Hampton Cove Elementary School

May 21, 2023

Big News!!!

Congratulations to Cynthia Cecil (pictured below)! She is the first student in Hawk history to earn 1000 AR points in a single school year! Way to read Cyndi!

Purchase your 23-24 supply kits via PTA!

NEW DEADLINE - JUNE 18!!!! SUPPLY KITS for next school year are ready to be ordered - save yourself some time and have supplies waiting on your child's desk. Follow the directions below - go to http://www.unitedschoolsupplies.com and don't forget to enter our school code 971644.

Each grade has their own supply list this year, so prices vary.

Hawk News from the Principal

We made it!

Thank you so much for volunteering and supporting our school! We've had an absolutely fantastic year!

Please see the fliers above specifically for parents who are active duty or work on the arsenal!

Fifth Grade Bridging!

Fifth Grade Bridging is Monday, May 22, 2023! Please do not park in either parking lot until school personnel has an opportunity to park.

23-24 Registration

Please make sure your student is registered for the 23-24 school year. Don't forget to upload the documents required. If your student will be attending HCMS, you should have received a code from them.

Report Cards & Assessments

Report cards, K-3 DIBELS reports and iReady Family Reports will go home with students on Wednesday, May 24th. We cannot send this information home early. If your student is not planning on attending this day, please let your teacher know and we will mail them to you.

Half Day May 24, 2023!

The last day of the 22-23 school year is Wednesday, May 24th! We will dismiss at 11:30. The office/school will be closed from 12:00pm to 1:00 pm! HCES faculty and staff will not be available during this time. AlphaBest will not operate this day.

Registration for the 2023-2024 school year is open! Please remember that students will not be placed in a class until the student is fully registered for the 23-24 school year. We plan to send cards as we have done before. You don't want to be the only one who does not receive a placement card when they go out in JULY!!!

Please continue to inform us if your student tests positive for COVID.

Calendar

May 22 - 5th Grade Bridging

May 24 - Last student half day

May 24 - School and office closed from 12-1.

I wanted to make sure everyone is aware of a few things:

Drop off begins a 7am everyday unless there is a weather delay. PTA generously pays for this and has done so for years. Most schools do not have this option and do not accept students until 7:30 a.m. Several families take advantage of this convenience.
Students are expected to be signed in if they are not in the building by 8 a.m.
Carline will be significantly longer on rainy days, because fewer students walk or ride the bus to school on these days. Please plan accordingly to ensure your student is on time.
Afternoon carline is usually longer on Mondays and Fridays due to no tutoring on these days.
If you are dropping off both elementary and middle school students, please allow the middle school students to exit the car with the elementary students. This reduces the number of stops in carline and elementary traffic being blocked by middle school traffic.
This week, as I attempted to open a door, a parent stated that they wanted to wait until they were closer to unload. This reduces the efficiency of our line and directly affects the other families behind you. Please let your students out when your vehicle has reached the sidewalk. If everyone cooperates, we can unload almost 20 cars at the same time. Please think of others.
The sweet spot for morning traffic seems to be between 7:15 a.m. and 7:38 a.m. There have been several days where the HCMS line is moving and we have no or minimal traffic from 7:30 a.m. until about 7:35 a.m.

If you are new or need a refresher on our pick-up/drop-off procedures, or anything else, please see below.

Duty Free Lunch

To ensure teachers and families continue to enjoy Duty-Free Lunch, please be mindful of the expectations below. Thank you in advance for understanding and your cooperation.

The students enjoy seeing their younger siblings, however, it is imperative that the siblings remain with the parent.
We know that students enjoy seeing their parents, and parents enjoy being able to observe their students in social situations, however, it is imperative that the entire class is monitored. Volunteers should roam and observe the entire class. If parents would like to eat lunch with their student, they are free to eat lunch with their student(s) on another day. Duty-Free Lunch is designed to provide supervision coverage, not additional social time.
Students must continue to adhere to the expectations as outlined in the Hawk Pledge. If an issue arrives with a student, the volunteer should contact another HCES employee in the cafeteria. The HCES employee will properly address the issue. At no time should a volunteer discuss a consequence with a student.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

We've received questions regarding birthday parties/celebrations. Please refer to your Wednesday folders that outline our policy (ice cream during lunch only).

