Negley Navigator News

Email: melody.crowther@hayscisd.net
Website: https://www.hayscisd.net/Domain/17
Location: 5940 McNaughton, Kyle, TX, United States
Phone: (512) 268-8501
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NegleyElementarySchool/

The mission at Negley Elementary is for students, teachers, and parents to work together to build a foundation of respectful leaders, lifelong learners, and problem solvers.

Ahoy Parents!

Boosterthon is in full swing! This fundraiser helps us with all the "extras" - field trips, awesome HOUSE parties, and for teachers to buy things for their classrooms for students to use. Every team at Negley gets a big chunk of the money from the fundriaser to do these things. Thank you so much for participating and helping us out!

FALL PICTURE DAY IS THIS THURSDAY!

Thank you for sharing your sweet little ones with us!

Mrs. Crowther

96.55%. Thank you for getting your child to school and on time!

The weekend is HERE! I hope you enjoy some much-deserved relaxation this weekend.

Thank you for every share and donation you all have contributed to our fundraiser. We appreciate everyone’s support as we raise funds for Field Trips, Art Supplies, Student and Staff Support. If you haven’t signed up your student on mybooster.com, it’s easy to do this weekend.

Then, consider sharing with extended family and friends. And if you are able to, consider making a donation as well. Every share and donation adds up to make a BIG difference for our school.

If your family does get a donation this weekend, you’ll be part of the Weekend Challenge! Any student that gets $3 per minute or a total of $90 in NEW donations logged on mybooster.com will receive the MYSTERY GOLDEN KEYCHAIN!

Thank you for supporting our school. Have a great weekend!

Join us for our First General PTA of the school year!

When: Wednesday September 25, 2024

Time: 6:00pm. (time change!)

Where: NES Library

🧁 Want it shout "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Half Birthday" to your kiddo on the brand new marquee? Birthday marquee sign is on sale NOW on the PTA website.

https://www.negleyelementarypta.com/store.html

We need LOTS more Guardians of the Galaxy!

If you are interested in being a Guardian the Galaxy (formerly known as room parent) let your child's teacher know or email us at negleypta@gmail.com

Mabel's Labels Fundraiser

Help us combat the Lost and Found! Check out the PTA fundraiser - Mabel's Labels 🏷️ let's get those water bottles and sweatshirts labeled!

▪️Add Negley as the school and the PTA will receive 20% of the proceeds.

https://mabelslabels.com

Join the Negley PTA today!

https://www.negleyelementarypta.com/join-pta.html

https://www.negleyelementarypta.com

Hello Awesome Navigator Families,

¡Bienvenidos! This month, we’re celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15) by highlighting the rich culture, history, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino communities. In the library, we’ve curated a special collection of books, activities, and resources to explore and enjoy!

Featured Books:

Dreamers, by Yuyi Morales

A beautifully illustrated picture book about the immigrant experience and the power of dreams and storytelling.

Alma and How She Got Her Name, by Juana Martinez-Neal

A heartwarming story about a young girl learning about her family history and the origins of her name.

Mi Papi Tiene Una Moto / My Papi Has a Motorcycle, by Isabel Quintero

When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her.

Fun in the library:

Some of our youngest readers will learn to craft Mexican Papel Picado, a traditional Mexican paper art to decorate our library in celebration of this month.

Did You Know?

Pura Belpré was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City! Her legacy as a storyteller and advocate for bilingual literature continues to inspire librarians everywhere. The Pura Belpré Award is a recognition presented to a Latino or Latina author and illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural experience in a work of literature for children or youth.

Feliz Lectura/Happy Reading,

Amy Horn

Negley Library Media Specialist

Library Website - Please visit for reading incentive programs sheets for all grade levels, online audio, and eBooks, library catalog, etc.

Library Revtrak - Please visit to buy Birthday Book Club books or to pay for lost or damaged books

Hello from the Art Room!

Yearbook Cover Contest Due Sept 27th!!

Use this guide to help you be successful!

https://tinyurl.com/yc78saf9

You should have received an email invitation to join your child's Artsonia Portfolio!

Since I, Ms Kromer, hold onto their Art until the end of year, this is a great way to see the pieces your child is making through the year.

Guardians get to choose how private or shared their child's artwork is. All photographs are ALWAYS private!

If your child doesn't love their photograph they can always get a retake their next visit to Art!

Negley Elementary School Artists from Ms Kayla Kromer 2023-2024 Art Classes are providing student artworks to brighten the HaysCISD Performing Art Center (PAC) to start the school year! The Negley Specials examples are prints of include some of their award winning entries from TAEA Texas Art Education Association TEAM art contest last year from grades K - 5! See the Art on display until Sept 23rd!

Hello Negley Families,

Negley is so excited because Sonic Spirit Night is HERE!

We will be at Sonic on Tuesday, September 17th from 4-8pm. Sonic will be donating 40% of profits from all in-person orders made during that time, to Negley. We will have teachers from different grade levels there saying hello to everyone, AND we will have a tater tot eating contest between some teachers and students that we will announce on Monday. This is going to be a great night, and we hope to see you there!!!

See the flyer below for more information. They will not accept online orders towards our fundraiser, and you will need to show this digital flyer or the printed flyer (coming home Tuesday) to your car hop for us to receive credit.

Hello Navigator Parents!

Our yearly state mandated Hearing and Vision screens for your students are coming up soon! October 2nd and 3rd the Hays Screening Team will be on campus to perform a quick hearing and vision exam for those students in PreK, K, 1, 3 and 5. If your student wears glasses please make sure they have them on those days. Thank you!

