Boyertown Elementary

There are many exciting events coming up at Boyertown Elementary School. We are looking forward to them!

January 31: Hoagie Pickup

February 4: PTO Meeting - 7:00 in the library

February 9: Celebrity Chef Cooking Competition entry deadlines (Information below)

February 20: Ice Cream Social/BINGO 6:00-8:00

March 4: PTO Meeting - 7:00 in the library

March 14: Celebrity Chef Cooking Competition and Wellness Fair (Information below)

March 21: BES PTO Basket Raffle (Information below!) Tickets are for sale and baskets are needed!

If not using the car rider line, parents must park in the side lot (afternoon pickup only) or at Middle School West (MSW is to be used only in the morning.) during dropoff or pickup times when dropping off their children. Vehicles will NOT stop in the middle of the road to drop off their children or go around other vehicles. This could cause a pedestrian to get hit.

Please do not park out front in the main entrance parking lot, where the buses pull in. We have had cars driving around our buses while our students were loading, and cars pulling out in between the buses while they are trying to leave. Also, please do not pull up in the bus loop and line up behind the buses. This is a NO CAR ZONE during student arrival and dismissals. This is a no car zone between 8:00-9:00 and 3:00-4:00. Thank you!

Please drop off any donations to the office. Thank you!

Raising children today comes with new challenges—and new opportunities. Join us for an engaging parent night designed to provide practical tools, resources, and guidance to support your child’s growth at every stage. Child care will be provided for school age students so that parents/guardians are free to participate in sessions of interest.

Families will have the opportunity to attend sessions focused on:

· Positive Behavior Support – strategies to support behavior at home and school

· Focus & Organization – helping children manage time, attention, and responsibilities

· Escaping Vaping – understanding risks and how to talk with children and teens

· Families & Technology – navigating screen time, social media, and digital wellness

· Supporting Early Reading – building strong literacy skills from the start

This evening is designed to be informative, supportive, and collaborative. We look forward to partnering with families as we work together to support the well-being and success of our students. This flyer will provide you with a full description and registration information for this event.

BASD has the ability to utilize 5 flexible instruction days each year in the event that inclement weather or another emergency should create a need to cancel school at some point during the school year. Students will be provided with directions on how to access their assignments should a FID day need to be used during the school year. Teachers will provide all necessary information on FID days. Students will have three days to complete the work. As a reminder, if the FID work is not completed and handed in, the student will receive an unlawful absence. If you have any questions about the work, please reach out to your child’s teacher directly. Please note that there are no snow days built into the district calendar this year.

Absences, tardies, and early dismissals must be submitted via the Infinite Campus Absence Report.

This application can be found in your Infinite Campus or on the district website. https://www.boyertownasd.org/page/5317

For ABSENCES that are for reasons other than illness as a vacation, a day trip, or a family visit, an EDUCATIONAL TRIP FORM and Infinite Campus Absence Report must be completed and submitted to the school prior to the absence. An Educational Trip Application and the Infinite Campus Absence Report must be submitted for the absence to be approved as an educational trip. The form can be found here: BES EDUCATIONAL TRIP FORM.

**PHONE CALLS ARE NOT ACCEPTED FOR ABSENCES. The attendance office line is not in operation. PLEASE PROVIDE BOTH FIRST AND LAST NAMES OF STUDENTS WHEN SUBMITTING AN ABSENCE.**

For a LATE ARRIVAL, please email your student’s teacher and submit a notification via the Infinite Campus Absence Report.

For an EARLY PICK-UP, please send in a note to the teacher(s) and submit a notification via the Infinite Campus Absence Report. Please include the following: student’s name, teacher’s name, time of the pick-up, and name of the adult picking the student up (*they must show ID at the door). This should be submitted by 10:00 am.

For a FULL-DAY ABSENCE, please submit a notification via the Infinite Campus Absence Report

or send in a note to the school that your child withing three school days of the student(s) return.(Please state the reason why).

***If a student is sent home by the nurse, an excuse is still mandatory if the student is absent the next school day. The nurse sending a student home does not excuse the child for the next day.***

UNLAWFUL ABSENCES: *If the school does not receive an absence report (or a written note) concerning an absence within three (3) school days of that absence, it will be coded as unlawful, and the Unlawful Absences letter will be sent to the parents/guardians. It will also be added to the student's file. *NOTE: We cannot remove an Unlawful absence after the three (3) school days have passed.

Each student may have a total of ten (10) excused absences per school year. Every absence after those ten absences will all require a Doctor’s Note or it will become unlawful.

