Atherwood Elementary School

We had a great first day of school 2.0 today for our returning K-3 students!

Happy Friday from your favorite cast of characters!

We are so excited to be prepping for student return on Monday!

Thank you to all who drove through, or parked to get a safe and socially distant school photo! It was so nice to see smiling faces!!

Hello K-3 families! PLEASE make sure to fill out your parent choice form today to indicate your preference for your child/ren when we move to a Hybrid model on November 2! We are missing 68 responses (20%), and want to make sure we account for all of our students. Reminder- they are due today!

Dear parents of Kindergarten-3rd grade, Please check your inbox! I sent information, and the parent choice form for reopening in a Hybrid model on November 2. You need to complete this form by Wednesday, 10/14. SDC parents will receive a separate email (I am hoping to have the information to send by tomorrow).... Remember, grades 4-12 will reopen in January, so you did not receive this form to fill out at this time. We are looking forward to having students back on campus! Dr. Leon

Today was the first time we have had students on campus in over six months. It was so amazing to have our first small groups start back!!!

Don’t forget- tomorrow is mustache day!

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.

#TechTipTuesday Parents, if you need to take a screenshot, please check out the keyboard shortcut below.

PARENTS/STUDENTS- Please be advised of the following: The Google Classroom and Google Drive apps on all district Chromebooks have been updated. As a result, all... users will see a message saying that the "Google Classroom and Google Drive applications have been deleted by your administrator." Please ignore this message, as the applications were not deleted. If the Google Classroom and/or Google Drive icons do not properly regenerate, please sign out of the Chromebook and then sign back in. See more

Thank you, Royal ROTC, for this touching tribute to share with our students.

#TechTipTuesday Hi families! Did you know there’s a keyboard shortcut to split tabs on your child’s chromebook? See the pictures below. Hit alt + [ to split.