Corgi Tales | September 2024

Crossroads Parents,

Hello! We have had a very successful start to our new year. All of our new students and our kindergarten students have been sorted into their Houses. Now they can help their House earn points. Check out the pictures below from our new student House sorting from the first week of school. Speaking of our House System, please visit this link for more information about the House System: Parent House Handbook

We appreciate everyone's patience with the first two weeks with arrival and dismissal. We realize there are a lot of cars dropping off and picking up students each day. Please follow our expectations so all are safe and to help with getting our students in and out with efficiency. A few things that will help:

• Only drop off students at the curb along the building where staff can help open doors for you
• Please stay in your car, it slows down the process when parents get out of the car to walk. around and open their doors. Help your students with becoming responsible for unbuckling, grabbing their backpack, and getting out.
• If you want to walk your child you must park in the large lot and make your way to the crosswalk and then to the front doors near the flagpole. Please do not drop off your child in the middle of the parking lot.
• Remember, the front of the building is for buses only until after 8:40 AM.

Again, thank you so much for your patience and understanding with the start of the school year. Also, thank you for your patience with the new student information system as well. If you didn't already know, WSD had to switch to a new one since the last one we used is no longer available.

Thank you! Have a great September!

Dr. Damian Fay & Ms. Kristen Henson

damianfay@wsdr4.org

Twitter:@Corgi_Tales

***Flyers will be available at Meet the Teacher Night***

Crossroads Day at Busch Stadium

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!!!

Cardinals Winter Hat

(For the first 25,000 fans, 16 & older)

2025 Cardinals Magnet Schedule

(All fans)

Prairie Farms Ice Cream Sundays

(Enjoy prizes, games and FREE frozen treats, while supplies last, in the Ford Plaza prior to the game)

Each ticket includes a Jumbo Hot Dog and Soda

(A $13 value!!!)

Cleveland Guardians vs. Cardinals

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Day Game at 1:15 pm

Price on Ticket: $55

YOUR COST: $25 per ticket

Sections 357, 358, 359, 360

(3rd Base and Infield Pavilion)

***ONLY 300 TICKETS AVAILABLE***

To purchase Cardinal Tickets via a Credit Card, please use this QR Code:

Dental Visits

Great news! Crossroads has partnered with Smile Programs, the mobile dentists to offer in-school dental care. They will be at Crossroads September 11 &12. Sign up your child today by clicking this link if you haven’t already signed them up. We are also coordinating with Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to offer Dental screening and or a fluoride application on September 5 if you wish for your student to participate. Papers for the screening as well as the Smiles program were handed out on Meet the Teacher night. If you are in need of another form please let me know.

Medications

Any medications given at school need to have an order from a doctor. If you want your student to be able to have over the counter medications such as Tylenol or Ibuprofen please have their doctor fill out This form. If your student needs a prescription medication at school, have their doctor fill out This form. All medications need to be brought to the clinic by an adult, students are not allowed to transport ANY medications.

Misc.

Please send your student with a clean water bottle daily. Many students aren’t drinking enough throughout the day and have complaints of stomach aches and headaches. Especially with this warm weather students will need to drink even more.

Please have your student pack a change of clothes in the event of an accident or spills.

Maddie Whiteaker

RN BSN

School Nurse

amandawhiteaker@wsdr4.org

636-625-4537, extension 44233

Fax 636-445-5324

Welcome Back Corgis!

We hope to see you at our first General Meeting on September 10 at 7 p.m. in the Library. Join the PTA before the meeting so that you are able to vote. Click the link below and fill out the membership form. At the end you will be directed to our PayPal Giving Fund to pay the membership fee ($10) online.

PTA Membership Form

***EVENTS***

Dining Night Out

September 12 @ Cold Stone Creamery

They are giving back 20% of all Crossroads purchases for the entire day!

Show the flyer when ordering or tell them you’re there for Crossroads Elementary.

Party on the Playground & Movie Night

Friday, September 20 @ 6:00 p.m.

