Slate Hill Newsletter
March 8, 2024
Lost & Found will be donated March 15th!
Our Lost & Found has lots and lots of items!
Please have your students go through the items before March 15th, as we will donate all unclaimed items at the end of the day on the 15th! Please stop by Slate Hill to check if your child's coat, lunchbox, hats or gloves are there. PLEASE LABEL your child's items with their first and last name.
PTA Corner
- Our PTA STRAFFLE (Staff Raffle) Fundraising event will be from March 11th-March 15th. Please look for fliers on how you can support our PTA and purchase raffle tickets for your child to win fun items from our Slate Hill staff!
- We enjoyed seeing all the families enjoying Chipotle at our Slate Hill PTA restaurant night on March 6th! Thank you for your support!
- Please join us for our next PTA Meeting on March 14th in the Slate Hill Library at 7:00pm!
- Scholarships for Seniors: TWHS Local scholarships are now posted on the TWHS website under the School Counseling tab. You can also click the link below to access our local scholarship page: https://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/Page/3292
Most scholarship application deadlines are Wednesday, April 3rd.
- We hope that you will join our PTA this year and support great things that we are doing for our Slate Hill Stars! Please go to our PTA website and sign up today!
Yearbook Sale through March 11th!
Slate Hill yearbooks cost $21 and will be on sale December 1st - March 11th. Slate Hill families can order yearbooks online by going to www.ripchostudio.com and entering the password ybshill24 in the 'Online Password' section.
The form attached below provides additional ordering details as well!
Panorama SEL Survey
Dear Slate Hill Families,
We thank you and your family for being our valued partners as we work together to educate the children in our district. As you may already be aware, building our well-being and Social-Emotional Learning skills is an important goal for our school this year and every year. Over the next few weeks, students will participate in several exercises to better understand these concepts and to reflect on how they perceive these skills in themselves.
As we have done for the last four years, we will be asking for your child to reflect on his/her own mindsets and approaches to learning via an online survey. The survey shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes to complete and will be administered during a two-week window from March 11 - 22.
We are partnering with Panorama Education, a third-party vendor, to support us in administering these surveys. The survey content will ask students in grades 3-12 to self-reflect on School Safety, Teacher-Student Relationships, Sense of Belonging, Rigorous Expectations, and Self-Efficacy. Our students in grades 6-12 will also be asked to self-reflect on two additional topics; Diversity and Inclusion and Cultural Awareness.
Student voice matters to us, and their responses will provide invaluable insights into their experiences in how we can improve and adapt our instruction to meet their needs. If a student doesn’t feel like they have enough information to answer a question, they will be able to skip the item altogether.
If you have any questions about the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) survey, please don’t hesitate to contact us in the office at 614-450-5000.
Respectfully,
Julie Gulley
WABFE March Newsletter
The March newsletter from the Worthington Alliance of Black Families and Educators is now available. You may find it HERE.
Consignment Sale on March 16th!
Mom Life at Grace Polaris Church is hosting a Consignment Sale on Saturday, March 16th. This is
a great sale to find reasonably low priced gently-used children's clothing, furniture, toys,
maternity items, baby equipment, and more!
Who: Mom Life at Grace Polaris
What: Spring Kiddie Konsignment Sale
Where: Grace Polaris Church - Ministry Center building
8225 Worthington Galena Rd
Westerville, OH 43081
When: Saturday, March 16th
Time: 9am-12pm Doors Open to the public
*Early Entry for $5 cash from 8am-9am
Closed from 12pm-1pm
1pm-2pm HALF PRICED Super Sale = All items are half off their original price tag.
Active and Engaged Learning Times
DOORS OPEN: 7:55am
START TIME: 8:10am
TARDY after: 8:10am
Breakfast served from 7:55-8:10am
Dismissal begins at 2:50pm for all students*
*For students who are car riders at dismissal, please ensure that they are picked up each day no later than 3:00pm. The school is unable to monitor students past this time. Thank you for picking up your students in a timely manner.
April 8th – Eclipse
Ohio will experience a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. In Worthington Schools, we have decided to CLOSE school for Monday, April 8th. Surrounding school districts, Columbus, Dublin, Olentangy, and Westerville have all previously announced that they will not have school. The concern on this day is the traffic expected in our region and the ability with that traffic to get students safely home from school.
