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