Principal's Message
Welcome to the 2025-26 School Year!
Whether you are new to the Cole Canyon community or have called our school home for years, welcome back to a new school year! Our staff and PTC (Parent-Teacher Club) are gearing up for another exciting year, and I am excited to share a few calendar items, our site's focus areas for the upcoming year, and introduce you to our newest administrative team!
Calendar:
August 5th- New Families Meeting, 9:00am, MPR
August 8th- Class posting become live in the Aeries Portal, 5:00pm
August 8th- Kindergarten Meet and Greet, 9:00am- MPR (Teacher assignment is in Aeries at 5:00pm)
August 11th- First Day of School
August 11th- TK Orientation (parents on campus)
August 12th- Back to School Night, 5:30pm- 7:00pm, Classrooms (No TK and Kinder presentations)
Office Hours: 8:00am- 4:00pm
Document Confirmation- The Aeries Parent Portal, annual document confirmation is now open. This is a required first step into the new school year. The purpose of the document confirmation/registration process is to update student contact information including emergency contacts, update health information, and to review all notices and authorizations for the school year.
This step must be completed before the teacher assignments and schedules are released. For parents/guardians who prefer the documents in Spanish, please select Spanish on the Aeries log-in screen from the drop-down menu on the right-hand corner.
During this document confirmation/registration process, we encourage you to ensure your email and mobile number are correct. This information is used for all official school and district communication sent via email, text, and phone to all parents/guardians. Attached is a flyer with information on how to download the app and change your personal notification and language settings.
School Focus- We will continue our focus on all students learning at high levels. Our latest local and state tests scores continue to be one of the highest in the district and the county, but we recognize a few growth areas as well.
Our school will continue to use the Professional Learning Community (PLC) model to unpack site-wide academic and behavioral data through tight teacher collaboration. Our district remains committed to supporting our site with high quality professional development in areas of need. In addition, we look to use our time and resources effectively to strengthen our multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to meet the needs of all students in both academics and positive behavior.
This year we will roll out a site-wide reading incentive program and provide more parent nights to educate our school community on the importance of reading. I want to thank you ahead of time for your support in these focus areas for the 2025-26 school year. We honor this important partnership!
Cole Canyon is working alongside Family Services to provide extended learning opportunities for all students in grades TK-5. Our MPR will be open to students only each day at 7:30am for the Meet and Eat. The first two days of school parents can enter the MPR for this before school time, but starting Wednesday, August 13th, our MPR and the entire campus will only be open to our students. The four gates will be open at 8:15am with an 8:30am school start time.
Our 2025-26 Administrative Team is here to serve you!
Rebecca Lane is our Assistant Principal. She has been working in the Murrieta Valley Unified School District for the past 23 years. She worked at Warm Springs teaching 6-8 grade language arts and social studies and has held many positions at both the middle and high school levels. For 11 years, she worked at Vista Murrieta High School as an English teacher and Renaissance Student Leadership Advisor. Mrs. Lane was recognized as a site and district teacher of the year.
In addition to our administrative team, Mr. Zanartu, our school counselor, is here to serve our school community. He was recognized for his hard work and dedication to our site and district and awarded the RCOE Counselor of the Year in 2025. Our administrative team supports all staff and is committed to building meaningful and lasting relationships with each of our families.
We look forward to starting a new school year! Thank you for your continued support, Cole Canyon Families… and do not forget to get your document confirmations completed ahead of August 11th!
Joseph Shaw
Principal
Principal Shaw