Last day of school!

We do not need to hold an extra day of school!

The State is allowing schools that can show they have enough minutes
in their annual schedule without making up days missed during the
walkout to count total minutes instead of total days.

We have extra minutes so we do not need to have school on Friday,
May 25.  Our last day of school, as planned, is Thursday, May 24.



Our Parent Survey is still open!  If you haven't completed the survey,
please take a few minutes to do so today.  Your feedback and comments
are EXTREMELY important to us.

Once you've finished the survey, please let your child's teacher know.
The grade level with the highest percent of participation wins an
Eegees party.  We will count survey participation through next Friday,
May 18.

You can take the survey here => tinyurl.com/tcds2018 

Week of May 7

This week in Science:

7th Grade are working on Symbiosis, learning about ecosystems

8th Grade are continuing Genetics!

Resource Students & Parents

Attention Resource Parents!

Resource Field Trip: Friday, May 11^th, 9-11:30am. All Resource students have been given a pink permission slip to take home. Please make sure you fill out and return the permission slip for the resource field trip.

Thank you so much!!

#RedForEd School Closure

Dear Parents,

The following letter was set home with your student today giving information about the school closure on Thursday, 4/26/18.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Hutchings

April 24, 2018

 

Dear Tucson Country Day School Parents and Guardians,

We thank you for your patience as we have talked with our teachers and staff to assess the impact of Thursday’s scheduled walkout.

Based on the information we have received from our employees, the Administrative team and members of the School Board are in agreement that we will close the K-8 portion of the school on Thursday. Since the RedforEd movement does not impact the private tuition-based Early Education program, our preschool and prekindergarten will run a regular school day on Thursday. As you know, per our school calendar, the entire school will be closed on Friday.

Our decision to close the school on Thursday is based on the number of teachers and staff members who will be absent from school and our concern about our ability to provide adequate supervision and ensure the safety of all students.

The State requires us to be in session for 180 days each school year or risk being penalized and lose funding. Our calendar is a 180-day calendar so we will need to make up the day we are closed. Adding one day to the school calendar means we will be in session on Friday, May 25.

We will provide you with additional updates as they become available. As of this time, we plan to be in session on Monday. We will keep you informed. The most current and accurate information will be posted on the school’s eplanner page as noted above.

 

Thank you, as always, for your continued support.

 

Your Tucson Country Day School Administration Team,

Cindy Kappler Adrian Hannah Jordan Krause
Chief Operations Officer Principal Assistant Principal

Parent Letter from Administration

Dear Parents and Students:

Please click on the following link to read the statement provided by the Administration team here at TCDS.

Parent Letter

Week of April 16

AIMS & AZMerit Testing Week!!!

This week students will be testing.  We will have shortened class periods, but students should still expect to learn content.  There should not be any homework this week, but we are going over concepts we learned last week:  Genetics in 8th Grade and Organism Relationships in 7th Grade.

Week of April 9

This week in Science:

7th Grade:  We are continuing with Ecology.  Students have learned about Biomes, Biotic & Abiotic Factors. :D

8th Grade:  We are continuing learning about Genetics as we prepare for AIMS (Monday 4/16).  Remember:  Late AIMS/BD assignments will receive ZERO credit and Re-Dos are not accepted.