CPA Tiger Talk

Monday April 14: Board of Directors Meeting, 6pm

Tuesday April 15-Thursday April 17: MCA Reading Testing for grades 3-8

Tuesday April 22-Thursday April 24: MCA Math Testing for grades 3-8 & 11, MCA Reading Testing for grade 10

Tuesday April 29-Wednesday April 30: MCA Science Testing for grades 5 & 10

Friday May 9: Digital Learning Day for Grades 5-12

Friday May 9: No School for PreK-4th Grade Students

Saturday May 10: CPA Prom (see below)

Monday May 12: Board of Directors Meeting, 6pm

Thursday May 15: Spring Concert & Annual Meeting, 6pm

Saturday May 17: CPA Walk/Run at Phalen Lake (see below)

Monday May 26: No School: Memorial Day

Thursday May 29: Last Day of School for PreK & 12th Grade Students

Monday June 2: Last Day of School for Kindergarten Students

Tuesday June 3: Last Day of School for Grades 1-11

Tuesday June 3: Early Release Day (dismissal at 12:30pm)

Wednesday June 4: Last Day for Staff

For the full 2024-2025 CPA Calendar, please visit the CPA website.

Breakfast is available each day to all students for free, and the program allows students to eat in the classroom with their friends.

Breakfast is available to all students 7:40-8:30am every school day.

Please encourage your students to arrive on time and eat a free breakfast!

All Minnesota students are able to receive a free lunch every day. The free lunch includes an unlimited salad bar to ensure no student goes hungry. Students who wish to purchase a second lunch may do so. Students or staff can add money to their lunch account using the SchoolPay system.

Current breakfast and lunch menus can be found on the CPA website.

Make sure you are following CPA on social media to see all the amazing things that are happening at our school!

Follow CPATigers on Facebook and Instagram and subscribe to Rusty the CPA Tiger on Youtube!

CPA students in 3rd through 8th grade will be taking the Reading MCA this week. MCA exams are an important way for students to demonstrate their learning. Please encourage your student to do their best work.

Attendance is extremely important during the MCAs and students should plan to get a good night sleep and eat a healthy breakfast prior to testing.

Mark your calendars! The 2025 CPA Walk/Run will take place on Saturday May 17 at the Phalen Lake Picnic Pavilion! Check-in begins at 8:30am and the Walk/Run begins at 9:10am.

The CPA Walk/Run is a fun and free event where CPA families and staff gather for fresh air, physical activity, and fun. The event features a 5K Walk/Run, free food, and door prizes. So mark your calendars and join us for the 2025 CPA Walk/Run!

8th grade students and younger must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Walk/Run T-Shirts are on sale now! Walk/Run T-Shirts cost $10 and can be worn as part of the CPA uniform. The 2025 CPA Walk/Run T-Shirt (pictured here) was designed by CPA 5th grader Hser Phar Htoo!

Students will receive an order form from their teachers. All order forms and payment are due to the CPA office by Friday April 25. PLEASE SEND EXACT CASH ONLY. Extra order forms can be dowloaded here or picked up in the CPA office.

The CPA Walk/Run is on Saturday May 17, and we need lots of volunteers to make it happen! All volunteers need to be available 8:00AM-12:00PM on Saturday May 17. Volunteers must be high school age or older.

As a thank you, volunteers will receive a free Walk/Run shirt. Shirt orders are due on Friday April 25. Any volunteers who sign up after that time will receive a free shirt while supplies last.

High School students or adults who would like to volunteer at the Walk/Run can sign up by completing this form. Thank you for your support!

CPA families, please click this link to complete the Annual CPA Family Survey by May 1. This survey should take 10-15 minutes to complete.

We are very interested in your opinion about your experience with Community of Peace Academy. If you have more than one child attending CPA, please give answers that reflect your overall experience. Your answers will be confidential.

Please read each question carefully. We appreciate you taking the time to do the survey.

Get your child ready for school! Early childhood screening helps you:

• See how your child is doing
• Find potential health and developmental concerns that may cause barriers to your child's learning
• Connect you and your child to programs and resources to support healthy growth and development.

