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Email: sam.cox@deltaschools.com
Website: pk8.deltaschools.com
Location: 846 Grand Avenue, Paonia, CO, USA
Phone: 970-527-4882

Dear PK8 Families,

We are so fortunate to be able to host many after school sports activities at our school! The 7th/8th grade football, volleyball, and basketball games on our campus provide an excellent opportunity for all of our families and students to support our PK8 Eagles.

I want to remind students and families of student expectations at extracurricular events:

• the purpose of attending an extracurricular event is to support the teams in the gym or on the field
• we encourage students to be accompanied by a family member at all extracurricular events
• students who attend after school sporting events are expected to demonstrate the same appropriate behavior as if they are at school.
• campus-wide staff supervision is not provided during extracurricular events
  
• students must remain either in the commons if they are eating a snack, or in the gym watching the sporting event
• when in the gym, students should be seated with their parents or in the student section
• students may not be playing on the playground unsupervised by an adult
• the commons area is not a space for playing games, or just hanging out after school
• students should cheer appropriately for our team and not conduct any taunting cheers directed at our opponents
  
• any students who are not behaving appropriately will be told to leave school property, and may not be allowed to attend future events
  

Please help us ensure our extracurricular events are a positive experience for our athletes and student body. If you are allowing your child to stay for a game after school, especially without parental supervision, please review the rules above prior to our next home games.

As always, thank you for your support of our athletes, our students, and our school. We have an amazing school in an amazing community; working together we will continue to see our students and school thrive.

Delta County Schools will administer a brief Panorama Education Survey to 3rd-12th grade students during the week of Nov. 18-22. This survey gathers feedback about students’ classroom experience and perceptions, to provide an important improvement tool for school systems and learning outcomes. For samples of student questionnaires click: classroom questions, and school-level questions. For more information about this survey you can access the Panorama Education User Guide.

Mr. Kuta needs your trash for the art room. Please bring the following items which will be used for various art projects at various grade levels.

• Metal soups and vegetable cans, 4' - 5" tall, not the big ones. Remove labels and wash.
• Plastic lids of all colors - pop, sports drinks, tea, milk, water, etc. Please wash.
• Boxes from cereal, crackers, etc.

Our 6th grade students are raising funds for their annual trip to Denver to visit the Museum of Nature and Science as well as the Denver Zoo.

You can support these students by purchasing butterbraids. Click on the link below to visit the online store. You can select a 6th grade student to get credit for your order, and let that student know you ordered from them so they may deliver the butterbraids to you.

Thank you so much for your support!

https://store.myfundraisingplace.com/cdac518c-8e18-4617-9eba-fb4635075420

The Paonia K-8 Student Council is starting a food drive next week so that we can deliver canned and boxed food items to the Paonia Food Pantry before Thanksgiving. This will be a class competition, with the class collecting the most amount of items winning a classroom pizza party. Please send in cans or boxes of food and place them in your box by Thursday, November 21.

The Annual Christmas Drive for the Paonia Care Center starts Monday, November 18th and runs through December 10th. We want to help make Christmas bright for our North Fork seniors who are not living with their families. There is a little Christmas tree in the lobby with gift suggestion ornament tags. If you want to help, pick a tag, buy the gift, and return the UNWRAPPED gift to the box under the table in the lobby. Please bring in the gift if you take a tag.

Thanks in advance for making Christmas brighter for our seniors!!!

Next PPO Meeting: Monday, November 18th at 3:45 in the school library - see you there!

Parents, our PPO organizes a snack for school staff every Friday. Parents sign up and bring in treats for roughly 40 staff members on Friday mornings. There are still a few open dates in December. Please offer to help by signing up for one of the available Fridays at this link:

Friday Teacher Snack Sign Up Sheet

Paonia K-8 School is looking for a 4-hour kitchen staff employee as well as bus drivers. These part time positions may be combined for more hours and benefits. If you are interested, please apply at deltaschools.com, or contact Mr. Cox directly.

Our health room is looking for donations of boys pants for sizes small and medium (ages 5-8). If you have any hand-me-downs to share, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Sam Cox

Principal

Paonia K8 School

970-527-4882

sam.cox@deltaschools.com