Slate Hill Newsletter

🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope that all of you have enjoyed a fun-filled family break and you spent quality time with each other and are excited about the next half of our school year like I am!

Tomorrow morning we are excited to start off the 2nd half of our school year with an assembly with Jim Basketball Jones! Check out more details on his website at www.jimbasketballjones.com He is an amazing motivational speaker and we are thrilled to have him start off our week back!

Please check out the flier below if you are interest in ordering books by Jim Basketball Jones for your child.

Also, for our families who often reach out to Vitoria Neuhard, multilingual Portuguese assistant, she is now a new mother of a beautful baby girl! Please utilize Talking Points and Google Translate to communicate to your child's teacher or the office instead of reaching out to Vitoria. Also, you can always send me a direct message through Talking Points any time you need support during Vitoria's maternity leave. We may have some support while she is out but we are still working on that.

As always we are thankful for your partnership in supporting your child. Please reach out if you need anything!

All the best,

Julie (=

Slate Hill Principal

Cultivating joy with your family is a crucial step to creating strong family bonds. It's the perfect time to do something joyful with your family! Read below for some joyful inspiration!

As students and families know, we participated in World Kindness Day back during the month of November. As part of the celebration of the day, during my lessons for the month students learned about donating to different nonprofits that help our community. Our students voted to donate funds from The Columbus Foundation to Columbus Humane. Here is their thank you and a certificate to show off our kindness!

"Dear Slate Hill,

On behalf of Columbus Humane, I want to express our heartfelt gratitude to you and your students at Slate Hill Elementary for your participation in World Kindness Day and for selecting our organization to support. The gift we received will help provide safety, critical care, and healing to animals in our community so that they can find new, loving homes. Your students are making a difference and saving lives of animals through their acts of kindness, and we are all so thankful.

To show our appreciation, I am attaching a certificate that you can print and hang in your classroom for all to see how kind your students are. Thank you again for helping make Columbus Humane!"

We hope you have enjoyed a great break, Stars!

Thank you for showing so much kindness!

-Mrs. Stefanee Loges , School Counselor and Miss Julia Hall, School Counselor Intern

Mark your calendar to join us for our next PTA meeting on January 9th at 7pm in the Slate Hill Library! Free babysitting for potty-trained children will be provided.

Thank you to all the families who joined us for the PTA meeting! We hope that you will join our PTA this year and support the great things that we are doing for our Slate Hill Stars! Please go to our PTA website and sign up today By joining our PTA, you are financially supporting our events and our students.

Feel free to email slatehillPTA1990@gmail.com with any questions!

We are thrilled to announce that kindergarten registration for the 2025-26 school year will open on January 6th, 2025. Visit our kindergarten Welcome Center website for information about the registration process and requirements.

We are excited to announce that starting in the 2025-26 school year, Worthington Schools will be offering universal, no-cost all-day kindergarten for all students. This program will provide a strong foundation for learning and allow us to better meet the needs of every child in our community.

For more details about Worthington's All-Day Kindergarten, you can read Superintendent Dr. Bowers blog or watch a presentation about kindergarten from a recent board meeting.

We can’t wait to welcome our newest learners to our schools!

Starting Jan 3, 2025, the old www.worthington-portal.org site will no longer be accessible. The vendor who owns and supports the system our portal site is built on is no longer supporting it.

The items from the old portal are now available from your Infinite Campus portal in the “More” section in “Parent Access Links”. Here is a guide to help you navigate this change: Parent Access Link.

We also recommend updating any browser bookmarks you may have.

Please notify Slate Hill each time your child is going to miss school by calling 614-450-5000 and leave a message or email hbaugh@wscloud.org, our new attendance secretary. Please be sure to include your child's first and last name, grade level, teacher's name and reason for their absence. Please be sure to turn in all doctor's notes to the office if you have one when your child is absent.

Go to www.RipchoStudio.com

• Enter your PASSWORD in the text box

and click “LOGIN”.

Your PASSWORD is:

1001202015

• Enter your email address and click

“LOGIN” again.

• Click on the Yearbook icon

• Click “Add to Cart”

• Click “Continue to Checkout”

• Enter your student’s info and click “Continue to Payment”

• Enter your address and payment infor and click “Place Order”

AN EMAIL WITH YOUR CONFIRMATION NUMBER WILL BE SENT TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS YOU PROVIDED.

