Scott School is gearing up for Walk to School Day on Wed., October 2nd.  A letter and map were sent via Infinite Campus to families earlier this week about the drop off location and plan for all students that day.  Also, a minimum of 10 volunteers are needed at check points along the walking route that morning.  If you're interested in helping, please contact Mike Holes at holesmik@dewittschools.net or 517-668-3427.  Volunteers also much be I-CHAT cleared.  This process takes a few days, so please complete and submit this as soon as possible.  Thanks for supporting our school and fun events like Walk to School Day. 

Scott is a “Bucketfilling” school!  Students are taught how to be “bucketfillers” by sharing that we all have an invisible bucket in which we keep our feelings about ourselves.  When our buckets are full, we are happy; when they are empty, we are sad.  “Bucketfillers” can fill the bucket of others by saying a kind word or doing a thoughtful deed.  Students can also fill their own bucket by having kind thoughts about themselves.  Students attended a Bucketfilling Assembly on Monday, September 23rd to learn what it means to fill a bucket and how sometimes we can intentionally or unintentionally dip a bucket.  Consider checking out the book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? from the public library to read at home.  Throughout the school year, we will also encourage and recognize students’ efforts to be “bucketfillers” by filling out bucketfilling posters that are announced on the Morning News and hung on a bulletin board for everyone to see!  You can fill your child’s bucket at home by giving him/her a genuine compliment.  Be sure to also let your child know when he/she has filled your bucket.  Being a bucketfilling helps children and others develop positive relationships, empathy, and compassion for others.

Please help keep our students (and all pedestrians) who walk to and from school safe by following driver safety laws.  Although most students use the crosswalk at the stop sign on Wilson St. to cross the road, it is important to be alert for students crossing anywhere near school grounds.  You have an important role in keeping our students safe by following these law tips.

• Drivers must come to a complete stop at stop signs.

• Pedestrians have the right-of-way in a crosswalk, so drivers must yield.

• Drivers cannot park within 20 feet of a crosswalk.  This means if you pick your child up and are in the car line near the crosswalk, you are obligated to leave this much space.

• Drivers cannot park within an intersection.  Again, if you pick up your child, wait patiently until cars move forward to avoid getting caught in the intersection.

Our local law enforcement partner with our school to assist with safety and will ticket if necessary to protect our students.  Modeling expected driver safety is essential and contagious!  Be a role model for our children and other drivers.