Covington School
205 Covington Road Los Altos, CA 94024
(650) 947-1100  (650) 941-8175 (fax)
Erin S. Green, Principal

August 13, 2014

Dear Covington Parents and Guardians:

On behalf of our fantastic Covington staff, welcome back to the 2014-15 school year! I look forward to seeing and welcoming our students and families, and continuing Covington’s traditions and commitment to providing an excellent, engaging education for all children.  LASD is revolutionizing learning by empowering teachers to challenge students to actively discover curriculum.   We ignite a passion for learning as we prepare our children to become creative problem-solvers and collaborative learners.   Last school year culminated with Covington being honored with a California Distinguished School Award.  We are excited to keep that momentum going as we look forward to another amazing year.   We cannot wait to see you all on the first day of school, Wednesday, August 20^th!

During this summer, the Covington campus has been anything but quiet.  We...

• Hosted a camp for students
• Replaced carpet in several rooms
• Removed mounted tv’s and vcr’s from every classroom
• Set up our extended day kindergarten classrooms
• Painted one wall in each classroom Los Altos “Ilearn blue”
• Painted the Multipurpose Room (it looks absolutely beautiful!)
• Added three new portable buildings at the back of campus for our 6th grades

PTA Social, Class Lists, 1^st Day of School

In order to convey some important information, we are sending this letter to provide you with dates and events for the beginning of school.  As mentioned above, the first day of school is August 20th.  Class lists will be posted on campus on Monday, August 18th at 5 pm.  Our PTA Back-to-School Family Social will also take place on that day from 5-7pm on our blacktop and grass areas.  The past few years this event received wonderful reviews, so we are continuing with the “Third Annual”.  You will not be receiving a hard copy mailer this year.   Please join our PTA for dinner and socializing. We will have food trucks with food available for purchase or you can pack your own dinner.  Bring your blankets, chairs and family to meet up with our Covington friends.

School Hours

Our school hours are 8:30 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. for grades 1-2 and 8:30 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. for grades 3-6. Our Kindergarten hours are 8:30a.m. to 12:00pm until September 22nd when the schedule moves to an extended day and will run from 8:30-2:15pm. Our school office hours will be 7:30am-4:00pm.

Emergency Information

As you have been informed via email, student emergency information is collected through Info Snap online. Thank you to all of you who have already logged in and completed your updates. Our school goal is to have all emergency information updated prior to the start of the year; we greatly appreciate all you are doing to help!  We will also continue with our “Going Green” initiative and continue to conserve paper by communicating through email and our website.  Please visit our school website at www.covingtonschool.org.

Back To School Night

You will have the opportunity to learn more about your child’s school year and new teacher at our annual Back to School Night, which is scheduled for Tuesday, August 26th.  Please note that Friday, August 29th will be a Minimum Day for students in grades K-6.  On this minimum day, kindergarten students will be dismissed at 12:00 and 1-6^th grade students will be dismissed at 12:15 p.m.

Yard Supervisors Needed Monday-Friday 12:00-12:40pm every day:  If you are able to help one day a week or all five days each week, we need you!  We have openings for parents, grandparents, or college students.  If you are interested (this is a paid position) yourself or know of someone else who may be interested, please give me a call at 650.947.1100.  This is a fun and great opportunity to get to know our awesome students and see some of the great things that go on at school during the year!

Our PTA president, Jessica Speiser, and the entire PTA board and committee chairs are excited about the activities planned for the coming school year.  They play an important role in your child’s education.  Please mark your calendars for the first few functions; all are welcome:

• Wednesday, August 20th, 8:30-9:30a.m             Coffee Bar Social  (In front of Multi)
• Come and talk with old friends, other parents and have a latte (Courtesy of our PTA

• Friday, August 22nd 8:30-9:30 am                      Parent Coffee and Volunteer Sign-ups
• Join us for coffee and find out how you can be involved in your child’s classroom & sign up for PTA jobs

• Friday, August 22^nd 2:40-3:15                             Back-to-School Stay & Play / 6th Grade Ice Cream Social Fundraiser

Finally, I have some exciting news to share on the personal front!  My husband and I are expecting a baby in November.  We are thrilled to be able to announce our future addition.  I plan to work as long as I can, which should be around our due date in early November.   When a substitute principal has been decided upon, I will let you know.  Until that time, my priorities continue to be the education of your children and supporting our wonderful educational community.  I am looking forward to an amazing school year.

Thank you for your on-going support and participation! I look forward to a fantastic 2014-2015 school year!

Sincerely,

Erin S. Green
Principal