SGE Family Newsletter

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Aug 15 - Meet the Teacher, Come-and-Go, 4:15-5:45pm (see flyer below)

Aug 17 - 1st Day of School

Aug 17 - Time Out for Parents (see flyer below)

Aug 30 - Parent Orientation & Title I Information

Sept 5 - Staff & Student Holiday

Sept 6 - No School / Staff Development

Sept 26 - No School / Staff Development

Families who have completed online registration will receive a phone call from their child's new teacher by noon on Friday, August 12th.

Please click the link for instructions on registering for the 2022-2023 school year.

Please take note! Due to planning needs, we cannot accommodate walk-up student enrollments on the same day. However, we have an online enrollment system that will allow you to complete necessary information from home. You may call our office for assistance or to make an appointment to use one of our computers. Once your enrollment is complete, the campus will reach out to you regarding your child’s schedule and any needed next steps. We will require up to 5 business days to redesign bus routes to add your child to transportation. You will be contacted when a bus schedule is available, but please make other arrangements for your child’s transportation until that time.

We welcome all families to walk their children to the classroom on the first three days of school (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday)!

• The campus will open to visitors from 7:15 am to 7:40 am for the first day of school!
• Beginning Monday, August 22nd, visitors will be required to check in at the front office with their ID in order to walk a student to his/her classroom.
• Please be respectful of the instructional day by exiting the building at the sound of the bell.

• SGE doors open at 7:15am.

• Stay in your car! The teachers on duty will assist with the unloading of your student. If you prefer to unload your child, please park in a parking spot and walk your child up to the doors.

• Walk-ups! If you park on a nearby street and walk your child up to the campus, please do not block any driveways. Our school neighbors appreciate your cooperation! To ensure your child arrives to the campus safely, please walk your student up to the campus rather than sending him/her to walk alone. The back doors on campus are for bus riders. The front doors are for car riders and walkers.

  
  

• Students who would like to eat breakfast should report directly to the cafeteria. (It is important to remind your student of this morning procedure.) As students finish their breakfast, they will join their class in its hallway holding area.

• Students who have already eaten breakfast prior to arriving at school will report directly to their hallway holding area.

• School begins with the first bell at 7:40.

• Students planning to eat breakfast at school should arrive by 7:30am.

• Visitors are not able to join our students for breakfast.
  

• For the first 3 days of school (August 17th-August 19th) we ask that all parents and visitors allow our campus to practice lunch and cafeteria routines. Visitors for lunch on these days will not be allowed, but we welcome parents/families for lunch during your child's regularly scheduled lunch times beginning on Monday, August 22nd.
• All lunch visitors MUST check-in through the front office and receive a visitor's badge. Please have your photo ID available and wear your printed visitor badge where it is visible for all staff. Any visitor NOT wearing a badge sticker will be asked to check-in at the front office. The badge authorizes access to the cafeteria ONLY. Lunch visitors are not allowed access to the classroom/playground/etc when visiting for lunch.
• Lunch visitors MUST be listed in Student Skyward access. Visitors coming for lunch with our Bulldogs must be listed in Skyward as a family member or contact to be allowed to eat with a student.
• Lunch visitors must sit at designated tables during lunch time.
• Students with lunch visitors may not invite classmates/friends to sit at the visitors' table.
• Any outside lunch brought to enjoy with your student may not be shared with other students at anytime due to state nutrition guidelines and requirements.
• Due to supply issues, any lunch visitor must provide his/her own lunch. Visitor meals can not be purchased through our cafeteria at this time.

Starting this year, students will be issued two BCISD identification badges. One badge will be attached to the child's backpack, and the other will remain at school. The badges will be used for identification, the cafeteria line, and the library. We appreciate your help in ensuring the badge that is attached to the backpack remains on the backpack and is brought to school each day.

How do I request a change in transportation?

• Submit an email on the same day as the transportation change request by 1:30pm to: sge-transportation@burnetcisd.net
• Include the following details in the email:

-student's full name

-student's grade level

-student's homeroom teacher

-the transportation change you want made for today (bus to car, car to bus, etc)

In order to ensure a smooth dismissal process for all students, requests made after 1:30pm will not be processed. Notes, phone calls, text messages and emails sent to any other email will not be processed.

Please see the traffic flow map above.

Form one, single-file line on CR 200. Once off of CR 200, you may merge to either the PK/Kinder lane (yellow arrows) or the 1st/2nd grade lane (blue arrows).

If accessing the parking lot, drive past the cones and enter the driveway via the fire lane (red arrows).

