Please click the link to view the family newsletter for April 29-May 3: https://www.smore.com/n/m1exz
Please click here to see the Family Newsletter for April 22-26: https://www.smore.com/n/cqjtp
K-2 MAP testing begins Monday, April 22.
Please see testing schedule:
It is now time to register your student for ASC for the 2024-2025 school year.
To fully register, you need to complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOQDykJZ7okyD2MSSE1Gp_Mt4XZMod4h0JOc_YU8UeR2MGTQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
AND go on MySchoolBucks and pay the registration fee. The registration fee is per family and not per student.
If you paid the registration fee last year and did not receive a space, you do not have to pay it again.
Please remember that there are limited spaces and your form will be timestamped to mark your space pending payment.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Carla Pitts at carlapitts@pickens.k12.sc.us. She is the director of the program and can help you with registration.
Here is the newsletter from PTO:
Monday, April 8, is a normal school day for our district.
We recognize the importance of keeping our students safe during the solar eclipse as it coincides with our dismissal time. It is supposed to begin around 2:00 pm and end around 4:30 pm.
SDPC has purchased solar viewing glasses for all students and employees. We will hand these out on Monday before students go outside.
Since we are in an area where there will be only partial coverage of the sun, eclipse glasses will be necessary only when looking directly at the sun. Please emphasize to your child the importance of NOT looking directly at the sun without these glasses.
To provide options for our families, here are the attendance/dismissal options for Monday, April 8, 2024:
• Optional Early Dismissal - Pick Up by 1:00 p.m.: If you would like to pick up your child early on this day, please ensure that you sign your child out of school by 1:00 p.m.
• Principal Approved/Excused Absence: If you choose early dismissal or to keep your student home, your student will be counted as absent, but it will be marked as an excused absence.
• Regular Dismissal: We will operate a normal dismissal for students who did not choose the other options. We will dismiss bus students and car riders remaining at school as usual.
*Students who attend ASC will stay inside until 4:00 pm.
If you have any questions, please call the school office on Monday, April 8, at 397-2400.
Parents are welcome to pop by and make sure that all coats, hats, and jackets find their correct owner.
Finding Nemo is coming on Thursday!!! We can't wait! Hope to see you there!
Please click the link to view the Family Newsletter: https://www.smore.com/n/jfdqt
Hope you are your family have a wonderful Spring Break!
We hope you can join us for a Nature Trail clean up!
Here is the family newsletter for the week of March 18: https://www.smore.com/n/082gk
Spring Break begins March 29. Students return April 8.
Please click here to see the family newsletter: https://www.smore.com/n/n8qjc
Don't forget that Spring Pictures are on Tuesday, March 12!
Are you interested in learning more about the new 360 Academy of Career and Innovation for middle school students? Please visit: https://www.pickens.k12.sc.us/page/360-academy
This is a great hybrid model of virtual learning and face-to-face learning for middle school students in Pickens County. Learn more today!
We had a special guest reader in Mrs Dockins room this morning. Mrs Kathleen Swinney came as a guest of one of Mrs Dockins' students to share some books. We are so glad she could come!
Our school production of "Finding Nemo" is coming soon! It will be March 28 at 6:00 pm. This musical will feature our fifth-grade students and our Sound Offs! We hope you can join us!
The Daniel Region Art Show will be on Tuesday night from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm at Daniel High School. Several of our SME students will be featured. The Awards program will be at 6:00 pm.
Spring pictures will be on Tuesday, March 12. I am attaching the background so that you dress your student for the picture.
