🌟 GROW WITH US AT JCPS | Looking for your next career opportunity? Join us on Oct. 17 to explore the many career paths at JCPS and learn how you can make the difference in the lives of students and families.
🥟 Back by delicious demand! Con Ají y Café will be rolling in again with their irresistible arepas and empanadas, so come hungry and ready to fuel up while you explore your future at the JCPS. Cash and card accepted.
Apply for open positions online at jcps.me/careers.
Job Fair Details:
📆 Friday, Oct. 17, 2025
⏰ 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
📍 JCPS Center for Professional Learning (CPL), 3903 Atkinson Square Drive, Louisville, 40218
📢 TAG A FRIEND who’s job hunting!
#WeAreJCPS
CHECK IT OUT | Not sure what options are available within your network? Digital versions of the Choices Books are now available online for all school levels. Printed copies are expected to arrive at schools the week of Oct. 6. View the Choices Books online: https://www.jefferson.kyschools.us/choices-guide
Check out this week's edition of the Wildcat Weekly Words here: https://jcps.edurooms.com/engage/farnsley-middle/newsletters/wildcat-weekly-words-september-19-2025
📢 REMINDER | No school next Wednesday, Sept. 24 for students. Wednesday is Family Teacher Conference Day. Students are also off the week of Sept. 29-Oct. 3 for Fall Break. 🍂 #WeAreJCPS
Farnsley Families: Reminder: Tomorrow is picture day! All students will have their picture taken. Students are still required to be in uniform tomorrow.
Farnsley: Check out this week's edition of Wildcat Weekly Words at the link below.
https://jcps.edurooms.com/engage/farnsley-middle/newsletters/wildcat-weekly-words-september-10-2025
https://jcps.edurooms.com/engage/farnsley-middle/newsletters/wildcat-weekly-words-september-10-2025
Farnsley PTSA: We want very best smile for your students ! Without your help It will be Impossible to do .
📸 Say Cheese & Lend a Hand!
School Picture Day is coming up on September 17th, and we need awesome volunteers to help make it picture-perfect!
📅 Sign up today via SignUpGenius – click the link below and join the fun!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080D4DAFA62CABFB6-58271099-farnsley#
📸 Say Cheese & Lend a Hand!
School Picture Day is coming up on September 17th, and we need awesome volunteers to help make it picture-perfect!
📅 Sign up today via SignUpGenius – click the link below and join the fun!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080D4DAFA62CABFB6-58271099-farnsley#
📢 TONIGHT | JCPS will host one more Community Conversations forum with Superintendent Dr. Brian Yearwood. All are welcome to attend this evening, Sept. 4, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Academy @ Shawnee!
Farnsley MAP Testing Reminder:
Sept 4th, 2025: 8th grade MATH and 7th grade READING
Sept 5th, 2025: 7th grade READING and 6th grade READING
Encourage your students to do their best. 8th grade families, this is the last assessment that high schools will look at for high school applications.
Sept 4th, 2025: 8th grade MATH and 7th grade READING
Sept 5th, 2025: 7th grade READING and 6th grade READING
Encourage your students to do their best. 8th grade families, this is the last assessment that high schools will look at for high school applications.
Farnsley Families: 📸 Say Cheese & Lend a Hand!
School Picture Day is coming up on September 17th, and we need awesome volunteers to help make it picture-perfect!
📅 Sign up today via SignUpGenius – click the link below and join the fun!
https://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=w.manageSignUp#/58271099/share/share
School Picture Day is coming up on September 17th, and we need awesome volunteers to help make it picture-perfect!
📅 Sign up today via SignUpGenius – click the link below and join the fun!
https://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=w.manageSignUp#/58271099/share/share
Farnsley Families: Please see the attached PTSA flyers with updated QR codes.
COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS | We had another great community forum Tuesday night at Jeffersontown High School! Thank you to everyone who has joined these events to hear from Dr. Brian Yearwood. The superintendent has enjoyed listening, learning, and getting to know you.
Our next Community Conversation is on Thursday, Sept. 4, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Academy @ Shawnee.
Our next Community Conversation is on Thursday, Sept. 4, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Academy @ Shawnee.
Farnsley Families:
As we have addressed the safest and most efficient processing of car rider drop off and pick up, we want to stress that the safest is the use of the car rider line through the bus compound. Dropping off at alternate locations such as Idle Hour Dr. or the gas station poses a safety concern especially as they walk across busy streets. For the last 2 mornings, the car rider line has been complete by 8:35 and 8:37 am. It is feasible to access the line and process through in less than 8 minutes.
Thank you for your cooperation and working through this process.
Carolyn B Smith
✅ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION TODAY | Superintendent Dr. Brian Yearwood is hitting the road for Community Conversations, a series of open forums at JCPS high schools!
💬 Got questions? Ideas? Feedback? This is your chance to be heard and help shape the future of our schools face-to-face with Dr. Yearwood.
The next forum is this evening, Aug. 26 at Jeffersontown High School. Forums are open to all!
