Friday, September 13, 2019
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LEADERSHIP LETTER: ABBY BOK, ACTING PRINCIPAL, 3-5
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Dear Dragon Families,
What a busy, but short, week! You can tell September is here because our students are beginning to fall into their classroom and school routines, while showing their Dragon PRIDE. What a wonderful time of the year to be an educator! Our relationships with our students are strengthening and we are seeing the benefits of our new Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports system.
This past Tuesday, the administration held a parent Dragon Cafe to discuss the implementation of PBIS to Flagstaff and a recap of the behind-the-scenes work that took place this summer to help get this initiative off the ground. Our school-wide expectations have been taught to students, practiced, reinforced and rewarded these past five weeks, and our students are setting records for earning Dragon PRIDE tickets! The tickets have replaced of our former Dragon links, which we knew needed a refresh. We have higher incentives for earning these tickets, as well as other rewards in place to showcase the exceptional behavior that is being demonstrated on a daily basis. We encourage you to have conversations with your child about how they are earning their tickets! If they come home with a Code of Conduct Recognition--celebrate their success and ask them how they earned this special award. If you would like to review the presentation from the Dragon Cafe talk, you can find it
here
.
Another new addition to our late start programming this year are our school-wide PRIDE assemblies. Each month we will focus on a specific virtue and introduce a service project for the month. For September, our PK-8 students were presented with our first project that centers around thanking a first responder, our local heroes. If you would like to see the video shown to students to kick off this initiative, please view that
here
.
Wednesday evening brought a public recognition from the SVVSD Board of Education for our National Schools to Watch recognition. It was so great to see so many people from our community pack the room to honor our middle school’s success.
Today, our staff spent half of our professional development learning about
7 Mindsets,
our new social emotional learning curriculum that will be implemented beginning next week. For elementary, teachers will be updating you weekly through their communications home to share with you what your students are working on. For middle school, you can get these updates through the weekly team newsletters.
As always, thank you for your support and partnership as we continue to strive to improve our behavior supports and interventions and continue to celebrate our successes!
Enjoy the long weekend!
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SCHOOL-WIDE ANNOUNCEMENTS
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AFTERNOON DRIVELINE: BE GOOD NEIGHBORS!
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Do not park in any of our neighbors' parking lots. The only authorized space is FRCC directly across the street. Our neighbors will tow unauthorized parked vehicles. Please be a good neighbor and stay out of our neighbors' lots.
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FLAGSTAFF ACADEMY RESTAURANT FUNDRAISER
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We're excited to be partnering with a number of fantastic local restaurants, all to benefit our school, from Robotics, Future Problem Solvers, Student Council, NJHS, and more!
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September Restaurant Fundraiser at Smashburger!
Date:
Monday, September 16
Time:
10:00AM-9:00PM
Location:
965 S. Hover St. #A-1, Longmont 80501
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DRAGON VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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Dragon Volunteer Opportunities!
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Flagstaff Academy wants to make your involvement in your student's academic career easy and rewarding. Students become more vested in their education when they see significant adults from their lives involved at school. Here are some volunteer opportunities we could use your help with:
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MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL REGISTRATION
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Registration Begins Monday, September 23rd!
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There are only 25 spots available for the Boys Basketball Team.
*Please read registration process carefully*
On
Monday, September 23rd
, registration will open for 8th grade boys only. Should there be remaining spots, registrations will be accepted on Tuesday, September 24th for 7th and 8th graders. The process will continue on Wednesday, September 25th for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders if there are remaining spots on a first come, first served basis. (In this instance, interested players should line up outside the west vestibule doors behind the designated orange cone. Registrations will be collected by Mrs. Salgado ONLY starting at 7:45 a.m.). Again, there are only 25 spots available and registration will close when that number is reached.
Only a complete registration form that includes jersey size and short size with a check made out to Flagstaff Academy for $55.00 will be accepted. Discounted athletic registration may be available for households qualified for free or reduced lunch. For financial assistance, please email Kim Hagen Rapp, Business Office Assistant at
khagenrapp@flagstaffacademy.org
for more information regarding reduced or waived athletic fees.
The season is six (6) weeks long and practice will begin on Monday, September 30th. Practices are Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5:00 p.m.. There are four (4) games (2/home and 2/away). The season ends with a tournament on Saturday, November 9th.
Go Dragons!
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BOYS BASKETBALL COACH NEEDED!
The middle school boys basketball team is currently seeking one coach for the upcoming season. The season will begin on Monday, September 30th. The season is 6 weeks long and will include four (4) games (2 home/2 away) and one (1) Saturday tournament to end the season. Specific dates can be found on the
Dragon Athletic site
.
Practices will be after school on Monday-Thursday from 3:30-5:00PM. Coaches are required to be first aid and CPR certified and take a free online concussion training course.
This is a paid position.
If you are interested please email Kate Salgado, Athletic Director,
ksalgado@flagstaffacademy.org
with your coaching background, philosophy of coaching middle school aged boys and knowledge of sport.
We hope to fill this position as soon as possible.
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ACTIVITY FEES AND PAYMENTS
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Pay your Student Activity Fees!
They are due by October 1, 2019.
You may pay through
RevTrak
,
with cash, or by check (payable to Flagstaff Academy).
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2019-2020 Student Activity Fees
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Our Annual Student Activity Fees go toward purchasing essential items such as:
- Student workbooks
- Consumable classroom supplies
- Software licensing for technology programs
- Buses and tickets for field trips
- Elementary specials program materials
- Middle School electives/essentials
- Educational guests
- School supplies (copy paper, tissues, paper towels, disinfectant wipes, etc.)
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DRAGON FLIGHT BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL CARE
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DRAGON DASH PLEDGING OPENS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17!
OUR GOAL IS $70,000!
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IMPORTANT DATES
Tuesday, September 17:
Fundraising Begins!
- Go to Funrun.com and register your student(s).
- Reach out! Share your pledge link with friends, family, coworkers and neighbors. Every dollar matters to Flagstaff Academy.
- Our goal is $70,000. With 5 pledges from every family in the school, that is more than attainable!
Tuesday, September 24:
Pep Rally
Friday, October 4:
Elementary Fun Run/ Middle School Color Run
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KING SOOPERS CARD CLASS CONTEST
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The PTO is running a classroom contest with a total prize money of $1000 to encourage parents to participate in the King Soopers Community Rewards program. This program allows Kings Soopers to donate money to Flagstaff based on what you spend at King Soopers at no cost to you.
Classrooms will earn prize winnings based on survey participation rates (detailed contest rules
here
), all you have to do is complete the survey
(
link
) and submit the survey response by 9/30/19.
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Did you know that every Amazon.com purchase benefits our school? Learn how your shopping helps to support Flagstaff Academy!
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Redecorating? Sending an older sibling off to college? When you shop at American Furniture Warehouse, a portion of your purchase comes back to our school!
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