Security and the HCES/HCMS team have additional car-line reminders:

Mornings

Students should only enter/exit the vehicle on the right passenger side, no matter the time of day.
The gate by the fire station is for pre-k and employees only. If additional cars utilize the gate, we may have to close the gate, which would directly impact employees trying to get to work and diminish our success in the flow of the car-line. Please respect our faculty, pre-k parents and others by following the traffic pattern as designed instead of cutting in line ahead of others.
HCES conducts 7 am drop-off. No car, elementary or middle, should park in the elementary line to wait for the middle school line to begin. This creates more traffic and makes 7 am drop off obsolete in regards to traffic flow.
Unfortunately, the HCMS does not have staff available prior to 7:30 am to supervise students and HCES staff cannot supervise middle school students. Therefore, HCMS students should not be dropped off prior to 7:30 am. Dropping HCMS students off to wait on the elementary side of campus is prohibited.
HCMS students cannot exit vehicles until 7:30 am.
Families that only have HCMS students should not use the HCES car-line.

Afternoons

Students should only enter/exit the vehicle on the right passenger side, no matter the time of day.
Pre-k is released earlier than K-5 students, gate by the fire station is to allow for pre-K families only.
No parking, stopping, or waiting in the middle school car line before 3:00 pm. If you have students at both schools you may:

A. Park in the middle school line in front of the elementary school, walk to the breezeway

and stand directly opposite the front doors, retrieve your student and return to your car in

line until the middle school line begins. (most parents do this)

B. Drive through to pick up elementary students, then park in the Park and Walk section of

the middle school parking lot. Walk to the crosswalk to pick up middle school student.

C. Drive through to pick up elementary student and drive back around to re-enter the middle

school car line.

Please remember that we must work together. One family is no more important than the other. If you prefer to avoid the carline, please consider allowing your student(s) to ride the bus or consider arriving later. HCES students must be picked up prior to 3 pm, and HCMS students should be picked up before 3:30 pm.

I If you have a concern, please email me directly at lakeeta.perkins@hsv-k12.org. I will not receive your email if you reply to this newsletter.

If you have both an HCES and a HCMS student, and are in car line prior to 2:35 pm, you may park in the HCMS carline, walk to the breezeway with your pick up sign, and we will call your student to be dismissed. Upon their arrival, you can walk them back to your vehicle and wait for the HCMS car line to begin. We ask that if you are in line after 2:35 pm, you wait in the HCES line as usual. Thank you for your patience.

PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports) is a program we use to encourage positive behavior and going the extra mile. Over the past weeks, our teachers and students discussed positive behavior and provided examples across all settings. Students and teachers worked to set student goals on the amount of Hawk Honor students must earn to attend the quarterly PBIS celebrations. Students who are suspended in school or out of school (twice or a combination of each) will not be allowed to attend the quarterly celebration. Additionally, any level three infraction that is considered a safety concern will also result in losing the privilege of attending the quarterly celebration. The principal will make the final determination on who will not attend the celebration(s) based on the severity of the infraction. Each quarter, the goals are reset and we begin anew.

Please remember that safety and uninterrupted instruction are paramount to the success of all of our students. Parents and volunteers should not interrupt instruction or go to the classroom unless previously scheduled and escorted by the principal. Unexpected classroom visits are strictly prohibited and interrupt student and teacher focus. We love having parents and volunteers in the building, but please be reminded that there are protocols that ALL parents and volunteers must adhere to. Thank you in advance for understanding and your cooperation.

We appreciate all of the requests to volunteer to help our teachers. Each of our teachers have a different way of completing tasks. Teachers will reach out to their room parents if they need help with completing tasks. Please rest assured that student privacy is extremely important and parent/volunteers will not have access to student grades or information.

A few quick reminders on safety:

Please remind your student(s) to move away from the red line on the sidewalk. Some of us prefer to drive close to the edge of the sidewalk, and we do not want any of our students getting hurt.

When walking to the school or crossing at the crosswalks, please make sure your children are walking beside or in front of you. Those in vehicles cannot see the little ones, but they can see you. This ensures your children cross traffic safely and do not run/fall between vehicles. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Please continue to notify us if your student or someone in your household has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Traffic for drop-off is continuous between 7:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.. If you arrive between 7:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., please allow your student to exit the car and enter the building. We cannot have anyone parking and waiting in car line.

