NORTH ELEMENTARY

We commit to maximize our students' successes through personalized experiences, so they make a difference in any community.

Hello North Families!

I hope that everyone had a restful Labor Day Weekend. The stretch from the start of school to that first holiday weekend can be long and tiring, but now we are recharged and ready for our six week stretch to Fall Break.

Here at North, students have settled into routines and are growing their brains and bodies, and making new friends. Staff have settled into routines and are providing learning and growing experiences for students, and getting to know the kiddos they work with.

As a parent or guardian, we encourage you to talk to your student about their day, what they are learning, who they are getting to know. One good thing to remember when you're doing this is not to ask questions that can be answered in one word. Instead of asking "Did you have a good day?", try saying "Let's share one good thing that happened today. I can go first." or "What was the hardest thing you did today?", or "Who was kind to you today?" or "Who were you kind to today?" Find more strategies you can use in this article.

Please take a moment to check out all of the information in our September Newsletter.

I hope that you and your family enjoy the long weekend ahead.

Karen Perkins

Principal

September 9 ~~ School Board Meeting

September 10 ~~ eLearning Practice and Staff PD Day (students do not report to school)

September 13 ~~ Dot Day (see your classroom newsletter for more information)

September 30 to October 4 ~~ Homecoming Week (see below)

October 3 ~~ Picture Re-Take Day

October 4 ~~ End of 1st Quarter

October 7 to 11 ~~ Elementary Parent Teacher Conference Week

October 14 to 18 ~~ Fall Break

October 31st ~~ Book Character Day and Fall Parties

November 4 ~~ eLearning Basic Day (students do not report to school)

November 11 ~~ Veterans Day Lessons

November 27 - 29 ~~ Thanksgiving Break

December 19 ~~ Last Student Day of First Semester and Winter Parties

December 20 to January 3 ~~ Winter Break

January 6 ~~ First Student Day of Second Semester

We love having visitors for lunch. See below for some important expectations for lunch visitors:

• All visitors must sign in with their driver's license.
• Please notify our office if anyone other than a parent or legal guardian will be joining your child for lunch.
• Per federal guidelines, carbonated beverages are not allowed in the cafeteria for students or adults.

• Lunch items brought for your child cannot be shared with other children.

• NO TECHNOLOGY AT THE TABLE! While visiting for lunch, we ask that you (1) take full advantage of this time to visit with your child by refraining from having your phone out and (2) respect the privacy of other people's children by NOT taking pictures of other students.
• Lunch visitors should return to the front office to check out immediately following lunch dismissal. For safety reasons, we ask that you do not walk about the building or return to the room with your student's class unless you have made arrangements to do so with their teacher.
  

Student drop off and pick up

We have come a long way since our first day of school in both of these areas, and we want to thank you for your help and your patience.

Please remember that all of our processes are designed to keep your student and their peers safe and to keep the lines efficient. With that in mind, here are a few important reminders:

• We ask that all parents use the drop off line. Do not park and walk your child across the sidewalk and/or into the building unless you have business that you need to take care of.
• Before stopping in the line, please pull all the way forward. The more cars we can get along the sidewalk, the faster the line will go.
• If you do have to come into the building, PLEASE USE THE CROSSWALK. Do not cross through the drop off line even if it is stopped.

We understand that changes to a child's after school schedule may need to occur from time to time. If a student has a change in routine, either destination or pick up, the school must be contacted by a parent or legal guardian prior to 1:30pm. Destination change notification may be made by

• A signed note sent to school in your child's folder (please include your child's first and last name and the date for the change)
• A phone call to the office 317.745.2610
• An email to northoffice@danville.k12.in.us.
• A parent square message to DCSC Northoffice

We ask that you do not email this information only to your child's teacher in the event that he or she is absent or unable to check their email. Last-minute changes are often difficult to get to the classroom and sometimes could panic or scare a child. Office personnel deliver end of day changes to staff at 1:45 each afternoon.

There is a very good chance your student will lose something during the course of the coming school year. Our LOST AND FOUND accumulates an astounding amount and array of items that go unclaimed. Water bottles, sweatshirts, eyeglasses, winter coats, lunch boxes and more.

We ask that you LABEL your student's items with their name. Before an item goes into the lost and found vortex, we will check for a name and return it to the classroom if we can. We know that not everything can be labeled, but this is very doable for things like sweatshirts, coats, lunch boxes, water bottles, and glasses cases.

SEE BELOW for a picture of the items currently in the lost and found. Please remind your student to ask to go to lost and found if you see something that belongs to them.

Even at this young age, your student's attendance at school is very important. You are helping them establish habits of attendance and on time arrival that they will carry with them throughout their school career and into their adult life. In order to maximize their academic and social growth, we encourage you to set the goal for your student to have at least a 94% attendance rate each school year. That translates to no more than 10 days absent over the course of the year.

• Help your child get into a healthy routine starting from Day 1. Sleep is critical for child development. Set and stick to a regular bedtime each night. Make sure all mornings alarms are set and that everyone is up and moving on time. Even being a few minutes late to school can throw a child off for the rest of the day. See the chart below for more about how minutes of tardiness and days of absence can add up and affect learning.

• As the year progresses, if your child begins to struggle getting to school, please reach out to us. Our counselor, Allie Brown, is a great place to start. She can help with getting a healthy routine back on track. You can reach her at albrown@danville.k12.in.us or by calling our front office at 317.745.2610.
• It is important that you report your student absent before 8:45 a.m. on the day the absence occurs. You can make that report by calling our office at 317-745-2610, by sending an email to northoffice@danville.k12.in.us, or by sending a parent square message to DCSC Northoffice. While it is helpful to let your student's teacher know of their absence, letting our office know is most important.
• You will be able to track your student's attendance and tardy rates on the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. If you have any questions about what is on there, please contact our office at 317.745.2610 or at northoffice@danville.k12.in.us.

• Finally, in order to help you prepare for your student's attendance this school year, you will find a link below to the DCSC 2024-25 School Calendar.

Below you will find information about some of most frequently used websites/apps we use along with a brief description of how they will be used throughout the school year. If you have any trouble setting up your accounts or using them, please do not hesitate to contact our office for assistance. You can reach us at 317.745.2610 or at northoffice@danville.k12.in.us.

Infinite Campus Parent Portal is where you will find your student's schedule/teacher placement and current grade. You will be able to see your student's lunch account balance and add money here. If you are new to our district, you would have received information about setting up your Parent Portal when you completed online registration. If you are a returning family, your login information will be the same as is was last year.

Parent Square automatically generates an account for each parent, using the preferred email address and phone number from Infinite Campus.

Teachers, North Elementary, and the District Office will use this platform to share newsletters and send direct messages, including delay and cancellation notices, with parents. We encourage parents to access their accounts so they can download the mobile app and update their preferences on when and how they are notified (email, text, or through the app).

Schoology is the district online learning platform. While it is use significantly more by students in older grades, this is where you student will find their work on ELearning Days. Teachers will be working with students on how to login and to use this platform early in the school year so that they are ready on the first ELearning day which is scheduled for Tuesday, September 10th.

You also have a parent account (login is the same as Infinite Campus) and you can view what your student sees.

Welcome to North Elementary!

We are glad you're part of our family, and we are here to help. Contact any of us if you need any assistance or have any questions.

northoffice@danville.k12.in.us

317.745.2610

Parent Square message: DCSC Northoffice

Email: northoffice@danville.k12.in.us
Website: http://www.danville.k12.in.us/Domain/10
Location: 398 Urban Street, Danville, IN, United States
Phone: (317)745-2610