We won’t normally send our ParentSquare notifications out with the ‘immediate delivery’ designation, but…
The Parking Lot is Fully Functional!
After a long summer and an even longer first week of school, we are happy to announce that our parking lot is at 100% operational capacity. Here’s how it looks this morning:
And here’s one with a few labels:
Here are the essentials for using the new parking lot:
- If you come from the north, use the north lot. If you come from the south, use the south lot.
- No parking, drop off, or pick up in the bus lane. This is the center lot between the north and south lots. And this is all day. We have buses come for field trips, etc., so just don’t use it.
- Use the outer loop of each lot for drop off and pick up, and use the center parking area of each loop for coming into the building.
- In the loop, use the left lane as a thru lane and the right lane for drop off and pick up.
- When leaving the lot, be aware of those behind you. If you can make a left turn, great. If you have to wait and there are cars behind you, just go right. It’s the polite thing to do.
- Only load/unload from a sidewalk. The main point of this whole overhaul was to eliminate kids wandering in and out of cars. Please encourage your student to load and unload only from a sidewalk.
A note on students who walk home: Please remind them to walk out to 2700 W from the school using the far north or south sidewalk. We have a number of students going out to the road from the center of our parking lot, which means they have to walk in front of the exit of the parking lot to get wherever they are going once they are on the sidewalk on 2700 W. It just makes it much less safe and is completely avoidable. We’ll keep reminding them, but your help is appreciated.
That should be it. We’ll have a few of us out there this morning to make sure it all flows well, but it should just run itself from this point forward.
Thank you again for your incredible patience as we navigated the construction. It ended up going better than we could have hoped, all things considered, and that comes down to all of you pitching in and making it work by following our ever-changing directions.
Picture Day is Friday, August 30.
We will not be sending home paper order forms. Please use the Bell Photo website to prepay for photos. A scanned copy of the packages can be found here. However, it is much easier to see online. Visit bellphoto.com and scroll down to enter the Prepay Code: sjordanmsfall24. Pictures will be taken during the student’s math class.
HELLO WEEK! 8/26 – 8/30
Show your school spirit by participating in each day’s theme and lunchtime activities. Outfits must be school appropriate and adhere to the dress code.:
Monday – SOJO Day – Wear school colors
Tuesday – 80s Day
Wednesday – Teachers dress as Students & Students dress as Teachers
Thursday – Olympics Day – Celebrate a Country by wearing its colors/dress
Friday – Sunglasses Day*
*Sunglasses are not permitted to be worn in school pictures
Fall Musical Auditions
Auditions for The Wizard of Oz (Youth Edition) will be September 3rd and 4th after school. For information about auditions, rehearsals, and performances, follow this link.
SoJo Calendar
Upcoming spirit days, assemblies, and activities can be found on the SoJo Calendar. You can also find links to any revised bell schedules. The school calendar is accessible through ParentSquare or from our school’s website.
Chromebook Reminders
Students were given a Chromebook on Thursday, August 22. Please remember, the Chromebook is the responsibility of each student. Any costs associated with repair or replacement will be charged to the student. You can review Chromebook Expectations and Repair/Replacement Costs on our school website.