Important Information for the Coming Week

November 12, 2009

Dear Families,

Here we are in mid-November! It was pleasure to see so many of you during our parent teacher conferences last week. We were hit hard by the flu, so we’re waiting to see some of you during the coming week. As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about your child’s report card.

If you were at parent conferences last week, you may have noticed several posters in school, encouraging you to stop in the computer lab to complete a parent involvement survey. Our goal is to work with our families to make the school as inviting as possible and to provide more opportunities for you to participate in your child’s academic program. The survey will be online on the West Side website until November 24, but you will also receive a paper copy at the end of the week. Please return it as soon as possible and thank you.

If your family has been hit with the flu we are planning clinics for vaccination of our students for the H1N1 virus. An informative letter and consent forms will be sent home this week.

And one last important note. Fifth grade parents, please take note that the social studies assessments are this coming Monday and Tuesday, November 16 and 17. It’s not easy for anyone to test right after the weekend, and I join our teachers, Mrs. Washburn and Mrs. Bell, in asking you to help us by ensuring that your child arrives at school well rested and focused on Monday. We want them to do their best.


We hope that many of you will respond to our parent survey. Don’t forget that you can always write me here. Have a good week.