Bill Sybert Scorpion Scoop

Website: https://www.sisd.net/o/billsybert

Location: 11530 Edgemere Boulevard, El Paso, TX, USA
Phone: 915-937-4400
Twitter: @BSybert_PreK8

Happy Sunday Scorpion Families!

Looking forward to another great week! If there is any Scorpion family that you know is not receiving our newsletters or text messages, please advise them to check with our front office to see if there number is correct or if they opted out of receiving messages. Thank you!

Thank you

Thank you parents for your patience as we keep our Scorpions safe during after school dismissal. We have resumed our normal pick up procedures and we thank you for your patience. We will advise you in the event that we have to change to inclement weather (gym pick up) procedures in the future.

Late Pick Up- Safety

Due to safety issues, ALL students that are on campus past 3:30pm will be brought into the campus (3:00 for PK and KG). Parents will have to park and sign out student. Repeated late pickups will result in conference with admin. Please inform your Scorpions to walk home or to wait patiently until they are picked up. We are noticing an increase in discipline issues with middle school students that are waiting after school for pickup. Thank you.

Late Drop Off

Please make plans to park and sign your child in if your child is arriving late to campus (if not inside campus by 7:45am). Repeated late pickups will result in conference with admin. Thank you in advance.

Observance of Traffic Procedures and Safety

Thank you for helping us keep our Scorpions safe by observing all traffic procedures. Please observe all vehicle exit and entrance signs, as well as using our crosswalks. All these are put in place to ensure safety for all. Please do not drop off children on the street and please do not drop off earlier than 7:15am. Thank you.

Free Dress Mondays

Students have already been informed by teachers if they earned free dress tomorrow for Monday- Friday attendance (zero tardies). We will be contacting parents for a change of clothes if child did not earn free dress. Please assist us by sending your child in their uniform if your child was absent and/or tardy any day of the week of August 19th-23rd. Thank you

Spirit Shirt Fridays!!

Students are able to wear jeans and spirit shirts every Friday!! Please visit https://urban915.com/Bill-Sybert-Elementary-c153786381 to order spirit shirts and uniform polos! Apparel is made to order and ready in a few days. Pick up location is convenient to our campus, 3465 Lee Blvd #230, El Paso, TX 79936. Our campus does receive a portion of each sale, which will benefit and support student incentives and events. Thank you in advance for your support!

Notes to Excuse Absences

Please upload notes to Skyward to excuse absences. Our campus will be contacting parents of students that have 2 or more unexcused absences. Please know that a student is considered truant once they accumulate 3 unexcused absences within a 4 week period.

Our campus will be using Skyward for absence note submission. Please see instructions below on how to submit absence notes!

Please see below for this week's reminders and upcoming events!

🎉Upcoming Events🎉

Tuesday, September 10th, 2024

• Food Pantry- Middle School parking lot
• Power Hour (after school tutoring) begins- teachers will reach out to parents to inform if their child should attend

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024

• Wear red, white and blue in remembrance of 9-11-01

Friday, September 13th, 2024

• Fall Dance - cancelled. Will be rescheduled

Monday, September 16th, 2024

• 16th of September Dress up day

Monday, September 23rd- Friday, September 27th, 2024

• Montwood Homecoming Dress Up Week- Please see flyer below

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

• Montwood Hight School Homecoming parade will be from 6pm

Friday, September 27, 2024

• Blood Drive 1pm-5pm School Gym - Students of parents who donate will receive a week of free dress. Contact: Mrs. Saucedo 915-252-7182 See Flyer below
• Montwood High School Homecoming vs Estlake HS football game 7:30pm @ the SAC

Please feel free to reach out for anything you might need!

Determined to Achieve, Destined to Succeed! 🌟

GO SCORPIONS!! ❤️🦂

Ms. Parada

Principal

rparad01@sisd.net

Beginning Monday, August 19, 2024, parents will be able to enter their child’s absence note in Skyward SIS. You can notify your student's attendance office about an absence using the online Parent Absence Request feature via Family Access using a computer or your mobile APP. You can download the Skyward App through the mobile App Store.

