Please mark your calendars now and reserve the morning of Sunday, October 14th for Clarendon’s annual Walk-a-thon! The event brings the entire school community for a day of healthy exercise, good food, and fun that kids LOVE! Prepare your sneakers and start stretching–and please get your “asks” ready so that you can gather donations from family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to support Second Community!
Walk details:
When: Sunday, October 14, 2018
Registration 9:30 am
Walk-a-thon from 10:00-12:00 pm
Picnic in the infield & games with PE teacher Marc 12:00-1:00
Where: Lincoln High School, 2162 24th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94116
Why: To share a great day of outdoor exercise and support Clarendon!
Donate and support Second Community!
Ask your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, everyone to sponsor you for Walk 2018! Sponsors can donate to your fundraising with a flat amount or per lap (most students average 18 laps).
Donors can support Walk 2018 by making a PayPal payment to treasurer@secondcommunity.org. Required: Student’s name & room # in the Notes field.
There are numerous options for activities before & after school. The list of resources provided below is not comprehensive and may not be current; please contact the school for a full list of all before & after school activities offered on-campus.
Second Community Childcare Center (SCCC)
Offers before& after on site school child care at Clarendon
Contact: Shelly Pope, 415.759.1897
Morning Mandarin Classes
Clarendon in partnership with Mei Jia Chinese Learning Center offers Morning Mandarin Before School Program. The three-day a week before-school Mandarin program at Clarendon facilitates language acquisition through Chinese art, songs, games, stories, and other age-appropriate activities. These classes will be taught entirely in Mandarin, so that students will be immersed in a Chinese-speaking environment.
On March 7, this year’s auction theme A Night at the Speakeasy will bring back the glitz and daring of an upscale speakeasy. Like Marlene Dietrich in a tuxedo. To help everyone get glamorous, we will sell top hats, feather boas, and a few pearl necklaces.
Come early for the champagne and fresh oyster bar! Stay late: after the bidding is done our house band for the night, Olivia and the One-Night-Stands, will do a hot jazz set. The evening’s signature cocktail is a classic prohibition drink – a Tom Collins. The dinner buffet will feature food that was popular in the 1920’s.
Don’t miss this swell event to support our school! To learn more about the auction and purchase tickets click: A Night at the Speakeasy!
Also, don’t forget, to sign up for childcare for currently enrolled Clarendon students click here: Auction Night Childcare
Thank you for your interest in Clarendon Elementary School. Please watch our school video which includes much of the information that we cover on school tours. There’s more information below the video as well.
Clarendon’s school site is home to two distinct programs: a general education program (also known as “Second Community”), and the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program (JBBP). Admission to each program is handled separately by the EPC, meaning that when you apply to Clarendon, you choose to apply to the Second Community program, the JBBP program, or both. Tours at Clarendon will cover both programs equally and simultaneously.
Our tours should offer you a glimpse of what campus life is like—for students and parents—at Clarendon.
Tour Schedule
All tours start promptly at 9:45am and last approximately one hour.
Fall 2014 tour dates and registration form. Tours will be held Oct 9, Oct 17, Oct 24, Nov 13, Dec 5, Dec 11, Jan 9 and Jan 15. All tours are held from 9:45-10:45am and will include information about both the Japanese Bilingual and Bicultural Program (JBBP) and the Second Community (SC) programs. Please sign up for one tour date only. Please cancel your reservation if you are unable to make that tour date (you can make a new reservation on a new day) to make room for another prospective family. We look forward to seeing you at Clarendon!
Please note that our tours are for adults only. Babies in carriers are fine, but please refrain from bringing preschoolers or toddlers as we do not have care available to them during tour times. We appreciate your cooperation.
Both Clarendon JBBP and Second Community will be represented at the Enrollment Fair in November as well.
District Deadlines & Information
Enrollment deadlines TBA. Enrollment at Clarendon and all San Francisco public schools is handled by the school district’s Educational Placement Center (EPC). You can read about school placement on the school district’s website.
