Events

March 9-11  FCAT Testing    Grades 3, 4 and 5

Thursday, March 11   Chick-fil-A Spirit Night 5-7pm

Sunday, March 13 Daylight Savings Time Begins- turn clocks forward one hour!

March 16-17   FCAT  Testing Grade 5 only

Tuesday, March 23        Pre-paid Individual School Pictures

Wednesday, March 31    Kindergarten Field Day   

End of Third Quarter

Thursday, April 1   No School - Professional Duty Day

Friday, April 2    No School - Good Friday

April 5-9    Spring Break - Students Return on Monday, April 12

Hot Topics

School Calendar 09-10

Online Free/Reduced Meal Application

Online Meal Pre-pay

March Newsletter

March Lunch Menu

Feed the Children Initiative

Code of Conduct

Safety Rules To/From School

Message From Mike Scott, Office of the Sheriff

1. Question…Why do we use Styrofoam (polystyrene) trays?

• The District Operations Committee analyzed the following:

• Most importantly for the health, safety and welfare of our students and staff.

2.      Question…Why don’t we use biodegradable trays?

• Biodegradable trays are much more costly.  In a compost pile, they would biodegrade.  Few commercial compost sites exist due to the smell.  But in a landfill materials are covered to prevent air, water, and light to degrade the materials so the materials will not leach into our water supply.  So in actuality, the materials are mummified.

• All of the School District’s garbage goes to an incinerator.

• Fortunately for us we have a state of the art Waste to Energy Plant in Buckingham.  As a hydrocarbon product, polystyrene’s high BTU value (more than 17,000 BTU/pound) helps maintain high burning temperatures necessary in an incinerator for proper combustion of other garbage creating less ash to be sent to a landfill.  Burning polystyrene in a modern incinerator results in end products of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and a trace of ash.  The energy generated from the plant is converted to electricity to power our home air conditioners, appliances, hospitals, street lights, etc.  Burning polystyrene for energy production creates a smaller environmental footprint than oil and coal and about the same as gas.

3.      Question… What can we, as a school community, do to be green and save green?

• Require tray nesting everyday!  Schools that currently require tray nesting by their students have dramatically reduced garbage volume.  Let the students know that they are helping their school to be green.  By dumping their garbage and stacking (nesting) their trays the custodians will make fewer trips to the dumpster and our District garbage volume would drop dramatically.   This practice District wide would save thousands of dollars per month and the smaller garbage volume would leave a smaller environmental footprint due to less frequent fuel guzzling