School Year 2024 - 2025

THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION FOR OUR FAMILIES

NOVEMBER 18TH, 2024

Hosting a Thanksgiving feast at school for families is a wonderful way to celebrate community, promote family engagement, and teach students about gratitude. Here’s a solid justification for organizing the event:

Community Building: A school Thanksgiving feast fosters a sense of unity among students, teachers, families, and staff, strengthening bonds within the school community. Gathering together creates lasting memories and builds a culture of mutual support and connection.

Cultural and Historical Education: Thanksgiving is an opportunity to teach students about gratitude, historical context, and cultural traditions. The feast allows students to learn and reflect on these values through shared experiences with family members, enriching their understanding in an engaging, hands-on way.

Family Engagement: By inviting families, the event actively involves parents and caregivers in the school environment. Research shows that family engagement can significantly impact student success, and shared events like this offer a warm, welcoming space for families to connect with teachers and staff.

Character Development: The Thanksgiving season encourages values like kindness, gratitude, and empathy. Hosting a feast models these values in action, as students witness the joy of sharing and giving thanks, helping them internalize these important traits.

Inclusive Celebration: This feast can be an inclusive celebration of gratitude that embraces all families and cultures, allowing families to share their unique traditions and dishes. It provides an opportunity to embrace diversity and recognize the variety of ways gratitude and togetherness are celebrated across cultures.

RED RIBBON ASSEMBLY 

Our Mental health counselors led the way and also were able to invite our community officers to talk about the importance of DRUG SAFETY! 

October 23rd & October 24th

National School Lunch Week!!

We were joined by our community partner Ms. Rajni Director at Brighter Bites! And we raffled off tickets to win a chance to eat and sit with Mr. G!!! The students had a blast learning about healthy eating! 

October 17th, 2024

GINA LIVE SCAN 

October 10th, 2024

Requiring fingerprints for families within a school community can be justified based on several key factors that focus on safety, accountability, and community trust:

1. Enhanced Security: Fingerprinting provides a reliable method of verifying identities and helps prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining access to school premises. This can significantly reduce risks associated with potential threats, ensuring that only trusted individuals are allowed near students.

2. Background Checks: Fingerprints can be used in background checks to identify any criminal records or concerns about individuals regularly interacting with children. This is particularly important for maintaining a safe environment, as it ensures that all individuals around students, including family members, have been vetted.

3. Accountability and Transparency: When families are fingerprinted, it creates a transparent system of accountability, ensuring that the school community knows who is present in the school and who has access to sensitive areas. This helps in tracking and managing visitors more effectively.

4. Legal and Regulatory Compliance: In some regions, fingerprinting may be required by law or as part of the school district’s policy for ensuring student safety. Implementing such measures can help schools comply with state or local regulations.

5. Community Trust: Introducing fingerprinting fosters a sense of safety and trust within the school community. Parents are more likely to feel confident that their children are safe when the school takes comprehensive steps to secure the campus from external threats.

While these reasons support the use of fingerprinting, it is also important to balance them with concerns over privacy and the potential need for clear communication with families about how the data is used and stored.

BIKE WALK & ROLL TO SCHOOL DAY!!!!

October 9th, 2024

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Why Walk, Bike or Roll?

It’s fun! Remember the thrill of riding a bike for the first time or walking or rolling to school on the first day? There’s a feeling of joy and independence—a sense of adventure—that doesn’t fade. Of course, there are many other benefits to walking, biking or rolling to school, too.

Healthier Habits

Active trips to school enable children to incorporate the regular physical activity they need each day while also forming healthy habits that can last a lifetime. Regular physical activity helps children build strong bones, muscles and joints, and it decreases the risk of obesity. In contrast, insufficient physical activity can contribute to chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke.

Community Benefits

Providence, RIThe whole community benefits from efforts to enable and encourage more children to walk, bike or roll to school safely. Benefits include:

• Less traffic congestion. According to the 2011 National Center for Safe Routes to School report, personal vehicles taking students to school accounted for 10 to 14 percent of all personal vehicle trips made during the morning peak commute times (based on National Household Travel Survey Data, 2009). Reducing the number of private vehicles commuting to school can reduce morning traffic around the school. Less traffic congestion also improves conditions for pedestrians and bicyclists, creating a positive cycle—as the community sees more people walking and rolling, more people feel comfortable walking and rolling.

• Stronger sense of community. The common goal of improving conditions for walking and bicycling brings families, neighbors, school officials and community leaders together. The sense of community also builds as children and parents develop walking and rolling buddies and chat with neighbors on the sidewalk or path.

• Safer streets. Communities with higher rates of walking and rolling tend to have lower crash rates for all travel modes. One reason may be that motorists drive more cautiously when they expect to encounter walkers and rollers. More walkers and rollers can also improve personal security by providing more “eyes on the street.”

• Lower costs. Encouraging and enabling active trips reduces costs for the family, community and school district. Families save on gas, communities spend less on building and maintaining roads and school districts spend less on busing. In fact, one school district calculated $237,000 in annual savings.

• Improved accessibility. Enabling students of all abilities to walk and roll to school makes it easier for everyone in the community to get around, including parents with strollers, senior citizens, residents without cars and residents with temporary or permanent mobility impairments.