Application Forms Click here for the SFUSD Enrollment Application form.
Resources
The nonprofit Parents for Public Schools is an excellent resource for navigating the enrollment process. PPS is a network of public school parents; it is not funded by the school district and so maintains its independence. They host helpful enrollment workshops in all parts of the city.
Are you new to the Clarendon Second Community site? We have two sites; one public site (secondcommunity.org), and a site for parents only at school-pages.com/clarendon.
On March 7, this year’s auction theme A Night at the Speakeasy will bring back the glitz and daring of an upscale speakeasy. Like Marlene Dietrich in a tuxedo. To help everyone get glamorous, we will sell top hats, feather boas, and a few pearl necklaces.
Come early for the champagne and fresh oyster bar! Stay late: after the bidding is done our house band for the night, Olivia and the One-Night-Stands, will do a hot jazz set. The evening’s signature cocktail is a classic prohibition drink – a Tom Collins. The dinner buffet will feature food that was popular in the 1920’s.
Don’t miss this swell event to support our school! To learn more about the auction and purchase tickets click: A Night at the Speakeasy!
Also, don’t forget, to sign up for childcare for currently enrolled Clarendon students click here: Auction Night Childcare
Thank you for your interest in Clarendon Elementary School. Please watch our school video which includes much of the information that we cover on school tours. There’s more information below the video as well.
Clarendon’s school site is home to two distinct programs: a general education program (also known as “Second Community”), and the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program (JBBP). Admission to each program is handled separately by the EPC, meaning that when you apply to Clarendon, you choose to apply to the Second Community program, the JBBP program, or both. Tours at Clarendon will cover both programs equally and simultaneously.
Our tours should offer you a glimpse of what campus life is like—for students and parents—at Clarendon.
Tour Schedule
All tours start promptly at 9:45am and last approximately one hour. Tour dates include:
Wednesday, October 9
Thursday, October 24
Thursday, November 7
Wednesday, November 13
Wednesday, November 20
Thursday, December 5
Wednesday, December 11
Thursday, January 16
Please note that our tours are for adults only. Babies in carriers are fine, but please refrain from bringing preschoolers or toddlers as we do not have care available to them during tour times. We appreciate your cooperation.
Tour Features
Each tour will feature:
Greetings and information from our Principal as well as program overview from parent leaders from JBBP and Second Community
Tour groups lead by current Clarendon parents—each group will have one parent from JBBP and one from Second Community
The opportunity to visit:
A lower grade class—Kindergarten or 1st Grade
An upper grade class
An Art class
A PE class
School Library & Computer Lab
Information on after-school, Parent Involvement, etc.
Both Clarendon JBBP and Second Community will be represented at the Enrollment Fair on November 2, 2013 as well.
District Deadlines & Information
The deadline for enrollment for the 2014-2015 school year is January 21, 2014. Placement notifications will go out on March 14, 2015. Enrollment at Clarendon and all San Francisco public schools is handled by the school district’s Educational Placement Center (EPC). You can read about school placement on the school district’s website.
Application Forms Click here for the SFUSD Enrollment Application form.
Resources
The nonprofit Parents for Public Schools is an excellent resource for navigating the enrollment process. PPS is a network of public school parents; it is not funded by the school district and so maintains its independence. They host helpful enrollment workshops in all parts of the city.
Are you new to the Clarendon Second Community site? We have two sites; one public site (secondcommunity.org), and a site for parents only at school-pages.com/clarendon.
Our private internal website is hosted at School-Pages.com.
· This secured site not only provides a current online school directory, but a place for volunteers to sign up and a place to store information about events, photos, and other classroom information. It’s convenient and a big time saver – all the information you need is available in one place, 24/7.
· You can access it anywhere you have access to a web browser – on your computer, smartphone, or other mobile device.
For more info, visit http://www.school-pages.com/clarendon/.
