School News

Happy New Year to all!  I hope the holiday break gave you time to spend with your family and friends celebrating and relaxing.  2016 is off to a good start at Marshall Lane.  Teachers and staff members have returned to work reenergized and enthusiastic about the next six months of school.

 The rains have started and with it has come the challenges of dealing with the wet weather.  This has increased the need for a higher level of assistance to ensure the safety and well being of our students.  Here’s what you can do to help. Read the bright yellow flyer that was sent home in your Thursday envelope last week to review the rules in the parking lot.  Please follow these rules to make sure our parking lot is a safe area. If you are available from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. on any day(s) during the week, we can always use help opening car doors and greeting students in the parking lots before school.

Over the past week, we have also had several rainy day lunches.  On these days, students eat in the cafeteria and then return to their classrooms to play. Times are between 11:30 and 1:00.   We can always use parent help during these times.  Stop by the office and let us know if you are available to assist during morning drop off or at lunchtime.  It is an opportunity to connect with students and really help out.  Children always enjoy having their parents on campus.

 Please read the information below regarding parent information sessions about Common Core math that will be coming to our school.  Hope to see you there!

 Regards,

Priscilla Spencer

The Saratoga City Council wants to hear from Saratoga residents, including students and parents, about their views on the Village, commonly referred to as downtown Saratoga.  The City has set up a special website at www.saratogavillageplan.org where the community can access a variety of information about the land use policies currently governing the development in the Village, access to links on the Village and its activities, and beginning January 19th,accessing a portal to an on-line survey that residents can engage to provide their feed back to the City.

The Saratoga Village Specific Plan was adopted in 1988 and establishes the development and land use policy for the Village.  The Plan has not been updated since its original adoption and the City Council is embarking on an update process.

Before initiating the review and update process, the City Council wants to engage a broad spectrum of Saratoga residents on their views of the Village to provide the City Council a base from which to begin reviewing and updating the Village Plan. For more information on the community outreach process, you can call the Community Development Department at 868-1222 or email kheinrichs [at] saratoga.ca.us.

Each year, a young writer's contest is sponsored by The Wooden Horse children's toy store in Los Gatos to find some local talent.  This year, students from Mrs. Sherry Moncrief’s second grade class entered the contest by writing spooky Halloween stories.

 We are very proud to announce that the first place winning authors that were chosen out of all of the second grade students who entered the contestare our own Elias Boger and Aditya Swaminathan for a spooky story entitled "The Grim Reaper" that they co-authored.  Both boys were honored with$25 gift certificates for The Wooden Horse.

 Three other students who entered the contest and were honored with participation awards and $3.00 gift certificates are Zeena Makhamreh, Jake Oderio, and Kai Sniffen.

 Congratulations to all of our talented second grade authors and to Mrs. Moncrief!  We are very proud of all of them!

The public is invited to have a say as Campbell Union School District updates its district-wide Local Control & Accountability Plan (LCAP). The LCAP is the District’s plan for using funds and being accountable for providing quality education to its more than 7,600 students in preschool through 8th grade.

District LCAP Community meetings:

• Tue., Jan. 12, at 9:00 a.m. and at 6:30 p.m.
• Tue., Jan. 19, at 6:30 p.m.

All meetings will take place in the PLC Building at Monroe Middle School, 1055 S. Monroe St., San Jose.

More school-based meetings will take place in February and March to gather input specific to individual schools.

For more information, contact the District’s Administration Office.

Phone: 408-341-7254         Email: ask_us [at] campbellusd.org