Welcome To Chateau Estates Elementary

The faculty and staff of Chateau Estates Elementary School greatly appreciate your interest in obtaining information about our school. We hope you find the features of our website useful and informative.

The mission for our school is to "Prepare all children to be successful citizens and lifelong learners."

The mission for our school district is "Mission Possible: Addressing Survival Skills for the 21st Century."

Parents:
Please see the following documents about the Science Matters Community Event occurring on Saturday, November 12, 2011:
Science Matters Flyer
Science Matters Invitation
Science Matters Registration Form

The City of Kenner recently passed an ordinance making it illegal to improperly drop off or pick up children at a Kenner school. Kent Denapolis states, “This ordinance is putting a penalty for the parent who doesn’t want to be patient, and doesn’t care about the safety of their child.” He goes on to state that letting children out on a side street is becoming a problem. Kent Denapolis states, “They don’t want to wait in line…They’re not thinking about the safety of the child.: Stopping in the middle of the street and opening the car door for a child could cause a traffic accident or cause a long line of traffic that inconveniences neighbors and impedes emergency officials. The article is in Kenner Metro section of the Times Picayune Friday, September 2. Please follow arrival and dismissal procedures, and we should have no problems.

Gold Certificate

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Chateau Estates welcomes you to the 2011-2012 school year. Many exciting changes have taken place over the summer throughout our district and in our school. Leo Tolstoy once said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Think about those words. Ask yourself: Can I better support my child at school? Do I check my child’s Parent Information Guide on Mondays? Do I contact my child’s teacher if I have a problem? Is my child at school on time every day? And, am I willing to put in the extra time needed to partner with Chateau to work together in the best interest of my child? If each one of us: parents, teachers, administrators, and support workers reflect on what we can do better to assist all children and help them to reach their fullest potentials, we will have a fantastic year.

Think about this: we are now in the Information Age which requires new skills and new challenges for learning. To be successful, students must develop a new sets of skills coupled with traditional reading, writing, science, and math. Your child’s future success begins in the primary grades. The 21st century skills of creative and critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration are skills that our teachers are including daily into their lessons. Current Best Practices in education advocate that all schools enhance and enrich their curriculums with 21Century skills in order to prepare our children for a technologically sophisticated world that may be very different from the world we live in today. Individualizing and differentiating the curriculum for students is essential if schools want to ensure that every student masters the grade-level skill requirements needed to succeed at each progressing grade.

As Chateau focuses on developing a strong 21st Century school, we will focus on Best Practices in education. Best Practices in education include a strong integrated classroom curriculum focusing on relationships between subjects, resources that go beyond the textbook, thematic units, use of technology, relationships among concepts, emphasis on problem-solving, analytical skills, and flexible student groupings within classrooms.The assignments that teachers provide and the lessons they design follow the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum and Jefferson Public School’s pacing chart. Students must move beyond the basics and perform at higher levels. Learning should be relevant and useful to students, establish connections to life outside the classroom, address real -world concerns, and develop real -life skills

Parental support is imperative for student success. Please partner with us this year. Join our PTO. Visit our school’s websitehttp://chateau.jppss.k12.la.us/chateau/. Contact your child’s teachers. Seek assistance when needed, and stay up-to- date on your child’s performance in school. If we all make a concerted effort to do more, our children will reap the benefits. Feel free to contact me at colleen.winkler@jppss.k12.la.us or my assistant, bernard.tassin@jppss.k12.la.us with any comment or concern.
Mrs. Colleen Winkler, Principal; M.ED; NBCT

Silver Certificate

Congratulations to our 2012 Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Diana Sittig!

General Information from Jefferson Parish Public Schools Regarding Registration

The Jefferson Parish Public School System has important REGISTRATION information for parents or guardians of students wishing to enroll in the system for the upcoming 2010 - 2011 school year.

Please register before the first day of school, Monday, August 15.
You may register at the school in your child's attendance zone starting Monday, July 25 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Your child need not be present.

If you moved from one attendance zone into another school's attendance zone since the end of the 2010 - 2011 school year, you must register your child at the school located in the new attendance zone.

To find the school in your attendance zone, you may call 349-8999 Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn the name of your child's school.

If your child did not complete the 2010-2011 school year in a Jefferson Parish Public School and you wish for him or her to attend one of our schools, you must register your child at the school located in your school attendance zone.

If your child did complete the 2010-2011 school year in a Jefferson Parish Public School and you live in the same attendance zone as you did at the end of the 2010-2011 school, you need NOT register your child.

Any student entering 5th or 9th grade from home schooling or nonpublic school in Louisiana must take and pass the LEAP test. If your child has not taken the LEAP test, he/she will have to take and pass the LEAP placement test before they can enroll in 5th or 9th grade. When you register your child, the school will turn in the request for testing. You will receive a phone call from the office of the Testing and Accountability Specialist with the testing time and location.

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Registration Requirements
When registering, you must present your child's: birth certificate, Social Security card, immunization records, final report card from last year, and custody papers (if any), passport/visa (if applicable), iLEAP, LEAP or GEE scores, the most recent state standardized scores, and a copy of your child's approved transfer request (if any).

You must also provide two (2) proofs of residence such as a driver's license or a Louisiana identification card, a utility bill or deposit, lease or lease agreement, an act of sale or an agreement to purchase that has the same address as the license or identification card.

Immunization Requirements
Also, prior to entry, attendance, or transfer to Jefferson Parish Public School System (Pre-K through 12th grade), each child shall have on file a State of Louisiana Universal Certificate of Immunization.

Bus Transportation
Parents are requested to go to the district’s website (www.jppss.k12.la.us) to first locate their child’s school. Click on the About Our District tab at the top of the page. Click on Find Your School from the listing on the left side of the page, then select Find Your School below the magnifying glass icon. Complete steps 1 - 3. The next page will provide school and transportation information.

A bus driver call center will be in effect. Drivers will contact parents regarding stop location as well as pick-up and drop-off times.

If parents/guardians need further assistance regarding transportation or child nutrition, they may contact the call center at 349-8999 which will be open from Monday, August 8 to Friday, August 15 and from Monday, August 15 to Wednesday, August 17 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.