Dear Bracker Community!
I hope this newsletter
finds you and your family well and in good spirits.
As we approach our last
week of testing please accept my most gracious and humble thanks to YOU parents
for bringing in your students for us to test them. We have had a remarkable turn out and your
support is so greatly appreciated. BRACKER ELEMENTARY HAS THE BEST PARENTAL
SUPPORT IN NUSD! THANK YOU!
We are proud to announce
that RM Bracker Elementary will be
offering Summer school for selected students from May 24th through
June 17th. In an effort to assist students in reducing the “loss
of learning”, we have created a fun, yet educational Summer School program that
consists of math, reading, language, and writing activities. This 17 days
summer program is for students in grades K-5th. The hours are from 8:00am-1:30pm.
The activities are designed to be a review of material from the past school
year and have been pulled from our current reading and math series so they
should be familiar to you and your child. This should also limit the time
teachers have to spend “reviewing and reteaching” skills from the past year.
Summer school space is limited and will be in person not on a computer
(subject to change due to COVID-19 status). We are giving first preference of
attendance to teacher recommendation, then, second preference to parent
request. The reason for this is that we want to make sure that we target the
students that could mostly benefit from our program. If you would like to stop by and review the
summer school curricula, please feel free to stop by Bracker Elementary any
time after April 22nd from 9:00am-2pm. Please contact Ms. Vigilant
for any questions.
Announcements:
1.
Parents,
if by now you have not yet completed the Returning Student Registration Form.
You will start to receive calls from us here at the school with reminders!
During these calls, we can also assist you with completing the form, if needed.
This form is extremely important as it helps us prepare staffing and
other pertinent information for the next school year. If you need assistance or should have any
questions, please give Martha R. Villa a call at 520.377.2886 or send her an
email at marvilla@nusd.k12.az.us.
2.
Bracker
is also excited to announce that we WILL host a transition procession ceremony
for students currently in grade Kindergarten and Fifth!
In order to honor our
students and follow CDC safety procedural guidelines, our transition procession
ceremony will take place behind the school. Families will remain in their cars,
but take in the wonderful “sights,” music, and gifts that our students and
teachers have prepared. Part of the procession, there will be a “stop” where
students will receive their diplomas and take pictures with their teachers.
This should be a fun event for all! We encourage parents and families to
decorate their vehicles to add to the festivities. One vehicle per student,
please.
3.
Our
end of the year awards assembly will also look different this year. It will be
via zoom. Out motto for this year is, “Bracker
Dolphins Excelling Against the Current.” We felt this was appropriate due
to the challenges that our community had to overcome this year. In addition to our, Dolphins of The Month,
recognition, which is based on Character Counts criteria and not
academics, we wanted to highlight those students that did strive to maintain
academic success this year. Therefore, we created a special award program for
those students that achieved academic honors in three categories:
a.
Gold Award:
i. Students who achieved the
highest of honors throughout the year, maintained “A” all four quarters and
were present during the majority of the instructional time (including
Specials).
b.
Silver Award:
i. Students who maintained A/B
grades all year, had a great attitude and present during most of the instructional
time (including Specials).
c.
Bronze Award:
i. Students who maintained
A/B/(possibly C) all year, had a great
attitude, were present during most of the instructional time (including
Specials), great effort, maybe started off slow but overcame challenges to end
strong, persevered—never gave up attitude.
4.
Parents,
please watch your speed as you are entering Camino Diez Mandamientos road.
Please remind yourself that this is school zone and there are children (and
police) present.
5.
We
will be sending out a Title One survey via email. Please, complete it at your
earliest convenience. Your answers are anonymous, but helpful in assisting
Bracker in becoming and remaining the best we can be.
6. At the end of the year, we will be collecting computers,
computers bags, chargers and MiFi’s. We will be collecting these items in
whatever conditions they are in. Please be prepared to drop off these items to
the school the week of May 24th - May 28th from 8:00am-3:00pm. This
is also an opportune time to pick up your child’s final report card.
Important
Dates:
April 19th-
26th: AzM2 Testing 5th Grade
May 3rd
-19th: Galileo and DIBELS Testing (various grades per week)
May 18: Zoom
Awards Assembly:
9:00am: Grades K-2 (Zoom link will be attached to invite at
later date)
12:30pm: Grades 3-5th (Zoom link will be attached
to invite at later date)
May 19th:
Fifth Grade Transition 12:30pm - 1:30pm
May 20th:
Kinder Transition 9:00am - 10:00am
May 21st:
Last day of school
As always, until we are all able to be together again
safely, please take care of yourself and each other. Ms. Vigilant, Principal