Super Mario Bros Movie @ 7:15 p.m.

Crossroads Corgis and families are welcome to come out and enjoy a celebration of the start of the school year! Join us for the fun including food trucks & free popcorn. Bring along your lawn chairs and blankets to have a place to sit for the movie. We hope to see you there!

***CORGI STORE***

Online Corgi Store

***FALL FUNDRAISER***

COMMUNICATION!

Keep an eye out for emails, texts and social media posts for more information!

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

The Crossroads PTA

All of our car riders and our daycare van riders will go to the gym at the end of the day. Once in the gym, a staff member will call students’ names over the radio for them to come out to meet their vehicle. A staff member will escort students to each car.

PLEASE READ: We are no longer allowing parents to walk up to get their children. You will need to drive through the pick-up line.

We sent home bright orange car tags with all students on their first day of school. Please check with the office if you need a car tag. ***PLEASE USE A THICK MARKER TO FILL THESE OUT***

When you drive through the car lanes, please have the bright orange car tag on your dashboard where we can see the names of your students. If you do not have the car tag, we will have to check your ID, radio the office, and wait for them to clear you before we can call your child out. As you can imagine, this will slow down the process for everyone.

A few other things to keep in mind with this process: Please remember, we do not accept dismissal changes after 3:00 p.m. Also, our primary focus is student safety and 3:20 p.m. is a critical time when children can potentially get lost in the shuffle; it is imperative that we streamline the secretaries’ time to focus only on emergencies that arise. With that in mind, please understand that we will not permit access to the office after 3:20 p.m. to check out a student. Please plan accordingly so we aren’t caught in the position to have to tell you no.

Also, remember that you are responsible for calling in to change if your walker will become a car rider during the days with inclement weather. We no longer send a text message about rainy day dismissals.

The expectation is all parents will have the bright orange car tags ready to go by August 21.

Please review our arrival and dismissal maps below:

Arrival Map

Dismissal Map

Bus Transportation

• Kindergarten students that ride the bus must have an adult at the stop to get their student off the bus at the end of the day
• You must have a picture ID to show the bus driver before your child will be released

Cafeteria Information

• Link to Child Nutrition page on the WSD website
• All meals will be eaten in the cafeteria
• Breakfast served 8:20 am to 8:35 am

Buying Lunch

• Students will enter a lunch pin number
• Teachers have a card with the pin number on it for the first few weeks of school
• Teachers will send home the pin number and a practice number pad

Bringing Lunch

• Label all lunch bags with student name
• Send items students can open by themselves
• Anything opened will be thrown away

Recess Information

• Supervision is provided by our noon duty staff and classroom teachers
• Dress for the weather
• Label clothing items with student name
• Avoid parking along the playground
• Visitors are not allowed at recess

Tips from the office

• All adults visiting Crossroads must sign in at the office and obtain a visitors sticker
• Please have your driver's license ready to sign in to our Raptor system.

• When you arrive in a WSD building as a visitor, you will be asked to scan your ID, take a photo and complete the management system’s check-in process.

• Raptor will screen the information against sex offender databases and locally customized lists of banned or potentially threatening individuals, instantly alert school officials to a threatening presence, and maintain a searchable log of all visitors.

• Once approved, you will get a customized visitor badge to wear while in the building.

• Call the office by 9:15 am if your child is absent
• If your child arrives after 8:35 am, please walk them into the office
• Let the office know of any dismissal changes before 3:00 pm
• Students cannot be checked out from the office after 3:20 pm
• Be sure to update any changes to your contact information in the office

Parent Portal - FAQs

Focus School Software Parent Portal

24-25 School Calendar

• WSD 2024-2025 Academic Calendar
  

24-25 School Supply List

• WSD School Supply Lists

One of our Crossroads Building Goals this year is focused upon attendance. Our goal is:

Crossroads will improve the proportional attendance rate from 88.2% to 89.4% by the end of the 2024-2025 school year.

