Broadmoor's Weekly Wildcat News!
August 25, 2024
Dear BES Families,
This is a big week at BES - we will begin our fall screening. What does this mean? BES uses the MTSS (multi-tiered system of supports) to identify each individual student's needs academically and behaviorally. We give our students academic screenings in reading and math. From there, grade level teams and our instructional support staff meet to review the data and ensure students are given interventions at their learning level and are placed in intervention tiers: Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3. See the graphic for a description of each tier. Every student is provided with at least 30 minutes of reading and math intervention for 4-5 days a week. Students in tier 2 or 3 are also progress monitored to ensure they are improving with the current intervention. Behaviorally, the teachers will assess your children based on what they have observed since the beginning of the school year. This is typically done the second week of September, so the teachers can really get to know the students before completing it. This looks at social behaviors - how they get along with others; academic behaviors - how they approach learning, and emotional - how do they seem to feel and what emotions do they show throughout their day. The studens also have the ability to rate themselves and more information will come, including parental permission, prior to that survey.
This method has proven results. Yes, it helps us to find and support students who have missing skills or need a little extra time to learn. However, it also helps us to find and support students who are achieving above their grade levels. All our students need support to continue their love of learning!
There is so much that goes into our academic support sytesm and we will be hosting a parent information night in mid-September. We hope you will join us to learn more!
How are those donations coming? In the past, I have been known to dye my hair WILDCAT purple if we are able to hit the $10,000 mark!! The kids love that and I even had some join me! Here's repeated information from last week about Glow Bash:
GLOW BASH: This is our big fundraiser of the year for the school. The money is used for all things fun! If we do cupcakes on KS Day, Chiefs Super Bowl party, or when we go on field trips, it is all paid from our Glow Bash donations. We ask students collect donations from friends and family. Those donations can be turned in by September 7th. Our event is for the whole family! We will gather at the stadium at 7pm on Saturday, September 7th. The music will be going and students can get a piece of glow accessory for each lap around the track they do. They do not have to walk the track all night though...they can play yard games throughout the stadium, play on the field, dance, visit the food trucks, get more glow gear at the glow store, and just hang with friends! It's really a fun night and I hope you can join us, and bring friends. It's a free event and even if your child does not have any donations to bring, we want you to still come to the Glow Bash!
Don't forget, our PTO is sponsoring Popsicles on the Playground this Tuesday! Check out the information below and I'll see you there!
Have a great week,
Cindy Apple, Principal
Broadmoor Elementary 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