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Message from the Principal
Dear Parents and Friends:
On November 20th,
the second nine week’s progress report went home. Second nine weeks
is a hectic time for families and children with Thanksgiving and the
Winter Holidays. If your child earned a D, F, S-, or U, I
strongly recommend you set up a parent conference with your child’s
teacher. You can set up a conference by writing a note to the
teacher in your child’s agenda or call and leave the teacher a voice
mail at 381-3920.
Congratulations to Ms.
Sheila Clinton and Ms. Lena Jernigan for becoming Nationally Board
Certified. To become a National Board Teacher, the teacher goes
through a rigorous program and a test. The process can take up to
two years. The Bayview family is so proud of Sheila Clinton and
Lena Jernigan!!!!!!!!!!
On December 11th,
we will be offering Parent Night on reading for our Bayview
families. We will be showing parents how to help their child with
independent reading. Please fill out the flyer which is found on
the back of this newsletter and return the bottom of the flyer to
your child’s teacher.
As you know, the
boundaries for Ortega, Stockton, Venetia and Bayview elementaries
will be changed for August 2009. The meeting to decide the boundary
changes, will be held at Stockton Elementary’s cafeteria at 6:00pm
on December 16th.
Bayview will be receiving new students. We need the boundary
changes to be fair to Bayview, so I am asking Bayview parents to
please come and support us!!!!!
On December 18th we will celebrate the
upcoming winter holiday with a school dance. Pre-sale dance tickets
cost $2.00 and dance tickets at the door cost $3.00. There will be
a D.J. and lots of food the children can purchase at the dance.
Fifty cent
tickets will be sold so that the children can purchase food and
drink at the dance.
Children will be chaperoned at the dance. Parents are welcomed to
come and watch and chaperone. Please let the Principal know if you
would like to chaperone. All children attending the dance need
to be picked up by 8:30pm.
As pressure mounts
nationally to increase standardized test scores, should schools cut
back on physical education programs? The answer is no, especially
when it come to girls. According to the American Journal of Public
Health, a national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study
of more than 5,000 students in kindergarten through fifth grade
showed that girls who engage in 70 to 300 minutes of physical
education classes a week scored consistently higher than those who
spent fewer that 35 minutes a week in P.E. The findings confirm
other research studies that demonstrate the benefits (both physical
and emotional) of exercise.
Gavon Benjamin Bransford was born on November 17, 2008.
He weighed in at eight pounds three oz. His proud parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Bransford. Mrs. Bransford will be home with Gavon and will
return to teach her fourth grade math students after the winter
holidays.
The Bayview Elementary family would like to wish all
our Bayview families a wonderful and Happy THANKSGIVING.
VOLUME V Issue 5
NOVEMBER 2008 |
