Dates to Remember

Oct 6 ½ day w/ AfterCare

Oct 9 No School – Columbus Day

Oct 12 Family Literacy Night 6:00-8:00

Oct 16-20 Spirit Week

Oct 16 Spirit Week Kickoff

Oct 17 College Pride Day

Oct 18 No School - Staff PD

Oct 19 BelovED School Pride Day

Oct 20 Community Circles

Oct 21 PTO Flapjacks FR at Applebee’s at the

Hudson Mall 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Oct 23-27 Respect Week

Oct 23 Wear a Red Shirt and Uniform Pants

Oct 24 Dress for Success – Dress in your dream

career attire

Oct 25 Sock it to Drugs – Wear Crazy Sock(s) Day

Oct 25 Family Wellness Night 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Oct 26 Put a Cap on Conflict – Wear your favorite

cap

Oct 27 Wear pink accessories for Breast Cancer

awareness

Oct 31 ½ day NO AfterCare – Staff PD

Welcome! A big hearty Welcome to our new families and a grateful Welcome Back to our Veteran

Families! The school day has developed into a joyful rhythm where learning is happening

in the classrooms, and laughter and music is heard throughout the building. Once again,

thank you for entrusting your children to our care. It is a privilege. Our teachers teach

because they feel called. They care deeply about your children.

This is the first monthly Newsletter of the school year. In it you will find useful infor-

mation about what is going on at school. By now you should have received contact infor-

mation for your child’s teachers. If you need to reach any teacher or staff member, the

best way to do so is through email. Teachers cannot answer the phone during the school

day as they are teaching, and staff members are often involved in activities away from

their desks, but we all check our email regularly throughout the day. Our email address-

es are the initial of our first name followed by our last name @beloveddccs.org. My name

is Lynn Schundler and by way of example, my email address is

lschundler@belovedccs.org.

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Registration for 2018-19

Registration for next school year will open on October 15, 2017. If you scholar has a younger sibling

who will be entering Kindergarten next year, please do apply. The sibling will be admitted under our

sibling preference policy but you do have to apply BEFORE the lottery to obtain the preference. The

best and easiest way to apply is on line at belovedccs.org. All applicants (other than siblings) between

October 15th and January 15th will be in the lottery which will be held on January 17, 2018. If you

know of a family or friend who is looking to enroll a child in September, please let them know. Word of

mouth is our best advertisement, and we appreciate your endorsement! We will have grades K-8

next year.

Middle School Update

We had originally planned to break ground on BelovED’s new middle school this past spring, but

we were not able to get all of the architectural plans and pricing finalized until this month. If we

begin construction now, we will not be able to have the building ready for occupancy next Septem-

ber (2018), so we are going to delay our middle school groundbreaking until next Spring, and the

new building will come online in September 2019, instead of in September 2018.

That said, we do need additional space to be ready in September 2018, because BelovED will be

adding another grade level (eighth grade). So immediately after school ends in June 2018, we will

replace the 1-story trailers behind BelovED with 2-story permanent construction that will take

care of our School Year 2018-2019 needs and that will permanently give us more space at our cur-

rent facility: more classrooms, more bathrooms, more offices, and an additional gym/multi-purpose

room.

Here are drawings of BelovED’s finalized middle school plans.

-Bret Schundler

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Page 3 BelovED Achiever

Congratulations to Anushka Jalan in Ms. McLane’s class in 2D for placing First Place for her

Forms and Katas in her Karate Competition on September 23rd. She was the youngest in the group

to get the award. Way to go Anushka!

Puerto Rico Relief Efforts

Emgelia Torres from KD was chosen as Little Miss Puerto Rico for the Jersey City Puerto Rican Day

Parade and Festival this year. Congratulations! She is working with the Jersey City PR Heritage, Arts

and Culture Committee to aid in the Puerto Rico and Mexico relief efforts. A list of reliable drop off sites

in Jersey City can be found on the next page.