The core purpose of having your student at school is so they can benefit from all of the learning opportunities so they can improve and grow!

We want our students to be in attendance this school year as much as possible. While we know perfect attendance is super hard to accomplish, we would like our students to be here between 90-100%. Let’s run the numbers on this. There are 174 school days in the 24-25 school year. So, a student can miss no more than 17.4 days of school in order to make our goal of all students having attendance of 90-100%.

Thank you for taking your child’s attendance seriously. Please check out the image below for a few stats to see what learning a student could miss:

Breakfast K-12 ~ $2.00

Elementary Lunch K-5 ~ $3.10

Reduced Price Meals

Breakfast ~ $0.30

Lunch ~ $0.40

Applications for free & reduced price meals are available here or at any school office. In an effort to assist families as we transition back to paid meals, the USDA has increased the income guidelines used to determine eligibility. Click here to see the income guidelines. If you believe your family would qualify for this program, please fill out an application. Applications can be returned by the following methods:

Returned to your child's school

Scan & email - marysanzottera@wsdr4.org

Fax - 636-327-3961

Mail - Child Nutrition Services, 101 Support Service Dr., Wentzville, MO 63385

If you have questions or need assistance filling out the application, please call our office at 636-327-3858 ext. 21330.

Dear Crossroads Elementary Families,

Throughout the duration of the academic year, the Wentzville School District partners with community agencies that specialize in providing students, families, and educators with preventative education. Agency presenters are credentialed, coordinated through the District, and under the supervision of building administrators. Presentation topics are targeted toward specific grade levels. All students will participate in each program, unless you choose to opt your child out of the lesson(s). If you are interested in opting your student(s) out of presentation(s), please click the appropriate link(s) below.

Kindergarten Opt-Out Form

First Grade Opt-Out Form

Second Grade Opt-Out Form

Third Grade Opt-Out Form

Fourth Grade Opt-Out Form

Fifth Grade Opt-Out Form

If you have additional questions, please reach out directly to your student’s school counselor.

Thank you,

Damian Fay, Principal

Kristen Henson, Assistant Principal

Amy Walton, Counselor K-2

Tim Burkemper, Counselor 3-5

Reading Success Plans

This fall, teachers and reading interventionists will be conducting reading assessments with all students. These assessments help us plan lessons and identify students who might benefit from extra reading support. In addition, our building reading specialists will work with small groups of students. These flexible groupings are not the same as Reading Intervention, families will be contacted directly by their child's teacher if he/she qualifies for Reading Intervention. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your child's classroom teacher.

Measurable Results Survey

Crossroads parents and families, please take some time to complete this important parent survey. The survey will close September 30, 2024.

Crossroads Measurable Results Survey

This survey will be given to our families, students, and staff this month, and again in April. This link is unique to our building, so if you have kids in multiple schools, please check their newsletter to answer questions for that building. Learn more about this survey and its purpose here.

Pedal the Cause

Five school districts in St. Charles County are collaborating with Pedal the Cause to fight cancer. Pedal the Cause is offering a $10 registration discount for students who attend one of the St. Charles County schools. Learn more.

Focus Emails

We are working with the Focus Support team to address this issue and ensure families receive all district communications. Here are some steps that can be taken by our families:

• Mark the emails as "Not Spam"
  
• Adjust spam filters with their email provider or email application
• Emails will be delivered from the following email domains
• focusmail.focus-sis.org
• focusschoolsoftware.com
• mg.focus-sis.com

Additionally, we are working to simplify this process by using a single email domain for all district communications sent through Focus. We expect this to be implemented within the next 2-3 weeks.

September 2

• No School, Labor Day

September 10

• PTA General Meeting, 7:00-8:00

September 13

• Patriot Day Celebration

September 16 - 20

• Book Fair

September 20

• PTA Party on the Playground & Movie Night 5:30-9:00

September 22

• Crossroads St. Louis Cardinals game 1:15 game time

September 23 - 24

• 5th grade camp

September 27

• No School - PD Day