Tag: Montessori Community School

Medical Action Plans and Medication Release Forms

Written by Foothill Montessori on September 15, 2015. Posted in Announcements, Blog.

If your student has or uses an Epi-Pen, Inhaler, or Benadryl for an allergy or other medical condition, you MUST have a recent Medical Action Plan and Medicine Release Form filled out.

Click here for Montessori Community School’s Medical Action Plan and Medicine Release Form.

Please fill the forms out with complete, detailed information as soon as possible. If any information changes throughout the year, please update the information and return it to the MCS office. You will be able to download the forms from the announcements section of the website for the remainder of the year.

Please be vigilant and thorough while taking the time to do this, as we want any member of our staff to have enough information to offer the care and support your student may need if there is an emergency.

This information is not only for those parents with students who have allergies or other medical conditions, but for all parents to look at and become familiar with, as many of our students are very young and are still in the process of discovering their little bodies and their bodies responses to potential allergens.

Please check out these other supplemental forms that would be helpful as the more information we have regarding your child’s health and medical procedures, the better prepared we will be in assisting and administering the proper medications the correct way.

Food Allergy Action Plan

Asthma Action Plan

Seizure Action Plan

Diabetes Action Plan

2015 – 2016 Winter Sports Program: Snowbird

Written by Foothill Montessori on September 9, 2015. Posted in Announcements.

Winter is just a season away. Please keep in mind that all students participating in the Winter Sports Program this year will be REQUIRED to have helmets and goggles and there will be no daily rentals at the resort.

The PSA is working on potential discounts for MCS renters and will keep us updated. For now, please check out the list of Ski Swaps coming up.

Click here to see a list of upcoming ski swaps.

MCS’ Annual Kid’s Clothing Swap

Written by Foothill Montessori on March 16, 2015. Posted in Blog.

Spring cleaning? It’s that time again to bring in all of your children’s gently used clothing that is too small, or unworn and swap it for something that fits. Please drop off your gently used items in the bins located in the MCS gymnasium. You may drop off items March 16th – March 20th.

Then, during school hours, March 26th and March 27th, you may come browse the tables in the gym. Clothes will be separated into size and style. If you are looking for volunteer opportunities, please contact the office, as the Green Committee would love help sorting, folding, and displaying the clothes.

Parent Teacher Conferences, Feb. 27, 2015

Written by Foothill Montessori on February 18, 2015. Posted in Blog.

Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on Friday, February 27th. There will be no school that day. Sign-up sheets for the conferences are on a table in the lobby, arranged by class, from Toddlers to Middle School (please check the top of each page for the name of the class). As we do every year, we ask that you observe the following requests:

· Please sign up for one meeting time per child.
· Please be on time for your conference.
· Please help the teachers to stay on time.
· Please arrange for childcare during Parent/Teacher conferences.

We have had parents make requests for child care during the conferences. Unfortunately, as our staff is busy meeting with parents and all of our classrooms, along with some other spaces in the school, are being used we have not been able to accommodate this request. Please note that our playgrounds and our Outdoor Classroom are closed during conferences for safety and liability reasons. In order to accommodate parents who arrange to exchange child care during conferences we will make our lobby available and will provide coloring pages for the children.

We have included some additional tips that might be useful in having a successful Parent Teacher Conference:

Write down questions or things you would like to discuss and email the teacher(s) with your questions/comments before the conference.
Ask your child if there is anything they would like you to discuss with the teacher(s).
Keep the conference focused on the child and the purpose of the conference-use your time carefully.
Be open to suggestions from the teacher.
Be prepared to share suggestions of your own. No one knows your child like you know him/her.
If you are unclear about what the teacher is telling you about your child, ask for specific examples.
Remember that you and the teacher(s) are a team and your main focus is meeting the needs of your child.
Take notes so you can share information with your child after the meeting.
Make sure the teachers have the best contact information for you and that you have a clear understanding of the communication protocol.
Keep the teacher informed. Things happening at home often affect children’s behavior at school.
At the end of your conference make sure that everyone understands what was talked about and what they can/have agreed to do to follow up.
Follow up. If you have concerns that need to be followed up on, set up that time in advance.

We thank you for utilizing this opportunity to learn more about your child’s experience here at school and appreciate your time. Please feel free to visit your Montessori Compass account prior to your visit so that you can see what your child has been up to!

With warm regards,

MCS Teachers and Administration

MCS Student Television Debut – Good Things Utah

Written by Foothill Montessori on February 11, 2015. Posted in Blog.

MCS Lower Elementary student Diego Reyes-Lisieski recently appeared on KSL’s Good Things Utah where he shared his talent and passion for cooking as a representative of the Salt Lake Culinary School which he attends. Diego has shared this talent with his classmates at school as well. He has been a student at Montessori Community School since 2010 and has enjoyed his cooking hobby since he was very young. Nice work, Diego!

Silent Journey and Discovery 2015

Written by Foothill Montessori on January 28, 2015. Posted in Blog.

