Today, Tuesday February 9, 2010, we will have a two hour late start for our school day (grades 5-8 arrival is 10:10am; grades 3-4 arrival is 10:20am and K, 1, 2 arrival is 10:30am).  Please be careful of the slippery roads and sidewalks.  Please take your time and be safe.  SACC is available at 9am for those who use it.

Dear Parents,

Our school now has access to great resources for parents, which are a newsletters filled with age-appropriate tips and activities that are practical and immediately useful to parents of students in grades PK-8.  Click here for the February 2010 monthly newsletters. 

So many of us love a new year and the resolutions and changes it brings in our lives. Even though the school year begins in September, educators also feel this way. January brings an opportunity to reflect and reprioritize. 

We are ready to do just that in many different areas. Obviously, student achievement, teaching and learning will always be areas of focus in a new year.  This year, we are continuing to make security an important area for reflection and change.

Over the first week of school, January 5 to 8, you were invited to join a non-mandatory orientation session introducing a “one entrance” system for our school.  The orientation session was available to you if you want to see the system first hand. 

We put the new system into effect Monday, January 11.  It is in effect every day from the hours of 8:40 am through 3 pm. The school’s one entrance system is one that has been created in conjunction with the Northfield Police Department personnel to make our school even more safe for our students and staff during the school day.

It is important to note that current procedures for school access will NOT change in any way from how they are set up currently from 8am though 8:40 am and from 3pm through 4 pm.  Also, on special days such as visitations or elections or party days and even book fair days, there will be multiple entrances with registration available at each of the entrances.

You will see new signage around the building that will make the system very clear. We designated  “during school hours” as 8:40 am through 3 pm”.  From January 11, 2010 on, between the hours of 8:40 am and 3 pm there will be one entrance utilized for school access. 

The one entrance during school hours, from 8:40 am through 3 pm, will be clearly designated on New Road close to the cafeteria entrance. The new entrance is the small door that leads into the atrium area where you will see a registration desk. The method for dropping off lunches, forgotten books and other items and for picking up a sick child or for bringing a child to school late, from 8:40 on, will be expedited from the desk at this one entrance.

Our experiences over the years have given us information for which we have utilized in creating this system.  There is not a school in Atlantic County that does not have a one entrance system during the school day, and we are joining them.

Wishing you a happy and a healthy 2010.

Janice Fipp

Our new Community Education Program offers children the opportunity to explore their interests and participate in exciting workshops and classes.  Registration is December 15 through 22 from 3 - 7 p.m. in the SACC office.  Download the flyers below for more information!

Community Education Overview
Community Education Registration
Art Classes
Cooking Classes
Yoga Classes
Tween Yoga Classes
Creative Expression Classes

Click here to download a flyer on the differences between a cold and H1N1