📢 Important Announcement: School Closure for Deep Cleaning & Illness Prevention
Due to the widespread impact of flu and norovirus across our schools resulting in excessive student and staff absences, Polk School District will be closing all schools and facilities and transitioning to a Learn-From-Home day on Friday, January 31, 2025, to allow for deep cleaning of our buildings and additional recovery time for those affected. We currently have 761 students and 63 school-level staff members with illnesses reported which amounts to 10% or more of our student population at each school and a shortage of necessary staff to operate effectively.
This decision is not made lightly and as always we will continue to prioritize the health and safety of our students, staff, and community. Extra-curricular activities and after-school events will not be affected.
All of our facilities will undergo a comprehensive deep cleaning to help reduce the spread of illness and ensure a sanitized environment for everyone upon reopening.
We encourage families to take necessary precautions, including:
✅ Monitoring for symptoms of illness
✅ Practicing good hand hygiene
✅ Keeping sick students at home until they are symptom/fever-free
We appreciate your understanding and partnership as we work to maintain a healthy learning environment.
🌨❄️ WEATHER UPDATE 🌨❄️
Polk School District will open with a delayed start on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. The additional time will ensure our buses and facilities are fully operational and warm. This means all bus routes, school openings, and start times will be shifted forward two hours from the regularly scheduled times. For example, a 7:00 AM bus pickup will now be a 9:00 AM pickup, etc. There will be no change in dismissal procedures.
We encourage all students to dress warmly for tomorrow's frigid temperatures. Wear layers, hats, gloves, and scarves. Additionally, we urge all of our bus riders to utilize our Here Comes the Bus app to minimize time outside waiting for the bus to arrive.
We appreciate your continued understanding and partnership as we take these precautions to ensure the safety of our students and staff during these extreme winter conditions.
🌨❄️ WEATHER UPDATE 🌨❄️
Due to the State of Emergency now in effect and the uncertainty surrounding the possibility for winter weather conditions to develop during the school day, Polk School District will be closed Tuesday, January 21, 2025, as part of our commitment to ensuring the safety of our students and staff.
We appreciate your understanding and partnership. Stay safe and warm.
🛎🌨❄️IMPORTANT - WINTER WEATHER SCHOOL CLOSURE❄️🌨🛎
Based on conversations with state and local emergency management agencies regarding the incoming winter storm, all Polk School District campuses will transition to a Learn-from-Home day for Friday, January 10, 2025. Please refer to communication channels from your student’s respective school/teacher for guidance and expectations regarding assignments.
All extracurricular activities/sporting events for Friday and Saturday are cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience, but will always make decisions in the best interest of our students and staff, keeping safety our first priority. Thank you for your continued support. Stay safe and warm!
🌨❄️ WEATHER UPDATE 🌨❄️
As part of our commitment to ensuring the safety and well-being of our students and staff, we are continually monitoring updates from state and local emergency management agencies on the forecasted winter weather that has the potential to affect our area in the coming days. In an effort to help you best plan and prepare, we will provide an update regarding any potential delays or cancellations after 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 8th. We appreciate your understanding and continued partnership.
PLEASE NOTE: Our THRIVE in 2025 event originally planned for this Saturday has been rescheduled for January 25, 2025, at Polk County College and Career Academy-Cedartown High School campus from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
RESCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 25TH!
🎉📆SAVE THE DATE!📆🎉
We have been planning something EXTRA special to WELCOME our students back in 2025!!! DO NOT MISS out on our THRIVE IN 2025 back-to-school event on Saturday, January 25th!
FREE haircuts, FREE school supplies, games, and prizes for the whole family! Everyone is welcome! Come stock up on supplies for the rest of the school year for FREE! 📗✂️🖍📓✏️
#PSDProud #psdtheplacetobe #FamilyEngagement
🚍Join Our Team at Polk School District!🚍
The Polk School District Transportation Department is on the lookout for skilled and dedicated Bus Drivers to join our team!
