Kent Information Channels

Kent's Web Site

• Find out about all things Bacich and the Kentfield School District, access teacher/class websites, discover local resources, and read archived district newsletters.

School Calendar

• All events for both the schools as well as the District. Please be aware that the information shown on the calendar may change because of last minute conflicts. Therefore, it would be best to check the calendar prior to an event, so you know you have the most current information.

District Newsletter

• Weekly, on Thursday evening, the Kentfield School District sends an email newsletter using the parent emails stored in the Aeries Student Information System and tagged to receive General Announcements.
• The newsletter contains important announcements, a calendar of events for the upcoming week, a letters from Bacich administrators. The newsletter also provides information from Safe Routes to School, KSPTA, kik, and local organizations. In an effort to reduce the amount of emails our families receive, the newsletter is our main communication channel.
• If you are not automatically receiving a weekly email with the link to the most current newsletter please verify your communication preferences in the Aeries Parent Portal. If you are unable to access the parent portal, please send an email to data@kentfieldschools.org
  

Specific Grade Levels or All Kent Families Notifications

• From time to time, the Kent school office or the Kentfield district office will send out notifications to parents to alert them to specific situations or events.
• Depending on the situation and the message, the District will send via email, voice alert, text messaging, or a combination thereof.
• Every participant has the ability to opt out of this program by changing their notification preferences in the parent portal.

Emergency Messaging

• The District sends emergency alert messages only during emergency school closures, an emergency need for pickups, emergency situations, and other similar types of events.
• Depending on the situation and the message, the District will send via email, voice alert, text messaging, or a combination thereof.
• All emergency messages will inform you of how and whom to contact relating to that particular emergency.
• Every participant has the ability to opt out of this program by changing their notification preferences in the parent portal.

If You Are Not Receiving School Emails

Periodically we receive notification from parents that they are not receiving emails from the school or that they no longer are receiving email from the school. We suggest checking the following if either occurs.

• Check your email address is correct in the Aeries Parent Portal.
• Check your email system's "spam" or "junk mail" folder to verify that the school's emails are not being sent there.
• If you had been receiving email from the school and no longer are, your spam filter might have just recently decided that school mail is spam. Please check your spam folder regularly. Often times, important emails get filtered to these folders.
• If you are using a government or business email address and are not receiving school email, contact the person at your office who administers your email system and verify with them that the business' email filter has not been blocking school mail, or sending school email to an organization-wide spam folder before it even gets to you.

Aeries Parent Portal

• Aeries is our new Student Information System this year, replacing PowerSchool. The Parent Portal will allow you to check your student's grades and attendance, as well as view and update your family's information. This is where your Emergency Information, your E-Mail address and other family information is stored when you originally signed up for school. If any of this type of information changes this is where you would enter the changes.
• The information stored here is how we contact you for all types of reasons. Emergency, E-Mail blasts, Phone Contact etc. It is very important to make sure your e-mail address and emergency information is kept up to date.
• You can elect to receive weekly email notifications of your child's attendance and gradebook progress in the parent portal.
• If you have any difficulty signing in or using Aeries, please send an email to data@kentfieldschools.org.