Fox Hill Elementary Family Update

Welcome Fox Hill Families to the 2024-2025 school year!

Mrs. Beard

Principal

Great things happen every day at Fox Hill! Follow our social media accounts to take a peek into school and classrooms.

• Twitter: @FoxHillElem
• Fox Hill Facebook Page

Mrs. Beard

Principal

Elementary Parent-Teacher Conferences took place earlier in September. Thank you to all of the parents and caregivers who connected with your child’s teacher. We want to work in partnership with you to ensure the best school year possible for every student. It’s not too late to meet! If you were not able to meet with the teacher this week, you can still schedule an in-person meeting or even just a phone call to discuss current progress and upcoming academic and school events.

Two important updates that parents should be informed about about are:

1. New Standards-Based Report Card for kindergarten thru second grade

2. LEARN Updates for grades three thru five.

**Please click the links to read more!

Our CANDY MONSTER is hungry for candy, prize trinkets and snack cakes that will be distributed at the Fall Festival. Please consider donating/dropping these items off at Fox Hill.

We are also looking for community partners to help with our candy drive this year. If you belong to an organization or work somewhere that might be interested in helping collect candy, prize trinkets and/or snack cakes for this year’s Fall Festival, please let us know at ptofoxhill@gmail.com

The PTO is looking for lighting to use during Fall Fest. The lights will be used to light-up the field for festival activities and games. Please email ptofoxhill@gmail.com if you know of a vendor that might donate or rent lighting.

Our Fox Hill Parent Compact and Parent involvement Policy is shared below. As a title 1 school, we receive federal funding to support the teaching and learning of all students. In order to ensure we are supporting all students, our staff of teachers and assistants are highly qualified, and we set forth goals and objectives within our school improvement action plan to guide our work as a school based on the needs of our students. We are here to partner with you and your family for your student’s success. Please review/read this document that outlines how we will work together to support student success! Feel free to also share with your student.

In each of our Washington Township school libraries, items that are not returned within 60 days are automatically marked LOST. Each library sends out overdue notices to students/families in order to get items returned/renewed before a fine is assessed in Skyward. If students have these lost items, they are asked to return/renew them by October 18th. Fines will be forwarded to Skyward on October 21st.

The PTO would love your support this year! To volunteer or join our email list follow this link: https://forms.gle/UtRxbxTNrqdXhtwNA

Students can enter the school building at 7:20 am.

Students are tardy after 7:40 am

*If a student arrives after 7:40 am, a parent must walk the student to the front entrance of Fox Hill and the student can sign in at the front office to obtain a tardy pass.

School is dismissed at 2:25 pm

If you have a young child starting with us this year, it may be advantageous for you to write their first and last name on their backpack or folders to help staff and teachers quickly identify them. This helps school staff with very shy new students!

Visitors - Upon entering the building, all visitors must report to the office to sign in at the computer and get a visitor’s badge. A valid picture ID will be requested.

Classroom Visits - Visitors during the school day will be limited. Parents who would like to schedule a conference or meeting with their child’s teacher during the school day may do so by contacting the teacher and requesting an appointment. Visits to the classroom without school/teacher notification and approval are prohibited.

**There are NO visitors during student lunch periods.

Volunteers- Parents interested in volunteering (field trips, field day, classroom help, etc.) during the school year should review the MSDWT volunteer requirements. All individuals who volunteer in classrooms, at school events, or chaperone field trips have to complete and pass a criminal background check and view a bullying presentation prior to serving.

A hard copy of the background check form will be provided to interested parents at our Back to School Night/Parent Informational by your teacher or you can access it at the front office.

K-5 Handbook

Code of Conduct

If your student is a car rider:

*The Car Rider line starts at 7:20 am and will close at 7:35 am.

• Parents/Guardians dropping off after the car rider line has closed, must park in the front parking lot and an adult must walk his/her student across the crosswalk to the entrance of FH. If it is after 7:40 am, please plan to have your student enter the front doors for a tardy pass.

Cars should NOT enter the bus area during arrival and dismissal times!

