Principal: Mrs. Jennifer L. Laurincik
Assistant Principal: Mrs. Leslie Hannah

A Message from  Principal Laurincik:

Dear Clay Family,

Happy New Year!  A new year is a fresh start on the calendar...full of hope and potential for better days ahead for all of us. I  hope you are relaxed, recharged and ready to start school again. I also hope that 2021 is a year full of good health, much happiness, and peace for each of you. The new year gives us all a wonderful opportunity to reboot and set goals and to ensure that we are providing our students with a high-quality education that prepares them for college and career life.  It is a commitment, a resolution, and it starts at home.  I am so delighted that you are part of our amazing learning community, and in this new year, I welcome and value your positive energy and dedication to your child’s education.   It is extremely important for your child to continue his/her learning at home to ensure that he/she reaches his/her full potential.  I encourage you to make a resolution this new year to make sure that your child is achieving his/her best academically by making sure that your child is logging on every day and stays logged on for all of his/her classes, making sure his/her homework gets done every night, and ensuring his/her assignments are turned in on time. 

Furthermore, make a resolution to help your child get to school every day…remotely for now or in-person in a few weeks for hybrid learning if that was the choice you made for your child.  Please resolve to make attendance a priority in your child’s life! As you know, attendance is a high priority of ours, and we encourage good attendance by providing a variety of attendance incentives. Starting in January, our attendance incentives will be taking place every two weeks, rather than for the entire month to ensure that more students have an opportunity to win the raffles, with a shorter wait period.  We will be raffling off snowman making kits for our K-2 grade students who have perfect attendance from January 4th-January 15th.  And we will be raffling off sleds for our 3rd-8th grade students who have perfect attendance from January 4th-January 15th.  All students with Perfect Attendance during that two week time period will be entered to win those prizes.  Then the next two weeks, January 18th-January 25th, we will again be raffling off another set of prizes...more details will be given on those prizes as the middle/end of January draws nearer.   

Hybrid learning will begin for students on Monday, February 1st for our K-8th grade students.  Detailed instructions will be sent home to those families who opted in to begin hybrid learning very soon so please be on the lookout for that very important information. The 2nd Quarter will come  to an end on Thursday, February 4th.  Please note that Friday, February 5th is a School Improvement Day; therefore, there will be NO SCHOOL for students on this day, remote or in-person.   Report Cards for the 2nd Quarter will be mailed/sent home on Friday, February 12th.  Again, I must stress how very important it is that we are working as a team—a positive home-school connection is the best way to make sure all of our students are working and achieving to the best of their ability.  In closing, please remember that January 18th is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and there will be NO SCHOOL...remote or in-person, in observance of the MLK, Jr. Holiday.  

Please make sure to visit our school’s website http://clay.cps.edu for all relevant school information as we update the website daily.  All daily events, Remote Learning information, Remote Learning Pix, days off, and so much more are noticeably displayed on our school’s website.  Please check the website for important school-related information at least once a week.   I know this is a very difficult and challenging time for many of our families; if you need anything at all, please feel free to reach out via phone 1-773-535-5600 or via email at jllaurincik@cps.edu.  Happy New Year!

Until next time,
Mrs. Laurincik
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Monday, January 18th...NO SCHOOL...MLK, Jr. Day of Observance
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Monday, February 1st...In-Person Learning Resumes for Students Who Opted in
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Thursday, February 4th...End of the 2nd Quarter
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Friday, February 5th...School Improvement Day...NO SCHOOL for STUDENTS--Remote or In-Person

Reopening Schools Update Google Meet 12/8/2020

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DJOWTAKUX2MDNlVwb41-1wzc6Uxr0Rnu&usp=gmail

State of the School Address School Year 2020-2021

clay_sos_sy21.pdf
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1st Quarter Honor Roll
Virtual Assembly
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sy_20-21_clay_honors_assembly_q1.pdf
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Click the Link Below for Common Sense Media Family Tip Sheets...
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https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lessons/family-tip-sheets/en

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