Volumn II Issue 6 CASSINGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL March 2013 AN IB/PYP WORLD SCHOOL A NOTE FROM THE PRINCIPAL H. Jeannine Hetzler The warm & welcomed sunshine streaming in the office windows as I write helps me believe that March is right around the corner – even if our recent “Ice Day” painted a different picture. Another sure sign of spring’s approach is the set of standardized assessments that our students in grades 2-6 confront. The teachers and I ask that you please check in with your child’s testing schedule, if you must make appointments during the school day. We’ll be making up Terra Nova tests during the first week of March and scheduling Ohio Achievement Assessments the week of April 22 nd . I invite you to check out the display that will be emerging just outside of our Cassingham Office with updates about the Molly Davis Garden. In January, our PTO, local landscape architect Mark Schieber and I presented the garden plans to the City of Bexley’s Planning Commission. We have received their endorsement of the initial phase of the project. Our plan is to work with donated funds and a BEF grant to begin installing the project in April. If you are interested in supporting the project with your gardening expertise, please contact our PTO volunteer coordinators (http:// cassinghampto.org/volunteer.html), as we’ll be seeking a garden chairperson. Additional watering and tending support will be needed, particularly over our first few summers to ensure that plants and foundational structures get off to a solid start. I am hoping to see a crocus pop up out of the ground soon! As always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns. [email protected]/614-237-4266 March 3/1……….Read Across America Day 3/5....…….Late Start-Doors Open at 9:20 36………..Gr. 3-5—Play Auditions CS Theatre 5:30-7:00 p.m. 3/7……….Gr. 3-5—Play Crew Interviews Studio Theatre 3:30-4:30 p.m. 3/9……….Montrose Elementary School Fun-for-All 12:30-3:30 p.m. 3/12………Gr. 1-2—Play Workshops Studio Theatre 6:00-7:00 p.m. 3/12..….....PTO Meeting-6:30 p.m. 3/19..…….Market Day Pick-up 2:45-3:45 3/22……...End of Quarter 3 3/25-29….. CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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Volumn II Issue 6 CASSINGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL March 2013
AN IB/PYP WORLD SCHOOL
A NOTE FROM THE PRINCIPAL H. Jeannine Hetzler
The warm & welcomed sunshine streaming in the
office windows as I write helps me believe that
March is right around the corner – even if our
recent “Ice Day” painted a different picture.
Another sure sign of spring’s approach is the set of
standardized assessments that our students in
grades 2-6 confront. The teachers and I ask that
you please check in with your child’s testing
schedule, if you must make appointments during the
school day. We’ll be making up Terra Nova tests
during the first week of March and scheduling Ohio
Achievement Assessments the week of April 22nd
.
I invite you to check out the display that will be
emerging just outside of our Cassingham Office
with updates about the Molly Davis Garden. In
January, our PTO, local landscape architect Mark
Schieber and I presented the garden plans to the
City of Bexley’s Planning Commission. We have
received their endorsement of the initial phase of
the project. Our plan is to work with donated funds
and a BEF grant to begin installing the project in
April. If you are interested in supporting the
project with your gardening expertise, please
contact our PTO volunteer coordinators (http://
cassinghampto.org/volunteer.html), as we’ll be
seeking a garden chairperson. Additional watering
and tending support will be needed, particularly
over our first few summers to ensure that plants
and foundational structures get off to a solid start.
Sometimes (like last Friday!) our district uses One Call Now a mass notification sys-
tem, to send telephone and email messages to our community regarding school
events and/or cancellations. Here at Cassingham, I use the email notification system
more often that the telephone portion. Please check in with OneCallNow to ensure
that your information is up-to-date. You can manage the ways you are notified
through the OneCallNow website.by following these steps:
1. From the district website (http://www.bexleyschools.org) click on Parent/Student Info.
2. Under the Parents section, click the One Call Now link.
3. This will take you to the One Call Now page where you can enter your last name and phone number
and select Cassingham Elementary.
4. From that point, you’ll be asked to enter the phone numbers and/or email addresses you would acti-
vated by the One Call Now system. 5. If you prefer a text message to a voice message on your cell phone, send a text message to 22300 with a
one-word message: ALERT.
A Dose from the Health Office Joann Spain, R.N. & Katie Talbott, R.N.
We are seeing a lot of kids with
coughs and colds each day. As
you can imagine, the demand
for cough drops is huge and
we’re going through our supply
very quickly. If you know your
child has a cough/cold or sore throat, please send
along a few cough drops or throat lozenges with
him/her. Please remind your children that they
should not bring cough drops to school to share.
Please continue to encourage regular hand wash-
ing to prevent the spread of germs. Hopefully
spring is just around the corner.
Two reminders from the BEF:
1. Nominations for the 2013 Robert A. Glick Educator of the Year Award are due in the BEF office on
March 22nd. A nomination form is included in this newsletter.
2. Bexley Community Book Club rock concert at the LC Pavilion on Thursday, March 21! Tickets
$5.00; doors open at 7:00 p.m. Info available at www.bexleyeducationfoundation.org
Cassingham's numerous lunchtime clubs
are fun, help students connect with others
around a common interest, and may even
teach larger lessons. Check out this inter-
esting perspective:
"In an age when children are too often encouraged to become passive consumers who, (as Oscar Wilde once said about a cynic), “know the price of every-thing and the value of nothing,” learning to knit and engaging in other areas of handwork can be a power-ful way of bringing meaning into the child’s life. For the child who has gone through such a set of experi-ences, an item of clothing will not be merely a status symbol or a disposable mark of fashion; it will be a piece of embodied will activity, meant to be valued
and cared for. " - Discover Waldorf Education: Knit-ting and Intellectual Development