Background Checks & Approved Volunteer Status
Soon and over the next couple of months you will start to get your “SafeVisitor Approval Expires in 30 days” notices. This is your yearly notice for your Level 1 background check renewal.
Please use the link in your email before it expires to renew your background check. Do not let your Level 1 expire or your Level 2 will become invalid and you will need to complete both (and pay) again.
Once completed, forward the approval email with the volunteer badge attachment (new and renewal) to volunteer@paceatlockwood.
Kelly McDonald // Membership Chair
PACE Hours Reporting Due June 1st
It’s that time of year again…..Please submit your third and final PACE volunteer hours surveys for the 23-24 school year. You’ll be reporting all volunteer hours earned from March 1, 2024 through June 30th, 2024. Your family should have a total of at least 80 hours. If you are not going to be able to meet that commitment please contact Kelly as soon as possible to determine a plan.
Click here to report your hours. (It will take about 10 minutes.)
The survey will ask you to break your volunteer hours into three categories:
PACE Classroom Hours
PACE Administrative Hours
PTA/Community Support Hours
After you submit the survey, you will get the option to download your responses as a PDF or to print them. We highly recommend doing this so that you can keep track of how many hours you submitted during each reporting cycle.
The deadline to submit your volunteer hours survey is June 1st, 2024.
If you have any questions while filling out the survey, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Kelly McDonald // Membership Chair
“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.”
Jane D Hull, Governor of Arizona (1997 to 2003)
Coming Up!
All Lockwood Egg Drop Challenge – Friday, June 14th, lunch-recess time.
This fun, Pace sponsored engineering challenge is one of our Leopards’ favorite challenge.
PACE @ Lockwood Tours
We would love for you to join our program.
PACE at Lockwood is now conducting tours for the 2024-2025 school year! Join us on one of our tours to learn more about the program and to see if it would be the right option for your family.
Tours run from October 2023 through February 2024 with both virtual and in-person options.
Please click on or scan the code below to schedule a tour.
PACE stands for “Parents Active in Cooperative Education.”
We are a choice educational enrichment program offered at Lockwood Elementary through Northshore School District (NSD) for grades 1-5.
PACE builds a learning environment that includes active family participation; to support each student’s learning style and developmental rate; innovative teaching techniques; and a unique partnership of teachers, families and students.
We value respect, compassion, and responsibility in building our community of lifelong learners.
The PACE program serves students of all learning capabilities, follows the NSD curriculum and also provides an enriched educational experience through additional field trips, events, and speakers.
Are you new to PACE this year? Have lots of questions? The PACE New Family Mentor team is here for you, to make your transition into PACE as smooth as possible. If you have a question and don’t know who to ask, or just feel like you’re in the dark, please contact us.
Also, soon we will be reaching out to you to introduce you to your “buddy family” (a PACE family who has a student in your student’s class). Your “buddy family” will be another resource for you to rely on as you navigate your first year of PACE.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Amy Lindblom & Josh Gilmore // PACE New Family Mentoring
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Order your Lockwood Yearbook!
Order by following the directions below:
· Go to the website: https://www.treering.com/
· Create your account or login
· Customize 2 free pages
· Purchase your book
· Your book will be shipped to your home
Order deadline to purchase and create custom pages: Friday, April 26, 2024! Ordering by the deadline will ensure that your book will arrive before the end of school.
If you are not able to create your custom pages by the deadline, DO NOT purchase your book until after May 15th. If you order a book, it will print AS IS when it is sent to print.
Yearbook is still requesting pictures and specifically looking for pictures of staff, spirit days, art docent projects, field trips, PTA events (science fair, dance, multicultural night, etc) and 5th graders. Please help me out by uploading your photos to SmugMug https://lockwoodpta.
Any questions? Contact yearbook@lockwoodpta.org
Nominate a lifesaver!
We’ve just started a new recognition for our PACE Community.
We want to recognize:
– Whole-heart volunteerism,
– Going above and beyond with your volunteering and community role.
Recipients will receive recognition in the PACE Broadcast along with a mini token of gratitude (Lifesaver candies).