Archives for May 2022

MAINSPRING ACADEMY: May 2022 – Making Strides for Autism toured the school, then generously gifted 5 sensory bags to classrooms, which included noise-canceling headphones, weighted lap pads, sensory toys, and PECS cards.

Parents and students came together to celebrate Mainspring teachers and staff for Teacher Appreciation Week 2022. They decorated the teachers’ curriculum room, provided a large breakfast, sent kind notes from home, gifted movie snack kits with Redbox gift cards, and painted flower pots!

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Families attending Mainspring Academy for the 2022-2023 School Year,

Please remember that updated physicals and immunizations will be due prior to the 1st day of school in August. Along with your enrollment forms we will send over the summer and first tuition payment in July, your child may not come in the first day until these have been given to Nicole. Appointments at doctor’s offices typically fill up fast for summer for physicals and immunizations, so please make appointments early! Physicals and immunization dates can be no older than from the year 2021. If you need an update, you should have gotten an email from Nicole. Next summer, physical and immunization forms can be no older than from the year 2022, so it may even be worth it to go ahead and get this done regardless. For some parents, a new appointment may not be needed and you may simply need to call your doctor’s office and ask if you can pick up an updated form.

Please remember Mainspring does not provide these forms. The forms are called the “Florida Certification of Immunization DH-680” and “State of Florida School Entry Health Form”. New parents, if your child has a religious exemption from immunizations, we will need a copy of this on file. Here are links to what they look like. Your doctor’s office should already be keeping these on file internally: (Physical Form), (Immunization form). Thank you!!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Friday, June 17th- 10:00am-2:00pm Summer Splash Day – Volunteers will be needed for setup, the event, and cleanup. Items are also needed. Please sign up here!

Parents, if you have not already, please join our MSA Parent Support Facebook Group here. Please join our MSA Community Group for volunteer, sponsorship, and donation opportunities here.

SUPPORT MAINSPRING ACADEMY

If you are interested in donating funds to our school, please click here. If you are interested in donating items to our school, please click here. If you are interested in volunteering at our school, please click here. Give us a call at (904)503-0344 or email our Director of Student and Community Affairs Sabrena Snow at [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to set up a tour of the school!

MAINSPRING ACADEMY: April 2022 – Mainspring Academy’s Board of Directors generously hosted Bourbon and Bites 2022, an exciting banquet fundraiser to benefit Mainspring Academy’s tuition hardship program, which provides families with financial challenges funding to pay for their child’s specialized education. Guests enjoyed a four-course meal with whiskey pairings, prepared by Fish Camp executive chefs.

Mainspring students, staff, volunteers, and parents enjoyed the first Special Olympics event (Track & Field) after a long pandemic hiatus. Students participated in shotput, long jump, 30-yard dash, and 50-yard dash events.

Congratulations to all of our students who participated! Here are our Blue, Red, and Yellow-Ribbon Track and Field Athletes:

Blue (First Place) –
Group A – Maddox and Colten
Group B- Jaelyn
Group C- KJ
Group D- Lincoln

Red (Second Place) –
Group A – Anish, Jude, and Ethan
Group B- Connor S.
Group C- Jeremiah
Group D- Sebastian

Yellow (Third Place) –
Group A – Austin
Group B- Alison
Group C- Tanner and Nealie
Group D- Gabe

Summer Camp 2022 enrollment for Mainspring Academy students ended Monday, April 11th. Open enrollment for non-Mainspring families began Monday, April 11th and ends Friday, May 6th. Non-Mainspring families interested in Summer Camp enrollment for their child must set up a tour and observation session at Mainspring, as well as submit their child’s IEP and/or psychological evaluation prior to submitting an application. Click here to receive a phone call to schedule your tour and observation session.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Tuesday, May 17th at 9:15am- Parent Action Committee Meeting in the cafeteria. We will working together to come up with plans for Summer Splash Day (June 16th) and brainstorming ideas for the ’22-’23 school year

Parents, if you have not already, please join our MSA Parent Support Facebook Group here. Please join our MSA Community Group for volunteer, sponsorship, and donation opportunities here.

SUPPORT MAINSPRING ACADEMY

If you are interested in donating funds to our school, please click here. If you are interested in donating items to our school, please click here. If you are interested in volunteering at our school, please click here. Give us a call at (904)503-0344 or email our Director of Student and Community Affairs Sabrena Snow at [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to set up a tour of the school!