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Over the next three weeks, the Adams Elementary Student Council will be collecting gifts (from infant to early teen) for the children of Colette's Children's Home in Huntington beach. This is a great opportunity to help those less fortunate during this holiday season.

Gifts should be unwrapped and will be collected on Wednesdays and Fridays over the next three weeks from the classrooms. We hope that everyone will be able to participate this holiday season.

Adams PTA will be holding our Family Pottery Night again this year. We will have lots of cool, fun, and cute ceramics to paint. They make excellent Christmas gifts! We will also have pictures with Santa again! Family Pottery Night will be held on Friday, December 1, 2023 from 5pm to 8pm.

Last year Family Pottery Night was a great success! We has so many families turn out to paint beautiful pottery and visit with Santa. We need volunteers to help us sell the pottery as people walk in, get them set up with their paints and brushes, walk around the MPR to see if anyone needs any help, assistance, or needs any supplies, and to help out Santa. We do not want kids rushing Santa, so we need people to help manage the Santa line, and let kids and families know that Santa will return soon after a short break. We also need volunteers to help set up and clean up. If you are able to volunteer your time Adams PTA would be greatly appreciative!

Adams Elementary will be conducting two safety drills tis week:

• Evacuation Drill at 1:30 on Tuesday 11/28
• Secure Drill at 2:30 on Friday 12/1

Safety is one of our top priorities in the parking lot for our school community. Our parking lot is open for drop off from 7:50-8:15. Please review the guidelines below as it is important all cars that enter our parking lot follow the procedures, be patient and treat our Adams Staff with respect as they support students arriving safely.

• The parking lot is for staff parking ONLY.
• There is one route into the parking lot for parents. Please enter on the right side of the cones near the curb.
• Do not drop off until you reach the straight section of the parking lot.
• Do not stop if there is space in front of you. You need to drive to the tail of the next car or the end of the long red curb to create space for additional cars to drop off.
• Students need to exit on the side where the sidewalk is not on the parking lot side.
• If this is not possible you need to park on the street and walk your students to school.
• Parents are not to get out of the car to help their student as we need to keep the line moving forward.
• If you need to get out of the car you need to park on the street.
• The line can get long so we ask for your patience as we make sure our students are safe.
• Parking along the curb in the Red Zone (parking lot or front of the school) is prohibited.

Newport Mesa School District has a Board Adopted Policy for civility. It is the expectation that all community members treat staff with respect. Recently, we have had two incidences in the parking lot of community members not treating our teachers with parking lot duty with respect. Please review the district policy. Should there be cases of incivility, the principal will reach out to those community members individually. We also have the policy posted in the Adams Elementary office.

• We want our students to be successful in school and for this to be achieved we need the parents support. Parents, please make sure your student does not bring any toys to school. Also, if your student has a cellphone, remind your student the cellphone cannot be used during school hours. This also includes recess and lunch time. We thank you for your cooperation!

• Early Pick Ups- If you need to pick up your student early please do so by 2:30 as we are seeing an influx of parents coming about 10 minutes before the bell to pull their student which is causing a disruption as the teachers are helping all students pack up and the turnaround is quick.
• Birthday Celebrations - Our school does not do birthday celebrations, please do not bring cake, cupcakes, or candy to celebrate birthdays. We celebrate our All Stars calling out their name at the flag deck each day to celebrate them.

Please take a look at the 2023-2024 Adams Elementary PTA Calendar. We have a few dates marked TBD, and we will be updating it as the year goes by. Please remember dates are subject to change