GREGORY HILL NEWSLETTER

Hello Parents, Families, and Community Members,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It will be a quick few weeks at Gregory Hill before winter break. We have a few things planned to celebrate the end of the first semester. We would like to invite all families to join us for our Winter Program on December 20th.

During October we were able to reward 37 students for having perfect attendance. We are hoping to celebrate more students next month.

This time of year, can be stressful for families. Keep in mind the greatest gift we can give children is our undivided attention. Roll a snowball, play pretend, schedule 15 to 20 minutes a day to play with your child.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday season.

Jennifer Keyes

ELC Principal

12/2 & 12/16

school gets out at 1:30PM

Santa is very busy this time of year, so he’ll be making a quick drive-by on Dec 13th in a fire truck to wave at students. However, there are other opportunities to visit Santa with your family see below:

· Cabela’s in Thornton, opens Nov. 3r

· Stata at Bass Pro Shop, opens Nov 3rd

· Colorado Mills, opens Nov 15th

· Flatiron Crossing, opens Nov 7th

· Orchard Town Center, opens Nov 23rd

Help us celebrate winter with spirit week.

Monday-Pajama Day

Tuesday-Crayon Day (wear your favorite color head to toe)

Wednesday-Disney Day

Thursday- Sports team Day

Friday-Dress to Impress (winter program)

Please join us on December 20th in the gym for the ELC Winter Celebration. Your child will be demonstrating a song that they have learned this year. We will also celebrate the season with our families as we enjoy cookies and milk in the classroom.

For classrooms 3, 4, 9, 13, 14 families may join us at 11am.

For classrooms 5, 7, 11, 12 families may join us at 12pm.

Dec 23rd- Jan 6th

Students return on Jan 7th.

It is that time of year when we need to start thinking about registering for the 2025-2026 school year. Registration for WPS will open on Wednesday, Dec 11th.

Please look for parent portal information in homework folders on Friday, December 6th. Families will need to use their parent portal to register for next year, all students will need to complete reregistration.

1. If you have a student who will be 5 by October 1st, 2025, then they are of age to attend Kindergarten in Westminster Public Schools. At this point, you should be contacting your child’s home school and making sure they know you will be registering your student.

2. If your child will be returning to preschool, you will need to reregister with WPS using your parent portal and complete a UPK (universal preschool) application. Returning students with a complete registration for next school year will get preference over new students.

Registration will not be finalized until both the district’s registration and UPK application have been completed.

Classrooms have started to visit the school’s library once a week to check out a book. Parents should return both the book and the bag so students can receive a new book each week. This is a great way to get children excited about reading and a good way to get them used to being responsible and returning the book weekly.

As the weather starts to get cooler and we get more snow the district may call a delayed start. If a delated start is announced, classrooms will have a two-hour delay and will begin at 10:10.

1. Please refrain from using cell phones in the parking lot.
2. Please drive slowly in the parking lot.
3. Please hold your children’s hands while in the parking lot.
4. All people (parents, students, visitors) coming and going from school must cross the parking lot at the crosswalks.
5. All children must be in car seats and buckled into seat belts before leaving the parking lot. This is a state law and is not optional. Please do not allow them to stand up in the back seat of cars or standing with their heads out the windows.
6. Please be respectful of our neighbors. We ask that you please refrain from turning around in their driveways and parking in private property, places that would block any driveways or that are not marked as parking places.
7. Please drive carefully and slowly while in the neighborhood.
8. There are assigned handicapped parking spots are in the parking lot, these are for cars that have handicapped plates or decals only. Please observe this parking rule. You can be ticketed for parking in handicapped spots without a handicapped decal or placard.

Kids First Health Care here at Gregory Hill offers well child care including physicals, call to make an appointment at (303) 428-4384. We accept Medicaid, CHP+, most private insurances, and uninsured patients.

Although some absences are unavoidable, it is important that students attend school as often as possible. Preschool is a great time to start building a habit of good attendance. Please note that we are allowing days for students to be absent for illness and do not want families to send children to school sick. Students are asked to stay home if they are experiencing any cold/flu like symptoms.

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