Dear Leggee Families,
Welcome back to all of our returning families, and a very warm welcome to our new families entering Leggee Elementary for the first time. This year Leggee will set sail on August 17th for our First thru Fifth grade students and on August 18th for our new Kindergarteners. Our crew is eager to get started and navigate this new school year!
School Begins
August 17th: First day of school for 1st thru 5th grade at Leggee and the bell times are 8:30-3:25.
August 18th: First day of school for our new Kindergarten friends!
Captain and First Mate
Principal: Scott Iddings
Assistant Principal: Karrie Baughman
Open House
Leggee will host an Open House for all students and will be held on August 15th from 4:00-6:00 for K-2 p.m. and 5:00-7:00 p.m. for grades 3-5. Open House is a time where you and your student can find their classroom, meet your teacher, and drop off supplies!
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Conferences will be held on:
November 21 from 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
November 22 from 7:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Teachers will share information about how to sign up for conferences as the school year gets started.
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 or if you have not submitted the required medical forms.
Food Service
Please be aware that students’ meals will no longer be free beginning with the 2022-23 school year. Students will pay for meals based on their status of free/reduced/pay. Lunch prices will be free/$0.40/$3.10, respectively. Fee waivers are available to download and must be turned in to the District Office. Meal applications and fee waivers are still needed each year and can be found below:
- The online meal application is available at https://www.schoollunchapp.com/District.aspx beginning July 1, 2022.
- Applications for fee waivers must be downloaded from the District website HERE and turned in at the District Office to be 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 (650 Dr. John Burkey Drive, Algonquin, IL 60102).
For reference, you can also find the reminders (i.e. transportation selection, health services forms, registration, etc.) that were sent out via email on our website here: https://huntley158.org/2022/07/07/back-to-school-reminders-preparing-for-the-2022-23-school-year/
Volunteer Information
Volunteers 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 https://huntley158.org/departments/transportation/ . Contact information for transportation: (847) 659-3000 or [email protected]. If you need transportation to and/or from a sitter within the district please be sure to turn in the request form to transportation no later than July 25, 2022. Please keep in mind families that utilize sitter forms, 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 on July 7th. 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.
***And as an additional reminder, event info for our August 1 Movie Night (How to Train Your Dragon), can be found here: https://fb.me/e/2ClwGSLsu ***
We look forward to navigating this school year with you!!
Sincerely,
Scott M. Iddings
Principal
