will not cover damage prior to the purchase date.
• Plans purchased at any time during the school year will terminate June 30 of that school year.
• Plans purchased during the year will not be prorated.
• There are no refunds for students who leave the district before the effective end date of the current school year’s service plan (June 30 of that school year).
• Each student must register their Chromebook device. There is no multi-device family plan.

Repair/Replacement Plan Coverage Fees

• 1st covered repair/replacement - $0
• 2nd covered repair/replacement - $30
• 3ʳᵈ covered repair/replacement - $40
• After 3 repairs and/or replacements in one school year the parent/guardian is responsible for full price for all repairs or replacement. See charges HERE.

Covered Incidentals

1. Accidental damage to frame, cracked screens, drops, liquid spills, submersion. (See repair coverage fees above). All incidents will be evaluated for deliberate abuse/neglect.
2. Accidental damage to keyboard / trackpad.(See repair coverage fees above). All incidents will be evaluated for deliberate abuse or neglect.
3. Theft, burglary, robbery, home event (with official police report) - ONE PER YEAR. Any subsequent incidents are treated as neglect and incur full charges for repair or replacement.
4. Vandalism, must submit an official police report or school administrator non-student incident report. Any subsequent incidents are treated as neglect and incur full charges for repair or replacement.
5. Mechanical failures, determined by IT staff, are covered even if not under a manufacturer’s warranty. Does not count against Plan.

Non Covered Incidents

All incidents below will be subject to full charges as listed HERE

1. Loss of accessories, software or data, including power supply.
2. Intentional acts of damage, neglect/abuse as determined by school staff or manufacturer.
3. Corrosion, rust, or cosmetic damage.
4. Unexplained loss, mysterious disappearance or law enforcement seizure
5. Devices not returned when exiting the District, or upon promotion/graduation
6. Tampering with or any unauthorized attempts to repair the device, install software or remove the device from the WPUSD managed domain. (Issues of this type will be referred to site administration for violation of the Student Acceptable Use Agreement

Students who do not participate in the service plan program will be charged the total cost of repairs, not to exceed the replacement value of the device as listed on the District Issued Technology Device Agreement.

Repair/Replacement Fees - Not Enrolled in Chromebook Service Plan:

• Chromebook Replacement (non-returned) - $350*
• Chromebook Replacement (returned - non-repairable or non-functioning) - $200
  
• Chromebook Repair:
  • Cracked, Broken or Non-Functioning Screen - $ 80
  • Missing Keys on Keyboard - $25
  • Cracked Frame – if non-repairable may be charge $200
  • Non-functioning headset adapter -$200

Failure to return the District technology device will result in full replacement charge noted above and billed to the parent of the student and placed on student fee account until paid in full.

*Non-returned Chromebook reported as stolen must provide a police report showing Chromebook listed as item stolen to have fee waived.

As an AVID school, we are proud to be able to provide school supplies for all of our students. Many students choose to bring a backpack of their own, but if your student will need a backpack for this school year, please come into our office anytime between 7:30am - 4:00pm starting August 6th, or reach out to our family liaison, Rebeca Sanchez Rodrigo at rsanchezrodrigo@wpusd.org.

Live Scan is an ink-less electronic fingerprinting that scans your fingerprints directly into the computer to determine who a person is so that a background check can be done. This background check allows us to ensure that everyone working on our campus is free from a history that might be unsafe for our students. It is one of the ways we keep our students safe!

How does it work?

• When you arrive at our no-cost Live Scan event, you will fill out our Live Scan form - this form is unique to our district, so you don't have to prepare anything ahead of time.
• You will then have your identity verified by the vendor using your government issued identification (ID card, drivers license, passport).
• They will then obtain your fingerprints through an inkless process.

If I was Live Scanned for my job, do I still need to have it done with you?

Unfortunately, each entity that requires Live Scan is required to obtain it's own individual scan, so you will need a Live Scan through our district to participate in school events.

If I was Live Scanned at another school in the district, do I still need to have it done with you?

Great news! If you have done a Live Scan for any school in the Western Placer Unified School district, your Live Scan is valid until your youngest student graduates high school. There is no need to do it again!

If I was Live Scanned last year, do I need to do it again?

Great news! Your Live Scan is valid for the life of your student's education. As long as you are in Western Placer Unified School district, you will not need to complete another Live Scan.

How do I get a TB test?

A TB test is required along with a Live Scan in order to participate in school events during the school day. Your TB test is valid for four years and can be obtained in the following ways:

• Make an appointment with your doctor, OR
• Visit a TB Test center, typically an urgent care center (a list of TB test sites can be obtained through our office)

Still have questions? Give our office a call at 916-645-6330 to get help!

As we plan for the school year, we continue to focus on the safety of students as our top priority. In order to keep students safe at drop-off and pick- up, please note the following important information:

• Student supervision on campus begins at 7:30am in the cafeteria, please arrange to have your student at school no earlier than 7:30am.
• All students will report to the cafeteria between 7:30am-7:55am, please remind your student to go straight to the cafeteria when they arrive at school.
• Students will be released to the playground at 7:55am and the front gates will open at this time.
• After the first two days of school, 1st-5th grade parents will be asked to say goodbye to their student at the gate.
• When dropping students off, please be sure to pull up to the curb instead of letting students out in the driving lane.
• When picking students up, please be sure to pull all the way up to the white curb and close the gap to allow for other cars to pull in behind you.
• Please do not ask your student to run between cars into the street to get in your car in the middle of the drive lane at pick up.
• Please use the crosswalks to cross the street as running across the street teaches our students unsafe habits.
• Please be respectful and courteous to our crossing guard staff, their priority is your students' safety.
• If you are getting out of your car to drop off your student, please park on the street or in a designated parking spot to avoid blocking the drop-off/pick-up lane.
• Consider parking in the church parking lot and walking over to the campus to avoid traffic.
• Consider walking to and from school! It's great for your health, the environment, and it keeps our drop-off and pick-up times less populated with cars!

We appreciate your partnership in keeping our students safe this school year!

Did you know PTO (CHAMPS) has a Facebook group? Join our group to share updates about ways to get involved with & support school happenings from the parents’ perspective.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/548144263687673/?ref=share_group_link

Box Tops for Education

Box Tops collection continues digitally all year with the Box Tops app. First Street School gets $0.10 for each Box Top scanned for our school. While that isn't much on its own, the whole school community collecting them from Participating Products throughout the year can earn enough to pay for things like software memberships, supplies for classroom activities, or other low cost school support.

• Earn Box Tops for participating products by scanning receipts with the Box Tops app.
• When you shop online or use delivery services, you can earn Box Tops by forwarding your e-receipt to receipts@boxtops4education.com or by uploading it with the Box Tops app. Learn more about submitting e-receipts here.

Student Quarantine:

Effective this year, California Department of Public Health has replaced most of the requirements about student quarantine with recommendations. The one remaining requirement is that students who are ill must be fever-free for at least 24 hours without the aide of fever-reducing medications before they are able to return to school. Please see the documents below for more detailed information.

CDPH Memo

WPUSD FAQ Document

Please feel free to contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns you might have, and follow us on social media!

Email: lreynolds@wpusd.org

Website: https://fses.wpusd.org

Location: 1400 1st Street, Lincoln, CA, USA

Phone: 916-645-6330

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FirstStreetElementary

Twitter: @WPUSD