Your Poudre School District newsletter

Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022

SRO greets kids walking to school, visits classrooms, talks with staff, walks around the school.

Photo caption: School Resource Officer Shaklee walks next to a student outside Blevins Middle School.

Meet Blevins School Resource Officer Jaclyn Shaklee

Building relationships with students and staff is all in a day's work for Fort Collins Police Services School Resource Officer Jaclyn Shaklee. On any given school day, you can find Officer Shaklee at Bauder, Bennett, Blevins, Dunn or Polaris. Follow this link to see a video about one of our amazing PSD school resource officers. >>

Elementary students huddle in a room putting items on tall metal shelves.

Students sitting next to a table of cake ingredients.

Nine Rocky Mountain High School staff in matching shirts pose with bags of donated items.

Season of Giving

The holiday season is a time to be grateful for what we have, share with neighbors in need, and reflect on what is truly important. Many PSD schools do this work - in recent weeks and throughout the year - through initiatives and events geared toward giving.

Learn more about generosity in PSD in this article. >>

Students in an art room make pots on pottery wheels.

Photo Captions: Bamford Elementary School students prepare for the opening of an on-site pantry for those in need (above left), Boltz Middle School students prepare birthday bags (above center), Rocky Mountain High School staff with Adopt a Family donations (above right), students make bowls at Fossil Ridge High School to donate to Empty Bowls (below right).

Enrollment now open

The time to enroll your student for the 2023-24 school year is now. Enrolling now helps schools plan for next school year and takes one more thing off your to-do list.

Learn more about registration on the PSD website. >>

Children raise their hands in class. One girl is standing up.

Photo caption: Children raise their hands in class.

Girl steps off fire truck while firefighter holds the door open. Line of students watch.

Photo caption: Johnson Elementary School third-grader Stella Hope steps off the Poudre Fire Authority fire engine.

Boy sitting in a car seat on a fire truck with big headphones on.

Photo caption: Declan McNulty, a first-grader at Werner, enjoys his ride to school on a Poudre Fire Authority fire engine.

Contest winners ride fire engines

Winners of a Fire Prevention Week Poster Contest got to ride to school in style this week in a PFA fire engine! Out of 142 submissions, PFA personnel narrowed the field to 15 finalists and voted to pick winners in grades 1-5. Winners are Declan McNulty (Werner), Valeria Fierro Soto (Irish), Stella Hope (Johnson), Moira Connors (Linton) and Alicia Brown (Irish).

Today is the deadline to submit first-round school choice applications

Parents and guardians who plan to apply for school choice for 2023-24 but have not yet done so have until 11:59 tonight to submit an application. Here are some important reminders:

If a student is currently on a school’s waitlist and did not receive a seat offer for the 2022-23 school year, a new application must be submitted for the 2023-24 school year to be considered for that school. The new application platform, ScribChoice, doesn't allow applications to be renewed in order to keep current waitlist placement.
Students who intend to remain at their current school choice school for the following year do not need to reapply.
Families will receive an email in January letting them know if their child has been accepted for school choice or placed on a waitlist.

Learn about school choice on the PSD website. >>