**If you do not receive a confirmation email, your order is not complete!!!

January 6th - School Resumes!

January 9th - PTA Meeting (7pm) in the Library

January 20th - Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No School)

Below is the registration links for basketball this year at Lazelle Woods Community Center for families interested in signing up!

• 9 & 10 year old league
• 7 & 8 year old league
• 5 & 6 year old league

If you are interested in being a STAR partner, please reach out to me! Do you have a company or working for a company that is willing to support our school and our Slate Hill Stars! This year for every $200 provided by the first 10 companies, the names of the company will be on the back of our STAR FUN DAY shirts! We have already received one $200.00 partner donation so far! Please reach out to Julie if you are interested at jgulley@wscloud.org

It's that time of year again…….

Your child is too ill to go to school if he or she has any of the following symptoms:

• Temperature above 100.4 F

• Vomiting or diarrhea within the past 24 hours

• Shortness of breath or has an increase in wheezing during normal activity

• Has a cough that interrupts normal activity

• Pain from an earache, headache, or sore throat

• Has yellow or green drainage from nose and/or eye(s)

• Rash over body or localized to one area of the body

• Fatigue and needs bed rest

• Signs of conjunctivitis such as red, itchy, crusty, or swollen eyes

Students who are sent home with a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher must remain at home until the student is fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medication. In most cases, this means that students will miss the following school day. Please understand that fevers can reoccur within a 24-hour time period and this policy is in the best interest of all students.

Students who are sent home due to vomiting or diarrhea must also stay home for 24 hours to ensure that these symptoms are gone before returning to school.

Students exhibiting signs of conjunctivitis (crusty eyes, red or swollen eyes) may return once the symptoms have been treated and are gone or a note is presented from a doctor stating that the student may return to school.

Students who show signs of a communicable disease, such as exhibiting a rash, may return to school once the rash is gone or a note is presented from a doctor stating that the student may return to school.

Please communicate illness with the office.

Thank You!

Nurse Keathley

614-450-5000

The USDA had school food services return to pre-pandemic operations last year.

Worthington Schools has eligibility-based pricing of meals (Free/Reduced/Paid).

All Worthington School families are required to complete the online Free/Reduced Lunch Eligibility Form. All students use their Lunch ID for meals. The student's number can be found in the Parent Portal. Select the Student ID tab and look for your Lunch PIN.

Families can add money to their lunch account through My Payments Plus. You can also use MPP to track your student's account and see much money remains on it. My Payments Plus is also used to pay other fees, like high school parking permits and AP testing fees.

Attached below (and in the eBackpack) is the Volunteer Flyer that will answer any questions you may have about becoming a volunteer for Worthington City Schools.

There are some new procedures this year on how to update your child's Emergency Data. It is required for all parents to do this every year for their child to attend field trips and ensure we have the correct information in case of any emergencies at school. Directions are also attached below!

Parents are asked to:

1. Log in to Infinite Campus at

https://worthingtonoh.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/parents/worthington.jsp

or from the Infinite Campus Parent app on your mobile device.

2. Input your district-provided parent username and password

Retrieve forgotten credentials at

https://wecweb01.worthington.k12.oh.us/parent-new/recovery.html

*Still having trouble call 614-450-6000 and ask for tech services or call the Slate Hill office.

3. Click Parent Access Links from the Quick Links section on the Infinite Campus

homepage.

4.The Parent Access Page will open in a new tab. Enter your login credentials a second

time for security purposes, then click Submit. Descriptions for each option on the

parent access page are explained below. Tip: to toggle between screens without being required to input your login credentialsrepeatedly, click the Return to Selection Page button when you are finished with a section.

K-5 elementary school of shining Star students and a RockSTAR staff in Worthington Schools! School starts at 8:10am and ends at 2:50pm. DOORS OPEN AT 7:55am for Breakfast!

Be here by 8 so that you are not late!

Email: jgulley@wscloud.org
Website: https://www.worthington.k12.oh.us/Domain/21
Location: 7625 Alta View Boulevard, Columbus, OH, USA
Phone: 614-450-5000
Twitter: @SlateHillstars

Instagram: @SlateHillstars