PRM School Rocker

Greetings PRM Families,

The 2022-23 school year is off and running! Our staff has been hard at work building relationships, teaching expectations and procedures, and providing access to high-quality, on-grade-level Montessori instruction. We are collecting baseline data to be able to tailor instruction to meet the unique needs of each student. Thank you for being awesome partners as we pursue outstanding student outcomes with our learners.

Our arrival and dismissal have improved tremendously since the start of school. Thank you for adhering to our guidelines and procedures so that we can get students into the building as quickly as possible each morning. Be sure to secure a daily dismissal plan with your child's teacher and stick to it. Dismissal changes due to appointments must be communicated in writing to the teacher by no later than the morning of the day the change is needed. Please do not call our office during dismissal to have your child's dismissal adjusted. There is no early dismissal after 1:30pm.

Remember, we are all in this together. Don't hesitate to contact us with your questions or concerns. Please check prmrocks.org for announcements regarding school/community events. We value your partnership and are honored to work with you!

Love,

Principal Simpson

Email: simpsoa@cpsboe.k12.oh.us
Phone: 513-203-9087

7:45am-2:15pm

Upcoming Meetings and Dates

Labor Day - No School Monday, September 5th

Mum Sale - Now through September 22nd online at www.prmrocks.org/flowers/

LSDMC Meeting - Wednesday, September 14th 3p @PRM Media Center

PTO Meeting - Wednesday, September 14th 6:30p @ PRM Cafeteria

Foundation Meeting - Wednesday, September 21st 6:30p @ Community Happens Here

PRM Equity Kick-Off Celebration- Thursday, September 22nd 6:30p @ PRM Playground

ILT Meeting - Monday, September 19th 2:30p

No School Staff Professional Development Day - Monday, September 26th

Event updates throughout the month will be available on www.prmrocks.org/calendar

*You can also subscribe to the calendar on your device- find the green “subscribe” button on the top right side of the calendar page.

Please click the link to the full document below. We will notify families immediately if there are any updates or changes.

Please help us by following these procedures:

• Arrival begins at 7:35am. Please do not arrive before 7:30am so that our staff can park and get in place.
• The park and walk option is available at the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church. You may park your car and escort your student to the proper arrival entrance. Students may not walk to or from the church parking lot without a parent. Keep the positive energy flowing. We are in this together!
• Please be mindful of your speed. The School Zone speed limit is 20mph. Please keep your speed to 15mph when driving on campus. Citations will be given for violations.
• There is no drop-off on Montgomery Rd. This is not safe. The police officer on duty will be giving citations if this happens.
• When dropping off students in the car line, please ensure they are ready to exit the car from the passenger side with all their belongings. We want to keep things moving as efficiently as possible.
• Families dropping off a PreK student must merge to the right side of the carline for morning dropoff. The staff will complete the safety check and escort the student and any siblings to the PreK entrance.
• Dismissal is from 2:05-2:15pm. Please do not arrive for the carline before 1:50pm. The gate will not open until 1:50pm. You can minimize frustration by not arriving too early.
• Be sure to select a daily dismissal method for your child and stick to it. Dismissal changes must be communicated to the teacher in writing 24 hours in advance or the morning of the change. Students will be sent home the normal way if this communication is not received. There is no early dismissal after 1:30pm.

• Please watch out for our staff as they support traffic flow on Montgomery Rd.
• Be prepared for your child(ren) to be loaded into your car on the passenger side only.
• Please pull forward once your child(ren) loads the car. You may buckle them in further up the driveway.
• You may park at the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church to walk over to pick up your child in the front.

This year we have moved back to completing paper forms due to low participation last year. Many of our families have received and returned the necessary forms already. If for some reason, you still need to access these forms, you can complete them online or ask for a paper copy from the front office. Access to the Back-to-School packet with forms can be accessed here.

Spanish / French / Arabic

Online Registration Platform

https://register.cps-k12.org/login

https://register.cps-k12.org/login?source=fcreg

To get started, parents must create an account and log in or simply log in if they have used the online registration system previously. It will take 30–60 minutes to complete the information.

