December 18, 2020 CELA Pride Family Newsletter

Post-Holiday School Attendance Notice Christmas Celebrations Dear CELA Parents and Families, On the afternoon of Tues- As the Christmas and New Year holidays are quickly approaching, we wanted to wish you the very best of the season. Many of us are awaiting a new year with renewed hope for a day, December 22 class- return to normalcy. Each day you drop your child(ren) off at the front door, you renew our room Christmas celebra- partnership to maintain face to face education at CELA by checking your child for symp- tions will take place. Stu- toms and ensuring they do not enter our building with a fever or any other symptoms. To- dents may wear ugly gether we have done a tremendous job in not having to close the school for one day since sweaters or other Christ- we began on August 31st. mas/holiday apparel that is school appropriate. After carefully reviewing our student attendance following the Thanksgiving holiday break, we have determined that we will not ask you to mandatorily quarantine your child(ren) following the Christmas and New Year’s holiday break should you have Picture Re-Takes Are traveled or gathered with family or friends. If you prefer to voluntarily quarantine because Online for Viewing you feel it is the best choice for you and your children, please let us know so we may accommodate your choice. Please email your child’s teacher along with Emma in the front Picture retakes are ready for viewing at https:// office. or- ders.schoolandsportpics.com Thank you, /ordering/access. If you need your student’s individ- Robert Antholine Nicole Daniels John LaFleur ual access code, please email Emma at em- [email protected]

Network Outage Spelling Bee The CELA network went down from approximately noon on Wednesday, December 16th until CELA will be participating about 9:30 am on Thursday, December 17th. If you had your CELA device left on during that in the 2021 spelling bee vir- time period, please restart your device and log on again. If you had any work in progress during tually from CELA. It will take place middle to that time, it is possible it was when the servers crashed. in of January. Regional Any virtual students that may have lost work during that time should contact their teachers and spelling bee is February explain the situation. Although server crashes are very rare on our network, the situations do TBD, also virtually. occur. Our IT staff worked diligently to rectify the situation and get us up and running smoothly again.

Holiday Office Hours NWEA MAP Testing The CELA office will be open over the holidays on December 23, 28, 29 and Between January 11 and 30th. Please email or call to see the availability of a specific individual prior to January 22 - grade level schedules will shared after coming, unless you have a scheduled drop off or pick up. the break. Enjoy some photos from CELA’s recent spirit dress-up day. The theme was leadership which is one of CELA’s 3 Pillars (Academics, Leadership & Christian values). We had an Horse Chiropractor eclectic group.

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