Dear La Entrada Families,

(If English is not your native language, ​please copy/paste this message here for translation into your home language.)

As we complete our fourth week of school, I'm struck by how engaged students are in their learning. Our staff has worked tirelessly since August, many throughout the summer, to foster conditions in and outside the classrooms to help our students be successful. In addition to ongoing academic support from staff, we provide many opportunities for students to make social-emotional connections on campus, such as the Intramurals program highlighted below.

Please remind your students to pick up breakfasts and lunches you have ordered for them through The Lunchmaster. We are seeing many students leave their free meals at the tables for which the district gets charged.

With several campus events coming up in the next few weeks, we look forward to seeing many of you on campus!

All the best,

Mark Jones

La Entrada Principal

• Parent Information Night Feedback
• Multilingual Learner Extended Day
• Intramurals
• School Picnic

Please take a moment to provide feedback on a Parent Information Night Survey for Grades 6-8.

We piloted a virtual format for Parent Information Night (PIN) in Grades 6-8 this year. Parent feedback on virtual PIN for middle school during the pandemic, done out of necessity, was generally positive. Many families preferred the convenience of watching six live PIN sessions at home rather than trying to travel between classes and sometimes arriving late to sessions. Some parents also preferred watching pre-recorded PIN sessions at their leisure while others would rather have traditional in-person sessions with travel between classes. We would like your feedback to help inform our decisions for middle school PIN next year.

In-person PIN for Grades 4-5 was well-attended and we will continue with the in-person format next year. Thank you so much to all of our teachers for their attention to detail at this year's PIN.

We are pleased to offer a before- and after-school Extended Day Learning program for our beginning and early intermediate English-speaking multilingual learners this year. The goal of the extended day is to keep students in class who are most in need of English immersion during the school day while providing them with designated English language instruction before or after school.

In addition to English immersion, Extended Day Learning will focus on vocabulary enrichment, building social skills, and fun activities like games. We wish to create a sense of belonging and community for our beginning English speakers, many of whom are new to the campus and the country.

If your child is a beginning English speaker and you have not yet signed up for Extended Day Learning, please feel free to reach out to me at mjones@llesd.org.

Intramurals

Starting this week, we are offering lunchtime Intramurals on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for Grades 4-5 and 6-8. These activities are a safe and productive way for students to connect during less structured times of the school day. As mentioned above, Intramurals are a tool used at La Entrada to support students' social-emotional well-being. 

The La Entrada School Picnic (RSVP here) will be held at 5:30 pm next Thursday, September 22, 2022. We hope you will join us!