Hailey Elementary. Hailey. Elementary. August 26, 2016 Update. Welcome to Hailey Elementary! Welcome to a new school

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1 August Baskin-Robbins PTA Spirit Night 3-7pm September National Night Sawmill Park 3:00-5:00pm 5 Labor Day Holiday 6 PTA Spirit Night Chick-Fil-A 7 Cookie Dough Kick Off 20 Baskin Robbins PTA Spirit Night 21 Read for a Better Life Schedule to read to your child s class 23 Fall Pictures Hailey Elementary Hailey August 26, 2016 Update Elementary Welcome to Hailey Elementary! Welcome to a new school year at Hailey Elementary! We are looking forward to a fabulous year with your wonderful children. Transportation Tags Each child has a transportation tag attached to their backpack. Please do not remove the tag to help us transition your child into the correct dismissal location. Morning Procedures Morning routines are in place and students are performing beautifully. Beginning on Monday, August 29, students will walk independently to their classrooms. If you require assistance in the morning, please visit the front office. Teachers are engaged with students beginning at 7:45am and will not be able to visit with parents during this time. Thank you for respecting this important morning routine while teachers are engaged with students. Lunch Information If your child brings a lunch to school, please send the lunch with them in the morning. Students will not be called from instruction to collect a lunch brought into the office. Students will have to wait until their designated lunch time to get their lunch from the office. Please make this part of your morning routine. Parents are welcome to eat lunch with their student in the cafeteria beginning September 12. Due to limited space at the student tables, there is a designated table for parents to have lunch with their own child only. Additional friends are not permitted to eat at the parent table. There will be one parent table in the cafeteria due to the need for additional student tables. At the end of the Mrs. Hayes class enjoys Save Fred team building activities!

2 lunch period, students will be directed to return to their class table for dismissal from the cafeteria. Parents will be asked to say good-bye to their student at that time, and are asked to check-out at the front office. Students will not be allowed to leave the cafeteria with parents, but must leave with their class. Read For a Better Life Parents are invited to sign up to read in their child s classroom for minutes on Wednesday, September 21 st for Dr. Stockton s reading initiative, Read for a Better Life. Comet Cadets The Hailey Comet Cadets are a group of 4th graders who are committed to providing service to the school. They are on the front porch in the morning to receive car-riders, they help with recycling, assist with breakfast and PreK lunch, serve as ushers at school programs, and are role models for our younger students. If your child would like to be considered for a Hailey Comet Cadet position, please fill out the application at the end of this update and return it to Mrs. Hernandez. Second grader are excited about a great new year! Meal Applications Families can apply online for free or reduced meal prices. Applications can be completed online through the Child Nutrition website or at A new application must be submitted each year. Pre-K and K students do not automatically qualify. An application must be completed and approved. Students who participated in the Free/Reduced program during the previous year in Conroe ISD may continue to eat at the same Free/ Reduced status for the first 30 days of school. When a new application is completed before the 30 days is up, the new status overrides last year's status. Applications may take up to 10 days to process, including online applications. Parents must pay for student's meals until the lunch application is processed. All student financial information is kept confidential in the Child Nutrition Office. For more information, please contact Dina Herrick at (936) or [email protected] CPHS Reveliers Dance Clinic The College Park Reveliers Dance Team is hosting their annual fall dance clinic for 1st-8th grade students on Saturday, September 10, from 9:00AM- 12:00PM at College Park High School. Cost: $40 ($30 additional sibling). The clinic includes an age-appropriate dance routine, a snack, photo, and t-shirt. Registration forms are available in the front lobby and on the Revelier website: twcpreveliers.net. Early registration ends September 6th. Don t delay. Turn your registration form in today! Hailey students happily received school supplies donated by staff and residents from Silverado Memory Care Community in the Woodlands. Afternoon Dismissal - Car Riders The car rider line will be long and many of the students are new to the procedure. Please be patient as we guide students to their cars. Signs will be issued to put in the car windshield; this will help speed up the car rider

3 line. Parents may obtain dismissal signs in the front office. Please follow the teachers directions and pull all the way up to the cone. Mrs. Steffy s class shares math problem solving strategies. Afternoon Dismissal - Walkers Hailey Elementary has a large number of students walking home after school. Pathway Walkers leave the school on the path toward Sawmill Park. Sawmill Walker students leave the school on the path toward Sawmill Road. We understand that the lines for walkers are long and it is a time-consuming process for us to balance a quick exit while ensuring each student is released to the correct person. Many of our older students exit the building as walkers and are not escorted by a parent. Our preferred method of releasing walkers is when an adult accompanies the student, but we understand that parents may wish for the student to be released to exit the building on their own. The main concern lies in the safety of our younger students leaving the building without the presence of an adult. If you choose to have your first grade through fourth grade student released to exit the building without escort, parents must first sign a permission slip available in the front office. We will keep this permission on file until you inform us of a change in transportation. Only with this form on file will we release your child at the end of the day to leave the school as a walker without an adult present. Thank you for your patience and assistance while we establish an afternoon walker routine. Cafeteria News The CISD lunch menu is accessible via the CISD website. It contains selections and prices. Each student is provided with a lunch card that includes his/her lunch PIN number (student ID). This card will stay at school. Cafeteria account balances can be accessed and monitored through your PAC account. If you choose to pay with a check, please include the lunch card number/student ID on your check. If student accounts have insufficient funds, an alternate lunch will be provided. Regular lunches cannot be charged. If you have questions regarding your child s account, please contact the school cafeteria manager at Mrs. Potempa s class uses a web for a classroom discussion. Please send your child to school with a lunch or money (or money in account) to purchase a lunch. Meal prices are as follows: Lunch Breakfast $2.75 full price student $1.25 full price student $3.45 non-student meal/ 2 nd student meal $2.20 non-student meal/ 2 nd student meal Free and Reduced Meal Programs are available for eligible students.

