Dear Parents,
Happy New Year! What a pleasure it is to welcome you back to Point Road School following our winter recess. I hope that you and your family had a wonderful holiday season and a healthy, restful, and fun-filled winter vacation.
Happy New Year! What a pleasure it is to welcome you back to Point Road School following our winter recess. I hope that you and your family had a wonderful holiday season and a healthy, restful, and fun-filled winter vacation.
As we celebrate the season and reflect on the past year, I would like to take a moment to thank all of the people who help to make Little Silver such a great place for students. The entire staff from teachers to custodians, cafeteria workers, secretaries, aides, counselors, therapists, parents,bus drivers, the PTO, EFLSand the Little Silver Police all working together to make our school a wonderful, nurturing, and safe environment for students.
As we think about resolutions for the New Year, it is important to think about the safety of our students and how we can best assist our students to become the best that they can be. We look to this New Year with optimism and excitement. As we work to continually improve the academic program for all students, so too we strive to make our school a safer and more inspiring place in which to learn. We will continue to review the safety measures that we have in place and we ask your cooperation, please do not hold open the door for someone or knock on the door and ask a student to let you in. The staff and students have been instructed not to open the doors for anyone. We have been practicing the different types of emergency drills and in addition to our monthly fire drill, we will be conducting an active shooter drill during the month of January so that your child will know what to do in the event of this type of an emergency and will be scheduling other drills throughout the remainder of the school year. |
We once again thank you for your continued cooperation with the drop off area and remind you that it is imperative that students exit on the passenger side of the car only! If you are having door issues, please park on Lippincott and allow your children to cross at the crossing guard. THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY PARENT VEHICLES “STANDING” IN THE TEACHERS’ LOT OFF OF SEVEN BRIDGES OR IN THE TEACHERS’ PARKING LOT BY THE PLAYGROUND!!!
For those of you that attended our Winter Concert on December 8th, you heard for yourself how wonderful our chorus sounded. It was great to see the gymnasium full, especially during such a busy time of the year. Again, thank you to Mrs. Baptist and Mr. Griffin Perry for their hard work. A very special thank you to our students who are so dedicated and performed so well. We would also like to thank the parents who donated poinsettias and transformed our gymnasium into a winter wonderland. Last, but not least for transporting the students to all rehearsals and to the tree lighting!
The Annual Point Road Spelling Bee will be held on Friday, January 6th and will begin promptly on 1:00 PM in the gym.
Although we have had a very mild winter so far, chances are that we will get some snow, sooner or later! Please remember, when it snows, to shovel your sidewalks so that our walking students will be able to arrive safely at school. This is especially important along Lippincott because of student drop offs.
Please remember that the school day begins promptly at 8:05. Any student that has not arrived by 8:05 is considered tardy. Please leave your house a few minutes early so that your child arrives at school in a calm state ready to begin his/her day.Also, it is important to remember that most absences, according to the New Jersey Department of Education are listed as unexcused absences some counting towards truancy and others not counting towards truancy.
In addition, if you are allowing your child to play on the playground after school, you must be present to supervise as you would do in the evening or on a weekend. Students should NOT be playing on the playground UNSUPERVISED! Also, please remember that ALL school playground rules should be enforced at ALL times.
Perhaps a little more time spent reading as a family, a little less time running from here to there or maybe just time spent playing in the snow; whatever it is that your family resolves to do in 2017, know that we at Point Road School are also resolved to make the New Year one that will enable your children to be happy about attending school and to show continued progress in all academic and social areas.
As the weather once again gets colder, we have been reminding students that we will still be going outside for physical education and recess. It is important for your child to come to school dressed to spend 30– 50 minutes outside (gym classes are 50 minutes in length). Coats, hats, and gloves should become standard for the next few months. As a result of additional clothing being worn to school, our Lost and Found was over-flowing and has been bagged and stored. Please LABEL all of your child’s clothing so that it is easier for us to help find their owners.
As the weather once again gets colder, we have been reminding students that we will still be going outside for physical education and recess. It is important for your child to come to school dressed to spend 30– 50 minutes outside (gym classes are 50 minutes in length). Coats, hats, and gloves should become standard for the next few months. As a result of additional clothing being worn to school, our Lost and Found was over-flowing and has been bagged and stored. Please LABEL all of your child’s clothing so that it is easier for us to help find their owners.
We currently have 460 people that have liked the Little Silver Schools Facebook page and 247 Twitter followers. We are working very hard to keep you informed of all school activities, etc. If you have not yet visited and “liked” our page, please add this to your list of New Year’s Resolutions!
In addition, I hope that you will continue to visit the school website from time to time to enjoy the news and photos of our ongoing activities. As always, thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Pamela Albert Devine