- Student photos will be taken for the 2010 - 2011 school year
- Registration forms will be collected
- Registration fees will be collected ($10.00 for elementary, $25.00 for Middle School)
- Middle School students will receive their class schedules after all fees have been paid
- Elementary class lists will be posted
- Riteway Bus Company will be available for bus route information and to answer bus questions
- The Poynette Parent Club will have a representative available to answer questions
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
K-8 Registration and Picture Days are Coming!!
Saturday, May 8, 2010
K-8 Poynette Parents Club Meeting
The agenda will include the following:
1) Adopting bylaws
2) Nominations and election of officers
3) Presentation about activities Done by each group and discussion about what should be kept for next year
4) Planning for next year
5) Open Forum
We hope you can attend!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Notes From Arlington and Dekorra Joint Meeting
Transportation
- The school district has been piloting adding bus stops in Arlington in anticipation of more riders next year. The district went from on stop at Arlington School to a total of four stops at various places in the village. This seems to be working well, and we will work with the bus company to create stops that make sense as we move along this spring and into the summer.
- Students in Grades 1-5 will be transported from their pick-up site to the Poynette school (what will be the "1-8" building next year). The kindergarten students will be transported into Poynette and then will get on two shuttle buses that will take them out to Arlington. There will be supervisors in the area outside of school on Cleveland Street side of the building to help the kinders get on the right bus (At the beginning of the year, there will be a number of extra staff members outside as well including Mr. Hausser and Mr. Sutton)
- Parents who have children who will be transported by bus will get letters in late July or Early August giving details about time and location of pick-ups. Representatives from the bus company will also be available at the August Registration days (August 12 and August 17) to answer questions.
Classrooms
- There will be four teachers at each grade level with the exception of 3rd grade and 4th grade. Each of those classes will have three sections due to smaller overall class sizes (Each of those classes is around 75 students and the other classes are over 80).
- The average class size is around 20 students although the 3rd and fourth grade will be slightly larger. Due to these larger numbers, it is likely that there will be assistants in the rooms at various times during the day.
Curriculum
- The Curriculum for all grade levels will be the same. In fact, we are hoping that the ability to work in the same building will create more opportunities for our teachers to collaborate together making our students' learning experience even better!
Transition Days
- Each of the grade levels, Kindergarten through third grade, will come into the Poynette building in May to get to know the students from the other buildings, meet the teachers at the grade level they will be at for the 2010 - 2011 school year, and eat lunch with their classmates.
- It was suggested that we set up some days in the summer when families could bring kids in to tour the school. We will look at days and see if this is possible over the next few weeks. We will put information out with the report cards at the end of the school year to let you know when these days are scheduled.
Please note that there is a Poynette Joint Parent Club will be held on May 10 at 6:30 PM... Child care will be provided.
As always, if you have questions you can call Mr. Sutton 635-4347 x6, or leave a comment with this post.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Parent Club Meeting
More information will go out to our families later this month. We encourage anyone interested in being involved in this group to attend.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Poynette School District Reconfigures
- First Grade - 4 sections
- Second Grade- 4 sections
- Third Grade- 3 sections
- Fourth Grade- 3 sections
- Fifth Grade- 4 sections
The Arlington School building will be used to house the four sections of kindergarten. In addition, the Arlington building will house our Early Childhood program. The Four Year Old Preschool program will continue to operate out of the three Childcare Centers in our community (St. Peter's, Kids First, and Main Street Youngsters).
This configuration will allow all of our students at a particular grade level to be under one roof. It will give us opportunity to place students in classrooms with the right mix of kids to help maximize learning for our students.
We are currently working on the details of the changes and the logistics of all the moving that will need to take place. We have also begun preliminary discussions about activities we will do for students and families later this spring. We are tentatively looking at doing activities in mid-April, and will give more specific information when it becomes available.
We hope you will use this blog space as a place to ask questions and post concerns. We will do our best to answer these questions for you.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Board Votes to Close Dekorra School
The most immediate and pressing issue the board will be dealing with the configuration of the two remaining buildings for the 2010 - 2011 school year. You can find information about this by clicking here or by going to the Poynette School District's homepage and clicking on the Dekorra School Closing section.
We hope this will help answer some of the questions families and community members have about the school closing. If you would like to comment on this or any other blog post on this site, simply click on the "comment" link at the bottom of the page. We hope to update this web page bi-weekly at a minimum. You can also create a News feed for this blog site so you will be able to see anytime it is updated. Further, you can click on the feedblitz button below and you will be sent an e-mail when new blog posts occur.