District Newsletter October 2007

We have had a great beginning to the 2007-08 school year. Students, teachers and staff have had a busy and productive start. Student learning is taking place as well as a large amount of students involved in extracurricular activities. Research indicates students who are involved in some type of school activity do much better academically than those that are not. Please encourage your students to be involved in the fine arts or athletic programs. We have many school activities as well as City recreational activities students can be involved in.

USD 420 is always trying to have a vast variety of communication methods for parent-teacher communication. USD 420 just finished a phone system upgrade that will allow for voice mail capabilities for all teachers and staff. Teachers are on duty from 7:45 a.m.-3:40 p.m. each school day. After school hours you may leave a message at the school. A reminder our district web site allows continuous updates on calendar and other pertinent information. Daily updates and information can be obtained at the USD 420 web site: www.usd420.org.

Parent Internet Safety Night

This school year USD 420 will be presenting several parent workshops on a variety of subjects. Our first workshop will be an Internet Safety Night on Tuesday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m. in the USD 420 Auditorium. This workshop will present information on how to make technology safe for our children. Free childcare will be provided by the Osage City Middle School Builders Club. We invite you to attend this free one-hour workshop.

Teacher In-Service

USD 420 will have a Teacher In-Service on Monday, October 8. USD 420 will host a data analysis training session for teachers on our student assessment Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). Students will not have classes on this day.

Parent-Teacher Conferences

The 2007 Fall Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Tuesday, October 23 and Wednesday, October 24. Students will have school both days from 8:05 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Conferences will be held from 3:00-8:00 p.m. More information will be sent to parents about Fall Conferences. Fall Break will be on Friday, October 26. Classes will not be in session.

Safety

Please be very careful driving around the school facilities before and after school. Also, please remember that it is against Kansas law to pass a school bus that has its red flashers on. They are loading or unloading students. Please drive safely!