Hornet Nest News

Bailey Elementary staff are committed to provide a safe, supportive, caring, and compassionate learning environment, ensuring student success and encouraging all to become lifelong learners.

Provide all students with a safe, supportive, caring and compassionate learning environment that promotes student success.

Hornet Families,

The 2023-24 school year begins tomorrow as we welcome our students back into our building! We are so excited for this upcoming year! In the newsletter below, you will find some important information, please take the time to read through the information. Parents we are asking for your patience and flexibility as we work through our new arrival and dismissal procedures. If you have any questions, please let me know by using my contact information at the bottom of the newsletter.

Thank you for your support,

Allen M. Wilson

Principal

The first day of school is tomorrow, August 28th. For this day only, we will allow parents to walk their child to their classroom doors starting at 7:30 and ending at 7:55. All parent visitors will enter through the main front doors. Parents we ask that you do not enter the classroom. We will allow students only to enter beginning at 7:20 and report to cafeteria.

• We will allow Pre-K and Kindergarten staggered start parents to do this on their child's first day, if it is different from above.
• We ask for Pre-K and Kindergarten Tuesday and Wednesday staggered start parents to enter by media center on your designated first day.

Parents/Guardians when you bring your child in for their first day of school, stop by for a quick picture at our photo back-drop in the front lobby area to show your Bailey Elementary Hornet Pride! Together we are #raisingthebar!

• Students may begin being dropped off at 7:20 AM
• Students report to HR Class 7:40 AM
• Morning Announcements 7:55 AM
• Class Instruction Begins 8:00 AM
• Dismissal 3:00

**In order for students to be counted present they must be present for at least 1/2 of the day (11:15 AM)

**No student check-outs will be allowed after 2:15 PM

If you were not assigned to a bus, I have submitted that to the bus garage already. It is likely that your child will not be assigned a bus until the end of the first week of school. So please go ahead and plan on transporting them to and from school until they are assigned.

Attached you will find directions on how to get into the BUS Parent Portal. This portal will send you information about your child's bus. You will need to sign into this on Sunday night to check on any bus time or bus number changes. You will need to check this regularly for the first couple of weeks of school. You will also find directions on how to sign up for the CHIPMUNK app. This app will track your child's bus.

If you look up your child's bus information on the Bus Parent Portal and no bus number is assigned, this means we do not currently have a bus driver and you will have to transport your child until otherwise noted.

Please work with us for the first few weeks of school while we get dismissal procedures worked out. It will take a little while to stabilize it all. Email me anytime you have any transportation concerns or questions at sgdeans@ncpschools.net.

Thank you for being flexible and patient,

Samantha Deans,
Assistant Principal

Car Rider Drop Off

• Pre-K parents will be notified of their arrival procedures by their teacher.

• Student drop off may begin at 7:20 AM. Students arriving between 7:20 AM and 7:40 AM will report to the cafeteria and sit in their assigned grade-level area. At 7:40 AM students will report to their homeroom class. Any student arriving after 7:40 AM will eat breakfast in cafeteria (breakfast is optional) and report to their homeroom class after. Breakfast will end at 7:55 AM. Breakfast will not be allowed to be taken to the classroom.

Bus Rider Drop Off

• Bus students arriving before 7:40 AM will report to the cafeteria and sit in their assigned grade-level area. When bus students arrive on campus after 7:40 AM they will eat breakfast in the cafeteria (breakfast is optional) and report to their homeroom class. Breakfast will not be allowed to be taken to the classroom.

Car Rider Pick Up

• Pre-K parents will be notified of their dismissal procedures by their teacher.

• Begin dismissal procedures at 3:00 PM.

• Car rider students will sit by grade level in the hallway by front office until their name is called over the radio.

• Parents will pick up students in the car line. (Do not park and pick up students)

• Parents please display your child's car tag with their assigned number.

• Students that live in the no transportation zone and are “walkers” will be picked up by parents on the corner of Jackson Street and Pine Street at 3:00 PM.

Bus Rider

• Begin dismissal procedures at 3:00 PM.

• Bus students will line up in the hallway or gym where their bus number is located.

• Students will be dismissed from the gym and hallway where bus numbers are located.

NCPS App/Rooms

The response to our new district app has been fantastic! If you have downloaded the app, you have seen a toggle at the bottom right of the app that says School App/Rooms. The Rooms section gives teachers and parents the opportunity for two-way messaging about what is happening in the classroom. To access the Rooms section, you must receive an invite either through email or text message. On Monday, August 21st the district pushed out invites to parent email addresses and phone numbers that were on the contacts page of their student's account in PowerSchool. After you received that email or text message, you can follow the directions linked in this document to create your account and get connected to Rooms. You will see your student's classes once the teachers have published them. The NCPS app is the only app parents need to use Rooms. If you are not sure if your email address or phone number are correct in PowerSchool, contact your student's school.

Dear Bailey Elementary Families,

We are excited about the school year and want to start off strong by encouraging students to be at school and on-time every day for the entire 2023-2024 school year. Student attendance is an essential component to a student’s academic success.