Translations

The online registration platform offers translations in Spanish and French. On the right side is a button marked English; click on the drop-down menu and select the preferred language.

Paper Forms

Paper forms in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish are available in the link above for parents to print, complete, and return to the schools. Some forms are available in Nepali. Paper forms are also available at each school. Complete and Submit by September 12th.

Please complete the online or paper forms by Friday, September 12th.

If you have any questions or need assistance with the student registration system, please contact the PRM office or call our Customer Care department at (513) 363-0123.

Parent Letter - Spanish

Parent Letter - Arabic

Parent Letter - French

Dear Parent/Guardian:

You have the right to know about the teaching qualifications of your child’s classroom teacher in a school receiving Title I funds. The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires that any school district receiving Title I funds must notify parents of each student attending any school receiving Title I funds that they may request, and the district will provide the parents on request (and in a timely manner), information regarding the professional qualifications of the student’s classroom teachers, including at a minimum, the following:

1. Whether the teacher has met State qualifications and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction;

2. Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived; and

3. Whether the teacher is teaching in the field of discipline of the certification of the teacher;

4. Whether your child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.

The professional qualifications of the student’s classroom teachers can be found on the Ohio Department of Education website link: https://core.ode.state.oh.us/CORE4/ODE.CORE.Lic.Profile.Public.UI/

If computer access is limited, you may ask for the information by returning this letter to:

Talent Department/Staffing

Cincinnati Public Schools

PO Box 5381

Cincinnati, OH 45201-5381

You may also fax your request to (513) 363-0135 or e-mail your request to cert@cpsboe.k12.oh.us

If you choose to email the request, please enter “My Teacher’s Qualifications” in the subject line.

Please provide the following information with your request:

Child’s full name ________________________________

Parent/Guardian full name ____________________________________________

Address ______________________________________________________________

City, State, ZIP __________________________________________________

Teacher’s name ___________________________ School ___________________________

Sincerely,

Renay Huff, Compliance Officer

Cincinnati Public Schools

Phone: 513-363-0220

Community News: Thank you to everyone who made the Back to School Open House Event a success. Luckily this year the rain held off. Thank you to PRM administration and staff, to food trucks AJ Steaks and Snowie, and to all the countless volunteers who worked to plan and those who stepped in at the last minute to make the mad dash inside. The Million Father’s March started the year off with a highlight of celebration and hope!

Parent Organization Updates

Welcome to the 2022-23 school year! There are a number of leadership groups who host monthly meetings where all voices are welcomed and encouraged to attend. PTO focuses on building community. Foundation focuses on large scale initiatives and fundraising. Boosters supports our athletic and academic teams. ILT leads on instructional decisions and in school events and LSDMC makes bigger decisions about the school. The equity group meets to discuss diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging in a safe space with the intention of inspiring unity and building bridges at PRM. There are also a variety of other groups that parents and caregivers help support, consider getting involved in a group that supports you and your interests.

PTO

A great way to get connected is by joining us at the first PTO meeting of the year! It will be on Wednesday, September 14th at 6:30pm at PRM, in the cafeteria. All parents/guardians of PRM students are considered members of the PTO. If you can’t make the meeting, please check out these two helpful resources:

- The Big Flyer: https://prmrocks.org/bigflyer/ - This is a wealth of information, check it out if you haven’t already!

- Email Updates: https://prmrocks.org/emailupdates/ - Sign up now, lots of important PRM information will be shared in this way.

Foundation

The Pleasant Ridge School Foundation (PRSF) is the nonprofit arm of PRM, which allows PRM to fundraise and accept tax-deductible donations. The Foundation is made up of parents/guardians, staff and community volunteers who develop large scale initiatives to benefit the school, the students and the staff as well as to financially support the PTO, Boosters, and other parent and/or staff-supported groups.

The Foundation meets the third Wednesday of the month at Community Happens Here @ 6:30pm and encourages anyone to attend.

Our current fundraiser is a mum sale through Benken Florist and it runs through September 22nd – to place an order visit: https://prmrocks.org/flowers/. You can also connect your Kroger points and your Amazon Smile account to help support PRM.

