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!
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
This year, our students read an impressive 16,624 minutes during Read Across America Week! Each student who participated will receive a Reading Rules water bottle sticker designed by our very own Ms Murray. Congratulations to the top reader in each grade level, you will also receive a Barnes and Noble gift card!
K- Holland H.
1- Rose A.
2- Luke J.
3- Sam H.
4- Mika O.
5- Evan S.
Congratulations to all readers--we are proud of you!!!
Ohio will experience a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. In Worthington Schools, we have decided to CLOSE school for Monday, April 8th. Surrounding school districts, Columbus, Dublin, Olentangy, and Westerville have all previously announced that they will not have school. The concern on this day is the traffic expected in our region and the ability with that traffic to get students safely home from school. For more information regarding considerations for closing, superintendent Dr. Trent Bowers blog explains the decision in more detail.
Prior to the eclipse, each student will receive a pair of viewing glasses.We encourage families to discuss how to safely view the eclipse with your child. Information regarding safe viewing can be foundHEREand can be useful in helping to discuss eclipse viewing safety with your child.
If you would like to explore the eclipse further with your child, the following resources are suggested.
TimeAndDate.comhas a great interactive map to get details for any specific location.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you are looking for activities and programs for your students, don’t forget to visit the District E-Backpack.
Please review this flier with information for next school year, 2024-25.
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.
Brookside loves Grandparents! If you are interested in getting involved with the Circle of Grandparents, please see this FLIER for more information.
Field 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
CONTACT INFORMATION
Parents, 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 WCSwebsite. 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 appearhere.
VOLUNTEERS
Brookside 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