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PLE Crew,
What an incredible week!!! This week we were awarded three innovation grants from the Foundation for Douglas County Schools to help continue to build our STEM program. These funds will be used to purchase various STEM materials for students to tinker with, AV equipment, and two class sets of BeeBots!!! On Wednesday our Crew demonstrated their Scientific thinking and Engineering skills our first actual in person Science and Engineering Fair. Check out our Crew’s projects here: Science and Engineering Fair Padlet. We look forward to continuing to grow this celebration of learning. Nolan F. was also a finalist in the SIFMA Foundation’s National InvestWrite competition. The SIFMA Foundation through InvestWrite and the Stock Market Game promotes financial literacy in schools. A huge congratulations to Nolan! Representatives from each of our intermediate classrooms met regularly to reduce our energy consumption at PIne Lane as they competed in Renew Our Schools. They reduced our energy use 5.58% and received recognition for completing all 6 tasks. And finally, we wrapped up the week with our final week of our Dance Unit, a collaboration between our Music and PE teacher that helped promote fitness, principles of music, creativity, and collaboration. I would also add that it has been great to see you all back in the building more consistently.
I’d like to ask for your help with a couple of things. 1) If you have not please complete our Parent/Guardian Feedback Survey. We currently have 80 entries and would like well over 200 to ensure we have an ample sampling of our families. We are a school with over 740 students and would like to have each of your voices represented in this data so that we can effectively plan improvement efforts. Here is the link to this survey: 2021-22 Parent/Guardian Feedback. 2) Yep, it is another survey. Please complete our Intent to Return Form. This is also coupled with our Parent Input for Class Placement. We need an Intent Return Form to be filled out for each of your children. Next week will be the last week that we are accepting Class Placement Input as we will be starting to build our class rosters. Here is the link to this form: 2022-23 Intent to Return and Class Placement. And 3) Please review our Traffic Process. Please be sure to pull all the way down, follow all of our traffic directors instructions, and set your car up so that your child or children can enter your vehicle from the passenger side. Thank you all for your patience with each other and the caution you show in our parking lot. The safety of our Crew is very important.
If you think this week was busy. It keeps coming from here on out. Next week, we will kick off the Chaparral Feeder’s Wish Week. The following week grades 3-6 will show the state what they know as they know and how excellent Pine Lane is as they take CMAS. On April 6th we will hold our SAC/PTO meeting reviewing the results of our parent survey. And on April 8th, our Kindergartners will help us reflect on our habit of character Respect. Continue to pay close attention to our communications and website to stay up to date on all the happenings at Pine Lane.
Have a great weekend!
Chris Stairs
Principal
Pine Lane
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