What's Happening at Midtown!

Wildcat Families,

I hope you have had a wonderful weekend! I cannot believe we are in the last week of school. I could not be more proud of the growth in our Wildcats this school year.

Please remember that tomorrow, May 20th, is an E-Learning day for all students.

May 21st and 22nd are half days for all students. Dismissal will begin at 11:30am.

Wednesday, May 22nd is the last day for all students. Report Cards will be sent home.

When sending information from our messenger platform, it is a no reply email address. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions at sademeester@madisoncity.k12.al.us.

Please view the attachment below with medication pick up directions from Nurse Aimee.

MCS has worked to provide weekly reading, writing, math and think deeply activities for all grade levels for the months of June and July. iReady will also be available most of the summer. Please use this to prevent the summer slide in your child. Click here to access this wonderful resource for our Wildcats!

Please view the attachment with required medical information.

Please make sure to turn in any library books ASAP! All books were due back by Wednesday, May 8th in order for Mrs. Neal and Mrs. Jones to complete year end inventory. Thank you for your help with this!

May 20th: E-Learning Day for all students

May 21st: Half Day for Students-Dismissal at 11:30am

May 22nd: Last Day of School-Dismissal at 11:30am-Report Cards Go Home

Please click here to listen to our Midtown reading coach, Mrs. Stewart, share information regarding the Alabama Literacy Act.

Please view the attached letter regarding sickness from our district nurse. If your student has been diagnosed with Covid-19, RSV or the flu, please notify your school nurse directly either by phone or email. We are required by the Alabama Department of Public Health to notify them in case of outbreaks within cohort groups. Notifying your school nurse ensures we are up to date and doing all we can to help prevent further spread of illness to other students and staff.

In order for our Lost and Found to remain manageable, we will be donating items once monthly, May 21st will be the final donation for the year. Please come by 3:00-5:30pm daily to check for lost items. Thank you!

Please click here when you want to brag on a staff member or student! Mrs. Demeester will share these on the announcements. We are always looking for good character at Midtown!

Our district is introducing a new platform for school visits known as SchoolPass. This initiative is an additional measure to help keep our school campuses safe. The procedures for SchoolPass are as follows:

• Any visitor coming on campus to visit a student needs to be listed as a contact for that student in PowerSchool.
• Visitors to the school will each need a government issued identification card such as a driver's license.
• The government-issued ID will be scanned on a device in the office front lobby to provide a visitor's badge. SchoolPass will perform a national sex offender database search for each visitor and will use their full name and date of birth.
• Once initially scanned, a unique four-digit pin # will be provided to each visitor to use to sign in on subsequent visits to the school.

Thank you in advance for your patience and your flexibility as we integrate SchoolPass into our daily routine for school visitors. We are excited to have this new measure in support of the safety of our school.

We now have the Absence Form available in PowerSchool Parent Portal for parents/guardians to submit excuse notes for student absences.

This procedure will eventually take the place of submitting absence excuse notes via email to MTESAttendance@madisoncity.k12.al.us

The procedure for submitting an absence excuse in PowerSchool Parent Portal is as follows:

1. Open the PowerSchool App on your Phone

2. Click on More at the very Bottom of the screen right below the 3 dots

3. Click on FORMS

4. Click on Student Absence Form

5. Enter the information, upload document if available, SUBMIT

OR

1. Log into the Parent Portal Account on your computer (https://madisoncs.powerschool.com/public)

2. Click on FORMS in the left Navigation Bar

3. Click on the Student Absence Form

4. Enter the information, upload document if available, SUBMIT

If you do not yet have a PowerSchool SIS Parent Portal Account or have any questions, please contact our Midtown Elementary Clerical Aide, Mrs. Pat Baldwin, at pbbaldwin@madisoncity.k12.al.us. You may also call our Midtown front office at 256-837-1189.

We are thrilled to share that Midtown will be staffed with an SRO and two security guards this year.

After morning carline ends, there will only be one entrance and exit option at Midtown. This will be by the guard shack. Upon entry, the security guard will ask your need to be on campus. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we work through this!