Board Member Highlights

Jessica Lisboa is a 13 year veteran theatre educator and Performing and Speech Arts Department

Chair at North Star Academy High School, part of Uncommon Schools, in Newark. She is also a co-

founder and the Education Committee Chair of Jersey City’s BelovED Community Charter School. As

a passionate theatre educator, Jessica recently was given the honor of appearing in the American

Wing’s Tony Awards Playbill receiving Honorable Mention for the prestigious Excellence in Theatre

Education Award. She also received the Founder’s Award this year from North Star Academy for her

unwavering dedication to the school’s mission and her student’s pursuit of arts in their high school ca-

reers. This past June, she has the honor of taking her students to compete on the international stage

for the International Thespian Society in Lincoln, Nebraska. As she continue her pursuits in Theatre

Education, Jessica also writes for a lifestyle blog, and hopes to create a foundation in memory and hon-

or of her daughter.

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The following is a list of reliable drop off sites in Jersey City as of

9/24/17

Protocol or when you pick your child up before Regular Dismissal

If you are going to pick your child up from school BEFORE their regular dismissal

time, please email Mr. G. at hgrullon@belovedccs.org AND your child’s teacher.

Please do NOT call the office. Such calls clog up the office phone and the only thing

Ms. Smith would do with the information is to email the teacher, so please take Ms.

Smith out of the middle and communicate with your child’s teacher directly.

Lunch Applications

Thank you parents who have completed and returned lunch applications. We are almost there! Several

parents have expressed frustration over the need to complete these applications forms each year especial-

ly if they know they don’t qualify OR they intend to send lunch from home. So let me clarify. Each year

we have to determine lunch statuses even if there is no change from the prior year. We request the forms

for 3 distinct reasons:

If you child is taking the school lunch the staff needs to know what if anything to charge

All schools are required under State law to report the Free/Reduced lunch status of each child – no

exceptions

We receive supplemental funding for each child who qualifies for free and reduced lunch which helps

fund the costs of our programs.

If a parent knows that their child does not qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch, that parent doesn’t have to

complete the lunch application, but they do have to let us know by emailing Ms. Schundler at

lschundler@belovedccs.org. A non-response will not be interpreted as “does not qualify.” The parent must

affirmatively confirm this.

Our insistence on collecting this information is not intended to harass; we are required to gather it.

Many parents reported that they have submitted the lunch application previously with the forms dis-

tributed over the summer. However, the lunch forms are NOT part of that packet. We only get them in

early September from the JCBOE. Of course we do misplace paperwork, and I apologize. Forms also end

up at the bottom of backpacks, in pockets and in books. If we ask you for the application, it means we do

not have it. It was either misplaced, never submitted or somewhere between home and school. So we

thank you for your cooperation each year in completing applications.

Soon the JCBOE will be enforcing the lunch statuses, and if they do not have an application, a child will

be deemed NOT qualified and will be charged for lunch EVEN IF THE CHILD DOES QUALIFY. If you

receive an email from us this week that we don’t have the application, that means JCBOE doesn’t have it

either. So please do return it.

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Scholars of the Month Each month a scholar from each class is recognized by the teacher as the Scholar of the Month.

The Scholars of September are listed here. Congratulations to these scholars for their hard work

and perseverance!

KA: Bassaam Basha

KB: Ryan Fersha

KC: Samarth Varshney

KD: Demetri Newsome

KE: Zayan Mubashir

1A Ryka Bathla

1B Aboubacar Fofana

1C Saloni Singh

1D Rutuj Sanja

1E Kaivalya Dutta

2A- Mehr Kothari

2B- Arnav Chavan

2C-Hariz Mohammed

2D-Noelle Dilworth

2E- Rania Aleem

3A- Jonas Turingan

3B- Charlotte Wai

3C- Akshaya Bandura

3D- Addisen Pinkney

4A- Marium Mubashir

4B- Dylanie Vargas

4C- Sophia de Matis

4D- Khayri Williams

5A- Abanoub Faoud

5B- Diorennis Peppin

5C- Akhila Bandaru

5D- Isabel Medina-Takla

6A - Sylvia Aguayo-Olivares

6B- Dylan Vargas

6C- Alexis Castoire

6D- Janrex Panlilio

7A- A'Blessin Robinson

7B- Noor Sheikh

7C- Saulo Aguayo-Olivares

7D- Seth De Matas

Congratulations to all of our scholars for receiving Perfect Attendance for the

month of September! Great Job!. Dress Down Day will be Friday, Oct. 6th!

