Posted October 20, 2022
Happy Friday Columbine Community,
We hope you all enjoy a wonderful long weekend. As a reminder, students do not have school Monday, October 17th. Reminder, our Columbine Fall Festival is coming up next Saturday, October 22nd from 11-2pm, we hope to see you all there!!
Virtual Health Care @ Columbine!
Columbine is excited to announce that we have partnered with Denver Health Pediatrics to provide virtual care for your student. This program allows our DPS nurse to virtually connect students to Denver Health providers and School-based Health Center (SBHC) services right from their school! This new onsite care means kids can receive medication, as needed, for many health concerns, such as: colds, allergies, headaches, toothaches, cramps, and other ailments and go back to class instead of missing valuable time in school. Parents or guardians can be included in the visit virtually as well and an after visit summary will be provided. For your student to participate, there is a required consent form which can be found online or at the school. This consent form also consents your student info to any of the 19 Denver Health Pediatrics at Denver Public Schools School-based Health Centers. This service is cost free to all students. If you have questions, please feel free to email our school nurse at michelle_foster@dpsk12.net
Columbine Online Registration: https://www.denverhealth.org/services/school-based-health-centers/e-consent or you can stop by the front desk and fill out a paper consent form.
KEEP IT UP! ‘Your Voice/Tu Voz’ survey will now close on Monday, October 17th. This survey will ask you about the climate and culture of the school, focus and impact of Social Emotional Learning lessons, and how we can
improve engagement efforts as a school and district. I hope you all will engage in this survey. So far we have 41 families who have completed it which puts us at 42.7%. We hope to reach 75% by October 17th. You each have a unique link that was sent to your email from the Superintendent.
Please see the CSC Meeting Minutes Notes linked here!
Columbine will be administering the BESS Social Emotional Screener for students the week of October 17th. For more information and passive consent forms, please read this letter.
Columbine Costume Parade
On Friday, October 28th, we will hold a costume parade! We encourage all students and staff to dress up and sprinkle the end of the month with a bit of fall festivity! More details to come on our route and time.
Upcoming Events
| October 14th – NO SCHOOL!October 17th – No school for students – teacher work dayOctober 22nd – Columbine Fall Festival!October 28th – Columbine Costume Parade! Saturday, October 22nd: Fall Festival & Silent Auction |
PTA
| Columbine Cougars PTA UpdatePlease click here for our full Weekly Newsletter October Fall Festival & Virtual Silent AuctionJoin us next Saturday, October 22nd from 11am – 2pm on the Columbine Playground for fun fall games and crafts (& a bouncy house)! Teachers will be setting up games & crafts to earn additional dollars to support their classrooms. Students can earn tickets for games and crafts in their classrooms this coming week (Oct 18-21) and can also purchase tickets at the festival for 50¢/ticketWe need volunteers & food donations for this event – please click here!October 22nd will also kick off our Virtual Silent Auction! If you are able to donate student and/or family art, local (especially BIPOC) restaurant gift cards, a service, or other items – please email Lyndi Martoia (lyndi.martoia@gmail.com) Important!We have extended the deadline to order spirit gear to Sunday, 10/16! Thank you to our local print shop, Tiny Planet Ink, we have new items available! Click here to order your t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, hoodies, beanies and patches! Thursday, October 20th at 6pm: PTA Meeting – We will be talking about the work the Declining Enrollment Advisory Committee completed this past Spring – including hearing from our own DEAC member and teacher, Anna Wallenkamp. Tuesday, October 25 (11am – 10pm): October Dine-Out @ Birdcall: Birdcall will donate 35% of all food & drink sales, when using this code (cc1025) – you can order both online and in-person. Thank you for your continued support! |
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