CUBS STAFF COMMUNICATION

Our mission at Collins, with the help of the community, is to foster a caring and enriching environment that enables all students to grow academically and socially, to reach their individual potential as they become lifelong learners.

SCHOOL HOURS: 8:25-3:15 DAILY

HALF-DAY HOURS: 8:25-11:29

BREAKFAST OPENS @ 8:10-8:25

email: mailto:officecollins@uticak12.org

website: https://collins.uticak12.org

Location: 12900 Grand Haven, Sterling Heights, MI 48312

Phone: 586-797-4200

Attendance Line: 586-797-4299 (24 hours)

COLLINS Facebook: www.facebook.com/CollinsCubs

PTO Facebook: www.facebook.com/BruceCollinsPTO

DECEMBER DATES:

16: WEAR GREEN-Staff Spirit Wear/ Meg bakes treats

17: WEAR Holiday Leggins or Pants -Meg holiday gifts for staff distributed

18: WEAR Collins Spirit Wear and Holiday Hair--Guess the song (Prizes for staff)

18: Moonbeams for Sweet dreams

19: Santa Hat or Earrings- PAWTASTIC PIZZA (Meg and PTO)

19: PAWS Celebration

20: WEAR a HOLIDAY SHIRT!

20: HALF-DAY OF SCHOOL/PM SPECIALS (CORRECTION)

23-Jan. 3, 2025: NO SCHOOL for K-12 Students, Winter Break

JANUARY DATES:

1-3: WINTER BREAK

6: WELCOME BACK! First day back after Winter Break.

8: MEG @ PRINCIPAL MEETING 1-4

20: NO SCHOOL MLK JR. HOLIDAY OBSERVED

23: MEG @ PRINCIPAL MEETING 8:30-12

FEBRUARY DATES

17-21: NO SCHOOL MID-WINTER BREAK

Happy LAST WEEK!!

We made it to the last week of school before a much deserved and earned holiday break. I sincerely wish you and yours a restful vacation ahead. As we head towards the last week together, I wanted to take the time to thank you for service, dedication, and commitment to our CUBS. I see each of you spending money out of your own pocket, spending additional time here at school to make your lessons just right, and providing families with celebrations of learning, routinely. Thank you for your continued support for our entire community.

WEEK AHEAD AT-A-GLANCE

• NWEA TESTING WINDOW CONTINUES
• December 18th: 6th Graders Moonbeams for Sweet Dreams
• December 19th: PAWS Celebration
• December 20: HALF-DAY and PM SPECIALS
• STAFF SPIRT WEEK (See below)
• Staff Celebration (Meghan See BELOW)

Wishing you the best holiday break and may you find time to decompress, relax, and make memories with your family.

Happy Holidays and Happy NEW YEAR!

Warm regards,

Meghan

Let's Dress Down for the Last Week Together!

Let' enjoy the underground spirt week and see how long it takes for our students to catch on to the fun.

Be sure to get comfortable this week and enjoy the time together.

MONDAY: WEAR GREEN (Meg provides treats in lounge)

TUESDAY Holiday Leggings/Holiday Pants (Staff Gifts Distributed)

WEDNESDAY: Collins Spirit Wear and Holiday Hair (Guess the Song-PRIZES)

THURSDAY: Santa Hats or Earrings or both! (Paw-Tastic Pizza Lunch Mrs. C. and PTO)

FRIDAY: Holiday Shirt-DISMISSAL @ 11:29

CONGRATULATIONS!

There were too many doors to choose from, so we involved the help of the community on FB. Take a look at the amazing participation. All winners will be notified and little prizes will be given. Thank you for helping us to decorate the hallways to read!!

COLLINS CLOSET:

Once again, we are excited to open our COLLINS CLOSET to our community members. If you have a student in need of a winter jacket, hats, gloves, etc., please let the office know. We can help the family to shop in our COLLINS CLOSET!!

LOOKING FOR DONATIONS:

If you would like to donate materials for the Collins Closet, please add them to our collection in the closet area attached to Conference Room 2.

The wonderful STUDENT COUNCIL will once again be collecting Canned Food for the Kiwanis Club. This event will take place from November 25-26, and again when we return from the break from December 2-6th. Thank you Student Council!

Safety remains a priority for our school. Collins Elementary is once again providing training to our students on our safety protocols. The protocols identify actions that students may be asked to take in the event of a potential incident: hold, secure, lockdown, evacuate and shelter.

The training is provided through a short, animated video. In the video, the teacher – Mrs. Appleton – and her students walk through the different responses in a very relaxed and engaging way for younger children. The script was written by our staff.

The protocols will continue to be part of the training while practicing our regular school safety drills, such as fire drills, security drills, tornado drills, evacuation procedures, etc.