Join us at the Golf Manor 75th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, September 18th – This is a family-friendly event that includes a community picnic, games, music, crafts, and a firework show at 8:00pm. Foundation will be selling buddy cards, PRM Cookbooks, and spirit wear as well as some uniform exchange clothing items for free. https://celebration75.com/

Boosters

The Boosters group works to ensure that all athletes are given an opportunity to participate in extra-curricular sports. We offer a variety of sports throughout the school year and also support our Brain Bowl team. Fall soccer is getting started with first games happening this weekend and later this month, basketball and cheer sign-ups will be available. Watch for an email, flyer and post with the registration link for winter sports which will go live on September 15th.

ILT

Some important reminders from the Instructional Leadership Team include: - Make sure your child knows how they go home each day. Even if you walk them across the street to the church parking lot to drive home, they are still considered walkers in the dismissal process.

- If you have younger children with car-seats in your car, that are not attending school at PRM, please consider moving their car-seats to the driver side. All students enter and exit carline from the passenger side to keep them safe.

- If your child needs to be buckled in a car-seat please have them get in your car, sit down and then you can pull up and over to the side of the front of the loading line. When you are out of the way then you can get out and make sure all kids are safely buckled. - Staff are not allowed to buckle or unbuckle your child's car-seats/seatbelts.

LSDMC

This month’s Local School Decision Making Committee meeting will be held at PRM in the Media Center. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 14th from 3:00-4:00pm.

Equity Group

Join us for the Equity Group Kickoff Celebration on Thursday, September 22nd at 6:30pm at PRM. The event will be an outdoor, family friendly gathering on the playground. Bring your own chairs; snacks will be provided. Questions can be sent to Amanda Bennett at

amandaabennett@gmail.com

Men’s Group

The PRM Men’s Group has a long history of supporting our school community in a variety of ways. It is traditionally made up of dads, stepdads and male role models, and is currently in need of new leadership. Details for ways to help this group keep moving forward will be available at the September PTO meeting.

Scouts

Cub Scouts kicked off this month with a Join the Scouts Night on September 1st. Did you miss the meeting but are still interested in participating? Contact cubpack25prm@gmail.com

Do you have a girl in kindergarten who is interested in joining Girl Scouts? If so, please contact Diane O'Brian at dianeobrian@gmail.com

3-6 News:

Here are some of the things happening now in the 3-6 communities:

We are learning to care for our bodies and our environments. We are working hard on knowing our daily jobs, rules, and routines. We are also busy with friendship bracelets, bead cutting, bead stair counting, planisphere map work, corn picking, solar system and Earth work, counting on, and lots of work on beginning sounds. We are off to a great start!

6-9 News:

The 6-9 team is excited to be settled into the school year and to begin our work with the students. We have been practicing classroom and building-wide routines and expectations. Each classroom reviews these frequently and provides time to practice. Our beginning of the year tests are coming to an end and our support teams will begin working with students. A few classrooms will be participating in a field trip this month, and next month the entire team will be visiting the Children’s Theater. We would like support from you in the following ways: please ensure students arrive to school on time and are picked by 2:25pm each day. Our direct lessons begin at 8:05am and students miss valuable instruction when they arrive

late. Also, there are colds going around which is very typical for our back-to-school season, please keep your student home if they are showing any signs of illness so our community can stay healthy!

9-12 News:

The 9-12 team has started the year strong!

Our focus is on building community with our students and developing strong habits for a successful year. Students are using their school planners daily to record their homework. Please check their planners nightly. Wednesday folders carry school communication home weekly. Please return these to school each week. Beginning of the year testing is already underway. The teachers are gathering this important data to help us meet the needs of our diverse learners. Please reach out to the 9-12 team if you have any questions. We are looking forward to a wonderful year!

Specialist Team:

Technology – FORMS, FORMS and more FORMS!

