East Elementary School

Reading Every Day

Duchesne County School District (DCSD) wishes to inform its public that our community schools are safe. DCSD has been made aware of a generic, hoax email claiming there are explosives inside of every school. No specific school or district name was mentioned in the email. Other school districts in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming have received the same email in the past 24 hours. Officials of DCSD have been in contact with local law enforcement who will be vigilant throughout the school day. Again, at this point, DCSD has not received the hoax email or any information of its schools experiencing any reports of threats. All other known incidents in other district locations have been deemed non-credible following investigations.

Duchesne County School District will be destroying confidential special education records of students born in the year of 1996. In accordance with federal statutes, each student’s records may be considered “no longer needed to provide educational services” and may be destroyed after the student turns 27 years old. Unless otherwise requested by parents, guardians, or former students of legal age, special education records, which meet the prescribed requirements, will be destroyed after January 5, 2024. Several reasons exist for destroying these records. Most obvious is the storage problem that would be created by keeping such bulky records indefinitely. Another reason is the need to maintain confidentiality when continued existence of the outdated records serves little or no logical purpose. Finally, even for persons with legitimate interests in the student’s status, such outdated records may be potentially misleading when considering current functioning. Parents, guardians, and former students of legal age may request copies of any special education records on file. Anyone with questions regarding this policy and its implementation may contact Janalee Goodrich at 725-4500

Open Enrollment begins December 1, 2023 for students living outside of Duchesne County

Hoilday Reading-Challenge for kids

Menu Changes for this week

180 school days per year for learning

Attendance Matters, 180 school days per year for learning.

Thankful for Books

Parents & Guardians, Parents and guardians, We want to invite you to visit this site: https://www.dcsd.org/o/dcsd/page/attendance-matters.

Free DCSD Literacy Resources

For More information please visit https://duchesnecountysdut.sites.thrillshare.com/page/community-matters

Parents: If you did not receive your students picture packet or only received a proof, please reach out to them and let them know. Its better if you as a parent reach out, because you have all the information they will need. I won't know if or how you paid. You can email them at cs@bellphoto.com or call them 801-479-4624 Thanks.

General Information Announcement–Duchesne County School District FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this fall, According to a FEMA press release found on its official website. The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. Both tests will begin at approximately 12:20 p.m. MT on Wednesday, Oct. 4. The WEA portion of the test will be directed to all consumer cell phones. This is only a test with the purpose of ensuring that systems continue to be an effective means of warning the public about emergencies, particularly those on the national level. Schools will attempt to keep the interruption at a minimum while maintaining a focus on engagement and learning.

Title: Letter to East Elementary Community (October 3, 2023) Hello East Elementary Family, We would like to pass along some information to you regarding some bats that have found their way into East Elementary School lately. On September 22nd, staff noticed a bat in the school and promptly notified the Division of Natural Resources. Their expert came to the school after students were gone, caught the bat, and released it to the wild. Bats were also found in various places in the school the following week. Whenever a bat was found, protocol is that all students and staff are evacuated from the room, crews remove the bat in a similar fashion as DNR personnel, and class resumes. Custodians implemented some preventive measures over the weekend, including doing some work on Saturday and Sunday. Early Monday morning, crews inspected the school and found no bats. This led us to believe that measures were working. However, later in the day, there were a couple of dead bats found. On Tuesday morning, EES and DCSD staff consulted with Tri-County Health and with officials of the Division of Natural Resources to consider future mitigation efforts. It was determined that we should continue conducting school following these protocols and increased preventive measures. We would like you to know that we are taking this matter seriously and working to keep students and staff safe. The bats have been identified as Mexican free-tailed bats. According to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, “The Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium sized bat. Their fur is reddish to dark brown or gray in color. They have broad, black, forward pointing ears, and wrinkled lips. Their tails extend more than one third beyond the tail membranes; most other bats have tails that are completely enclosed within the tail membranes. Their wings are long and narrow…Most of these bats migrate south to Central America and Mexico during the winter…Mexican free-tails prefer to roost in caves, but will also choose attics, under bridges, or in abandoned buildings. They choose roosts near water. The water attracts the insects they eat, as well as allowing them the opportunity to drink…These bats are not currently threatened or endangered.” Our custodian, who has worked at East Elementary for 39 years, has stated that every few years, schools in our area will have some bats stop over during their migration South. We have been consulted to not plug any holes until after it has frozen and the bats move South. Instead, we are to take efforts to make their stay at our school unpleasant so they will leave. Crews will bolster these efforts tonight and in the coming days. Hopefully, this will help everyone understand the current situation. We love our children and hope that they will continue to be happy, safe, and learn, learn, learn. David Taylor Jason Young Principal Superintendent East Elementary Duchesne County School District

Robotics Club will start next week. Today (Sept. 20th) is the last day to turn in permission slips. We will then put students into groups, and then let parents know. Please remember acceptance into the club will be by lottery. Those students who do not make into the club will be placed on a numbered waiting list and parents will be contacted when a spot becomes available.

East students will be attending the Union High School homecoming parade this Friday, September 15 from 11:45 - 12:45. We will be riding buses to the Utah State University extension so that we do not have to walk across Hwy 40. If you need to check out your student, please do so before 11:45 or after 12:45.

SCHOOL PICTURES ARE TOMORROW WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH.

School pictures are this Wednesday, Sept. 13. We are sending picture packets home today, please ask your students for them.

Back to School Night will be Thursday, August 31 from 5:30 pm – 7 pm. We are going to have four, 15-minute sessions for you to attend your child’s class, meet their teacher and see what they will be learning this year. If you have multiple students at school this should provide opportunities to attend a session in each class. I will be providing Title I information in the conference room for those that are interested. The session times will be as follows: Session 1: 5:30 – 5:45 Session 2: 5:53 – 6:08 Session 3: 6:16 – 6:31 Session 4: 6:39 – 6:54 We look forward to seeing you!