Barry Bulletin
Barry Elementary February 23, 2024 Family Newsletter
Be a Leader. Be You. Be Barry.
This week at Barry...
How often do we get this kind of weather in February!? The students have thoroughly enjoyed their time outside this week. Please take some time this weekend to get some fresh air and take advantage of the warmer temps! Have a wonderful weekend!
5th Grade Transition Field Trip
Platte Purchase Middle School is excited to welcome our upcoming 6th graders on March 12th during our afternoon Step Up Celebration.
Students will tour our beautiful building, meet their teachers, participate in activities to introduce them to Middle School processes, learn about 6th grade course selection, and be introduced to all that it means to be a Platte Purchase Pirate!
After the event, students will receive a Course Request Sheet. Please complete this with your child, sign, and return to their 5th grade teacher before Spring Break. After Spring Break, representatives from PPMS will travel to Barry/Pathfinder to assist with entering course selections into Powerschool.
More information to come, but for now, If you have any questions please contact your child’s teacher or Mrs. Griffin, School Counselor at Platte Purchase Middle School. Griffina@plattteco.k12.mo.us
Leftover Valentine Cards 💌
Any sporadic leftover Valentine's you may have at home, please send them in and we will save them for next year! Please send them to the front office or drop them off there. Thank you!
📚Read Across America
Next week is Read Across America Week! This week celebrates books that inspire our children to dream big, expand the limits of their understanding, and explore diverse perspectives and cultures through literature. We are also approaching the halfway mark of our Million Minute Challenge. We want to continue crushing our goals and getting all students excited about reading. What better way to do that than a spirit week? As always, participation is completely optional.
📆 Dates to Remember:
February 29: PTA Skate night @ River Roll 6-8pm (moved from the 22nd)
March 12: 5th Grade Transition Field Trip
March 21: Crazy Sock Day
March 25-29: SPRING BREAK
Make Up Day Plans
With our inclement weather days in January, and no school on February 14 to celebrate the Chiefs Super Bowl parade, our make up day plans to date are as follows:
- January 9 Inclement Weather Day - Will be made up on Thursday, May 23
- January 10 Inclement Weather Day - Will be made up on Friday, May 24
- January 16, 19, and 23 Virtual Learning Days - Will not need to be made up
- February 14 No School Day - Because our attendance hours exceed the necessary hours set forth by the state, the Board has approved not making this day up
🌟FROM THE COUNSELOR🌟
Special School Counselor Presentation 5th Grade Only
In March, your child’s school counselor will lead all 5th grade classes through a module outlining student stress, coping strategies, and our district approach to depression awareness and suicide prevention: Acknowledge, Care, Tell. Letters will be sent home with each 5th grade student on Monday, February, 26th. A copy of the letter can be viewed here (Parent Letter). All 5th graders will participate unless a parent lets the homeroom teacher, or school counselor, know that they do not want their student participating by Friday, March 6th. If you have any questions please contact your student's school counselor
Barry Elementary Million Minute Challenge
We are very excited to announce a new reading challenge that will run from February 12 - March 13. It is called the Barry Elementary Million Minute Challenge. The goal is for the school to read a combined total of one million minutes in one month (31 days). This is a challenge for students as well as any staff that would like to participate.
We have printed personal trackers for all students and will send out a spreadsheet to log all those minutes per student or staff member. Minutes can be earned by reading to someone (teacher reading to class) or listening to someone read (audiobooks, online read alouds, etc) or reading to yourself. Students can use listening to read alouds in class, reading during literacy stations, practicing reading stamina, etc. They can also count any reading at home such as reading to a sibling or listening to a book read by someone.
Every time a student reads 100 minutes, you can have the student take their tracker with them to their library time and Miss Begg will get their name on a special 100-minute reader poster for the cafeteria. We'd love to wallpaper the whole cafeteria with 100-minute reader posters!
All honors will be announced at the LEAD day assembly in March.
We will be sending out more information, printouts, and posters starting the first week of February. We are very excited to get this rolling!
No Tax Rate Increase Prop C Waiver and Levy Transfer Informational Meetings
This question will be placed on the April 2, 2024 ballot. Pending voter approval, this proposal will allow the District to allocate resources to better attract and retain quality staff, and enhance safety and security. For more information, click here, or attend an Informational Meeting:
- Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 6pm, Platte Purchase Middle School
- Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 6pm, Platte County High School
🏴☠️ Pirates ROCK Character Trait: SELF CONTROL
Pirates ROCK Character Trait: SELF CONTROL (For February)
Pirates R.O.C.K. (Raising Outstanding Character Kids) is a program designed to surround our families with examples of strong character traits through school experiences, at home, and reinforced in their community. Each month our community focuses on a specific character trait and students are recognized for exhibiting these traits: Self Confidence, Pride, Responsibility, Citizenship, Compassion, Individuality, Self Control, Integrity, Perseverance, Respect, Honesty, and Cooperation.
February's #PiratesROCK trait is SELF CONTROL: displaying your emotions & behaviors in a positive way.
Leader in Me Connections to SELF CONTROL:
- Habit 1: Be Proactive - You are in charge of you.
- Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind - Know what you want before you do it.
- Habit 3: Put First Things First - Do the important things first.
- Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood - Listen first, then talk.
- Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw - Take care of yourself.
CharacterStrong Connections to SELF CONTROL:
- Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making, Patience, Respect, Forgiveness
The Heart Hero Board outside the gym needs some love!