The video is available for you to review at this link: UCS School Safety: Standard Response Protocol - Elementary - YouTube If you have any questions, please contact our office.

THANK YOU to Jennifer Merrifield, Emily Taubitz, Ms. Wendy, Ms. Jennifer, and Mr. Mason for helping us to create a cute video for our PBIS stations!!!

The stations were a success and our first week of school together seemed to go smoothly. Thank you for continuing to enforce the following building-wide procedures. Having quiet voices and voices off when in the hallways are crucial for conducting a calm learning environment for all students involved:

1. HALLWAYS: Walking on the right side of the hallway, body-behind-body, hug ourselves or hands to our sides, and quiet voices.
2. CLASSROOM PASSES: Please have your students carry a pass of some sort when they are walking in the hallways. This allows us to know they have your permission to be out and about. If you need paper passes, please let me know and we can give you a generic one. Thank you.
3. OFFICE PASSES: Must have a pass completed by teacher to come to the office. These are used for helping us with behavior interventions and providing additional information if/when needed for families.
4. RETURN TO SCHOOL PASS: If students do not have a return to class pass, they most likely left without permission. Please contact the office in this event as we are human and may have forgotten. Thank you!
5. LUNCHROOM: Quiet voices while waiting in line for their hot lunch staying on the RIGHT SIDE OF THE HALLWAY. Please have students line up by COLD LUNCHERS in the front of your line, daily. This allows them to walk right into the lunch room and hot lunchers go to the right to line up.

• They must remain seated and raise hand for a bathroom pass.
• They must throw garbage away when tables dismissed.
• LUNCHES MUST BE PLACED IN LUNCH TUBS and please have a student helper come back after lunch to get their tubs. Thank you.

BEHAVIOR CONTRACT

• When returning back to the classroom, please have students work on the BEHAVIOR booklet.
• Please collect the PAWS tickets earned from each station.
• Please send review and send home the BEHAVIOR CONTRACT for the 2024-2025 school year. Any returned earn a PAWS ticket.
• Please share the video with students on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2024. This is a great time to sit together in a Restorative Circle and have a conversation about how THEY plan to show their PAWS and what to do if they are NOT showing their PAWS.

REFERRALS and COMMUNICATION

All of these are found in your BLUE binders (details on OPENING DAY). We have streamlined the behavior communication and office referral system. I have also included the parent handbook for you to review, include in your newsletters for families, and share at any time.

PAWS POSITIVE TICKETS and STUDENT SHOUTOUT NOMINATIONS

We will continue with the CARING CUB awards for classrooms to earn a FREE RECESS with Mrs. C.! In addition, we are looking to add STAFF and STUDENT SHOUTOUTS on morning announcements to celebrate student successes for PRINCIPAL PRIZES!! Each month, it will reset. Please use the button below and submit at any time students that might need a phone call home, special note, or a morning announcement shout-out!

ALL STAFF MEETINGS ARE TUESDAYS IN THE MEDIA CENTER @3:30-4:30

1. September 10: 3:30-5 (HEALTH and SAFETY TRAINING-Duzey and SSO Edwards
2. September 24- CANCELLED
3. October 8- School Improvement DATA DIGGING and GRADE LEVEL MEETING
4. November 19-School Improvement-Grade Level Goals Data Analysis
5. December 3-Data Digging Presentation Data Analysis
6. December 10th: DATA DIGGING PRESENTATION for MR. Monroe
7. January 14-Teacher Share-Outs
8. February 4-Continuous Improvement NWEA REVIEW and PLANNING DATA
9. March 4: MSTEP TRAINING PART 1
10. March 18: MSTEP TRAINING PART 2
11. April 8
12. April 29-GROUPINGS MEETING
13. May 13-GROUPSING MEETING
14. June 4

If you need to contact someone for help, please know that our Care Match site is always running. At anytime, students, staff, or families can submit an anonymous request to care through your district's custom link caresolace.com/utica.

FIELD TRIP REMINDERS:

No field trips on Count Day- October 2nd

Please see the updated rules and regulations for student travel, any paperwork moving forward should be on the document below. Two key changes to note-

"For elementary school day trips, a ratio of one adult to five (or less) students is recommended"

"The trip sponsor is responsible for ensuring that copies of medial forms are readily available. In addition, all required medication must be available and properly administered according to individual student health plans and Board of Education Policy 5325 – Administration of Medication."

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Principal of Collins Elementary

Email: collinsquestions@uticak12.org
Website: https://www.uticak12.org/Collins
Location: 12900 Grand Haven Drive, Sterling Heights, MI, USA
Phone: (586)797-4200
Facebook: facebook.com/collins