Greetings Families and Friends!
We are rounding the last turn and heading to the final days of the 2019-20 school year. Our awesome 6th graders will be moving onto middle school soon, and we are really going to miss them. What a terrific group of kids! They set a high bar for the school in both their academics and behavior. They were terrific examples for the rest of our school to follow in the classroom and at recess- especially their 9-Square games. I still don't understand their rules with about 50 kids playing at the same time, but somehow they made it work. This group is definitely moving onto big things. The whole crew here at IHE wishes them the best in their next steps!
With that, thank you to all the parents for joining us in this collective effort this year in educating our children during dismissal. Wow, what an unexpected turn! I just want to sincerely thank you for your patience, hard work, and grace through this. We recognize the strain that the dismissal put on everyone. Indian Hills families really rose to the occasion.
Moving forward, there is still so much up in the air, and I will be communicating with you throughout the summer in emails as well as on our Indian Hills homepage as plans and details get worked out and more definite. In the meantime, please, reach out to me with any concerns or questions.
Here are some important upcoming items:
Report cards will be sent out by mail next week so expect to see them in your mailboxes by the end of next week or the beginning of the following one. The grading during quarantine will look different and is explained on the report card as well as on an accompanying sheet with more detail. Also, this year, we will be listing your student's next year's teacher in the "Teacher Comments" box for Term 3 on the back of the report card. We will not be posting class lists at the school this year.
Families with school laptops and chargers need to return them on June 3rd (the last day of school) sometime between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm.
From Monday the 1st to Wednesday the 3rd, we will leave a book cart out at the front of the building for returning library and classroom books. If you still have any, just drop them off there and we will check them in later that day. If it is a classroom book, please place a note in it telling which teacher it belongs to and we'll get it to them.
Some school-wide and classroom changes have been made for the upcoming school year:
Our school counselor, Mr. Guido is moving onto West High to become an assistant principal there.
Our special education teacher, Ms. Tuck is moving over to Dilworth elementary. Unfortunately, the special eduaction position at IHE was reduced to half-time, but we will be welcoming Ms. Sabrina Savage who will be our part-time special education teacher as well as a part-time interventionist in math and language arts.
Ms. Moore is moving from 6th grade to 2nd.
Ms. Melville is moving from 3rd to 5th.
And Ms. Starr is moving from 5th to 6th.
We also have a new custodian, Mr. Jason Hansen.
Our last week of school for 2019-20 is upon us. Thank you for keeping our students engaged and let's have a fun week of learning!
Best regards,
Tom Luthy
Principal
Indian Hills Elementary, Salt Lake City School District
801.584.2908 ext. 1610
