The Eagle and CCA Website are now mobile friendly!
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Please click "View Entire Email" at the bottom of this message
in order to view the full version of this newsletter.
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The CCA office will be open
Tuesday - Thursday from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
during the summer.
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Important Note: End of Year Wrap Up
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As we wrap up another wonderful year at CCA, we request that any outstanding balances be paid at your earliest convenience.
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You may also submit payment by
mail to:
Cherry Creek Academy
Attention: Nicole Nistal
6260 South Dayton Street
Englewood, CO 80111
Checks Payable To:
Cherry Creek Academy
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Student milk account balances can carry over to next year.
If you have a credit and prefer reimbursement, please contact
Nicole Nistal
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CCA's
digital bulletin board
offers another communication platform for our wonderful community. There you will find carpool requests, exciting local events (outside of CCA or CCSD) and more. If you would like an item to appear on
CCA’s digital bulletin board
, please click
HERE
to send an email.
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Reminder for 2017- 2018 Volunteer Hours
-Last Chance-
June 30th is the last day to enter your volunteer hours for the 2017-18 school year. We appreciate you taking the time to get these entered, as we use this for grants and other informational requests. Enter the hours by going to
https://www.volgistics.com/ex2/vicnet.dll?FROM=118993
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CCA is so lucky to have such amazing volunteers and we THANK YOU for your time. Let us shout how much you volunteer to the world by entering your hours!
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- PTO is looking for volunteers with vans or pickup trucks to help move items stored in an off site storage close to the school (Public Storage) to the school. Please contact pto@cherrycreekacademy.org if you are interested in moving the PTO stuff to the school and organizing the PTO closet with these items.
- CCA is looking for volunteers to be on the Used Uniform Committee. Volunteering over the summer is a great way to get a head start on your volunteer hours and may be done at your home on your schedule. If interested, please email Nikki Takas or Lansing Ermentraut.
- Needed now for Fall 2018: Carnival Co-Chairs are needed to help plan and organize the upcoming Carnival. For more information, click here to contact Debbie at dirsfeld@comcast.net.
- Needed now for Fall 2018: Original Works Fundraiser Coordinator needed to organize the fundraiser (can recruit additional volunteers to help). For more information, click here to contact Rebecca at rrook@cherrycreekacademy.org.
- Needed now for Fall 2018: Great American (giftwrap) Fundraiser Coordinator needed to organize the fundraiser (can recruit additional volunteers to help). For more information, click here to contact Rebecca at rrook@cherrycreekacademy.org.
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- A Message from the CCA Board
- Upcoming Events
- Thank You for a Wonderful Year
- Congratulations to CCA Staff
- Staff Addition: New Kindergarten Teacher: Hannah Polston
- Summer Lunch Program
- School Supply Sale
- Important Announcement from the Health Clinic
- Important Announcements from the Library: Required Reading; New & Amazing Library Website
- A Message from the CO League of Charter School's President
- Cub Scouts: Family Scouts
- Silicon Stem Academy: Summer Camp
- Announcements from Champions: Summer Registration
- Helpful Links
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A Message from the CCA Board
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Parent Community,
Congratulations on a successful school year. Now it's time to relax and recharge and enjoy the summer. We are excited and grateful that Annemarie Mahan and Travis Hargreaves will be the interim leaders while the CCA Board works diligently to fill the open administrative position. You are welcome to attend the CCA Board meetings throughout the summer - please consult the calendar. If you have any questions, you are also welcome to email
board@cherrycreekacademy.org
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While we look forward to seeing you at the start of the 2018-19 school year, we hope you truly enjoy the time away from CCA!
Sincerely,
Vaidee Mahadevan, on behalf of the CCA Board
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CCA Board Meeting: 6:00 p.m.
PTO Meeting: 8:05 a.m.; School Supply Orders Due
Board Meeting: 6:00 p.m.
