Slate Hill Newsletter
August 27, 2023
Principal's Corner
Hello Slate Hill Families,
A full week of school last week and another GREAT WEEK AT THE SLATE!
This picture is a reminder of how amazingly unique each and every one of our students is a Slate Hill and how much we have to learn from eachother every day! #bestplaceonearth
The start of the school year it is always important for teachers to review the expectations and procedures in the classroom so that all of the students know the routines and what is expected. I wanted to also review with all of you our Slate Hill expectations for our students and staff. Our Slate Hill Star expectations are: to be responsible and respectful, be safe, take care of ourselves, others and property and to be an active and engaged learner! Please ask your child to share our school chant with motions too! Hopefully you have noticed the yellow posters listing our expectations throughout the building.
As part of our PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) plan, each month we will have a focused theme that will connect all classrooms, town hall meetings where we will review our expectations and discuss our monthly theme (grade level meeting), constellation (family) group meetings where we will build family connections and then a quarterly reward party where we will be celebrating our students' successes. Students will earn stars to attend the reward parties by meeting the expectations, however they may miss the reward party if they do not meet the goal. Instead they will attend a reteaching lesson where we will review the expectations and provide them strategies on how to better engage in their learning at school. Our goal is always to help them be successful each and every day at school and your partnership with us is key to that success!
Again I want to let families know that we have a large number of walkers and car riders this year so in order to keep all students safe at drop off and pick up, we are asking all parents to stay in their cars and pull all the way forward. If you need to buckle your child in, we ask that you pull forward to do this. When entering the parking lot, please use the crosswalk. This will help us to safely dismiss ALL students. Parents that are walking(from the neighborhood behind the school) to pick up their child are asked to stand behind the tree until your child walks to you. If you live in front of Slate Hill school and are walking to pick up your child, we ask that you wait on the grassy area for your child to cross the crosswalk to you.
Slate Hill Important Times to be sure your child can be an active and engaged learner!
Doors Open: 7:55am
START TIME is 8:10am, Students are marked tardy after 8:10am
Breakfast served from 7:55-8:10am
Dismissal begins at 2:50pm for all students
We hope to see many of you at our upcoming PTA meeting on September 7th!
Julie (=
Julie Gulley, Slate Hill Elementary Principal
Follow us on Twitter @Slatehillstars
Wilson Hill/Worthington Park/Slate Hill Cub Scout Pack 632
The foundation of Scouting is built on providing hands-on, interactive activities that lead a child down the path of character and leadership development. Our dedicated parent volunteers work with Scouts to help them get most of the program. We work on a host of skills, adventures and fun activities to help the scouts earn their loops and advance through the ranks!
We offer the Scouting Program for BOYS and GIRLS in grades K-5 and we pride ourselves in being a family-friendly Pack. Are you or your child interested in learning more? Come to our Sign Up Night on August 30, 2023 at 7 PM in the Wilson Hill cafeteria (enter through Door 12) or at www.pack632.com
Ready for Reading Volunteers
Counselor's Corner
Please click the button below for information from our School Counselor, Stefanee Loges and her school counseling interns, Mrs. Sammy Tomusko and Miss Clarke Fann!
Slate Hill PTA Corner
We hope that you will join our PTA this year and support great things that we are doing for our Slate Hill Stars! Please go to our PTA website and sign up today!
Our first PTA meeting is scheduled in the Slate Hill Library on September 7th at 7pm. All families are welcome and childcare is provided!
Look for information on our Mum fundraiser to come home during the week of August 28th!
Upcoming Events/Dates to Remember
August 28th-Sept. 11th: PTA Mum Sale (information will be coming home soon)
August 31st: Curriculum Night: Grades 1-2 (5-5:45) & Grades 3-5 (6-6:45)
September 4th: Labor Day (No School)
September 7th: 1st PTA meeting at 7pm in the Slate Hill Library
September 21st: McTeacher Night 5p-7p (E. Wilson Bridge Rd. location)
September 27th: Mum pick-up (PTA Fundraiser)
October 6th: PTA Fall Fun Fest from 5-7pm
October 11th: Picture Retake Day!
Have you completed your Emergency Data Review for your child?
Parents can access their own login credentials by clicking the Password Recovery link under Quick Links on the Worthington Schools main page. They enter their email address (it needs to be the email that we have on file for them) and will immediately get an email sent to them with their district-provided username and password, which they can use to login to the Parent Portal as well as Infinite Campus.
MyPayments Plus
My Payments Plus is where you will pay school fees, Full day Kindergarten tuition, school field trips and put money on your child's lunch account. Look under parent resources for this website.
For My Payments Plus, parents can find their child's 9-digit Student ID # by logging in to Infinite Campus and clicking on Today. The 9-digit student number is under student name, visible on both the app and when accessing Infinite Campus through the Parent Portal or the Infinite Campus website.
School Fees for the 2023-24:
Kindergarten: $24.00
Grade 1-3: $42.00
Grade 4-5: $36.00
If you feel you qualify for free and reduced lunch, we suggest you fill this form out online or print out a paper copy and turn into the office. If you qualify your student's fees or Kindergarten tuition could be free or reduced.
Food Service Information
School Meals
- School breakfast and lunch meals can be purchased for the 2023-24 school year at the following rates:
- Breakfast: $1.60 ($0.30 reduced price)
- Elementary Lunch: $2.75 ($0.40 reduced price)
- Lunches are NUT FEE since our schools are NUT FREE buildings.
Free and Reduced Meals
- Families are encouraged to apply for free and reduced meal benefits HERE. The application is available in 10 languages. Here is the link to the printable applications and the online applications should open soon on the website.
Lunch PINs
- Student PIN numbers can be found in the Parent Portal. We will be using student ids with bar codes soon where our students will be able to scan their id card for lunch to help our lunch lines move quicker.
Payment
- Families can continue to add money to lunch accounts through MyPaymentsPlus as they have in past years.
Sporting Event Information
Slate Hill Elementary School
Follow us on Instagram! @slatehillstars
Email: jgulley@wscloud.org
Website: https://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/Domain/21
Location: 7625 Alta View Boulevard, Columbus, OH, USA
Phone: 614-450-5000
Facebook: facebook.com/ourschool
Twitter: @SlateHillstars