Contact ECS for a FREE screening for your child age 3, 4, or 5 at ECScreening@spps.org or 651-632-3746. For more information or for translated messages, click here!

When: Saturday May 10 6:30-10:00pm (doors close at 7:30pm)

Where: MN Humanities Center (987 Ivy E., St Paul 55106)

Who: CPA Juniors & Seniors

Ticket Cost: $35 from April 14-18, $40 from April 18-30

Did you know: the #1 reason people enroll at CPA is because a friend or family member recommended it?

We currently have openings, and we are offering a $50 gift card as a thank you for current CPA families who refer new families that enroll and attend CPA.

Who do you know? Tell them to check us out, and make sure they tell us you sent them!

CPA partners with SchoolNow for mass communications. Here's how it works:

• In urgent situations, such as snow days, reminders about planned school closures, and unexpected incidents, we will communicate with phone calls or texts (you can choose your preferred method)

• For general communications, such as the weekly Tiger Talk newsletter and invitations for special events, we will communicate via email (you can choose to opt out of this service)

Visit the SchoolNow page to update your phone number and email address. You will need to log in with the email address or phone number that is on file with the school, because this secure system pulls family information directly from our database. If you are unable to log in, please ensure the school office has your correct contact information.

Please note that we cannot use this system to contact students directly from our database. However, families can add as many additional phone numbers as desired. If students have their own phone and/or email address and wish to receive communications, their families can add those by logging into SchoolNow.

CPA partners with a transportation management company called 4MATIV. Please call or text the transportation hotline at 651-478-2482 if you have any of the following:

• Daily transportation changes (cutoff 12pm)
• Questions about pickup or drop off
• Questions about the current location of your vehicle
• Transportation concerns

If you are planning on picking up your student early from school, you must notify the office by 2:00pm.

• PreK-8th Grade: 651-776-5151
• 9-12th Grade: 651-280-4589

To change your student's bus arrangements (either from bus to pick-up OR from pick-up to bus) you must call 651-280-4588 by 1:30pm.

After 1:30pm, staff are attending to students for end-of-day procedures and are unavailable to deliver messages to students.

We discourage parents from picking up their children ten or fifteen minutes before dismissal time. This is a valuable time when teachers are putting closure to the day and it is very distracting to the children when the classroom is receiving phone calls to have a student sent to the office. We want ALL of our students to receive the optimum learning environment and appreciate your understanding in this matter.

CPA students are expected to in uniform every day for school. Families, please help ensure your children are wearing proper uniform clothing each day.

All students must wear:

• A CPA shirt as the outermost layer
• Blue, Black, Khaki or Gray Solid Color Pants or Shorts
• OR Navy Uniform Jumper, Skirt or Skort (elementary only)

Please review the full uniform policy in our Family Handbook for further details. Thank you!

CPA partners with the Every Meal program to provide free weekend food bags for interested families. Paper registration forms are available in the office. Families can also sign up electronically by completing this form.

To learn more about the Every Meal program or to make a donation to support their work, please visit the Every Meal website.

Please let us know if your child is absent from school. Families can report absences in any of the following ways:

• Elementary School Attendance Line: 651-280-4534
• Middle School Attendance Line: 651-289-3740
• High School Attendance Line: 651-280-4535
• Email: CPAAttendance@cpapk12.org
• Attendance Online Form: Available through the CPA Website

The schoolwide Lost & Found is located in the cafeteria. Please encourage your students to check for any missing items as soon as they are lost. All items that remain in the Lost and Found on the first day of each month will be discarded or donated. Thank you!

This newsletter can be auto-translated using the buttons on the top right of the page.

If you prefer, our liaisons will be happy to translate or explain any announcements in Tiger Talk or answer any questions you have about CPA. Contact Maikao Lee at 651-280-4545 (Hmong), Mariana Majil at 651-289-3742 (Spanish), or Paw Nay Bu at 651-280-4591 (Karen) for support.

Teaching Peace. Building Community. Developing Character.

Website: cpapk12.org
Location: 471 Magnolia Avenue East, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone: 651-776-5151
Facebook: facebook.com/CPATigers