Shady Point School District

Attention Parents: The faculty and staff are looking forward to school tomorrow. It will be good to see everyone and attempt to return to normal. Be Brave! Be Strong! Be a Warrior!

Attention Parents: I regret to inform everyone that one of our staff has tested positive for Covid-19. We have conducted contact tracing with the health department and notified anyone who was in close contact according to CDC guidelines. We feel that in order to ensure the safety of our staff and students it is in our best interests to go virtual for the next two weeks. We will return to regular school on October 19th. Students' work packets will be available for curbside pickup Tuesday morning by 10:00 o'clock. additional packets will be available Monday October 12th at 10:00 o'clock . Each set of packets will include approximately 1 weeks’ worth of work. To ensure your safety please pull up to the main door so that we may bring these packets out to you. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes you. But Please remember we have the safety of our staff and students in mind. As always if you have any questions please call the school. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

I am proud to announce the first edition of the "Warrior Wrap-Up". The Editorial staff and Mr. Austin have put together a great newsletter. Take some time and read the latest edition. Good job everyone. https://5il.co/lo0c

Attention Parents: Just a quick note about the remainder of the week. Tomorrow is our first parent-teacher meeting of the school year. It will begin at 3:30 and end at 9:00. Please take the time to come and see your teacher. Remember social distancing rules apply. If you are a virtual student-parent, you are welcome to come and visit as well. Mr. Gillham or Mrs. Morrison will be who you need to see about your student. As always, for the day after, there will be no school. Thursday, the district is partnering with the Leflore County Health Department and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to provide flu shots to our students and staff. You should have received a form to fill out if you are interested. If you did not, please contact the office. One last thing. Monday, October 5th will be school pictures for all students on campus. It is a three day weekend. So, please do not forget. Virtual students will take their pictures on November 9th. You will be reminded as that date gets closer. Have a great rest of the week.

Attention Parents: We will have flu shots the afternoon of September 24th. Here are the forms you will need and some more information. We will send forms home Wednesday afternoon with our students. Please return them Thursday morning in order for your to participate. Flu Information. https://5il.co/l9mb Permission Form https://5il.co/l9mc School Letter https://5il.co/l9uj

https://5il.co/l3ts Attention parents: Today we were notified of our first COVID-19 positive cases here at Shady Point Schools. As per our school policies and procedures we initiated contact tracing and identified the students who were possibly exposed. Students’ parents were then notified, and they were sent home where they will remain in quarantine for 14 days. Their 14-day window started on Tuesday and will end on September 29th. September 29th will be the first day they can return to school. There was some confusion about testing and returning to school. We had originally hoped that students who received a negative test be released from quarantine early. Upon receiving further guidance from the health Department students must remain in quarantine for 14 days even if they have received a negative COVID-19 test. I apologize for the confusion our earlier message may have caused. We will continue to monitor our students and our staff for any COVID-19 related symptoms. Also, we will continue to thoroughly clean and disinfect all campus facilities throughout the day ensuring that our students have a safe environment here at school. All schoolwork for students who have been sent home for quarantine will be as follows. • Students in grades PK-2 were sent home with their work for the next week. • Students in grades 3-8 will have a packet ready for pickup on Friday afternoon. These students will be • Additional packets will be available next Thursday (9/24) for the following week. Thank you for your patience and diligence with this issue. If you have any questions, please call the office at 918-963-2595

A quick note on virtual students. We did not get everybody called today. But if you are the parent of a virtual student, please come by the school on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. We have the equipment to pick up and paperwork to sign. I also want to go over some of the expectations we have for you and the students. Then I can show you how to logon and turn you loose. See you Tuesday or Wednesday. If you need a different day please let the office know.

Well, the first week in over, and your children were amazing. We were not sure how this week would go, but it went great. We had runners, cryers, and a few sad faces as they got here. But most of them were smiling by the time the day was over. A big thanks go out to the faculty and staff for making this week as smooth as it was. Everybody is tired and need a rest before we do it again next week.

