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August 2019
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 Celebrate With Us!

  Vaccinations

According to Minnesota Law (121A.15), in order to enroll in any preschool, elementary, or secondary school, the parent/guardian must submit documentation to the Building Administrator showing the student has:
 
1. Completed required immunizations or is in progress of completing them as required by Minnesota State Law,
OR
2. Provided a statement of medical exemption signed by a medical provider,
OR
3. Provided a notarized statement of conscientious objection to all or to specific immunizations.

For the 2019-20 school year, there is a new requirement for a Meningococcal booster immunization for children entering grade 12. Students entering grade 12 for the 2019-20 school year need to have documentation or a legal, personal or medical exemption for the booster dose of Meningococcal vaccine. Most children received the initial dose of this vaccine when they entered seventh grade.

If your twelfth-grader has not received a booster dose of Meningococcal vaccine, please schedule an appointment with your child’s health care provider, or get a legal exemption before school starts in the fall. If you are concerned about costs, ask your health care provider if you are eligible to receive free or low-cost vaccinations.

For a current copy of your child’s vaccination record, contact your child’s health care provider or call the Minnesota Immunization Information Connection (MIIC) at 651-201-3980.

For more information on Meningococcal disease, go to Meningococcal Disease Basics on the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) website.

If you need exemption information, the Immunization Form, is available on the Minnesota Department of Health website. 

Once your child has received their booster dose of Meningococcal vaccine, please submit a copy of your child’s vaccine record or a legal exemption to the school office. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s school and request to speak with the licensed school nurse.
 
Please submit all updated immunization records as soon as possible to your school health office, especially if you child is entering preschool, kindergarten, grade 7 or 12. 

  Back-to-School Reminders



Families of Students Entering Grades 6-12:
 Complete the Technology Agreement and set up the Protection Plan for your student's technology device for the 2019-20 school year. Get started now!

School Supplies: School supply lists for the 2019-20 school year are available! The 2019-20 school start and dismissal times, as well as the 2019-20 school calendar, can also be found on the District 742 website.

Before School Care: Kids' Connection and Eagle (North Jr. High) and Tiger (South Jr. High) Clubs provide child learning and care services. These District 742 programs are offered for grades K-5 from 6 a.m. (Kids' Connection) or grades 6-8 from 7 a.m. (Eagle and Tiger Clubs) until the beginning of the school day. Register online or forms can be found on our Youth Learning and Care website.​

After School Care: In partnership with the Boys and Girls of Central Minnesota, District 742 hosts KIDSTOP, a childcare program for students in grades K-6 that is offered in the eight elementary schools and runs from the end of the school day until 6 p.m. Learn more about KIDSTOP.

  I AM 742: Julie (Rethmeier) Moyes



Julie (Rethmeier) Moyes, 1971 graduate of Apollo High School, was in the first graduating class from the new school. It was a stellar year. Opportunities were plentiful. Because new doors were opened, her senior year gave her a zest for adventure that continued the rest of her life. She’s traveled the world, met royalty, presidents, diplomats, politicians and even a pope!

Moyes recalls writing three papers when she was a freshman at Apollo about what careers she’d be interested in as an adult. She wrote about being a newspaper reporter, working in advertising and also in foreign affairs.

So, when the opportunity arose for her to join the Apollo school newspaper, the yearbook and student government, she jumped at the chance.

“Everything was new and cool at Apollo. … It really gave me the opportunity to get more involved in school,” says Moyes. “You know, Tech was so huge and already had an infrastructure of tradition and customs. It was hard for younger students to break into that. So, a new school really gave me the opportunity to get into things I really liked. I really like to write. … It paved the way forward in my life.”

Following graduation, Moyes attended the University of Minnesota and majored in journalism because she got the “bug” working on Apollo’s newspaper. Three of her summers were spent working at the St. Cloud Times. One of her first stories was on Vietnamese immigration. Her story focused on a new family moving to the area. She was flattered when the article was reprinted during the Times’s 50th anniversary. During her senior year at the university, she studied abroad in London. Moyes found herself bitten by a different kind of bug – the travel bug.

Making a transition from journalism to marketing, Moyes stayed in Minnesota after college graduation. She worked in Dayton’s broadcast advertising department in its Minneapolis downtown store.

“It was so magical in those days,” she recalls. “It was really in the glory days. … It was really exciting. … But I felt I wasn’t in the right place. I really wanted to do something different. Trying to convince people to buy something they really didn’t need wasn’t feeding my soul. … There was just something missing.” Read more.
 

  LEAF Awarded Two Literacy Grants



The District 742 Local Education & Activities Foundations (LEAF) was awarded two literacy grants for the 2019-20 school year.
 
The first grant, from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation (Best Buy) supports the ongoing District 742 PAKRAT Program (Partners And Kids Reading Alot Together). This is a preschool through grade three child literacy and parent involvement program that LEAF has supported since 2011.
 
The second grant, from the Morgan Family Foundation will support a new "math literacy and parent involvement" program for preschool students which begins this fall. This program builds on the success of PAKRAT and is called "PAKCAT"(Partners and Kids Counting Alot Together).
 
Both programs are unique efforts to increase academic performance for District 742 students.

  We are 742 Champions!

Many in the St. Cloud Area know Tech High School graduate and Olympian Alise Post for her international fame in BMX racing. Rising quickly at a young age in her shadow, however, are two brothers, Lucas and Jacob Theisen from Oak Hill Community School. They’ve been hitting the BMX circuit by storm, nationally and now internationally.

Their journey started just riding bikes in the woods across the street with their dad, Steve, for fun. A neighbor, Ross Gehling, (a Tech High School student and BMX rider) also rode in the woods. Gehling approached Steve after watching the boys ride for a summer because he believed the boys were talented and urged Steve to get them to the local Pineview Park BMX race track. The boys visited the track one night, and the rest is history.

“The boys absolutely loved it and when Lucas asked me to sign them up,” says Steve, “it was more of a demand. ‘I love this! I want to do this!’ he said.”

The boys have been racing for two years; Lucas started at the age of six and Jacob age five.

Lucas remembers the first time he took a bike around the track.

“It was just really fun – jumping and manualing [wheelie without pedaling]!” exclaims Lucas. Jacob agrees.

The boys practiced for three weeks before they signed up for their first race. Coincidently, both brothers won their first race.

“Hook, line and sinker [from the first win],” says Steve. “That’s when we started doing the state races, too.” Continue reading

  10 Ways to Prepare for Back-to-School


It’s August, and summer is coming to an end fast, which means back-to-school for kids. For some parents, the remaining time can’t go fast enough. For others, they are holding on to every last precious moment. In either case, here are some helpful ways to prepare for the inevitable first day of school.
  1. Stay Informed- Follow the District/school social media sites such as FacebookTwitterPinterest and Instagram. Don’t forget about the District website! Reminders for meetings, upcoming events and the ever-so-dreaded weather announcements will be posted on these sites.
  2. School Supplies- Yes. It is that time of year again. It’s time to stock up on boxes of Kleenex, crackers, pencils, crayons, notebooks and tablets. Find your list.
  3. Open Houses (Family and Goal-Setting Conferences)- Mark your calendars for open houses and goal setting conferences. This is a chance for you and your child to meet his/her teacher and establish a relationship. Your child will have the opportunity to get familiar with the school, find his/her locker and help relieve some of the first days of school stressors your child may have. Continue reading...

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