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Welcome March! We kicked off the month with the school wide PTA event, Read Across America. Each year, Read Across America is celebrated from March 2-6. We encouraged all Brooksiders to enjoy reading on these days! A log was sent home with your student to capture minutes read each day and it is linked if you prefer to print your own: Read Across America Reading Log. Please return your reading log to your teachers on Thursday, March 7th, or by the latest, March 11th. Every student who turns in their reading log will be rewarded and the top readers in each grade level will win a gift card! Happy Reading, Bobcats! |
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March 1: Grades posted at midnight
March 8: No School (in-lieu of parent/teacher conferences) March 2-7: Read Across America (read, read, read) March 12: PTA Mtg. 7:00pm March 13: State of the Schools 7:00pm WKHS March 18-22: Spirit Week March 24-29 Spring Break - No School April 1: Classes Resume April 8: No School - Eclipse April 15-19: Ohio State Testing Week (ELA) April 22-26: Ohio State Testing Week (Math) April 25: Art Show May 3-4: Musical
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Our annual State of the Schools event will take place on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at WKHS. Please add this to your calendar and plan to attend with your Building Leadership Team. As has been the expectation in past years, please make sure that your BLT members are present for the event. The event may take the place of your March meeting and if a BLT member cannot make the event, please have another staff member attend in their place. |
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Brookside School Wide Clean Up Day on March 11th On this day each classroom will have cleaning tasks to do in the classroom & a schoolwide cleaning task. Book Donation through March 22nd In the spirit of spring cleaning we are hosting a book donation. We will collect gently used books (grade K-5) to donate to local families. Boxes will be in the front lobby to collect any book donations. |
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We thank you and your family for being our valued partners as we work together to educate the children in our district. As you may already be aware, building our well-being and social-emotional learning skills is an important goal for our school this year and every year. Over the next few weeks, students will participate in several exercises to better understand these concepts and to reflect on how they perceive these skills in themselves.
As we have done for the last four years, we will be asking for your child to reflect on his/her own mindsets and approaches to learning via an online survey. The survey shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes to complete and will be administered during a two-week window from March 11 - 22.
We are partnering with Panorama Education, a third-party vendor, to support us in administering these surveys. The survey content will ask students in grades 3-12 to self-reflect on School Safety, Teacher-Student Relationships, Sense of Belonging, Rigorous Expectations, and Self-Efficacy. Our students in grades 6-12 will also be asked to self-reflect on two additional topics; Diversity and Inclusion and Cultural Awareness.
Student voice matters to us, and their responses will provide invaluable insights into their experiences in how we can improve and adapt our instruction to meet their needs. If a student doesn’t feel like they have enough information to answer a question, they will be able to skip the item altogether.
If you have any questions about the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) survey, please don’t hesitate to contact us in the office at 614-450-5300. |
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The Worthington Welcome Center is busy with Kindergarten enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year! Now is the time to sign up for Kindergarten! Enrollment for other grades for the 2024 - 2025 school year will begin on Monday, February 5, 2024. For more information and to start the process, visit the Worthington Schools website. |
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If you are looking for activities and programs for your students, don’t forget to visit the District E-Backpack.
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Please review this flier with information for next school year, 2024-25.
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Please have your child arrive to school and be an active and engaged learner by our tardy bell at 7:40am. If your child will be absent for any reason, please call (614-450-5300) or email (dwadkowski@wscloud.org) attendance. If you know about a planned absence, please share that information prior to the absence, especially extended absences.
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Brookside loves Grandparents! If you are interested in getting involved with the Circle of Grandparents, please see this FLIER for more information. |
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FIELD TRIP CHAPERONESField Trip volunteers/chaperones must have their badges OR, if you have applied for your volunteer badge but have not received it, you must have the email from BIB/Secure stating that your volunteer badge has been approved and the badge is in the mail. If you do not have at least one of these proofs, you will not be able to chaperone the field trip. SIGN UP HERE
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CONTACT INFORMATIONParents, field trips are coming up. If you have not done so this year, please make sure to verify/update information in the Emergency Data Review through the parent portal. You can access the portal on the WCS website. This process must be completed every year in case of an emergency and in order for your child(ren) to participate in class field trips. Instructions for using the parent portal appear here.
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VOLUNTEERSBrookside is looking for volunteers to build reading skills with kindergarten students. Even if you only have 30 minutes a week, our kindergarten students would love to welcome you! Read below for more information and click HERE or on the flier to register. Following registration, a program coordinator from our school will be in touch with more information. See the FLIER here and SIGN UP HERE.
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Meal Benefit ApplicationsWe all know the importance of children eating healthy meals to grow and learn. Worthington City Schools offers healthy meals every school day. Your children may qualify for free or reduced meal prices. Please read the applications below as they provide detailed information you may find helpful. Should you need help with any of the applicaitons, please reach out to our school office at 614-450 5300. If you qualify, meals will be provided free of charge. Attached are printable meal benefit application packets. English Application
Spanish Application
Here is a link for paper applications in multiple languages.
Free/Reduced Applications (Multiple Languages) |
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Contact InformationCONTACT INFORMATION: Parents, if you have not done so this year, please make sure to verify/update information in the Emergency Data Review through the parent portal. You can access the portal* on the WCS website. This process must be completed every year in case of an emergency and in order for your child(ren) to participate in class field trips. Instructions for using the parent portal appear here. |
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A Few RemindersNo toys/stuffed animals should be brought to school. For the safety of students, if they arrive after the 7:40 bell, please come in with them to sign them in. Please make sure to put your child’s name inside their coats and jackets.
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Special Education Road Map |
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Attention All Bus Riders!If your child's afternoon transportation needs to change at the end of the day, you must notify the office by 1:30 that day. Teachers can't get to their emails while teaching, so it is best you contact our school office 614-450-5305.
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Special Education Key Communicator Worthington’s Special Education Key Communicator Committee strives to build positive, productive and collaborative relationships and partnerships amongst the educators and community of families whose children receive special education and related services. We will engage in two-way communication, with the goal being to provide a circle of influence where we can share out and learn from and with each other.
The key communicators will convey information from their building to the committee, as well as information from the committee to their buildings.
The Key Communicators for Brookside are Sandra Sell at snsell74@gmail.com and Emily Smith. Please reach out to either of our communicators if you have questions or topics to discuss. |
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Title ITitle I, Part A (Title I) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA), provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. Our school receives Title IA funding.
Parents/families of students in our building have a right to know about teacher qualifications and state-mandated assessments. All teachers providing Title I interventions are properly licensed for their positions and anyone can search licensure information on any educator at https://core.ode.state.oh.us/Core4/ODE.CORE.Lic.Profile.Public.UI/ . In addition to being linked here, these documents are available on the Title IA page of our school website. |
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