August 13, 2015 Fall Parent Teacher Conferences will be in the

August 13, 2015 Fall Parent Teacher Conferences will be in the

August 13, 2015
Fall Parent Teacher Conferences will be in the Parks Gym
 Tuesday, September 1st from 3:30pm – 7:00pm
 Wednesday, September 2nd from 2:30pm – 6:30pm
 Thursday, September 3rd from 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Progress Reports will be given to parents at Conferences
No school on our professional growth training day, Friday, September 4th
No school on Labor Day, September 7th
Fall NWEA testing starts Monday August 17th - Be rested and ready!
Fall sports tryouts begin Tuesday, August 18th
Please take time to read the attached notifications and forms found at the end of
our newsletter.
Friday, September 18th from 1:30pm – 2:55pm is the Sixth Grade Mixer Dance
Student Council News
Connolly’s Student Council had an informational meeting on
Wednesday, August 12th. Students interested in applying for STUCO
officer positions need to pick up an application as soon as possible.
All applications must be received by Tuesday, August 18th with all
required components complete. Presidential campaigning occurs
from August 20th - 24th. Only eighth graders interested in the
presidential officer position are allowed to campaign. If you have any
questions, please contact the STUCO advisor - Mrs. Olsen.
Student Council is selling SaveAround Coupon Books for $20.00.
Please consider purchasing one to support Connolly Middle School.
They will be available in the office until August 28th.
Calling All Sixth Graders
Sixth
Graders
Music
and
Friends
Sixth Grade
Mixer Dance
Make sure to attend the very first dance of the school year!
WHO: Only sixth graders
WHEN: Friday, August 28, 2015
WHERE: Connolly Cafeteria
WHAT: Sixth Grade Mixer Dance
WHY: Meet new friends at the mixer
COST: $3.00 per ticket
SNACK PACKS: $5.00
Snack Bar items are available. The dance is from 1:30 until 2:55pm sharp. You must have a
ride home. NO BUSSES!! You need to have your ID and lanyard to purchase a ticket during
lunches that week.
You cannot attend the dance if you are listed on office probation or library probation.
Make sure all books from fifth grade are returned to our library.
Scholastic Book Fair
During the week of Parent/Teacher Conferences, September 1st
through the 3rd, Connolly will host a Scholastic Book Fair in the
school library. The book fair will be open during the evening
when conferences are in session as well as before and during
school.
Please stop by to check out new books, support the school,
and the Connolly Library.
See you at the Book Fair!
Busy on Curriculum Night?
Parents, if you missed our Curriculum Night and Title 1 Parent Night on August 11th, please
view our Title 1 video. The link to the Title 1 video (in English and Spanish) is
www.tempeschools.org/TitleI (and that's a capital "I" not a 1). We look forward to working
with all of our parents this year and if you have any questions regarding Title 1 and your
student, please contact Mrs. Udall Schulte, Mrs. Dorn or Mrs. Olsen at Connolly.
Connolly Middle School
National Junior Honor Society (NJHS)
Current NJHS members will meet this month to discuss the focus for the school year.
Specific meeting times will be announced during lunches. Listen for news!
Students in seventh or eighth grades interested in applying for NJHS will be eligible in
October after the first quarter grades and GPAs are posted. Look for more
information in October, 2015.
Sixth graders interested in NJHS will be eligible at the end of the semester in January,
2016. Look for more information at that time.
Parents
All students must have their parent/guardian sign page 3 of the student discipline handbook
and return it to their teacher as soon as possible. If you have not seen a paper copy of this you
may find the handbook on the Tempe Elementary Schools website. The link for the handbook
is on the following webpage: http://www.tempeschools.org/for-parents/family-handbookstudent-discipline You may print page 3 and sign that for your student to return to school.
Parents and Students - Bell Schedule
This year, Connolly’s first bell rings at 8:15am, the tardy bell rings at 8:20am and the dismissal
bell rings at 3:20pm Monday through Thursday. Friday’s schedule starts the same as the other
days, but dismissal time is 1:30pm. Please note that our starting time this year is 30 minutes
later than last year. Due to the later start time, students may not be on campus before
7:50am. Tempe Elementary School busses drop off students at 7:50am. Connolly’s cafeteria
begins serving breakfast at 7:50am. Connolly teachers are out supervising the students at
7:50am. Please refrain from dropping students off early. We appreciate your help keeping
your students and our campus safe. If you have any questions, please contact an
administrator or School Resource Officer Baggs.
