Hello Davis Drive Elementary families,

What a wonderful 5 days of school this week! Your children are doing an amazing job in their classrooms learning and following SWIM expectations (Self control, Winning attitude, Integrity, Maintain safety). Next week we kick off Positivity Project. Please see the link below for more information on the Positivity Project.

A reminder for AM carpool- please do not turn left out onto Davis Drive as this slows down the drop off of students (and also slows the buses who need to turn left to complete their other routes in a timely fashion). Also, as you saw on Friday, all of walkers become carpool riders which means we have many more cars. On those days please plan to leave your house earlier so children can be in their classrooms at 7:45am which is the start of the instructional day.

WRAL Viewers Choice award nominations have opened. This is the first step in the process where if DDE has enough votes in the Education Section, we will be in the finals for a vote. We won last year in the area of Elementary School and Administrator as well as a finalist for teacher. Link is below.

When signing your student in late, please make sure you put your students name and not parent name. We want to make sure their attendance is correct and if we don't have the students' name, they may be marked absent.

A reminder for this week: Friday September 20th is a Teacher Workday, so there is no school for students.

The WCPSS guidelines for carpool safety are:

Driver Guidelines for Carpool Safety

• Maintain a speed of 5 mph or less on campus.

• Pull up to the designated station as soon as the driver in front of you departs.

• Remain in your car.

• All students must exit and enter the right side (passenger side) of the vehicle.

• Refrain from using cell phones when dropping off or picking up your child.

A few other reminders to help arrival and dismissal process:

• Put on your flashers if your child needs help exiting the car
• Do not turn left onto Davis Drive when exiting carpool (slows down the flow of traffic)
• Please review road safety guidelines with your child to ensure they look both ways before entering roads
• Parents, when picking up students from Walker Pods, please wait in the immediate area and not on recess areas since students are still outside on parts of our campus. We have placed a sandwich board by Walker Pod 1 to easily identify the area not to pass.

Barb Fair

Fall Picture Day is October 1st!

Families: Please complete this information receive updates via email regarding your child's school portraits.

If you are willing to donate an extra package of snacks for our school, please send them to the counselors. We often have students who forget to bring a snack or do not eat breakfast. Snacks might include pretzels, granola bars, peanut butter crackers, chex mix, popcorn, and trail mix. We really appreciate your help!

1. General meeting Sept 19th - Please include the graphic attached and the following copy (feel free to tweak - or skip since it's in the above graphic and only run the link next wee)
• Sept 19th @ 5p - Come learn about our goals for the year, budget, and fundraising plans. Help us build community and keep our school great.
  https://meet.google.com/qvb-ffts-oge

Click below to find out what our focus is each week for the Positivity Project

Email: bfair@wcpss.net
Website: https://www.wcpss.net/davisdrivees
Location: 2151 Davis Drive, Cary, NC, USA
Phone: 919-387-2130
Twitter: @DDEDolphins