Hello Slate Ridge Families,

We had a fantastic four-day week with our wonderful Toucans! I'm excited to share that we celebrated our first Positive Office Referral winners who truly embody our RISE expectations. Our Student Ambassadors also brainstormed some great ideas on how to make our school community even better. I'm so proud of them all!

Looking forward to another great week ahead!

Warm regards,

Dr. Parlar

abdulkadir.parlar@reyn.org

Parents,

Our SRES school year is well underway!

Students are doing such a wonderful job meeting our RISE expectations (Respect. Integrity. Self-Control. Engagement). Please feel free to incorporate these expectations at home as well to support your child. If you have not already, be sure to sign up for Class Dojo with your child’s teacher in order to see what great things our child is doing each and every day.

Please be aware that our school doors open at 9:10 (your child is tardy at 9:20) and our dismissal process begins at 3:45-3:50. Teachers leave at 4:00. Please be sure to pick up your child by 4:00 if your child is a car rider. We appreciate your assistance as well as your patience as we continue to make dismissal more efficient.

We appreciate your continued support and teamwork as we work with your child to make it an amazing 24-25 school year.

Thank you!

• September 15- First Day of Hispanic Heritage Month
• September 26- Reynoldsburg Homecoming Parade

• September 23-27th: NASA Virtual STEM Career Fair Week

• September 26th: NASA Virtual STEM Career Day

Our SRES Student Ambassadors, made up of 3rd-5th graders, consistently model the positive behaviors in our "We R.I.S.E." matrix—responsibility, integrity, self-control, and engagement. Recently, we brainstormed together, and they came up with amazing ideas to make our school even better. I love working with them and am so proud of their dedication!

Our Positive Office Referral winners have earned their prizes and recognition by exemplifying the RISE expectations—showing responsibility, integrity, self-control, and engagement.

Slate Ridge Elementary School has started the implementing Project Lead the Way curriculum. We were approved for a PLTW grant for the next three years.

We started accepting several free STEM teaching resources (The PAST Foundation, Educational Service Center of Central Ohio, and Eastland-Fairfield) which will be implemented in the coming months.

Slate Ridge Innovation will be getting a class pet in the coming weeks! Mr. Kline will be teaching about proper classroom pet care and responsibility to all classes this upcoming week.

Upcoming Events:

September 23-27th: NASA Virtual STEM Career Fair Week

September 26th: NASA Virtual STEM Career Day

Mr. Kline, Innovation Coordinator

schyler.kline@reyn.org

AM Arrival 9:10-9:20am - Enter from Taylor Rd., pull through the car rider loop, and drop students along the sidewalk in the pickup/drop zone. Exit through the neighborhood. Students will enter the building through the back gym entrance. Students arriving after 9:20am will be marked tardy and must be signed in by a parent/guardian at the front office.

• Your child should exit the car from the passenger side, closest to the school. They should exit when you have moved up as far as possible to allow for 6-7 cars to drop at a time. Your student should be ready to exit the car when you get to that farthest spot possible.
• Please pull all the way up to the farthest point to drop off. If you are the lead car, this should be to the end of the sidewalk along the building. This allows 6-7 cars to drop off in the actual loop.
• Please do not pass any cars that are stopped in the lane. This is extremely unsafe and can put our students in danger. Please refer back to the first bullet point in this email as well in making sure your students are ready to exit the car so as not to hold up the line.
• Please be patient. We all want to provide the safest situation that we can.
• To ensure our students get to school safely, we have collaborated with the City of Reynoldsburg and the Reynoldsburg Police Department and have identified some traffic issues you may encounter during arrival and dismissal. Please note that the RPD might issue a citation if there are any violations. Parents speeding through the neighborhood (to the west of the building) to come in the back lot to drop kids off.
• Please be patient while we are training our students to get used to our arrival and dismissal procedure in the first couple of weeks. We appreciate your cooparetaion.
• We know that everyone wants to get their children to school safely and on time. Thank you for being a partner as we ensure a smooth drop-off and pick-up process.

Our Positive Behavioral Interventions & Support or PBIS, is instrumental in creating a positive and safe environment for our students to grow and learn our to be in our school community.

We value our staff and families using consistent language to encourage our students to grow and become the best person they can be.

Please contact your student's teacher if you have questions or are interested in learning more.

We’re always looking for families who would like to help with the PTO!

Please feel free to email SLATERIDGEELEMENTARYPTO@gmail.com to stay in the know, introduce yourself or connect again!

— with Slate Ridge Elementary.