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- Chili, Soup, & Stew Cook-Off — February 7, 2025 January 23, 2025
Posted January 31, 2025
We are in need of chili, soup, and stew dishes for our February 7 Cook-Off event, as well as dessert donations for our cake walk! Help us make this event great for our kids, and win a prize for your dish!
RSVP online using our Google form or by calling our main office at (720) 424-5600!
Sign up to bring a chili / soup / stew, donate a cake to our cake walk, or help with clean-up using our SignUpGenius or by returning the paper form in your child’s January 24 Friday Folder to the main office.
To see guidelines for bringing a chili / soup / stew or donating a cake, please visit our website here.
Our Cook-Off is a community event where school families prepare their favorite soup, stew, or chili at home, then bring it to school for other families to sample. Event attendees taste each soup, stew, and chili and then vote on their favorite one. Participation in the Cook-Off is optional – you don’t need to participate if you don’t want to!
Call our Cook-Off coordinator, Ms. Mona Manzanares, at (720) 518-5458 or email her at Ramona_Manzanares@dpsk12.net.
Families are welcome and invited to use the McT playground before and after school hours! We’d like to share a few reminders about playground usage and safety.
We are aware that students are playing tackle football after school. Please know that this is NOT allowed according to DPS policy – any family allowing their child to play tackle football will be asked to leave the playground.
Here are our McT rules for football:
Join our PTA on Friday, February 7 at 7:30 a.m. in our library for their monthly meeting! If you’re attending the meeting, please enter through the main door and sign in as a visitor in our lobby. Coffee is provided – please bring your own cup!
Want to know what’s on the agenda, or can’t make it to the meeting? All PTA agendas and minutes are available through our website here — scroll down to the “Meetings & Minutes” heading!
If you’d like to sign up for our PTA newsletter, find volunteer opportunities, or provide your feedback, please complete this form.
Round 1 of the 2025-2026 SchoolChoice application window opened on Wednesday, January 15 and runs through Tuesday, February 18. For more information about the SchoolChoice process, including an explanation of the Universal Pre-K application (required for incoming ECE-4 students), please visit our website.
Please refer to the table below to determine if you need to submit a 2025-2026 SchoolChoice application for your student.
| I have an incoming ECE-4 student. | Yes, you must complete a SchoolChoice application and aUniversal Pre-K (UPK) application (due Monday, February 3) for this student. See the UPK section below for more information. |
| I have an incoming kindergarten student. | Yes, you must complete a SchoolChoice application for this student. |
| I have a kindergarten – 4th grade student currently enrolled at McKinley. | No, current McKinley students in kindergarten through 4th grade do not need to complete a SchoolChoice application. These students are guaranteed a spot at McKinley until they graduate. |
| I have a 5th grade student currently enrolled at McKinley. | You are strongly encouraged to complete a SchoolChoice application for 6th grade. |
| I have a kindergarten – 4th grade student at a different school but I would like them to attend McKinley next year. | Yes, you must complete a SchoolChoice application for this student. |
Do you have photos from school events that we can include in the yearbook? We’d love to include your photo submissions so we have the best chance at representing the whole school community! We’re looking for pictures of specials, library time, staff appreciation, snow days, field trips, Movie Night, Glow Dance, International Night, and more!
Parents, guardians, caregivers, students, staff – please submit photos here! If you already have a Shutterfly account, you might have to log in with that account, or try using a different email address altogether.
If you get prompted for a passcode for our school, it’s MKT-YEARBOOK-25.
The Lifetouch link above is the preferred way to submit, but, if that doesn’t work, feel free to upload your photos via Dropbox here!
The submission tool is easy to use, but, for any questions, please reach out to Matt, one of our volunteer yearbook coordinators, at matthew.l.safran@gmail.com. Thank you!
Click here to view the McKinley-Thatcher school calendar.