Sitton School

Please come to Burgerville on the first Thursday of the month. From 5pm-8pm, 10% of Burgerville's sales will go to the Sitton PTA.

The February and April Burgerville nights will be fundraisers for the second annual 3rd grade spring camping trip. This year the kids will be going to State Falls Silver Park for an unforgettable and enriching learning experience. The 3rd grade needs the support of the Sitton community to make this trip a reality. Your support will also help ensure that this annual trip becomes a long lasting tradition at our school.

Dear Sitton Families and Community,

Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year. We are excited to welcome our returning families and anxious to meet those who are new to our community. We look forward to working with you to support your child’s school success. As partners in education, we need to agree on a few essential points. Critical to every student’s success is effort, attendance, and instruction.

School should be challenging. Students need to be learning and building their skills each day. That is harder than just “doing” school day by day. While all of us enjoy the accomplishment of facing a challenge, few of us look forward to a struggle. Talk with your student about school and how the skills that they are learning today will help them in the future. For example, if you never master basic math facts (know them without thinking), you will always have difficulty with math. That’s were the EFFORT comes in. You can not memorize important facts without working at it, both in school and at home. Our new math standards are clear. Students need to have mastered addition and subtraction facts by 2nd grade, multiplication is introduced in 3rd grade and must be mastered, along with division, in 4th grade. All of these skills make is possible for 5th grade students to work with fractions and decimals. Students who just “do” school will not be prepared for the next step in Math or any other subject. EFFORT COUNTS!

ATTENDANCE is critical to success! In order to really LEARN, students need to be at school each day. Missing a day, for whatever reason, can change the CHALLENGE of school into a STRUGGLE. Research is showing that students who are chronically absent (missing 10% of the school year or 17 days) will struggle to learn what they have missed. Catching up to the class can present problems for years. Sadly, some students never catch up, give up, and drop out. Students begin forming their plans regarding high school and university as early as 4th grade. Being at school everyday has a positive effect on those important plans.

Our commitment to the Sitton School Community is to provide student with quality INSTRUCTION each day. Our program will continue to have a strong academic focus. Together with our specialists, our teachers work in grade level teams to plan curriculum that will met the needs of each of our students. Each grade level has a master schedule that provides blocks of uninterrupted time for literacy and math instruction are scheduled daily. The schedule also includes Science, Wellness, Enrichment, and Intervention periods. Each day is packed with important learning. Even being LATE TO SCHOOL WILL CAUSE STUDENTS TO STRUGGLE WITH LEARNING!

Our enrichment programs will continue to feature Technology and Physical Education. Students will continue to have Library as well. Visual Arts and Music will be offered through our Artist in Residence program and SUN School. Playworks will continue this year. It has been very successful in helping students learn recess games, conflict resolution skills, and how to have a good time at recess. It has also provided our older students with the opportunity to develop leadership skills through Junior Coaches and athletic skills through our after school leagues.

Sitton seeks to engage adults in partnering with us through the PTA, Junta de Padres en Español and evening Community School programs and classes. We honor your voice and continue to look for ways to assure that your ideas, opinions and desires are heard.

Sitton’s School Handbook is intended to answer many of the questions that you may have regarding our policies and procedures. The calendar pages will provide you with general information regarding our school and parent meetings, evening events, and major academic activities. Updated event notices, complete with specific details and times will be sent home prior to the event. All of this information is meant as an initial means of helping you partner with us in supporting your child’s school success. By reviewing the materials, hopefully with your child, you and they will be preparing for a successful year. As questions or concerns arise, the answers may be found right here. If not, don’t hesitate to call the school for assistance. We are here to serve you.

Sincerely,

Jane Fielding, Principal

7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Sitton Office Hours
7:55 a.m.	Announcements
8:00 a.m.	Opening Bell
8:10 a.m.	Tardy Bell
10:55 a.m.-11:35 a.m.	First Lunch/Recess
11:05 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Second Lunch/Recess
11:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	Third Lunch/Recess
2:15 p.m.	Dismissal Bell

Head Start Hours: 8:45 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. 
SUN School Hours: 2:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.