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February 7, 2021
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important dates & district news

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DISTRICT​

  • 2/11: School Board Meeting, 6 pm​

  • 2/15-2/19: Mid-Winter Break, no school

  • 3/16: PTO Board Meeting, 9 am

PARENT EDUCATION​

  • ​2/9: Common Ground Speaker Series: Future Ready Kids, 7-8:15 pm

ORMONDALE
  • 2/14: Happy Valentines Day!


CORTE MADERA
  • 2/12: CMS Spirit Day: Wear red and pink to celebrate Valentine's Day
  • 2/12: Deadline to upload art for Art to Remember 

district news

COVID-19 REMINDERS

Please make sure to review the important "Superintendent's Message" re our upcoming Mid-Winter Break, which highlights some important COVID-related reminders and updates:

Travel

Please do not travel unnecessarily. PVSD continues to adhere to the health and safety Travel guidelines provided by California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and recommends that all non-essential travel be cancelled/postponed due to the increased risk that travel poses to others during the pandemic. The key points of the CDPH advisory are as follows: 

Except in connection with essential travel, Californians should avoid non-essential travel to any part of California more than 120 miles from one's place of residence, or to other states or countries.

Those who do decide to travel despite the travel advisories should quarantine for 10 days after returning home, with the exception of those traveling to meet essential needs. 

If you must travel, please clearly communicate your plans to your child’s teacher(s) and Principal. Please remember to develop a quarantine and COVID test plan prior to your child returning on campus.  As a reminder, testing negative within the quarantine period does NOT clear a student to return to campus.  The CDPH has NOT adopted the CDC's diagnostic testing strategy of testing out of quarantine after day 7.

Safe Behaviors 

We ask everyone in our community to continue following the PVSD Social Contract and practice the “four pillars” safety measures at all times. Given San Mateo County is in the Purple Tier, please continue to follow current guidelines  such as limiting gatherings to no more than three households, to help reduce the risk of transmission within the PVSD community.

COVID-19 Testing

Families are still encouraged to surveillance test their students every two weeks, and after any possible or known exposure.  An individual can still potentially become positive up to 14 days after exposure to COVID-19.  

The full message can be read here:
PVSD Winter Break (February) Superintendent Messaging.pdf
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PARENT EDUCATION
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Common Ground Speaker Series - FUTURE READY KIDS

Raising the Bar on Critical Thinking

​Featuring Colin Seale in conversation with Ralph Wales, Head of St. Matthew’s Episcopal School

Tues Feb, 9, 7pm–8:15pm PST

Online Zoom Webinar:  Register to Attend  (Registration closes at 5pm the day of the event) 

Colin Seale, educator, attorney and author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students, will cover powerful, but practical, strategies parents and educators can use to activate kids' critical thinking skills to best prepare them for a 21st century future. Seale shares how critical inquiry will empower our children to become engaged students and involved citizens, leaders and innovators.

For event registration and details, and the Winter/Spring Season Lineup visit the Common Ground website.

As a reminder, videos of prior Common Ground events are available on a password protected page on the Common Ground’s website.  Please contact Anne Fazioli-Khiari ([email protected]) or Teri Wolf ([email protected]) for access.

ORMONDALE News

superfoods

This month our Superfood is SPINACH.  Here is a recipe that is a Hovland Family and Ormondale Staff Favorite


Easy Egg Florentine

9 eggs

1 pint cottage cheese 

8 oz. grated Swiss cheese

8 oz. cubed Feta cheese

4 tbsp. butter, softened

2 10 oz. pkg. frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained

1 tsp. ground nutmeg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Beat eggs slightly.  Whip the cottage cheese and then add it, the other two cheeses and the butter to the eggs.  Stir in the spinach and nutmeg.  Pour into a 9x13 inch buttered baking dish.  Bake for 1 hour until knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

corte madera news

corte madera news

Reminder that the CMS campus is closed from 7:00am-4:00pm during the school week. Students and staff are on campus during this time. Students cannot come back on campus after school is out to play on the play structure (which is closed during school hours). 

Please drive CAREFULLY in and out of the parking lot for drop off and pick up. CMS has recently added a crossing guard in the morning to help kids get through the parking lot safely. Drive slowly and use your turn signal both as you enter and leave the parking lot so that the crossing guards know which way you are turning and can help cross kids safely.

The next CMS Spirit Day is Friday, February 12th. It will be a red and pink dress up day to celebrate Valentine's Day. 

 
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ART TO REMEMBER -Last week

A fundraiser for CMS 

This may not be a traditional year but we can still commemorate it with beautiful keepsake items customized with your child’s art! Corte Madera will once again work with Art to Remember; this year the program is online only. 

How it works: Your child should have brought home a piece of paper to use for their creation. Can’t find it? No problem, use a white piece of paper you have handy. 

Stumped for ideas? Check out: https://arttoremember.com/about/resources/lesson-plans/ Remember to encourage color and art covering the entire page for the best, most vibrant keepsakes. 

Once the masterpiece is created, snap a picture and head over to the CMS portal, search for your child’s name and upload the photo. You can then shop! Order what you like - don’t forget grandparents - and the products will be shipped to your house. Maybe it’s too much for your child to create a new piece of art or for you to lead another project at home? No problem! Find that beautiful artwork created in past years and upload a photo of that one. The final date to upload artwork is February 12th. 

Uploading too much? Have your child bring the art to Ms. Horgan and we will take care of it. 

Here’s the link to the Corte Madera Portal: https://arttoremember.com/school/l56xae  

Please contact Erin Sanders if you have any questions: [email protected]  

Happy creating! 

CMS YEARBOOK ORDERS

Remember to buy your yearbook for this unique and exciting year! You can purchase your copy HERE  Use the code 7530. Books are $45.00. Dedications (called "Ads" on the Herff Jones site) for 1/8 page are $35.00 and dedications for 1/4 page (8th grade only) are $55.00. Dedications are ordered on the same website. All orders are due no later than March 16.

Foundation news

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community news

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