With the hope of maintaining our new normal, the expectations at Bailey Elementary is for all students to be at school, unless the reason is considered an excused absence per board policy. For information regarding an excused absence please refer to the student handbook or the NCPS website.

The North Carolina Compulsory Attendance Law states that students should have no more than 10 unexcused days of school. Legal action can be taken against you, in accordance to the attendance law (G.S.115C-378).

Please help support your child, their teachers, and the school, by making attendance a priority and ensuring they are at school.

ATTENDANCE MATTERS. ALL DAY. EVERYDAY.

Sincerely,

Justin Sweet, Social Worker

Allen M. Wilson, Principal

The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a program that Nash County Public Schools participates in This program allows students at eligible schools to eat breakfast and lunch at no cost. Bailey Elementary has been approved to participate in the CEP for the 2023-24 school year.

Nash County Schools is excited to announce that your child’s school now offers a new and preferred method of payment for all school fees. School Cash Online is a safe and secure form of online payment that allows you to pay for your child’s school items, like field trips and spirit wear, from your hand-held device or computer, using Visa, Mastercard, or echeck.

Register Now

By registering you will have the ability to:

Keep track of your child’s school items and activity fees

Check your account history

View and print receipts

Pay for school fees with the click of a button

For more information and to register, visit ncps.schoolcashonline.com. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Donna Boswell, Secretary/Treasurer

We are excited to launch our 2023-24 t-shirt sale showcasing our theme 'Raising the BAR"! You can purchase your very own "Raising the BAR" short/long sleeve t-shirt or hoodie sweatshirt 2 different ways!

1) Pre-Pay Cash Purchases at Open House and During 1st week of school

or

2) Register an account for SchoolFunds Online to shop our online store via Credit/Debit card.

(See above information)

Nash County Public Schools started charging a Technology User Fee to all students enrolled in a Nash County School.

This fee does not include damage or lost chargers throughout the year.

The $20 fee will again be charged this year. This fee can be paid online.

Although there is not a deadline to pay these fees, they will follow your student each year.

Steps to Pay Tech Fees Online

1. *Go to district website (ncpschools.net)
2. *Hover over the word, Departments and click on Technology
3. *In the tan box on the right, click on Student Devices.
4. *In the section, Important Information, you will see the sentence, “Parents are encouraged to pay the technology user fee online. Click the underlined words/link: technology user fee online.
5. *Hover on Elementary School and select our school.
6. *Add the fee to the cart and follow the prompts from there. If you need your student’s ID, you can find it in powerschool, the back of the student’s device (sticker with their name), and/or in their agenda. If you cannot find the student’s ID, reach out to the school.

Bailey's PTO (Parent-Teacher Organization) is in need of members to join the organization! If you are interested in joining the PTO for the 2023-24 school year, please reach out to Stephanie Dalton (434)-941-3947 or reptgirl@yahoo.com or complete this form.

If you are interested in your child joining the after school care program through the YMCA here at Bailey, please use this link to register. The after school care is contingent on the number of students registered. Once registered you will automatically be added to the "waitlist" and you will be contacted by the YMCA. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mr. Wilson using his contact information at the bottom of the page.

We care very much about your child’s learning—which includes academic, social, and emotional needs. We believe that all students can learn well when their differing needs are met and when adults believe in them.

Because we are committed to providing excellent learning experiences as consistently as possible for all students, our school will use an “Opportunity Culture” teaching model this year.

In Opportunity Culture schools, teams of teachers work together to help students excel. These models let our best teachers reach more students with excellent instruction and help everyone teach more effectively. We expect more students to reach grade-level and subject standards faster, and more students to advance further.

We are part of a national community of Opportunity Culture schools committed to reaching every student with excellent teaching consistently. You can read more about this on OpportunityCulture.org.

The cornerstone of an Opportunity Culture school is the Multi-Classroom Leadership model: small, collaborative teaching teams led by teachers with leadership skills and a record of high-growth student learning. Schools and districts around the country have joined the national Opportunity Culture initiative, and research shows that MCL teaching teams produced strong learning gains for students.

If you child is served by an MCL team, one teacher will be the main point of contact, to keep you informed and keep the team informed about your child.

In our 2nd-5th grade classrooms where our school has implemented Opportunity Culture models, you can expect:

• High expectations that your child can learn and advance, even when facing challenges

• Consistent monitoring of your child’s progress

• Concrete actions to help your child address individual challenges, or advance further

• Personally engaging instruction by teachers who are excited to teach and supported by a team

• Approaches that motivate students to take ownership of their own learning

• Increased small-group instruction

• A team of adults who can focus on your child’s social, emotional, and time-management development

We welcome your feedback as we improve and expand our focus on teaching and learning excellence.

Principal: Allen M. Wilson

Email: amwilson@ncpschools.net

Assistant Principal: Samantha Deans

Email: sgdeans@ncpschools.net

6288 Pine Street Bailey, NC 27807

Phone: 252-451-2892