ITS SEPTEMBER!

We are into September and in full swing here at Providence Creek Academy! If you have not already purchased your school supplies, you need to do that by Monday. We spent the first week of school working on beginning of the year activities including the rules, procedures, discipline, intervention, etc. The students were had a say about the rules and the consequences. It was an enjoyable experience for the students. The rules are universal around the middle school:
Respect Yourself, Respect the Teacher, Respect Others, and the Learning Environment.
The students created a list of consequences. Once they have earned the consequence level, they will choose which consequence they would like to fulfill.

Fall sports are underway as well! Congrats to all of our fall 2009 athletes! You can check out the sports schedules on www.providencecreekacademy.org and come out to cheer on your Saints!

Student Council will begin today during Elective time. Bring all of your great ideas and thoughts to help better your school and the education of your peers! We will also be getting the school store up and running very soon. There will not be any food sold this year. The school store will sell school supplies and hopefully some Providence Creek Academy items. The days and times will be announced soon!

If you have not had a chance to explore our new grading policy, please look into that. It has drastically changed to help your children become better students and be more successful in school. One change is that there are no longer marking periods, we have changed to trimesters. Your child will bring home 3 report cards this year rather than four. We have also add a citizenship grade which the students will be graded on participation, respect, following directions, responsibility. This grade will accompany the academic grade and be just as important. Students will be able to attend gatherings with a 1.7 or higher citizenship grade. The academic grades have been broken down into more specific learning targets so that you are able to see what your child might be excelling in or struggling with.

The discipline policy has changed as well. There are no more demerits. All level offenses (1, 2, 3) will be recorded on a discipline referral and input into the eschool system. This is for tracking and intervention purposes. The consequences will depend on the level offense that the students has broken. There was a discipline paper that was sent home for parents to review, please sign and return that as soon as possible!

Emergency cards need to be turned in immediately as well. They are VERY important to have on hand for the students. If there should be an emergency, they need to have all of the medical information as well as contact information for the parents or family members. Please return those cards this week.

If anyone has any questions or concerns please send me an email at nlewis@pca.k12.de.us or call 302-653-6276.

I hope everyone has a good day and a great weekend!