Family Newsletter

Dear Hyde-Addison ES Families,

I share this early welcome to our new Hyde-Addison ES families and a joy filled welcome back to our returning families. With a DCPS reduction in pandemic related health and safety requirements and protocols, we are excited about the opportunity to increase in-person engagement and activities for our entire school community.

Although we are planning for several family orientations and Question and Answer sessions, beginning this month, prior to the official start of the 2022-2023 school year, we will continue to utilize this newsletter platform to share weekly updates with families, as applicable. Additional information regarding the features of this platform, including automatic translation capabilities and increased visibility components, can be found below.

At the top of this newsletter is a banner highlighting Hyde-Addison’s “High 5” priorities for the 2022-2023 school year. These priorities are based on feedback from staff, students, and families, in addition to surveys and student performance data. I look forward to sharing this informative data with you, over the coming months.

The Hyde-Addison ES team is excited to collaborate with families around our school priorities. Such engagement will include an Equity and Antiracism Task Force comprised of staff, families and community stakeholders. Please see the last Equity and Antiracism Taskforce newsletter of the 2021-2022 school year, with access to the previous newsletters. If interested in joining or learning a bit more, please email hyde.addison@k12.dc.gov.

I also recommend families actively engage with the PTA, to help support the Hyde-Addison ES priorities, as we work to ensure students are valued, nurtured and equipped with the skills necessary to become productive global citizens. Additional PTA information will be available in weekly newsletters, as applicable. Previous PTA meeting recordings are available through the school website at https://hydeaddisondc.org.

Over the coming weeks, the Hyde-Addison ES team will continue to share DCPS guidance around the 2022-2023 school year, as information becomes available.

For resources and information about the District of Columbia Government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) response and recovery efforts, please visit coronavirus.dc.gov. Please visit dcpsreopenstrong.com for DCPS updates and resources.

Kindest Regards,

Dr. Calvin Hooks, Principal

Hyde-Addison Elementary School

When you receive the family newsletter by email on Fridays, as well as most other schoolwide correspondences, you have the option to click and view the newsletter in a web browser. Viewing the newsletter in a web browser enables automatic translation into over 20 languages as well as provides the option for increased visibility with high-contrast settings and increased font sizes.

Family Newsletters will continue to be archived on the Hyde-Addison website (https://www.hydeaddisondc.org/projects) throughout the year for your reference.

To attend school, students must be current with their immunizations. Immunization compliance is documented by submitting a completed Universal Health Certificate to the school at the time of enrollment. A series of medical forms, DCPS School Enrollment Packet.pdf, should be turned in to the school as part of the enrollment process, and any updated forms throughout the school year should be submitted to the school nurse.

Additional Forms

DC Health and Oral Forms (Immunization Requirements, Universal Health Form, Oral Form)

DCPS Medication Plan/Procedure Form (if applicable)

DC Health Asthma Action Plan (if applicable)

DC Health Anaphylaxis Plan (if applicable)

Translated forms are available here.

We are excited to welcome families back to school and know that SY2022-23 will be the best yet! Please see below for our tentative summer engagement plans leading all the way up to back to school night. For future reference, the bottom of each Friday newsletter includes key dates coming up that month.

We hope your summer has been off to a great start! Champions is looking forward to bringing our accredited after school program to Hyde-Addison Elementary School for school year 2022-23. Our team is truly excited to meet you and learn more about you and your children!

At this time, Champions is pleased to share an important registration update. Although registration for DC area programs is manual; you may complete the fillable Enrollment Agreement (attached below), print, sign and initial (only hard signatures/initials will be accepted), scan and email to Field Leader, Gabrielle Barnett: gabrielle.barnett@discoverchampions.com

If you would prefer to submit a copy of your completed enrollment agreement in person, Champions will be operating a summer program at Harriet Tubman/3101 13th St. NW; and team members will be available from 11:15 am – 1:15 pm or 3:00 pm– 5:00 pm, on the following Thursdays: July 14, 21 and 28; to accept forms and answer questions.

If you are a family with a demonstrated need for financial aid, scholarships will be available during the interim period between the start of school and confirmation of your childcare subsidy agreement. If you wish to apply for a scholarship, or have questions about the subsidy process, please reach out to Field Leader Gabrielle Barnett gabrielle.barnett@discoverchampions.com.

Please note, you must provide your free/reduced lunch letter to qualify for a scholarship.

Once you have completed and emailed or submitted your Enrollment Agreement, the Hyde-Addison Champions team will follow up with next steps to complete required information for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) and information to set up accounts for payment.

We thank you in advance for completing the enrollment agreement promptly and look forward to connecting with you over the next several weeks!

See below for pricing and options to return the enrollment packet agreement! Please note there are no payments due at this time.

Happy summer from the Hyde-Addison PTA! Congratulations to our new incoming Executive Board members who will officially transition into their role with the PTA on 7/1/2022.

A wonderful resource the PTA employs for families to communicate with each other is called Konstella. Download it today!

We are looking forward to the 2022-2023 school year with social events and fun! We have a large fundraising mandate for this year, with an ask of approximately $80,000 to cover supplies, curriculum materials, professional development and books, books and more books! Our contributions to these items allow the administration to maximize the resources teachers and staff utilize throughout the year towards the growth and development of the students. We will be finalizing fall fundraising events in mid-July and will provide another update at that time.

Feel free to reach out this summer with any questions at pta.hydeaddison@gmail.com

As you plan your vacation plans for this year, please be sure to check the DCPS calendar HERE for key dates from the district.

Did you know that Hyde-Addison has an Equity and Antiracism Task Force that all families, teachers, and staff are welcome to join? We meet monthly to discuss pertinent topics, collaborate on projects, and compile resources to share with our community. Check out the end of the year newsletter shared in June HERE!

Everyone in the family can sign up for the DC Public Library's Discover Summer program! Complete 12 fun activities from the gameboard and you'll win a pair of National's baseball tickets and a book of your choice! Sign-up online at https://dclibrary.beanstack.org/reader365

With gameboards for adults, teens, kids 6-12 and kids 0-5, Discover Summer is meant for the whole family to celebrate reading, learning and exploring DC! There are sign-up prizes for all ages that you can pick up at your nearest DC Public Library along with paper gameboards for each age group.

The Georgetown Neighborhood Library is also hosting a contest for ages 6-12 called, "Can you read more than a librarian?" Kids who complete at least 10 spaces on the bingo-style gameboard (see attached) will get a book and prize from the treasure box. Kids that actually read more chapter books than any Children's staffmember at Georgetown will get to throw water balloons at them at the End-of-Summer-Reading Party on September 8th!

See this brief video for more about Discover Summer and "Can You Read more than a librarian?"

July 20, 2022: New-to-Hyde Virtual Q&A

August 3, 2022: Open Houses

August 19, 2022: Class Lists will be communicated on or before this date

August 22, 2022: Teacher introductions will be emailed on or before this date

August 26, 2022: Sneak Peek in classrooms

August 29, 2022: First day of school for K-5

September 1, 2022: First day of school for PK

First Tuesday of the Month: LSAT Meeting

Fourth Tuesday of the Month: PTA General Body Meeting on Zoom

For copies of previous Hyde-Addison ES newsletters, please visit the Hyde-Addison ES website at https://hydeaddisondc.org/updates2233

Email: hyde.addison@k12.dc.gov
Website: https://www.hydeaddisondc.org
Location: 3219 O St NW, Washington, DC 20007
Phone: 202-282-0170
Facebook: facebook.com/hydeaddison/
Twitter: @DrCalvinRHooks