Good luck to all of our students taking the SAT tomorrow. Give great effort and energy to it. You got this!
Reminder for fall athletes: Team pictures tomorrow. Order envelopes should have gone home last week, but will be available in the Jr/Sr High office, too. JH volleyball will start with pictures at 3:00 at the Jr/Sr High so they'll have time to get ready for their (first!) game at 4:30.
Some AM Agriscience kids with their trophy boulder from this morning's rock picking adventure in the new Outdoor Land Lab in front of the elementary school. It was like an iceberg; most of it was hidden below ground.
JV Football vs. Vestaburg today, Sept. 16th at 6 p.m. Only 2 pre-approved spectators per participant at each game, but you can watch the LiveStream at https://youtu.be/HTuo_17Z-IM
Support our student athletes tonight, Sept. 15th. Check out the home Volleyball game at 5:30 p.m. through our LiveStream at: https://youtu.be/HJJOZZ-ygTk
Live stream for tonight's volleyball game v Sacred Heart! Who'll be watching?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJJOZZ-ygTk&feature=youtu.be
Parents: Please make sure your contact information is updated in our computer system. You can log into your Skyward Parent Connect account or, Jr/Sr High parents, complete the emergency form that should have gone home with students yesterday or can be found here: https://5il.co/j3ie. Double check your address and phone numbers for changes or typos and confirm the contact information for those you would like us to get in touch with if you can't be reached in an emergency.
https://sis.cgresd.net/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsColeman/seplog01.w
Seniors ONLY will be taking the SAT September 23 beginning at 8:05. All freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will take the PSAT October 14. Juniors will then take the SAT in the spring as in typical years.
Picture Day at the Jr/Sr High is Tuesday! Orders can be placed online at https://prepay.geskusphoto.com/orderPrePro.asp or with the order envelope that SHOULD have gone home with the students yesterday. Even those who order online will need the school web code from the envelope, so some of you might need to dig into some backpacks!
JV Volleyball coach, Liz Dana, has agreed to get the Jr High Volleyball practices started until we have a coach! (Thank you, Liz!) Practices will take place at the Family Center daily 3-5, beginning tomorrow. First game is Monday, Sept 21, v Breckenridge.
Good Afternoon,
This is Coleman Community Schools' Superintendent, Jen McCormack.
Happy Labor Day Weekend! Thank you all for a great start to the school year with in-person and online students participating and signing in on time, connecting with us and following the rules for safety. We've been really impressed and let's keep that up this coming week. The students and staff faired far better than our tents placed at the two buildings for outdoor lessons, but we are working to resolve that issue, too. We really appreciate having you back.
I wanted to share with you a couple pieces of great news that you may have already heard a little bit about.
This past Wednesday, the USDA announced an extension of federal food and nutrition waivers through December 31, or when funding runs out, whichever comes first. While our Elementary students were already receiving FREE breakfast and lunch through our qualified CEP program, Jr./Sr. High students were only receiving a free breakfast. Due to this extension, ALL K-12 students, both online and in-person will be provided with a FREE breakfast AND lunch during this extension. Online students need to sign up at the link already provided to parents. It will be HIGHLY important that all families fill out the Household Report/Free &Reduced Application. When we do revert back to our regular school lunch program, your students Free and Reduced status based on these forms, will be in effect again. The Title funding the school receives from the applications are very important. Title provides funding for paraprofessionals, classroom books, training, tech devices, tech support,field trips, homeless student support and more on an annual basis. If you have not yet sent in your application/household report, please do so now. We want to ensure that your student is being charged accordingly when we go back to our regular program and that we continue to receive as much Title funding as possible to support our students and their programs.
With regard to Athletics, on Friday, Executive Order 2020-176 was released late in the day allowing competition to begin immediately, allowing volleyball to begin indoors and football to begin starting this coming week. All football teams will be placed in the first round of playoffs per MHSAA. With this announcement, strict guidelines for spectators and safety are in place. Only two (2) spectators will be allowed per participant and Coleman Schools will be requiring participants list those people prior to events, both home and away. Social distancing will be expected as well as masks when spectators are in close contact (within 6 ft.) and indoors. Scheduling and other details are in progress as area Athletic Directors meet and will be released as we have them. This is exciting news for our student athletes and the community! We are working to determine if rules will be relaxed and we are able to Livestream the games to you. More to come on that.
While football will resume, we are postponing Homecoming at this time due to the fact that all Homecoming activities would not likely be able to happen at this time under the orders. Also, in order to ensure cleanliness and emphasize safety for our district and visiting student athletes, district athletic facilities will still remain closed to outside organizations.
Please watch for more detail on the rules we will need to follow in order to continue athletics for our students and thanks in advance for your working with us on this.
Finally, for those who are transported on district buses, please keep in mind that student drop-off/pick-up is limited to only custodial/guardian stops that you have established for your child with the Transportation Department and Mr. Cowell. Students are only allowed to ride to custodial/guardian stops and not to friends' homes. This is especially important this year as we are reducing the co-mingling of students on buses during the pandemic and ensuring we can contact trace should there be an issue. Thank you for assisting with this.
I hope you are have a relaxing weekend with family and friends. See you on Tuesday!
Tonight's Varsity/JV Volleyball game v Merrill has been rescheduled for September 17.
Jr./Sr. High In-Person "A Day in the Life" for grades 7-12 includes information on what time the school doors open, breakfast and more for our students. Check it out at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i_9TVRspPZGKPuJ3_3ixS7s87V8UTtRt/view?usp=sharing and be ready for our first day, Monday, August 31st, which is a half day for students. Half days at the Jr./Sr. High end at 11:20 a.m.
Cross Country practice starts today 3-4 in the J/S High teachers parking lot.