4th Grade Writing Honors.  Each year the Los Altos History House sponsors the Margaret Thompson Essay Contest, which is open to all students in grades 3rd through 6th in Los Altos schools (public and private).   We are very pleased to announce that Covington’s 4th graders nearly swept the top places for that grade level!
Congratulations to:
Mariana Leaver (Goines)- 1st place
Alara Martin (Yust) - 2nd place
Logan Crawford (Yust) - 3rd place

Junior Olympics is this Saturday!  The annual Junior Olympics takes place this Saturday at Mountain View High School.  4th-6th grade students from LASD’s 7 elementary schools will give their best in a variety of track and field events.  If you have not attended a Junior Olympics, now is your chance to see a whole-community event that celebrates student athletes giving their personal best.  Thank you to the many volunteer parents who coordinate and coach our Covington Coyotes!  

Reminders about playing after school. Please remember if you stay after dismissal with your students to play on the playground, you must be directly supervising them. That means you must be within proximity and watching them at all times. Students are not allowed to ‘wait on the playground’ until you arrive.  If you decide to stay, you should meet your student at the front of the school, and accompany them to the playground.  

School rules apply after school:
-No skateboards, bicycles or scooters on the blacktop, in the corridors, or in front of the office.
-No sitting on the tetherballs and riding them like a swing.
-No climbing on chain link fences.
-No climbing up slides, the play equipment must be used as it was designed.
-No climbing on the TIPTOP of the play structure.
-No jumping off swings.
-No tackle football.
-No standing or jumping on top of the picnic tables.
-No playing on the stair banisters.
-No climbing on top and jumping off the sheds.
-No climbing up poles.
-No picking the plants and flowers.
-No riding on rolling backpacks down the corridors, down the playground hill or anywhere on campus.
-No throwing items on top of the roof (i.e. toys, shoes, balls, frisbees etc).

Believe it or not, ALL of these behaviors are observed after school when parents are supervising the playground.  If you have a childcare provider picking up your child, please inform them of these rules as well.  

Thanks for all your support! 
-Wade Spenader, Covington Principal