Weekly Reminder

This Week at UAF

• Morning Athkhar during homeroom (Grades 6-12)
• Afterschool Clubs: (Parents  must pick up on time in order to avoid late pick-up charges)
  • Elementary Frisbee Club (3:30pm-5:00pm)
  • Elementary Nasheed Club (3:30pm-4:30pm)
  • Creative Writing Club (3:30pm-4:30pm)
  • Arts Club (3:30pm-4:30pm)

• Morning Athkhar during Homeroom (Grades K-5)
• Free Vision Screenings for Daycare-8th grade students (Parents must fill out the permission forms sent home with your child)

• Morning Athkhar during homeroom (Grades 6-12)
• Free Vision Screenings Daycare-8th grade students (Parents must fill out the permission slips sent home with your child)
• Afterschool Clubs: (Parents  must pick up on time in order to avoid late pick-up charges)
• • Weightlifting Club (3:30pm-4:30pm) 
  • Crochet Club  (3:30pm-4:30pm)
  • Debate Club (3:30pm-4:30pm)
  • Secondary Frisbee Club Grade (6-12) - (3:30pm-5:30pm) 

• Morning Athkhar during Homeroom (Grades K-5)
• Afterschool Clubs: (Parents  must pick up on time in order to avoid late pick-up charges)
  • Scrabble/ASL Club  (3:30pm-4:30pm) 

General Reminders 

• UAF's Annual Banquet: UAF's Annual Fundraiser this year will be held virtually on Saturday, December 11th , at 11:00am Insha'Allah.  Please click on the link: www.uaftampa.org/banquet to register for the free virtual event, and make sure to join us for this beautiful event with our students, teachers, staff, parents and community members, Insha’Allah. Those who registered will be included in raffle drawings to win some awesome prizes! If you are interested in becoming one of the sponsors for the banquet, please visit the Banquet page on our website or email uaf@uaftampa.org to inquire about our sponsorship packages. Your support for our school and our students by joining and promoting these events, is very much appreciated! 

•  Free Vision Screenings on Tuesday, December 8th (Daycare-8th grade): Preserve Vision FL will be coming this week on Tuesday(12/8) and possibly Wednesday (12/9) to provide free vision screenings for our daycare-8th grade students. This is a free screening to help determine if your child has any vision issues that may impact their learning and development. Permission forms were sent home last week with your child(ren). If interested, please return your completed permission forms to your child's homeroom teacher by Monday (12/6). Please feel free to call the front office with any quuestions. 

• Afterschool Clubs in December: Afterschool clubs in December will only take place until December 9th.
• AmazonSmile Program: Are you an Amazon.com shopper? Your shopping makes a difference!  Did you know that while you’re going about your regular shopping on Amazon.com, you could be supporting Universal Academy of Florida?   To support UAF, always shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/59-3119396  << Kindly bookmark this website. We truly appreciate your support. 
• Please DO NOT send your sick child to school: By keeping your sick kids home, you are helping to control the spread of colds, flu, COVID-19 and other contagious illnesses. Please keep your child home until he/she has been symptom-free without medication for 24 hours.  Please keep your child at home when he/she has any of the following symptoms:

• Fever	Chills
  Vomiting or Diarrhea	Nausea
  Sore throat or trouble swallowing	Coughing, sneezing, and/or runny nose
  Rash or unusual sores or spots	Headache
  Generalized muscle aches and pains	Wheezing or trouble breathing
  Unusually red, crusted or burning eyes	Head Lice

   

• Important Security Reminders:  In addition to the established security procedures on campus, we will also be taking additional steps to enhance our security as we work towards ensuring that our campus is as safe and secure as possible. Please make note of the following:

• • Car tags are required during arrival and dismissal. Please make sure to hang your car tag over your rear view mirror  in your vehicle, so that they are visible. CARS WITHOUT THE CAR TAGS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED ON CAMPUS during arrival and dismissal and will be asked to park across the street to pick up or drop off their children. 

  • Follow the instructions of our security guards and staff. If they do not see a car tag, they will stop and question the cars. Please remember that they must enforce the rules in order to keep everyone safe, therefore be sure to follow their instructions and comply with their requests.

• Parking Lot Safety: In an effort to keep our parking lot safe and efficient we would like to encourage all our families to please be extra cautious and courteous to other drivers when parking, backing up in the parking lots (on campus and across the street). Also, please be aware that we have children and pedestrians passing through so please try to maintain a slow speed when driving through the dismissal lanes and the parking lots.

• Aftercare Program: The philosophy of the Aftercare Program is to provide a safe and positive on-site care for students who need to stay after school hours.  All late student will also be sent to Aftercare and will be charged the aftercare fee accordingly. Aftercare will take place daily in the Computer Lab in Building B.  Parents or authorized pick-ups must walk into the school building and sign the child out. For more information, fees and registration please visit: https://www.uaftampa.org/aftercare

• Mask Policy: Masks are required for all students, staff and parents/visitors throughout the day while on school campus. Parents walking to the  Students will be asked to fix their masks when they are out of compliance. Disciplinary action will occur when students reach a certain amount of infractions and consequences will increase in severity. Please ensure your child(ren) comes to school daily with a mask on and backup masks in their backpack in case their mask breaks.  If your child(ren) forgets his/her mask, they would need to purchase a mask from the main office for $1.