Dear BES Families,

I hope you had a great extended weekend! Thank you for coming to conferences last week, it was great seeing everyone and sharing our BES world with you! If you have any follow-up questions, please reach out to your child's teacher or me.

Remember, no school tomorrow. It is Indigenous Peoples' Day, but the teachers will have professional development and we will be getting ready for second quarter.

Below we have information about our Power Hour, Wildcat Mornings, and our Wildcat Hours. Power Hour and Wildcat Mornings are voluntary. If interested in having your child stay, please contact your child's teacher or myself. Wildcat Hour is not voluntary. It is a required time spent after school with me in the office to ensure your child's late work is getting completed and turned in. I will work with you to schedule it. Transportation is not provided for any of these options. Power Hour does begin this Tuesday and if your student is signed up, you'll receive an email tomorrow confirming.

We will begin taking the Kansas Interim Assessments this week. These help prepare our students for the spring assessments and also help our staff to ensure our instruction is on schedule. These practice assessments are only utilized to help inform our instruction if needed.

Please check out the amazing pictures from our conferences and Elementary Ag Day below! There is also information about help for the holidays if your family or if you know of someone needing assistance.

Have a great week and let's get Q2 started!!

Cindy Apple, Principal

Hi BES Parents!

I have so enjoyed getting to know your children the past 6 weeks and we have had the best time learning songs for the K-4 Veterans Day program. The program is quickly approaching, it will take place on Monday, November 11 at 1:00. We will be rehearsing during the school day the Friday before, November 8 at the High School. I wanted to provide you with some practicing resources in case your student would like to sing these songs at home, for the little ones especially: Veterans Day 2024 Home Practice

The song “American Tears” has 3 solos in it, and we will do auditions for those solos October 16-23. There is an “American Tears” slide on the presentation with the practice track and link to a PDF that has lyrics and shows where the solos are. In the coming weeks we will also be divvying up speaking parts and really bringing the entire program together. If your student comes home with a part, thank you in advance for your support and practicing with them at home.

Lastly, attire for the concert will be the same as it has been in the past - red, white, and blue! The more patriotic the better. Thanks again for welcoming me into your community and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns!

All the best,

Ms. Reynolds

Thank you for supporting our Nonsale Book Sale! We will have more free book sales in the future!

Nov. 4-8th: Book Fair! Be on the lookout for volunteer opportunities, our Family Night, and our Grand Event!

Believe it or not, cold weather and the holiday season are fast approaching. We wanted to share with you some free resources for winter coats, Thanksgiving meal baskets and Christmas gifts (Christmas gift program is for Louisburg children birth to 18). There are deadlines to each that, again, as far away as they seem, will be here in no time. The added expense of winter coats and holiday costs can be a heavy burden. If your family could benefit from a little extra support to ease that burden, then we hope these resources will do just that! Please see our newsletter to learn about some wonderful resources! To view the newsletter please click this link: https://secure.smore.com/n/h6ac7x

Hardships can fall on any of us at any time for a variety of reasons. If you are in need of financial, mental health, parenting, military, holiday, etc. assistance, then I hope you will find our community resource guide helpful. https://usd416communityresourceguide.weebly.com/

Trunk-or-Treat Update:

Unfortunately, due to low community participation, the Louisburg Elementary PTO Trunk or Treat on 10/20 will be cancelled.

We are inviting everyone to join us at our next PTO event on Friday, October 25th, for Elementary Night at the Stadium, where our littlest Wildcats can line the field before the football team runs out of the tunnel! Go Wildcats!

October 14: No School

October 15: 2nd Quarter Begins!

October 24: Pasta & Play at RES, 6pm

October 26: Electric Light Band Show at Wildcat Stadium, 7pm

November 4-8: BES Book Fair

November 9: Wildcat Fun Run

November 11: Veterans Day Celebrations

Please take note of our school calendars when planning your family's vacations.

Attendance is a focus at BES and we want your children at school! It can be very difficult for students to get caught up sometimes when they miss for extended periods of time. For example, when a student misses a week of school, that is up to 450 minutes of math instruction they are missing!

If your family does have a trip planned, we do not provide lessons or materials ahead of those trips. Teachers will work with you to schedule times when your student can be given that instruction and guided work time to ensure mastery of skills. This may have to happen before or after school, but we will also try to work during the school day as well.

GREAT school habits now help prepare students for future success!

Congratulations to the Classroom Winners!

Monday: No School

Tuesday: F

Wednesday: A

Thursday: B

Friday: C

Monday, October 14: No School

Email: broadmoor@usd416.org
Website: usd416.org
Location: 105 South 5th Street East, Louisburg, KS, USA
Phone: 9138371900
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BroadmoorUSD416/
Twitter: @USD416_BES