Family News

Congratulations to Carly Payne and her family on the birth of Elli Layne! What a beautiful, little blessing!

Weekly Update

            C Week - August 29-September 2 

New Teachers - American Fidelity

New Teachers: Please visit American Fidelity during your planning time on Monday 8/29 regarding your employee benefits.  They will be in the South Conference Room on the 4th Grade Hall.

Wednesday Collaboration  - ACAP Data Meetings

We will use our collaboration time on Wednesday analyze our spring ACAP data.  We will also plan interventions.

Thursday - Early Release Time

We will have grade level collaboration from 2:15 - 3:00 on Thursday.  Please meet in your grade level chair's classroom.

Constitution Day

Constitution Day is September 17th.  Please collaborate with your team to design meaningful lessons about the constitution for that day.  Prior to September 17th, please provide your detailed plans. We look forward to seeing the lessons you have prepared.  If you take pictures during these lessons, please send to Ellen Howard to document this important day.  Reminder:  Please make sure you have detailed evidence of Constitution Day lessons in your plans for state monitoring.

AFT Visit - Friday

AFT will be visiting Paine on Friday from 7:00-8:00 am.  They will be in the North Training Room if you would like to stop by.

Paine Precepts

• “Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.” – U. Thant
• “Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered.” –  Stephen Cosgrove
• “Leave everything a bit better then you found it.” Unknown
• “We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same.” – C. JoyBell C.
• “I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.” –  Herbert H. Lehman

Family News

Please keep Donna Brumlow in your thoughts and prayers.  She injured her thumb yesterday and will have surgery on Wednesday.

Weekly Update

 B Week - August 22-26

Morning Meetings

The morning meetings at Paine are going GREAT!  You are all investing in the social and emotional well being of our students through this process!  Remember:  Morning meetings should be held between 8:05-8:15. If it works better to have students do the Rhithm app right after your morning meeting, please make that adjustment.  Thank you for your dedication to your morning meetings!!!

   

Monday Afternoon

If you were unable to attend the School Safety Meeting on Friday, please make plans to attend the make-up session after school on Monday.  We will meet in the North Training Room at 3:10.

Lockdown Drill

Information was sent out to parents (in our Paine Post) today regarding our Lockdown Drill next week.  Please remember to use the script provided in your safety book to inform students about the drill that morning.  Listen for the announcement on the intercom (around 8:15) on your designated day below.

• South Building - Wednesday, August 24th 
• North Building - Thursday, August 25th

Due to the lockdown drill, 5th Grade PE on Thursday, August 25th will be moved to 1:00.

Wednesday Collaboration

This week we will briefly go over the Teacher Handbook (that we didn't get to on Thursday) as well as our PST (Problem Solving Team) Process.  Please bring your Teacher Handbook to collaboration.  In addition, we will focus on the following topics for the designated groups below:

• Kindergarten - Baseline ESGI data & Intervention Plans
• 1st Grade - Begin discussions of Math Unit 2
• 3rd Grade Literacy - Next planning steps
• 4th & 5th - Training on how to administer AIMs ORF 

Thursday - Early Dismissal

This time will be designated for faculty and staff to finish the online required training that is due by 9/8.  Please make sure you also complete the required EL training by that date.  Both links are provided below.

Below is the link to the 22-23 Annual Training Site for TCS. The site is restricted to Trussville City Schools. Please share this link with your staff.  The training is due on September 9, 2022 by 5 PM.

https://sites.google.com/trussvillecityschools.org/tcsannualtraining/home

The link below will take you to the annual EL Training video. It contains general information about English Learners and some simple strategies that can be used in the classroom. Please have teachers watch the video and complete the quiz by following the link at the end of the video. Teachers may have to copy and paste the link to the quiz into their web browser. The quiz is due by September 9^th.  

 

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFG-kvDv5o/FbUNQ9sErBJsikVC4OM35Q/view?utm_content=DAFG-kvDv5o&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=recording_view

STEM Leadership Team

Our STEM Leadership Team will meet in the STREAM Studio Room Thursday at 2:15.

Paine Precepts

M:  “Treat people exactly as you would like to be treated by them.” – Golden Rule

T:  “I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.” – Julius Erving

W: “It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way.” – Jeremy Aldana

T: “Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.” – R.G. Risch
F: “One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryan H. McGill

Family News

Please lift Meleigha Swatek and her family up in your thoughts and prayers during this extremely difficult time. The arrangements for her father are listed below. 

Visititation is on Friday beginning at noon - 1st Baptist.  The service begins at 2:00 and the burial will be around 3:00 at Jefferson Memorial.

Parent Chat Night Dates & Times

 The following Parent Chat Night dates & times have been secured and will be sent out to parents soon.

1st Grade - Tuesday, September 6 from 5:30-6:30 pm 

5th Grade - Thursday, September 8 from 5:30-6:30 pm

2nd Grade - Monday, September 12 from 5:30-6:30 pm

3rd Grade - Tuesday, September 13 from 5:30-6:30 pm

4th Grade - Wednesday, September 14 from 5:30-6:30 pm

Kindergarten - Thursday, September 15 from 5:30-6:30 pm

Weekly Update

Congratulations on a great start to our school year! You did a great job this week and our students looked so happy to be back in school.   We started our week with a focus on our BECAUSE or WHY.  Our Meet the Teacher was a huge success!  Then, we had a great first three days with our students!  Our students are blessed with wonderful teachers and staff....and our teachers and staff are blessed with incredible students!  

A Week - August 15-19

Announcement Helpers

Students With Birthdays that Day

Please send students who have birthdays each day to the office BY 7:55 to help with announcements.  (Please have an adult assist the little ones to the office and we will bring them back.)  Students with birthdays on Sunday should be sent with Monday birthdays and those with birthdays on Saturdays should be sent with Friday birthdays.  

Classroom Schedules

Once you have your classroom schedule finalized, please post a copy outside of your door and email a copy to our admin team.

AIMS Testing Schedule

AIMs Web Plus will be utilized in K-5 for both Math and Reading again this year.  Our AIMS testing window is August 15 - September 9.  Please see important information below.

Math Testing:

• The testing team will not be administering math this year.  TCS Kindergarten and 1st Grade teachers will administer their own math tests (1:1 ratio for testing in these grades...teacher:student).  We will meet with PES Kindergarten and 1st Grade Math teachers during Wednesday collaboration to come up with a plan for our school.  
• Math testing for 2-5 will be on Chromebooks (administered by teachers during this testing window).

Reading Testing

• A testing team will be utilized to administer all reading to Kindergarten and 1st grade.
• A testing team will administer the ORF portion for 2nd & 3rd grade.
• Students in grades 2-5 will take the other portion on their Chromebooks in the classroom.

Wednesday Collaboration 

We will meet in your collaboration rooms on Wednesday to work on lesson planning.  Please begin your meetings by going over your PLT's Norms.

Thursday Afternoon

Early dismissal begins on Thursday.  Faculty and Staff will meet at 2:15 in the North Training room.  At this time we will go over our School Safety Plan and Unpack our Teacher Handbook. 

Please remember there are no children in this meeting, so please make necessary arrangements for Thursday early dismissal. 

Paine Precepts this Week

BE READY

M: "A winning effort begins with preparation." - Joe Gibbs.

T:  “I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” ― Abraham Lincoln.

W: "If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can...you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears." - Eleanor Roosevelt

T:  Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." - Alexander Graham Bell

F:  "Behind every brilliant performance, there were countless hours of practice and preparation." - Eric Butterworth