Avilla Elementary Family Newsletter

Avilla Families,

Our April newsletter is arriving a bit early to remind you that next week through April 9 we will be on spring break. Two weeks without any school responsibilities will provide our students with a nice break to enjoy family time and an opportunity to explore other interests. I hope that you all get to do something fun while we pause our school routine. Once we return on April 10 we will be very busy with lots of school activities and testing. Please contact me if you have anything to discuss and thank you for your continued efforts to keep your kids ready to learn every day!

Jeff Harper, Principal

email: jharper@eastnoble.net

Whether you are traveling or staying home, spring break is a nice opportunity to connect with your kids. Click here for some easy spring break activities for kids and families.

Parents that plan to attend either round up should bring a copy of their child's birth certificate, shot records, and one proof of address such as a utility bill.

If you plan to attend kindergarten round up, please click here to fill out a quick form.

If you plan to attend preschool round up, please click here to fill out that form.

Congratulations to our newest members of National Elementary Honor Society. They have fantastic student mentors that are existing members along with two amazing adults, Mrs Amstutz and Mrs Garl.

Krista Layman, Executive Director at Kate's Kart, was our special guest during Panther Pride today. Krista shared her gratitude for the amazing school and community outpouring of donations that took place during our Valentine dance in February. We raised just over $1,000 for this incredible organization. We chose some of our students at random to help present the check seen in the picture. If you want more information about what they do, and where this money went, please check out their website here: https://kateskart.org/

Greetings! Our Avilla PTO is hard at work preparing for our annual Avilla Spring Carnival! We were blown away by the record attendance from last year, and we’re making changes to create more space for all the fun activities we have in store for our students. Some exciting things to look forward to include bounce houses, face painting, games, prizes, silent auction items, and popcorn/cotton candy for purchase, just to name a few! This is our PTO’s largest fundraising event of the year, and we can’t wait to see all our students and their families at what’s sure to be a very fun evening! The carnival will take place on Friday April 28th. More information will be sent home with students as the date approaches. Want to help? We’d love to have you! Please email Angie Gump at angie.oliver@live.com to sign up.

Knights Closet is an East Noble based donation center. Donated items are sorted, cleaned, and placed out for any East Noble family to come and shop for. Recently, an online order form was created to make the process a little easier. With this order form you can ask for the items you need, and your order will be filled and ready to be picked up at your convenience. Since this is a donation-based shop, we are limited in our supplies. Any item requested on the online order form is not guaranteed, but we will do our best to fill the order as much as we can. You can access the order form by going to our website EastNoble.net – selecting menu- selecting- documents- and scrolling to the bottom and selecting Knights Closet Online Request form. The form will be offline during our winter break and will resume January 3rd. If you have any questions, you can contact our Community Outreach Coordinator, Jami Hall – jhall@eastnoble.net.

To deposit lunch money, follow this link and the instructions on the page: https://sendmoneytoschool.com/Dashboard/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

To pay book fees or monthly preschool tuition, follow this link: https://payments.efundsforschools.com/v3/districts/55562

We are partnering with Betty Lou Designs in Kendallville to provide families different options to purchase Avilla Elementary gear. This is our second year of this partnership and we are very happy with their quality, service, and pricing. Here is the link to our online store: https://avilla-school.itemorder.com/shop/sale/

We post a lot of fun updates and important information on our website and Facebook page. You can find us by searching for Avilla Elementary on Facebook. You can find our website on the East Noble app or at www.eastnoble.net

We would like to thank you for helping to make our car line arrival and dismissal process nice for everyone!

To avoid waiting for long periods of time in our car line, we recommend that you show up close to our school start and dismissal times. When too many people show up too early, it creates a line that can disrupt Avilla's street traffic. Please be sure to display your car number when you are picking up a student in the afternoon. All car rider students enter and exit at door 2.

School start times:

Mondays: school begins at 8:45 am, door 2 opens for breakfast at 8:30 and opens at 8:35 for everyone else.

Tuesday - Friday: school begins at 8:00 am, door 2 opens for breakfast at 7:45 and opens at 7:50 for everyone else.

School dismissal: 2:45 pm daily

*Please don't enter our car line before 2:35 pm to avoid creating an unnecessarily long car line. Our preschool car line is in place before Kindergarten - 5th grade parent car line.

2022-23 School Year

Click here for access to the 2022-23 school year calendar

April 11 Math Bowl competition at South Side Elementary 5:30 pm

April 13 Kindergarten round up 5:30 to 7:00

April 20 Preschool round up 5:30 to 7:00

April 27 School Smiles dental program at Avilla-more information to come

April 28 PTO Carnival

May 1 - 5 Teacher Appreciation Week

May 1 Preschool Grandparents Day morning session 10:00-10:30, afternoon session 1:00-1:30

May 2 Grades 1, 3, 5 spring music program at 6:00 pm in the gym

May 9 Current 5th grade parent meeting at East Noble Middle School at 5:30 pm

May 18 5th grade trip to Junior Achievement Biz Town

May 19 Field Day (Make up day is Monday, May 22)