K-8 Parents: You are invited to a special Parent Night next Thursday, September 8. This is a night for parents to visit the classroom and hear from the teachers. The teachers are excited to introduce themselves, share their passion for pointing kids to Jesus, and provide important information about their classroom, routines, communication, etc. This night is an important piece of the partnership ACS has with our families. Prior to the evening, Brian Koetje, Principal, and Rachel Reed, Director of Learning, will send out video introductions, and then will be available for conversation and questions. This will allow parents to go directly to classrooms when they arrive. The schedule is as follows:

6:30pm/6:50pm/7:10pm - Sessions with the teacher(s) of your child(ren) - 15 minute sessions with 5 minutes passing time between each session. If you have four or more children at ACS, parents are encouraged to divide and visit different teachers if possible. Each session is the same, so you only attend one per teacher.

Thank you for your overall cooperation and help in making drop-off and pick-up run smoothly. We noticed that when the buses leave prior to 3:15 and parents enter the lot right after, pick-up runs very well with no back-up onto 64th. We still have some people showing up prior to 3:15 in the main lot. Please be sure to follow that guideline and communicate the time to those that may pick up your child(ren) and not read the News and Notes. Again, the main (west) lot opens at 3:15pm after school and the north lot opens at 3:10pm. Once preschool begins, there will be preschool parents that stay in the lot after preschool pick-up, and that is fine. 

Great Beyond Clean Up: With preschool starting up in less than 2 weeks we would love some help getting the Great Beyond cleaned up for the preschoolers to enjoy exploring in God's creation this year! If you are willing and able to help, we would love it if you could join us Friday Sept 2nd. Please email Ashley Poolman at apoolman@allendalechristian.com if you would like to help or have any questions! Thank you so much for supporting our Nature Based Learning! 

Grandparents Day Update: Grandparents Day will be moving to the Spring. We are still making a final decision, but it will be either May 5 or 12, which will become a half day of school. We will keep October 14 as a half day of school in order to have a professional development session with the teachers.

Absences due to illness: For the current school year, students will be able to return to school when they are fever free for 24 hours and have significantly improved symptoms. Families have the option to keep a student home longer if they choose. Quarantines will not be mandated for students and staff that have been exposed to an illness.

Volunteer Opportunity! Throughout the course of the month, teachers will have the opportunity to meet with their grade-level team and our Director of Learning, Rachel Reed, for continued professional development. These meetings will be held during lunch, and we are looking for volunteers to help provide classroom coverage for these meetings. We would love it if you could please check out our sign-up genius and sign up to help with classroom lunchtime coverage in order to make this possible. We appreciate your help in this way! Sign Up Genius link

If you need to contact the office via email, please use the office@allendalechristian.com email address.

Please be sure to call the school office or notify your child's teacher by 8:00am if your child will be tardy or absent for the day. Thank you so much!