Let’s keep building stronger schools together! 💙📚
💬 Got questions? Ideas? Feedback? This is your chance to be heard and help shape the future of our schools face-to-face with Dr. Yearwood.
The next forum is this evening, Aug. 26 at Jeffersontown High School. Forums are open to all!
Let’s keep building stronger schools together! 💙📚
Farnsley Families: Don't forget to join us for Open House TONIGHT, 6-7:30PM. Come meet your student's teachers, see their classrooms and get information on upcoming events at Farnsley. We will start in the gym at 6:30PM for a welcome from Principal Smith and PTSA meeting. We look forward to seeing you!
The Salvation Army will be opening up appointments for Angel Tree assistance for this holiday season. Please follow the information below and get your appointment scheduled using the links below If you do schedule an appointment, please send me an email at billie.roberts@jefferson.kyschools.us letting me know it has been scheduled. I appreciate all of your help!
Billie Roberts, FRC
Billie Roberts, FRC
A Message from Principal Smith: Thank you to those who have patiently waited in the Car Rider Line to receive/drop off their students promptly. We have noticed that some families have chosen an alternate pick-up/drop-off method. If this is the case, please note that the plan that the school has put in place is the priority during those high-volume times and as is such, the crossing guards give priority to those in the official Car Rider Line. Though we cannot condone or encourage pick-up/drop off outside of the school property, we ask that you follow the traffic patterns - only right hand turns from Idle Hour Dr., and into the Car Rider starting point of the Compound. We ask that above all, you always practice safety procedures in yielding to pedestrians; not entering the bus rider loop; not parking in the staff parking lot; not making a U-Turn in the middle of the road; and not letting students in/out on main roads. Thank you again for your attention to these details and safety concerns.
To support a greater need for safe release of students in the car rider line, the car rider line will go down to 1 lane of drop offs in the morning. There have been one too many close calls of a student passing by a distracted driver to get to the sidewalk. Since the city has approved our request to have the Lee's Lane/Cane Run Road light extend in our favor during arrival and dismissal times, we should be able to process students on and off our campuses more efficiently and most of all... safer! We appreciate all that you do to support our processing.
In review of the traffic during the morning hours, the highest volume of traffic is between 8:15 - 8:30. Even then, those students get into the building in time to not have to sign in late to school. Therefore, make yourself a note to leave out about 5-minutes earlier so to give sufficient time for drop off.
Please see the attached images for information from the PTSA.
Have a great week,
Principal Smith
To support a greater need for safe release of students in the car rider line, the car rider line will go down to 1 lane of drop offs in the morning. There have been one too many close calls of a student passing by a distracted driver to get to the sidewalk. Since the city has approved our request to have the Lee's Lane/Cane Run Road light extend in our favor during arrival and dismissal times, we should be able to process students on and off our campuses more efficiently and most of all... safer! We appreciate all that you do to support our processing.
In review of the traffic during the morning hours, the highest volume of traffic is between 8:15 - 8:30. Even then, those students get into the building in time to not have to sign in late to school. Therefore, make yourself a note to leave out about 5-minutes earlier so to give sufficient time for drop off.
Please see the attached images for information from the PTSA.
Have a great week,
Principal Smith
Farnsley: Check out this week's edition of Wildcat Weekly Words here: https://jcps.edurooms.com/engage/farnsley-middle/newsletters/wildcat-weekly-words-august-20-2025
Farnsley: 🗣️Your voice matters!
We are currently accepting nominations for the Site-Based Decision Making (SBDM) Council, and we encourage parents/guardians who are passionate about our school’s success to step forward.
This is a chance to:
Help shape decisions that impact students, staff, and school culture.
Bring fresh ideas and perspectives to the table.
Be directly involved in policies on curriculum, budgeting, and more.
Make a real difference in our school community.
Whether you’ve been involved for years or you’re just starting to get engaged, you can make an impact.
✅ Nominate yourself
✅ Nominate someone you trust and believe in
Together, we can create a stronger school for every student.
For more information or to submit a nomination, contact Jennifer Forcht at gretalou81@gmail.com
🗓 Deadline for nominations: August 25th
We are currently accepting nominations for the Site-Based Decision Making (SBDM) Council, and we encourage parents/guardians who are passionate about our school’s success to step forward.
This is a chance to:
Help shape decisions that impact students, staff, and school culture.
Bring fresh ideas and perspectives to the table.
Be directly involved in policies on curriculum, budgeting, and more.
Make a real difference in our school community.
Whether you’ve been involved for years or you’re just starting to get engaged, you can make an impact.
✅ Nominate yourself
✅ Nominate someone you trust and believe in
Together, we can create a stronger school for every student.
For more information or to submit a nomination, contact Jennifer Forcht at gretalou81@gmail.com
🗓 Deadline for nominations: August 25th
6th grade Parents: We look forward to handing out student devices later this week. Acceptable User Policies are being handed out today for students to bring home for signatures. Please sign these and have your student hand them in tomorrow. Students will not be issued a device without a signed Acceptable User Policy.