Clyde W. Needham Email Template

Dear Clyde W. Needham Families!

On behalf of all of our teachers and staff here at Clyde W. Needham Elementary, I would like to WELCOME YOU BACK to school for the 2024-2025 school year!

First Day of school: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 @ 8AM

LUSD 2024-2025 Instructional Calendar

Below you will find some important information about the start of the school year! Please take a moment to read them and complete the Online Data Confirmation (ODC) for EACH OF YOUR ENROLLED STUDENTS.

• ODC (Online Data Confirmation) - PLEASE COMPLETE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
• Dropping off and picking up students from Clyde W Needham
• Important Dates Coming Up

We look forward to another fun year filled with FUN, KNOWLEDGE, and LEARNING for all of our Needham Knights!

Sending all of our Needham Knights Peace and Blessings!

Sonja Renhult, Principal

All of our families MUST complete Online Data Confirmation (ODC) in AERIES for EVERY STUDENT that attends Lodi Unified School District.

When a family completes ODC for a student they:

• update emergency contact information
• approve authorizations for the 24-25
• Support your student's home school!
• See the name of the teacher(s) that your student will be assigned to for 24-25

Please complete Online Data Confirmation (ODC) for your student THIS WEEK or AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

For additional information and some 'How-To' help, please visit CW Needham's ODC page

Ready to complete ODC? Please visit AERIES PARENT PORTAL, log into your AERIES account and begin updating ODC for EACH of your students that attend school in Lodi Unified School District.

Dropping Off:

• All students arriving in a vehicle MUST be dropped off in our parking lot on Pleasant Avenue
• ONLY STUDENTS ARRIVING ON FOOT will be allowed to enter school at the Church Street Gate.
• Drop off time for grades 1-6 is 7:30 - 8 AM
• students may eat breakfast or walk the blacktop until school begins
• Drop off time for Kindergarten(K) and Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is 7:45 - 8 AM
• students may eat breakfast or walk in the kinder yard until school begins
• School begins for all students at 8AM

Picking Up:

• All students being picked up in a vehicle MUST be picked up in our parking lot on Pleasant Avenue
• Vehicle pickups will not be allowed at the Church Street Gate - this exit is for WALKING STUDENTS ONLY
• Pick Up time for grades 1-6 is 2:05 PM on regular school days
• 12:12 PM on Minimum School days
• Pick Up time for Transitional Kindergarten (TK) will be 11:50 AM every school day including minimum days
• Pick Up time for Kindergarten will be 11:50 AM on regular school days
• 11:50 AM on all minimum days
• For quarters 2-4, kindergarten students will be picked up at 1:20 PM on regular school days and at 11:50 AM on every minimum day

For more detailed info please visit Needham Elementary School's Drop Off & Pick Up page

• Please drive into the parking lot to pick up or drop off your child whenever possible

• Please DO NOT cross the street on Pleasant Avenue in front of the school buildings or in front of the parking lot

• Please DO NOT MAKE A U-Turn on Pleasant Avenue. For the safety of our students we request that you leave the area that you parked in the same direction that your car is facing when you parked.

• Parents who walk up must wait in the designated area.

• Students and parents that walk up to the parking lot from the south (Tokay St.) should enter the parking lot near the field and follow the sidewalk around the parking lot. This will keep students and adults from crossing traffic as it exits and enters the parking lot.

• Students will not be allowed to exit the parking lot without a parent or guardian present unless they are walking home