September 17, 2020

 

School News:

We are set to move to our next phase of hybrid learning.  Starting Monday, students in the Red Group will attend Monday and Tuesday on site, and students in the White Group will attend Thursday and Friday on-site.  Wednesday will remain an off-site learning day for all students. We are excited to have students for more in person learning time.

Preschool will also increase their in-person time to two full days.  Ms. Heather's class will attend Monday and Thursday, which is a little different but is to accommodate the ART part of her job.  Miss Jenny's Maples will attend Mondays and Tuesdays , and her Pines class will attend Thursdays and Fridays.  

• Breakfast Reminder
• Breakfast is available every morning at both entrances for any student wanting to have on.  Meals are free for all students for the next couple months, so if students want a breakfast, they are ready and waiting.
• Pick Up Patrol
•  This system allows families to make after school changes, or to alert the school and teachers of an early dismissal from their computer or phone without the need for notes ensuring that students always know what their after school plan is.
• If you need another welcome letter, please contact the school at 496-3742 and we can send you one.  The welcome letter gives a brief description of the program and contains the login link https://app.pickuppatrol.net/pages/login.aspx.

• Ms. Loretta
• As some of you have received as a response email, our beloved Ms. Loretta is currently on a year-long leave of absence.  
• I am currently scheduling interviews for folks who have applied, and hope to have someone in the front office very soon.  In the meantime, we have had wonderful Michele Ballard from TBPS helping us out.  A big THANK YOU to Michele for her help.  
• Student Absence Form: 
• If your child will be absent from school, please use this form.  
• If you child will not attend their in person day this is the form for you, you do not need to call and report your student absent anymore.  If this form is not filled out, we will call you and either ask you to fill it out or otherwise mark the important information about the absence.
• If your child if going to be absent from a remote day, you should still out this form, we will not be calling you, but the classroom teacher might reach out.
• Absence Form
• You can also find this form above in the blog links, and on the school website moretownschool.org at the bottom where it reads Parents/Families

• First day packets- Every student should have received a red or white folder during the first week.  In this folder are first day information that are customary to send home with students each year.  In the packet, you will find:
• Information about Free and Reduced lunch
• Although all meals are free right now, please consider filling this out and sending it back in, so that when things shift folks are not left with a bill to cover.
• Annual Health Questionnaire
• Please complete this blue form and return to school the next day your child is in person.
• A school calendar for the 2020-2021 school year
• A September menu
• The Annual Asbestos Notification for the district

Community News/Opportunities

Please note that the opportunities/events listed below are not specifically endorsed or screened by school staff. As always, families should use their own standards and review processes to determine appropriate activities.

School Board Updates

The HUUSD School Board met on Wednesday, September 9th via Zoom. The Board received an update from the Superintendent on the first days of school as well as preliminary enrollment numbers. The Superintendent reiterated the timeline and decision-making rubric for adding additional in-person days (this can be found at https://sites.google.com/huusd.org/huusd-fall-2020-returntolearn/home?pli=1&authuser=2.) Additional information about the reopening of schools is available on the district’s website, huusd.org, as well as individual school websites.

Board members discussed their priorities for the Board’s work in the coming year and the scope of tasks for its committees on finance, policy and negotiations.

A motion to pursue anti-racism training with Hal Colston was approved unanimously. The Board looks forward to beginning its work with Hal this fall.

We invite you to join the next Reopening Q & A session with the Superintendent on Monday, September 21st, starting at 6:30pm on Zoom, YouTube and MadRiver TV. 

The next Board meeting will be on September 23rd at 6PM. 

To attend any HUUSD virtual meetings by Zoom, YouTube or Mad River TV, please use the links that will be included in their agendas or through links in the district’s online calendar (at the bottom of the district’s home page at huusd.org). Our YouTube channel, HU Webapp, can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT269g8MOtbO8dGmOnAWX7g.

Thank you to all of the teachers, staff and administrators who worked tirelessly to ensure a safe and joyful return to school this week. 

Respectfully,

HUUSD School Board