The Silent Journey and Discovery is coming up on February 7th from 9:00am – 1:00pm.
Sign up in the office, space is limited. Attendance is free of charge, brunch will be served & child care will be provided to those who sign up in advance.

The MCS Silent Journey and Discovery is an event dedicated to parents to provide the meaningful experience of visiting each of our programs, from Toddlers through Middle School, to experience for yourself the magic of the Montessori materials and discover how the lessons learned in our early programs set the tone and lay important foundations for later learning. This is a wonderful opportunity to gain a sense of how the Montessori Curriculum unfolds through the eyes of a child to guide and nurture the natural unfolding of the whole child to inspire a lifetime love of learning and peace.

Click on the following link to read about last year’s Silent Journey and Discovery and enjoy testimonials from parents who have participated in years past.

http://mcsslc.com/parent-center/blog/entry/silent-journey-discovery

Admissions Information Meeting – Open to the public

Written by Foothill Montessori on January 13, 2015. Posted in Blog.

What: Admissions Information Meeting

When: Thursday, January 15th from 6:30 – 8:00pm

Where: Montessori Community School

Who: Parents interested in learning more about Montessori Community School.

Open to the public. Sorry, adults only – no childcare provided.

The teachers and administration of Montessori Community School would like to invite you to learn more about our program. During this hour and a half long presentation we will introduce our programs, administration and staff. And, you will have the opportunity to visit each of our classrooms and meet and greet with the teachers. We look forward to sharing our approach to education and the Montessori method.

Montessori Community School serves children aged 18 months through 8th grade and we offer an extended day program, 7:30am – 6:00pm.

Montessori Community School’s mission is to provide a rich, individualized educational experience, which guides and nurtures the natural unfolding of the whole individual and inspires a lifetime love of learning and peace.

An MCS Family shares their story

Written by Foothill Montessori on October 27, 2014. Posted in Blog.

An MCS family recently shared their story about their new baby who was diagnosed with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). Their story is unique as Calla is the first of the approximately 61,000 newborns screened for SCID so far in Utah to have a positive test result. Calla, sister to Tatum, has been in isolation at Primary Children’s Hospital since a few days after her birth and is awaiting a bone marrow transplant.

Logan and Jody, parents to Calla and Tatum, have been advocates and supporters of MCS even while their sweet new baby is staying the the hospital. They even recently spent the evening volunteering at the Halloween Carnival. We want to offer our love and support to Tatum, Logan, Jody and especially Calla. Their story is touching…Read more here, here and here about SCID and about Calla’s upcoming transplant.

We hope that the surgery goes smoothly and that Calla is able to come home to her family soon. The family feels blessed that Calla has remained healthy up to this point and we wish them all the best. This is a great opportunity for us to teach our students the importance of good hygiene and care of self!

A brief word to the MCS community from Logan and Jody:

We are very lucky that Calla’s illness was caught so early and we are holding our breath as we await her bone marrow transplant. They found a 10/10 match for Calla through the National Bone Marrow Program, and we are incredibly thankful that somewhere out there an anonymous donor agreed to help save Calla’s life. We’d like to encourage anyone who is willing to sign up for bone marrow registry at BeTheMatch.org. We knew little about bone marrow donation before all of this started, and we were surprised to learn that the process is quite easy: initially you’ll just send a cheek swab, and after that there is a ~1/500 chance over your lifetime that you’ll be called up to donate and save someone’s life!

Once Calla has received her transplant and the family is settled they hope to organize a drive for potential volunteers and we will share further information about that as it becomes available.

Upcoming COEEF Event

Written by Foothill Montessori on October 21, 2014. Posted in Blog.

Montessori Community School has been raising money for the COEEF and have supported several girls in the program for over 10 years. We are currently supporting seven young girls. It is a pleasure to share this opportunity to further support the COEEF program with our MCS community.

Things are coming together nicely here

Written by Foothill Montessori on October 16, 2014. Posted in Blog.

Hello MCS Families,

Things are coming together nicely here at the school. We are still working out some details but are really looking forward to the students return on Monday. Again, we can not express enough our appreciation for all of the offers to assist. And, we want you to know that the teachers at the school have worked tirelessly to prepare temporary classrooms, to support one another, and to keep the energy positive and uplifting. Our teachers are amazing!

We are looking for an old washer and dryer that can be used to clean our mops and some carpets that were submerged in water. Please contact the office if you are getting rid of any old machines that the school could use temporarily.
Thank you to all who attended Parent Teacher Conference last week. We were so excited to launch our online record keeping system, Compass, which will allow you to get activity reports about your child’s school experience. However, with all that has happened with the flood and the temporary displacement of classrooms and students we have decided to put a temporary hold on the activity reports. Thank you for your patience. As mentioned previously, every one of our classrooms are being effected in some way and we feel it is most important that the teachers energy be placed on providing structure and support to the students. Thank you for your understanding.
The Silent Journey is postponed until further notice.
We anticipate that the Halloween Carnival will still happen and more details about it will be available Monday.

Enjoy the remainder of your unexpected break in this most beautiful fall weather.

With deep gratitude,
MCS Administration