We have an open seat on our SBDM Council for a minority parent.

What is SBDM? A process that involves councils that set school policies that are consistent with district board policies. The goal is to improve student achievement and help schools meet their goals. SBDM councils may cover topics such as curriculum, instruction, assessment, budgeting, staffing, and school organization.

The Council meets once a month after school.

Per state policy, a parent on SBDM is defined as:

A “parent” means a parent, stepparent, or foster parent. Guardians also qualify as parents if the student lives with them and they have a court order giving them legal custody. A parent council member will be the parent of a student pre-registered to attend the school during the parent's term of council service.

If you are interested in serving in this position, please reach out to Mr. Mullins!

Do you have a 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade student interested in playing basketball for LJES? Our coaches have created an interest form with information about the league. The link below will take you to that form where you can sign up.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11dMq29UH-lwRpWA1zmWyCr6Ruc1yU7tOEMB_q4icc-0/viewform?edit_requested=true

The week of September 9-13, 2024 will be BCPS Goes Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness across our schools! Each school will be doing a donation drive during the week along with designated dress up days for students and staff. Don't forget to scan the QR code below to order your t-shirt to wear at the BCPS high school football games on September 6th, to kick off our BCPS Goes Gold week, and September 13th to close out the week.

Donations for the hospital and the families receiving treatment are being collected at every school. Our school is collecting non perishable, individually wrapped snacks. Students may bring donated items in to the office any time. We will collect them and they will be picked up from the school at the end of BCPS Goes Gold week.

Examples of non perishable, individually wrapped snacks:

• granola bars
• trail mix packets
• jerky
• snack cakes (like Little Debbie's)
• popcorn
• individual bags of pretzels and chips
• nut

Due to different factors, Grandparents Week activities at LJES are changing. We still want to honor our grandparents and provide an opportunity for them to visit our school, but our schedule and space just are not allowing us to do our normal lunch.

Have no fear! We have a plan!

This year, we will change from inviting grandparents in to eat lunch and are instead doing Donuts with Grownups.

We will supply donuts to the adults who attend. Students will also get a donut. To get around the state rules for breakfast, in order for a student to get a donut, he/she must first get breakfast from the line. Grownups will be allowed to join us for breakfast and the book fair from 8:40-9:30 in the cafeteria. Grownups who wish to purchase a school breakfast may do so for $2.90. At 9:30, our book fair is busy with class visits, so we will need all grownups to finish their shopping and exit our building by 9:30.

Don't worry - I don't believe it is fair for students to miss out on donuts just because an adult in their life couldn't join us. We will provide donuts for every student regardless of their adult attending. Students just have to go through the breakfast line first.

The book fair will not be open to visitors during the school day due to our schedule this year.

Below is our schedule of events for the week:

• Wednesday, September 11th: Donuts with Grownups K & 5th

• Thursday, September 12th: Donuts with Grownups 1st & 4th
  
• Thursday, September 12 5:30-7:00 Title 1 Family Night; the book fair will also be open during family night so you may shop with your child

• Friday, September 13th: Donuts with Grownups 2nd & 3rd

Have you joined your child's Room? Having access will allow you to communicate with the teacher, see newsletters and other updates, and be in-the-know. All BCPS schools are now using Rooms for parent communication, so if you have multiple children in different schools, you only need to download one app for access to all of their accounts.

Step 1: Navigate to your device's App Store and install the Bullitt County Public Schools App

Step 2: Set your notifications so you receive updates from your chosen school(s). You may choose multiple locations.

Step 3: If you connected to Rooms last year, you're ready! If you have not used Rooms before, be looking for your invite via text or email. If you don't receive it, your child's teacher can generate a welcome code for you so you can join.

The image below has several helpful links where you can learn about Rooms and how to get connected. If you need additional help, please contact us!

We love volunteers. Whether it's reading with students, making copies, creating decorative spaces, or doing other tasks around the building, we would love to have you! If you would like to volunteer, see Ms. Lisa in the office to complete your background check and we will make sure to keep you as busy as you would like to be!

Shout out to Jamie Rogers for volunteering this week. She has done an assortment of jobs including this beautiful bulletin board for the library. Thank you!

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