Show your Deep Creek Pride! Visit https://www.samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow/index.html  and VOTE for Deep Creek Middle School!

Deep Creek Middle School – Named a National Finalist

in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge

#SamsungSolveDCMS

Congratulations to Deep Creek Middle School and teachers, Paula Labbe and Christin Conkwright, for being named a National Finalist in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest, a program that encourages students to solve real-world issues in their community using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

In January, Deep Creek Middle School was named the Virginia state winner, which qualified them for a $20,000 Samsung technology package for their school.  As one of ten National Finalists, the school has increased their prize to a $50,000 Samsung technology package.  As a National Finalist, four of the team members from Deep Creek Middle School will attend a Pitch Event in New York City in April where they will present their project to a panel of judges to compete for the chance to increase their prize to a $100,000 Samsung technology package. In addition, the general public will elect one winner from the ten national finalists who will be eligible to win an additional $10,000 Samsung technology package.

The public is encouraged to visit https://www.samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow/index.html  and VOTE for Deep Creek Middle School!

The Treakle Elementary School Safe Routes to School Survey will be available from March 18th-31st.

Chesapeake Public Schools, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is proud to continue supporting the Safe Routes to School Grant The purpose of this federally funded grant program is to:

• provide bicycle safety and pedestrian education.
• encourage, promote, and provide incentives to schools and communities for making walking and
  biking to school safe, convenient, and natural for students.
• enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school.
• Make bicycling and walking to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative,
  thereby encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age.
• Facilitate the planning, development, and implementation of projects and activities that will
  improve safety and reduce traffic, fuel consumption, and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.
  As a requirement of the grant, we need to collect parent feedback regarding your children walking
  and biking to school. The survey we will use comes from the National Center for Safe Routes to
  School’s data system. The surveys will only be available March 18th-31st.
• Treakle Elementary School Survey

With your participation, we will be able to collect data on ways to make biking and walking a safe and healthy choice for our Chesapeake Public School students.

If you have any questions, please contact Dawn Cyr, CPS Safe Routes to School Coordinator, via
email – dawn.cyr@cpschools.com.

Thank you very much for your time and participation!

The Clean and Green Poster Contest registration is up and running! The info on the website is up to date: http://www.cityofchesapeake.net/government/Boards-Commissions/full-listing/ceic/award-programs-contest/Clean-and-Green-Poster-Contest.htm.

The contest is open to all students in Chesapeake public, private or home schools grades K -12. Students or teachers must register online now until Feb 22^nd to commit to participating, then they’ll have until March 29^th to complete their artwork. The  contest poster(pdf) and rules(pdf) are also updated and available. Prizes will be awarded!

On Wednesday, November 21^st, as students and staff prepared for the season of thanks and giving, they were able to honor one of the reasons for the season.

Throughout the month of October, celebrated as Kindness Month, students gravitated to making our school-wide community project a success by indeed “Showering Kindness on Our Community.” Students donated toiletries, snacks and weather wear with the sole purpose of giving to the homeless throughout the community. Student participation became infectious and continually inspired others to give.

This year the school chose to give to the shower ministry of First Baptist Church, Bute Street of Norfolk.  Their shower ministry provides a non-traditional method of showers to the homeless community by way of a shower bus! Students were able to tour the bus and were in awe at the sight of two shower and dress areas on a bus for those in need.

Treakle was able to donate 26 prepped snack/toiletry bags along with eight additional large boxes of supplies topped with bows. The five church representatives were overwhelmed with excitement and thanks for the kind gesture shown by the students and staff of Treakle.

Read more about how Treakle is working with our wonderful parents in the Parent Involvement Plan Parent Involvement Plan (pdf).

We invite you to participate in the Title I and Parent Engagement Survey powered by Google Forms. This will help us provide the most up-to-date information to help our students! Encuesta en español: Encuesta para padres de familia para las escuelas de Título I

Read the Treakle School & Parent Compact (pdf) to learn more about our school, parent, and student responsibilities. Together Excellence Soars!!

Glenda Roberson- President

Vice President (vacant)

Leah Valentine-Godfrey – Treasurer

Naiyhani Battle – Secretary

 Teacher of the Year (2017-2018)

Mrs. Jacqueline Cooper