4 Parent Access Center - PAC All parents are asked to establish Parent Access accounts. To establish a Parent Access account, please go to the following link and follow the instructions: You must register each child you wish to access through the Parent Access account. You will be able to use the same password and log-in for each child enrolled in CISD. Through your PAC, you will be able to access information about your child, his/her grades, and activities in school. As part of the District s ongoing effort to save money and to be environmentally conscious, the District is publishing its Student Handbook (Handbook), Student Code of Conduct (Code), and Acceptable Use Guidelines (AUG) in electronic format on the District s website. We are hopeful that access to these documents on the Internet, through the District s website at from anywhere at any time, will be helpful to you. If you would like a paper copy of these documents, you can print a copy from home, or just ask a campus administrator or teacher for a copy. As always, both parents and students are expected to read these documents and affirm that they have done so during the first two weeks of school. We ask that you acknowledge receipt of the Handbook, Code, and AUG online electronically through your Parent Access account. By doing so, we can more efficiently track and manage these acknowledgements. Once you have logged in to your Parent Access account, you will see a tab on the right side of the screen labeled Electronic Signatures. Select this tab. You will then see the words Student Handbook in the center of the page. Click on these words and you will be taken to the Student Handbook, Student Code of Conduct and the Acceptable Use Guidelines. After you have read and closed these documents, you will enter your name for your electronic signature in a text box and click I agree. This information will then be sent to your child s campus for record keeping purposes. You will need to repeat this process for each child you have in the school district. We appreciate your help by participating in this conversion to electronic documents. If you opt not to participate electronically, please return the signed paper acknowledgement to your child s teacher by September 2, Thank you for all of your help and support. Cash for Cans We will continue our Cash for Cans program on Friday mornings. The first collection is September 2 and we look forward to a successful recycling year. Dress Code The Student Dress Code is in place at Hailey Elementary in order to provide a safe, healthy and productive environment where all children can learn. Shoes are not to include flip-flops, crocs, backless sandals, shoes with wheels, or shoes with heels that are higher than one inch. If girls wear a dress to school, shorts must be worn under the dress at all times. The shoulder strap of a shirt must be approximately three fingers wide. Hair color must be of a natural human color and should not be a distraction to the educational process. Extreme hairstyles (i.e. Mohawks, etc.) are prohibited. For safety purposes, student s bangs should be short enough so their eyes can be seen. Inappropriate dress includes:

5 No mid-riff tops, thin strap shirts, tank tops, halters, see-through shirts, or any clothing advertising alcohol, tobacco, or suggestive sayings. Shirts should be long enough to meet the top of the pants/jeans and cover the full stomach and pants/jeans should be high enough in front and back to completely cover the child s bottom when sitting. No droopy or sagging pants, or low-rider pants. Low fitting pants should appropriately cover the student. The length of shorts, miniskirts, dresses, and split skirts must be to the bottom of the student s fingertips. Spandex cannot be worn alone without shorts over them. Shorts over the spandex must be to the bottom of the student s fingertips. Hats or caps are not to be worn at school. The exception will be special Hat Days for the whole school to wear hats or caps. If the Hailey Dress Code is not followed, the student will be sent to the Clinic to call his/her parent to bring appropriate clothes to the school. A written notice will be sent home to the parent. School Hours 8:05am-3:10pm School begins promptly at 8:05am and dismisses at 3:10pm. Plan to arrive at school between 7:30am and 7:45am. Supervision is not available before 7:30am. 7:30-7:45am students are directed to Active Start activities 7:45-8:05am dismissal to homeroom 8:10am students are tardy if they are not in their homerooms at 8:10am We know this will be a great year at Hailey Elementary And we are glad that you and your family are a part of this great team. Remember Once a Hailey Comet, Always a Hailey Comet! Sam K. Hailey Elementary Sawmill Road The Woodlands, TX Office: Fax: Bus Barn: The Conroe Independent School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following persons have been designated to handle inquiries regarding these non-discrimination policies: Title IX Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936) and the Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936)

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