Conway Catch-Up
Summer Edition #2
Goooooood Morning #OneFamily!
Happy Monday! I hope you have a wonderful Fall weekend and enjoyed the extra hour sleep! Welcome back to another great week here at Conway!
Let's get this week rollin':
Here is a rundown of the latest information to keep you in the know!
Veterans Day Celebration on November 8th: Last call for any of our #OneFamily Veterans or actively duty Military to join us for our Veterans Day celebration on Friday. Please RSVP here so you can be pre-registered and don't have to wait in a long line. See flyer below for more details. If you can volunteer at this event to help us set up, serve food, or tear down, we would be grateful. Click HERE to volunteer.
NO School Tuesday for Election Day.
Part time Paraprofessional Position: We are looking for an awesome person that would love to work with kiddos for intervention groups part time. From 8:00 - 11:45 AM Monday - Friday. If you are interested, please email me.
American Legion Food Collection: We are supporting the American Legion for the holidays. We would love for your family to help by sending in food items (see poster below). Thanks so much!
Playground and field after hours - Our field and playground is still open for the public to use after school hours. We have a new electronic gate now on the gate by the cottages. However, we will leave the gate to the right of the shed unlocked after hours. In addition, we will continue to leave the gates to Walker Path A (back side of the building) unlocked after hours so you can access from that direction as well.
Native American Heritage Month kicked off on Friday: Here is the video from announcements. A huge thank you to Lisa Deresz for decorating our school for this month.
Mark Your Calendars:
- November 5th: No School Today - Election Day
- November 8th: Veteran's Day Celebration from 7:45 AM - 11:00 AM. Ceremony begins at 9:00 AM.
- November 11th: No School Today for Veterans Day
- November 14th: 6:00 - 8:00 - PTA Bingo Night
- November 27-30: Thanksgiving Break
- December 14: 8:00 -
- 10:00 Santa Pancake Breakfast.
- 8:00 - 1:00 - Craft Fair
Have an awesome week!
Make sure to vote tomorrow!
JR
Upcoming Events
Native American Heritage Month
- Monday: Great day to be at Conway Cougar!
- Tuesday:
- No School for Election Day
- Wednesday:
- Great day to be a Conway Cougar.
- Thursday:
- 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Girls on the Run
- 3:30 - 4:30 - Sportsmanship Club
- Mello Mushroom PTA Spirit Night
- Friday:
- Veterans Day Celebration.
- 7:45 - 8:45 -Veterans and Active Military #OneFamily members arrive and are served breakfast in the library. Your children can come down to join you after they check in with their teacher.
- 8:45 - 9:00 - Parade to the gym begins.
- 9:00 - 10:00 - Ceremony
- 10:00 - Final Parade around the building and open refreshments in the library
- FriYAY!
- Monday, November 11th: No School for Veterans Day
PTA News
Bingo!!!!! We’re bringing back BINGO at Conway and it’s a night you don’t want to miss!!! We’ve got some awesome prizes and a 50/50 raffle, along with several food trucks!! Bingo immediately follows our PTA meeting on Thursday, November 14th. So stop in to hear what the PTA has coming up and then head to Bingo!! Pre-sale bingo card forms will be going home today!! We’re looking for a few volunteers to help out. You can sign up here:
https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/508084EA5AA2DA5F94-52764958-bingo
Vendor and Craft Fair: Seize the opportunity to showcase your products at our 10th Annual Craft/Vendor Fair. You can email or mail in your applications with a Check or Cash or you can pay using this link. You can also scan and email your applications and any questions to to conwayespta@gmail.com or fill out the online form here.
News from the Community
High School Redistricting Community Meeting - This community will want to keep an eye on this process for HS redistricting.
Stafford Schools will host Division-Wide Redistricting Meetings to address the redistricting process due to the construction of High School 6, which will affect all high schools in the division. These meetings will allow parents, guardians, and other stakeholders to learn more about the proposed redistricting plans and to provide feedback to Planning Staff and the School Board. We encourage all families to attend these meetings to learn more and share your thoughts as we plan for the future:
- October 1, 7 PM – Stafford High School (Community Meeting #2)
- October 30, 6 PM – Mountain View High School (Community Meeting #3)
- November 12, 7PM – Bandy Administration Building (Public Hearing)
We have created a new mapping tool that allows families to input their address and overlay the different redistricting scenarios to see how their household might be impacted. Families should use the layers selection tool on the right of the map to review each scenario.
Final action on the redistricting plan will be taken by the School Board on December 10, 2024. The new high school boundaries will take effect in August 2026. Please feel free to share this information with students and families as needed, and do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.
Old but Still Good Info
- Want to run a club? We are looking to bring some great after school clubs for our kids. But, we need your help. If you have something that you are passionate about or have a unique talent that you would like to help consider teaching to kids, we would love to hear from you. We will have a staff member there with you as an advisor, but you would have the ability to teach kiddos. Please email Jessica Olesevich you are interested.
Free or Reduced Lunch Application: If your family is in need of free or reduced prices for lunches, please visit this page for details on how to apply. Unfortunately, this is something that you have to redo every year. I believe you will have until the end of September to complete this form if they qualified last year. See more information below on the flyer.
- Simplified Attendance Reporting: In our ongoing efforts to enhance efficiency and convenience, all attendance will now be reported using ParentVUE. This centralized platform will provide parents with a user-friendly, one-stop location to submit attendance updates quickly and easily for the entire family. By consolidating this process into ParentVUE, we aim to simplify absence reporting for parents and ensure accurate attendance records for our schools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzRfZTHVro4&t=10s
Want to know more about Conway, see the schedule for next year, or check out information about lunch? Look no further. Click HERE for those details.
ParentVue
Instructions from SCPS on how to use: Click HERE
Family Resources
Report card Information for Parents: Wondering about your child's progress on the last report card? Wondering what something means? Click on the link below for help with what the academic codes mean, what your kiddo learned and were assessed each quarter, and what standard based grading is: https://www.staffordschools.net/k5grading
- Reading Resources: Use this document below to find ways to support your kiddo's reading anytime of year. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m8rFwzDZdI_vTFo-8ujnzPgFwPFt10Yi7d00lQ2a8sI/edit
Math Resources: Use this document below to help support your child's math learning anytime of year. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GsfYAmeePjmBQft77YCyXMcXO97hDlOzq9dGN85ajN0/edit?usp=sharing
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