September 2-5, 2014
In This Issue...

Please remember that today is the last day to purchase lunches for your Montessori, elementary, and middle school student(s) via orderlunches.com for this month. If you do not order lunches now for your child, you will miss out on the September deadline and the next time you will be able to order lunches for your children will be for October. Please click here for instructions on how to purchase lunches for your child(ren). 
Walking to the School

Please make sure if you are ever walking your children to the school at arrivals time or walking them away at dismissal time, to walk on the sidewalks for your safety and efficiency of our arrival/dismissal procedures. 

Parent Contact Directory
 
The parent contact directory is now available via the Orbund repository. There you will find the contact information for your child(ren)'s classmates. 
The school day begins at 8:10am, however students may arrive as early as 7:55. Starting this week, elementary and middle school students will be marked tardy if they are not in class by 8:10am.

The school day ends at 3:10 for Montessori, elementary, and middle school students. ECC student dismissal time is 3:00 in order to facilitate the dismissal process for the whole school. All students must be picked up no later than 3:25. A $15 late fee will be applied for each student being picked up after 3:25.
Parent-Student Handbook

The parent-student handbook for the 2014-2015 academic year is ready and published on our website. You can access it by clicking here. It will also be available in the bottom right Resources section of these weekly newsletters throughout the year.

All families must abide by the school policies therein so we encourage you all to review the handbook completely. 

Omair Sana Scholarship for Academic Excellence

Alhamdullilah, we are able to offer a scholarship for our middle school students this year. Please read the full details of the scholarship and how to achieve it beginning from page 23 of the parent-student handbook linked below in the Resources section.
The teacher contact directory is available on the Orbund repository and also in each of these weekly newsletters in the bottom Resources section. This directory includes all email addresses of your child(ren)'s teachers for your information.


Academic Calendar

A printed version of the academic year calendar is available in the school. Feel free to pick up a copy. You can also view this file by clicking on the link at the bottom of these weekly newsletters in the Resources section.
PTA Teacher Meet and Greet

The PTA will be hosting a teacher meet and greet event on Friday, September 12 at 8:30am. All parents are welcome to attend to meet with their child(ren)'s teachers and enjoy breakfast with fellow school parents.
All families will be given 2 carpool tags to hang by their rear view mirrors for when they come to pick up their children so we can verify that the car belongs to an ILM Academy parent.

In addition to this tag, we will always verify if the person picking up your child is authorized to do so according to the pick up authorization list you filled out on the TADS enrollment forms. If you have any permanent changes to your pick up authorization list, please let us know ASAP. Any one time or other temporary pick ups need to be communicated to us via email for those days.

If you need more car tags for additional cars or authorized pick up personnel who pick up your childr(en) regularly, email us to request more.


Upcoming Early Dismissal

There will be early dismissal for all students (this includes ECC) on Wednesday, September 10 at 2pm. There will be a few other early dismissal days throughout this academic year and will be for the purpose of allowing the school to have staff wide meetings to cover necessary topics for the productive running of the school on a day to day basis.
How Was Your TADS Experience?

Please complete this short survey on your experience with the TADS enrollment process to help us determine how to improve the system for the future. Click here to start now. It only takes a few minutes!

PTA Corner
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Please continue scanning your grocery receipts into the free Shoparoo app (downloadable to Androids and iPhones). Each receipt scanned helps our school earn points which are rewarded to us in the form of cash to help fund our school!

Got questions for PTA? Email them at [email protected] and join our Facebook group!

Across the Community

No upcoming events.




ECC Parent-Student Handbook (coming soon!)

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September 2014
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311 - Labor Day (Student Holiday)

Deadline to order PTA lunches
23 - PTA lunches start 456
7810 - Early Dismissal @ 2pm1112 - Teacher Meet and Greet @ 8:3013



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