Remote Learning Material Pick-Up Thursdays
We will be designating Thursdays from 4-5pm as the Remote Material Pick Up Day for all remote students (K-12). Material pick-up will be held in the front parking lot of Ruben A. Cirillo High School. Teachers will be communicating with you or your student directly each week if there are items that need to be picked up.
Free Breakfast & Lunch
All students attending school in-person or remotely are eligible for a free breakfast and a free lunch each school day as per the current USDA guidelines. You do not need to sign up to participate on the days your child is attending school in person, however, if you would like to participate on the days your child is learning remotely, you will need to fill out the following form for meal delivery:
Sign Up Form: Student Meal Delivery for Remote and Hybrid Days
You can also email our Director of Food Service, Lori Brown, at LBrown@gananda.org to participate.
COVID-19 Weekly Health Screening Form
Gananda Central School District is required to have a COVID-19 Health Screening Form completed for each student per New York State Department of Health. At this time, we only require this form to be completed once per week. The Covid-19 Health Screening Form will be available to complete beginning at 7pm each Sunday evening on ParentSquare.
Once the form is available, you will see a "Complete Health Screening" link at the top of ParentSquare if you log in on your desktop and/or in the app. Please complete this form by 10am each Monday. This only pertains to our students attending classes in person during the week.
Here Come the Bus is now Active
- Your child(ren)'s student ID number(s). Student ID numbers can be found by logging into the Parent Portal. Please note: If your student's id is only four digits, you will need to add a zero to the front of the number. For example: Joe Student's ID is: 4357. To register Joe, you will need to type in: 04357.
- The School Code: 84247.
Parents can download the app for free directly to their smartphone or tablet, or they can access the information on the Here Comes The Bus website.
Public Hearing: District School Safety Plan
This will be a review of the District-wide School Safety Plan. The full plan is available for review on our website. Any public comments can be submitted to Lori Brown at LBrown@gananda.org.
Ms. Pulinski
Mrs. Abbott
One of her favorite quotes is, "People will forget what you say. People will forget what you did - but people will never forget how you made them feel." ~ Maya Angelou.
Parent Square
Gananda Central School District is now using ParentSquare for school communication. ParentSquare allows us to communicate with email, text and app notifications. The platform automatically generates an account for each parent, using their preferred email address and phone number. We encourage parents to access their accounts so they can download the mobile app and update their preferences on when and how they are notified. Visit the Gananda website for more information.
Schoology
Driven
Outstanding
- Providing daily reports to Wayne County Public Health
- Providing daily reports to NYS Dept. Of Health (DOH)
- Pivoting with ever-changing guidelines
- Tracking students/staff in each building who are sent home sick and following up on any testing if required
- Enforcing masking policies
- Writing, reviewing, and changing policies to fit the needs of our COVID-19 society and set best practices
We are #Ganandaproud of each of them! Thanks for all that you do to keep us healthy!
Richard Mann Elementary is using a program called PikMyKid to help organize the school dismissal process and improve safety for our students that are picked up at dismissal time. This program is an app downloaded onto your smart phone.The app can be found in the app store and will allow you to notify the school of pick-up changes at dismissal and authorize others to pick-up your child from school, alert you when your child has been picked up as well as help organize the car line during pick-up. For more information, go to the Gananda website.
***Please note: PikMyKid is used only for pick-up at normal dismissal time. If you have to pick up your child for an appointment and need an early dismissal, please use the following form: Early Dismissal Form
Reminder: Remember Your Water Bottle!
Elementary School Picture Days
We have also scheduled a Remote Student Picture Day on Tuesday, November 17 from 4:30pm-6pm. More details will be shared with our remote students soon.
Gananda Middle School has an Instagram Account!
Amazon Smiles
Did you know that you can help GDFS by shopping online? If you use Amazon, you can help raise money for scholarships! Simply start off by going to AmazonSmile, and select Scholarship America, Gananda Dollars for Scholars as the organization you want to support. From then on, you just go to AmazonSmile to shop and you have access to the same site as Amazon or Amazon Prime. That's it! About 0.5% of your purchase before tax will be donated to GDFS.
Gananda Dollars for Scholars, Rewarding Achievement, Supporting Potential