There are new policies and procedures for clearances this year. Clearances must be uploaded into the new Raptor system in order to be in the school district's volunteer system. Volunteers who previously submitted clearances were grandfathered in until November 17, 2023. Once submitted, clearances will be take 10 days to be verified. Paper copies of clearances will no longer be accepted. Clearances are mandatory to volunteer in Boyertown Area School District. Please view the links below for more information and access to the Raptor site.

BASD Volunteer Process: NEW: BASD Volunteer Process | Smore Newsletters for Business

BASD Website/HR Department: Human Resources / Volunteer Information - Using Raptor (boyertownasd.org)

If you need to reach the Transportation Department, please email transportation@boyertownasd.org for assistance. If you need assistance determining the location of a bus, reporting a bus problem, etc., please dial 610-369-7684. If you need help with a deviation to daycare within your school's sending area, with non-public school transportation, etc., please call 610-473-3473.

For safety purposes and efficient dismissals, we ask all parents utilizing the car rider line, to please always remain in their vehicles. Getting out of your vehicle and/or pulling outside the cones is not allowed and may pose a safety hazard if not adhered to.

Please be aware of any parent(s), child/children or staff member(s) who may be walking throughout our parking areas and crosswalks. In addition, please continue to be mindful of our surrounding families who live in the area and the children who are walking to and from school. There are NO U-TURNS ALLOWED on Second Street.

If your child/children will need assistance during dismissal for any reason, please do not use the car rider line. Instead, please park in the side lot or in the back lot and walk to the school's front entrance to sign out your child/children for parent pick-up. Use crosswalks where applicable.

If using the parent pick-up at the end of the school day, please make sure to park in the school’s side parking lot, park in a parking spot, and walk around to the main entrance.

Please make sure to have your ID out and ready, sign out your student(s) in the sign-out binder, which will be located at (or just inside) the front door. The students’ names will then be announced over the loudspeaker and will be instructed to report to the main entrance, once all the bus numbers have been announced. Please do not call the office at dismissal time to have your student(s) report to parent pick-up.

⛔✋Please do not park out front in the main entrance parking lot, where the buses pull in. We have had cars driving around our buses while our students were loading, and cars pulling out in between the buses while they are trying to leave. Also, please do not pull up in the bus loop and line up behind the buses.✋⛔

IF YOU NEED TO PICK UP YOUR CHILD(REN) EARLY (before dismissal time) please SEND IN A NOTE to school or please EMAIL the teacher(s). Please include the student(s) full name, teacher/grade, the time of pick-up, the reason, and the name of the adult doing the pick-up (please make sure that they bring along their ID for verification purposes. This is for your child’s safety.

If your child’s transportation home (at regular dismissal time) is different than their usual mode of transportation, please send a note (or email) to their teacher so that they can make sure the student is reporting to the correct area at dismissal time. Thank you!

Title I Programs in the Boyertown Area School District:

Boyertown, Colebrookdale, Earl and Washington are the identified Title I elementary schools in our district. Middle School West is also identified as a Title I school. These schools receive Title I funding based on the percentage of low-income eligible students.

Title I is a federally funded program purposed with ensuring all children have a fair and equal opportunity to learn and grow. Boyertown has transitioned to a Schoolwide Title I program. A Schoolwide program is designed to serve all students in a Title I building and improve all structures to help support student learning. Our Schoolwide plan was developed with the help of parents, community members, teachers, and administrators. Our plan is evaluated annually to determine the impact that these supports have on student achievement.

As a Schoolwide Title I building, the staff is reviewing all students' data to determine needs. Students are identified for intervention if in need of academic support, primarily in the area of reading. All students receiving additional support must qualify through our district assessments. Support is provided to the students individually or in small groups both in class and as a pullout program. Schools set a goal for academic progress that will be measured through mid-year and end-of-the-year assessments. The Reading Specialists, Intervention teachers, paraprofessionals, and classroom teachers partner together to support students.

Our district works diligently to use the Title I funds as required and to provide these additional services to enhance the educational program of our Title I students. If you have any questions about the Title I program, please reach out to your building's reading specialist or call the Title I office at (610) 369-7414.

Title I Programs Website Link

Each month our Reading Specialists, Mrs. Graff and Mrs. McCaw, will share some resources to support your student’s learning at home. Please enjoy the September editions of the Daily Planner and Newsletter.

Title One Resources:

Parent Resources/Handouts

TITLE I - BOYERTOWN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 2025 FALL PARENT SURVEY

Happy Reading!

