Back to School Family Newsletter

Summer seemed to fly by this year, but our staff at Bucyrus Elementary could not be more excited to welcome our families and students back for our BESt year yet!

Please be sure to read through all the included information below for important back to school details.

NEW this year is a Monthly At-A-Glance that will be sent home at the end of each month. This communication will allow us to mainstream our communication with families without as many all-call interruptions. It will also help families be aware of upcoming events and share fun pictures from the month at BES. Please be on the lookout for this beginning at the end of August! It will be sent through Rooms and the all-call system emails. Here is an August event calendar to preview some of the information that will be shared.

Want to plan even further ahead? Mark your calendars with these events or print this calendar out and hang it on your fridge! Please note dates are subject to change and even more events will be added throughout the year!

Teacher Assignment postcards will be mailed out beginning the week of August 4 to addresses in FinalForms. It can take the USPS time to deliver all the postcards, so please wait patiently. If you do not receive your postcard by August 18, tables will be also set up at Open House with class lists available for families to find out teachers that way as well.

Final Forms MUST be completed including up-to-date information on the emergency medical forms and media release permission. Students cannot be photographed for the yearbook without signed release of publication. In addition, Rocky, our school therapy dog, cannot visit classrooms until ALL final forms have been completed. Thank you for updating these forms at your earliest convenience.

During this time, please join us and...

*Meet your teachers

*See your classrooms

*Drop off your school supplies

*Visit school and community organizations at tables in the main hallway

*Put lunch money on your student's accounts

*Visit the clinic to speak with Nurse Jacki about school medications

*Attend a Title Reading info session at 4:30 or 5:30 in the cafeteria

*Visit our main office for questions on FinalForms completion, Rooms communication app, transportation, and more!

We look forward to a great event welcoming all our families back!

Along with so many amazing returners to our staff at BES, we'd like to welcome the following new staff members:

• Page Hensley, 3rd Grade
• Carley Hammers, 4th Grade
• Abbie Klotz, 4th Grade
• Max Morris, PE
• Jennifer Smith, Autism Unit
• Haley Amert, Paraprofessional
• Chelsee Givens, Paraprofessional
• Addison Roth, TACKLE Therapist
• Shyanne Wolfe, RBT
• Veronica Griffin, Cafeteria

Further, check out these familiar faces in new places:

• Tammy Myers, Library
• Kim Mutchler, STEM
• Maddie Gahring, 5th Grade

Please join us in welcoming all our new staff! BES is definitely blessed with the BESt!

Last year BCS utilized a communication app called Rooms with our families. Rooms is back this year with new features to make communication easier. To ensure you can access all features, please update the Bucyrus app. This is the main way we communicate with our families, so please be sure to follow this step so we can communicate from day 1 with you.

Our main goal is students get to and from school safely. THANK YOU for your patience and cooperation in ensuring this.

*Doors open at 8:25am with the tardy bell ringing at 8:40am. Please do not drop off students before this time as we do not have staff to monitor them. The playground is not open during this time for student safety.

*Dismissal begins at 3:15 for Pre-K, 3:20 for KG and 1st, and 3:25pm for grades 2-5.

*Any students that arrives late or leaves early will need to be checked in/out through the main office. As a reminder, any student leaving early needs to be picked up by an approved pick up person (in FinalForms) that is 18 or older with a valid ID.

*Grade level colored pick-up cards will be required for the first quarter of school until school staff can learn all allowable adults during dismissal time. These cards can be picked up from the classroom teacher during Open House or the main office.

Students may not have cell phones or smart watches out or turned on during the school day or on the bus. All cell phones and smart watches need to remain in student lockers or bookbags during school.

Any transportation changes or incidents in which you need to get ahold of your child during the school day need to be communicated by calling our main office.

Additional information regarding student drop-off/pick-up, cell phones, food policies, and more can be found here in our updated student handbook.

Student lunch prices for the 2025-2026 school year are as follows:

• Elementary Full Price Lunch $3.85
• Student Extra Entree $2.50
• Reduced Price Lunch $0.00
• Milk Price $0.50
• Student Breakfast- FREE for all students

BCSD is following the same charge policy for the 25-26 school year. Please be sure to review it here. No student will be allowed to accrue charges over $100.

Complete a free/reduced form for your family ASAP. These forms will be available at Open House. Only one form is needed per family.

If you have any questions regarding lunch prices, the charge policy, accounts, or the free/reduced forms, please call BCSD Food Services Director Charma Schifer at 419-562-5355 between the hours of 7-11 a.m. and 1-2:30 p.m. or email at foodservice@bucyrusschools.org.

If you haven't liked PTO's Facebook page, be sure to do so for all of the latest updates. Their page is titled: Bucyrus Elementary School PTO. Meetings are held the first Wednesday of the month at 5:00pm in the Bucyrus Elementary cafeteria. Anyone is welcome to attend and they're always looking for volunteers for even just one event.

BES had amazing screening days for Pre-K this week and look forward to welcoming KG students next week for screening. We are extremely excited to welcome all of our littlest learners to BES!