With a new academic year set to begin Aug. 10 in the School District of Manatee County, students and their families are preparing to head into classrooms.
For Anna Maria Elementary families, preparations involve getting to know their teachers for the 2022-23 school year, stocking up on supplies and making sure vaccinations are up to date.
Assignments announced
AME students can learn Wednesday, July 27, their assigned teachers.
Parents can call the school office for the assignments.
Enrollment — currently at about 185 students — is ongoing for the new year.
Dose of immunization
The Florida Department of Health in Manatee County is encouraging parents to beat the rush and get their children vaccinated and have school physicals completed ahead of the first day of class.
Kindergarteners, seventh-graders and new and transferring students must provide proof of immunization to enroll in Manatee schools.
Children entering, attending or transferring to Manatee schools must have the following immunization shots:
- Four or five doses of DTaP — diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis/whooping cough;
- Four or five doses of IPV — inactivated polio virus;
- Two doses of MMR — measles, mumps, rubella;
- Three doses of hepatitis B;
- One tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis.
DOH-Manatee is holding back-to-school clinics, offering children the required vaccinations and physicals. The clinics run 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday through Aug. 17 at DOH-Manatee’s main campus, 410 Sixth Ave. E., Bradenton.
For appointments and cost details, call the DOH at 941-748-0747, ext. 0.
Supplies suggested
Supply lists for AME students in the 2022-23 school year are posted at AME’s webpage at manateeschools.net.
Night out at AME
AME’s celebratory back-to-school night will be Monday, Aug. 8.
Teachers will meet with students’ parents and guardians in classrooms during two time periods: 4:30-5:15 p.m. for parents of children in kindergarten through second-grade; 5:15-6 p.m. for parents of children in the upper grades.
Also, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, the first day of school, a meet-and-greet for kindergarten parents will be held in the auditorium, 4700 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach.
To and from campus
Families with students eligible to ride a bus to AME must register online with the School District of Manatee County at www.manateeschools.net/registertoride.
There is no bus transportation provided for hardship or choice students attending AME.
Car-riding students can be dropped off in the AME loop beginning at 7:50 a.m.
Classes will begin at 8:25 a.m.
Car-rider students can be picked up in the car loop after the 3:15 p.m. dismissal.