Booster Club
The Connolly Booster Club needs your support! Donations are being accepted to fund
activities for students and to assist teachers in purchasing supplies. Please contact
[email protected] to learn how to donate! You can also attend Booster Club
meetings which are held the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00pm in the Connolly Library.
The second Booster Club meeting of the year will be held Tuesday, September 1st. Come join
us and thank you!
Cafeteria Reminder
If you were on free and reduced lunches last year, and haven’t turned in your new pink
application, you need to do so. Applications expire in September and it takes time for new
ones to be processed. Applications can also be done online through the Tempe Elementary
School website, http://www.tempeschools.org/ . If you have already received a letter telling
you that you have been approved, then you may ignore this reminder. If you have any
questions, please check with Mrs. Harris, Cafeteria Manager, at 480-967-8933 X4812.
Our Newsletter
This issue of the Connolly Newsletter will be the only issue this month. For the months from
September through March, it will be published on the first and third Thursdays. With testing
and so many other activities in April and May, there will be only one issue in those months.
The publishing dates for those months will be determined closer to the time, when testing
dates are set.
The newsletter will feature various items throughout the year,
so stay tuned!
PARENT NOTIFICATION OF TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS: As a parent of a student at Tempe
Elementary School District No. 3, you have the right to know the professional qualifications of
the classroom teachers who instruct your child. Federal law allows you to ask for certain
information about your child's classroom teachers. It is our goal to give you this information in
a timely manner if you ask for it. Specifically, you have the right to ask for the following
information about each of your child's classroom teachers:
 Whether the Arizona State Board of Education -Certification Unit has licensed or
qualified the teacher for the grades and subjects he or she teaches.
 Whether the Arizona State Board of Education has decided that the teacher can
teach in a classroom without being licensed or qualified under state regulations
because of special circumstances.
 The teacher's college major; whether the teacher has any advanced degrees and, if
so, the subject of the degrees.
 Whether any teacher's assistant or similar paraprofessionals provide services to your
child and, if they do, their qualifications.
If you would like to receive any of this information, please contact the principal of your
child's school who will assist you in getting the requested information.
Como padre de familia de un estudiante del Distrito Escolar de Tempe No. 3, usted tiene el
derecho de saber los titulos profesionales de los maestros del salon de clases. que enseñan
a su hijo/a. La ley federal permite que usted solicite cierta informacion acerca de los
maestros del salon de clases de su hijo/a. Nuestra meta es de proporcionarle esta
informacion dentro de un termino de tiempo, si usted asi lo solicita. Especificamente, usted
tiene el derecho de solicitar la siguiente informacion acerca de cada uno de los maestros
del salon de clases de su hijo/a:
 Si la Unidad de Certificacion del Consejo Estatal de Educacion de Arizona ha
otorgado licencia o calificado como maestro para enseñar las materias y los grados
que esta enseñando.
 Si el Consejo Estatal de Educacion de Arizona ha decidido que el maestro puede
enseñar en el salon de clases sin haber sido autorizado o titulado de acuerdo a los
reglamentos estatales debido a circunstancias especiales.
 El area de especialidad del maestro en la universidad; si el maestro tiene titulos
de post-grado, y si este es el caso, cuales son las areas de estos titulos.
 Si algun asistente de maestro o para-profcsionales similares proporcionan
servicios a su hijo/a, y si este es el caso, cuales son sus certificaciones.
Si a usted le gustaria recibir cualquiera de esta informacion, sirvase ponerse en contacto
con el director/a de la escuela de su hijo/a, quien le ayudara a obtener la informacion
requerida.
Gifted Child Find
Tempe Elementary District #3 offers gifted testing in the areas of verbal, quantitative (math), and nonverbal
reasoning on a State Board approved test for gifted identification.
Referrals for testing of students in kindergarten through eighth grade come from teachers, administrators,
parents, and students. If you would like to recommend a student for testing, referral forms can be requested
from the school office or the Gifted Education Department. Referral forms can be completed at any time
during the school year.