1. Login to Skyward Family Access

1. Click on the Attendance tile for the student you are reporting an absence

1. Click on the Absence Requests Tab

1. Click Add Absence Request on the right side of the screen
   
2. Enter the Start Date and End Date

1. Entire Day: Check All Day if the absence will be an entire day
   Partial Day: Enter a Start Time and End Time of absence

1. Select an Attendance Reason from the drop-down menu

1. Add a Comment to provide information about the absence

1. Select Save in the upper left-hand corner

Once saved, the absence request will be sent to the school’s attendance for processing. After approval by the school, the request will change from Pending to Processed. Changes to the absence can be made by the parent/guardian in Skyward while it is still marked as pending. Once the request is processed, a parent/guardian will need to contact the school to make any changes.

The tutorials below demonstrate how you, as a parent, can submit an absence request for your child.

English: https://youtu.be/xpibur47PVQ

Spanish: https://youtu.be/ywjZYca7xSw

Parents, please take some time to view our Parent Information Presentation below. Please contact our campus with any questions. Thank you!

Please see below for this year's dress code and dress up days. Students will still be eligible to earn free dress for Monday through Friday attendance (to include zero tardies). Free dress will be given on Mondays (only eligible students please- teachers will verify with provided list. Students in free dress that did not earn it will be dress coded and discipline plan will follow). Thank you in advance for your support!

Please visit https://urban915.com/Bill-Sybert-Elementary-c153786381 to order spirit shirts and uniform polos! Apparel is made to order and ready in a few days. Pick up location is convenient to our campus. Our campus does receive a portion of each sale, which will beneift and support student incentives and events. Thank you in advance for your support!

Parents, please help us by only allowing your child to come to school in free dress on MONDAYS ONLY if they were present EVERY DAY the previous week. Students that were tardy during the week are NOT able to come in free dress. We had many students that are coming in free dress when it was not earned. Free Dress days are a campus wide incentive for students who have earned it. Teachers will be verifying who earned free dress and we will be calling parents to bring clothing for their child if their child is supposed to be in uniform. In the event that parents cannot bring clothes (or we cannot contact parents), students will be provided uniform pants and shirts from our reserve (we try our best to find the correct fit, but this is not always possible). Repeated dress code violations will result in disciplinary measures. Please help us and your child avoid this predicament by ONLY allowing your child to come to school in free dress if your child was present EVERY DAY of the previous week with ZERO tardies.

Students must also be in appropriate attire. Our dress code DOES NOT allow the following, even if the student is wearing a hoodie:

• Ripped jeans/ pants
• Spaghetti straps
• crop tops (belly button is showing when arms are raised)
• tube tops
• Crocs
• Excessively tight clothing
• Knit leggings/ tights as pants

Thank you in advance.

Cell phones (to include smart watches with cell phone capability) must be TURNED OFF as soon as student arrives on campus and will remain off during the entire instructional/afterschool tutoring portion of the school day. Any cell phone that is not turned off, is out and visible, or is not put away in student's backpack or purse during the school day, including lunch, will be confiscated. Cellphones that are in student's pockets or tucked into front of pants will be confiscated.

• 1st Offense: Phone will be confiscated. Parent will be notified and student can pick up at the end of the school day from the front desk.
• 2nd Offense and any offense thereafter: Phone will be confiscated. Parent will be notified and phone will be picked up by a parent after school at the front desk. A $15 fine is paid as per SISD Board Policy on the 2nd offense and any offense thereafter. Cell phone will only be released to parent. Campus will hold the cell phone until the fine is paid.

Please speak to your child about this policy. Our number one goal is to ensure our students have an environment conducive to learning. Thank you in advance for your support.

Parents, in an effort to keep our Scorpions safe, we are not allowing drop-offs. This includes Uber Eats and Door Dash (we will be turning away Uber Eats and Door Dash drivers). We can average of 30-40 daily lunch drop-offs with an additional 30-40 item (backpacks, instruments, shoes, lunch boxes, notebooks, snacks, water bottles, etc) drop-offs on a daily basis. Every single drop-off is an opportunity for someone to gain access to our building.

