Canceled: January 20, 2021 Pre-kindergarten Parent Information Meeting 

January 13, 2021

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Due to the safety protocols that must be maintained during the pandemic, we will not be hosting an in-person pre-kindergarten information night as we have in the past.  

Instead, we will be creating a set of Looms that can be viewed by all families that would like to learn about our wonderful UPK program. These Looms will be emailed to families and posted on our website on or about January 20th.   

This school year, we will be mailing registration packets to UPK parents that are in our database.  If you know of a family that did not receive a packet of information because they were not in our database, please let them know that they need to contact Mrs. Laursen to register their child at 538-3445 or begin the registration process online. After they contact Mrs. Shannon Laursen, she will send these families a registration packet and enter them in our database so they will receive future mailings.   

Presently, we are in the process of planning for our Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) Program for the 2021/2022 school year. The attached registration information needs to be completed in order to identify parents who are interested in having their child attend our UPK Program for the 2021/2022 school year.  

Once again, our UPK Program will be a half-day (morning or afternoon), 5 days/week. Morning or afternoon classes will be created after the registration period. Parents/guardians will be required to provide transportation to and from school.   Eligibility for the program includes the following:

• Child must be 4 years old by December 1, 2021 (any child 5 years old by Dec. 1st is not eligible)
• Child must meet all medical record requirements for school attendance
• Child must make a commitment to regular daily attendance

The registration period for this program will commence on January 20, 2021, and end on February 26, 2021. This registration information will be utilized to create classes and place students in morning or afternoon sessions.  Included in the registration forms is a UPK Session Survey form.  Please complete this form and return it to notify us if you can provide transportation for the morning session, afternoon session or both the afternoon and morning sessions. It is our goal to attempt to accommodate your session preference due to daycare or transportation arrangements.  

In the event that we can’t accommodate all of the session preferences, we will utilize a random selection process to place students in afternoon or morning sessions. If it is required, this will take place at the Board of Education meeting on May 11th.  I am hopeful that many parents will state that they can provide transportation for both the morning and afternoon sessions to provide us with the required flexibility to accommodate all requests.

Please complete and return the attached registration information to the Elementary School Office by February 26, 2021.  If it is more convenient, you could mail it to the following address:

Shannon Laursen, School Registrar
Caledonia-Mumford Central School
99 North Street
Caledonia, New York 14423

I look forward to working with you and your child.  As always, please call me at 538-3481 if you have any questions about this great program.  

Sincerely yours,

Mr. David Bulter ☺
Elementary Principal