Dear JNE Parents and Guardians,

Welcome back, Longhorns! Our first two days at James C. Neill Elementary School have been filled with excitement, new friendships, and a great start to the school year.

We are excited to begin working with our wonderful volunteers. As a reminder, all 2023-2024 FBISD criminal history clearances were inactivated at the end of June. The FBISD Volunteer Criminal History Application for the current year can be found at https://bit.ly/3S9nVhz. The Job Posting Title is Volunteers (240001RC) Posting Date: Jul 15, 2024.

We know that the start of the school year comes with adjustments, and your cooperation has made all the difference. For our parents of walkers, please anticipate your child arriving to you no later than 3:25 p.m. We appreciate your promptness in meeting them, as it helps ensure a smooth dismissal for everyone. As always, we remind our Longhorn community to cross at designated crosswalks and to exercise extra caution during our heavy traffic times. The safety of all of our Longhorns is our top priority.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, August 14th- College Colors Day

Wednesday, August 14th- Meet the JNE Principals Night at 5:30pm in JNE Cafeteria

Friday, August 16th- HERD Kickoff Day (Wear your Herd's Colors)

Monday, August 26th- Lunch Visitors Begin

Items in our Newsletter Include:

• Campus Flyers
  
• Lunch Visitors Announcement (Visitors begin on August 26th)
  
• Campus Reminders
• Attendance Information
  
• Health and Safety Protocols

Have a wonderful weekend!

Sincerely,

The JNE Admin Team

2024-2025 Student Verification Forms- English

2024-2025 Student Verification Forms- Spanish

FBISD Medication Policy

Attendance Procedures Flyer, for Parents

The PTO website has some great new features: 1. you can now sign up and indicate your child(ren)'s teacher. This gives you the ability to connect with other parents in their class 2. Sign ups this year will be through NeillPTO.org, signing up early will help ensure you will be notified when volunteer sign ups are going out.

Spirit Wear is on sale. The sale will end August 20th so we can get these items to you quickly! Check out the new designs and color options for shirt/sweatshirt colors. Both child and adult sizes are available.

The Neill PTO On-Demand Spirit Wear store is open with all HERD colors are represented! Ships direct to your home (shop in bulk or join efforts with a friend to earn free shipping over $75) https://spirithero.com/collections/neill-1

We ask that all students arriving by car be dropped off in our front driveway. This is the safest location to deliver students to campus. Starting at 7:30am our staff is present to help students and to supervise their arrival to campus.

Our arrival line is longest between 7:45-8:05am. We invite families to take advantage of a shorter line by delivering their student to school between 7:30 and 7:45am.

The campus tardy bell rings at 8:05am. This is a change in time from last school year.

Neill Elementary School will be inviting parent to join their children for lunch starting the week of August 26th. Starting on Friday, August 23rd, JNE will publish a lunch visitor sign up form which will be published each week in our Friday Newsletter.

We enjoy our visitors, and we look forward to hosting lunchtime visitors in a safe and secure manner.

• Lunchtime guests will be signed in to visit in the cafeteria only.
• Please be on time for lunch so that you and your student are able to enjoy the full lunch time together. Thank you for exiting the building through the front doors at the end of lunch.
• Guests can only join a student for lunch if they are an approved emergency contact in Skyward Family Access.
• Guest must have a photo ID to be allowed onto campus.
• Visitors may only bring food for their child.
• Families who need an allergy-free seat during lunch may leave a note in the comment section of the sign-up genius.
• Please exit the cafeteria at our 5-minute remaining mark to help us prepare for our next lunch and to allow students time to rejoin their class and prepare to return to their classroom.
• We will not be able to host lunch visitors during state testing or special events on campus.

Fort Bend ISD is happy to serve a community with families from all around the world. We are proud to be culturally diverse and celebrate our unique traits as a community of compassionate citizens.

We recognize that fasting practices occur throughout the calendar year, but that many observances in which individuals fast occur in the spring. As a school community we are sensitive to and accommodate students and staff observers who express they are fasting.

Link to FBISD Diversity Calendar Webpage

If your family would like the campus to be aware of your student's wish to fast, please send an email to your child's classroom teacher so that we can be aware of any needs that may occur during an observance. Our partnership with our school community is important to us and we thank our families for their communication with the campus regarding special occasions and observances that may impact the instructional day.

Clothing reminders:

• We kindly ask that all families place a change of clothes for ALL students, as well as extra shoes for little ones– soiled, torn, accidents, spills etc. happen to everyone.
• Please consider to donating gently used black girls stretch pants in various sizes especially larger;
• Please consider to donating some gently used ELASTIC waist boy gym shorts and sweat pants (now that it is winter) in larger sizes

Health Reminders:

• If your child is ill – keep them home.
• Parents please medicate or treat for allergy symptoms at home.

Contact Reminders:

• Please make sure the clinic has the most up-to-date contact information for parents, guardians and emergency contacts.
• Please add the clinic phone number to your contact list so urgent phone calls do not come up as SPAM – 281-327-3768.

Students will be allowed to celebrate their birthday at the end of the day, by bringing individually packaged store-bought food products, provided by the parent or grandparent. Treats may be distributed to classmates on or near (i.e. bring treats on Monday when the birthdate was on a weekend) the student’s birthdate.

Prior to sending any treats, we ask that you contact your child’s teacher to discuss the date you will send treats. The nutritional label must be attached to your store-bought item. A parent or guardian must bring them into the building and fill out the proper form which is submitted to FBISD’s Child Nutrition office.

Parents or grandparents of a student at Neill may provide one birthday treat per child to share with the student’s homeroom class only. This may be in the form of ONE individually wrapped edible or ONE small tangible item (such as a pencil) with the value of the individual item not to exceed $5.00.

We require single serving items, which must be pre-packaged and individually wrapped, such as mini- cupcakes, cookies, brownies, or Krispy treats.

We respectfully request no cakes, drinks, balloons, flowers, donuts, stuffed animals, or goody bags. To preserve instructional time, additional party favors ARE NOT permitted. Birthday treat time is not a “party” but a simple, quick recognition of the child’s special day.

Please keep in mind that we have several students with food allergies. For this reason, products containing peanuts or manufactured on equipment that processes peanuts are prohibited. No nuts please, due to allergies.

Neill Elementary School recognizes the value and importance of school attendance and encourages regular attendance to help our students be successful through the school year. Please email the attendance office within five days of the student’s recorded absence explaining the reason for the absence or the absence will be marked as unexcused. You may send an email to attendancejne@fortbendisd.com.

Use of a wireless communication device is prohibited in a school zone unless the driver is using a hands-free device or the vehicle is stopped, according to Texas Transportation Code. Statewide, drivers face $200 tickets if caught using cell phones in school zones while the car is in motion

Email: margaret.murphy@fortbendisd.com
Website: https://www.fortbendisd.com/jne
Location: 3830 Harvest Corner Drive, Richmond, TX, USA
Phone: 281-327-3760
Twitter: @JNE_Longhorns