PTO Meeting
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Teacher Pre-Service Training
First Day of School
Kindergarten Back to School Night
Coffee & Tissues for Kindergarten Parents
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1-4 Back to School Night
Board Meeting 6:00 p.m.
5-8 Back to School Night
PTO Meeting
Vision Screening
School Year Photo
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CCA's Leadership Team Thanks You For Another Wonderful Year
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Thank you CCA students and families for another wonderful year! The CCA Leadership Team wishes all of you a very happy and enjoyable summer. We look forward to seeing you in the fall.
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Congratulations to Our Winners!
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CCA's wonderful 4
th grade teacher, Mrs. Tench, has been selected as our Teacher of Year. We want to congratulate and thank Mrs. Tench for being such an exceptional member of CCA's teaching staff.
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CCA's amazing reading interventionist, Jane Andrus has been at CCA for 18 years. This year we recognize her as our Support Staff of the Year! On behalf of the countless students that Jane has impacted and the entire CCA family, we give our utmost gratitude!
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Farewell Mrs. Lover; Hello Ms. Polston
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CCA would like to thank Mandy Lover for her service in Kindergarten this year. Mrs. Lover is looking forward to spending more time with her family. CCA wishes Mrs. Lover the best in her future endeavors.
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Hello Cherry Creek Academy! I am honored to be joining the CCA community as a kindergarten teacher for the 2018-2019 school year. I am a week away from completing my masters degree in Elementary Education at the University of Denver and am so looking forward to implementing all that I have learned in my own classroom! I am originally from San Diego, California and moved to Denver to attend DU for my undergraduate degrees. I love exploring Colorado and spending time outside. I also enjoy traveling, reading, crafting, and learning new languages. I’m looking forward to getting to know you all and I can’t wait to share my passion for education!
~Hannah Polston
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Summer Food Service Program: 18 & Under Eat Free
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Save time and money by ordering your school supplies online from EPI. Supply kits are teachers approved and are delivered directly to your child’s classroom.
Order your school supplies from now until June 15
th
at:
- The P.E. Uniforms will have to be purchased at Dennis Uniform.
- A t-shirt from home will be needed for Art Class.
- Assignment books will be provided to each child as part of the PTO activity fee.
- Recorder, Spanish Dictionary and TI-84 calculator can be purchased as an add on item.
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Important Announcement from the Health Clinic
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This is a reminder that all students going into the 6th grade next school year need a Tdap(Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) immunization.
This is a required vaccine.
Please contact your health provider early to schedule an appointment.
Thank you,
Nurse Jayne
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Required and Recommended Reading
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CCA has a New & AMAZING Library Website
(Click below to check it out!)
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Finding AR Books Just Got a Little Easier
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The BookScanner App makes it easy to find Accelerated Reader books on Apple
iPads and iPhones.
Now your trip to the public library for your AR reading materials can be much more efficient.
The app lets you know if a book has an AR quiz. Just scan the ISBN number on the back. You will also get the
- Reading level (ATOS BL)
- Number of AR points available for taking a quiz
- Quiz number
It will also keep a history on each scanned book for easy reference, which you can delete at any time.
Happy reading!
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A Message from the Colorado League of Charter Schools' President
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Dear charter school members and friends,
As we conclude the 2017-18 year, I want to take this opportunity to celebrate something very special about Colorado. After living in five other states and serving in several national positions, I believe that this is something quite unique that the Centennial State has to share with the nation.
On Tuesday morning, I had the opportunity to host four distinguished
Charter School Champions
at the Cherry Creek Academy, a charter school with 600 students in grades K-8 that is among the best public schools in the state. It is the Academy's last week of school before summer break so the event was a wonderful opportunity to mark the end of a successful school year.
The four
Charter School Champions
are Senator Owen Hill, Representative Brittany Pettersen, Representative Lang Sias and Senator Angela Williams. Representative Pettersen and Senator Williams are Democrats while Senator Hill and Representative Sias are Republicans. The awards were conferred by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and presented by my colleague, Dan Schaller, the League's director of governmental affairs.
