August, 2017 Fort Frye Local School District S UPERINTENDENT ’ S M ESSAGE -Stephanie Starcher, Superintendent Bright and early on Thursday, August 24, the yellow buses will roll, the school bells will ring, and approximately 1000 students in pre- kindergarten through high school will return to class at Fort Frye Lo- cal Schools for the 2017-2018 aca- demic year. We are excited that Fort Frye High School is celebrat- ing it’s 60th year (1957-2017) . I want to share with you a few of the academic things happening in our school system. The district will continue to offer our students courses aligned to the Ohio Learn- ing standards as well as programs for exceptional learners. Families can arrange pre-school services at Lowell Elementary School. Fort Frye High School will offer many College Credit Plus classes at the school site and provide online access to many more. All of our students can uti- lize computer labs and mobile de- vices for instructional purposes, and students in grades three through six receive keyboarding classes. Students in grades 7 and 8 will be required to complete career education classes for a nine-week grading period, and the district is beginning a career mentoring pro- gram for small groups of 8 th grade students. The mentors will be com- munity volunteers representing var- ious career fields. Research shows that students need to be reading proficiently by grade 3 in order to be college and career ready. Fort Frye Local Schools will be training all of its kindergarten through third grade teachers in the specialized Orton Gillingham reading program, which was piloted last school year with a few students. The reading im- provement in these struggling read- ers was amazing. We are excited to see how this program will benefit more of our younger students. Fort Frye will continue to focus on using effective and consistent approaches to teaching writing across all grade levels and subjects. Our teachers will spend a portion of their first few days back working with one another to set expectations and share consistent strategies relat- ed to effective writing skills. There are many wellness chal- lenges that our students, families, and staff face, and our Wellness Team will continue to guide our district in offering wellness pro- gramming. Ohio does not require a consistent approach nor content for Health education in grades K-6, but Fort Frye Local Schools firmly be- lieves our students must be educat- ed about a wide variety of wellness topics such as dental health, body systems, dangers in the environ- ment, safety skills, drug and alco- hol prevention, abstaining from sexual activity and other unhealthy behaviors, healthy social relation- ships, nutrition, exercise, and men- tal well-being to name a few. Our K-6 classrooms will all be using the Human Body Shop curriculum re- source on age-appropriate wellness topics. The district will sponsor monthly wellness themes and activ- ities, and families of students in grades K-6 will receive a monthly newsletter that goes along with our wellness curriculum. Our support staff has worked hard in making sure that our build- ings are safe and clean for the opening of the school year and that our buses are ready to transport our students hundreds of miles each day. A huge project this summer has been the replacement of interior and exterior lighting throughout the district. This is an energy savings while simultaneously improving the quality of lighting for the learning environment. Carpet that was 25 or more years old in some classrooms and offices has been replaced. Be- cause the district will now offer an athletic trainer through Marietta Memorial Hospital, we also have converted a small space in the base- ment level of the high school for the trainer’s office. FOLLOW ME ON @fortfryesuper LIKE US ON Fort Frye Local School District
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August, 2017
Fort Frye Local School Distr ict
S U P E R I N T E N D E N T ’ S M E S S A G E
-Stephanie Starcher, Superintendent Bright and early on Thursday,
August 24, the yellow buses will
roll, the school bells will ring, and
approximately 1000 students in pre-
kindergarten through high school
will return to class at Fort Frye Lo-
cal Schools for the 2017-2018 aca-
demic year. We are excited that
Fort Frye High School is celebrat-
ing it’s 60th year (1957-2017) .
I want to share with you a few of
the academic things happening in
our school system. The district will
continue to offer our students
courses aligned to the Ohio Learn-
ing standards as well as programs
for exceptional learners. Families
can arrange pre-school services at
Lowell Elementary School. Fort
Frye High School
will offer many College Credit
Plus classes at the school site and
provide online access to many
more. All of our students can uti-
lize computer labs and mobile de-
vices for instructional purposes,
and students in grades three
through six receive keyboarding
classes. Students in grades 7 and 8
will be required to complete career
education classes for a nine-week
grading period, and the district is
beginning a career mentoring pro-
gram for small groups of 8th grade
students. The mentors will be com-
munity volunteers representing var-
ious career fields.
Research shows that students
need to be reading proficiently by
grade 3 in order to be college and
career ready. Fort Frye Local
Schools will be training all of its
kindergarten through third grade
teachers in the specialized Orton
Gillingham reading program, which
was piloted last school year with a
few students. The reading im-
provement in these struggling read-
ers was amazing. We are excited to
see how this program will benefit
more of our younger students.
Fort Frye will continue to focus
on using effective and consistent
approaches to teaching writing
across all grade levels and subjects.
Our teachers will spend a portion of
their first few days back working
with one another to set expectations
and share consistent strategies relat-
ed to effective writing skills.
