Bear Nation News

Greetings Butler Families,

It was another great week at Butler. We held our first All Pro Dad meeting at the community center and had a great turn-out. If you are a Dad, Granddad or other father figure and are interested, the next meeting will be October 14 at 8:00. We also held our annual Title 1 meeting. We appreciate everyone coming out to learn how Title 1 impacts our school. We look forward to another week of learning and growing.

Students in grades 3-5 that have expressed interest in Student Government will begin campaigning this week.

There will be an informational meeting this coming Tuesday at 6pm for students interested in joining Scouts of America.

The School Store fundraiser is back this year. Anytime you shop online at www.schoolstore.com and designate our school, we earn up to 50 percent per purchase.

The SchoolStore Program is 100% online, which means there is no face-to-face selling, handling money, or delivering products. Participation is simple and takes less than 12 minutes. Plus, students can earn fun participation prizes!

Interested in joining our school’s PTA to help support our Butler Bears? Please use the link below to join no later than October 1st:

https://jointotem.com/ga/savannah/butler-es-pta

Grade Level Newsletters are updated every Monday afternoon. Be sure to check the link below:

https://sites.google.com/sccpss.com/butlerelementaryweekataglance/home

Please make a note of the following for the week of September 14th:

• Monday, Sept 14

• Scouts of America to visit classrooms

• Student Government Campaign Begins (until Sept 25)

• Tuesday, Sept 15:

• Scouts of America Parent Meeting 6:00 PM

• Wednesday, Sept 16

• MAP results, AMIRA results, and Universal Screener Letters will be sent home with students

• Friday, Sept 18:

• Butler Team Day: Students may wear any team shirt or jersey with uniform bottoms (Remember team day is every 1st and 3rd Friday)

Looking Ahead:

• Sept 14-25: Student Gov’t Campaign

• Sept 23: Fall Pictures (uniforms required)

• Sept 25: Dress Down $1

With the understanding that student behavior is influenced by the way students are dressed and that no student should dress in a manner that is disruptive or has an adverse effect on school activities, the following mandatory uniform standards have been developed. Students are expected to dress in the school uniform during the school day, on field trips, and during school-related activities.

Please make note below:

• Students may wear any Butler Bear spirit shirt with uniform bottoms (as an alternative uniform shirt) daily. Spirits shirts will be sold throughout the year.
• Students may wear black uniform pants or skirts as a part of the uniform.
• School-sponsored hoodies will be permitted to wear.

Non-Uniform Days:

• Butler will now hold two dress down days per month. SCCPSS is promoting a cashless system. To comply, Butler will offer an opportunity for parents to make a one time payment of $10.50 for all scheduled dress down days during the year using school cash. Please use the link below to access the flyer for more details:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vZIGjox3rylHDa5gHwg5NdnQ3erociPv/view?usp=sharing

Please be patient during carpool! The first week or two, the carpool line moves slowly until the students learn the new routine.

Please use the link below to review the Arrival and Dismissal procedures.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dKNBUGTdoGtuZ9qnr-ZD69FD0-eLEHyX/view?usp=sharing

Parents will be allowed to walk students to their classrooms on August 3rd- August 5th. Please note that all visitors and students will be screened when entering the building. Please bear with us during this process in order to accommodate the potentially high volume of traffic during the first few days of school.

Additional information to make note includes:

When visiting the school at any point, all guest will be screened. Please be sure to bring your ids and to leave lighters, vapes, pocket knives, etc. outside.