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Edition 4, May 25, 2012
Edition 3, February 29, 2012
Edition 2, December 12, 2011
Edition 1, October 31, 2011

Kindergarten Enrollment

Enrollment for students entering Kindergarten for the 2012-2013 school year will begin on May 10th between 2:00-6:00 pm and continue weekdays between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm until the end of school, Jun 7th. Enrollment forms will be available at www.powayusd.com beginning in April 30th, 2012. Please review the immunization requirements below as these must be completed prior to your child's enrollment.

WHAT TO BRING:

• Completed enrollment form (click here to access forms)

• Child's official birth certificate
  (your child must be 5 years old on or before Dec 2, 2012)

• Child's Immunization Record
  5 doses DPT (4 doses if last dose was given after 4th birthday).
  4 doses Polio (3 doses if last dose was given after 4th birthday).
  3 doses Hepatitis B.
  2 doses MMR. Varicella (chicken pox) immunization or physician’s documentation that child has had the disease

• 2 documents showing proof of residence
  (utility bills, bank statement, lease or rental agreement, escrow paper)

Click here for more information for incoming Kindergarten Students
Click here for information about PEPP-Transitional Kindergarten

 

MAY/JUNE PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

Greetings Del Sur Explorers!

 Thank you for helping your children perform at their optimum level on this year’s STAR assessments. We believe our students were well prepared to do their personal best on these tests. Thank you for your help in preparing your students each evening by getting them to bed early and providing them a nutritious breakfast in the morning.

 I hope many of you are planning on attending Science Day at Del Sur on Friday, May 11. On this day students will attend an assembly concerning science, listen to speakers who work in the science field, and perform science experiments in the classroom. Mrs. Nowak has spent months planning for this day. We thank her so much for her dedication to making this day possible. Come by if you have some time. This will also be Family Lunch Day on our site as well. Of course, don’t forget to have your students bring their science fair project to school Friday morning. Their project will be judged in the morning of this day.

About this time of year, parents begin to give thought to who their child’s teacher might be the following year. I would like to explain the process we use for placing students into classes. In early June, I will be holding lengthy meetings with each grade level team to begin the process of making initial placements into classes. Our resource specialist will be a part of each placement meeting. The Poway Unified School District has as its Core Mission, “All Students Learning”. To realize this value and achieve the best result for the maximum number of students, our school district subscribes to the practice of heterogeneously grouping students. Research into students’ learning supports the practice of creating classes that are relatively balanced with high, average, and low achiever, boys and girls, etc. Our goal is to create classes that are as equal as possible. The following criteria will be used to create “balanced” or heterogeneous classes:

          Balanced boy/girl ratios

          Balanced distribution of student abilities

          Balanced distributions of students with identified learning problems or special needs

          The clustering of identified GATE, Resource students, and ELL students into workable groups for support

          Equal class sizes with no more than 28 children in grades K – 3      and 35 in grades 4 –  5

          Separation of students that have a history of not working well together

          The nature of the teacher, i.e., their specialized training, skills, interests, or presentation style

          The clustering of identified GATE, Resource students, and ELL students into workable groups for support

Thanks for your continued support of all of our endeavors.

See You on Campus,

Doug Johnson