Cambridge Elementary

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March 5 Spring Pictures- wear your best outfit and smile (uniforms not required)

March 6 3:15 PM SAC Meeting in the Media Center. All are welcome

March 14 No School Teacher Work Day

March 17-21 No School Spring Break

March 27 5:30pm Family Fun Night

March 28 and 31 3rd Quarter Success Celebrations- see dates and times below

April 1 FAST Writing for grades 4-6 Please be on time

April 3 3:15 SAC meeting in the Media Center. All are welcome

April 3 5:30 PM Transition to Kindergarten meeting for incoming Cambridge Kindergarten students and families

End of Year Testing dates (Please be on time)

April 22 STAR Reading PM 3 for grades PreK-2

April 23 STAR Math for grades K-2

May 1 FAST PM 3 ELA for grades 3-6

May 6 FAST PM 3 Math for grades 3-6

May 13 FCAT Science for 5th grade only

Teachers will notify families if their child is receiving an award. Please arrive well before the beginning of the ceremony in order to sign in with ID at the front office.

Friday March 28

8:20 Kindergarten

8:40 1st grade

9:00 2nd grade

9:20 3rd grade

Monday March 31

8:20 6th grade

8:40 4th grade

9:00 5th grade

Our character traits for March are mentorship and citizenship. Both of these traits require we care about others and our community in order to show them. Being a mentor means helping and supporting others in their areas of need and citizenship means caring and supporting one’s community. Our staff show their citizenship to the Cambridge community daily through their dedication and consistency to our students and families. Our families and students show their love for our school by attending and engaging in our night events, providing feedback, asking questions, and volunteering at the school. Our community involves more than just Cocoa and our school. We have great business partners and Merritt Island’s Georgianna Church, is a huge supporter of our community. As the saying goes, “It takes a village….”

We will have hands on Science based activities from the Orlando Science Center on Thursday March 27. Come join us starting at 5:30pm in the cafeteria.

On Feb 26 our second graders participated in an amazing STEM program. They worked with folks from our Space Force to learn about rockets, satellites and STEM Careers. They even got to build and launch rockets! What an amazing experience brought to us through the Title I program.

You may have noticed our covered blacktop area complete with basketball goals, hopscotch, lights and fans is now complete.

Next up? New roof, drainage, and intercoms. All this is thanks to our Sales Tax initiative. Thank you!

Thank you to EckerdConnect for bringing DEZ to speak with our 6th graders and paint his 4th mural at Cambridge!

One of our areas to work on is fluency- the rate of words read correctly in a minute. We need YOU to help your child increase their fluency by listening to them read, encouraging them to read EVERY night.

When we read fluently, we can understand what we are reading.

Teachers will be sending home passages with students to practice each night. This should take LESS than 5 minutes. Each night your child's prosody (expression) should improve as well as the rate as which they read (fluency)

You child should be able to tell you how many words they can read correctly in a minute NOW and what the target is for the end of the year.

Students may arrive starting at 7:30. There is no supervision before that time.

Dismissal- if you need to make a change to your child's way home, we must have a handwritten note from the parent. We cannot take transportation changes over the phone or email. This is for your child's safety.

If you are walking up to the bike rack to meet your child or walking to the office to check a child out, please use our sidewalks as we have cars, daycare vans and school bus all moving out the gate. Your safety is important to us.

VPK-grade 5 students who are not yet reading on grade level can apply to receive free books and reading activities each month during the school year. Students can choose books that match their interest. Books are available in English and Spanish. Visit https://www.newworldsreading.com/en/ to see eligibility requirements. It takes 5 minutes to apply!

When your K-5 child completes a Lexia level (reading), they receive a certificate. At the bottom of the certificate you will see a section called AT HOME. This gives you some ideas of how to practice and support your child.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires that a Local Educational Agency prepare and disseminate an annual Local Educational Agency report card and provide information on state, local, and school performance and progress in an understandable and uniform format.

District and School grades provide an easily understandable way to measure the performance of a school. Parents and the public can use the grades and their components to understand how well each district and/or school is serving its students. District and school grades for the 2022-2023 school year serve as an Informational Baseline using the new assessment cut scores.

Use the links provided below to view either the 2023-2024 Brevard School District Report Card or Cambridge's School Report Card. If you would like a printed copy or need translation assistance, please notify the front office.

Cambridge’s Report Card Link: Cambridge Elementary Magnet School Report Card (fldoe.org)

District Report Card Link: https://edudata.fldoe.org/ReportCards/Schools.html?school=0000&district=05

We are a UNIFORM school. Students wear a plain red, black or white tshirt (no writing or logos) and black, khaki, or blue jean shorts, pants, skorts. Students may also wear shirts with the Cambridge logo embroidered or printed on them. LEGGINGS may NOT be worn as pants, but MAY be worn under pants, dresses, shorts. Crocs, slides, flip flops, and sandals without a back are not part of our uniform or the BPS elementary dress code. Please have your child wear tennis shoes as they have recess and PE.

The Brevard County School Board approved Cambridge’s School Improvement Plan which also serves as our Title I plan. Please take a minute to review our school’s plan under the "About Us" section of the school website. We also have the plan in our Title I notebook in the front office. Copies of this document will be made available upon request and if you would like the document translated please contact the front office.

SpeakOut Hotline is designed to help you anonymously report any threatening behavior or situation that endangers you, your friends, family, community, or your school campus. Reporting isn't "snitching", reporting is when you need to keep yourself or someone you know safe from threats, harmful behaviors, or dangerous situations. By guaranteeing a caller's anonymity, SpeakOut allows the caller to give information without the fear of retribution.

Fortify is a suspicious activity reporting tool that allows you to instantly relay information to appropriate law enforcement agencies and school officials.