Newsletter 1 (21-22)

****First 3 days of school, parents may walk and wait with their child outside of their classroom. Parents cannot enter the classroom with their child.

I know how important it is for you to ensure your child gets to school safely. However, this year we must do our best to keep our campus as safe as possible. This means that parents/caregivers will NOT be allowed on campus beyond the red lines we've established at the front of the school. Families who use the back gate will not be able to come on to the blacktop. This will help us with trying to limit the number of people on campus as much as possible. I know this is a change from past practice, but we must do our best to stay flexible as we navigate the return to in person instruction.

If driving and using the parking loops, parents should stay in the car at all times. If walking to school, adults can walk their student to the red lines and say goodbye. If you drop off before 8:10, students will wait in the courtyard area for the morning recess bell to ring.

At dismissal time, parents will NOT be able to congregate as you may be used to in the courtyard, along the library wall, at the picnic tables. Parents/caregivers should establish a pick up routine: establish which parking loop students should wait for you, establish a location on the side walk or at the corner where you will wait for your student after school. Students will be dismissed from their classrooms and directed to go to their established meeting place for pick up.

If you plan to use the parking loops, please be patient. As you know we have two dismissal times. If your child is in 4-6th grade please do not come to the parking loop prior to 2:45 p.m. The 1st-3rd grade students are dismissed at 2:35 each day and will need to have the loop available to their cars. Please pass this information on to any day care provider who may not receive my newsletters.

I thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

AUGUST

11 - Teacher names available in Parent Portal 3:00 p.m.

13 - Back to School Night for PM Kindergarten 5:30 p.m. VIRTUAL

16 - New Student Campus Tour 4:00 p.m.

16 - Back to School Night for AM TK and Kindergarten 5:30 p.m. VIRTUAL

17 - Chalk the Walk 4:00-6:00 p.m.

18 - FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

18, 19, 20 - Early Dismissal 1-3rd 1:33 p.m. and 4-6th 1:21 p.m.

24 - BTSN grades 1-3rd 6:00 p.m. VIRTUAL

25 - Early Wednesday 1:33/1:21 p.m.

31 - BTSN grades 4-6th 6:00 p.m. VIRTUAL

Dear FUSD families,

As a reminder, it is extremely important that if your student is exhibiting the following symptoms please keep your child home and get tested. Symptoms include:

• New loss of taste/smell

• Difficulty breathing

• Vomiting

• Diarrhea

• Fever (100 or higher)

• Cough

• Severe headache

• Sore throat

Also linked here is the ACPH guidance for your reference. If you have any other questions please feel free to contact the school office, and if your child will be absent, please report the absence. If you have tested your child, please wait until you have results before you send your child to school. If they test positive, please keep your child home and follow the attached process. English Mandarin Spanish

The Parkmont Office is happy to help you with any questions or concerns you may have. However, our office is quite small. We will allow only one parent/family in at a time. If you have a general concern or question that you would like assistance with, please consider emailing us or leaving a message on our voicemail, (510) 793-7492.

Secretary: Paulina Sanchez - psanchez@fusdk12.net

Attendance: Debbie Grant - dgrant@fusdk12.net

Office Assistance: Brian Muir - bmuir@fusdk12.net

Principal: Johanna Cho - jcho@fusdk12.net

The Parkmont office is open daily from 8-3:30 p.m., 8-3 p.m. on Fridays.

If you would like to wait for assistance, please stand in line outside of the office and we will assist you as quickly as possible.

We will be using this flowchart attached which has been provided by the Alameda County Office of Education when determining how long students should stay home when illness occurs.

We send communications weekly to keep you up to date.

Reminder Emails are typically sent each Monday. Every other Friday we send our school Newsletter. Check your spam if you are not receiving emails from us. Occasionally, we will send a phone call message to our families. Please listen to the entire message.

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Website: https://parkmont.fremont.k12.ca.us/