Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences PTSS

📚Reading Road Trip📚

This week the Sarasota Police Learning Center hit the road stopping by local summer camps. Students with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties, Star Lab and Better Tomorrows camps were able to come aboard and explore the Learning Center.

ATTENTION PARENTS! Looking for a FREE activity for your kids this summer? You can bring them to our K.O.P.S. event happening Tuesday, June 16 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex (RLTCC).

Not only is the event F-R-E-E but there will be dinner provided, sports and games for your kids to take part in and your kids will be able to do it all with our police officers!

We hope to see your kids there! Register today at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kops-kids-and-officers-promoting-solidarity-tickets-1990651114069

Here’s a super cool opportunity!

K-12 students who read for 24 hours total over the summer can get free tickets to Rays home games. Lots of tools and information on that site as well as a link to Sarasota County Libraries to check out E-Books.

https://mktg.mlbstatic.com/rays/documents/y2026/Reading_with_the_Rays_Game_Card.pdf

This is such a great way for your kiddos to get their summer reading in

❤️🤍🖤🐅☀️📚

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Hello Tiger Families,

We are sharing this reminder and request regarding social media and technology use over the summer.

Extended vacations and idle time sometimes create the opportunity for children to become entangled in negative group chats or have feelings of sadness when viewing others’ summer experiences online.

As we begin summer vacation, we are already being contacted about some group chats that have spiraled out of control and have led to uncomfortable situations and feelings.

As is the case with most things, we believe in moderation and sleep to help our kids be happy and healthy. We hope that summer brings opportunities for our students to engage in face-to-face conversations and play dates with other kids, participate in group activities, and enjoy some time outside, away from screens and devices.

As school is out of session, we typically do not assign discipline or consequences to events that occur online, away from our campus, while school is not in session.

Please discuss the consequences of social media usage with your child during summer break. This would be a good time to go through your child’s phone, pictures (hidden picture folder and deleted picture folder, too), and videos, and it would be a good time to consider installing a parental monitoring app like one of the other featured in this article: https://allaboutcookies.org/best-parental-control-apps. We have found that many students are savvy enough to create multiple social media accounts—one that their family may have access to, and another “alt/alternate” account that does not have age restrictions on them and can potentially put them in harm’s way. We also suggest setting time boundaries for screen time, and taking away your child's phone/ipad/computer at night.

As a reminder, students and parents can use FortifyFlorida 24/7 (a suspicious activity reporting app) to report a potential threat or ideations of self-harm or su***de: https://getfortifyfl.com/ This will notify law enforcement and they can send out an officer to notify the family and do a wellness check.

Please feel free to reach out to a member of our Administrative team if you have any additional questions. We are on campus Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ask Ms Arcadia for the administrator on duty.

Thank you for your support & have a wonderful break,

Your SSA+S Family

FortifyFL FortifyFL is a suspicious activity reporting tool that allows you to instantly relay information to appropriate law enforcement agencies and school officials.

What a fantastic last day of summer camp! We hope that our campers had as much fun as we did today. Team Sports headed to the Arcade on St. Armand’s and were treated to gelato at Settimi's Gelato. Thank you so much for the cold treat on a hot day! Reading campers who completed their projects spent time at the beach. Anime camp indulged in Japanese snacks while Pickleball headed out to Sun and Fun. Drama camp performed their showcase for families to enjoy and S.T.E.M. camp held their Battle Bot Royal. Photography camp headed to Sarasota Garden club today and the Bayou Bridge. The focus was all about angles then headed back to the campus to complete their portfolios. Thank you to all for a great summer camp. Wishing all of our SSA+S families a relaxing summer break!

Report cards are on the portal!

Secondary Quarter 4 report cards are now available in the Focus Parent Portal.

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Families can view report cards through the SCS Portal app or by logging into Focus on a computer or mobile browser. If you need assistance accessing your child’s report card, please contact your child’s school.