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From the Principal |
Many of us are hoping for spring weather soon. In the meantime, the temperatures are fluctuating in and outside the building. Please help your child to be prepared by encouraging layers. Children will go outside, even briefly on cold days, so hats, gloves, and mittens are important.
We have a collection of sweaters, jackets, hats, etc. in the Lost and Found. Please check the Lost and Found from time to time. It is located in the main lobby.
NJ Assessment Skills Knowledge (NJASK) will be held from March 20 through March 24. During testing week we encourage you to make sure that your child gets a good night's rest, a good breakfast and that attendance is regular and on time. Testing begins at 8:35 each morning. Parents of third and fourth graders will receive separate information, including a Parent, Student, and Teacher Information Guide.
Does your child have a spring or summer birthday? Now would be a good time to consider a special birthday book purchased for our school library. Please contact our school librarian, Mrs. Raszka, for more details.
The Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District has asked Resolve counselors, as part of their services in the elementary schools, to conduct three in-class lessons over the course of the school year in each classroom. The counselors will be addressing positive relationships, personal safety, self-esteem and bullying, at an appropriate level for each grade. Nancy Arvizzigno is the Resolve counselor at Coles.
Parents should know that the entire faculty and staff stand behind this effort to 'bully-proof' our school and we appreciate all you can do with your children to support this initiative.
April 18 is the Annual School Board Election. Please plan to vote. If you need an absentee ballot, it must be requested by Tuesday, April 11. Voter registration materials can be downloaded from the district homepage www.spfk12.org and are also available at school. The deadline for registering is Tuesday, March 28 for this election.