You can view the detailed job description and APPLY today using the link below OR scan the attached QR Code!
https://www.applitrack.com/polkk12/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Transportation&internal=internal&fbclid=IwY2xjawHFRP9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaoBkuJ8ltqMoOKRPC5OpMC3qW6mbrO-lFngormjoAE-9jW-7r-HcJQXBA_aem_vLc1nxpoIETSs3WlwekYVA
You can also call our Transportation Department at 770-684-8308!
Congratulations to our November GRIT award winners, Ahzyon Freeman and Holly Nails. We are so thankful for both of these ladies and the job they do every day.
It is almost time to deck the halls! While your children are home for Thanksgiving Break, if they would like to make or pick out an ornament for the school Christmas tree, we would love to add them. Just send them in after the break and we will make sure it gets hung on the tree for all to see! Happy Thanksgiving!
Tickets are on sale now for our Christmas Musical. They are $8 now and $10 at the door. We are so excited for you to see our Prek, Kindergarten, First and Second Grade students show off all their hard work. You may purchase tickets at the post QR code, the following link: https://qrco.de/bfVLeh, or in person at the Cedartown Performing Arts Center. If you have any questions feel free to contact Mrs. Kaila Chivers at kaila.chivers@polk.k12.ga.us
We are starting a Math Fact Challenge for November and December. Information is coming home today. Every activity students complete at home, will earn students a ticket for a drawing. We will be giving away 2 bikes with this challenge. Math fluency is very important and students learning their math facts fluently is so important to being a successful student. We hope this challenge will improve our students' skills.
Tickets are on sale now for our Christmas Musical. They are $8 now and $10 at the door. We are so excited for you to see our Prek, Kindergarten, First and Second Grade students show off all their hard work. You may purchase tickets at the post QR code, the following link: https://qrco.de/bfVLeh, or in person at the Cedartown Performing Arts Center. If you have any questions feel free to contact Mrs. Kaila Chivers at kaila.chivers@polk.k12.ga.us
YGES Fall Festival is November 7th. See the flyer below for more information.
We will be having a Parent/Teacher Conference day on November 11, 2024 from 10 am to 6 pm. Letters will be sent home this week about this date. Please respond by completing the letter and sending it back to your child's teacher. We look forward to discussing all of the wonderful things your child is accomplishing at Youngs Grove Elementary School.
Help us, help others. We will be doing a can food drive for our community from October 28 - November 22. Students can bring canned food items to school to turn in to help. The classroom with the most donations will receive a reward at the end of the food drive.
Our Veterans Day program is November 8th at 9:00. We would love for all of our Veterans and their families to attend. If your child has a special part, they will bring a paper home with that information. Students will also bring home the paper to add your veteran to our slide show. If Mrs. Frady had your information last year, she still has it.
Our faculty, staff and students are so thankful for our administrators! We love and appreciate you!
We have some exciting plans at The Grove for October 31st. Our 2nd and 3rd graders have been learning about characters and character traits in books and stories. Their teachers are sending home more info on this, but 2nd and 3rd grade students will be dressing up as their favorite character from a story or book. Students will be walking in a character parade throughout the school at 8:45. Parents of 2nd and 3rd grade students are invited to come for this event.
Since it is Halloween, we will allow all students to dress up this day, however, please make sure costumes are school appropriate. No masks or accessories are allowed unless the child is in 2nd and 3rd grade as part of the parade. Those will be allowed for the parade only, then tucked away in backpacks.
We hope to see some of you as we celebrate the learning about characters and character traits by our students. For those in the other grades, no worries, we have some special events coming up for each grade level for you to come visit. More info will be coming out as those events draw near.
We have started selling Chick Fil A Biscuits again on Wednesday mornings as students enter the building. The biscuits are $4 each. Please send $4 with your child if they would like to purchase one. Thank you.
October 22-25 is Red Ribbon Week. Please see the attached flyer for anyone who wants to participate in next week's dress up days.
