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Inclusiveness and equality are important at Grady Elementary. We want to ensure our school makes everyone feel welcome and that every student receives an excellent educational experience. Please take a minute to review the School District's Statement of Non-Discrimination Policy. It is critically important that we all abide by this policy. Please direct any questions about the policy to the school or Mr. West, whose contact information is listed below.

Statement of Non-Discrimination Policy

The School District of Hillsborough County does not discriminate nor tolerate harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, disability or marital status in its educational programs, services or activities, or in its hiring or employment practices; and it will take immediate action to eliminate such harassment, prevent its recurrence, and address its effects. Any student(s) or employee(s) found to have engaged in acts of harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, disability or marital status will be promptly disciplined. Such discipline may include, if circumstances warrant, suspension or expulsion for students, or suspension or termination for employees.

All school personnel, students, and parents are expected to work together to prevent harassment. Should you believe you or another individual has been subjected to harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, disability or marital status, you should report the harassment to your school or to:

Mark West, General Manager of Employee Relations

Division of Human Resources

901 East Kennedy Boulevard

Tampa, FL 33602

(813) 272-4227

[email protected]

Please join us for Grady Elementary PTA's Seventh Annual Family Reading Night, featuring pirates and pajamas, on Thursday, January 22, 2015, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Children are welcome to come dressed as pirates or wearing pajamas and will receive free books, beads, juice, and cookies. While kids are enjoying being read to by celebrity readers from local Gasparilla krewes, parents will receive information on reading and testing.

Parents of students in grades 3-5 are invited to attend a session regarding the new Florida Standards Assessment Test in the Media Center from 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm

Parents of students in grades K-2 are invited to attend a session regarding essential reading skills and the Florida Standards in the Cafeteria from 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm

Please call Ms. Taylor (tel: (813) 872-5325), with any questions about this event.

Grady Elementary PTA Family Night at PDQ January 22

Before or after your family attends Unlock the Treasures of Reading, please also attend Family Night at PDQ! PDQ is hosting Grady Family Night on Thursday, January 22, 2015, from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm at their South Tampa location (2207 South Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, FL 33629; restaurant tel: (813) 254-7373). PDQ will donate a portion of all Grady-related sales to Grady PTA. To ensure we get credit for your purchase, please mention at the register that you are there in support of Grady.

Grady's Tiger Trek Walkathon is coming up on Friday, January 30. T-shirts will be given away on the day of the Walkathon to each student who raises at least $35 by this Friday, January 16.

To be eligible to receive a Tiger Trek T-shirt on the day of Tiger Trek, simply register at Tiger Trek website and collect $35 in funds through the website before January 16, 2015 AND/OR send in the white Tiger Trek donation envelope in your child’s backpack. If you can’t find the envelope, additional Tiger Trek fundraising envelopes are available in the front office of the school. Any combination of donations through the website or envelope that equals or exceeds $35 submitted on or before January 16, 2015, will entitle your child to a Tiger Trek t-shirt.

T-shirts will be distributed on the morning of Tiger Trek and they can be worn for all spirit days for this year and each year thereafter.

So, if your child would like to wear a Tiger Trek t-shirt on the day of the event, please send in your envelopes or register your child and collect $35 in donations by January 16, 2015. To ensure that your child receives the proper size t-shirt, please write in the child’s youth t-shirt size on the envelope (there is no particular place to write this, so just write it anywhere). Or, if you register on the site, please choose a size from the shirt size selection bar at the bottom of the page.

Students who raise more than $35 after January 16 are still going to be given a Tiger Trek T-shirt, but depending on when the donations are submitted, the T-shirt might not be available on the morning of Tiger Trek. To be certain that your child has a Tiger Trek shirt on the day of the event, please submit the envelope and/or website donations by this Friday, January 16, 2015.

Please contact VP of Fundraising Jessica Schentrup with any questions at [email protected].

Congratulations to all of the Class Winners and Competitors in the Grady School-Wide Spelling Bee: Erin Dougill from Ms. Doremus’ class; Nicholas DeVoe from Ms. Bird’s class; Emily Azevedo from Ms. Coppes and Ms. Weather’s class; Connor Pawelek from Ms. Trupp’s class; Daniel Kumm from Ms. Dickens’ class; Ally Colon from Ms. Ritter’s class; Tessa Morrison from Ms. Webber’s class; Joey Mhawej from Ms. Reyher’s class; Veronika Prospal from Mr. Lanier’s class; Javier Alvarez from Ms. Moon’s class; and Elena Walters from Ms. LeVan and Ms. Underwood’s class. Thank you also to Spelling Bee Moderator, Lynn Bennett, Judges Ms. Sandoval and Ms. Baxter, and Timekeeper, Ms. Barra. Thank you very much to Spelling Bee Coordinator Suzan Kumm. We are the only Hillsborough County public elementary school to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The winners of the school-wide Grady Elementary Spelling Bee are Nicholas DeVoe who won First Place, Daniel Kumm who won Second Place and Emily Azevedo who won Third Place. Congratulations to all three winners! Nicholas DeVoe will proceed to the regional competition and we wish him luck.

See more pictures from the Spelling Bee at http://gradytigers.org/grady-spelling-bee-2014.

Please visit the Tiger Trek website for more information:

http://tigertrek.dojiggy.com/ng/index.cfm/ae1a456/regPages/pages/?p=134962

Come on down to Grady's Kindergarten Round Up on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:30 am. Parents, grandparents and children are welcome to attend. Adults, please bring your government-issued identification with you in order to check in to the school for the program. The program starts promptly at 8:30 am in the Kathryn Hance Media Center.

School administrators and each of the Kindergarten teachers will speak. The program will conclude with a tour of each of the four Kindergarten classes. No RSVP is necessary. Please tell your friends with future Kindergarteners about this program so that they can come see all that Grady Elementary has to offer.

To learn more about Grady Elementary, visit our school facts page at:http://gradytigers.org/grady-elementary-at-a-glance. To learn more about how the students at Grady Elementary have performed academically, please click here: http://gradytigers.org/pride

For more information about the process of registering your child for kindergarten please visit: http://www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/choice/kindergartenroundup.asp

We look forward to seeing you at Kindergarten Round Up! Please call Ms. Taylor or Ms. Valenti at (813) 872-5325 with any questions.