News You Can Use

Saturday, January 11, 2025

• Sports
• A & B C Quarters/Semis @ Mosley, Quest & Vista Peak 8:00 AM

Monday, January 13, 2025 - B Day

• Clubs
• K-3 Art Club 2:30-4:00 pm
• Elementary 4th & 5th Music Club 2:30-3:30 pm

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - A Day

• Clubs
• Art Club - 4th & 5th 2:30-4:00 pm
• Odyssey of the Mind 2:30-3:30 & 6:00-7:00 pm
• Events
• World's Finest Chocolate Assembly (MS 7:30am / K-2 1:45 / 3-5 1:00 pm)
• PTA Meeting 6:00 pm Technology Lab

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - B Day

• Clubs
• Art Sculpture Club 2:30-4:00 pm
• Music Studio Club - 6th through 8th Grade 2:30-3:30 p.m.
• Events
• World's Finest Candy Sale Begins
• Last day to change electives

Thursday, January 16, 2025 - A Day

• Events
• 5th Grade Stockshow Field Trip 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
• GlowMundo Parent Dialogues 5:00 p.m.

Friday, January 17, 2025 - B Day

• Clubs

• Music Studio Club - 6th through 8th Grade 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 18, 2025

• Sports
• A, B & C Volleyball Championships 8:00 AM @ Rangeview

1/20 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day- No Classes

1/22 - Kindergarten Field Trip Arvada Center 9:30-1:30pm

1/22 - 5th Grade CalWood Parent Info. Mtg. 5pm

1/23 - Rangeview H.S. Presentation 7:45-8:10 am

1/30 - Girl’s Volleyball 5:00-6:30pm

ACCESS:

A few students at Quest will be taking the English proficiency assessment (ACCESS) in January. The window for this will be from January 13 - February 14th.

8th graders Practice PSAT:

8th graders at Quest will be taking the Practice PSAT during the week of January 27. IT is important for all 8th-grade students to take this exam, as high schools use this information for class placement in 9th grade.

We are evaluating applications for students interested in attending Aurora Quest K-8 next fall.

Because student enrollment here is limited, it is important to know the plans of our current students. (Remember: Aurora Quest students DO NOT need to reapply to Quest for next year). We have not yet heard from your family about what your plans are for next school year

Would you please take a moment to fill out the form below to let us know your plans for next fall?

We realize that plans can change, but this will give us a basis for establishing our classrooms and hiring our staff for next year.

• Plans for 25-26 School Year
• Planes de Inscripción a Aurora Quest K-8 para el Año Escolar 2025-26

Please complete the form by Friday, January 24, 2025.

Thank you!

Student Council works hard to provide activities for our students. In order to help with this they will be selling World's Finest Chocolate which kicks off this week. We will have introductory assemblies by grade level will be Tuesday, January 14th.

A permission slip will go home and once it is signed and turned in your student will get their box of chocolates along with their prize just for signing up. Each bar costs $1. More information to come home once we have our kickoff assembly. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Norovirus is spreading rapidly, shutting down hospital units, closing schools for deep cleaning, and causing lost workdays. Pediatric clinics and pediatric EDs are overrun with sick children.

Any child with nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea needs to stay home until there has not been any nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea for 24-hours without giving any medicine. Children with nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea will be sent home. Many people with norovirus do not have fever or muscle ache as this is not stomach flu.

The respiratory triple threat of COVID, Flu, and RSV is back also. Children may come to school with a cough and nasal congestion but must stay home with a fever above 100.4. Children need to be fever free for 24 hours without fever reducing medicine. It is not too late to get a flu shot.

RSV vaccines are available for persons of a certain age.

Please do NOT be confident in your hand sanitizer--it is not the killing machine you want. Use soap, water, and friction. Sing happy birthday twice while scrubbing with soap. If you have artificial nails scrub scrub scrub under them. Seriously, this stuff is nasty.

One more vaccine plug. Roald Dahl’s (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and more) daughter died as a young child of measles encephalitis in 1962. This is preventable with the MMR vaccinations. Children unvaccinated for measles have the risk of hospitalization, death, permanent hearing loss, and pneumonia. Please vaccinate your children.

Let me know how I can help.

Susan Golden MSN RN

303-316-1537

Dates to Look Out For:

-Next PTA meeting is January 14th 6-7

PTA Swag

The wait is over! We have a long sleeve black tees in stock for $25 and embroidered beanies for $15. Our tees are adult sizing S-XXL. There is a sample in the glass case at the school entrance of both items. We also have PTA short sleeve tees in minimal quantities. Check out our FB page for pictures

Where does the money go?

PTA looks very different from what we thought, until we joined and learned all the stuff that PTA either supports or is responsible for funding throughout the school year. We provide the funds for transportation to field trips, which has increased by 50% in the last year. We provide teachers with a budget for classroom enrichment as well as a small allowance for class supplies. We were able to have lunch catered using a local small business as part of our teacher appreciation line item in our budget. If you need Mexican Food catered or would like to visit the food truck, check out North of the Border Grill.

King Soopers Rewards: (EASIEST way to passively fundraise without trying!)

Help our school by buying your groceries! This is the easiest fundraiser and takes less than 10 minutes to set up so sign up if you haven't already. A huge THANK YOU to our current participants!! 181 families are currently contributing money towards our school.

• Go to: www.kingsooperscommunityrewards.com

• Click on Enroll Now.

• Sign in to your account.

• Click on Community Rewards

Enter Aurora Quest K8 PTA or “BX352”

Shop as usual using your rewards card or alternate ID

We Have A Facebook Group!

Wondering what is going on? Curious about upcoming events? Wanting to volunteer during fundraisers or at school events but not sure how? This is your one stop shop for how to support the school, fundraisers and overall school community. Please be sure to answer the questions when you ask to join. It's a way that we ensure that our Quest information stays within our community.

www.facebook.com/groups/1743613152521317/

Thank You for all you do to help grow and nurture our community!