• Economic gains. Sidewalks, paths and other investments in pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure can increase home values and direct additional traffic to local businesses.

SEWA DAY of SERVICE 

August 1st, 2024

School Year 2023 - 2024

We provide 1:1 assistance on filling out and make resource referrals during appointment. We Help With: Montgomery Maternity, Partnership, Montgomery Care for Kids Prince George's Kaiser Care for Kids Montgomery and Prince George's Emergency Medicaid for Labor & Delivery.

Brindamos asistencia 1: 1 para completar solicitudes y hacer referencias de recursos durante la cita. Nosotros ayudamos con: Montgomery Maternity Partnership Montgomery Care for Kids Prince George's Kaiser Care for Kids Montgomery y Prince George's Emergency Medicaid para el parto.

Dates:October 17th & October 19th 

Link to register and select date and time: https://forms.gle/v4pZrp8p6XP4VbsT6 

Baltimore Aquarium

April 17th & April 18th 2023

CLES participated in their FIRST FIELD TRIP OF THE NEW YEAR 2023

March 21st, 2023 

A few photos from our Community health fair that was held in collaboration with Bucklodge MS on March 4th, 2023 Saturday!!! It was a great event, so glad everyone was able to join us! 

First Quarter Honor Roll Assembly 

December 8th, 2022

We were so excited to host our first Community Fall Festival in our NEW building in collaboration with Bucklodge MS on November 30th from 5:30- 7:00 pm. We had different resources available to our families! We had representatives from DSS (Department of Social Services), Birch Solutions, CCI (Community Health Clinic), Coaching Salud Holistica, Maryland Insurance Administration, Prince George Child Resource Center, Prince George's Library, Lourie Center Head Start, The Latin American Youth Center / MMYC, PEPCO, Special Ed Family Support, and DC United!!! 

Today on November 17th, 2022 we had Mr.Anderson present to our students to learn about different Native American tribes to celebrate Native American Heritage Month  (Native Buffalo Spirit Shawanwa)

Our students with Ms. Estefany Ramos who joins us from  the Prince George's County Community Conferencing Program and Restorative Response Baltimore. Students were able to share and create a beautiful learning circle. Students will continue to meet bi-weekly to support our social-emotional learning.

October 14th, 2022

Superhero Day!

October 12th, 2022 

Few Photos with Our amazing father figures!!!!

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 

Kicking off the Hispanic Heritage Celebration 

September 16th, 2022 

Our First Coffee with the Assistant Principal was a success!!!

We had many families join us and  enjoyed breakfast goodies with the donation from Wegmans!!!!

We were also joined by our school board member Ms. Pamela Boozer-Strother District 3 BOE Member

We also shared some love with our teachers to thank them for the first week of school!!! 

September 9th, 2022 

9:00am 

SPRING BREAK BLUE & MARCH MADNESS PERFECT ATTENDANCE CELEBRATION APRIL 8TH,2022

ATTENDANCE ICE CREAM SOCIAL APRIL 1ST, 2022

THANK YOU STUDENTS FOR COMING TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY!!!

Join us for our virtual CLES Family STEM & Testing Night! Learn about upcoming standardized tests & test taking tips. Also learn how to create simple STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Math) activities at home. A zoom link will be shared through a private message with families that RSVP on the flyer sent home this week.

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¡Únase a nosotros para nuestra noche virtual de ciencias y pruebas! ¡Aprenda sobre las próximas pruebas estandarizadas y consejos para tomar las pruebas. También aprenderán cómo crear actividades STEM simples en casa. ¡Se compartirá un enlace de zoom en el dojo de clase y con las familias que confirmen su asistencia!

PreK-5 students are invited to our virtual Night of Artificial Intelligence  (AI)  Family Night! The event will take place on Monday, April 4  from 6:00 - 7:00 PM! This event is district approved and is being organized by the Howard B Owens Science Center (HBOSC).

Participants will learn about the Howard B Owens Science Center in PGCPS, listen to a guest speaker from CS is Elementary  and participate in a fun, guided AI activity facilitated by PGCPS teachers!

Registration - https://bit.ly/NightofAI

Estudios Universitarios a su Alcance - A College Education is Within Your Reach

sábado, 2 de abril 2022 - Saturday, April 2, 2022 - 10 am - 1 pm - Evento Virtual - Virtual Event

Acompáñenos virtualmente al evento Estudios Universitarios a su Alcance. Este evento bilingüe va dirigido a los estudiantes de 6.º a 12.º grado y a sus familias, y les ofrece información sobre cómo prepararse para la universidad y cómo pagar la Universidad.  Dos participantes ganarán computadoras portátiles cortesía de State Farm Insurance y Comcast/Telemundo 44.  Join us virtually for Estudios Universitarios a su Alcance - A College Education is Within Your Reach.  This bilingual event targets students in grades 6-12 and their families with information about how to prepare for college and pay for college. Two participants will win laptops courtesy of State Farm Insurance and Comcast/Telemundo 44.

Pajama Day on 3/4

Career Day on 3/3

CELEBRATE THIS WEEK WITH US!!!

FEBRUARY 14TH-18TH

CELEBRATING 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL 

Attendance Incentive Distribution

February 4th, 2022