Hey Panda Family,
I hope everyone enjoyed their cookie today and thanks to all for the awesome book character costumes! We had a busy week filled with taekwondo, fire trucks for our K-1, fun costumes, and Unity Day. Enjoy the fall weather and leaves changing colors this weekend 🍂 Next week is the last week of 1st Quarter!
Here are the Weekly Wrap updates for this week:
New Updates
SIP Vote: Please make sure you have voted on our School Improvement Plan. Here is the link to vote - SIP Vote Link
Panorama Survey (from Ms. Ceglowski): It's time for the Panorama Survey again. It will be open through the end of October. Mrs. Epperley will administer the survey to our 3rd-5th graders during media specials next week. Please copy and paste the following link in your newsletters and communications to your families. The teacher and staff survey is below as well. The district is not sending each staff a link this year, instead, you just need to click the link and use the dropdown to get to Piney Grove and take the survey. I took it and it took me less than 10 minutes to complete.
- Families will access their survey by navigating to https://surveys.panoramaed.com/winstonsalem/familyfall2023/surveys?language=en
Teachers (instructional staff) will access their survey by navigating to surveys.panoramaed.com/winstonsalem/teacher and selecting their school from a drop-down menu.
Staff (non-instructional staff) will access their survey by navigating to surveys.panoramaed.com/winstonsalem/staff and selecting their school from a drop-down menu.
United Way: Please join us in supporting the United Way with a small monetary donation. This is a district initiative and you can donate here - Click here to donate to United Way
This Year's campaign goals are:
Participation Goal = 19% of staff
Dollar Goal = $1800
Last year Piney Grove ranked #5 in participation for the entire county and #23 for meeting the dollar goal. Let's try to rank even higher this year!
This year's incentives include:
Pledge $10 or more and get a Chick Fil A coupon
Pledge $25 or more and get a free staff shirt
Copies: Please allow 48 hours turnaround time for all copying. Please include all special paper like construction paper, colored paper, colored card stock with your copying job. We have a higher number of office copies this year because we are not using Print Shop for these anymore. Thank you for your understanding and help with this.
Report Cards: Report Cards are due to Ms. True by November 3 so admin can review and sign them. Report cards will go home to families on November 9.
Counselor Support/Needs (from Ms. Ceglowski): We are in full swing and I am engaged with a whole lot of different friends and classes all over the school which keeps me very busy 🙂 Please reach out to me if I have agreed to do something that has not yet been done. I rely on you to keep me honest!!
MTSS Updates: If you have a student that is not responding to Core instruction and needs additional support (Tier 2) please reach out to Gardner and Ceglowski.
PBIS: We are excited about our first event with Blue Skies Creamery on November 17! Students can pay 75 Paw Bucks for a scoop of ice cream (flavor choices to be announced). Blue Skies will set up in the car rider parking lot, and students will go after lunch to get their ice cream. (Kindergarten will get their ice cream after specials.) Teachers will accompany their students to the ice cream trailer. Staff may also purchase ice cream from Blue Skies. We will send more information closer to the event about flavor choices and how staff will pay.
For now, your students will pay you the 75 Paw Bucks. Please collect their money and put your total number of students participating in this spreadsheet by Friday, November 3:
If you have any students will allergies, please note that in the spreadsheet as well. We will take this into consideration and make a special plan for them.
Little Free Library (from Ms. Vaden): In case you didn't know, we have a Little Free Library by our car rider parking lot. For the past few years, we have included children's books in it, but we are making a change. Since we offer a few "little libraries" in our school for students to take and keep books from, we are going to use our outside Little Free Library to encourage our parents to read more! I would love to begin stocking the library with books for adult readers (of course keeping in mind we want them to still be appropriate for school grounds, not like Fifty Shades).
If you have any books you would like to donate, please put them in Ms. Vaden's box or in the outside Little Free Library. Once we get some books in there, we'll be announcing this to our families so they can begin enjoying and sharing books, too!
Updates from Previous Week
October 30 Workday: October 30 is an RS day. Instructional Assistants do not work this day. All K-5 teachers have the IEP Minutes Training from 8:30 - 9:30 in the Media Center. The rest of the day staff can choose to work from home or from school. You may take Annual Leave if you so choose.
October 31 Workday: October 31 is a District PD day. Instructional Assistants do work on this day. Annual Leave is not allowed. Please sign up for a PD session through this district catalog - WS/FCS First Semester Professional Learning Catalog.
Kernersville Chamber Grant: The Kernersville Chamber of Commerce grant application is due November 1. Please click on the following link to access the application - Kernersville Chamber of Commerce Grant
Staff Monthly Challenge: Our School Improvement Team is presenting every grade level/department with a monthly challenge. These challenges are optional, but we hope everyone will enjoy participating! We plan to highlight these challenges on our Dojo/Facebook messages to families. Here is our first challenge!
- Challenge #1 - Show some school spirit with your grade level/department for a whole day. Ideas include everyone dressing up for book character day, being twins with your whole grade level/department, wearing team shirts, etc. You have until the end of October to accomplish this goal! Please share pictures 😊
IEP Minutes Training: The district would like all K-5 classroom teachers to be trained to take minutes/notes during IEP meetings. This training takes one hour and is required for all K-5 classroom teachers. Our training is on Monday, October 30 from 8:30 - 9:30 in the Media Center. October 30 is an RS day. You may take annual leave, but you will be required to make up the training.
Digital Learning Credits: If you are in need of any Digital Learning Credits to renew your license please take advantage of the resources below:
Small Group Instruction: Now that all BOY diagnostics are complete (iReady & Mclass), we will shift into analyzing this data and beginning our skill-based centers & small group instruction for both Reading and Math. I want to give all classrooms plenty of time to review data and establish routines for small group instruction. Please have this work completed by the end of October. I would like all Reading & Math small groups to be part of your regular instruction by the beginning of 2nd Quarter. We will discuss small group instruction in more detail during PLTs.
Upcoming Dates:
October 24 - Read-2-Achieve Test (4th Grade)
October 24 - Spirit Night El Palenque
October 25 - Gardner off campus - 1:30-4:00 Code Training
October 26 - Gardner off campus- All day- Equity Leadership Academy
October 26 - NC Science Check-In (5th Grade)
October 26 - 4th Grade Field Trip
October 26 - 1st grade Field Trip
October 27 - End of 1st Quarter
October 30 - RS Workday
October 30 - IEP Minutes Training @ 8:30 (K-5 teachers only)
October 31 - District PD Workday November 1 - Kernersville Chamber Grant due
November 1 - Picture Retakes
November 2 - ELA Check-In
November 3 - Report Cards due to Ms. True
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