Hill, Pettersen, Sias and Williams received the awards because of their sponsorship of Senate Bill 17-1375, the new law that says Colorado charter schools should receive their fair share of local mill levy override funds. During their remarks, all four state leaders emphasized the same thing - albeit in different words and with distinct voices. They spoke with conviction about the importance of advancing equity, creating quality choices for all families, and doing what is best for every child in Colorado.
So what is that unique thing that separates Colorado from so many other states?
Our state policymakers on both sides of the aisle have been modeling the right values and leadership for many years now. As they see it, ensuring that every child has access to a quality education is simply not a partisan issue. Charter schools are public schools, and they bring new choices to students and families - choices that we really need.
To remain a global leader in the 21st Century, America must embrace new ways of serving a school-age population that is far more diverse than the one that we had just 30 years ago. We must be able to open dynamic new public schools that prepare our young people for a rapidly changing workplace and global economy. Charter schools do just that. They give parents and educators a new level of voice, ownership and choice in public education. They give public school districts the capacity to adapt and continuously improve to meet the changing needs and realities of our families and educators.
This message is the gift that Colorado has to give to the nation. Unfortunately, we have opponents nationally and locally who would like to mislead the American people into thinking that there is something bad about charter schools. Yet the 120,000 parents, 8,000 educators, and strong bipartisan contingent of state policymakers that champion Colorado charter schools year after year know otherwise.
As we finish the 2017-18 year and enter the 2018-19 year, my hope is for the rest of the nation to learn from all of the remarkable ways in which charter schools are making public education stronger.
Sincerely,
Benjamin J. Lindquist
President
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Left to Right: CCA Principal/CEO Jay Cerny, CCA Assistant Principal Travis Hargreaves, Colorado League of Charter Schools' President Representative Ben Lindquist, Representitive Brittany Petterson, Senator Owen Hill, Senator Angela Williams, Representative Lang Sias, Colorado League of Charter Schools Legislative Liason Dan Schaller, and CCA Assistant Principal Annemarie Mahan
* Special thanks to CCA's awesome 3rd graders for providing an amazing background.
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Greetings CCA Families,
We are wrapping up our first year of Cub Scouts with Pack 222- CCA’s own Cub Scout Pack, and we’ve had a wonderful time. Next year, our program will be expanding in some exciting ways. Family Scouting is a new model being introduced that allows both boys and girls to experience the fun and engaging scouting experience. We often have siblings attending our meetings and participating in our events. Now- these siblings can fully participate! If you have a son or daughter who might want to participate in Cub Scouts this summer or next fall, fill out
this form
and we’ll be in touch!
If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to email
Jasper Peters
. You can find answers to some frequently asked questions
here
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We're downstairs in the new and awesome innovation space.
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If you are looking for a program for your children, Champions still has a few spots left.
You can
register online
in your parent account. The summer program is held at CCA.
We will be closed July 4
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Champions Summer Break Daily hours are officially 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m
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We are excited to let you know about our new Champions Parent Portal that makes it easier for families to enroll, update their schedule, or access their account information. There have been several improvements to the system but there are a few we know our families will be most excited to see. They will be able to quickly enroll in 6 simple steps, enroll multiple children at once, and be able to connect when they are on the go with the mobile devices.
Champions before- and after-school programs give busy families peace of mind. Parents like knowing their kids are in a safe, educational, and fun environment, even when school’s not in session. We’d like to extend that peace of mind to families who are not yet attending Champions.
We’re excited to make the Champions experience available to all your families and reach out to new families that will be joining you this Fall. We are hoping you’ll help us spread the word and help guide your families to our new Enrollment Portal by linking our website to your school webpage. This is a great way to share with families that your school has a great option for their children before- and after-school.
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