Banks Elementary School

Email Interim Principal, Mr. Rosenberg

Email office

School Website

School Mascot: Bobcat
School Colors: blue and white

main phone number 520-908-5700

fax number 520-908-5701

attendance 520-908-5702

cafeteria 520-908-5723

health office 520-908-5717

transportation and bus routes 520-225-6262

office hours 8:00-4:00

playground supervision 8:15-9:00

school hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:05-3:25

school hours Wednesday 9:05-2:25 early dismissal

ALL absences must be reported to 520-908-5702, emailed or submitted on ParentVue.

Breakfast and lunch are FREE to all TUSD enrolled students for 2024-2025. Breakfast is served from 8:30-9:00. Lunch is served from 11:20-1:30. No food may be removed from the cafeteria.

Students may also bring their own healthy choices from home. We CANNOT warm up students' home lunches.

school calendar

district calendar

Cell phones may be brought to school, but kept in the student's backpack at all times per Governing Board Policy JICJ-R. All other personal electronics and games must be left at home.

See district website for complete Code of Conduct guide.

Student Communication:

At 9:15 a.m. school-wide announcements are made via inter-com. These include the Pledge of Allegiance, Banks School Pledge, lunch choices and any calendar events.

Call 520-908-5700 if you need to relay a message to your child. All calls must be received no later than 3:00 (2:00 on Wednesdays).

Parent Communication:

School news and information will be posted on the school website, facebook, Class Do-Jo, and sent home via ParentLink emails and phone calls.

Every Friday morning, we celebrate together as Bobcats during Community Time. We honor birthdays, ROAR Students and sometimes host special guests. This gathering is invaluable to bond us as a community. Please feel free to join us any Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the cafeteria.

See Code of Conduct Guide.

• Students will clean up work areas, gather homework, backpacks
• Students will walk to parent pick-up area outside and wait for staff to hand them off to parent
• Students will follow safety rules and never run between cars to get to their parents’ vehicle
• Students will walk with their teachers to the bus bay if they ride the bus.
• Students will stay safe on the bus: sit at all times, keep their hands and feet to themselves, use appropriate voices and follow the bus driver’s directions

Students may never change bus stops without prior approval. If a student needs to leave before dismissal a parent/guardian must sign out child in the office. Parents are asked to call ahead at 520-908-5700, so we can have student ready and waiting in the office. Students will not be dismissed during the last 25 minutes of school. (Please limit taking students out of school early. Set up appointments for before or after school or Wednesday afternoons. Every minute in the classroom is important.)

Uniforms are not required at Banks Elementary School. Student attire and grooming must permit the student to participate in learning without posing a risk to the health or safety of any student or school district personnel.

Clothing promoting tobacco, alcohol, inappropriate language or pictures is not permitted. Students must wear clothing including both a shirt with pants or skirt, or the equivalent (for example dresses, leggings, or shorts) and shoes. Hats and other head coverings are not permitted in school building. Hats and sunglasses may be worn while outside for protection from the sun. Dark glasses may not be worn inside buildings unless a documented health problem exists. Clothing must cover the chest, and must cover buttocks while standing and sitting. Clothing must cover undergarments. Clothing must not be see-through. “Spaghetti” straps are not allowed. Clothing must be suitable for all scheduled classroom activities, including physical education.

Several field trips are offered across the grades through-out the year. There is a participation fee for each trip (cost depends on the event). Each student will require a parent-signed permission slip. If a child chooses not to participate on a field trip, there will be alternate school work provided for them.

Parents are always welcome on field trips. All volunteers must be approved.

All entrances and exits are kept closed and locked at all times. The cafeteria-playground entrance is kept unlocked during outdoor supervised play (before school & during lunch). All exterior doors remain closed at all times. Ring front doorbell for service / admittance.

All visitors must sign-in at the office.

We offer four extra-curricular sports:

Q1 - Cross Country grades K-5

Q2 - Basketball grades 3-5

Q3 - Track and Field grades 3-5

Q4 - Kickball grades 3-5

There is a $3.00 participation fee per sport. Student must have a current sports physical on file. Sign-up information will be sent out as it becomes available. Sports dates subject to change.

• Birthdays are celebrated every Friday at Community Time.
• R.O.A.R. (Respect of All Rules) Students of the Week are honored every week at Community Time.
• Student of the Month is earned monthly and recognized every other month at a morning or afternoon assembly.
• Quarterly Awards are earned for character traits and given out at the end of each quarter.

If a student is tardy (arrives at school after 9:15) the parent / guardian must walk student into school and sign them in at the office.

Private Vehicle: Please do not park cars in front of the school by the flagpole. That area is only designated for BUS pick up and drop off only. Students transported by private vehicle are to be dropped off at the first horseshoe driveway (east end of school) by the playground gate from 8:15-9:05. Students must proceed to the cafeteria if eating breakfast. Students are not allowed in hallways or classrooms before school. All students must remain in supervised areas on the school playground or cafeteria. Students are expected to: Stay outside on the playground or in the cafeteria; Line up outside in their designated areas when the first bell rings; Use the cafeteria bathrooms when in the cafeteria or on the playground; Enter through the cafeteria if they need to see the nurse or office staff before school; Ask an adult when they need assistance or to report danger or violence.

School Bus: Students qualify for bus transportation if the family lives at least 1.5 miles away from school and are located within our attendance boundaries. Any request for TUSD bus stop changes must be approved by TUSD Transportation. Students must ride the bus they are assigned to. Student IDs will be required to ride the bus to/from school. Students must use safe behaviors on the school bus. Bused students are unloaded outside the cafeteria where they proceed to the breakfast line or to the playground. Students who miss the bus need to return home to inform parents and call the school office or transportation at 520-225-6262.

Walking/Biking: Walkers and bicyclists enter at the cafeteria to either eat breakfast or to go outside to the playground. Students/parents must always use the crosswalks when walking to school or in the parking lot.

ALL visitors must sign-in at the front office.

All volunteers must submit a volunteer form on-line. All volunteers must sign-in at the office and have prior authorization from the principal and / or teacher to volunteer in the classrooms.

Parents are welcome to join us for Community Time every Friday at 9:30.