Queens Creek Elementary School

• October 27: 5th Grade Cohort A Science Benchmark
• October 30: 5th Grade Cohort B Science Benchmark
• October 30: Trashion Fashion Show
  
• November 2: 4th and 5th grade transition to four days a week (M, Tu, Th, F)
• November 17: Interim Reports
• November 25-27: Thanksgiving Break
• November 30: All students transition to five days a week

In accordance to NC Department of Health and Human Services, OCS has updated the daily screening questions to include members of the household. If your child's situation warrants an affirmative response to any of these questions, the staff of QCE are required to follow the plan outlined in the Flow Chart below.

1. Do you know if you have been around anyone diagnosed with COVID-19?
2. Since you were last at school, have you had a fever, chills, had trouble breathing, been coughing, or lost your sense of taste or smell?
3. Since you were last at school, has anyone in your household developed a fever, chills, had trouble breathing, been coughing, or lost your sense of taste or smell?
4. Have you been diagnosed with COVID-19?

COVID-19 Screening Flow Chart

Fifth grade students will be taking the Science NC Check-In Benchmark this week. Please make sure that computers are charged and students are well rested.

Cohort A - October 27

Cohort B - October 30.

Parents, you can now pay all fees online. Please click the button below to set up your account.

Thank you to all the teachers, staff members, and students who participated in the Swansboro Area Pink Out Day!

Picture packets were sent home this week. Please look through them and choose the pictures you want. Follow the instructions in the packet on how to pay for the pictures you choose. The pictures you do not want should be returned to the school in the original packet by November 3rd.

Make up pictures will be the morning of December 1st.

Report cards went home for most students on October 22nd. Students that only attend on Cohort A (4th and 5th graders) will receive their report cards on Monday, October 26.

It is important that you sign the Report Card envelope and return it to school.

Thank you to all the students and families that submitted outfits for the Trashion Fashion Show. The outfits all look amazing. The actual show will take place on October 30. The show will be recorded and posted online for parents to view.

Mrs. Ryan, the STEM teacher, is in need of your empty paper towel and/or toilet paper rolls. She is planning a hands on craft activity that is linked to the science curriculum and will be using these raw materials.

Please send these in next week.

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Schedule

• October 19, 2020: 2nd & 3rd Grades transition to all students four days a week (M,T, Th, F)
• November 2, 2020: 4th & 5th Grades transition to all students four days a week (M,T, Th, F)
• November 30, 2020: All Grades transition to five days a week.

Red Ribbon Week is coming up! It would typically be next week, but we are going to push it back to the week of November 2-6 when our 4th/5th graders return to a 4-day schedule so all the students can participate on every day. The dress up days will be as followed:

Monday-Too Bright for Drugs-Wear neon clothes and sunglasses

Tuesday-Voting for my Future to be Drug-Free-Wear Red, White, and Blue

Wednesday-Virtual Learning Day

Thursday-Wear Red Day-Students will receive a red ribbon and should wear a red shirt

Friday-From Head to Toe, I'm Drug Free-Crazy Hair and Socks Day

In honor of Veterans Day, our school would like to continue our annual “Hall of Heroes.” If you have anyone in your family who is or was a United States veteran, we would like you to share his/her accomplishments with us. If no one in your family is a veteran, you can make a poster of a family friend or neighbor. To participate, decorate a Veteran’s Day poster including information such as a picture of your veteran, his/her name, relation to you, branch of military, dates of service, rank, and duty stations. If you don’t personally know a veteran, you can still make a Veteran’s Day poster in honor of all veterans. You can draw patriotic pictures and write messages for our veterans. Remember to write YOUR NAME and YOUR TEACHER’S NAME on the back of your poster. Please send in posters by Tuesday, November 3, for display.

All parents need access to SMD. All afternoon transportation changes will happen within the system. This eliminates the need for notes that don't always reach the teachers or emails to the front office that might not be seen until after dismissal. All changes need to happen before 2:00pm. At 2:15pm each teacher is sent an email with a list of all his/her students and how each one is getting home.

It is important that all parents log into the program and update the students' weekday default settings. The school has created one parent per student. That parent will need to create the accounts for the other adults that my need access. Every adult that may pick up the student needs to have a separate account. These added adults will be "View Only", which means that can pick up the student from school, but cannot make changes in the system. If you need one or more of these adults to have editing rights or need help with they system, please email Mrs. Staley at michelle.staley@onslow.k12.nc.us or Mrs. Yager at jill.yager@onslow.k12.nc.us.

This past week we moved away from calling every student on the walkie talkies. Adults picking up students in the afternoon car rider line will need to access the SDM system via a mobile device in order to check in. If you have an Apple or Android mobile device, there is a free app. If you have another brand of mobile device you will need to access the the systems at www.schooldismissalmanager.com from the internet browser on your mobile device. If this is the case, I strongly suggest you create a shortcut to the website on your homescreen for ease of access. Either way you will need to allow access to the camera of your device to scan the QR code that will be at the Check-In location. The system will also give each driver a PIN to use if the QR code doesn't work. When the drive checks in, a message is sent to the teacher to send your child out and marks your place in line. The staff member checking in drivers will still have a walkie talkie in case there are technical issues.

Email: michelle.staley@onslow.k12.nc.us
Website: www.onslow.k12.nc.us/queenscreekes
Location: 159 Queens Creek Road, Swansboro, NC, USA
Phone: (910)326-5115
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QCEgators