Abdelmalak, George

Abdelmalak, Kermena

Abdelmesih, Holy

Abdul Sameer, Abdul Haseeb

Abdul Sameer, Farhan

Acquaye, Jewel

Adam, Fayada

Adams, Caleb

Agoinzoh, Nile

Aguilera, Jaylyse

Ahmed, Fareda

Akhtar, Nabeel

Albright, Caitlin

Alexander, Erica Rose

Alexandre, Jaelyn

Alexandre, Jocelyn

Allen, Elena-Michelle

Almazan, Derek Jeffrey

Almazan, Samantha

Almonte-Sosa, Hillarie

Alonso, Tristan

Alvarez, Sean Keddy

Andaya, Javyne Emmanuelle

Arambulo, Elianna

Armando, Andrea

Armando, Vinny

Arzu, Dylan

Arzu, Giovanni

Askander, Mark

Askander, Mina

Azirbayeva, Aisha

Aziz, Elias

Aziz, Zack

Baisden, Mylin

Bakhoum, Schuyler

Balatbat, Lheanna

Ballesteros, Jasmine

Balmir, Jaden

Bandaru, Akhila

Banu, Tehseen

Barrino, Jaden

Barton, Ava

Barton, Nazair

Bascom, Emily

Bascom, Michael

Basha, Bassaam

Bashir, Areeb

Bashir, Shazeen

Bautista, Briella

Beppu, Yasuyuki

Bernard, Jaden

Bethea, Aniyah

Betner, Christopher

Betner, Jeremiah

Bhandagi, Anika

Bhandari, Mahika

Bhatia, Shaurya

Blake, Wysdom

Blount, Natalia

Boereau, Reyina

Boney, Tarell

Boodram, Andrea

Bridgemohan, Nathan

Brodie, Elijah

Brown Dawodu, Nia

Byrd, Sincere

Byreddy, Varun

Capili, Damien

Cardona, Nathan

Casciano, Nicholas

Castillo, Wilson

Cecilio, Elias

Cecilio, Gabriel

Cervantes, Rafael

Chandaluri, Shravya

Chavan, Arnav

Cherkaoui Dekkaki, Salma

Christensen, Iris

Chua, Nicole

Clark, Malika

Clarke, Nathaniel

Class, Emily

Connell, Mekhia

Cookhorn, Haely

Cooper, Kiara

Cordero, Wilmer

Craig, Kyanne

Crisostomo, Francine

Crisostomo, Franz

Cromer, Amyah

Cromer, Malia

Cruz Rodriguez, Ivana

Cruz Rodriguez, Nicolas

Czaplicki, Arianna

Dahmane, Rihem

Dahmane, Salah

David, Chloe

Davis, Nicole

De Matas, Seth

De Matas, Sophia

De-Paz, Alexander

De-Paz, Eduardo

Delgado, Ismael

Delgado, Joshua

Demian, Kyrillos

Demian, Merna

Diallo, Tiguidanke

Diarra, Jamila

Diarra, Mamady

Diaz, Aaliyah

Diaz, David

Diaz, Esme

Diaz, Moses

Dieng, Fatimata

Dieng, Mohamed

Dilworth, Noelle

Douglas, Vance

Duarte, Jonah

Dunning, Ja'lia

Dunning, Nika

Duran, Melanie

Dutta, Kaivalya

Dutton, Nia

Edwards, Kendell

El Sayed, Heba

Elmanakhly, Rayan

Elshenawy, Adam

Elshenawy, Maya

Enerio, Denise

Enerio, Desirae

Enerio, Dominique

Espin, Amy

Espin, Ethan

Esteban, Tiffany

Evans-Darden, Elijah

Faisal, Farhan

Faisal, Fatima

Faisal, Hamzah

Fernandez, Evan

Figueroa Rodriguez, Valeria

Figueroa, Aniya

Fleming, Nayeli

Florendo, Lauren

Florentino, Joailin

Florentino, Johanny

Flores, Braden

Fofana, Aboubacar

Fofana, Hadja

Fouad, Abanoub

Fouad, Verena

Franklin-Barber, Jabez

Gadalla, Nicholas

Gadalla, Vobrina

Galang, Angel

Garg, Saket

Gentilella, Justin

Gilbert, Jack

