Princeton House Charter School
October 28, 2008
Parent Newsletter

Fall Festival
  Friday is Fall Festival, the preschool, elementary campus will have a parade at 9:00AM.  Please check with your classroom regarding themes and costumes.  Please, no scary costumes.  You may bring a sibling to the parade, however, we will not have room to accommodate siblings during the fall festival.

Administration is changing
  Beginning Monday, November 3rd, we are making changes to our administrative staff.  Roger Watkins will be the principal at the middle school high school and Tammy Hess will be our new assistant principal at the elementary campus.  Anna Kinchens will be taking over Tammy Hess's class as lead teacher.  We are very excited about our new changes and hope that they will give additional support to our staff and our families.

Change in dismissal time
  Beginning January 5, 2009, PHCS is changing the dismissal time for students. Our staff needs more time in the afternoon for planning and Team meetings. Please plan accordingly.
The new schedule is as follows:
            PK –                1:45  pm
            Elementary –   2:00 pm
            Buses –            2:15 pm
            Middle/High – 2:30 pm

Golf Tournament
  The golf tournament has been cancelled.  We only had 4 foursomes.  Thank you to all of you who either signed up to help or went out collecting donations.  Any money that has been donated will be mailed back.
 

Attention to School Policy
    I am writing this as a reminder to our parents.  Last week I had to dismiss 6 students from PHCS because the parents had missed 2 Parent Meetings.  This is certainly NOT a fun job for me; however, I am required to follow the Board of Directors policies.  Many of the parents told me that they were not aware of the policy and didn’t know that they could only miss 1 meeting.  PLEASE, PLEASE make sure that you know the policies stated in your Parent Handbook, your Parent Agreement that you signed.  Please make sure that you read your newsletter that reminds parents of upcoming meetings.  The excuse of “I didn’t know” is not acceptable.  We have a number of parents who have already missed a meeting, please be advised that you will not be allowed to miss any more meetings.
       This also includes tardies and unexcused absences.  If your child is tardy or has unexcused absences more than 10 days in a semester, then you will be dismissed.
     These are board policies.  These policies are important to the success of our school.  Parent involvement is crucial because we are a team and all of us must sacrifice for our children.

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Holiday Scholarships
    If you are a parent who needs help with the upcoming holidays, please contact me.  We have money available to help with Thanksgiving dinner and holiday gifts, etc.
   Please don’t let your pride get in the way of asking – we have this fund available just for our family needs.  Your requests will be totally confidential.  Email me at ctucker@princeton-house.org as soon as possible so that I can have ample notice.