Please keep in mind that our security and monitoring staff have to look for your child to deliver their lunch or items. This takes our monitoring and security staff away from the job they are there for: to keep our Scorpions safe. We would also like our Scorpions to learn the importance of responsibility, so please ensure that they have all their supplies and items with them before the start of the school day.

Parents please keep in mind that anyone who visits the school must remain in the front lobby area by the entrance. The only persons that are allowed past the lobby area have been granted permission and have a visitor's pass. Just a reminder, due to safety and security, an ID is mandatory to enter our campus during the school day. There an NO exceptions. The safety of our Scorpions is our top priority. Thank you

After School Pick-up- Due to supervision and safety concerns, please be prompt when picking up your children. Prek and kinder dismissal is at 2:45pm and 1st through 8th grade dismissal is at 3:15pm. Please advise your child's teacher if you will be running late. If your schedule does not allow for you to pick up your child on time, please know that our campus cannot provide after school care. Our campus does have the YMCA after school program on site, and many daycares in the area provide student pickup. The only students that are allowed after school are those that are in tutoring (by invitation) and/or in athletics. All other students must be picked up at their dismissal time. We do not have staff members dedicated to supervising children after dismissal time. Thank you in advance for keeping your child safe.

Our goal is to keep your child safe at all times. While many procedures might seem to be an inconvenience, please know that your child's safety and well-being is our #1 priority. Thank you.

If you need assistance with school supplies, please contact our CIS coordinator, Ms. Lopez at diana.lopez01@sisd.net.

As the school year progresses, students will be in need of school supply replacements. Classroom teachers will be reaching out during the school year to seek replacements for some of your child's school supplies. The most common supplies that need replacement are headphones, pencils, crayons, and notebooks. Please assist us in preparing for and providing supplies for your child(ren).

All students are expected to arrive to school on time. All students MUST be in class and ready to learn by 7:45am. Breakfast is served from 7:30am to 7:40am. Breakfast ends at 7:40am and instruction begins at 7:45am. The gates to the drop off will be closed at 7:45am. All students arriving after this time will need to enter through the front doors. Morning tardies will require a parent to sign their child in at the front desk.

Our campus conducts "Tardy Sweeps" for students in 3rd-8th grade. Tardy Sweeps will be conducted as follows:

• 3rd-8th grade teachers will be advised when the bell rings to direct any student not in class at that time to report to personnel that will be providing entrance to class passes
• Students who are late during the tardy sweeps will have to attend lunch detention (same day if late during AM tardy sweep, next day if late during PM tardy sweep)

• There will be 1-2 tardy sweeps a day.
• Sweeps are not to penalize students, but rather to instill the habit of being on time to classes.

Students will still be counted tardy even if a tardy sweep was not conducted. We will be calling and scheduling meeting with parents of ALL students who have excessive tardies. Please keep in mind that excessive tardies could result in after school detention and/or revocation of transfer. Thank you

When using our drop off valet in the morning, please do not get out of your car. Teachers and staff will assist your child in getting off your car. If you feel that your child needs your assistance, please park and walk your child to the gate.

The gates on the elementary side and the door on the middle school side will close at exactly 7:45am. Please do not ask or expect staff to allow your child to enter when they are in the process of closing gates and doors. Please do not speed through the drop off in order to reach the gate before it closes. All of these create hazards and we do not want any one hurt in the process. Please arrive with plenty of time to allow a smooth transition for your child(ren).

As a reminder, students are only allowed to enter through the side entrances in the morning. Please do not drop off your child at the front of the campus to enter through the front doors. They will not be allowed entrance and will be required to walk to the side entrances.

Please do not use the employee parking behind the campus when picking up your children. This parking will be blocked off. Please refrain from parking next to trash dumpsters, as that area is not a designated parking spot. There are many students and parents walking outside after pickup, and parking in these areas create a safety hazard. Please use the parent parking lot.

Please observe all safety procedures and use crosswalks when walking your child to and from school. We need your assistance in using sidewalks and crosswalks when walking your child in the drop off zone. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Dress Code will be enforced. Thank you

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⚾Baseball

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Debbie Portillo

Military/ Family Engagement Liaison

📧Dporti08@sisd.net

📞915-937-4414

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