Happy Camp Union

Emergency Closing of Happy Camp Elementary School - Thursday, September 5, 2024 Dear Happy Camp Elementary Families and Staff, Due to the ongoing staff shortage and a scarcity of substitute teachers, we must again close Happy Camp Elementary School tomorrow, Thursday, September 5, due to staff illnesses. As noted in the school calendar, this day will also be considered a snow day and may be made up on April 21. I will continue to monitor staff health on Thursday. By 6:00 PM Thursday, we will make a decision about school for Friday and notify you as soon as it is made. I apologize for the ongoing inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, Mr. Van Dyke

Emergency Closing of Happy Camp Elementary School - Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Dear Happy Camp Elementary Families and Staff, Due to the ongoing staff shortage and a scarcity of substitute teachers, we must close Happy Camp Elementary School tomorrow, Wednesday, September 4 due to staff illnesses. As noted in the school calendar, this day will be considered a snow day and will be made up on February 21. I will monitor staff health on Wednesday and decide about school on Thursday by 6:00 PM Wednesday. We will notify you as soon as a decision is made. I apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, Mr. Van Dyke

Good afternoon, there will be an HCES Athletics meeting tonight for 5th-8th grade students interested in participating in Volleyball, Basketball, Cheer, or Track. The meeting will take place in the HCES cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. Both students and parents must attend to receive important information and the necessary paperwork for student-athlete participation in the 2024-25 sports season.

Good afternoon, This is a message from Rockets. Van Runs will start at 4:30p.m. today and your child must be picked up by 5:30 p.m. Please send a note with your child or call the school to inform us of your pick-up arrangements. Thank you! - The Rockets Director

Good Afternoon, There will be an HCES Athletics meeting on September 3rd for 5th-8th grade students interested in participating in Volleyball, Basketball, Cheer, or Track. The meeting will take place in the HCES cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. Both students and parents must attend to receive important information and the necessary paperwork for student-athlete participation in the 2024-25 sports season.

Good Morning, Due to staffing shortages, Rockets will be closing early today. Please pick up your children by 4:15 p.m. Thank you.

Christina, Garcia Good afternoon, This is a message from Rockets. We will begin Van Runs today, Tuesday, August 27th, 2024. Van Runs will start at 4:00 p.m., and your child must be picked up by 5:30 p.m. Please send a note with your child or call the school to inform us of your pick-up arrangements. Thank you! - The Rockets Director

Good Afternoon, This is a message from Rockets. We will begin Van Runs tomorrow, Tuesday, August 27th, 2024. Van Runs will start at 4:00 p.m., and your child must be picked up by 5:30 p.m. Please send a note with your child or call the school to inform us of your pick-up arrangements. Thank you! - The Rockets Director

Rockets families, I apologize for the late notification, but Rockets will need to close today at 3:30. The van will do its run at 3:30 instead of 4:30, but the remaining students need to be picked up at 3:30. We are going to have to do the same thing tomorrow, so van will run Friday at 3:30 and please get your kids by 3:30 at the elementary school.

Happy Camp Parents, A quick reminder that school is released at 1:30 today and tomorrow.

Happy Camp Families, Can we please get six strong individuals to come to the community center on Wednesday at 9:00 am to help move and set up the water slides? Also, can we get the same or different six individuals to come and take them down at 2:15? Please and thank you. Mr. Jensen

Happy Camp Families, Today is field day for all students, normal dismissal time. Tuesday is Trivia Tuesday for all students, normal dismissal time. Wednesday is Water Day for all students, normal dismissal time. Thursday is Watermelon eating assembly for all students as well as 8th grade promotion at HCHS at 6:00, students will be dismissed early at 1:30. Friday is our awards assembly at 9:30, Kindergarten promotion at 10:30, school is dismissed for the summer at 1:30. Any questions call the school. Mr. Jensen

Rockets families, there will be no van today through Thursday due to the Eighth grade trip. Please come to pick up your students at 5:00. Van service will resume on Friday.

Happy Camp families. Tomorrow is back to school night and Kindergarten round up, beginning at 4:30. We will be having those two activities from 4:30-5:30. Because of the afternoon activities we will be on a shortened day like we do on Fridays. Tomorrow, school will be out at 1:30, please plan appropriately. Rockets will run as normal, but without van run s Thank, Mr. Jensen

Rockets families, due to the field trip to the coast we will not have the Rockets van available today, Wednesday and tomorrow, Thursday. Please attempt to get your students as close to five as possible. Thanks, Mr. Jensen

Parents of fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade boys. The big boys have continued to destroy and vandalize their bathroom, so I have brought in two porta-pottys for them to use until the end of the year. I have also ordered an outside hand washing station for them to use. I wish that they could have learned to care for their school without needing to lose their bathroom, but it hasn't happened. Please talk to your boys about the need to care for their school. Mr. Jensen

Rockets parents, Due to a lack of staff this afternoon, Rockets will be ending early at 4:00. The Van will leave at 4:00 for those students that ride the van. We apologize for the change in schedule. Mr. Jensen

This message is just for seventh and eighth grade parents. Today our students got invited to an assembly at the High School at noon. We will be driving them over and they will need to be picked up at the high school, or we will let the walkers just walk home. Thanks, Mr. Jensen

Parents, I apologize for the second message in one day, but we just had a long staff meeting where we discussed the very difficult behaviors we are having daily with our students. In light of the difficult behaviors, we are going to start having after school detention for one hour for students in fourth through eighth grade if a student gets a referral from a staff member. If your child gets a referral, please understand that many steps have been taken prior to writing a referral. I am going to again ask that you support us as your local educators and help us to get these behaviors under control.

Happy Camp parents, Today was a very difficult day for us as a staff with fifth through eighth grade. I had to call nine sets of parents to come down and speak with their children. If you are able to come down and volunteer at all in the next week, it would be greatly appreciated. Due to the very difficult behaviors, we are going to start calling parents immediately to try and head off all of the recent behaviors. If you see us calling, please know that we are calling because we need your help. I want to thank those parents that came today and helped us out. We all have to help to make sure we raise great young men and women.