Please DO NOT drive in or through the bus area during bus arrival and dismissal! Remember you are also in a school zone - an area with children. Please do not speed through any area on school grounds.

Car Rider Line:

*Please help us by making sure your student can exit and enter your car from the driver's side back seat, next to the curb.

Arrival 7:20-7:35am: Parents should follow the “U” shaped line up formation on the west side of the school building. Students will stay in the car and should have items ready to go (backpack, lunch bag, etc.). Students should WAIT for the FH staff member to release them from their car. When the adult signals, student(s) should exit their car and walk on the yellow line into the entry door and go directly to class.

**Students will enter through the 4th Grade Doors - Students should Follow Staff Direction as they walk into the doors!

Families dropping off after the car rider line has closed, must park in the front parking lot. Parents must walk their student to the foyer of FH to sign in.

Students are tardy after 7:40 am.

Dismissal-. Car Rider Dismissal will begin at 2:20 p.m. (Bus riders dismiss at 2:25pm.) Parents will line up in the same "U" shaped formation as the AM process. Watch for staff direction - We will line up 2 lanes of cars and merge the cars into one lane as you approach the school curb. FH staff members will call for students based on your car tag - Please make sure to have ID in case it needs to be checked. Each student will have a number that corresponds to the car tag number of the parent. Parents are expected to get out of car, if needed, and help their students get into the car. *If you have a car tag from last year, you can discard it.

• Should your student be absent for any reason, please call the attendance line at 317-259-5230 to report the absence. If a child’s absence is not called into the attendance line by 10:00 a.m., the child will be marked unexcused.

• If your student has a required appt during the school day, remember he or she can/should still attend school before and after the appointment. We would rather have a student come in tardy than miss a full day's instruction. Please provide a signed statement from the doctor, dentist, etc., upon the return to school in order for the office to code the missed time appropriately.

• Please notify your classroom teacher of dismissal changes in writing, or call the front office before 1pm with transportation changes.

• The front office does not dismiss car riders from the office area during school dismissal time, 2pm-2:25 pm. Please notify the front office of any last minute changes by 1pm and report to the car line if your child will be a car rider. (*We do understand that there may be unforeseen circumstances, emergencies, or appts that may result in a deviation from this process.)

• Early pick ups from school - before 2:15pm- are coded in our FH Skyward system as afternoon tardies.

• **The State of Indiana requires that we send letters of notification to the families of children with excessive tardies and/or absences. These letters will be sent on a regular basis.

Exciting News! The state has approved the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) English/Spanish for WTS for the 2024-2025 school year. CEP means that all students in grades K-8 are eligible to receive healthy breakfasts and lunches daily at NO CHARGE to families. K-8 students who wish to purchase extra and a la carte items must pay for these items separately. This can be done by setting up a MyPaymentsPlus account. See more information about MyPaymentsPlus below.

Washington Township Schools is proud to partner with STOPit Solutions to bring HELPme, a 24/7/365 mental health and safety monitoringplatform, into our schools. HELPme is replacing See Something Say Something, and is designed to provide invaluable assistance to our students, families,and staff. It offers a private and accessible way to access a wide array of resources and support. HELPme empowers students, parents, and staff to ask for and receive the help they need with dignity and privacy.

For more information about this tool, how to download the app, and video tutorials, please visit our HELPme website.

Life-Threatening Allergies – If your child has a life-threatening allergy or serious medical condition, you MUST report this to the nurse and meet with the nurse prior to your child starting school. You can call the office to schedule your appt with the nurse at 317-259-5371.

Medication – A parent or guardian must fill out a permission form for prescription (blue) and/or non-prescription (yellow) medication to be administered at school. All medication must be stored in the clinic and children MAY NOT transport medicine to and from school. It must be brought into the school by an adult.

*2024-2025 MSD Washington Township

*Fox Hill Elementary

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• ​www.msdwt.k12.in.us
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• Twitter: ​@msdwt

• Fox Hill Facebook Page

Website: https://fh.msdwt.k12.in.us/
Location: 802 Fox Hill Drive
Phone: 317-259-5371
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Twitter: @FoxHillElem