Welcome Back, Chestatee!

Dear Chestatee Families,

It was wonderful to see everyone at Open House. We are excited to to start the 2024-2025 school year! Below are a few important back-to-school reminders:

School Arrival

As you know the first days of school are busy and full of excitement. In order to give all students a warm welcome, ensure everyone's safety, and promote a timely start to the school day, students will follow their normal transportation routines starting on day one. We will have an abundance of support staff ready to walk your children to class. We will not allow parents to walk students to their classrooms for the safety of our school community.

Bus Transportation

Our bus drivers are ensuring the safety of our students as they deliver your children to your bus stop each afternoon. This means that there may be delays as the drivers get used to their routes and get to know your children and the safe adults to whom they can be delivered. Please be patient as they work out the kinks and focus on safety over speed.

Parent Volunteers and Lunchroom Visitors

We love having parent volunteers and lunchroom visitors at Chestatee! We will open parent volunteer and lunchroom visitor sign-ups after Labor Day on Tuesday, September 3rd. This allows our teachers to establish important classroom and cafeteria routines and procedures.

We look forward to our first day of school tomorrow, August 1st. Thank you for partnering with us to ensure a smooth start to the school year!

Your Chestatee Administration,

Jennifer Williams, Principal

Abby Gaines, Assistant Principal

Angela Perry, Assistant Principal

Brianna Hundt, Assistant Administrator

Thanks to Leigh Baldwin for painting our rock to celebrate our return!

What a great crowd! Thanks to our families for coming by to meet the teachers and see the classroom!

There were so many smiles to be back at the T. What a great start!

We can all agree that lunch is one of our favorites!

We have more doors open this year and can unload a lot more cars at one time! Click here for more details. We have added one change to our car line. Families needing assistance can pull up to Door 4 with flashers instead of the curve at the eagle. This will allow other cars to pass safely.

Here are tips for getting students tagged and ready for school.

Click here for the verification form.

Click here for the K-5 and Specialized Instruction List.

August 1- First Day of School

August 5-19- Domino's PTO Fundraiser

August 19- Ice Cream Starts in Cafeteria

August 30- Early Release

September 3- Lunch visitors and volunteers welcome

September 5- Academic Parent Teacher Teams/ Curriculum Night K-2: 6:00 PM

Tuesday, September 10- Academic Parent Teacher Teams/ Curriculum Night 3-5: 6:00 PM (changed due to a conflict)

Academic Parent Teacher Teams or APTT is a class meeting with the teacher.

Families meet each other.

The teacher shares a skill, data, and ways to help at home.

Families practice the game/ strategy and then write a goal for the next meeting.

We hope you can join us!

Our first meetings are September 5 for K-2: 6:00 PM and September 10 for 3-5: 6:00 PM

Resources from our Counseling Department.

Resources for Food Help

Food Help- Spanish

Mentoring Info

President- Kandi Wetzel

Co-Vice Presidents- Jennifer Grindle, Liana Hall, and Nicole Tierney

Secretaries- Meg Killingsworth and Christy Pittman

Treasurer- Emily Morgan

Parliamentarian- Julia Weart

Contact our PTO here!

If you ask to connect your Kroger Plus card to Chestatee Elementary, they will donate a certain percentage of the profits to our school. You can find out more about how to do this if you CLICK HERE.

Publix Partners with Chestatee also. You only need to put your phone number in as you checkout. Publix will donate a certain percentage of their profits to Chestatee from your purchase!

We love our Partners in Education!

Email: chestateees@gmail.com
Website: http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/site/default.aspx?domainid=260
Location: 6945 Keith Bridge Road, Gainesville, GA, United States
Phone: 770-887-2341
Facebook: facebook.com/ChestateeES
Twitter: @chestateees