Yes, you read that right. The first few weeks for tech, seems to be all about paperwork. Students are learning the expectations and procedures for the class, they are logging into the computer (many for the first time) and they are then logging into Google and Microsoft (logging into the Active Directory). They are also learning to navigate to their assignments in Schoology, Learning.com, Typing Club, etc. They are signing their AUP/MDA documents and taking their beginning of the year Sumdog assessments. In addition to all of that, our library is officially up and running so time has been spent introducing the library and how it will work during technology class. It's usually after mid-terms that we have crossed all our 't's' and dotted our 'i's' and can get started with the meat of our technology curriculum. -Mr. David

We are off to a great school year, and we are happy about it! The CLC Center is here to provide you with various services that you may need. Feel free to contact either our Resource Coordinator- Ms. Monique Johnson, at johnmon@cpsboe.k12.oh.us or our Asst. School Community Coordinator- Mrs. Jamie Donaldson at donalja@cpsboe.k12.oh.us.

• A huge THANK YOU to all our parent volunteers and partners who helped during our Open House. We had a wonderful turnout with some very happy and excited families, plus the food was a big hit! (AJ Cheesesteaks and Snowie Shaved Ice)

• Thank you to our fabulous PTO for providing the staff with breakfast to kick off the school year, and lunch for the teachers during the 1st day of PD. The food was amazing, and everyone enjoyed it all.

• In-Person Tutoring is being offered to our students. Be on the lookout for enrollment information.

• PRM is gearing up for after-school activities as well as many extracurricular activities. Make sure that you and your child get involved with many fun and educational programs.

• TeamWorks is accepting applications for 1st and 2nd graders for a fun-filled Wednesday afternoon event that will include homework help, social-emotional activities such as yoga, fine gross motor skills, and so much more. For more information, contact prpc.teamworks.prm@gmail.com. This is a partnership with Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church.

• Girls to Women is a group for any 4th-6th grade girl who would like to empower themself and learn from other girls just like them to Rule the World! Applications were sent out this week, and they will meet every Wednesday from 2:30-3:45 pm.

• M.O.R.E is a group for any 4th-6th grade boy who would like to

• Webby Dance is currently taking applications for session one for grades preschool- 5 grade. Your child should come home with a colored application form. The applications are due back by September 6th.

• Are you interested in learning Spanish? Well, PRM is happy to bring back our partnership with Cincinnati Spanish Academy. Registration forms will come home with your child in next week’s Wednesday folders.

• Coffee Cup presented by Community Happens Here is ready to serve you. Applications went home to all 4th-6th graders. Applications are due back by Friday, September 9th.

• Be on the lookout for more after-school activities and events in the next coming months.

• CRC After-School Care at PRM, YMCA and Mayerson JCC is currently full. There is a waiting list at this time for each location.

Community Resources:

• YMCA Camp-ish: This is a program for our Black/African-American families at Camp Ernst. More information about this program is on the flyer below.

• Produce Pop-Up: Saturday, September 24, 2022, at Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church from 9:30am-Noon. The church is located at 1525 Lincoln Ave. Cincinnati, OH

• Cincinnati Bengals: It's time for some WHO DEY! Check out the schedule below so that you won't miss any of the action.

• Cares Act Rent and Utility Assistance- If you or someone you know is in need of financial assistance due to Covid-19, you can click on the link below to fill out an application https://hcjfsonbase.jfs.hamilton-co.org/AppNet/UnityForm.aspx?key=UFKey

Cincinnati Public Schools:

513-363-0123

Child Mental Health Crisis

Cincinnati Children's Hospital PIRC intake line:

513-636-4124

Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect:

513-241-KIDS

Suicide Prevention Hotline:

1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Crisis Textline:

Text 4HOPE to 741741

Disaster Distress Helpline:

1-800-985-5990

Domestic Violence Hotline via Women Helping Women:

513-381-5610

Our Character Program centers around:

Respect, Ownership, Compassion, Kindness and Safety, Safety, Safety!

Below are the three school-wide expectations that we expect students to follow throughout all parts of our learning community. Please support us by reinforcing these at home.

• Be Respectful
• Be Responsible
• Be a Problem Solver

Website: https://pleasantridge.cps-k12.org/about
Location: 5945 Montgomery Road
Phone: 513-363-4400