COUGAR NOTES
Houston Gateway Academy, Inc.
📆 Our Schedule This Month
October 17: Lifetouch Fall Pictures for all scholars (Scholars must be in uniform)
October 23-31: Red Ribbon Week
October 30-November 3: Scholastic Book Fair
Arrival and Dismissal
Thank you parents for assisting us during the arrival and dismissal process. Please continue to remain in your vehicle and avoid making U-turns in the middle of street and skipping the line. As a reminder, please pull over to the curb and have your child enter and exit on the passenger side.
To avoid traffic congestion at the front door, we ask that all parents stay in their vehicles while in the car lane.
#5 in Best Texas Charter Public Schools 👍 WAY TO GO PRE-K TEAM!!
HGA Dress Code
Monday to Thursday - School uniform is required
Grades Pre-K to 5th - Navy blue or khaki bottoms with a school shirt
Grades 6th to 8th - Navy blue or khaki pants with a school shirt
Friday - Jeans with a school shirt, university, or sports shirt
(Hoodies are strictly prohibited for all scholars.)
🗣 Counselor Unit of the Month ✍🏽 - Bully Awarness/Prevention
October is National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, a month-long observance to educate and raise awareness about bullying and cyberbullying (online) prevention.
· Among students ages 12-18 who reported being bullied during the school year, 15% were bullied online or by text. 49% of children in grades four to 12 have been bullied by other students at school level at least once.71% of youth have witnessed bullying at school. Statistics on Facebook bullying found that at least 1 million kids were bullied on Facebook in 2017 alone.
Addressing and preventing bullying is something that everyone can do, every day.
· Observe your child for signs they might be being bullied. Children may not always be vocal about being bullied.
· Parents and caregivers can talk with their children at home about their school and online life, talking about their children’s experience and communicate expectations about appropriate behavior – in person and in their online world.
· Teach your child how to handle being bullied
· Set boundaries with technology
· Parents are the primary role models for their children, and when they model the behavior they expect from their children, they teach through actions.
Children who experience bullying can:
· reach out to a trusted adult to talk about it and get support.
· if they’re being cyberbullied, they can capture screenshots and block the people who are bullying.
· if children witness cyberbullying, they should not participate or share the posts or texts.
· If they are being bullied they can calmly walk away and move to a place where there are other children and adults. Avoid places alone with a bully.
· if they witness bullying, they can change the conversation and deflect it. If they feel they can do it, they can stand up for the person being bullied, either on their own or with friends as a group.
· if they don’t feel safe doing that, they can reach out to the person being bullied to let them know that they don’t agree with it.
Reference: Stopbullying.gov