Personal health and safety education - Parent Notification Letter
ELSA Overview Parent Letter 2025/2026 
March 02, 2025
Dear New Field families,
March is here and so is the end of the third quarter! Student grades closed on Friday, March 6 for the third quarter. As a reminder, you can always check your child's grades and attendance, in real time, on ASPEN Parent Portal.
As we enter March, we enter the final 12 weeks of the school year and the last marking period. March includes opportunities for Parent/Teacher Report Cards and important, mandatory statewide testing for students in Grades 3 & 4. Our third and fourth grade students will take an IAR literacy test on Wednesday, March 11 and will continue IAR testing after Spring Break.
March is also a time where our field trip opportunities pick up steam. This week our third grade students head to the Museum of Science and Industry on Thursday, March 5. We need your help on field trips - consider chaperoning! As a reminder all chaperones must be an approved volunteer with CPS. Be sure to submit your volunteer applications at least one week in advance of your child's scheduled field trip.
This week we are also pleased to host our quarterly BAC meeting. Join us on Wednesday, March 4 for an interactive workshop on our mindset about failure and consider how we can leverage failure as an opportunity for growth.
Wishing you all a marvelous start to the merry month of March.
Warmly,
Conrey Callahan
Principal, New Field ES