Intro: School's out for summer, and while the school year may be over, summer programming, cleaning and upgrades to software and the district's 154 facilities are well underway.
Below is a list of five things the district is doing this summer to help prepare students, staff and schools for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year.
Jeffco Schools offers a free summer meals program. It offers breakfast and lunch to students ages 1 to 18 whose families may not have the financial resources to provide healthy meals every day during the work week. Held at 15 schools in the Arvada, Edgewater, Golden, Lakewood and Wheat Ridge areas, the program gives students fresh vegetables, fruit and milk daily.
"It makes sure kids are getting two healthy meals throughout the entire year, not just the school year," said Janace Fischer, principal of Pleasantview Elementary, which offers the program throughout the year. "It's a safe place to be with their friends."
For a full list of the schools that offer this program, visit http://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/food_services/summer/2016_Summer_Sites.pdf.
Custodial staff are diving in deep to provide extensive cleaning in each of the district's 154 schools. Divided into teams in each articulation area of the district, staff moves through each school, paying close attention to carpets, painting needs and removal of dirt and grime. Once finished, the custodians return to their home schools to attend to unfinished or overlooked chores.
Over the summer, more than 600 students choose to study and work on reading skills at various elementary schools throughout the district. The program --; held at Arvada K-8, Edgewater, Eiber, Lumberg, Molholm, Stein and Stevens elementary schools --; lasts for three hours a day. In the six-week program, the students work on reading and other literacy skills. Many sites also offer additional art, music and physical education programming. For more information, email Robin Weikel, rweikel@jeffco.k12.co.us.
While schools are relatively empty in the summer, Jeffco's facilities staff gets to work. This year, 143 construction projects at 115 of Jeffco's schools will be completed. This work totals about $24 million and includes the building new sidewalks, patching up drywall and touching up painting, as well as fixing and replacing signage, furniture and carpet.
This summer, the district's online resources --; such as the Infinite Campus grading system and Jeffco Connect, which allows parents to communicate with their students' schools --; will undergo hardware and software upgrades. The IT department is also upgrading internet browsers for 150 district sites.
To update contact information and sign up to receive online school notifications and events, visit www.jeffcopublicschools.org.
from Lakewood Sentinel - Latest Stories http://lakewoodsentinel.com/stories/Schools-out-now-what,226681
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