2025-26 Parent Compact

Southside is a school-wide Title 1 school. Being so, we are required to have a School-Parent Compact that is updated annually. Please take a look at the proposed School-Parent Compact (below) for the 2025-26 school year and provide any feedback you may have to Mr. Reynolds, jeremy.reynolds@woodford.kyschools.us . Thank you for your contributions as we plan for the upcoming school year!

SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT

Our students’ parents, families, extended families, students themselves, as well as our local community, are all considered partners who share responsibilities for high student academic achievement. Following are the responsibilities for the school, the parents, and the students:

SCHOOL RESPONSIBILITIES

Southside Elementary will:

1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in an effective, supportive, and safe learning environment that enables the students to meet Kentucky’s academic standards.

2. Make available on a regular basis information on our programs and the content students will learn each year.

3. Assign homework in accordance with our homework policy.

4. Send home information on student progress on a regular basis.  Specifically, we will provide formal reports every nine weeks.

5. Hold parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual student’s achievement. Opportunities (where appropriate) will be provided for the student to participate actively in sharing information on his or her progress with his or her parents during these conferences.

6. Provide parents reasonable access to staff.  The email addresses and telephone extensions of their child’s teachers will be provided to parents to promote communication.  Staff will always be available to parents by appointment for face-to-face conferences.

7. Send home newsletters at least four times a year that include information on ways families can help students learn.  The first newsletter will contain a copy of this policy.

8. Support an active Parent Teacher Organization.

9. Provide a variety of opportunities for parent and family involvement in school activities, including but not limited to:

   1. Observing their child’s classroom activities

   2.  Assisting with classroom activities that require more than one adult

   3.  Preparing materials, mailings, refreshments, and other items needed for family and community involvement

   4.  Serving on one of our decision-making committees

   5.  Joining our parent teacher organization and participating in its efforts to strengthen our school

   6.  Volunteering along with other concerned members of our community in other areas as needed

10.  Ensure that all adult volunteers working in our school and with our students are subject to board policy and state law regarding criminal record checks, as applicable.

The Family Resource/Youth Service Center will share responsibility for student achievement by:

• Surveying families at least once a year to learn what services and activities would most help them support their children as learners.

• Offering a well-planned, well-publicized menu of activities and programs to meet those needs.

PARENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Parents are asked to:

1. Monitor attendance

2. Become familiar with and support the school and individual classrooms’ homework policies and show interest with questions about and comments on the schoolwork their children bring home.

3. Make sure homework is completed

4. Assist their child with time management

5. Participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to their child’s education.

6. Stay in close communication with teachers and the school about their child’s education by promptly reading all notices and surveys from the school or the school district and responding, if necessary.

7. To the extent possible, volunteer, serve on the school council or a committee, attend School-Based Decision Making Council meetings, and comment on draft policies and plans as they are made available.

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES

With support from parents, students are asked to:

Primary

1. Attend school as regularly as possible.

2. Follow the school and classroom behavior standards.

3. Pay attention to their teachers, tutors, and family members and ask for help when

needed.

1. Commit to learning and do their best work each day.

Intermediate

1. Attend school as regularly as possible.

2. Follow the school and classroom behavior standards.

3. Bring necessary learning materials to school and to class.

4. Complete and turn in all assigned homework.

5. Pay attention to their teachers, tutors, and family members and ask for help when

needed.

1. Commit to learning and do their best work each day.

2. Give parents or the adult who is responsible for them, all notices and information received from the school.