Weekly Update to Families

Dear Altoona Elementary Community,

We had a great week of learning and leading here at Altoona Elementary! In this update you will find the following:

1. 🍪 Cookie Dough Pick Up! Sunday from 1:00 to 7:00 pm! 🍪
2. UPDATE! November Nice! Food Drive!
3. Pajama Drive
4. PTA Updates -- Golf in the Halls -- New Date - Feb. 8! 📆
5. EFR -- Employee & Family Resources
6. Iowa School Performance Profile

REMINDER -- it will be a very short week with the Thanksgiving Holiday. There is NO SCHOOL on Wednesday, November 27 through Friday, November 29. School will resume on Monday, December 2.

Thank you for sharing your children with us! It is a pleasure to partner with you to realize the best possible education. We are better together! Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions, concerns, or feedback. I know we are on the same page in wanting our students to be as safe as possible and for our school to be the best it can be! Together, let's be the change! Our students deserve that of us!

🎉 ATTENDANCE MATTERS! We need our students at school every day! 🏆

Respectfully,

- Mr. Miller

Hello Amazing Rams,

This is Kendall and Evelyn and we are members of the Community Service Cabinet. Speaking for the whole committee, we want to thank you - teachers, students and families - for your donations for our Food Drive!

We thought we would be much lower in our collection. We were surprised by how many items we raised and we were also surprised about the size of the items. For example, some people brought pasta mixes that would feed an entire family. Some people brought large sizes of cereal that could feed a family of four for a week. There were even items that were sensitive to food allergies and gluten free.

Whether you brought one can, a Kool-aid mix or many larger items, all were important. We were able to deliver 752 pounds (1,528 items) of food to Caring Hands! 5th grade was the grade level that brought the most items and Mrs. Bruner's 2nd grade class made and met the most goals. Those classes will win a popcorn party!

Thanks again for raising so many food items to support Caring Hands. Caring Hands is a local food pantry that supports our SEP families and is always taking donations. We look forward to our next Community Service project knowing we have your support!

Kendall Litwiler and Evelyn Swalwell

The Iowa School Performance Profiles is an online tool showing how public schools performed on required measures. The website was developed to meet both federal and state requirements for publishing online school report cards: The federal Every Student Succeeds Act and House File 215 (ESSA), adopted by Iowa lawmakers in 2013.

The website includes:

• Scores on school accountability measures required under ESSA
• Ratings based on those scores: Exceptional, High Performing, Commendable, Acceptable, Needs Improvement, and Priority
• Identification of schools for support and improvement based on accountability scores (Comprehensive and Targeted schools)
• Additional education data that must be reported by law but do not figure into school accountability scores

To learn more about school scores, measures, rankings and other data, visit the “Help” section for a user guide, technical guide and other resources.

Here is how Altoona Elementary scored. We are proud of our efforts all around... our students, our staff, and our supportive families. By continuing to partner, we will continue to do great things for our students.

🥞🍳🥓 8:25 am -- Breakfast students may enter the building for breakfast.
Breakfast is served until 8:45 am.

🏫 ⏰ 8:30 am -- School doors open

🏫 ⏰ 8:45 am -- Tardy Bell Rings

🏫 ⏰ 3:35 pm -- Students dismissed

🏫 ⏰ Every Wednesday dismissal is at 1:35 pm

Altoona Elementary School

Principal: Mr. Morgan Miller

Administrative Assistants: Mrs. Kacie Lane & Mrs. Emily Hodges

School Counselor: Mrs. Jane Kayser

Main Office: 515-967-3771

Website: https://www.southeastpolk.org/school/altoona-elementary/

Location: 301 6th Street SW, Altoona, Iowa 50009

Facebook: @sep_AltoonaElem

Twitter: @sep_AltoonaElem