MOVING TO OUR NEW BUILDING

There is a whole lot of excitement among the CMMS community! As we shared last week, big preparations are underway to move our school—from paperclips to percussion instruments, from beakers to soccer balls. And of course we are moving our staff and students! We are currently engaged in creating and delivering lessons and activities with students to help them feel ready for this big transition!

 We’d like to share some videos with our parents and families:

• Click here to watch a student created video highlighting their favorite spaces in our new building!
• Click here to watch a 4 minute video documenting our first year and our journey to our new building. It’s been quite a year and we are so grateful for our awesome students, staff and families for your support!
• Did you know that a small army of parent and community volunteers helped to shelve 17,000 books in our brand new 5^th floor library? Click here to watch the 1 ½ minute time lapse video documenting this incredible feat!

Remember, CMMS students will not have school on Fri. 2/18 or Mon 2/28 to allow for the moving of materials, books, equipment, etc from the temporary alternative campus into our permanent building in the Talus neighborhood.

We look forward to welcoming students for our first day (March 1^st) at our new building located at 1929 NW Talus Dr., Issaquah. Please read our weekly Thursday ENews messages to stay up to date regarding our move!

A Word about Lockers: 

As we get ready to move into our new building there will be many exciting announcements. Lockers are one of these! We know students are excited about getting their locker! Students will be issued a locker the first week of school at our new building. We are planning time during the school day to review expectations as well as practice time to learn how to use the combination lock. Click here to view a 1 minute video on how to open a combination lock locker. Families are welcome to practice with their student at home if they would like.

Bus Transportation: 

We are very excited to begin bussing CMMS students to their new school! Bus routes and pick up times may be changing for some students. The Transportation Department will send out a Blackboard message to students’ primary contact to alert families when the new bus routes are available to view. This alert will be sent out this week. When families receive the Blackboard message, they will login to E-link to view their student’s new bus route information. 

• Login directions, username, and password for E-link can be found on this page, Find Your Bus Route - Issaquah School District 411 (isd411.org). Please note that the E-link login is different from the Skyward login. Students who have difficulty logging in can get assistance by emailing transportation-enews@issaquah.wednet.edu.
• If you have questions about the new routes, please call 425-837-6342. If your student has two home addresses, they will need to get a new bus pass from the CMMS office for the second address.  New EDA routes can be found here, Find Your Bus Route - Issaquah School District 411 (isd411.org), on or after February 16^th.
• We expect potential traffic delays at first as we learn how to best do school on Talus. We encourage families to have their child ride the bus to our new building.

Questions?: 

Our most valuable communication channel with families is ENews so please read our ENews messages so you have the most up to date information.