Gilliens, David

Girgis, Marco

Girgis, Steven

Gonzalez, Victor

Grant, Madison

Grant, Nasir

Gray, Ria

Grayson, Tyelle

Greene, Jeremiah

Greene, Kamryn

Grunes, Gabriel

Grunes, Stella

Gueye, Mohamed

Guzman, Camila

Harley, Kenneth

Harris, Adrianna

Harris, Angelica

Harris, Kamil

Hart, Aaron

Hashem, Rawda

Hashem, Rowa

Higginbotham, Danielle

Hilliard, Timothy

Holmes, Jasiara

Horton, Jordyn

Hunermund, Philipp

Hutchinson, Reanna

Hutchinson, Skyee

Ibrahim, Diba

Ingale, Aarna

Iskander, Pishoy

Ito, Hana

Jackson, Clavon

Jackson, Madison

Jackson, Mikayla

Jadhav, Bhagyavi

Jagupilla, Vega

Jagupilla, Yuva

Jalan, Anushka

Jimenez, Diana

Jimenez, Jalen

Jimenez, Manuel

Johnson, Ameeyah

Johnson, Jarvis

Jolaosho, Oreoluwa

Jolaosho, Oyinoluwa

Jones, Rodney

Joshi, Prisha

Karthik, Aditii

Kelly, Steves

Kennedy, Timothy

Khan, Ariana

Khan, Huraira

Khilji, Ahmad

Khilji, Fatima

Khilji, Hafsa

Kumar, Anshika

Laurencio, Irene

Lebron, Juan

Leon, Vivianna

Lewis, Aidan

Lewis, Taylor

Lin, Zoie

Link, Katelyn

Lladoc, Reginald

Lladoc, Regine-Ann

Lofton, Jasani

Longer, Mi'Kaya

Lopez, Alexander

Lord, Noah

Louzi, Adam

Louzi, Aya

Macadangdang, Kimber

Macalinao, Ethan

Mahama, Mandeiya

Mahama, Wuninmi

Maher, Lina

Maher, Nour

Mahmood, Shayaan

Mahmood, Umaiza

Maldonado, Brandon

Maldonado, Dylan

Maldonado-Torres, Emgelia

Malik, Abdulbari

Malik, Abdulmoiz

Marrero, Joel

Marshall, Lawrence

Martin, Kai

Martin, Kayla

Martinez, Aurys

Marzouk, Irene

Marzouk, Theodora

Matam, Ganesh

Mauricio, Frank

McCord, Taliah

McCorkle, Eve

McCorkle, Isaiah

McDuffie, Shania

McNamee, Thomas

Mederick, Kelcher

Medina-Takla, Isabel

Medina-Takla, Matthew

Meiz, Ahmed

Meiz, Kenzey

Mena, Aaliyah

Mena, Jenelle

Mena, Sophia

Mendez, Denisse

Mendis, Saswini

Mensah-Cobby, Akwasi

Militante, Allen Nicholas

Miller, Ariana

Milton, Brooklyn

Miranda, Jamary

Miriyala, Aashay

Mishra, Aarshabh

Mitchell, Janell

Modi, Kavya

Modi, Kiyansh

Mohammed, Adisah

Mohammed, Ezzah

Mohammed, Hariz

Molloy, Declan

Monroe, Ja'Kai

Monroe, Jayden

Morali, Erol

Morris, Amiya

Morris, Sean

Motley-Byrd, Jaden

Mubashir, Marium

Mubashir, Zayan

Mujtaba, Hamad

Mustafa, Ahmad

Nabdali, Marwa

Nallavula, Dyuthi

Nallavula, Tanvi

Neis, Justin

Newsome, Darius

Newsome, Demetri

Nguyen, Donnie

Nilla, Caitlin

Nilla, Hailey

Noronha, Daphne

Noronha, Sarah

Noronha, Viola

Ochenge, Ethan

Oliver, Kennedy

Olson, Roanan

Omar, Hala

Ortiz, Angelique

Ortiz, Cristina

Ortiz, Victor

Owens, Terell

Padia, Dhruyan

Padia, Yuraav

Palit, Aditya

Paraison, Isaiah

Paraison, Jazlyn

Pasia, Vincent

Patel, Meet

Patel, Prisha

Patidar, Satvik

Paz, Gustavo

Peddi, Rithvik

Perry, Jordyn