Please share with your friends who are parents of middle school students, that they cannot park in the elementary line. This will cause more traffic problems than getting in the middle school line and waiting. (Thank you.)

Please remember that students will walk to their classrooms independently. We will still have staff on hand to help them get to class (although I will share that I tried to walk a K student to class and they told me they did need me and knew where they were going!)

In the afternoons, pre-k student pick up is the priority. Please allow those parents to drive to the front of the line to pick up their students. Pre-k dismissal begins around 2:15. K-5 dismissal will run much more efficiently if pre-k parents are able to pick up their students on time.

Many of you know that I take student and family privacy very seriously. The school, cannot and will not answer questions pertaining to any student, family or situation. We all have a right to privacy and I/we will not violate that. School has to be a safe haven for all students. Thank you for understanding.

Please continue to discuss with your student, how they will go home each day, especially in grades K-2. It is always helpful to email your teacher with this information along with any changes.

Arrival: During carline drop-off, your students may exit the vehicle (on the passenger side only) where the sidewalk begins. Once traffic has stopped, if your vehicle is adjacent to the side walk, please allow students to exit the vehicle. If your student is in kindergarten or first grade, we understand your desire to drop them off closer to the building, in that case, please let your student out as soon as a staff member or safety patrol is close enough to help them. Remember, we must work as a team to make carline efficient.

Dismissal: Bus riders and walkers will exit the building in the back. Vehicular traffic, other than buses, is prohibited in that area. Kindergarten students are allowed to walk as long as, a parent is waiting to meet them at the track or an older sibling walks with them.

Please refrain from walking to the school side of the track to pick up your students. The teachers will meet you with your student(s) at the track.

Alphabest has assured me that they are working on increasing personnel. Once they have secured employees, they will begin accepting students who are on the waitlist.

Check-out Procedures

Students cannot be checked-out after 2:00 p.m. Thank you for having your required I.D. ready in order to check students out.

Concerns

If you have a concern, please reach out to the school prior to central office. Often times concerns can be handled at the school level.

Lunchroom Accounts

Please know that if you have placed a block on your child's EZPay account to NOT purchase snacks, they will be unable to provide ice cream for your child, so make sure you didn't set blocks on your child's account.

If your child has a birthday, you can purchase ice cream for the class to celebrate and it does not have to be on a Friday, however, Ms. LaTonya (our cafeteria manager) does need to know this in advance so she can place her ice cream order. I would contact your child's teacher and/or Ms. LaTonya a few days before the ice cream is needed. I have added her contact below as well as the EZ Pay website that can be found on the HCS website or below.

Latonya.williams@hsv-k12.org

https://www.ezschoolpay.com/Login.aspx

To find the EZ pay website, visit the HCS website, click on the parent tab and then click on Breakfast and lunch. Scroll down and you will see the EZ pay link.

Personal Electronic Devices

Please remember that Personal Electronic Devices (PEDs) must remain in backpacks. We know that you value instructional time and PEDs create distractions from learning. This includes cell phones, smart watches and any other electronic device not provided by HCS. Medical devices prescribed by a doctor are not PEDs.
If you need to contact your student, please email your teacher or call the front office.

School Contacts

If you need to contact Dr. Perkins or any school staff, please do so by email. This way we can schedule a meeting (if required) and you can have our undivided attention. Please do not attempt to hold discussions during carline or other times when student safety is a top priority. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Volunteers

Thank you again to everyone who has volunteered their time to make HCES a success. If you are interested in volunteering, most of our opportunities are organized through our fantastic PTA. Please be on the lookout for future opportunities to volunteer.

Water Bottles

Please continue to send your child with a water bottle. Our water fountains are not equipped for individual drinking. They are bottle fillers only.

Please check our website, Facebook page, and the PTA Facebook page for updates.

Thank you so much for your support,

Dr. Perkins

Admin email:

LaKeeta.Perkins@hsv-k12.org

Christy.Lang@hsv-k12.org

Front office and Administrative Assistant:

Teri.Pape@hsv-k12.org

hces.officeaide@hsv-k12.org