This Month at John Haley

Dear Bulldog Families,

The 2022-2023 school year is off to a great start! We hope you have all had a positive and successful start to the school year. It has been wonderful to have the school and classrooms filled, once again, with the buzz of learning, especially in a more normal environment than last year. While we are still maintaining specific health and safety protocols, it has been so refreshing to watch the children interact with one another, play together, and collaborate with teachers in a way that was so dearly missed last year.

At JHE, we believe that relationships matter! Whether it be greeting students in the morning or daily "morning meetings", building positive relationships with students is our priority! We also value the relationship with our parent community. As a parent, one of the most important things you can do for your child’s education is to develop relationships with the people in your child’s academic life. This includes teachers, principals, your child’s friends, and their parents. When concerns arise, we encourage you to go to the origin of the source (for example: if the concern is in the classroom please contact the teacher, etc) so we can quickly resolve the matter.

I look forward to having a long and rewarding relationship with your family.

We want to partner with our community to build a culture where everyone understands why going to school every day matters and what they can do to ensure students are in school. Even being tardy on multiple days means your student is missing out on crucial instruction and community building in his/her classroom.

Attendance Incentives:

Student

• Perfect Attendance Monthly Brag Tags

• Students need to collect at least 7 brag tags to participate at an end of the year party

• Perfect Attendance Ribbon/Pencil/Certificate every 6-Weeks

• Perfect Attendance Certificate per Semester

Classroom

• Perfect Attendance Banner outside each Classroom Door- Bulldogs

• Teacher colors a letter on the banner each day when all students are present

• Once all letters fill up the Perfect Attendance banner -class gets a prize ( popcorn, snack and juice, pizza etc. )

Campus Level

• Fun Friday – Atten-Dance -Students with highest attendance wins a dance with a snack in the cafeteria on the 1st Friday of each month from 2:00-2:30

• Incentives and reminders through announcements every week. We announce every class that has 100% attendance.

Elementary School hours: 7:30am - 3:30pm

Doors open at 7:15 am

Please be aware that students are tardy after 7:45 am.

Thank you to all of our families for supporting our arrival and dismissal process!

Please make sure to review our arrival and dismissal procedures in preparation for safe, secure, and efficient processing. Our staff can process the car line in 15-20 minutes when all guardians are prepared and follow our procedures! Utilizing the car line, and having your Car Tag visible is the safest and most efficient way to release our students. We respectfully ask that you do not walk up and ask for your student; we must ensure all students are safely released to approved guardians. When our staff is overwhelmed by walk-ups, our dismissal will be delayed. Please understand the carline will be released first, all walk-ups will be asked to wait patiently. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support! All students must be picked up by 3:30 pm.

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In IISD, the safety and security of our students and staff are our top priority. We have partnered with the I Love You Guys Foundation to implement Standard Response Protocols, that are used in emergency situations.

• Each campus will conduct drills throughout the school year. These drills are based on the Standard Response Protocols of Secure, Lockdown, Evacuate, Shelter, and Hold.

• Completion of the drills is mandatory for each campus so that students and staff are prepared. Drills help us learn and know how to respond in the case of a real emergency at school. Our drills also help us to check certain equipment and responses. Our emergency management leaders on each campus will work with students and staff to complete our drills and document the results.

• Your child's classroom has a SRP Poster displayed.

• When any visitor comes to campus, he or she will need to bring and present their driver's license to be scanned in our system in order to be admitted onto the campus. Also, our door to the office will be locked and will communicate through the cameras.

Parent and Student Handbook- English

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t9h4Xp0ckpLxP2xcUmLxMG6QmaQbrdaz4mlOUXm0UQQ/edit?usp=sharing

Parent and Student Handbook- Spanish

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CtzsyDFHKIokpgJ8mVYiJ92lntjRHe_Hw8BVFrLUuaQ/edit?usp=sharing

Code of Conduct

https://www.irvingisd.net/codeofconduct

Check out our newly renovated “Parent” Page on our website! Here you can find information on FAQ’s, school procedures, dress code, calendar of events, etc! LINK à https://tx01917973.schoolwires.net/Domain/7122

You can also follow the following steps:

1- www.irvingisd.net

2- click on School

3- click on John Haley

4- click on our school

Sept. 2nd- National College Color Days- is National College Color Day! Across the United States on the first Friday of each college school year, students, parents, family, fans, and alumni celebrate National College Colors Day. This day is annually celebrated by wearing your college’s (or the college you support) colors and college/university apparel.

Sept. 2nd- Atten-Dance Party- all students with 100% attendance will participate in a dance party.

Sept. 5th- Labor Day- No school

Sept. 15th- All Pro Dads meeting- 7:00 am in Cafe A

Sept. 16th- early release day @12:15pm

Sept. 19th-23rd- College Wek

Sept. 26th-30th- Fall Book Fair

Sept. 27th- National Scarf Day- Wear your favorite scarf

Sept. 29th- Title 1 presentation/5th grade Performance/ TOP Dog- 5pm

Sept. 30th- National Orange Shirt Day! Wear your favorite orange shirt with jeans.