Welcome Back Pioneers! Here is a message from our Principal:

Dear Pioneer families,

I am thrilled to welcome you to the 2023-2024 school year. This is my seventh year as the principal of Chadbourne Elementary School and my 20th year working for FUSD. The past few years have been challenging for all of us. I am so grateful for the flexibility, caring, and patience of our parents and staff, who worked together to creatively support our students. Despite the challenges we faced, we saw a lot of academic growth at Chadbourne last year and I could not be prouder.  

Strong family engagement has always been a critical part of student success at Chadbourne Elementary School. Parents are a child’s first teachers and important role models. Every parent can help their child to be prepared and responsible in school, regardless of their educational background and the language they speak. Opportunities to connect include email, phone calls and attending school events as much as possible. Please be sure to read anything sent to you.  You can click to translate this into nearly any language. This will always contain the most up-to-date information about upcoming events and important reminders. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me or your child’s teacher at any time with questions, concerns, and suggestions. It is also important to stay informed about what your child is learning. Your child’s teacher will keep you updated, but you can reach out to share if you notice your child struggling with the content or to discuss strategies for practicing at home. Another important way in which you can support your children is through encouraging good attendance. Students should be at school on time every day and avoid missing school as much as possible. We encourage vacations to be taken during breaks from school.  I will continue contacting families, as needed, to help support them with improving  their students’ attendance.

This year, we will resume our school-wide focus on social emotional learning and behavioral expectations. We will continue teaching weekly lessons from the Second Step social emotional curriculum. We will involve our entire staff with supporting these lessons this year to ensure that all of our staff is familiar with the vocabulary and strategies we are using to support our students. 

I am excited to see the academic, social, and intrapersonal progress our students make during the 23-24 school year. Thank you for your very important part in Chadbourne’s learning community. I’m looking forward to another wonderful school year!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Kimberley Pedrotti

Principal

kpedrotti@fusdk12.net

Parent Behavior

Please be an example to our students. Lets make the next generation the best they can be. Please make sure when you are visiting to mind all laws and be courteous to all staff members and neighbors.  Please also show students how to safely use sidewalks and crosswalks, walking bikes on sidewalks and on campus, avoiding walking through all staff parking areas. Also exhibit courtesy when parking,  avoiding blocking any crosswalks, neighbor driveways and garbage cans. Please be kind and courteous to all. Also please be patient while picking up and dropping off students.

What's Happening at Chadbourne:

Important Dates:

• 8/16 First day of School

• 8/23 Principal Coffee Talk 8:30 am 

• 8/29 Back to School Night for 1-5 grade

• 9/20 Picture Day

Volunteer Sign up / Civicore Information

If you have any questions please see below first then email Miss Liz Alexander at ealexander@fusdk12.net regarding your question. 

Here is the link to complete CIVICORE. To volunteer in the classroom you will have to apply through CIVICORE at least 2 days before coming on campus for processing. On the CIVICORE site, to volunteer in the class, select "On Campus with Supervision" and provide scan of driver's license or legal ID. For Driver / Chaperones for field trips, at least 7 days before the date of the field trip, you will be applying for "Driver Chaperone and provide current valid driver's license and automobile insurance Declarations Page showing coverage amounts and expiration dates (not insurance card, as it does not contain all required information) with your submission.  If your insurance expiration ends before the date of the field trip, you will need to talk to your insurance provider in order to obtain an updated Declarations page in time.

What's Happening at the District:

Important Updates:

Superintendents Newsletter 

Office Business and Visitor Policy:

Chadbourne is a secure closed campus. Parents may park on the city street, avoiding all staff parking lots, with the exception of the proper use of the Disabled parking space for those clearly displaying a Disabled Placard, and available on a first come first served basis. Parent then bid good day to their students at the flagpole area, then students walk themselves to the playground. Grades 4-6 and drop them close to the flagpole area. Parents may not go on campus without an appointment. From the flagpole area, students may walk themselves to the playground until their class lineup time. Anyone coming on campus must check into the main office before going on campus. If pre-authorized, parents sign into the office, get a Volunteer badge, and stay with the classroom teacher until they sign back out. All visitors / volunteers must be cleared through FUSD Civicore and be pre-approved by the teacher and principal before entering campus.

. When possible our office staff prefers to support parents and families via email or phone. Please be sure your children have all of their belongings (jacket, backpack, lunch, water bottle, etc.) upon school arrival.   If you are needing to drop something on emergency basis for your students, you may bring it to the school office. A notice will be placed in the teachers mailbox. For birthdays, please make sure you have the teachers pre-approval prior to dropping anything off to the office, as we cannot disturb class time unnecessarily.