There are many wellness chal-
lenges that our students, families,
and staff face, and our Wellness
Team will continue to guide our
district in offering wellness pro-
gramming. Ohio does not require a
consistent approach nor content for
Health education in grades K-6, but
Fort Frye Local Schools firmly be-
lieves our students must be educat-
ed about a wide variety of wellness
topics such as dental health, body
systems, dangers in the environ-
ment, safety skills, drug and alco-
hol prevention, abstaining from
sexual activity and other unhealthy
behaviors, healthy social relation-
ships, nutrition, exercise, and men-
tal well-being to name a few. Our
K-6 classrooms will all be using the
Human Body Shop curriculum re-
source on age-appropriate wellness
topics. The district will sponsor
monthly wellness themes and activ-
ities, and families of students in
grades K-6 will receive a monthly
newsletter that goes along with our
wellness curriculum.
Our support staff has worked
hard in making sure that our build-
ings are safe and clean for the
opening of the school year and that
our buses are ready to transport our
students hundreds of miles each
day. A huge project this summer
has been the replacement of interior
and exterior lighting throughout the
district. This is an energy savings
while simultaneously improving the
quality of lighting for the learning
environment. Carpet that was 25 or
more years old in some classrooms
and offices has been replaced. Be-
cause the district will now offer an
athletic trainer through Marietta
Memorial Hospital, we also have
converted a small space in the base-
ment level of the high school for
the trainer’s office.
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DISTRICT NEWS
We are improving a couple of
learning areas so they are more eas-
ily handicap accessible, addressing
landscaping issues, fixing some
benches and railways, and repairing
or replacing a couple of sound sys-
tems. You might also notice some
fresh paint in areas around the dis-
trict, especially the exterior trim
around the entire high school build-
ing. Additional mobile computers
have been purchased, and the dis-
trict has also bought a new school
bus for the 2017-2018 school year
that can transport multiple students
in wheelchairs. We are also adding
more interior and exterior security
cameras for safety purposes.
We know that in order for stu-
dents to succeed, we all have to
work together – principals, teach-
ers, families, community members
and all district staff – to make sure
that our students are getting the
support and guidance they need to
be their best selves. In order to do
this, you will find a lot of pertinent
information relevant to the start of
the school year in this Cadet Com-
municator. We have also included
contact information for various de-
partments and schools. If you are
registered for school bus transporta-
tion services, you should receive a
letter in this mailing that contains
details about your child’s bus pick-
up and drop-off times. Please con-
tact us if you have any questions or
if you did not receive transportation
information but are in need of bus
transportation.
Let’s have a fantastic and safe
2017-2018 school year! WE ARE
FORT FRYE!
TREASURER’S REPORT
-Stacy Bolden, Treasurer
School districts in Ohio have a
fiscal year that begins July 1 and
ends June 30. We just completed
fiscal year 2017 on June 30 and are
currently in fiscal year 2018. The
finance committee, which is a pub-
lic committee that is made up of the
Superintendent, Treasurer, and two
Board Members, met July 27th and
reviewed the financial standings for
fiscal year 2017. Since school fund-
ing is revisited biannually and is
subject to change as well as the tax-
es the district receives, our goal as a
district is to set a budget that meets
the educational needs of our stu-
dents while being fiscally responsi-
ble and maintaining a cash balance
to ensure these needs are met in the
future. We were able to end the
fiscal year with $232,956 more in
our cash balance than projected.
The district will continue to transfer
dollars from the general fund to the
permanent improvement fund to
save and plan for upkeep and im-
provement projects for our school
buildings. The next five year fore-
cast will be presented at the public
Board meeting in October.
CAFETERIA NEWS
Fort Frye is proud to offer quali-
ty nutritious meals for our students
to enjoy daily both for breakfast
and lunch. Our cafeteria offers free
breakfast to all students daily.
Each week the cafeteria serves hot
breakfast two days and a cold
breakfast the remaining three.
Lunch prices will remain the same
this school year at both the elemen-
tary and high school buildings. The
lunch prices are listed below:
*Elementary $2.45; Reduced Lunch
$.40
*High School $2.70; Reduced
Lunch $.40
Fresh salads will be made to order
at the high school beginning Sep-
tember 1st along with the potato bar.
Monthly menus are sent home with
elementary students and are availa-
ble to junior high and high school
students in the cafeteria and can
also be found online at
www.fortfrye.k12.oh.us.
The menu for the first day of
school will be breakfast pizza for
breakfast and chicken strips, french
fries, peanut butter and jelly bar,
fruit choice and milk for lunch. The
second lunch choice will be a
cheese sandwich for the week of
Aug, 24 and 25. Fresh carrots and
dip will be offered the first two
weeks of August 24- September 1.
CURRICULUM UPDATE -Karen Kubota, Curriculum Director