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November Family Messenger

2024

November FamilyMessenger2024

Welcome to the 2024-2025 School Year!

Veteran's Day Info and RSVP

Monday, 11/11 is our annual Veteran's Day program. If you or a Veteran plan to attend our Veteran's Day program, please fill out the form below so we can plan for seating. All guests must bring their ID to be scanned into Raptor in order to enter the building during the school day. This is a district policy in order to ensure safety of our students and staff. Doors will open at 1:00. Guests can start bringing in their IDs anytime between now and the program to avoid a waiting line the day of. Please contact the office if you have any questions. Thank you!

https://forms.gle/3PiZqz37GC54f8oG9


Lunch Accounts

Please bring negative lunch balances current. Letters are sent out periodically from the kitchen. If you need assistance loading your child's account online, call the office. Money can also be sent in and Cheryl can update your account also.


Marthasville Buzz

Enjoy our first edition of the Marthasville Buzz!
Big Shout Out to Ms. Wiskur and our Journalism Club kiddos for their hard work!

https://www.wevideo.com/view/3591872335


Field Trips

Grade levels are in the process of planning out field trips for the year. If you are wanting to help chaperone, background checks must be complete. This is not a quick process, so plan ahead! Anyone who has had a background check in the past, please double check with Cheryl so she can verify yours is still good.

https://www.washington.k12.mo.us/49193_3


The months are sailing along and I find myself reflecting often on our growth at Marthasville. Sitting through numerous conferences with parents made me super proud of our students and excited about our future gains. We appreciate your continued support in your child's education and achievement! FastBridge assessments start at the end of the month for the winter benchmark. Family Reports will be sent home later. If you need help deciphering the reports, let us know!


Glad To Be Here,

Mrs. Kristen Daffron

Principal

Marthasville Elementary



#MarthasvilleRocks #SDOW #BlueJays

Attendance Recap

October 2024

K-96.8%

1-96.2%

2-93.4%

3-97.4%

4-96.5%

5-96.7%

6-95.3%

Total-96%

Overall Whole School Attendance since Day 1-96.3%


1st Quarter HOUSE Attendance

Below is the percentage of students from each house who met the 96% goal:

Altruismo (Black)-35 out of 47- 74%

Isibindi (Green)-28 out of 49- 57%

Amistad (Red)-33 out of 48- 69%

Reveur (Blue)-30 out of 47- 64%


Building Goal- Students in grades K-6 will have an average of 96% attendance or higher and will decrease tardies in the 2024-2025 school year.

Breakfast and Lunch Menus

https://www.washington.k12.mo.us/49116_3

Picture Day Retake

Picture Retake Day is November 18th!

Important Dates

November

4- Journalism After School

5-Choir After School

6-10- School Psych Week

8- Parent Educator’s Day

11- Veteran’s Day Program 1:30; PTG TJ Pizza Fundraiser Starts

11-15- School Psychologist Week

13- Art Club After School

14- Journalism Club After School

15- Character Ed Assemblies; PTG Movie Night for K-3 3:00-4:30 Inside Out 2 (flyer coming soon)

18-Yearbook Candids/Groups; Picture Retake Days

18-22- FastBridge Winter Assessment Window; American Educator’s Week

19- Choir After School

20- Education Support Professionals Day

22- Substitute Appreciation Day

25- Art Club After School; TJ Pizza Fundraiser Forms Due

25-26- FastBridge Makeups

26- Manners Luncheon; House Meeting (Wear your colors); Journalism Club After School; PTG 5:00

22- Progress Reports Emailed

27-29- Thanksgiving Break

Technology

The Technology Department will be reinstating fees for damaged or lost chargers and devices. SDOW highly recommends each Blue Jay have insurance.


Replacement Chargers are $25

Visitors and Volunteers

The Raptor system will be used for anyone entering our building to volunteer or visit. Anyone picking up or dropping off students only, do no need to be approved through Raptor, as they won't be entering the building past the safety vestibule doors. We also ask that visitors and volunteers only enter the building through the Main Entrance doors (top of the front parking lot).

District Communication

Links for the district and school calendar can be found below. A calendar of events will be included in the monthly newsletter as well. Please refer to the main calendar throughout the year for more information.


https://secure.smore.com/n/4y2drc

https://washington.k12.mo.us/71649_2

Counselor's Corner

As part of Connect Washington, we incorporate guest speakers which share about their jobs, careers or businesses. If you would like to participate in sharing about your job, career or business at one of our assemblies, please reach out to Mrs. Busekrus at robyn.busekrus@sdowmo.org


The link below is a video about Optimism. I choose videos from Kindness 101 that fit each grade level's Character Ed assemblies. The videos tie into ROCK/service learning, character ed, etc. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJOnjIbqfs&list=PLJzm9BhU_wL9co3T1JYzfld3xtL3_kKnA&index=46&t=2s



Thank you for your family support!

Notes from Nurse Charlie

See below for the procedure for xxclusion from school due to illness

PTG Minutes

Follow our new PTG page!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563058323970

PTG

PTG Meetings are held once a month at 5:00 (except January and May) in the conference room. We are always looking for new and fresh faces and ideas to support our school!

Here are the dates:

October 29

November 26

December- No Meeting

January 28

February 25

March 25

April 29

May-No Meeting


June/July-Planning meeting

Free and Reduced Lunch

Applications may be submitted any time during the school year. The information provided on the application is confidential and will be used only for the purpose of determining eligibility. The eligibility criteria and application are available for download below. Applications are also available from the clicking the link below.



https://www.washington.k12.mo.us/49116_3

Kristen Daffron
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