Make sure your student gets 9-11 hours of sleep and eats a good breakfast on testing days.

If your student leaves campus before completing a test (e.g., for lunch, an appointment), he or she will not be allowed to return to that test. If your student does not feel well on the day of testing, it may be best for him or her to wait and be tested on a make-up day. Please remember not to schedule appointments on testing days.

The Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) is a progress monitoring (PM) system that is administered three times per year to track your student's progress in learning the Benchmarks of Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards throughout this school year. 

Kindergarten-2 Grades will take the Renaissance Star Reading, and Star Math assessments. Each test is less than 30 minutes. Sample test items at home at https://flfast.org/resources/renaissance-star/renaissance-star.  

Assessments are computer-adaptive tests taken on a computer or tablet.  For more information on the test design, please visit https://www.fldoe.org/accountability/assessments/k-12-student-assessment/best/. 

If you or your student would like to interact with the online testing platform or review FAST ELA Reading and Mathematics sample items at home, sample test materials are available at https://flfast.org/families.html.

Students with accommodations may be tested on an alternate date due to scheduling.

You should have received a permission slip in your child's take home folder, but if you misplaced it, you can print and sign a permission slip here. A permission slip is required to participate this year. 

Running Club is planning to start on September 19th. It will be open to all students. It will meet every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday except when it is too cold or raining.  

When the campus gate opens at 7:30 a.m., start the day on a positive note by heading to the southwest recess fields to get moving and see your friends for 15 minutes before school.  You must bring a water bottle to participate.

Come on the days that work for you.  Students with permission slips will have their cards printed out on carts when they arrive.  The cards will keep track of your miles for the school year.

Run Club could use several registered volunteers everyday from 7:25-7:55  a.m. each day. If you are an approved volunteer, contact Kim Self at kimberlypas@yahoo.com with questions about volunteering for Running Club.

You will be able to have lunch with your student on Tuesdays and Fridays starting September 12th! Sign ups will be available closer to the date.

Dr. Lord and the front office are requesting for volunteers to help with lunch sign in.  The volunteering shifts will be Tuesday and Friday lunch period 10:15-12:30pm. 

Please sign up to volunteer through the sign up genius link: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D45A9AA29A7FBC34-front

DO NOT send in cakes, ice cream, homemade treats or balloons. 

You may send in store bought, FULLY SEALED in the original store container, cupcakes or cookies. You can also send in individually pre-packaged snack items such as chips, granola bars, hostess, etc. Treats should be sent in to school with the student.

Another option is to order treats from our cafeteria. For the order form, please click here. Send your order to our Cafeteria Manager, Melissa Delgatto, at least 10 school days prior to the event.

All volunteers must be fingerprinted and cleared through the district office prior to being allowed to volunteer for activities during school hours. Register to volunteer by following the directions on this webpage: https://fl02201431.schoolwires.net/Page/11104.  The fees for registering to volunteer are currently waived.  It  can take several weeks to process your application, so this is the perfect time to register so you can participate in upcoming events this school year.

Once you become a registered volunteer, you will have to pay $8.00 per year to maintain your status. You will get an email from donotreply@raptortech.com 60 days before your volunteer status expires.  Failure to renew your volunteer status will require you to redo the initial volunteer process; which will include the cost of fingerprinting. Please use the full name that is on your Drivers license when renewing your status:  https://www.e-billexpress.com/ebpp/BPSPayment/.

We continue to work on projects to beautify the school and support teachers who ask for help.  If you're a teacher, and you need money for a special project, please fill out a Superfund Request to be considered for financial support from the PTO:

https://www.indialanticpto.com/teachers

You can see the Treasurer's Report with line by line details of the programs we have budgeted for and funded this year by clicking here. 

We will ask for donations to make our budget at our Jog-a-thon fundraiser in February, but we would be thrilled if you decide to donate any time.