New Families Information

List of 6 items.

• 2025-26 School Calendar

  Next year's calendar may be found below as well as on the School Forms & Information resource board. Please refer to the calendar on KnightLine on your parent page for a more detailed calendar. Events will be added to this online calendar over the summer as they are finalized.
  2025-26 School Calendar

• Summer Work Packets

  Students (rising 1st -8th graders) are given summer work packets to complete during the break. Summer work packets may be accessed through KnightLine on the School Forms & Info resource board the first part of June. You will receive an email when the summer work packets have been uploaded to KnightLine.
   
  The teachers spend a great deal of time developing helpful, engaging math reviews and have shared wonderful books for students to enjoy over the summer months. We hope that each child will develop a plan of action to guide them in completing this very important work that will help keep their minds engaged but will not take them away from fun and exciting summer activities. Please read the appropriate grade’s work for your child and pay careful attention to that teacher’s expectations for the summer work. Summer work is due the first full day of school, August 14.  
   
  Parents of rising 1st graders: the kindergarten teachers have provided review work that will help to keep your student's skills sharp over the summer. Please note that your child will NOT need to turn in any written work when they return to school in the fall - this is simply for review.

• SchoolPass

  We partner with SchoolPass to enhance safety on our campus, increase efficiency in the carpool line, and provide parents with an additional means of communication. SchoolPass is an app that you download to your phone (it may also be accessed via a desktop computer). 
  
  

  Please see the SchoolPass resource board for more information and how-to videos.

  
  We use SchoolPass in the following ways:
  
  

  Carpool Line
  SchoolPass allows us to dismiss students more safely, quickly, and efficiently. Students remain inside the school building during carpool time. Families are given special RFID tags for their cars (you will receive yours in the mail), which are scanned by a staff member as you pull through the carpool line. The system notifies the teacher who is supervising your student so that your child can be at the door and ready to come to your car by the time you arrive at the front of the line. 

  
  Emergencies
  SchoolPass allows the school to notify faculty and staff of an emergency on campus and also provides a means for accounting for each person on campus during an emergency. School emergency alerts can be created for any situation, including suspicious visitors, fire drills, and actual emergency events. Any faculty or staff member can initiate an alert. If an emergency occurs, teachers and staff will take emergency attendance by marking students and anyone else they are with as accounted for. This lets administrators know whether or not each student, faculty/staff member, and any campus visitor has been accounted for, and that information may be passed along to police, fire, etc. SchoolPass also allows the school to send emergency and non-emergency messages (like weather closures) to our school community.

  
  Visitor Management
  We can screen and track all campus visitors including parents, vendors, and volunteers. Each new visitor checks in with the office and provides a driver's license so that the system can complete a background check. The visitor then receives a badge, which they wear during their time on campus. Parents go through the background check on their first visit to school, but not subsequent visits.
  
  

  Attendance
  Parents are asked to self-report their student’s attendance status from the SchoolPass app rather than contacting the office or the child's teacher. If your child is sick, will be late to school, or if you need to pick them up early, you can report that via the app. SchoolPass will automatically notify the office and the child's teacher.

• Mentor Families and Buddies

  We match your family with a mentor family (Mr. Petty will be in touch about this). Please feel free to contact this family when you need a parent perspective and be sure to schedule get-togethers for your student and his or her buddy - seeing that familiar face on the first day of school is so helpful!

• School Communications

  You will begin to receive emails from the school when you become a current parent in our system (June 16). School communications include:
  

  • Knightly News: This email is sent every Sunday at 1:00 and includes a calendar and notices about upcoming events. The Knightly News pauses over the summer and will begin on July 27.
  • Highlights from the Head: These emails, from Mrs. Baker, are sent at the end of the month and highlight all of the interesting things that happened at school over the month.
  • News from Mason Prep: This e-newsletter is sent every 2 months to our parents and wider MPS community.
  • The Round Table: This printed newsletter is produced twice a year and is mailed to our parents and emailed to the wider MPS community.

• School Supplies

  There are two options for purchasing school supplies. Students should bring their school supplies on the first day of school.   
  

  • Order online: The Knights Parent Guild offers online ordering through 1st Day School Supplies. Boxes with all the required supplies for your child's grade level are delivered to your home over the summer. Ordering is open now through July 1.
  • Purchase your own supplies: Parents are also welcome to purchase supplies on their own. A list of required supplies may be found on the School Forms & Info resource board on KnightLine.