The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce provided guidance to school districts to evaluate safety concerns. You can view that guidance here. For me, as Superintendent, my major concern is traffic and the ability to run buses. It’s an unknown, but a risk we’ve decided is too big to take.
The Total Solar Eclipse in Worthington will begin on Monday, April 8, at 1:55 pm and continue through 4:27 pm with a duration of 2 hours and 31 minutes.
Finley's Smile 5K!
The 2024 Finley’s Smile 5K & Smile Mile fundraising event will be held on Sunday, April 21st! Register now for early bird rates! https://racepenguin.com/events/finleysmile5k/
Our family is so thankful for our returning participants and families and we hope to see you again this year to support Finley’s Smile! As always, this event is family friendly and includes activities for all ages! (And of course what would Finley’s birthday celebration be without butterfly cupcakes?!) -Kristin Hollinger, first grade teacher
Although it’s a 5K & mile event, you don’t need to be a runner to register and join us for some fun! (You can also register as a virtual/nonrunner and join us!)
Art to Remember Sale Through 3/22!
Students' personalized Art to Remember order forms have been sent home and orders will be accepted online (ArttoRemember.com) through March 22nd! Below is additional information about the Art to Remember program:
Our school is participating in a creative fundraiser with Art to Remember that allows you to purchase keepsake products customized with your child's art. There are over 60 products and many are less than $15. These make great gifts and a percentage of every purchase goes right back to our school. Click on the link below and enter the online order code shown on your child's order form or to search for your child's artwork. Then, have fun shopping! https://arttoremember.com/school/HWJV5J
Thank you for supporting the arts in our school!
Upcoming Events/Dates to Remember
March 11th-15th: PTA Straffle (fliers will be coming home)
March 13th: State of the Schools event at WKHS at 7pm
March 14th: PTA Meeting at 7pm
March 21st: 1st Grade Penguin Night (6:00pm)
March 25th-March 29th: Spring Break (No School)
April 8th: Total Solar Eclipse - No School
School Counselor's Corner
Hi Slate Hill Families!
Take a moment to check in with yourself. How are your days going? What is going well? How can you make your days go a little smoother? Take inventory of your mornings. Your morning routine has the ability to kick start a great day, or lead to ongoing feelings of being flustered and stressed. Attached are a few ways to help your family cultivate a healthier, happier, and calmer morning. A fan favorite is Rose-Bud-Thorn. It’s a great way to connect with your kiddo and learn about what’s going on in their lives. Not only will you start the day with connection, but also with gratitude and optimism. Take a look at the ideas attached. I encourage you to try one of the suggestions for a week and see how it goes!
Best,
The School Counseling Team
FYI from Tech Services
Low Balance Alerts were reset by My Payments Plus. Parents should check their settings and update them if necessary by logging in at My Payments Plus with their personal account, go to My Account (left panel) and then view the Low Balance Alerts to update their settings.
MUST DO THIS for your child to attend a Field trip!
Have you completed your Emergency Data Review for your child?
Parents can access their own login credentials by clicking the Password Recovery link under Quick Links on the Worthington Schools main page. They enter their email address (it needs to be the email that we have on file for them) and will immediately get an email sent to them with their district-provided username and password, which they can use to login to the Parent Portal as well as Infinite Campus.
MyPayments Plus
My Payments Plus is where you will pay school fees, Full day Kindergarten tuition, school field trips and put money on your child's lunch account. Look under parent resources for this website.
For My Payments Plus, parents can find their child's 9-digit Student ID # by logging in to Infinite Campus and clicking on Today. The 9-digit student number is under student name, visible on both the app and when accessing Infinite Campus through the Parent Portal or the Infinite Campus website.
School Fees for the 2023-24:
Kindergarten: $24.00
Grade 1-3: $42.00
Grade 4-5: $36.00
If you feel you qualify for free and reduced lunch, we suggest you fill this form out online or print out a paper copy and turn into the office. If you qualify your student's fees or Kindergarten tuition could be free or reduced.
HERE is the free and reduced application. Here is the link to the printable applications. You never know if you will qualify and it could help with reduced school student fees as well as Kindergarten tuition. If you have any questions or I can help you in anyway, please reach out to me.
Slate Hill Elementary School
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Email: jgulley@wscloud.org
Website: https://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/Domain/21
Location: 7625 Alta View Boulevard, Columbus, OH, USA
Phone: 614-450-5000
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Twitter: @SlateHillstars