On Friday, June 19, KING 5 news visited our school to cover the last day of the school year. The news crew interviewed principal Kim Whitworth and several of our great teachers and students. Click here to watch the video of the news cast.

Attention basketball players:

Aaron Brooks, Guard with the Houston Rockets (and former Eckstein Student) is hosting a Drills and Skills Basketball camp June 22 through June 26th at Franklin High School.

Also, 8th grade students going to Franklin High School this fall and are interested in playing football, there will be a Youth Football Camp on June 22 through June 25.

Check out the brochures in the main office for more information or call Franklin High School.

Students & Families,
Please return your 8th Grade Cruise form to Mr. Timmons no later than Friday, June 12. Extra copies can be downloaded here: Cruise Permission Slip

Participation in athletics in Seattle Public Schools requires registration each school year and a completed and signed physician’s physical every twenty-four months (two calendar years). In addition, this year all students are required to complete a Sport Specific Parent/Guardian Release Form and an Eckstein Eligibility Card (“blue card”).

ALL forms must be completed and turned into the Athletics Director prior to participation in practices or competitions.

The purpose of the Eckstein Eligibility Card is to help us track student physicals as well as share emergency contact information with coaches. Eligibility cards are available in the school office and all other forms are available for download.

Middle school sports offered are:

• Fall: Girls Soccer, Co-ed Ultimate Frisbee (September – November)
• Winter: Boys & Girls Basketball (mid-November – mid-February)
• Spring: Boys Soccer, Co-ed Track & Girls Volleyball (late February – May)

Sign up and coaches contact information will be available 2-4 weeks prior to the start of the season on the Eckstein website. Students should listen to announcements for information about pre-season interest meetings.

Please contact Athletics Director, Cindy Watters (cjwatters@seattleschools.org) with questions.

Forms for download:

Physical Registration Form

Soccer Release Form

Ultimate Frisbee Release Form

Basketball Release Form

Volleyball Release Form

Track Release Forms

Eckstein Athletics Progress Report

Hello 7th Grade Students & Families,

Today students received from their homeroom teacher a permission slip to attend the 7th Grade Field Trip to Lincoln Park and Coleman Pool.  A PDF version of that permission slip can be found below.

The trip will take place on the last day of school, Friday, 06/19.  We hope you can join us for some fun in the sun and swimming.  Buses will depart Eckstein at 9:15 and return in time for students to board their buses home in the afternoon.  If you would like to be a chaperone on the trip, please complete the chaperone section of your student’s permission slip and you will be contacted with details on how you can help.

Students may not participate in the field trip unless the form below has been completed and submitted to their homeroom teacher by this Friday 06/12/09.

Thanks.

Mr. Cronas

Lincoln Park Permission Slip

8th Grade Families,

Information is now available about the 8th grade Promotion Celebration. Please contact main office with questions.

Click here for details: promotion-celebration-2009-invite

We have mailed home all 8th grade sports physicals turned into the main office. Please remember that a physical is good for two calendar years and may be used if the student turns out for a high school sport. Please contact Eckstein Athletics Director, Cindy Watters (cjwatters@seattleschools.org) with questions.

Dear 7^th Grade Families,

Please join us next Thursday, May 21^st for People on the Move (formerly known as Project REACH) where students will present research and artifacts they created in their Language Arts and Social Studies classes around the theme of identifying economic and geographic reasons for moves.  We will begin in the auditorium at 6:30 where families will meet while their students go to classrooms and set up their projects.  From 6:45 – 8:00, guests will have the opportunity to visit classrooms to see student work and talk with them about their research.  We hope you can attend and look forward to having you. 

Thanks. 

Mr. Cronas

Your Child should stay home:

If your child has both:  Fever 100 degrees or higher AND sore throat or cough.

Keep your child home from school for seven (7) days or until symptoms are gone for 24 hours, whichever is longer.

But, if your child only has:  Fever alone, or vomiting or diarrhea, or sore throat or new cough with no fever, then keep your child home from school until symptoms are gone for 24 hours.

Dear Families,

We are happy to announce that you will soon be receiving automated telephone calls regarding unexcused absences and tardies.  Our school is participating in a pilot of this program by the Seattle School District beginning on May 6^th.

Beginning May 6^th, if your student receives an unexcused absence or tardy you will receive an automated phone call about the absence or the tardy that evening.  Calls will begin at 6:00 PM each weeknight in order to ensure that the highest number of families are at home when calls are made by the system.

 To provide the most specific information possible to families, the District is implementing separate unexcused absence and unexcused tardy calls.  This will allow calls to include information about the specific period your student received an unexcused absence or tardy.  This means that if your student has an excused absence and an unexcused tardy on the same day, you will receive two separate SchoolMessenger calls. 

 Calls will be made to the primary phone number currently on file with the School District.  Families that have provided the District with an email address will receive an email containing unexcused attendance and tardy information.  Initially, all attendance and tardy calls will be made in English but translated calls will be available to families in home languages beginning later this month.

Currently, many the secondary schools across the District have their own desktop version of SchoolMessenger for making attendance calls. Moving forward, these calls will happen centrally and these schools will no longer have the added resource commitment of purchasing their individual SchoolMessenger licenses.

If you have questions or feedback about the pilot or calls that you receive, please contact the attendance office at (206) 252-5014 or email Carol Bristol chbristol@seattleschools.org.