- You and your student can share one individual or family photo of you all getting active!
- Send a copy of the photo to school with your student or email it to Coach Mosh at masciovj@platteco.k12.mo.us
- We are excited to see your health adventures!
Do you have any bandanas you'd like to get rid of?
Barry Physical Education will take them off your hands to use as blindfolds in our Teamwork units!
Just send the items with your student(s) to school and have them drop them off at the gym.
See any other items P.E. or recess might use? Feel free to email Coach Mosh at masciovj@platteco.k12.mo.us
🤝New Barry PTA!
✔ Join the PTA!
Community Events
Mobile Food Distribution
The purpose of the event is to provide fresh foods to those in need in our community.
Anyone is welcome to get food and no proof of need is required. You can also pick up food for other people.
Platte County Health Department | 7925 NW 110th Street | Kansas City, MO
Directions to enter the food distribution. Follow 112th to N. Airworld Dr. Then head south on N. Airworld Dr. until reaching NW 110th. Head west on 110th to find the Platte County Health Department and enter the lanes for the food distribution.
🔗Important Links
Barry News Network
Barry'd Treasures
Please visit our Barry School Store website!
If you have any questions, want to volunteer or make a donation, please contact Blaire Zessin or Teddi Weber.
🍕Lunch Visitor Sign Up & Menus
Lunch Sign Ups and Menus
Here is the link to Nutrislice for the menus. You can also access it on the district website under Food Service. If you click the link, then choose Barry and then bookmark it, it should take you to Barry menus each time. If there are changes to the menu for the week, they will be updated here first.
👩⚕️From the Nurse
Given the colder climate and the proximity of outerwear, there have been isolated instances of head lice reported within the school community. For more information on prevention or treatment- contact Nurse Angela at 816-436-9623 or bacha@platteco.k12.mo.us
Lost and Found
🛑Safe Schools
Bullying and Safety Concerns: Online Reporting System
Safety is one of our district’s top priorities, and to help safeguard our school community, our District uses Safe Schools Alert, a tip reporting service by Vector Solutions, that allows students, staff, and parents to submit safety concerns to our administration.
You and your child can easily report tips on bullying, harassment, or any safety issue you're concerned about through this online reporting system. On the homepage of the District website (www.plattecountyschooldistrict.com) and on each school building's homepage there is a Safe Schools quicklink which links to the reporting tool. Every tip Vector Solutions receives about our District is immediately logged in the system and our administration is notified so that they can investigate and take appropriate action. Tips may also be submitted anonymously if you prefer. Together, we can make our District a safer place to learn.
❄️WINTER WEATHER PLANS
In the event of a school cancellation or delay, we will implement one of the following plans:
- Plan A (No School and No Remote Learning) - PCR-3 will implement traditional inclement weather days (Plan A or Plan B), until we reach a threshold that would push the school year past Memorial Day.
- Plan B (No School, No Y-Club, No Remote Learning) - PCR-3 will implement traditional inclement weather days (Plan A or Plan B), until we reach a threshold that would push the school year past Memorial Day.
- Plan C (Two-Hour Delayed Start) - Here is Barry's 2 hour late start schedule. (District Information)
- Plan D (Inclement Weather Virtual Learning Day/AMI Day) - Here is the District Information for this plan. If we were to utilize Plan D and have a Remote Learning/Alternative Methods of Instruction (AMI Day), students will take home computers and/or materials needed for this day. You will be receiving specific information from the classroom teacher with details if we utilize Plan D.
Please complete the following OPT out form if your student does NOT need a Chromebook or charger for potential Alternative Methods of Instruction Days (AMI). If you do not complete this, we will be sending home a Chromebook and charger if an AMI day is a possibility. These will need to be returned the following school day.
Inclement Weather Planning
Please visit the Winter Weather Information page on the Parents Tab of the District website for information on recess and clothing considerations (there will be no outdoor recess when the wind chill is at 20 degrees or below), cancellations, two-hour delayed starts, how the District will notify families, and Y-Club info.
In the event of school cancellation or delayed start, PCR-3 will get that information out as early as possible through automated phone calls and text messages, the District website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, the District Hotline (816-858-2752), and local media.
PCR-3 will implement traditional inclement weather days (no school and no virtual learning), until we reach a threshold that would push the school year past Memorial Day. We will make those days up per our academic calendar, and if we go past the planned make up days for inclement weather, we will implement our Inclement Weather Virtual Learning Days.
Parents: To opt in to receive texts, please text the word "YES" to 67587.
Did you know...
We love showing off our Barry Pirates! If your child is on the NO PHOTO list we won't be able to include them in our newsletters or social media posts. If you are, or think you may be on the list and no longer want to be please call the office and we will gladly fix that for you!
Keep us updated!
New phone number? Change your email? Please call the office so we can update your information!
Calendar and Contact
🕐 School Hours of Operation
Regular school day office hours run from 8:15am - 4:30pm.
- Students can enter the building- 8:30 a.m.
- Official start of school- 8:50 a.m.
- Dismissal- Car Riders and Y-Club-3:35 p.m.
- Dismissal-Bus Riders- 3:50 p.m.
Barry Elementary School
Assistant Principal: Dr. Mindy Wheeler
Website: https://barry.plattecountyschooldistrict.com/
Location: 2001 Northwest 87th Terrace, Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone: 816-436-9623
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barryelementary/
Twitter: @barry_elem_pcr3