We lock our playground on evenings and weekends. Unfortunately, there has already been damage to our playground. Our priority is to keep our playground and grounds safe and functioning well for our students.

We feel encouraged and thankful for these many efforts to keep Midtown as safe as possible.

• Morning car line is from 7:10-7:40. Class begins at 7:40, so please arrive no later than 7:35. Please have your child sit on the right side of the vehicle and be ready to exit the vehicle as soon as the cars stop within the loop. If the student is able to get out of the vehicle once the cars are stopped and the staff gives the signal, we would like to highly encourage them to do so. Please drive with purpose as the staff is waving you forward. In the morning carline, please make sure your car is in PARK when stopped. This is VERY important for student safety. Beginning around 7:30 and buses are clear, we will have a line of cars exit at the bus loop. Thank you for your help!
• Please only enter for carline from Landers or Plaza. Car line entry is at the guard shack directly off of Coefer Blvd. All cars entering the car line should be turning right off of Coefer or proceeding straight across from Landers. There should be no left turns into the car line from Coefer. Please review the diagram below.
• The Kroger parking lot or front office parking lot are not approved drop off locations for students. This becomes a safety concern as staff are only expecting students to be bus riders, walkers, or be dropped off through the carline. We will have staff monitoring this as we want to make sure all students are safe. Thank you for your help!
  
• Afternoon Car line will begin around 2:45pm. Please follow the staff directions and do not switch lanes once directed. This will only result in longer wait times for all vehicles. The students are input into a system and there is a purpose for the lane you are directed in.

Mr. Turner shared GPS tracking information. Please check your email for this information.

• Please make sure you live in the neighborhoods surrounding the school such as Cottonwood or Park Meadow to be a walker. Please do not pick up from April Dawn Drive if you do not reside in Cottonwood.
• We would like to discourage any families that are using the Kroger parking lot as a drop off and/or pick up. The crossing guard is allowing the students to cross Wall Triana, therefore we do not feel this Kroger option is safe. Thank you for your understanding of this.
  
• The crossing guard will only be at Wall Triana and Coefer until 7:40am. If you choose to walk your child, we wanted to make sure you were aware of this.

• Park Meadow Walkers: In the afternoon, please be prepared to meet your child on the sidewalk where the crossing guard is located at the intersection of Wall Triana and Coefer.

• April Dawn/Cottonwood Walkers: In the afternoon, please be prepared to meet your child by the gate closest to the neighborhood near carline.

Our Midtown PTA is phenomenal and a wonderful way to connect to our school! Please click here to join. We would love for as many families as possible to join!

Our Midtown store is open year round. Please click here to order!

We love celebrating our students at Midtown!

We strongly encourage one of these options to best celebrate your child:

• A nonedible treat such as a bouncy ball, slinky, sticker.
• A store bought prepackaged treat, not to include cupcakes.
• A popsicle if allowable by your child's teacher.

Unfortunately, we will not allow or suggest cupcakes to celebrate your child's birthday. Please also know the above options are completely optional and absolutely not required. Thank you for your understanding!

Please view the school year calendar below. Please plan vacation plans during the provided breaks throughout the school year. It is extremely important that your child is in school as much as possible. Please view our Midtown Attendance Procedures below. Thank you for your help with this as it is vital to a child's education!

Our district has moved to a new point-of-sale system known as TITAN. LINQ Connect is our new family portal for online payments, free/reduced applications, and menus.

Please Click Here to Create Your LINQ Connect Account for Your Child

Student Breakfast Cost: $1.75

Student Lunch Cost: $2.75

If you are interested in chaperoning field trips and some additional supervising volunteer opportunities, a background check will be required. Please click here to access the link. It does take time to process, so I would encourage you to get started soon!

Email: webmaster-midtown@madisoncity.k12.al.us
Website: https://www.madisoncity.k12.al.us/midtown
Location: 140 Coefer Blvd, Madison, AL, USA
Phone: 256-837-1189
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MidtownElementarySchool
Twitter: @midtownelem