JJES Weekly News – January 15
1/15/2024
JJES Pirate Family,
Two Hour Delay on Tuesday, January 16th
We always get a lot of questions about this, but it just means that our day starts two hours later. For example, normally arrival begins at 8:40 and because of the two-hour delay, tomorrow we will start our arrival process at 10:40 and students will be tardy after 11:00. We will not serve breakfast.
CMS 5th Grade Parent Meeting
January 22 at 6:30 CMS will have an open house for parents of incoming 6th graders for the 24-25 school year. If you would share this with your 5th grade families I would appreciate it.
Robotics Competition on Saturday
Our JJ Robotics team will compete at River Valley Middle School on Saturday beginning at 8:00 am. We wish our Pirates good luck!
CLPYFA Pirate Workouts
Coach Hawkins and Little Pirate Football would like to announce offseason workouts. They will start on January 14th at 6:00-8:00. There will be 2 sessions. 2nd and 3rd graders will be first from 6-7 and 4th and 5th will be 7-8. If you have children in different groups, they can accommodate at the time of your choice. Workouts will be focused on body strength exercise’s, speed and agility drills, flexibility, and basic football drills(stance and footwork for blocking and tackling). This is for 2nd- 5th graders. It will be held at the auxiliary gym in the high school. For more information, please contact clpyfa@gmail.com.
Inclement Weather Plan: 2023-24 School Year
If weather and road conditions become bad enough to cause a change in the normal school schedule, one of the following plans below will be announced to the media on the morning in question. The district uses -10 degree wind chill as a starting point when considering a delay or closing of school due to temperature.
Weather Communication
A School Messenger notification will be sent regarding a delay or closing of school during inclement weather by 5:30 a.m. to staff members and 6:00 a.m. to parents/guardians. In the event that school is delayed and weather conditions deteriorate, an announcement to close schools will be made by 7:30 a.m. The district’s status will also be posted on our website (gccschools.com) and social media sites. Please do not call school offices or school employees because it ties up phone lines which are needed for emergency communications.
Plan 1: Two Hour Delay
a) School will begin two hours late. Buses will run two hours later on their normal routes.
b) Afternoon dismissal will remain the same.
c) If your child attends a morning only preschool program, the morning session will be canceled.
d) There will be no AM Prosser transportation. PM will run on a normal schedule.
Plan 2: Schools Closed (the first 3 school closure days will be asynchronous eLearning
days and any day thereafter will be synchronous to avoid adding days to the calendar)
a) No school will be open that day. This will be an eLearning Day.
b) School will be open the next scheduled day unless another closing announcement is made.
c) Preschool students will not attend, no eLearning day.
During slick road conditions, bus drivers may decide, after approval by the Director of Transportation, that a portion of their route cannot be safely traveled. In such cases, every effort will be made to notify the affected homes. The following rules will apply for students whose bus did not run:
a) Attendance will be taken and recorded with a notation that absence was due to no bus transportation.
b) If the student has perfect attendance in progress for the year, he/she will remain eligible for the recognition. c) All make-up requirements must be met.
Inclement weather conditions sometimes cause buses to run late. Parents are asked to prepare their children to wait a reasonable amount of time for the bus and to be prepared for some variation in normal schedules. Questions about these procedures may be directed to the school principal, or the Transportation Office (812-288-4809).
Aimee Doherty
Principal
Jonathan Jennings Elementary
Upcoming Events
January
15 No School
16-3/1 WIDA Testing Window Open
29-3/8 NAEP Testing Window Open
29 JJ Blue Home vs. Northaven
30 JJ Blue Away at New Washington
31 JJ White Away at Riverside
February
5 Midterms Go Home
5 JJ White Home vs. Clarksville
5 JJ Blue Away at Riverside
6 JJ White Away at New Washington
6 JJ Blue Away at Wilson
8 JJ Blue Away at Franklin Square
8 JJ WHite Home vs. Utica
12 JJ White Away at Wilson
15 First Round of Tourney
17 Second Round of Tourney
20 Semi-finals of Tourney
22 Championship Game
26-3/14 Wrestling Intramurals
March
4-3/15 IREAD 3 Testing Window
15 Q3 Ends
April
1-5/10 I AM Testing Window Open
5 911 Presentation for 4th Grade
8 No School
15-5/10 ILEARN Testing Window Open
19 Kona Ice Day
22 Midterms Go Home
30 District Track Meet at CHS 5:00
May
2 Kona Ice Day
3 No School
5-5/24 NWEA Testing Window Open
7 Teacher Day Only
13-6/28 Summer IREAD3 Testing Window Open
17 Kona Ice Day
24 Q4 Ends- Last Day of School