Make sure to be in the correct grade level line during dismissal. Parents of pre-k and kindergarten students should enter the lane that is on the far right (yellow arrows). Parents of 1st and 2nd graders should enter the middle lane (blue arrows).

Please do not cross the grey box until after 3:15pm. SGE uses a system called CarRiderPro. CarRiderPro is a safe and efficient way to streamline the dismissal of car riding students at the end of the school day. Students are issued a tag for their car. Similar to the way a TxTag is scanned as it passes under a card reader, CarRiderPro scans the car tags as they pull through the line which then cues students inside the building to line up. The card reader starts reading car tags at 3:15.

Hang your car tag on the rearview mirror with the numbers facing out so personnel can read it.

Car seats - If your child is in a car seat, please position the seat nearest the sidewalk-side of your car (back seat, passenger side). If your student needs help buckling during dismissal, please pull up beyond the car lines to assist as to avoid holding up the line.

Stay in your car. The teachers on duty will assist with the loading of your student.

Watch for the person directing traffic. The person directing traffic will send cars from each lane and will alternate between lanes.

Stay in your car and in the car line. Even if you forgot your car tag, stay in line and we will come to you to check your ID. If your child has loaded the car, please stay in the car line and wait for the wave of cars to pull forward rather than pulling around them.

Safety first! Please do not allow your child to hang outside of the car windows or sunroof while traveling through the car line.

***No in-person pick-up after 3:00pm until the car line is finished. As we work to dismiss our students in a timely and orderly fashion, we must keep the front entry/exit doors uncrowded. As a result, parents needing to check their students out must do so before 3:00pm or after the car line is finished. This is a matter of safety as we work to dismiss a school full of elementary children.

Vaccinations must be up to date in order to start the school year.

The Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) program provides positive male role models for the students on campus, demonstrating by their presence that education is important!

If you know of any Dads that might be interested in participating in the Watch D.O.G.S of SGE, let them know that sign-up sheets will be available on the evening of Meet the Teacher.

2022-2023 Student Dress Code

**The two most frequently seen at the elementary level are non-naturally occurring hair colors and mohawks. Avoid mohawks and be sure that fun summer color washes out before returning to school.

• Dresses, skirts, all split garments, and shorts must be long enough to maintain dignity while sitting, bending, and standing. Shorts, skirts, dresses, and skorts must be hemmed.
• Pants, shorts and skirts must be worn at the natural waist of the student.
• Knives are not allowed at school or school functions, therefore the wearing of any type of case designed to hold a knife is not permitted as well.

Examples of inappropriate, unapproved dress and grooming include, but are not limited to:

• Hats, caps, beanies, bandanas, sweatshirt hoods, etc. that are worn in the building unless associated with a specific school event.
• Tops with low-cut necklines, or tops with low-cut arm openings as determined by school administration.
• Clothing that exposes bare midriffs.
• Any form of exposure of undergarments.
• Any body piercing jewelry with the exception of appropriately-sized earrings or nostril studs. Excessively large earrings and/or gauges are considered a safety hazard.
• Chains (i.e. wallet chains, dog collars, excessively long belts, etc.).
• Intentionally torn clothing or holes in clothing that is determined to be inappropriate by the school administrator. Any holes in pants above the midthigh are not permitted.
• Excessive or distracting makeup, hair style or hair color: i.e., hair color must be of a naturally occurring color in the human genome. Other hair colors such as purple, green, pink, etc. are a violation of the dress code.
• Obscene or offensive language or symbols, provocative pictures, advertising of tobacco, alcohol or narcotics on clothing, jewelry, or exposed body parts.
• Racially related symbols, emblems, pictures, words, slogans or tattoos.
• Symbols, words, or slogans cut into hair that are obscene, racially related, provocative, or otherwise deemed inappropriate.
• Excessively loose or baggy clothing is considered a safety hazard, and is not permitted.
• Dark glasses (unless prescribed by a physician).
• See-through clothing, or provocative clothing.
• Any accessory or clothing article deemed gang related as determined by the school administration or designee.
• Mohawks.
• Burnet CISD discourages the wearing of expensive jewelry and other apparel and is not responsible for lost or stolen items.

7:15am Office Opens

7:15am Student Drop Off/Breakfast

7:40am School Begins

7:45am Tardy Bell

9:00am Students not in attendance are marked absent

1:30pm Transportation changes due, please email: sge-transportation@burnetcisd.net

3:20pm Student Dismissal

4:00pm Office/School Closes

Email: sge-transportation@burnetcisd.net
Website: sge.burnetcisd.net/
Location: 111 Shady Grove Road, Burnet, TX, USA
Phone: (512) 756-2126
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShadyGroveBurnet