Greetings Jr. Bulldog Families,
We hope you had a great weekend! This week, we will continue with end of year testing windows. Our May attendance challenge starts Monday, May 5th and runs through May 30th! Students who attend school every day with no tardies and no early early dismissals will get to spray Ms. Horton and Mrs. Ellingworth with silly string AND shop from the Five Below GPE Store! We appreciate your help with making sure our students are here and on time every day! Please make sure you read this week's newsletter carefully so that you are up-to-date on all of the events that will be taking place between now and the end of the school year - it's busy!! Have a great week!
Wednesday, April 30th-Tuesday, May 6th: 3rd-5th grade NC Check-Ins (See flyer below)
Monday, May 5th-Friday, May 9th: Spring Book Fair
Tuesday, May 6th: Book Fair Family Fun Night 3:00-7:00 in the Media Center
Monday, May 5th-Friday, May 9th: Teacher Appreciation Week
Wednesday, May 7th: Duty Free Lunch (Need Volunteers!)
Wednesday, May 7th: Progress Reports available in PowerSchool
Thursday, May 8th: 4th & 5th Grade Orchestra Concert @ Williams High School
Tuesday, May 13th: GPE Papa John's Night
Monday, May 19th: Last day for lunch visits
Friday, May 23rd-June 6th: EOG Testing Window (see flyer below)
Monday, May 26th: Memorial Day - NO SCHOOL
If you have questions about PTO or if you are interested in being a part of our PTO, please email Ana or Necole at Groveparkpto2024@gmail.com
- School begins at 7:50 a.m. for ALL students Pre-K-5. Students that arrive by car should be in the building at 7:50. To make sure our students have enough time to get in the building, get through the breakfast line and arrive in class to start their day, the car rider line cut off time is 7:49 (cell phone time) each day. If you are arriving on campus at 7:49 or later, you will need to park and walk your student in to the front office to sign them in.
- Changes in transportation - If you need to change your child's afternoon transportation, please call the front office at (336) 570-6115 before 2:00 p.m. Teachers cannot check and respond to messages and emails throughout the day when they are teaching. Please do not expect an immediate response from your child's teacher during instructional hours. Office hours for teachers begin after 3:00 p.m.
- Signing Students out early: If you are signing your students out early (before 2:20 p.m.), you must go inside the front office and check them out. No student early check outs will be allowed after 2:20 as students are beginning to transition for dismissal. We appreciate your cooperation with this matter!
- Lunch Visits- Families may come to eat lunch with your students. Please reach out to your child's teacher 24 hours in advance to let them know you are coming so they can plan for seating. Remember: NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINK MAY BE BROUGHT IN. Upon arrival, please sign in at the front office and get a visitor's tag. This must be worn while on campus. All visitors will wait for their child’s class outside the office until their student's lunch time. At the end of lunch, all visitors will need to come back to the office to sign out. Visitors are not permitted to walk down to classrooms.
Lunch visits will end the Monday prior to Memorial Day in May. We look forward to opening this back up and thank you in advance for following the procedures.