The Dolphin Dispatch

Important Dates Ahead:

April

Dance Class every Wednesday with Ibou (African Dance)/ Thursday with Gina (Global Dance)

April 14th, Monday- No School for Students- District Staff Professional Development Day

April 16th- 3pm Talent Show Tryouts in the MU Room! Thank you Kelly and Billy : )

April 17th- 10:30AM Science and Gardening Emphasis (SAGE) Assembly

April 18th- 9AM- The SCG Wax Museum!

April 21st- CAASPP ELA PT Test Begins 3-5th grade

April 24th, Thursday- SCG Open House- 6-7pm

April 25th, Friday- Family Dance Night and SCG Auction Fundraiser- hosted by our one and only Home & School Club

April 27th 10am- Seymour Marine Lab TLIS Presenters and Change makers- Come out and support our amazing SCG Teachers presenting their TLIS Projects (Big Kudos to Monica, Kelly, Jade, and Brian!)

April 28th- CAASPP Math CAT and PT Test Begins 3rd-5th grade

April 30th- Day of the Child (date used in Mexico)- brainstorming goodies and activities for all of the SCG students

April 30th- HSC Meeting 6pm Daily Bell Schedule

SUESD Elementary Academic Calendar
TK/ Kinder Academic Calendar

Home and School Club Events Calendar at a Glance

Welcome Back SCG Community!

I hope you had a wonderful Spring Break everyone! It's been incredible around Santa Cruz lately- wildflowers abound (check out Quail Hollow or the Scott's Valley Nature Preserve)!

While the waves continue out there on the Bay, we begin to put the finishing touches on our grade levels in the classroom. There is a phenomenal amount of work that our spectacular student body and staff look forward to showcasing at our Open House Night this Thursday April 24th. The following day is our Home and School Club Family Dance and Auction April 25th, Friday. We sincerely hope to see you for a great time at both of these important and lovely school events.

In Partnership,

Principal Carlo Albano

As we reach the midpoint of March, we want to remind families about the importance of regular school attendance—except when your child is sick! In California, a student is considered chronically absent if they miss more than 10% of the school year, which for NBMS means more than 18 days total.

One way to help prevent chronic absenteeism is to take advantage of our Independent Study (IS) program, which allows students to keep up with their coursework and be marked present once their assignments are completed. Independent Study is available for any absence, even just one day!

How Independent Study Works

✔ Step 1: Requesting Independent Study

• If your child is absent, you’ll receive an email notification with a link to submit an Independent Study request.
• You can also find the Independent Study request link on the NBMS website.

✔ Step 2: Completing Assignments

• Students can access and complete their work via Google Classroom.

✔ Step 3: Finalizing the Process

• Once the work is completed, you’ll receive a final approval email.
• Submit your confirmation to ensure the absence is cleared.

⚠ Important Reminder: Absences will only be cleared once the final parent confirmation is submitted.

What Happens if My Child Becomes Chronically Absent?

If your child’s absences put them at risk of being chronically absent, we will:
✔ Send attendance letters as a formal notification.
✔ Set up meetings with families and students to create a plan for improving attendance.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please reach out. Thank you for your partnership in supporting your student’s success!

Save the Date! Neon Nights – A Family Event & School Auction

Bring the whole family for a night of fun with food, music, and a silent auction—all in support of our school!

April 25, 2025

6:00 - 9:00 PM

Free Entry

MU Room @ SCG

This exciting event helps fund important programs for our students, including:

• Life Lab

• Music, visual arts, and dance

• Teacher and library supplies

• Fifth grade outdoor science school

• Educational assemblies

Don’t miss this special night for parents, kids, and our school community! More details to follow.

Who’s in?!

• Congratulations to Audra, Lily, Henry, and Mitch in attending the Invention Convention finals at the Fair Grounds last weekend! We are all SO impressed and proud of the ideas and presentations of all of our 4th and 5th graders this year. It was awesome!




• We continue with CAASPP Testing the week after this one. Test adminstrators, please make sure you are reading the FDA script to the kids before testing, please turn in the scratch paper and cards to Kim each afternoon, and let me know if you need any more gum/ mints!




• We have some great Project Based Learning and end of the year plans outdoors in the current works!! Yay! Thank you to the pollinator projects, the gardens work, and the extra garden day we have coming up. Thank you to those who made it out the first Saturday of spring break- we almost doubled our native plants, and cleaned up the SAGE Garden a bunch. Native Bird Garden Day is next! We will be sharing some of this work at our next SAGE School Assembly.




• Open House- Keep the date Thursday, April 24th in mind! 6-7pm!




• Our April SCG Character Focus is Courage- Assembly this Thursday at 10:45.




• Our April SCG SAGE Theme is Native Pollinators- Assembly next Thursday at 10:45.

• Reminder- 4 more weeks of Dance left and then our Recital

• A very important note from Campus Kids Connection (CKC)- Do you need morning care from CKC next year? Please fill out this form and note that you would like before school care.

  CKC's first step is surveying the families. Any families expressing interest in CKC morning care for next year, there is a morning care interest question on the survey linked above. From there, CKC will see if there is a need at some or all of the schools.

• Afterschool CKC enrollment is currently open. Priority will be given to currently enrolled families, subsidized families, and any families referred by me. Form here

We Need Your Photos for the Yearbook!

Help us capture this year’s best moments! Submit your favorite photos from school events—First Day of School, Fall Festival, Halloween, Winter Concert, Field Trips, and more—by April 18. Upload them to Treering from your computer or phone.

Yearbook Purchase Link | School Passcode: 1014702421763121

Order by 5/2 for free delivery to school. Custom Pages are due: 4/29

Questions? Email Jamie Paratore at paratorej@gmail.com.

Website Articles-

SCG's Top 10 Articles- 2024 in Review

• Measure P Master Facilities Plans- new Field this summer, vital upgrades to follow- linked here.

• Home and School Club Calendar of Events- You make our community better! : )

• Upcoming and Current 2025 SCG SAGE Projects currently in the works:

  Spring: Native Bird Garden 2.0 (Planting at the next Community Garden Work Day)

  Spring: Pollinator Data Collection Boxes (Installing soon in the Peace Pollinator Garden)

  Spring: Native Bee Boxes Project in SAGE Garden (Installing Soon!)

Spring: Double the number of native plants on SCG's Campus (Done this past Garden Day)

• Highlight Articles on the SCG website:

• 1) 2024 in review- SCG's Top 10! Our most viewed and monumental Website Articles in Review

Calendars:

TK/ Kinder Calendar (keep a copy at the ready to refer to TK/ K Families- there are some differences to the other grades).

Whole School Elementary Calendar- new families, note that all Fridays are Minimum Days with release times by lunch.

24/25 Daily Bell Schedule.

SCPL Library Offerings: Awesome reading programs, homework help and more!

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