School News & Announcements
Important dates for the enrollment/transfer cycle:
The K-8 transfer window is open from February 10-March 9, 2012.
February 8, 6:00-7:00 pm--Kindergarten round-up
February 15, 6:00-7:00 pm--Middle school information night
March 19, 9:00 am--make-up meeting for kindergarten and middle school information nights
February 17, 24 and March 2, 8:45 am-12:30 pm--middle school shadowing at Sunnyside
Upcoming events:
January 17, 5:30-7:00 pm--The Annual Oxfam Hunger Banquet, SES cafeteria
January 25, 6:30-8:30 pm--PTSA General Meeting, SES Auditorium
January 27, 6:30-8:30 pm--middle school winter dance
A Message from the Principal
January is service-learning month at Sunnyside!
Each January, the staff, students and families at Sunnyside honor the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. through service. Martin Luther King Jr's children have asked to use the national holiday as a "day on" and not a "day off" as a way of honoring their father's work.
Beyond this important day of service, Sunnyside students are engaged in service throughout the year and most especially in January.
Service-learning is a specific way of teaching core curriculum and integrated themes. In this teaching method, teachers work with students to plan and implement service-learning projects related to learning goals.
Examples of service-learning include:
*Site monitoring at Laurelhurst Park, Oaks Bottom and various other green spaces.
*Preparing lunches for the homeless each Wednesday.
*Supporting the day labor site and immigrants in our community
*Raising money to build wells in other countries.
*Increasing pollinators in our community through our gardens and mason bee boxes.
*Removal of non native invasive plants and planting native plants.
*Trick or Treat for UNICEF
*Pennies for Peace / Schools in Afghanistan
*Education in our school and the community about ecological issues such as the value of trade, re-using things, bicycle transportation and local foods.
We hope that you and your family will have many opportunities to enjoy service projects at Sunnyside.
Sarah Taylor, (former) Principal
Daily Schedule
| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast Begins |
| 8:40 a.m. | First Bell |
| 8:45 a.m. | Tardy Bell |
| 3:00 p.m. | K-5 Dismissal |
| 3:10 p.m. | 6-8 Dismissal |
The school is open at 8:30 am for breakfast with students going to classrooms at 8:40 am. There is no one to supervise or watch your children before this time unless they are enrolled in daycare. It is not safe to drop them off or send them earlier.
School is out at 3:00 pm for k-5 and 3:10 pm for middle school. We strongly encourage parents to come on to campus and pick up your child by parking and walking to school versus sitting in a car and waiting. This gives you an opportunity to visit with other adults while cutting down on traffic around the school and adding an adult presence to our grounds.
There is no teacher supervision after 3:30 pm. Children are encouraged to join safe afterschool activities including supervised play after school.
At 3:00 pm the school becomes a public park and is not under the care of the school. We encourage and support parent created 4-H clubs and other cooperative efforts to provide safe play for children.
