Hello Bulldog Families,
This is Mrs. Boylan with your weekly update from Bexley Elementary!
This week we have Chick-Fil-A spirit night on Tuesday night, 8/22. Dine at Chick-Fil-A between 4:00-8:00pm and remember to tell them you are from Bexley Elementary! Proceeds of each meal will come back to your child’s school/classroom.
On Thursday, 8/24 we will also have our first Bexley Elementary Parent Engagement, Buster’s Back-to-School Bash event from 6:00-8:00PM. We look forward to seeing our students and families! This event is inspired by art and there will be several FREE art activities and also those that required pre-registration. Unfortunately, we cannot take registrations at the gate for the SPLAT Bus and Canvas Painting events that required pre-registration due to the pre-ordered materials needed to honor the number of families already registered. No worries, there are other free activities to enjoy without registering for these pre-registered opportunities. Food trucks will be on campus for cost, so feel free to plan on purchasing some yummy food and enjoying a night with our Bexley family! Our PTO has worked hard to create a fun event for our students and families to come out, socialize and enjoy each other.
We are so excited about the number of volunteers that are wanting to assist us here at Bexley Elementary. Before any volunteer can come on campus to assist, he/she must be approved by our district and attend our BES volunteer registration meeting. This meeting will be held virtually on Friday, 8/25, at 10:30am. We will also record the training to send to those that cannot make it and wish to confirm that they viewed it after this Friday’s meeting. The virtual meeting will be held on Outlook Teams and the link is within the email that is accompanying this phone call. We look forward to seeing our volunteers on our virtual training this Friday at 10:30am.
Join this link on Friday, 10:30am for our BES Volunteer mtg:
As you know, our communication this year is happening within your Parent Portal and the email you provided within your portal. Our district made the myStudent communication the one-stop-shop due to the feedback from parents’ that there were too many communication apps and also the discovery that Class Dojo, Remind, and other apps did not promise the same data privacy as our myStudent information platform. With this change, we have experienced some challenges with sending and receiving messages, sending schoolwide announcements, etc. We will continue to work with our district to resolve these challenges. At this time, the BEST way to communicate with your child’s teacher is through email. Our staff and teacher emails are listed on our website, under CONTACT US. We thank you for your patience as we work through the use of our new district communication platform.
For the safety of all students, 3:00pm is the cut-off for both early dismissals and change of dismissals. We understand there was a misprint of this time in one of our beginning of the year documents. 3:00pm is the cut-off so we can ensure that all of our students are in the proper place for dismissal. Thank you for your cooperation.
NEW – If you would like to change your child’s dismissal we now have an electronic system. Please find the “button” on our website to request a change of dismissal before 3:00pm on the day of the change. This system will improve the monitoring and thorough communication needed when a child’s dismissal changes. If you call the office, you will be directed to use this electronic system moving forward.
Last but not least, we need everyone’s help with following the procedures of arrival and dismissal. Our Hiker/Biker traffic has caused several safety concerns for our students and our surrounding community family. Hiker/Biker tags are meant for students that live within the surrounding homes of our school. If your family lives outside of the walking/biking distance then you must use our car loop or bus transportation. We will be monitoring students that have Hiker/Biker tags and contacting those that do not live within walking distance to choose another safe route to school. Parking along the streets, in front of driveways, in alley ways, and/or at the park for drop off or pick up is not permitted. We are working with the county, PCSO and Bexley community HOA to enforce these procedures. If your child has a Hiker/Biker tag and does not live within walking distance, visit our office this week to switch his/her means of transportation. We thank you in advance for utilizing our car line or bus service. We know it takes time, but safety must come before convenience.
Looking ahead, please remember there is no school for students on September 4th and an early release day on September 6th. Please plan ahead to have your child picked up or met at the bus stop on September 6th at 1:50pm.
Thank you for working with us to make this school year the best one yet! We appreciate your focus on reading routines at home and collaboration with your child’s teacher when there is a celebration or concern. It takes a team and we are happy you are on our Bexley team!
Believe, Engage, Succeed, Teamwork, Integrity, Equity, for every Bulldog every day!
Mrs. Michele Boylan, Principal 💙💚
