We Are Back Baby!

It's hard to keep a good dog down and this group of kids at Washington is a heck of a group! We may have gotten a good 1-2 punch from the sickness bug, but this week we had 95% attendance!

This week of health came just as we got to experience our first "fake spring" of the year too, which is always fun!

A few things to be mindful of for this month:

Early Dismissals: February 5 and February 26
No School: February 17
Trimester 2 Ends: February 28

Instructionally this is the absolute homestretch for staff and students! These next two months are crucial towards putting forth their best achievement scores in the IAR testing that happens in late March and early April. Please continue to support your student by encouraging them to do their best and ask for help once they have tried to solve problems first!

Matilda Jr.

Heart Health Awareness

National Wear Red Day is celebrated each year on the first Friday in February, to bring greater attention to heart disease as a leading cause of death for Americans.

This is a reminder to all of us the importance of healthy living through exercise and healthy food choices. Heart disease does not discriminate – it is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. You can make healthy changes to lower your risk of developing heart disease.
Risk factors for heart disease include: • Smoking • High blood pressure • High cholesterol • Overweight/obesity • Physical inactivity • Diabetes • Family history of early coronary heart disease • Age (for women, 55 and older)

Heart disease is largely preventable. Here’s what you can do now to reduce your risk:

• Don’t smoke • Eat for heart health • Aim for 30 minutes of physical activity at least 5 days a week • Ask your doctor to check your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose

Attendance

For the year, Washington School has a collective attendance percentage of 94%. This means that our students average about 4 absences for the year. If your child is missing more than four days of school to this point in the year, they are at-risk for falling behind their peers. When students miss school, they miss instruction, they miss feedback, they miss opportunities to collaborate and work on activities. When students experience those losses it can potentially build into anxiety. Anxiety about the work piling up, social shifts. Additionally, students who are chronically absent are at higher risk of falling behind, scoring lower on standardized tests and even dropping out.

For the month of January, Washington School has a collective attendance percentage of 89.4%.

We want your kids at school everyday!

5 Essentials

February 18 will open the 5Essentials survey. The State of Illinois provides an anonymous survey for parents to provide feedback on the service quality of our schools.

The completion of the survey provides us with your collective voice to better develop & serve you! Please take the time to complete this survey.

Here is this year’s link for parents to provide feedback.

We will be texting the link out as well.

5ESSENTIALS SURVEY ADMINISTRATION FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2024-2025 WILL RUN FROM FEBRUARY 18, 2025 TO MARCH 31, 2025.

SOS Science Night

S.O.S. will be sponsoring a night time program from Storm Science starting at 5:30 at Lincoln on Tuesday, February 4. The night time event is open to all families in the district!
Click on the link for more details

Notice: Admission for Homeless Children

Under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, any homeless child shall be immediately admitted, even if the child’s parent/guardian is unable to produce records normally required for enrollment. A homeless child may attend the District school that the child attended when permanently housed or in which the child was last enrolled. A home child living in any District school’s attendance area may attend that school. The child shall have access to the same free, appropriate public education as provided to other children, including a public preschool education. Please contact Kelly Legrenzi, homeless liaison for the Oglesby Public School District for additional information about homeless issues.

Nurse's Notes

Nurse's Notes

Just a note from your school nurse to remind you that during cold and flu season the spread of most infections can be reduced by good hand washing. After coughing, sneezing, and before eating, please remind your children to wash their hands well. If your child experiences a sore throat with a fever or a sore throat that is not going away, he or she should be checked by their medical doctor to determine if they may have strep throat. If a diagnosis of strep is made, your child needs to be home on an antibiotic for 24 hours before returning to school and fever free. Thank you for helping in keeping the spread of infection to a minimum.

If your student has borrowed clothing at Lincoln, please be sure to launder it and return it to the school nurse.

School Physical Information

If you have a kindergarten student and have not turned in an eye exam or dental exam this year, please do so as soon as possible.

If you have a 2nd grade student and have not turned in a dental exam this year, please do so as soon as possible.

School Nurses Page

P.B.I.S Spotlight Students

6th Grade: Scarlett McDonald
7th Grade: Aubrie Emmerling
8th Grade: Siena Combs

Congratulations to our students of the month! These individuals were selected by the staff for their exceptional attitudes and behaviors within the school! They were treated to a special lunch to show our appreciation for their efforts.

Upcoming Dates

February 28 - End of Trimester

Lunch Menu/Calendar

February Lunch Menu

February Activity Calendar

As a reminder school breakfast and lunch are free for all students.

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