Chadbourne Bell Schedule

Here you will find the Bell Schedule 2023/2024 Bell Schedule 

All Wednesdays are minimum days: 1st - 3rd 8:30 - 1:15 and 4th - 5th 8:15 - 1:15

Special Minimum days follow: 

Grades 1 - 5:  1:15: 11/14, 11/16, 11/17, 5/30, 5/31

Kindergarten:  11:50:  8/17 - 9/8, 11/14, 11/16 and 11/17, 5/30, 5/31

Attendance

If you plan to take time off school during the year, please come by our school office to see how the absence could impact your student and their enrollment. To find out vacation days provided during the school year, the FUSD Instructional Calendar is available on the FUSD site. In order to accurately record your students' attendance, law obligates parents to report the reason for all absences daily to the Chadbourne Attendance Office. The Chadbourne Attendance Voicemail is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week by dialing 510.656.5242 and quickly pressing option #7 to leave a voicemail before 10:00 am. This is the preferred centralized method of reporting all attendance information, as emails could be missed or go to our JUNK/SPAM folder and we want to make sure we do not miss your information. Positive COVID results should all be reported to the school for tracking purposes.

Please keep your student home and call to report their absence if you suspect or know they have a positive COVID result or any contagious conditions such as: possible pink eye, unknown skin rash, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive runny nose, sore throat, persistent cough, lice. Students should stay home until symptoms are resolved and they are able to go without medication at least 24 hours before returning to school. If absences are 3 days or more, a doctor’s note is requested on the 3rd day, so if symptoms persist, we recommend discussing with your medical provider.

If your student is sent home or reported with a positive COVID result, fever, vomiting, or diarrhea, those symptoms must be resolved without medication at least a full 24 hours without medication before returning to school.If symptoms persist when they return, they could be sent back home for more recovery time

Whether or not absences are considered excused is determined by FUSD policy. When you know you will be taking time off ahead of time, as an alternative to calling the Attendance Voicemail, you can come by the office to complete an "Advance Absence Notification Form" to report the absences to the school office. Teachers are not responsible for reporting absences to the Attendance Office for parents. 

If we do not hear from you by 3:30 the same day as the absence, then we will not know whether or not the student is ill. They will not be able to return to class / back on campus until we receive that information. To check your student back into school a parent should come with the student to the school office to get their clearance when they are ready to come back on campus. If you forget to report either of those methods mentioned above, you will receive the automated attendance call. This is your reminder to report to the Attendance Line voicemail. Attendance voicemail messages are picked up regularly throughout the day between 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. 

Attendance is reconciled by the end of every school day. If you do not call to report your students attendance information before 3:30 the same school day, then the attendance will be marked as "Unexcused - Called /  left messages / email, no reply with reason", counting as a Truancy, so reporting full information properly is key for Attendance accuracy. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: When we do not have the reason for the absence by the end of the school day the date of the absence, the teacher will receive a notification letting them know the student should be cleared by the office before returning to their class. If this happens, then the student should be brought to the school office by parents to obtain the reason for the absence in order to be cleared to return to class. 

If you have reported to the Attendance Voicemail, but still receive the automated call or Chadbourne Attendance emails, then it is possible that:

* -  Reports of "allergies", "cold" or "not feeling well" were missing specific symptoms. Stomach issues please clarify whether nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, vomiting, gas, etc. "Tired" is the same as "Fatigue". Students must be feeling better 24 hours without any medication and symptoms must be resolved before returning to school. 

* - The voicemail message left had reason for absence missing,

* -  "family emergency" or "personal reason" unspecified / not clarified (only certain specific reasons qualify for Personal Excused absence), 

* - for an appointment, type of appointment was not mentioned (for medical / dental appointments, please see Medical Excuse / Visit Verification below),

* - message could not be heard (broken signal / static) on call. 

If your students’ absence is Unexcused according to FUSD Attendance Policy, you will automatically receive the automated calls and automatically generated Truancy letters.    

MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS: If your child is absent or tardy due to a medical / dental reason or went to a doctor / dentist appointment, you can bring the printout of your student's Absence Excuse / Visit Verification letter to be documented. Please make sure any doctor / dental excuse note includes the Medical Provider's name, student's full name and clear full dates of care, with specified end and/or re-evaluation date. Reminder: We can not accept documentation with open ended dates, appointment reminders or the treatment paperwork.

Thank you in advance for your assistance. 

Breakfast, Lunch, and Water Bottles

School lunch and breakfast are currently free to all. Lunch / breakfast menus are available on the FUSD website under Resources / Child Nutrition. Most days offer both vegetarian and meat options, with days showing only one option being a vegetarian option. Breakfast will be available for students on school days from 7:45-8:20 AM in the multi-use room. Students must arrive at school early enough to finish their breakfast and still make it to class on time. If they are late due to breakfast, the tardy will be Unexcused. Lunches are ordered in the morning when attendance is taken. Hopefully, students remember their lunches and water bottles daily. Please remember that, for safety, NO GLASS CONTAINERS may be brought to school. Please let your student know that if they notice that they have forgotten their lunch, they are suggested to order school lunch in class to make sure there are enough lunches for all. All classes will eat their lunches in the outdoor eating area except on rainy days.  Students should bring a pre-filled labeled water bottle to school daily. Students may refill water bottles at our refilling station as needed.

If in an emergency a parent must bring lunch for their student, then parents may leave the lunch / water bottle on the lunch carts outside the multi-purpose room with the students full name and room number before 11:30 AM for the student to pick up at lunch time. Parents may not wait outside the lunch room to talk to the student, just drop of the lunch / water bottle on the cart and go. 

Thank you in advance for your cooperation!