Important Dates
Upcoming Events (dates subject to change, updates available from our office or PTO)
October is Bullying Prevention Month - HLES will host anti-bullying trainings in classes beginning the week of Oct 10th. Remind your children that if they See Something they should Say Something; find any trusted adult to report to so that together we can STOP Bullying.
- 10/6 Pink Out Day - students and staff are encouraged to wear Pink to show support for community members and loved ones battling cancer (we all wore gold ribbons on 9/30 to raise awareness around childhood cancers)
- 10/10 Student and Staff Holiday - No School (Office Closed)
- 10/11 Lifetouch Picture Day
- 10/17 Student Holiday / Staff Inservice - No School for Students (Office Open)
- 10/19 Unity Day - national bullying prevention day (wear orange)
- 10/20 5:30 HLES Open House - Ghostly Reading Night with crafts, treats, book giveaways!
- 10/22 Save the Date: Granite Shoals PD / HLES PTO trunk or treat event
- 10/27 Community-Wide Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at MFHS
Students can arrive at 7:15 a.m. (all students may choose a free breakfast until 7:45)
Dismissal begins at 3:15 p.m.
REMINDERS/UPDATES:
Our school office cannot deliver items to students that are dropped off from home. Please refrain from dropping off personal items left behind by your child (lunch box, homework, water bottle, etc) - we cannot interrupt learning to call classrooms and we do not have staff to make classroom deliveries. Students without a lunch box will be offered a free lunch from the cafeteria.
Only students for whom you are listed as Family 1 or Family 2 in Skyward will be permitted to have lunch with our visitors. You are encouraged to come eat with any personal children with whom you live or for whom you legally share custodial rights; visitors listed as only an emergency contact are not cleared to have lunch in our cafeteria at this time. Thank you for your cooperation as we work to focus daily on safety and learning during school hours.
See our HLES Parent Information Letter HERE
See MFISD parent resources including student handbooks and code of conduct HERE
From the desk of Mrs. Kennedy: Student Services Coordinator
Each day, our students begin their morning in the classroom with a Morning Meeting. This time is built into the school day schedule to allow the teachers to review essential skills to help student learning at school. This week's focus in morning meetings will be to use positive self talk, and we will reinforce that positive self talk is the best way to be KIND to yourself. You can help at home by practicing these important skills with your child:
Model positive self-talk. Kids and teens need to constantly hear positive self-talk to internationalize it. Say positive affirmations out loud on a regular basis, such as, “Today is a fresh start,” first thing in the morning or “I can do this,” when a challenges comes up.
Make positive self-talk a morning ritual. Have kids choose their favorite positive self-talk statements. This makes it individualized for them! List out out and have students read them to themselves every morning.
Use literature. Practice positive self-talk by stopping and thinking what a character might say to themselves throughout a story.
Use a positive self-talk journal. Make learning positive self-talk fun and engaging with a daily positive self-talk journal. This journal includes practice with positive affirmations, creating your own self-talk statements, explaining self-talk, and reframing negative thoughts.
We are Mustangs! Be Kind (even to your SELF). Be You. Belong.
Email Mrs. Kennedy: akennedy@mfisd.txed.net
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated nationally September 15 - October 15. Find fun and informative links HERE to bring this celebration to your home.
Our teachers are working on a fun project to share with our community, for a district-wide celebration on October 27th at the Marble Falls High School. We hope all of your learners will participate and that you will attend this exciting night.
Visit Us for Lunch
You are invited to have lunch with your child during their designated lunch period any day (your child only please). Please wait in the office until your child's lunch period begins, and leave from the office after you have enjoyed lunch.
Students may not share food - please help us to remind our kindhearted children to protect our friends by not sharing any food.
Photography/Video is strictly prohibited in the cafeteria - thank you for honoring the privacy of all students.
Please Volunteer for Parents on Patrol
https://www.marblefallsisd.org/Page/13110
Approved Volunteers are HIGHLY encouraged to pick one or more calendar sign ups throughout the school year to come support on campus: Sign Up Here
What will I do at HLES as a Parent on Patrol? Read More HERE!
Title I Three Way Compacts
See our Title I Three Way Compact HERE
Opportunities to provide feedback on our shared agreements will be provided throughout the year - Open House, Student Led conferences in the fall and the spring, PTO meetings, and in CEIC