Three opportunities to test are provided during the school year, although individual students may only test
once per year. The next test session will be held August 31 – September 15 and the referral deadline for this
test session is Wednesday, August 19. Additional opportunities to test will be available in January and April. If
you have any questions about referring your child for testing, contact our gifted teacher or the Gifted
Education Department at 730-7306.
Hallar a Niños Superdotados
El Distrito Escolar de Tempe No. 3 ofrece administrar pruebas para niños superdotados en las áreas de
razonamiento verbal, cuantitativo (matemáticas) y no verbal en un examen aprobado por la Mesa Directiva
Estatal para la identificación de niños superdotados. Las referencias para las pruebas de los estudiantes de
kínder a octavo grado se hacen a través de los maestros, administradores, padres de familia y estudiantes. Si
le gustaría recomendar a un estudiante para las pruebas, los formularios de referencia se pueden solicitar en
la oficina escolar o en el Departamento de Educación para Niños Superdotados. Los formularios de referencia
los puede llenar en cualquier momento durante el año escolar.
Se ofrecen tres oportunidades para administrar la prueba durante el año escolar, aunque algunos estudiantes
pudieran hacer esta prueba una vez por año. La próxima sesión de pruebas se llevará a cabo del 31 de agosto
al 15 de septiembre y la fecha límite para entregar la solicitud de esta sesión será el miércoles, 19 de agosto
de 2015. Habrán otras oportunidades para hacer las pruebas en enero y abril. Si tiene alguna pregunta sobre
cómo referir a su niño para una prueba, favor de contactar a nuestro maestro de niños superdotados o al
Departamento de Educación de Niños Superdotados, al 480-730-7306.
August 3, 2015
To Parents/Guardians of All 4th – 6th Grade Students:
A law in Arizona (Arizona Revised Statute 15-203.A.26) requires all public school students in grades 4-6 to
recite two-sentences from the Declaration of Independence at the beginning of the first class of every school
day. Beginning Monday, August 10th, all Tempe School District #3 4th – 6th grade classrooms will be reciting
the following excerpt each morning.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed.”
If you object to having your child/ren join in this recitation, they may be excluded by filling out the form at the
bottom of this letter and returning it to the school office. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Kathy Mullery
Principal
------------------------------------------------I give my permission for my child/ren to participate in reciting the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence at the
beginning of each school day.
I DO NOT give permission for my child/ren to participate in reciting the excerpt from the Declaration of
Independence at the beginning of each school day.
Child’s Name
Parent/Guardian Signature
Teacher
Date
3 de Agosto, 2015
Para los Padres de Familia / Guardianes de Todos los Estudiantes de 4º, 5º y 6º Grados:
Una ley en Arizona (Estatuto Revisado de Arizona 15-203.A.26) requiere que todos los estudiantes de las escuelas
públicas de 4º, 5º y 6º grados, reciten dos oraciones de la Declaración de Independencia al inicio de la primera clase de
todos los días escolares. Empezando el lunes 10 de agosto, todos los salones de clases de 4º, 5º y 6º grados del Distrito
Escolar de Tempe No. 3, recitarán el siguiente extracto todas las mañanas, sólamente en inglés.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed”.
A continuación se encuentra la traducción de esta recitación:
“Conservamos estas verdades para ser auto-evidentes, de que todos los hombres están creados por
igual, de que ellos están dotados por su Creador con ciertos Derechos intraspasables, que entre éstos
están la Vida, la Libertad y la búsqueda de la Felicidad. Para estar seguros de estos derechos, los
Gobiernos se han instituído entre los Hombres, derivando de sus justos poderes del consentimiento de lo
gobernado”.
Si usted se opone a que su(s) niño(s) participe(n) en esta recitación, se le podrá excluír llenando la forma de abajo de
esta carta y regresándola a la oficina escolar. No dude en llamar si tiene alguna pregunta.
Muy atentamente,
Kathy Mullery
Director/a
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - recorte aquí - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Doy mi permiso para que mi(s) niño(s) participe(n) en recitar en inglés el extracto de la Declaración de
Independencia al inicio de cada día escolar.
NO doy mi permiso para que mi(s) niño(s) participe(n) en recitar en inglés el extracto de la Declaración de
Independencia al inicio de cada día escolar.
Nombre del Niño/a
Maestro/a
Firma del Padre / Madre / Guardián
Fecha