Attention Parents. Here is some more information for the start of school. The video has information for both traditional and virtual students. Be sure to stay tuned to the end. https://youtu.be/Sr4Hzpc95R4

Parents Pre-enrollment for all grades is now open. Come by the school and pick up the paperwork for both traditional and virtual enrollment options. The office is open 9-2, Monday – Thursday and starting next week it will be open 9-3 Monday-Friday.

Here is a quick preview of what the start of school has in store for all the students. Video https://youtu.be/9LV45zz7YJ0 Release https://5il.co/ikyv

For our teachers in recognition of Teacher Appreciation Week. https://youtu.be/gUd01gJMU8s

Do you want to work in a great school district with a staff dedicated to their profession? Do you like small classes and a low student to teacher ratio? If you are interested, Shady Point is currently looking for the following positions for the 2020-2021 school year: Early Childhood Teacher Elementary Teacher More information is available here: https://www.spk12.org/job-openings--59

Here is a video update on food delivery, building access, and the instruction plan starting Monday. Please be patient as we work out the bugs in the delivery system and expect more information as we perfect the process. https://youtu.be/BOTvR-D5jgE

Attention Parents: Please fill out the following survey. We need the information as we plan for the instruction of our students. Only one survey is required per family. https://forms.gle/faAZLuRaUKsj58276

Here is the complete announcement: https://5il.co/e6zw Attention Parents: Yesterday, the Oklahoma State Board of Education unanimously approved an order that implements a continuous learning model to complete the 2019-20 school year for Oklahoma students. This brings up an important question, “What does this mean and what do I do with my children for the next eight weeks?”. The school campus will be closed to students. Instruction will continue just not in the traditional sense we are accustomed to. School as we know it is changing and we are working on how it will look. Rest assured we will be working with your children and teaching them. We are not going to close the doors and lay all the burden of instruction on the parents. However, we will need your help in this process. We have programs and equipment in place to accomplish learning at a distance on a smaller scale. We will be working on expanding this to all our students over the next couple of weeks. We are prepared to make these changes and we will do it the correct way with our individual student's needs in mind. As we work through all the details over the next week, we expect to narrow down all the things that are changing and give more guidance on how this process will work. The classroom teachers and the sponsors will be your primary contact through all this. They should have already reached out to you and provided their contact info. If you have questions about this, call the office. The child nutrition program will continue until May. We will be providing grab and go/delivery services Monday through Wednesday. Wednesday’s lunch will contain food and snacks for Thursday and Friday as well. This will allow a mixture of hot and packaged lunches for the students. If you need to change your lunch status and receive or choose to no longer receive, let your classroom teacher or sponsor know. How can you as a parent help? • Fill out the survey that will be posted tomorrow. It will assess your material and technological needs. • Be prepared to spend a little time each day helping our teachers. • Be patient I am looking at this as an opportunity to develop a new learning model that is direct, focused, and individually tailored to each child. As an educator, this is both an exciting and terrifying time. Thank you for being a member of the Warrior family. With patience, communication, and hard work, we will overcome any obstacles you may have and together we will teach our students.

Attention Parents: Change in food delivery As an ongoing process to make this delivery/pickup system more effective, today we will be providing food for the remainder of the week. The two bags will contain three meals, three breakfasts, three juices, and three milks. Thank you for working with us on this.

A big thanks goes out to all the staff and volunteers that helped today. It takes a lot of people to feed and deliver that many meals. Because of you all, a lot of students had a good meal today.

For today all pickup meals will be at the office door. Please do not get out of the vehicle. A staff member will come to greet you and bring your meals out.

Attention Parents: Shady Point Schools will be providing meals for its students during the shutdown. We are currently working out the logistics of what to serve and how/when to serve it. All meals must be picked up, but we are looking at ways to deliver them also. I need parents to complete the following survey to determine what is the best delivery method for your children. We will follow up if more information is needed, but this will give us an idea of how many meals to plan for and deliver. https://forms.gle/QUcj8YGK9SWzV5af8