Welcome to 2024-2025
August 12, 2024
Multnomah Street Elementary
Dear Students, Parents, and Multnomah Community,
Established in 1949, Multnomah has earned the California Pivotal Practice Award, California Distinguished School Award, the Title 1 Achievement Award, the Bravo Award, LACOE Award and Magnet Achievement Award. We will continue to plan, deliver, reflect, and revise our instructional foci in order to ensure that rigorous and relevant (culturally and standards-based) instruction is happening in every single classroom.
I am looking forward to an exciting year of learning and growing with our students and working with our teachers and you, our parents and community members. It takes all of us working together to keep our school safe, collaborative, and successful.
My main goal as an educator is to ensure that every child is given access to high-quality education in a safe and supportive learning environment. We will continue to provide every child with the best academic and social-emotional opportunities. All students will leave our school as critical and creative thinkers who are compassionate and confident, equipped with the skills and abilities to compete globally.
Elementary school is where students develop the foundational skills they will use the rest of their educational careers. This is where students first develop and/or build reading, math, speaking, listening, and writing skills. It is also where students cultivate social-emotional skills and develop a mindset for learning that they will carry into adulthood. Let's create that strong unwavering foundation together!
In Partnership,
Principal Melgar
First Day of School🧿
Parents may drop off students at the main gate in the morning between 7:35 am - 8:05 am and students will enter campus by themselves. Our receiving area will be fully supervised.
Upon arrival, students will enter campus to teachers waiting with signs. The signs will have the teacher’s name and grade level. Please review with your child who their teacher will be.
For our UTK and Kinder students, it would help if you send students to school with a name tag as sometimes they are not able to communicate their names.
School Hours
Our school hours for the 2024-2025 school year will be 8:05 am – 2:28 pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. School hours every Tuesday will be 8:05 am – 1:28 pm. On the first day of school, we will be on a minimum day schedule. Please see the times below and plan accordingly.
- Monday, August 12, 8:05 am -12:53 pm
- Tuesday, August 13, 8:05 am – 1:28 pm
- Wednesday -Friday, August 14, 15, 16, 8:05 am – 2:28 pm
Students who arrive after 8:05 will be marked tardy.
Do not leave your child outside the school without any supervision.
Valet Services
Valet services will be available before and after school for grades 1-5 students at the main gate.
DROP OFF
- When dropping off, please make sure students only exit from the passenger side and that their backpacks are in the car with them. (Students may not exit into street.)
- DO NOT park in the valet line.
- If your child still needs help getting in and out of the car, please do not use the valet.
PICK UP
- When picking up, stay in the valet line and please ensure your dashboard has a sign with your child(ren)’s name(s) on the passenger side. This helps expedite pick up as we will call your child to come out to you.
- If your child still needs help getting in and out of the car, please do not use the valet.
*Do not make a U-Turn in front of the school after you drop off your child.
Proceed down the block. Let’s keep everyone safe!
Dismissal
At dismissal, UTK and K teachers will walk students to kindergarten gate at the end of the school block and grades 1-5 teachers will walk students to the flagpole by the main gate.
- If a UTK/K parent is late for pick up, they will have to go to the main office to sign out their child. Do not park in the valet line.
- If a 1st - 5th grade parent is late, students will be sent to the after school program and you will be asked to complete a form for “temporary supervision form" by Beyond the Bell.
Beyond the Bell
The Beyond the Bell afterschool program begins on Monday, August 12th. If you have not received a confirmation phone call from Coach Crystal, you may not leave your child after school hours. Please plan accordingly. After your application is received, Coach Crystal has to call to confirm that there is space for your child. Thank you for your patience.
Attention Needed
Please sign and return the following documents asap. If you have completed an emergency card for your child within the last month, you do not need to fill it out again. It is extremely important that this stays current. We may not release your child(ren) to anyone NOT on the emergency card. Select your people carefully. Make sure there are 3 working phone numbers.
Emergency Card (Yellow cardstock)
Publicity Authorization and Release
Responsible Usage Policy (Green stapled packet)
Student Housing Questionnaire (SHQ - Salmon)
Optional - T-shirt order form (Orange)
Optional - Yearbook order envelope (White)
DUE Friday, August 16th.
Parent Volunteers
Calling All Parents!
LAUSD is currently accepting applications for Parent Volunteers for the 24-25 school year. If you were an approved volunteer this year, you do not need to resubmit your TB test. We will pull it up. If you are a new applicant, please email your TB test to jennifer.garcia19@lausd.net after you fill out the online application. Don't wait. If you want to chaperone on ANY field trip at all, do it now to avoid the backlog later.
Here are the steps:
1. Log onto https://volunteerapp.lausd.net/ and click on LAUSD parent. (See image above.)
2. Sign in with your Parent Portal credentials.
3. Select returning and/or new and select "on campus volunteer 2024-2025" (see image below.)
4. Fill out all required information.
5. Review info and click the blue hyperlink to read "LAUSD Volunteer Commitment Form."
- Once your read it, click the click to agree.
- Type in your name
- Click submit.
- School will do our part and wait for district to approve.
Kindergarten will not have Teacher Assistants. If you would like to support your child's teacher with Breakfast in the Classroom or Small Group Instruction, you will have to get processed asap.
August-December Parent Calendars
Please use this calendar to save some important dates for August 2024-December 2024.
Here's the handy link. File can also be found at our school website under Parents: Home Correspondences.