Cory Caregivers,
I’m so proud of our staff, students, and community. Thanks to the generous donations from last year’s auction, we’ve been able to provide robust intervention and behavior support while continuing our wonderful programs and opportunities for all students.
We know challenges arise, but I’m confident that with our community’s collaborative spirit, we can overcome them together. I’m grateful to serve our students, staff, and families.
We look forward to seeing you at the Cory Carnival on Sunday! The weather is expected to be great, and it will be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and get to know one another.
Our Fall Parade will begin at 2:45 p.m. on October 29th, and we’re excited to have the Cory Band there to play wonderful music as we parade around the blacktop!
Thank you to our Collaborative School Committee, which met on Thursday. We’re grateful for this team and look forward to working together throughout the year. The CSC Chair will be Bruce Gallagher, and the PTA Liaison will be Meghan Davenport.
Have a wonderful weekend!
IMPORTANT DATES:.
October 18 - PTA Fall Carnival
October 26 - Destination Imagination Meeting @ 3:15
October 27 - Fall Picture - Retakes
October 29 - Halloween Parade - starts at 2:45 on the blacktop
October 30 - No School for Students Teacher Work Day
November 1st - Daylight Savings Fall back
November 2 - No School for Students Teacher Work day
November 6 - PTA Meeting @ 8:30
November 9 - Nov 12 - Scholastic Book Fair
November 12 - Literacy Night
November 18 - 4th Grade Art Exhibit at Four Mile Historic Park @ 4:30
November 19 - Family Thanksgiving Lunch
November 20 - PTA Arts - Friends of Chamber Music assembly
November 23 - 27 - Thanksgiving Break
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR STUDENTS OF THE WEEK for the week of October 13!
Thank you for showing our Cory Kindness Values. Go CORY COUGARS!
Values: Caring - Responsibility - Inclusiveness - Respect - Integrity - Courage
1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade |
Chiara D Alia H Autumn A | Annette T Helix S Bulad | Sloane G Declan K Ira G | Aiden Z Una S | Oli G Mariyah A Ivan J Gavin T Claire C |
School Picture Galleries Are LIVE!
School picture galleries are now available! Families can view their student’s pictures and place orders through Bloom School Pictures. View your student’s pictures and place your order here: https://thebloombeehive.com/cory
If you want a retake, please sign your student up through your school's parent dashboard where the galleries are. Any students that were absent, or do not have photos, have already been added to our list.
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Before contacting Bloom, try opening your gallery in a Private or Incognito window. This often bypasses old cached information and gets you right in. If that doesn’t work, try a different browser or refresh and enter the access code again. Still stuck? Reach out to the Bloom School Pictures team and they can help! Visit Bloom's FAQ page to contact them.
We are missing 295 completed Meal forms for our school. Please take a few minutes to fill out the Meal Benefit form online.
WELCOME! This is Denver Public Schools You Benefit! online application for the 2026-2027 school year.
Benefits of applying online:
Quicker approval process for eligibility
Accuracy of submitted application
You Benefit! application helps families and your school. By applying, your child's school can receive additional funding. In addition, your child's school fees may be waived or reduced. These include athletic fees, ACT, SAT, course fees and activity and field trip fees tied to curriculum.
If you are ready to get started, click the button below to begin the online process.
What is TSEAL? Transformative Social Emotional Academic Learning
“Transformative SEAL” is a process whereby young people and adults build strong, respectful, and lasting, relationships that facilitate co-learning to critically examine root causes of inequity, and to develop collaborative solutions that lead to personal, community, and societal well-being. This form of TSEAL is aimed at redistributing power to promote social justice through increased engagement in school and civic life. It emphasizes the development of identity, agency, belonging, curiosity, and collaborative problem solving
It's critically important that school wide TSEAL implementation intentionally nurtures an environment in which educators gain social and emotional competence by learning, collaborating, and modeling their social and emotional skills. Along with these social and emotional skills, schools must also fold in conversations about race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, language and ability so that the conversation about TSEAL takes into account the student’s fullest identities. It is recommended that schools do a deep dive into understanding how educators, students, and community can navigate conversations about race, sex, gender, ableism and other social identities in order to establish systems and supports that strengthen both adult and student Social Emotional Academic Learning.
Come along on our Cory TSEAL journey!
Unit 3: Self Regulation and Management - Value of the month is Responsibility
Dear Family:
After Winter Break, a trained Prevention Specialist from the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center will begin
teaching the Denver Safe from the Start curriculum in your child’s classroom. This 6-week program
teaches children skills that will help keep them safe from dangerous or abusive situations.
This program is divided into 6 Lessons:
1. Ways to Stay Safe: General safety- looking both ways before crossing the street, asking before
petting a dog, never touching a gun etc. Identifying 5 trusted adults in their lives. Children will
learn to recognize, refuse and report.
2. Always Ask Permission First: Always ask the person in charge before going somewhere, doing
something, or accepting something.
3. Safe, Unsafe, and Unwanted Touches: Safe touches make us feel loved and cared for. Unsafe
touches hurt our bodies. Unwanted touches can be safe but something a child may not want
now. Kids are learning they have the right to say, “no”.
4. The Private Body Part Rule: A bigger person should never touch your private body part except
to keep you healthy. Children identify the exceptions to this rule (caregivers, nurses, doctors).
We teach that the private body parts are covered by a child’s bathing suit.
5. Never Keep a Secret: Never keep a secret especially if the private body part rule is broken. In
this lesson, kids will also learn that it is never their fault if someone else breaks the touching rule
and to keep telling if their safe adult does not believe them.
6. Internet Safety: DCAC is an Educational Partner with the National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children (NCMEC). We utilize NCMEC’s NetSmartz to talk about internet safety to
1st-5th grade students.
Selected classes, 1st-5th will complete a pre and post-test. These tests will be verbally conducted by
the trained prevention specialist. There will be no identifying information, and tests will be shredded
after being scored. The reason for these tests is to collect data that illustrates an improvement in scores
from pre to post test.
If you would like to opt your child out of this programming, please complete this form by December 1, 2026.
If you have questions about the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center, or the Denver Safe from the Start
curriculum, please do not hesitate to call us.
Sincerely,
Christa Summers, MA, LPC, NCC Community Outreach Director 720-974-7232
Julia Urbina, MSW, SWC Bilingual Prevention Specialist 303-996-8595
