Erie Middle School’s Weekly Newsletter 2/21/25

Erie Middle School
Tiger News
February 21, 2025

Thank you to our Sponsor of the week

Are you doing your taxes and wondering what has been happening with all your money? Are you looking to reach certain financial goals? Our sponsor, Britt Maracine, is the person to call. Britt is with Edward Jones and is a financial advisor that serves a diverse group of clients with wide ranging goals. She also works to develop strategies for wealth transfer for multigenerational families and strategies for asset growth with tax reduction.

Track and Field Registration

Track and Field registration opens on Monday, February 24th. To register your student visit our EMS Website: EMS.SVVSD.ORG

Project Launch

From Our EMS PTO

The Annual Hope and Gratitude Event is coming up soon, and we need your help!  Each year, Soaring Heights invites all Erie feeder schools to participate in decorating Briggs Street with lovely paper votives showing the hope and gratitude of our students.  This year’s event is on Feb 28th with a rain/snow date of Mar 7.

Our amazing administration is willing to take care of purchasing, counting and distributing supplies to kids to make votive bags, which is a lot of the work!  However, we could still use parents/guardians to help with the following:

*  To collect the finished votives from EMS and bring to Briggs Street the day of the event

*  To bring rocks or little baggies of sand to put in each votive as they are set up (to keep them from blowing away)

*  To help calculate and chalk out the path on the street for the votives to be set out on

*  To help manage our youth volunteers as they set up votives and decorate the street with uplifting chalk notes

If we can’t get any help from parent volunteers, we may need to pull out of the event this year, as board members are not available to help with this particular event.  If you have interest in participating, please email both president.emspto@gmail.com and vicepresident.emspto@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Katie Curtis

EMS PTO President

Accessibility Night – Today!

Needs Assessment Process

Did you know that Erie Middle uses a data-based approach to support student mental health at school? Twice per year, all students complete a confidential survey where they identify if they would like additional support from a school counselor or if they would like to be a part of a support group. Support groups are short term (4-6 weeks) small groups that meet once per week during Advisory. These groups create a structured setting in which students learn and discuss new skills about topics such as managing stress, navigating friendship issues, and gaining more confidence. The groups and surveys are facilitated by our Mental Health Interventionist, Ben Knighten. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to him at Knighten_Benjamin@svvsd.org.

Late Starts

Late starts occur on the first Wednesday of each month, with school beginning at 10:30 AM. Buses will run 2.5 hours later than their usual schedule.

Upcoming Late Starts:

Wednesday, March 5th

Wednesday, April 2nd

Wednesday, May 7th

Main Street

For the safety of your student, please do not drop off or pick up your student on Main Street. Dropping off and picking up on Main Street also causes traffic build up. We have a drop off lane on the North side of the school off of Cheeseman Street. Please see the photo below for our drop off procedures.

Please DO NOT ENTER the bus pick up lane in front of the school between 7:40am – 8:10am and 2:40pm – 3:15pm. The teacher parking lot is also not a drop off or pick up spot for your student.

Student Fees

2024-25 classroom fees have been posted to your student’s Infinite Campus account.  Please log on to your Infinite Campus parent portal and click on Fees.  

If your family would qualify for free or reduced lunch, that designation will apply to your fees.  Click here for the 24-25 Free/Reduced application.  You will be notified from our district office about your qualification. 

Infinite Campus parent portal account questions:  please email cisar_ann@svvsd.org

Fee questions:  please email raver_sara@svvsd.org 

Attendance

Attend Today, Achieve Tomorrow

Thank you for everything you do to communicate regarding your child’s absences. We have a lot of traffic in and out of our main office during the school day so we have procedure in place to be more efficient and smooth for our students and families.

We understand that sometimes you will not be able to sign your student out until you arrive at the school. In this case, we have posted a QR code in the first lobby and have added chairs for your convenience.  Please remember to bring your ID each time you pick up your student.  If an ID check is needed, we will have you step into the front office. After that ID check we will have you wait for your student in the first lobby. We will have them meet you there as they come through the front office.

We have many times that the person picking up doesn’t know our procedures. Please share this information with your spouse, significant other, grandparents, siblings or anyone else that may be picking up your student.

As a reminder, always get a note from any type of appointment your student has for attendance purposes.

If your student is absent for a full day, you have 48 hours to call in with the reason for the absence, after that it will be marked unexcused. Per board policy, if a student is absent 10 days excused or not, absences will begin to be marked “unexcused” unless previously noted and approved by school administration or there is a doctor’s note provided to the school.

Extended Absences

Extended Absences: Please notify the school at least 2 weeks prior to any extended absences via our Google form. You and your student will also need to sign off on our “Extended Absence Form” located in our front office. This form helps students and parents understand how to communicate with teachers and make up schoolwork after the absence.

Recent Updates

Please check out our “Recent Updates”. Each week, our newsletter topics will be in this area. Clicking on the button that says “View all News” in the above graphic or below is the best way to see new topics and also any older information you may be looking for. Thank you!

To see this school years newsletters please visit our EMS website and look under the tab “About”.

Upcoming Events

Quick Links

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