5th Grade Parent Night

What an exciting time to be a middle school learner in Waukee! The time has begun for us to begin the process of transitioning your fifth grader to middle school. We want to invite parents only to attend Parent Night February 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Waukee Middle School gym.

One of our priorities is to help your child experience a positive transition to middle school, and your attendance at Parent Night is the first step in making this happen. During this event, you will learn about the courses your child will be taking as a sixth grader, how to enroll in these courses, and where to go to access course descriptions. Your fifth grader will then experience a similar presentation at a later date.

As we begin our journey as a team, we look forward to seeing you at Parent Night on February 6.

Information taken from the Waukee School District Website

www.waukee.k12.ia.us

Kindergarten Registration

Parents of students entering kindergarten this fall will be able to register their children online starting March 6, 2012.  Online directions and registration cover sheet can be downloaded at http://goo.gl/l3r1u.  Kindergarten Information Night, which will be held at each elementary attendance center, is Tuesday, March 13th at 6:30 p.m.  Parents will be able to visit a typical classroom and have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of kindergarten programming.  A paper copy of proof of residency, birth certificate and immunizations record is still required to complete the enrollment process.  Parents are asked to return these forms with registration cover sheet to the Central Administration Office at 560 Southeast University Avenue, Waukee, Iowa 50263.  For information on which meeting to attend, please call 987-4502 or view the Elementary Boundary Lines on the school district website, www.waukee.k12.ia.us.

Directory Orders

The PTO would like to thank you for your patience with the directory difficulties this year.  Although there were about 200 families affected by this, we think that the online entry system worked quite well.  We had a high school student design and maintain the database and was able to count that towards his Silver Chord hours for graduation.  He did a wonderful job and we thank him for his efforts.

Each year the directory is a very time consuming project.  In the past we have had a wonderful set of volunteers who have overseen this project.  The new database entry system reduced the time that it took to manually enter each family, nevertheless, it still required a significant amount of volunteer time.

  We are always looking for help and if you have any ideas on ways to streamline this project even more, we would be grateful if you want to volunteer to help with it next year.  

Again, we appreciate your patience and understanding and hope that the PTO will be able to continue to offer the directory in the future.  We can assure you that we will be researching companies before the start of the next school year to ensure that we do not have any problems with data loss in the future.

The Waukee District PTO

Addendum and Directory Orders

The directory, for those who have not received one, is in the process of being printed along with the addendum.  

For those who were affected by the information loss, a directory was not ordered for them as the amount we ordered was based off of the database not PayPal.  It was necessary to use those numbers due to cash/check payment entries.  

The printer is hopeful that we will have them the week of the 28th.  

If you have not received one, a directory and the addendum will be sent home with your student.

If you have already received a directory, an addendum will be sent home with your student.

Again, we appreciate your patience.  

This is a service offered by the PTO each year and the time requirement is significant.  We are grateful for the many people who have volunteered in this capacity in the past.  We are always looking for volunteers to help with this time consuming project each fall.  Because so many people utilize the directory, we are hopeful that we can continue offering it, but we will need more people willing to volunteer in the future.  

Thank you.

Directories

There have been a few questions about the directory order.  No information that was submitted via PayPal has been compromised.  The information lost occurred only on the data entry website which did not contain any payment data.  Thank you.

PTO Directory Update

The Waukee PTO has verified that there are many people who have not yet received their directory.  We discovered that a technical glitch beyond our control deleted any entries that were ordered online between August 31st and September 5th.  As such, you were not included in the directory.  

For those who have directories in their possession, we are currently working on an addendum with the missing names to be sent home with your student.  

For those who did not receive a directory, we are offering you the option of receiving the directory and an addendum or a refund if you prefer not to get one. We are now in the process of contacting the names that are missing from the directory and getting them manually entered into the addendum so that it can be printed as soon possible.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.  The PTO volunteers appreciate your understanding as we get this corrected.  Thank you.

PTO Directory

The Waukee PTO has verified that there are many people who have not yet received their directory.  If you have not received yours, please be patient.  We are working on finding out why the error was caused and starting the process of having additional directories printed.  We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but we hope that you will be patient as the PTO volunteers try to determine what caused the error and get it corrected as soon as possible.  Although this error is minimal in relative terms, we understand that it is not if it has affected you, and for that we apologize.  We appreciate your support with the new ordering system this year and can assure you that the mistake will be corrected so we do not have difficulties in the future.  The PTO volunteers appreciate your understanding as we get this corrected.  Thank you.