Sycamore Elementary School

Sycamore Getting ready! Time to welcome back some students! https://youtu.be/x_JyMVkRDaA

Jersey Day at Sycamore! Our teachers are awesome! Here are a few pictures from today!! Skyhawk Pride!!

Friday, October 16th - sports jersey day! Wear your Jerseys for your ZOOMS!! Sycamore Skyhawk PRIDE!

Our office staff is busy getting ready for our all school distribution day tomorrow.

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO ALL PARENTS EXCEPT FOR SIMI INSTITUTE, APOLLO HIGH SCHOOL AND MONTE VISTA SCHOOL. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LINKS IN THE MESSA...GE HAD TO BE DISABLED IN ORDER TO ACCURATELY POST AND SHARE THIS. OUR DISTRICT WEBSITE, SIMIVALLEYUSD.ORG, HAS THE LINKS IN A MESSAGE ON THE TOP OF THE HOME PAGE IN THE RED BOX. THANK YOU. Dear Simi Valley Schools Community: In preparation for the potential of having some or all of our schools reopening next month, we’re asking our parents and guardians to please complete the survey in the link HERE. We have also linked a document HERE that provides comprehensive information on what measures will be followed to best ensure everyone’s health and safety while on our campuses and facilities. Currently there are two possibilities for reopening schools in some format. The first would be if SVUSD applies for and is granted a waiver from the County of Ventura. Under the current waiver guidelines, ONLY elementary grades (JK/TK through 5th grades and the 6th graders at elementary schools) would be allowed to return. The waiver was created by the State of California to allow elementary schools to reopen when the county remains on the State’s watchlist. Our Board of Education will discuss the issue of applying for a waiver at the September 29 Special Board meeting. The other option for returning to in-person instruction comes from Ventura County’s COVID-19 numbers improving enough to take us to the next tier (red tier). Our county’s numbers are close right now to meeting that benchmark, so it is entirely possible that we could be allowed to reopen under the red tier even before we could obtain a waiver. The benefit to this is that ALL grades can return to in-person instruction, not just elementary. This survey needs to be completed for EVERY child in your family who attends a Simi Valley Unified School District school. If you choose to have your child remain in the virtual model, you are committing to staying in the virtual model through the end of the 2020-2021 school year. This is because the classroom cohorts are carefully created with both staffing needs and space requirements in consideration to accommodate both learning models. For elementary families only: You will be asked about returning to campus for in-person instruction under a Ventura County waiver and then you will be asked the same question again for returning to campus if ALL schools reopen (under a positive shift in the County’s COVID-19 numbers. Please complete and return this survey BEFORE 8 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 25. It is vital that everyone receiving this email complete this survey. Thank you.