Independence
We have quite a bit for tonight’s email. First, we want to update everyone on our JOGAPALOOZA fundraiser. Our current total is just over $18,000. Students can continue collecting donations and submit money until May 17, 2024. We might actually reach $20,000! Online donations are also accepted at https://secureinstantpayments.com/sip/cart/event.php?EID=5027 We are SO close to our goal! Thank you for donating. Thanks also to our coordinator, Amy Hawkins, and her committee: Angee Colvin, Anna Muehlmann, Brittany Bezzant, Robin Harward, Jennifer Wilshaw, Jordan Bennion, Melissa Henderson, and Stephanie Oakden. Thanks also to Healthy Bluffdale Coalition (Healthy Bluffdale Coalition | Bluffdale, UT) who sponsored our run and brought the finish line. Students worked hard for those laps too!
We want to thank all our volunteers at a light breakfast this Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. Anyone who has helped with anything this year, please come!
As you are aware, this week students are taking the state RISE exams in grades 3-8. The email sent out yesterday explained how important the information is for us to examine our instructional effectiveness as teachers. There is some confusion about school start time. School still begins at 8:10 a.m. Junior high testing begins at 9:00 a.m., but we are concerned about the number of junior high students who were hanging out at the park prior to 9:00 a.m. The park is not monitored, so if students are going to check-in at 9:00 a.m., please wait to drop them off then.
Thank you to everyone who has paid their students’ lunch account balances. As a reminder, starting yesterday (Monday, May 13th), all students with a negative lunch balance are given sack lunches instead of the main course options. Please log in to your Aspire account to check lunch account balances. Payments can be made online through our website (https://secureinstantpayments.com/sip/cart/event.php?EID=1473) or brought into the office.
All library books are due Friday, May 17. If you have any questions, please contact our office.
There is a parent meeting for next year’s cross-country team on May 20th at 3:30. Students who will be in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade for the 2024-2025 school year are invited to attend. The season will start in August. Please see the flyer on Cub Update.
On May 30th, we have 8th grade Lagoon day and 7th grade Boondocks day! Details will be emailed to you tomorrow including information on paying and permission slips. The cost of Lagoon is $54 and Boondocks is $24. Students will need to pay in advance at the school on or before May 24, 2024.
Other End of year reminders:
Check out the Cub Update for more information. We will have our Dance Festival the morning of the last day of school again this year! Be ready to join us on the back field as each grade shares some of their dance moves and as we celebrate our 6th graders with their traditional “clap out.” We will send out more details next week.
It’s going to be a fun ending of our year!
