Midland Messenger

Email: midland@fpschools.org
Website: http://midland.fpschools.org/
Location: Midland Elementary School, 105th Street East, Tacoma, WA, USA
Phone: 253-298-4500
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Midland-Elementary-Mustangs-112865059416899/?ref=settings

PLEASE LOOK FOR THIS NEWSLETTER IN YOUR EMAIL EVERY MONDAY MORNING FOR IMPORTANT MIDLAND INFORMATION!

This is Student-Led Conference week. We have adopted a benchmarking tool called Aimsweb+ to help your child's teacher understand each students' areas of strength and areas for growth in both reading and math. Your child has goals for the year based on this data, along with their scores on their first math and reading assessments. This information will be shared with you at your child's conference. We trust that your time with your child and their teacher will be helpful to understand what will be learned this year.

I look forward to seeing you at Midland this week! Remember that there is no school on Monday, October 7th for teacher learning, and the remainder of the week are 11:55am dismissal days!

💗 Ms. Frederick

Monday - No School

Tuesday - Green

Wednesday - Red

Thursday - Red

Friday - Blue

Oct. 7 ~ No School for Teacher Training

Oct. 8-11 ~ 11:55 Dismissal for Conference Week

Oct. 16 ~ 1:55 Dismissal

Oct. 17 ~ Great ShakeOut 2024 (Earthquake Drill)

Oct. 17 ~ Fall Reading Night: 5:30-6:30 pm

Oct. 23 ~ 1:55 Dismissal

Oct. 30 ~ 1:55 Dismissal

**For additional future scheduled activities, please check out our Midland calendar at https://midland.fpschools.org/**

Fall Conferences are October 8th-11th.

Students will have early dismissal at 11:55 during this week.

Please make sure to schedule a conference time with your child's teacher.

Scholastic Book Fair will be held in our library the week of Conferences, before school each day, and after school Tuesday through Friday. Please stop by and purchase a book for your child and help our library.

Bookfair hours:

Tuesday, 10/8 8:00–8:40 am, 12:00-4:00 pm

Wednesday, 10/9 8:00-8:40 am, 12:00-7:00 pm

Thursday, 10/10 8:00-8:40 am, 12:00-4:00 pm

Friday, 10/11 8:00-8:40 am, 12:00-1:00 pm

Serving students at ALL 8 Elementary Schools

Right at School will operate before and afterschool programs at all eight Franklin Pierce elementary schools! Right at School offers a safe environment for students to learn, to play, and to grow!

If you are interested in volunteering as a chaperone for field trips or in any other capacity that may come up, please complete the volunteer application as soon as possible. It may take up to two weeks to process an application and we don't want you to be left out of a volunteer opportunity because you are not approved yet! Click here to begin your volunteer application. If you were cleared as a volunteer last year, please complete a new application. Volunteer applications must be completed every year.

Stay in the know with the PTO! You can catch what's happening in the weekly newsletter as well as the PTO Bulletin Board in the main hallway!

If you'd like to know more about what the PTO does you can send an email to midlandspto@gmail.com

Would you like to know when your student’s bus is going to be late or what is happening?
Once you know your child's route, you should consider signing up for bus route notifications using Bus Bulletin. Bus Bulletin will send you text messages to your cell phone with real-time updates on your child's route. For instance, if your child's route is running late, Bus Bulletin will let you know.

How to sign-up to use Bus Bulletin:

• Log onto the website http://busbulletin.com/parents/ or click on the QR code and look to the right side of your screen. Click on “Sign In”, click on "Register Here," and answer the simple prompts. You will provide your name, your email address, a password, and select Franklin Pierce Schools. Then enter the code on the screen, accept the rules of use, and finally click on Submit.
• You will then be asked to select the route, which is written in code:
• The first two numbers are the ROUTE NUMBER, and the letters are the SCHOOL abbreviation:
• Preschool: HDS for Head Start and ELC
• Primary: BD, CA, CH, CO, ELM, HA, JS, MD
• Secondary: FMS, FPHS, KMS, WHS, GATES
• Example: 19MD is route 19, Midland Elementary School.

Hello Parents,

SchoolStore is a safe and easy way for our school to raise funds for essential tools our students and teachers need to succeed.

The SchoolStore fundraiser is 100% online so there is NO face-to-face selling, handling money, or delivering products. Your participation will take less than 12 minutes, and there are exciting prizes to make it fun for the students.

Here is all you need to do to participate:

1. Go to https://www.schoolstore.net/sid.t?0000371254 to sign up.

2. Send form emails inviting family, friends, and co-workers to support your child.

3. Return the Envelope with the Student Prize Code to school for your child to get their fun participation prize.

Be sure to ask your child for the Parent Envelope tonight. Your participation will make a difference for our school and teachers!

**See Below for a List of Merchants**

Franklin Pierce Schools has a resource center for our families. You will find information and help for many situations and needs - food, diapers, formula, community referrals, and more.

Click here to access the Family Resource Center website

Franklin Pierce Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

Questions and complaints of alleged discrimination should be directed to James Hester, Compliance Coordinator for State and Civil Rights Laws; Wendy Malich, Title IX Officer; or John Sander, 504/ADA Coordinator at 315 129th ST S, Tacoma, WA 98444-5099 or at (253)298-3000.