Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Registration Day


2014 School Registration

Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year!  We look forward to seeing all of our students and families at the upcoming enrollment day.  Heritage registration will be next Thursday, July 24th from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm in the Heritage library.  With construction still going on, we will be using the temporary entrance on the west side of the building.
A major change this year for the Olathe Public Schools is our student information system.  Parents will have access through ParentVue to grades and other general information.  For security reasons, each parent (one for mom and one for dad) will receive a form with his/her individual access code to access this information in the enrollment packet.  This security code will need to be activated within 60 days of enrollment.  If there are extenuating circumstances in your family that you feel we should know about (i.e. parents are divorced and only one parent has custody) please contact Cindy Blachly at cjblachlyht@olatheschools.org so that we can make adjustments prior to registration day.  If you have questions regarding who should have access and who shouldn’t, please see myself, Kelly McGonegle (our counselor) or Cindy Blachly on the day of registration.  With this being a new process, we will need to work through some logistics that come with any new procedure.  We are excited about having a new information system with many new options available to parents.

Construction is moving along nicely, however there will be parts of the building that may not be complete until right before school begins.  I know our students will be excited about the new lockers that are already in!  We will update parents on the status of our building as we get closer to the start of school.

Important Dates:
Thursday, July 24th 11:00-7:00 – Enrollment in Library
Tuesday, August 12th 5:30-6:30 – Sneak-A-Peek
Wednesday, August 13th – First ½ day of school for grades 1-5 (11:40 dismissal)
Thursday, August 14th – First full day of school for all grades
Thursday, August 28th – Back to School Night: PK – Grade 2 (6:30-7:00) and Grades 3- 5 (7:15-7:45)

Staffing Updates:
Breanna Jesseph will be replacing Jessica Freund in First Grade,
Katy Streeter is replacing Deann Lovell as our half-time resource teacher,
Heather Moss will be our half-day kindergarten teacher,
Keri Hicks will be replacing Joy Wray as School Nurse

I look forward to seeing all the returning Hound Dogs to HT as well as welcoming many new students and their families to Heritage.  The 2014-2015 school year will be a great one as we work together to create a wonderful culture of learning for our kids!


Scott McFarland
Principal