Dear Early Childhood Center Families,
Welcome back to all of our returning families, and a very warm welcome to our new families
entering the District 158 Early Childhood Center (D158 ECC) for the first time. There is a lot of
information below, so please read it carefully to ensure a great 2022-2023 school year!
School Begins
August 17: First day of school for grades 1-12.
August 18: First day of school for Kindergarten and ECC/Preschool students.
Everyone should have received a letter notifying you of the session your child will be attending.
If you are unaware of your child’s session please email Mrs. Pauwels (Principal) at
[email protected] or call the ECC office at 847-659-5400. You can also see the session
when you access powerschool for your child’s teacher.
Open House
District 158 ECC Open House will be for all students on Monday, August 15th from 3:30-5:00
p.m. To maximize your time with the teacher we ask that you try to attend the assigned times
listed below.
- Session 1 families from 3:30-4:15 p.m.
- Session 2 families from 4:15-5:00 p.m.
*Open House is a time when you can find your classroom and meet your teacher, we hope all of our students are able to attend!
Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Conferences will be held on November 21st from 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. and November 22nd from 7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (no school for all D158 students on these days, more information to come)
- ECC Only-Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences: March 8th, 9th, & 10th (no school for ECC students on March 9th & 10th, more information to come)
Teacher Assignments
You can check to see who your child’s teacher will be by logging on to PowerSchool by Monday,
August 8, 2022. Parent PowerSchool access information can be found at:
https://ps.district158.org/public. Please log into your account using the UserName and
Password that you chose when you created your account. As in the past, there will not be a
letter sent to your home with your child’s teacher assignment. Teacher assignments cannot be
accessed if you have not completed the online registration for the 2022-23 school year.
Food Service
Students’ meals will no longer be free beginning with the 2022-23 school year, for ECC that
means we will not be sending home meals this year. Fee waivers are available and must be
turned in to the District Office. Meal applications and fee waivers are still needed each year.
- If you have students in the district that eat lunch at school, the online meal application is available at https://huntleycsd158schoolmenus.com/index.php?sid=1625233331024&page=lunchapps beginning July 1, 2022.
- Applications for fee waivers must be downloaded from the District website here and submitted to the Food Service Department for consideration.
If you do not have access to a computer or are not able to apply online, paper applications are
available at the District Office.
Volunteer Information
Volunteer opportunities will be available during the 2022-23 school year, both at the classroom
level and school-wide level. More communication will be shared as the school year progresses.
Raptor – Visitor Management System
Our District is committed to keeping students and faculty safe at all times. Part of this is knowing
who is in our buildings at all times, our Raptor- visitor management system- will be in place
throughout all District 158 Schools. The purpose of this initiative is to enhance our existing
procedures for the safety of our students and staff. This system will check visitors against a
sex-offender database prior to granting access into our schools as well as provide an automated
way to track visitors.
Transportation Information – Please note that the first week times are approximate.
Families will be able to see tentative route information for their bus riders in PowerSchool on
July 25, 2022. Please check your child’s route information between July 25 and August 10th. No
changes to routes will happen from August 10th through September 5, 2022. If you have any
questions or concerns please contact Transportation at (847) 659-3000 or [email protected]. For more information, you can also visit the website at
https://huntley158.org/departments/transportation/. If you need transportation to and/or from
a sitter within the district a sitter request form must be completed. They were due July
25th. Please turn in a sitter request form ASAP, if needed. Please keep in mind, this form
must be submitted yearly even if there is no change.
Last year, the district began to ask families to identify their intent of utilizing transportation
services to have more accurate information on actual ridership. This information will assist the
district in routing and bus capacity with the goal for minimal changes needed due to capacity
concerns on specific routes. You should have been sent a brief few question survey the week of
July 4th, if you did not complete the survey sent by the district previously and you do not need
transportation services for the year (examples for not needing might be utilization of community
daycare and being transported by those agencies, utilizing the Park District before and after
school care, etc) please email [email protected]. We thank you for your
cooperation as this will assist our transportation department being more effective and efficient.
Parent Education Days
The District 158 Early Childhood Center has 7 Parent Education Days each school year. These
are designated days for parent education workshops and/or family activities. There is no
school attendance for ECC on these days. Families are invited to attend with their child, it is
optional. Details for each day are sent home closer to the date. We are aligning some of our
Parent Education Days with the elementary early release days so they are not all on Fridays as
in the past. Please mark them on your calendar and notify your daycare provider, if necessary.
2022-2023 Parent Education Days are: Sept. 22nd, Oct. 21st, Dec. 21st, Jan. 26th, Feb.
16th, April 20th, and May 25th. These dates are now listed on the District 158 calendar.
Supplies
Students will need a backpack and an extra set of clothes to keep at school. There is no supply list for preschool. Teachers will communicate with families at open house, if anything is needed.
Enjoy your summer and we look forward to seeing everyone in August!
Sincerely,
Sheryl Pauwels
Principal
