LV Primary Parent News

Primary Bears,

Happy 2nd week of school! Our morning carline is running smoothly and we are finishing the line around 7:22 each morning. The tardy bell is 7:25. IF your child happens to arrive after 7:25, please park and walk him/her in. You will need to sign your child in via the ipads in the foyer.

If you can't find your "magic code" for Rooms communication, please email your child's teacher. The homeroom teacher can generate the code for you. Also, on the district website, there is a Rooms help link. LVISD.org

Thank you for your support! If you have questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to email and we will get back with you.

Go Bears Go!

Sincerely,

Shelley Keck

skeck@lvisd.org

Principal

Please take a quick moment to check your child's daily folder. While we try to limit paperwork going home, we don't want you to miss anything. Please review the folder each night when you are reading to your child.

Morning carline runs 6:45-7:25. Use the shortest line (gym or front of school).

The left "express" lane in the front of the school is only for students capable of getting out on their own and using a cross walk.

*For safety, please don't have students exit to the middle of the driveway. Have them exit the vehicle to the side of the sidewalk.

Students that are in car seats and need help unbuckling, parents please park on the gym side and walk them up.

Our meal payments platform, Titan Family Portal, has been upgraded to LINQ Connect. Be
sure to download the new LINQ Connect App in the Google Play or Apple Store available now and
visit LINQConnect.com if you use a browser. No need to change your username or password. All your information will be transferred to the new site for your convenience.

If you have Primary cafeteria questions, please email our manager Kim Pace at kpace@lvisd.org

Our nurses are here to answer your questions:

Jodi Forrest: Jforrest@lvisd.org

Christie Broadway: cbroadway@lvisd.org

Also, be sure your little bear has an extra set of clothes in their back pack to change in the event of an accident/spill.

La Vernia Primary believes that children should read or be read to daily. In lieu of daily homework, we ask that families read together every day. Studies show this stimulates and strengthens your child’s language and literacy development. “Reading a minimum of 20 minutes a day allows children’s vocabulary to grow and expand, exposing them to 1.8 million vocabulary words a year.” - Barnes, Children’s Reading Foundation.

In addition to daily reading, grade levels may send weekly/monthly newsletters and/or calendars with topics and real life activities to spur at home learning and conversation. These aren’t meant to take a huge portion of your evening, rather for being the bridge between school and home.

Additionally, IF a student is below grade level or needs extra practice, a teacher may suggest specific skill based resources or practice to accelerate your child’s learning.

For students in PRE K through 2nd grade, homework shouldn’t be a stress or worry for our families. Read together, have fun together, and talk about learning!

If you have YMCA questions, please call 210-924-2277 or email registrations@ymcasatx.org

To register for YMCA, please go to https://ymcasatx.org/facility/la-vernia-school.

Parents/guardians are invited to eat lunch with their children, beginning September 5, 2023. We ask that you allow us to have the first weeks of school to orient our students in cafeteria procedures. We want to be sure our students know where to sit, how to ask for help, where to move through the lunch line, etc. Beginning September 5th, parents wishing to eat with their child(ren) will sign in at the office and obtain a visitor badge. For safety, parents may eat with their child only. Our students will be utilizing all of the seats in the cafeteria; therefore, parent seating for lunch will be located at designated areas on our outside picnic tables. With our limited seating for parents, we ask that you keep this mind on inclement weather days. In accordance with FERPA (Family Education Rights and Privacy Act), videos and photographs of students other than your own are prohibited. Again, parent seating is only outside this year. Our campus is out of space for indoor seating.

Our campus has water refill stations. In order to keep our students hydrated, we ask that each student bring a water bottle with their name somewhere on the bottle. Our water fountains are open for all students to use as well.

Our students have snack time daily. Your child's teacher will provide a schedule.

No School on Fridays.

School Hours 7:25-3:40.

September 27- Individual Picture Day

Please do not send students in flip flops to school. More dress code details are below. Students need tennis shoes on PE days to participate.

Dress and Grooming (All Grade Levels) The district’s dress code teaches grooming and hygiene, prevents disruption, minimizes safety hazards. NOTE: This dress code provides guidance regarding common situations but cannot cover every style of dress and specific situations that may arise. This district reserves the right to prohibit any clothing or grooming style that the administration determines to be reasonably expected to pose a threat or safety hazard or to cause substantial disruption of, distraction from, or interference with general school operations. In addition, as noted below, extracurricular programs may have additional requirements or guidelines for students participating in those programs.

Students and parents may determine a student’s personal dress and grooming standards, provided that they comply with the following:

In General for All Students

● Shorts and skorts may be worn. They may not be shorter than 5” above the knee as measured from the top of the kneecap. Spandex, biker, and boxer type shorts will not be allowed. In certain situations, shorts will not be allowed (i.e., UIL contest, etc.).

● Leggings/jeggings are allowed as long as a shirt fully covers the crotch and buttocks area. ● No steel-toed boots will be worn.

● No pants or shorts may be worn below the natural waistline.

● Distressed jeans with shredding or holes are allowed as long as there is no exposed skin above 5” above the knee as measured from the top of the kneecap.

● No gang or cult-related attire. No oversized clothing, no dangling chains or belts will be allowed.

● No sweatbands, hats, caps, or head covering (including ski caps) of any kind will be worn on campus (inside the building) during the regular school day (except for approved special events).

● Hair shall be cut or styled to a length that provides a neat, well-groomed appearance. Hair shall be kept out of the eyes. Hair that is dyed/colored either in a manner or color that is unnatural (green, blue, striped, etc.) to include hair extensions, or is styled in a manner that would cause disruption (spiked, Mohawk, shaved designs, etc.), is prohibited.

● HB 567 prohibits discrimination in the student dress code, including any extracurricular dress code, based on hair texture or protective hairstyles commonly or historically associated with race. Protective hairstyles include braids, locks, and twists.

● No visible body piercing (such as tongue piercing) or tattoos will be allowed on campus or at any school sponsored events.

● Certain classes may require additional restrictions due to safety and appearance requirements (i.e. science labs, field trips, agricultural science shops, and physical education, etc.)

● The district prohibits any clothing or grooming that in the administration’s judgment may reasonably be expected to cause disruption or interfere with normal school operations. The district prohibits articles of clothing with pictures, emblems, symbols, slogans, or writings that are lewd, offensive, vulgar, obscene, contain sexual innuendos, or cause disruption to the educational process. The district also prohibits articles of clothing that advertise or depict tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, drugs, controlled substances, or other outlawed items.

La Vernia Primary does not allow flip flops to be worn.

Boys

1. Boys are not permitted to wear earrings.

2. Boys shall keep their hair neat and groomed.

3. No facial hair (i.e., mustaches, beards, or goatees) will be allowed.

4. Half shirts or other shirts that show the midsection (skin) of one’s body are not allowed.

5. Undergarment T-shirts are not to be worn without an over shirt. All shirts must be buttoned within the top two buttons.

Girls

1. On girls’ sleeveless shirts, shoulder straps must be the width of three (3) fingers and off the shoulder shirts are not allowed.

2. Half-shirts, off-the-shoulder shirts slit on the sides, crop tops, spaghetti straps, strapless shirts, racerback shirts (at Intermediate only) or others which show the midsection (skin) of one’s body or undergarments are not allowed. Undergarment T-shirts are not to be worn without an over shirt.

3. Shirts shall not reveal the midriff.

4. No cleavage may be shown at any time.

5. The length of dresses and skirts shall be no shorter than 5” above the knee as measured from the top of the kneecap