Week of August 15-19, 2022

 Welcome back, Trailblazer families!  

We had a wonderful first two days back to school!  It was so fun to see all of the kids as they walked the red carpet to ring in a new year!  I have enjoyed walking around all of the classrooms and meeting our students!  There are almost 650 of them this year and I will be working hard to get to know their names and faces over the next few weeks.  


Remember that starting Monday, August 15th we kindly ask that you say goodbye to your child at the front gates and allow them to walk with their classmates to the playground. They will meet their teachers when the bell rings. The gates will open at 7:35 am and will be closed at 7:45 am. Students arriving after this time will check in through the office and head to class.


Thank you to all of the families who came out to our Back to School Night event!  It has been a pleasure to get to meet all of you as well.  I can already feel how special the community is here at Diamond Creek.  I would like to especially thank our PTC who helped welcome our staff back with a yummy breakfast and coffee bar this last week.  Everyone on campus really appreciated it!  


Parking Lot Safety Reminders

With almost 650 students walking, biking, riding the bus and arriving in cars, we appreciate everyone doing their part to help keep our kids safe.  Please be mindful of students crossing in the crosswalks.  Also, if you are dropping off or picking up in the parking lots, please do not leave your car unless you are in a designated parking spot.  If you are along the curb, please stay with your car at all times.  Our Trailblazers thank you so much for your efforts to keep them safe.  


Upcoming Events

A couple of events are coming up already:

  • Our first Safe Routes Scan will be on August 18th.  For more information about how to sign up your child to participate or volunteer to help, please see the PTC News below.

  • Don’t forget to join the PTC…I’m really looking forward to eating pizza with the class that has the most membership in the next couple weeks.  See the link in the PTC News to join today!


Speaking of Volunteers…

We would love for you to sign up as a Category I or Category II volunteer this year! Need more information about the difference? Here is a link that describes the two categories:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HBsGiUvxycCQVRYgRG3b6rZqy5k_8Bb-GffsvFQEdRo/edit?usp=sharing

The slide includes links to get the documents needed to complete to get started!


Village Fridays

If it’s a Village Friday…wear your Village shirt.

Here is a link to our Village Meeting and Rally Schedule this year:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11RSJY-TknJJYJab1WVgzazd2MpLEDWOW17J7P7tXS6c/edit?usp=sharing

Our new students will be finding out which Village they are a part of on August 24th and our first Rally is on Friday, August 26th!


Want to work at Diamond Creek?  

We are still looking for 2 Meal Duty Supervisors at Diamond Creek this year!  They are each an hour long position, one from 11:05-12:05, the other from 11:25-12:25.  If you are interested, please apply through this EdJoin LINK and email Mrs. Phillips (lphillips01@rcsdk8.org) if you have any questions or have submitted your application.  We’d love to have you be a part of our DC Team!


PTC News

We are looking for 2 volunteers every Thursday morning from 7:20am-7:55am to scan walkers and bikers for our Safe Routes program. 

Here is the link to sign up:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f49a9ad29aafec25-safe 

 

Support the PTC with an annual donation of $20.00

The class with the most PTC membership participation, will win a PIZZA PARTY with our lovely new principal, Mrs. Phillips.

http://www.diamondcreekptc.com/about-ptc  


Here’s to a great week ahead,

Mrs. Phillips

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week of May 4-8

Image
WEEKLY NEWS Hello Diamond Creek Families! We hope week #3 of Distance Learning went well for you.  Our weekly class Zoom meetings are definitely a highlight for our teachers and staff. We love seeing your students as we miss them so much! Our thoughts are with all of you each day as we know these times are no easy task.  We hope you are all staying healthy and safe. Please make sure to be reading through all email and messages sent through district communication. This will keep you up to date on information that is being shared with our RCSD community.  The FAQ sheet linked below is also a great resource that answers many common questions. STAYING CONNECTED WITH OUR DC COMMUNITY We truly are in this together and we would like to stay connected as a DC community! This is completely OPTIONAL but if you would like to complete  THIS FORM , we will highlight your student and/or family in our DC news to send to DC families. This is a way for families to share wh...
Read more

November 27-December 1

Image
Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  Thank you to all of our parents for taking time to meet with your child's teacher this week.  Our teachers appreciate this face to face meeting time with you.  We are all a team working together to help each child at Diamond Creek be successful and your support is such an important piece of the puzzle.  Thank you for your time and support! On Tuesday, we were lucky enough to have our local Fire Department visit us and lead us through a fire safety assembly.  The students learned what to do in the case of a fire and were able to see the transformation that happens when our firefighters put on all of their gear.  On Wednesday, we had a building wide "READING DRILL".  We all stopped, dropped and read! It was a delight to see students throughout our whole building reading for 15 minutes all together.  I had so many students afterwards tell me they wished it was longer and ask if we could do that everyday! W...
Read more

Week of September 12-16, 2022

Image
  9/9/2022   Happy Friday Trailblazer families,   We completed our LEAD Passport adventure today.  Your children have now traveled to all 7 of our common areas to learn what it looks like to be great Listeners, be Empathetic, be Accountable and how to be Disciplined. Due to the smoke, we had them meet in their Village Meeting Spot and the presenters traveled to the students. These passports should have gone home with them today.  It would be wonderful to have them step into the role of being the teacher and share with you what they learned about each area’s expectations.     DC NEWS IS BACK Our Student Leadership under the direction of Ms. Triplett and Mrs. Lopez is back in action.  One of the projects they work on is our DC News.  Click HERE to see this week’s broadcast!     SPIRIT WEEK-GETTING READY FOR OUR WALK-A-THON We have a great week of school spirit ahead culminating with our Walk-a-thon on Friday, September 16t...
Read more