12: First Day of School for 6th Grade Only

13: All Students Attend

16: Picture Day & Back to School Dance

19: First Day Fall Sports Practice

21: Meet the Teachers 5:30 PM

27: CAPE Begins

Returning TPS families may register their students at this link or through the ParentVue app on a mobile device. Families NEW to Topeka Public Schools will create a new account and register by following these instructions. Families can view important dates for the 2024-2025 school year, a school supply list, and more at topekapublicschools.net on the Online Registration page.

We have several new members joining our Chase family this year.

Hanna McGee is our new Secretary in the front office. She welcomes you and looks forward getting to know all of our Chase students.

Elizabeth Woodman comes to us from Leavenworth. She will be teaching 7th grade Science.

Matt Sloan will be joining our family teaching FACS.

Kerri Bender Cushing will be teaching our Resource Reading Class. She is coming to us

from Meadows Elementary.

Lorena Yamzon comes to us from the Philippines to join our Special Education department. She is not

only new to our district but also new to our country! She will also be teaching IIC and Math

Resource.

Josep Majoral Julio will be joining us in late August or Early September to

teach our 6th grade computer classes.

Charles Duffield will be teaching 6th grade Math.

Joining us for 8th grade Math is Lili Hu.

New Para-educators are Cheyenne Bunyard, Wahkuna Blevins, and Gabby Juarez.

Students are required to use the locker assigned to them. School locks are distributed and must be used. No personal locks are allowed. Students are not allowed to have wireless airpods/headphones. Cell phones and backpacks must be kept in lockers during the instructional day. A chromebook and charger will be checked out to all students during the first week of school. Please ensure your student charges his/her chromebook each night. Our doors opening at 7:20am for those who would like to eat breakfast and dismissal is at 2:45pm.

All CMS helpful information can be found accessing the link below. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the main office at 782-295-3840.

School photos will be August 16, 2024. The following link will take you directly to the Strawbridge website where you can view the packages and purchase what you would like. Click order pictures and enter the following code: FM440135. Paper copies of the order form available in the front office and will be sent home with students on the first day of school. Please make sure payment is made prior to picture day or send the order form and exact money amount with your student the day of pictures, change can not be made. All students will have their pictures taken regardless of purchasing a package for school records.

Parents and community members, as part of our CI3T plan we reward students for demonstrating the Chase Way during the school day. The students can redeem their reward points at our weekly store before school for items they enjoy. To help stock our store we are asking for donations of the following items: Fruit Snacks, individually wrapped candy, any individually wrapped snacks (little debbies, granola bars etc.) and individually wrapped pieces of gum. These are our feature items in the school store. Thank you for your help stocking our store and supporting the success of our students academically, socially and behaviorally.

The transportation department serves the students of Topeka Public Schools by ensuring they are safely transported to school every day.

Students must be at least 1.75 miles from their home school address to receive transportation. The eligibility for bus services is determined by the student's home address, not a relative or a daycare provider.

Bus routing information can be found by logging on to Synergy and clicking the “other info” tab. By scrolling down to the section “Transportation”, it will show route number/bus stop/pickup and drop of times. This information is usually available 2-3 days before the first day of school. If you have a question regarding transportation, please contact

Topeka Public Schools Transportation Office

785-295-3910

Kansas Central

785-233-2009

Students should always be at their assigned bus stop 15 minutes prior to their pickup time.

Bus Conduct Policy

Topeka Public Schools U.S.D. #501 is committed to excellence in its transportation program and considers appropriate bus conduct essential to the safe transportation of students to and from school and on activity trips.

The district believes that all students can behave on the bus, and have a responsibility to behave in a manner which allows the driver to concentrate on operating the bus in the safest possible manner.

The district believes student conduct should be maintained with procedures that will advance the purposes of safety while remaining consistent with applicable state law and established

Board of Education school policy.

Parents can assist a great deal in maintaining proper discipline on the school bus by insisting that their children seat themselves promptly in their assigned seat, stay seated while on the

bus and conduct themselves in such a manner that the school bus driver can devote his or her time to the task of driving a bus.

If a student is not following the rules and directions from the bus driver, the following steps are taken:

Step 1- Student will receive a warning that details the inappropriate behavior. The student will meet with the assistant principal to discuss the writeup and a phone call home will be made.

Step 2-Upon a second writeup, the student will meet with the assistant principal to discuss the behavior, a phone call to home and 1 day suspension on the bus.

Step 3-Should a student receive a third bus discipline writeup, they will be removed from the bus for 2 weeks. Contact with home will be made by the school administrator.

Step 4- Student will be removed from the school bus for the remainder of the semester.

Step 5-Student will be removed from the bus for the remainder of the school year.

If your student is issued a discipline referral from the bus, the steps above may be expedited depending on the severity of the infraction.

Fall sports begin on Monday August 19. Fall sports include Football, Volleyball, Cross Country and Girls Tennis. Information will be sent home the first day of school for those interested in going out for a sport. It is important that you have a physical completed by a doctor before the first day of practice.

Head Coaches

Football- Mr. Gonzalez

Volleyball- Mrs. Jill Wedeking

Cross Country- Mrs. Meinert

Girls Tennis- Mrs. Halverson

-Sports are only offered to eligible 7th and 8th graders.

-Students wishing to participate in athletics need to have passed 5 classes from the previous quarter, that would be their grades from the 4th quarter, not final overall grade. Summer school does not count for this rule. If students did not pass 5 classes, they are not eligible to participate.

-Students will need to have a sports physical signed by a doctor dated after May 1st 2024 in order to be allowed to play for that school year. See information below for upcoming physicals at Chase for our students. Forms can be found at http://www.topekapublicschools.net/ Or http://kshsaa.org/

Please note-You are not able to play on a team in the same sport outside of school while playing for a school team during the season of that same sport. This pertains to all sports whether club or rec. Before and after the season is allowed.

Sport physicals will be offered for all 7th and 8th grade students who would like to participate in sports this year on August 16 during the morning right here at Chase. Students must provide a completed physical signed by a parent/guardian and the cost is $10. If you already have a sports physical completed by a physician, please turn that into Ms. Soldani in the main office.

Students who will be entering 7th grade in the 2024/2025 school year are required to have updated immunizations including: Tdap (tetanus booster) and MCV (meningococcal). Students will be required to provide proof of immunizations within 30 days of the start of school in the fall. Letters were mailed home in May for the students who need to provide proof of immunization to the school nurse.

Health &/or Medical forms are required to be completed each school year. This includes Crisis Plans, Medication forms and Health History forms. Forms may be found on the district website https://www.topekapublicschools.net/departments/health_services or you may contact the nurse at the beginning of the school year to discuss student health history or current conditions to determine which forms may be needed.

Chase Middle School

Shelly Garst, LPN

785-295-3845

sgarst@tps501.org

The Topeka Public Schools, Unified School District No. 501 is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity. No person shall, on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability, national origin or ancestry be denied lawful access to any appropriate educational service, program or activity provided by the school district. The Title VI and Title IX compliance coordinator is the Assistant Superintendent for Teaching/Learning/Administration. The Section 504/Title II compliance coordinator is the Coordinator of College and Career Ready Services. For employment, the EEO/AA officer is the General Director of Human Resources. All compliance coordinators may be contacted at 624 SW 24th Street, Topeka, KS 66611-1294, (785) 295-3000. The clerk of the Board of Education has been designated to receive and redirect or handle inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies, regulations and procedures. The clerk may be contacted by calling (785) 295-3045 or by writing to 624 SW 24th Street, Topeka, KS 66611-1294.