Winship News

Dear Parents,

North Dakota has a new accountability system reported through Insights, more commonly referred to as the “Dashboard.” The Dashboard contains reports that display the performance of school districts, schools, and student groups on a set of state and local measures to assist in identifying strengths, challenges, and areas in need of additional support.

North Dakota’s new Insights website is designed to help communities across the state access important information about K-12 districts and schools – including ours. The North Dakota Dashboard features easy-to-read reports on multiple measures of school success, including test scores, graduation rates, English Learner progress and attendance. The Dashboard replaces the former School District Report Card and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) reports.

Please note, the data made available to the public masks or hides data for groups with 10 or fewer students to protect confidential information about individual students.

For questions concerning K-12 education data, please contact the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction.

You may also direct questions regarding our specific district data to the Grand Forks Public Schools' Associate Superintendent of Elementary Education at 701-746-2200.

Sincerely,

Travis J. Thorvilson

Winship Families,

Winship Elementary School will convene an annual meeting, at the Winship October PTO meeting on October 10 @ 6:00 pm in the Winship Library. This meeting will inform our parents of Winship's participation in Title 1, Part A, explain the requirements of parent and family engagement, and our parent's right to be involved.

Throughout the year and within our PTO committee, Winship will involve parents in an organized, ongoing, and timely way with the planning, review, and improvement of the Title 1, Part A program. Our structure seeks to provide parents with timely information about the Title 1 program; a description and explanation of the curriculum, the forms of academic assessment thoughts and comments on the schoolwide program plan.

We look forward to seeing you at our meeting on October 10!

Travis J. Thorvilson

Early Release 1:30pm

• September 21
• October 5

Parenting isn't always easy, especially in today's world. The good news is there are steps that can help protect your kids as they grow older. Effectively monitoring your kids through every stage in their lives is one important way to reduce their risk of becoming involved in potentially harmful situations or engaging in risky behaviors. Start monitoring your kids early on, in ways that are age-appropriate. In fact, the earlier you being monitoring, the easier it will be to continue as your kids get older and the move they'll expect if from you.

Source: www.parentslead.org

Mark on your calendar - this will be sent home with your student the last week of September or the first week of October.

Conference Dates:

• Thursday, October 3
• Friday, October 14 (Early Release Day @ 11:20am NO LUNCH)
• Tuesday, October 18

Winship School pictures will be on Tuesday, October 18. Packets will be sent home prior. Retakes will be scheduled at a later date at Caulfield Studios.

Please make sure you have an account set up for each student - you can view and add to your child's lunch account balance. Go to gfschools.org and click on $. This will also be used for Intramurals.

BoxTop$ has returned to Winship! You may bring in your receipts within 14 days - the office will scan receipts....OR download the App and scan your receipts!

Funds are used for school supplies.

Hours

• Breakfast: 7:40am - 8:20am
• For students not eating breakfast, the doors open at 8:10am
• Tardy bell rings at 8:25am

Access and Dismissal

• K - 2 will use Door 1
• 3 - 5 will use Door 3

School: 701-746-2325

Attendance Line: 701-746-2321

Fax: 701-746-2374