SCES News

The link below provides a student calendar of events for the 2023-2024 school year. The calendar informs everyone of dates for school activities, progress reports and report cards, breaks, and celebrations. Please check this calendar out to keep up to date with what's going on at SCES.

Accidental Damage Protection Plan

The Seminole County School System provides an Accidental Damage Protection Plan for a fee of $25 per year. Paying the student technology fee each school year enrolls students in accidental damage protection. This plan includes drops, cracks, normal wear and tear, and. hardware failure. This fee should be paid to your student's homeroom teacher.

Repair/Replacement Costs

Students will be held responsible for any damages not covered in the accidental damage protection plan including lost/stolen devices, intentional damage, picked off keys, damage to ports, broken screens and charging cables.

Repair/Replacement Costs:

• Broken Keys: $6 per key

• Broken Touch Screen: $110

• Broken Keyboard/Trackpad: $75

• Broken Chromebook Replacement: $350

• Broken Charger Replacement: $25

The entire agreement plan is linked below.

Seminole County School System Attendance Policy & Procedure:

• Upon enrollment Parents/Guardians receive State Compulsory Law and County Attendance Policy

• 1-3 Unexcused absences parent and student contact made by teacher(s)

• 4 Unexcused absences parent & student contact made by principal designee(s)

• 5 Unexcused absences parent contact via letter

• 6 Unexcused absences parent contact via home visit from school social worker

• 7 Unexcused absences Attendance Support Team meets and creates an attendance contract. A certified letter is mailed to the parents/guardians requesting a meeting to discuss and sign the contract.

• 8+ Unexcused absences which breaks attendance contract; parent contact via home visit from the school social worker with a recommendation for referral to law enforcement and complaint filed with the court system.

• Further unexcused absences will result in continued referral to law enforcement

The full attendance protocol is attached below. Please be mindful of the number of days your students miss. If no action is taken after an absence, it will be classified as an unexcused absence.

Please be on the lookout for an email from Final Forms. Each year parents must sign off on your students registration forms. If you filled these forms out last year and you have no new information to be add, just sign off on the forms and submit. Thank you for your help.

On September 11, SCES invites all parents to participate in Watch Me Lead Parent Conferences in your students classrooms. Students will help the teachers walk parents through a day in their classrooms. Students will help parents understand their Beginning of the Year Assessment data along with helping parents log onto their school technology programs, teaching them a math and reading lesson, rotating through their math and reading small groups, and taking a weekly math and reading assessment. This will be a great opportunity to see what your students do on a daily basis. Watch Me Lead will begin at 5:00 PM and conclude around 6:00 PM. Please enter the building at the front office for Grades K- 2 and the auditorium entrance for Grades 3-5.

Immediately following Watch Me Lead, Seminole County Family Connections will host Family Game Night at 6:00 in the SCES Lunchroom. Parents must have submitted their form to their homeroom teacher or scan the QR code by August 30. The return form and the QR code are linked below. Parents and students must have tickets in order to attend Game Night. Look forward to seeing you then.

Students may now use AR to test on books they have read from the library. We have changed the way we will reward our readers this year. The idea is to work towards a number of books read and a number of words read as a school community. We have set our school goal at 25,000,000 words with at least an 80 average. If our students reach this goal, we will have a reading celebration at the end of the year for everyone. Each grade level and homeroom will also set goals for their students to encourage them to read, read, read. Also, some of their classroom library books may also be tested in AR. Linked below are the AR letter for parents and the AR book find resource to see if your classroom library books are in the AR system.

The dental van will be here on September 6 and 7 to see students. Flyers were sent home last week inviting parents to sign up for a dental visit. Mrs. Bianca Culver is our school representative for this project and may contacted by email.

PTO is currently holding a membership drive for families and staff members. The classroom that has the most families that register to become members will receive a popsicle party. Deadline for registration is September 30.

Hardee's has graciously agreed to partner with SCES on Friday, September 8 from 12:00 until 4:00. Encourage your parents to support SCES and Hardee's on this day.

Once again, parents of students may set up lunchroom accounts and deposit money for lunches and slushies at the convenience of your home. The link below will allow you to sign in to or create your account.

Heritage Day will be Friday, September 8 in celebration of Grandparent's Day. A schedule of activities for this morning will be linked below. Please return the school flyer to your student's teacher to inform them who will be attending on this day.

All PreK parents will park at the PreK building and enter near the front door. All other parents should park in the gym parking lot and in the grass areas surrounding the south end of the football field (near the Dollar General). Parents will enter the campus by the paved road between the football field and the 5th grade building to the open area surrounding the playground and track. Volunteers will be there to guide you to your student's class. No parents will be allowed to enter campus until 8:15. The schedule for the Heritage Day activities is linked below.

SCSS will be closed on Monday, September 4 for the Labor Day Holiday. Tuesday, September 5 will be a Digital Learning Day at home for students and a Staff Work Day for teachers and staff. Teachers will provide work for students through a digital platform or student packet. We will resume school as normal on Wednesday, September 6.

SCES will celebrate Homecoming Week along with SCMHS. The attached picture should inform you what each day's theme will be. Please help us celebrate Homecoming while also staying within our school dress code. Your student's dress should not affect their ability to actively participate and perform in class that day.

Fall Book Fair will be September 18-22. A class schedule list will be shared in the coming weeks.