Dora Moore ECE-8 School

Annual Grill & Chill Community BBQ on Thursday!

We are so excited to get our entire school community together to hang out! Please mark you calendars to attend directly after school at 4:00pm!

Dinner is free to everyone and anyone!

Kona Ice will be on the playground for families to purchase on their own if they would like starting at 4:00pm as well!

This is a community event, so invite your friends! Family supervision of all children is required. DM staff will not be 'on-duty' during this event and all families are still expected to pick-up/sign-out students at 4:00pm from teachers. No students will be released and allowed to participate afterschool without being picked up by their guardian.  

As this is a community event, it takes everyone to pitch in! Please sign-up to donate chips, a veggie tray, or dessert! The PTSA is generously providing the hot dogs, buns, condiments, and drinks. Additionally, we need some help! Please consider volunteering your time as well!

Sign-up Here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0945A4AA2FAAFD0-44375806-grill

Late Arrivals, Early Pickups, & Attendance Policy: 

We are committed to achieving our school-wide goal of each student attending at least 90% of the instructional school days throughout the year. This translates to each student not missing more than 1 out of every 10 school days. To that end, we are increasing our accountability and tracking systems at school, implementation of tiered supports for families to identify and remove barriers to attendance, and celebrate those that are meeting or exceeding our goals. 

Chronic absenteeism is one of the primary root causes for students falling behind and the slow process of catching them up.

"Poor attendance can influence whether children read proficiently by the end of third grade."

"Research shows that missing 10 percent of the school, or about 18 days in most school districts, negatively affects a student’s academic performance. That’s just two days a month and that’s known as chronic absence."

Quotes from AttendanceWorks

If you are experiencing challenges getting your students to school at least 90% of the time, please reach out to Mr. Konz for support identifying and removing barriers! We will also be in contact as we will be running weekly attendance reports and pro-actively contacting families.

Reminders:

• The school day starts at 9:00am. Please ensure that you are arriving on site by then to drop off your student. If you are late, you are required to walk your student(s) to the Main Entrance door and walk them up to the front desk. Students may not be walking themselves to the front door and the desk, they need to be accompanied. It is a safety concern. Tardies and missed instructional minutes add up to absences.

• The school day ends at 4:00pm. All students must be picked up at 4:10pm. Late pickups after school are not permitted. Students who are picked up consistently late will need to enroll in our Discovery Link program. 
  • Every time a student is late being picked up means that our staff is also late picking up their own children and taking care of their personal and professional lives. Being timely at pickup is an act of mutual respect. 
  • Ms. Patty will not release students to guardians for early dismissal after 3:40pm--Grown-ups will need to wait until 4:00pm dismissal to receive their child. 

• Families are NOT PERMITTED to park on 9th Avenue in the Bus Lane before or after school for pickup and dropoff. This is a bus lane only for the DPS Bus, Warren Village Bus, Girls, Inc. Bus, and Open Door Vans. We will begin having an off-duty police officer ticketing families parking in the bus lane. 

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Thank You To Those Who Cleaned Our Campus!

We had a large group of grassroots families spend their Labor Day cleaning, weeding, and taking care of our campus! Thank you to those who took the initiative to beautify our grounds on your holiday!

We appreciate you!