DRE Weekly News
September 2, 2024
Reading Success Plans are required by Missouri legislation (Section 167.645, RSMo) for identifying students who have a substantial reading deficiency or are at risk for reading difficulties as early as possible. Once identified, teachers and reading interventionists can provide instructional support targeted to student needs, to monitor student progress and adjust instruction as needed. We are required by the state to collect and submit RSP data every February, beginning in the 23-24 school year and continuing this year.
This fall, teachers and reading interventionists will be conducting reading assessments with all students. These assessments help us plan lessons and identify students who might benefit from extra reading support. In addition, our building reading specialists will work with small groups of students. These flexible groupings are not the same as Reading Intervention, families will be contacted directly by their child's teacher if he/she qualifies for Reading Intervention.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your child's classroom teacher.
With our transition to Focus, we've heard from families that they're not receiving emails, either because they're going to spam or because they're not being delivered at all. This is due to the multiple email domains that are used based on the type of communication. For example, mass emails and individual communications come from different addresses.
We are working with the Focus Support team to address this issue and ensure families receive all district communications. Here are some steps that can be taken by our families:
- Mark the emails as "Not Spam"
- Adjust spam filters with their email provider or email application
- Emails will be delivered from the following email domains
Additionally, we are working to simplify this process by using a single email domain for all district communications sent through Focus. We expect this to be implemented within the next 2-3 weeks.
Five school districts in St. Charles County are collaborating with Pedal the Cause to fight cancer. Pedal the Cause is offering a $10 registration discount for students who attend one of the St. Charles County schools. Learn more.
Please consider partnering with our school by joining PTO! Our Parent Teacher Organization supports our school community in many ways, made possible by YOU! Each family membership is $10 annually.
We're excited to welcome the return of Room Parents at DRE! This process will be organized through PTO. More information will be coming home soon. Please add our first meeting to your calendars, Wednesday, September 11, at 6 p.m. in our DRE library.
Many thanks once again for the generosity of DRE friends and families for our Fall 2023 fundraiser allowing us to install two shade canopies on the playground.
If your child is ineligible for a bus and will be dismissed as a walker or bike rider, we will dismiss as two separate groups: students who live north of DRE (gym side of school) and students who live south of DRE (playground side of school). We ask that parents wait at the corner of the property for each side. We will not walk students across the exits and entrances of the parking. Each side has a bike rack and crosswalk supervised by school staff.
Walkers and bike riders should use the sidewalk along the fence on the gym side or walk through the grass along the fence on the playground side on each side for morning arrival. Please do not cross the parking lot entrances and exits. We are unable to staff the new City of O'Fallon crosswalk. As a family, if you choose to walk with your child using this crosswalk, you may walk with them through the parking lot, however, students are only permitted when walking independently to walk alongside the north and south entrances along the white fences.
Please refrain from reporting your child as a walker and parking in nearby neighborhoods to pick them up.
The safety of your children and our staff remains our highest priority!