Persaud, Brandon

Persaud, Emily

Persaud-Lewis, Devin

Person, Hy'Sawn

Persson, Bea

Phillips, Tristan

Pilco, Gonzalo

Pilco, Samantha

Pina, James

Pinkney, Addisen

Pitts, Kennedy

Poblete, John

Poblete, Joshua

Poblete, Julissa

Polimar, Anaxi

Polimar, Jeremiah

Polimar, Johan

Punzal, Julian

Quinones, Marcel

Ramkumar, Ashwin

Ranjan, Sharanya

Rayzer, Cannon

Reloj, Ava Isabella

Reyes, Jayden

Reyes, Nahla

Reyes, Valerie

Reynolds, Mekhi

Robles, Jaylynn

Rodil, Jared Izack

Rodriguez, Cayse

Rodriguez, Jayden

Rodriguez, Nicole

Rodriguez, Serenity

Rodriguez-Martinez, Keyla

Romage, Elizabeth

Romage, Ezekiah

Roman, Janiya

Roman, Jayla

Romano, Leonardo

Romano, Sofia

Romano, Victoria

Rosado, Aleeya

Rosales, Chloe Anne

Rosales, Frank Benedict

Rosario, Luis

Saldua, Jeremy

Salem, Jana

Salem, Judy

Sampson, Cayden

San Elias, Angel

Sanchez, Brihanna

Sanders, Jaden

Sanders, Makiyah

Sanders, Zariah

Sanderson, Malachi

Sandonato, Layla

Sandonato, Simon

Sangpo, Rinchen

Santos, Sachi

Sarwar, Zunaira

Saumell, Reed

Sawires, Mark

Scott, Juwan

Scott, Ronalyn

Segarra, Emely

Segarra, Marlene

Segarra, Sophia

Senthil, Oviya

Sharma, Aarav

Sharma, Preesha

Shea-Martinez, Payton

Shea-Martinez, Sophia

Shehata, Andrew

Shehata, Mena

Shehata, Youssef

Sheikh, Emaan

Sheikh, Musa

Shepperson, Bryanna

Shivers, Basir

Sims, Jaylen

Sindiong, Anthony

Sindiong, Karis

Singh, Keya

Sisodia, Nivaa

Smalls-Bey, Alexander

Smalls-Bey, Kylie

Smalls-Bey, Nathanial

Smith, Essence

Soliven, Mark

Soliven, Miles

Somo, Elisha

Soni, Rishabh

Soto, Adam

Spears, Amasia

Spratley, Miguel

Steed, Amiya

Stroman, Xavier

Sumcad, Bhea Ann

Suri, Angelica

Sy Savane, Aminata

Sy Savane, Makhosazana

Sylla, Fatimah

Sylla, Mousa

Terson, Jerimiah

Thompson, Shanya

Torres, Michael

Tounkara, Ibrahima

Tounkara, Kadya

Tounkara, Mamady

Tounkara, Mayeny

Tuli, Keya

Turingan, Jacob

Turingan, Jonas

Turner, Kyiona

Uderani, Pia

Ulloa, Antonio

Ulloa, Isaac

Ulloa, Jasmine

Urtecho, Japheth

Vanera, Kiya

Vargas, Brianna

Vargas, Destiny

Vargas, Dylan

Vargas, Kenny

Varshney, Samarth

Vazquez-Hernandez, Edward

Vazquez-Hernandez, Naomi

Vera, Iker

Vera, Karina

Verma, Tanishka

Vesey, Jordan

Vesey, Julia

Vilanova, Zoe

Villavert, Ryan

Vincent, Melina

Vineza, Jullian

Vinotha, Nitish

Vitug, Colin Philippe

Wahby, Farida

Wai, Charlotte

Wai, Jackson

Wells, Amira

Wells, Kayla

Wheeler, Serenity

Wiberg, Ivey

Williams, Andrew

Williams, Khayri

Williams, Ruqayyah

Wilson, Al'mir

Wilson, Kaiden

Wilson, Korinne

Woodard, Janelle

Woodard, Josephyne

Woods, Ethan

Woods, Logan

Zan, Jei

Zguiouar, Yasser

Zheng, Edward

Zheng, Emily

Zhu, David

Zorrilla, Lismely