Mrs. Graff and Mrs. McCaw

Title 1 Compact

Title I Parent Survey Form

Zoom recording of BES Title I Parent Meeting

Quigley Bus Services’ new bus tracking app, Stopfinder, will be released to our district families on Thursday, December 4th.
The app replaces Here Comes the Bus and integrates with the transportation’s bus routing system and new GPS equipment to provide up-to-the-minute information to families. Quigleys has completed training and multiple pilots with the application to provide a smooth transition for our users – including a building-wide pilot with Washington Elementary. The pilots included user feedback, system updates, and collaboration with the vendor and district personnel in preparation for the 4th.

The invitations will be addressed from Stopfinder no-reply@stopfinder.com and arrive throughout the day on December 4th. It is important to note that your email service provider may forward messages from unrecognized email addresses to your junk/spam/trash folders. Based on the internal and external pilot programs, we do know that this has happened to some of our participants. We kindly ask that you please always check these folders for Stopfinder information before reaching out to Quigley for additional support.

Invitations will ONLY be sent to Priority 1 and Priority 2 contacts within Infinite Campus. Those contacts can then share the service with others. HOWEVER, neither the district nor Quigley will be able to invite other student contacts to the program for safety and security reasons. The invitations will include specific instructions on signing up for the service and sharing with others.

Quigley will ask you to follow this protocol when asking for help with the application registration process:

If you are a Priority 1 or 2 student-contact in IC AND, you have checked those email folder locations, AND it is later than 9 AM on Friday,December 5th, AND you have not received your invitation to sign up for the app, please notify Quigley Bus Service via email to transportation@boyertownasd.org. Please remember, all district families will receive their invitations to this service on the same day. We ask that you allow up to 3-5 business days for a response.

There is NOTHING for you to do NOW, and Quigley cannot add users to the system before the 4th. You will receive additional reminders from BASD regarding this rollout in the coming days, all leading up to your invitation on the 4th. Please stay tuned!

On October 29, 2024, Pennsylvania passed Act 117, a new law that allows the Department of Health (DOH) to create and share important information with parents and guardians about Type 1 Diabetes. Starting with the 2025–2026 school year, all schools are required to provide this information to families. Below please find the Parent Fact Sheet on Type 1 Diabetes. You can also find this information in our student handbook.

https://forms.gle/MaYKTnJdeA9cMZ8i9

Dear BES Parents and Guardians,

We are looking to fill some additional support roles at our school. If you are looking for a position that has the same hours as your children, this is a great opportunity for you.

If you are interested in working within the school setting, please call our CCRES representative, Courtney Reyes at 484-593-5040. More information and an application can also be found at https://apply.workable.com/ccres/j/41ADE4D96D/

This will help us connect you with job opportunities at BES or other buildings within the school district. We hope you can join us for the 2024-2025 school year.

RSVP: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4CAAA82EA7F94-61753723-bingo#/

Topping Donation: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4CAAA82EA7F94-61753771-bingo

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!!!

The basket raffle will be held on
Saturday, March 21st, 2025
At Hope Community Church
Located at 2732 N Charlotte St, Gilbertsville
Doors open at 3 p.m.

Each ticket (cash or check only) is $25 per person and is good for the following:
♦️25 raffle tickets
♦️1 Grand Prize ticket

*Children attending MUST have their own ticket to attend.

*Tickets are NOT guaranteed until payment in FULL has been received.

*Pre-purchased tickets will be available for pickup on February 20th (time TBD) or the night of the event.

please bring proof of purchase when picking up your tickets. We can also send the prepaid tickets home with your child.

*You may bring your own snacks and beverages. NO ALCOHOL PLEASE!!

* Ticket sales at the door will be limited and NOT guaranteed.

ALL proceeds will go back into BES! Thank you for your support!

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Volunteers are VERY important for all our PTO events and activities to run smoothly. We are in need of volunteers this year more than ever. We have many exciting opportunities to help out! If the event is outside of school hours, you will not need clearances. If it is during the school day, then you will. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

**Please be aware, this year if we do not have sufficient volunteers to run the event, the event will be cancelled. This is needed due to the lack of help in previous years, and the events not running as expected.**

BASD hosts an online Community Bulletin Board. The electronic bulletin board features district and community activities, events, clubs, resources, and more. The board is updated regularly and is an excellent source of information regarding things happening throughout our community and beyond. Be sure to check it out regularly!

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Boyertown Elementary
641 East Second Street
Boyertown, PA 19512
(610) 369-7462