Effective April 8, 2020: All school facilities, including fields, tracks, courts, playgrounds, etc., are closed. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
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Dear KLSD Families,
Now that we're in snow season, if you'd like to update your contact information for those early morning calls, texts, and emails (and for any other communications from the District), please follow this link.
Please know that we're aware of the lag time between the phone calls and the emails in the morning. We're working with the vendor to address it. In the meantime, if you're not already receiving our texts (which arrive very quickly), I encourage you to add your cell phone number through the same link above. In addition, all delay/closing information is added to our website as soon as the decision is made. It's also posted on Facebook and Twitter.
Additional information about our Campus Parent (formerly known as Parent Portal) software, can be found here, and on our technology department's website.
Thank you,
Andrew Selesnick, Superintendent of Schools
Due to the snow days on December 2 and December 17, the Weather Reserve Days scheduled for April 3 and April 13, will now be regular school days.
Effective Wednesday, August 14th, a new version of the Parent Portal, now referred to as Campus Parent, is available. Most of the functionality remains the same, but the layout and menus have changed. Please see the link below for documentation regarding the changes. If you have an existing Parent Portal account there is nothing that you need to do to use the new system. If you are a new family and need to create an account, you may do so using the activation key that was provided to you at registration. The new website is here: Campus Parent
All physicals should be documented on the New York State Form. (Doctors' offices have the form.)
Physicals are mandated for grades K, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and all new entrants.
Physicals are required every year for athletes in grades 7 – 12.
Dear Meadow Pond Families,
In order to insure the safety of all our students as they travel to and from school, efficient, sustainable bus routes have been established. However, if for some reason you need to drive your child to school, or pick your child up from school, please familiarize yourself with our procedures, drop-off loop, pick-up location and parking areas.
The drop-off and dismissal procedures shared here were developed collaboratively. Please read carefully as we have made some changes based on parent feedback.
If you are dropping off your child for school, proceed up the driveway and make the first right. Stay to the far right and then loop to your left to pull close to the sidewalk of the drop-off loop. Cars must remain in a single file and the child must exit on the passenger side only. Your child should be ready to exit your car when you are in one of the two spaces at the loop. Please do not get out of your car. Once your child has exited onto the sidewalk, please move forward toward the driveway exit so that others can move into the drop-off loop. (If you need to get out of the car to assist your child, please park in the designated parking areas and walk your child to the sidewalk.)
If you are coming to pick up your child at dismissal, drive straight up the driveway into the parking lot. Do not turn right when you first enter as cars are not permitted to drive behind buses. You may park in the spaces on the right side of the lane as you are driving straight in. You can also continue until you reach the far end of the parking lot where you will turn right and then turn left into the parking area adjacent to the gymnasium. Parking is available there, as well as behind the gym, for families picking up their child or children. You may not park in the spaces that are directly behind the buses or in the spaces on the side of the school adjacent to Rte.123.
Adults will be admitted to the building through the gymnasium door beginning at 3:35 p.m. Once there, you will be asked to sign a dismissal pick-up sheet. You may also be asked to show identification. You will then walk through the gym, pair up with your child/children and continue toward the back exit of the gym where you will be greeted by another staff member who will check off your child/children’s names. Then, you will exit the building from the rear gym door and return to your car. Following this process will insure that all our students are safely dismissed. Your cooperation is very much appreciated.
Remember that a written note must be brought into school by the student in order to change from bus to pick-up and vice-versa. The PTA has a handy form letter available for your convenience. Phone calls will not be accepted. In emergency cases, a letter/note must be faxed to the school indicating the change.
If students need to be picked up earlier in the day, they must have a note and must be picked up in the main office before 3:15 p.m. Otherwise, they will remain in school until the regular dismissal. Again, your cooperation is necessary and very much appreciated.
For the safety of all students, families, staff and visitors, we respectfully request that you refrain from speaking on cellphones, even hands free while dropping off or picking up your child/children. Please drive slowly and cautiously while on school grounds.
If you have any questions, please contact the main office.
Sincerely,
Carolann Castellano Dawn Pomeroy Monica DiMatteo
Principal Assistant Principal PTA President
To report an absent student, please call the attendance office at (914) 763-7950. Remember to send a note upon your child's return to school.
Finance Committee
Board of Education Subcommittee
7:30 p.m.
District Office, Conference Room
April 2, 2020
Dear MPES Families,
Most recently, our Superintendent of Schools, Andrew Selesnick, communicated Governor Cuomo’s decision for all schools to continue with their distance learning plans next week to provide continuity of learning.
Given this recent change for next week, teachers’ availability and schedules will vary. Communications and feedback from teachers will be more limited than it has been, but families can expect some contact and/or feedback during the week. There will be daily learning experiences posted next week with the intent of engaging students in the practice and application of previously learned skills. We recognize and respect that families may have been planning to observe the spring break and the religious holidays, and may, therefore, choose to spend unstructured time together throughout the week.
Going forward, our distance learning practices will evolve to include instruction of new content, skills and strategies for our students. We are committed to learning and growing with you, our families, and we will be sure to highlight changes as they occur.
Sincerely,
Carolann Castellano & Dawn Pomeroy
Principal & Assistant Principal
