Weekly Update

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our Paine Family! We had such an incredible week first semester at Paine Elementary. I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for your dedication and hard work throughout the semester. Your commitment to our students and eachother, and the invaluable contributions you've made to our students' lives, have been truly remarkable. I hope you are enjoying Christmas break; this is a well-deserved opportunity to recharge, spend quality time with loved ones, and embrace the spirit of the season. Please know how loved and appreciated you are!

A Week - Jan 2-5

South PE will be outside this week (weather permitting)

Teachers and staff return on January 2nd; students return on January 3rd.

Character Trait Focus: Responsibility

PES Christmas Celebration

Workday on Tuesday, January 2nd

We will have an important faculty/staff meeting at 8:15 on Tuesday, January 2nd.  All certified staff should attend and any classified staff who works with students.

Collaboration on Wednesday, January 3rd

We will meet in the North Training Room to work on the following:

Kindergarten - Math Planning

1st Grade - Math Planning

2nd Grade - ACAP Prep, Math Planning, Reading Comprehension

3rd Grade - ACAP Prep

4th Grade - ACAP Prep

5th Grade - ACAP Prep

Thursday Afternoon, January 4th (2:15 - 3:15)

We will continue our work from Wednesday Collaboration Meetings.

Congratulations to PES Faculty & Staff

All Trussville City Schools earned an A on the latest school report card!  We are so proud of TCS!  I just want to say how proud I am of every Paine Faculty & Staff Member.  This is because of each of you!  

MUSH Grants

We are so thankful to the TCS Foundation for awarding grants to the following teachers.  Paine received 11 grants this year!  Thank you to everyone who applied!  Every application was impactful and innovative.  We will continue to work on these initiatives!

MUSH Grant Recipients:  Courtney Stodhill (Kinder), Barrett Trowbridge (Kinder), Penny Moore (1st), Lynsey Phillips (3rd), Elizabeth Moffett (3rd), Nicole Jenkins (4th), Taylor Knuppel (Music/Arts), Lesley Rogers (Music/Arts), Carter Pharis (PE), and Higginbothan/Johnson/Walls (Intervention)

TCS Elementary Teacher of the Year

Congratulations to Hannah Lutz who was named our District Elementary Teacher of the Year!  We are so proud of her!

Paine Precepts (Responsibility)

• “The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown
• “Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.” – Zig Ziglar