Evergreen Family Orientation
Orientation is next Tuesday! Look for a separate email coming soon with parking instructions and more details!
Kindergarten -4th Grade
8:30-9:30 am General Orientation - Students in Classrooms, Parents meet in the gym
9:30-11:30 am Classroom Orientation and Potluck Social, Parents and Students in Classrooms
5th- 8th Grade
1:00-2:00 pm General Orientation - Students in Classrooms, Parents meet in the gym
2:00-4:00 pm Classroom Orientation and Potluck Social, Parents and Students in Classroom
Potluck
Sign-Ups
Click on your grade level below to sign up for the potluck!
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade
Please review the Parent Orientation Slideshow before attending.
Returning Parents: please review to see what changes you can spot!
Unexcused Absences during the first 20 Days means cuts to important funding!
Please do not make any plans that would mean your child/ren will miss any of the first 20 days of school.
When students are absent during the first 20 days of the year, Evergreen’s funding is impacted for the remainder of the school year.
For example: If you schedule a trip where a student would miss 5 school days, Evergreen would lose approximately $2,250 of school funding! And, that's just state funding. Buncombe County also bases yearly funding for the school solely on attendance during the first 20 days of school.
The First 20 Days are: August 20th (Orientation) through September 17th.
Missing Orientation Day or days within the first week could also mean risking your spot at Evergreen. So much information about your new classroom and the school year will be shared during orientation. In addition, the first week of school is used in the classroom to create a classroom culture that students will use throughout the school year. That is why it is mandatory.
Financial Assistance
If you need financial assistance for the 24-25 school year (EVEN if only for bigger End of Year Trips), please complete this form: FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE REQUEST.
Paper forms are available in the main office.
If there are any extenuating circumstances, please detail them in the notes section (ie. your income was higher for 2023 on your tax return but your situation has changed).
Important information - PLEASE READ:
Please apply now even if you ONLY need financial assistance for your child's end of year trip
Deadlines:
October 31, 2024 (to be retro to August)
December 31, 2024 (for assistance starting from request date)
All year for families that experience a change in their financial situation at any time during the school year
Evergreen cannot at this time offer 100% assistance but we do offer several different levels between 80% assistance and 34% assistance
School lunches - Financial assistance does not apply to school breakfast & lunches - please contact Sarah Shah regarding free & reduced lunch
My School Bucks
We have moved to a more efficient, easier to use payment system which also features an app that you can install on your device.
Breakfast, Lunch, and Snacks
One of the nice features of the My School Bucks App is that you can add funds to your students’ meal account/s for breakfasts, lunches, and snacks.
With older students consider including them when you’re setting up your monthly allotment, occasionally monitor their use of those funds, and help them learn how to stay within a given budget!
Access to affordable, nutritious foods are key to student success! Being able to offer Free and Reduced Meals through the National School Lunch Program, and securing access to health food for all of our students is an important value of our school.
Breakfast will be available each morning at the entrance to the school. Breakfast is free for students who qualify for free/reduced lunch, or $2.75/student for those who do not qualify.
We provide lunches. This year we are working with a different company, but it is the same chef who has been providing us with fresh nutritious meals for the past two years. And yes, we are still featuring Macaroni Mondays. Lunches are free for those who qualify for free /reduced lunch, or $5.75.
Snacks are available in the front office.
Look for an email from our Nutrition Director, Sarah Shah with more details on menus/ordering.
New Volunteers must have a background check on file with the school. Please button below to complete.
Sign up to Volunteer
Evergreen is grounded in the philosophy that all community members will work together to ensure the success of each child at Evergreen. We are crew. We depend on volunteers.
Families are encouraged to find a variety of ways to contribute their time and talents to fulfill their monthly volunteer commitment. Please select one or more of the Parent Committees or Board Committees that fit you best.
Volunteer hours can also be filled with individual equity work or equity work in the larger community. This can include equity trainings, neighborhood book clubs, etc.
Each family member should complete their own survey. Please feel free to share with local grandparents, or other chosen family members who want to be more involved.
Please Log Hours! Hours can be logged per occurrence or cumulatively (ie. I spend 1 hour each week washing and folding classroom rags, there are approx 36 weeks in the school year so I can log 36 hours once, or I can log 1 hours each week)
Believe it or not: This accounting can actually help us as we are writing grants because we can show a community that is invested in our collective work!
Community Builders
August 29th : 6-7:30pm
The Meadow @ Highland
The Dogs of Evergreen School Year Wall Calendar
Pre-Order your Dogs of Evergreen School Year Wall Calendar!
This August-July Calendar comes with school breaks, teacher work days, and holidays pre-loaded.
It also features handy QR Codes to get you to school resources quickly. Need to fill out the Absence Form to let us know your student isn’t coming today? Scan the QR Code beside Katie’s doggo, Bintang, on the inside back cover and >boom<, there you are!
$17.50 during the pre-order, $20 after printing.
Welcome the The Counseling Corner
Did you know: Evergreen has two wonderful school counselors. Annie Mast serves grades K-4, and Hunter Holland serves our 5th-8th grade population. Our counselors are committed to weaving Social Emotional Learning into our classrooms and assisting our student population in meeting their personal and academic goals.
Visit their home on the web to learn more about our counseling program.
In future issues of The Scoop, Annie and Hunter will use this space to provide resources, share workshops available to the community, and feature thoughtful articles on issues that many families navigate: as the school year begins, during the holidays, during standardized test weeks, and other times of high stress.
Annie (left) and Hunter (right)
Become a Nurturing Member of the Evergreen Community by making a Monthly or Quarterly Contribution of any amount!
Feeling relief after eliminating that pre-school/daycare/full time care expense?
As you consider your evolving childcare budget, please consider making a monthly or quarterly donation of any amount to support our school!
Splitting your gift into monthly or quarterly installments makes it easier to allocate a meaningful amount. And our easy to use Givebutter donation software makes regular giving a breeze!
Help our school thrive with your donation of any amount!
Purchase a book for the library, or use it as a book recommendation list for your next library trip!
Did you know that 10% of each Artsonia purchase is donated to the school.
Download the app and start scanning your receipts at checkout!
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