Bunker Hill Elementary Lion Notes

September 4th: PTA "Big Form" Closes

September 7th: NO SCHOOL, Labor Day

September 8th:

• Open House, Back to School Night, Kindergarten, 2nd, and 4th Grades, 5:30-6:30pm
• PTA Newcomer Event, 6:30pm

September 10th:

• ROAR Store
• Open House, Back to School Night, 1st, 3rd, and 5th Grades, 5:30-6:30pm

September 15th: Parent Coffee Talk: "Finding Balance in Parenthood", 8:15am, MPR

September 17th: 5th Grade Constitution Day

September 20th-24th: Blessings in a Backpack Food Drive Week

September 23rd:

• Early Release at 11:50am
• Progress Reports Home with Students

September 24th: 2nd Grade FIeld Trip to AYAM

September 25th:

• Morning Movement at 7:30am on the Track
• Teacher Appreciation Lunch

October 1st:

• Walk to School Day
• Lion Leader Lunches

Is your student up for a Reading Challenge? Pick up a reading log in the BHE Library and record the books that you read this fall! Students who turn in a log before or on October 8th will be recognized on BHETV!

More choice in how you receive school communications:

You may have recently noticed that some school or district messages are arriving in a different language than you received in the past. This is part of the expanded language options available to our families through our new communications platform, Apptegy.

The language used for your communications is based on the Correspondence Language you identified in Skyward during your student's registration.

Prefer to receive messages in a different language? Liana Drain, our school registrar, can help update your correspondence language preference in Skyward.

Please contact the main office for assistance at 713-251-5400. Once your preference is updated in Skyward, future communications will reflect your selected correspondence language.

This year we will not be issuing devices to students until we have signed technology use agreements and the $25 insurance fee has been paid. The insurance fees help cover the cost of device maintenance, repair and/or replacement. Technology User Agreements are included in Skyward registration. If you have completed that for this year, you will have already signed that form. See the QR code to pay the technology user insurance fee below. Use the QR code to access "My School Bucks" to pay the fee or go to this LINK.

Calling All Creators! This year’s PTA Reflections Contest is officially underway! If you love to write, dance, sing, create art, and you are inspired by this year’s theme, What My Culture Means To Me, we would love to have you participate!

Entries are due by October 23rd.

We encourage participants to submit entries through using the BHE Reflections Student Entry Form If this is not an option, please use the paper form and return to the front desk.

Questions? Contact Kim Lamb or LeighAnn Smart

The Gifted and Talented (GT) parent referral window is now open! If you are interested in having your child evaluated for GT services (PGP/SPIRAL) you must complete the referral form by Saturday, October 17th.

Questions? Contact our school counselor, Kim Lamb

We encourage every family to fill out the Big Form before it closes this Friday, September 4th. The Big Form is where you can join the PTA, purchase yearbooks, birthday marquee messages and extra directories, as well as donate to BHE's Underwriting Campaign and our sister school, Thornwood Elementary.

Yearbook:

Yearbooks are only available for prepurchase in the fall, so be sure to do so before Friday, September 4th. Most families purchase a yearbook for EACH of their children since they have signing parties the last week of school. We’re not able to order extra yearbooks for those who forget, so order now!

Students will wear their same blue BHE field trip shirts again this school year. If you are a new student and did not order a shirt last year, you may purchase a field trip shirt for $10.

Don't get left out of the BHE Directory!

• Returning families, please update your family’s account your family's account with your students’ 2026-2027 grade and teacher.
• New families, please create a family account and add your students’ 2026-2027 grade and teacher.
  

Printed directories will only be distributed to families who include their students’ information by Friday, September 4th.

Questions? Contact Directory Chairs

It's time to submit your child's masterpiece for our Directory Cover Art Contest. A few works of art will be chosen to be included in this year's Directory. Submissions are due to your child’s teacher by Tuesday, September 15th. Open to all grades, we can't wait to see what your children submit!

Questions? Contact Directory Chairs

We are looking for donations of NEW, unused prizes for our ROAR Store Raffle. Our first ROAR store is on Thursday, September 10.

Have a new toy, game, craft kit, sports item, gift card or other kid-approved prize you’d like to donate? We’d love to use it this semester!

All donated items must be new and appropriate for elementary-aged students.

Please contact Melissa Klupchak or Kathy Sam if you have anything to donate.

New this year, businesses and families who donate $2,500 or more to the 2026 General Underwriting Campaign will receive a blue banner in the carpool line - similar to the green Dads' Club Sponsor banners that are hanging outside the field. Sponsors who donate $5,000 and above before Friday, September 4th will also receive their logo on a banner displayed in the school lobby and in a prominent location at various school events. Your generosity will directly benefit more than 770 students at BHE by helping bridge the gap between public funding and our school's needs.

Questions? Contact Jordan Krill, VP: Underwriting

BHE’s sister school, Thornwood Elementary, is collecting items for their PBIS store, safety patrols and scrapbooking club. You can help by ordering from the Amazon wish list and shipping directly to the school, or dropping donations off at Keleigh Spinner’s home at 11820 Chapelwood Ln. Items don’t have to be on the wish list—any small prizes your child would enjoy or scrapbooking supplies are appreciated!

Questions? Contact Keleigh Spinner at 512-825-6028.

Thank you for supporting our sister school!