Allergy Alert Reminder:

Peanut butter sandwiches are allowed for student lunches in the cafeteria regardless of any classroom allergies. We just ask that peanut/nut products not be sent for snacks in the classroom

Jill Wenzel, MSN, RN

School Nurse, Negley Elementary

Phone: 512.268.8501

Fax: 512.268.7823

Email: jill.wenzel@hayscisd.net

Parents/grandparents that want to come in and help teachers/volunteer in the classroom/workroom, MUST go to the Hays website to have a background check run and become a registered VIP Volunteer. You will also need this if you want to chaperone a field trip in the future.

Here’s the link!

https://hays.ezcommunicator.net/edu/hays/ezcomm/VolunteerRegistration.aspx?app=0

Please check the calendar often as it will be updated on a weekly basis.

SEPTEMBER:

17: Negley Sonic Night 4:00 - 8:00 pm

19: FALL SCHOOL PICTURES

20: Boosterthon Glo Run in the Negley gym: Wear your House Shirt for GRADE LEVEL Huddles!

23: No School For Students - Teacher work day

27: Wear your HOUSE shirt for our HOUSE CELEBRATION Assembly!

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OCTOBER:

2: Vision and Hearing Screening

3: Vision and Hearing Screening

4: CLASS HUDDLE - Wear your HOUSE Shirt!

10: End of the first 9 weeks grading period

11: STUDENT HOLIDAY - Staff workday

14: STUDENT AND STAFF HOLIDAY

17: Report cards sent out

17: 9 weeks House winner celebration

18: GRADE LEVEL HUDDLE - Wear your house shirt!

25: HOUSE CELEBRATION ASSEMBLY - Wear your house shirt

31: StoryBook Character Dress Up Day

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NOVEMBER:

1: Student Holiday/Staff Exchange Day

4: Student Holiday/Staff Work Day

5: Student Holiday/Staff Work Day

7: STREAM NIGHT

18: Thanksgiving Lunch

25-29: Thanksgiving Holiday - NO SCHOOL

We will let you know if your child needs a new badge.

https://hayscisd.revtrak.net/campuses-and-instruction/es/negley-elementary/#/v/NES-Student-Badge-Replacement-1817

$5.00 to replace a House Lanyard or Bus Badge

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gUqRdQDe4X_uVwCeck7MWrt-ke_TAemWT4txgsxQg-g/edit?usp=sharing

Parents must purchase a new one for $5.00. Preferably on Revtrak on the Negley website, or $5.00 cash. This is for House Lanyard Badges AND Bus SmartTags. Teachers will be contacting you if your child needs a new badge.

Here is the link if needed:

https://hayscisd.revtrak.net/campuses-and-instruction/es/negley-elementary/#/v/NES-Student-Badge-Replacement-1817

If you arrive after 3:20, please come to the front office to pick up your child.

Please remember that ANYTIME you come to school to join your child (other than just dropping off your child at the beginning of the day) you MUST check in at the front office and get your Raptor sticker. To receive a sticker, you must present a photo ID regardless if this is your first time or thousandth time to check in to the school. This is for student safety and for us to know who is on our campus at all times. Thank you for being nice to the front office staff as they enforce this safety measure.

This does not apply to evening activities - just the school day.

https://www.hayscisd.net/Page/16541

Click here for the student dress code in English and Spanish.

From our Student Services Director, Brian Dawson:

We are seeing students bring their toy weapons to school. Specifically, toy guns and lasers. They have not used them as a threat toward anyone. However, these items can cause fear with the current time we are living in.

A replica of a weapon, such as a toy gun, is not a weapon. However, a student can receive both campus consequences for bringing the item(s) to campus, on a bus, or a school-sponsored event. If the item is thought to be or represented as a real weapon, a student could go to our District Alternative Education Program.

In our student code of conduct, it states:

Possession of Prohibited Items

Students shall not possess or use:

• Fireworks of any kind, smoke or stink bombs, or any other pyrotechnic device;
• A razor, box cutter, chain, or any other object used in a way that threatens or inflicts bodily injury to another person;
• A “look-alike” weapon that is intended to be used as a weapon or could reasonably be perceived as a weapon;
• An air gun or BB gun;
• Ammunition;
• A hand instrument designed to cut or stab another by being thrown;
• A firearm silencer or suppressor;
• A location-restricted knife;
• A club;
• A firearm;
• A firearm silencer or suppressor;
• A stun gun;
• Knuckles;
• A pocket knife or any other small knife;
• Mace or pepper spray;
• Pornographic material;
• Tobacco products, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and any component, part, or accessory for an e-cigarette device (HB 114 requires mandatory placement in a DAEP for any offenses related to e-cigarettes);
• Matches or a lighter;
• A laser pointer, unless it is for an approved use; or
• Any articles not generally considered to be weapons, including school supplies, when the principal or designee determines that a danger exists.

****NEW THIS YEAR!****

· Lost Student ID Badges must be replaced as soon as possible. The cost is $5.00 through Revtrak on the Negley website.

· No parent escort of students to their classrooms will occur. Visitors coming in for lunch or special events must sign in at the front desk with proper ID to receive their visitor sticker.

Bell Schedule:

• Doors open at 7:00 am.
• Breakfast is served until 7:25.
• School starts and the tardy bell rings at 7:30. The car rider line doors will close when the bell rings at 7:30 - You will need to drop your child off at the front of the school if you arrive after that.
• From 7:00 – 7:15 students may go to the cafeteria for breakfast or for Shipyard
• Students may walk to class starting at 7:15.

Attendance:

· Attendance is taken at 10:00 am each morning. If your student is not in the school at this time, they will be counted absent for the day.

· Anytime your student is absent, please send an email/doctor’s note to the attendance clerk, Deborah Wilson, at nes.attendance@hayscisd.net. The note should include student’s name, student id#, date(s) of absence and reason for absence. Please note that we need an excuse anytime and for any reason your student is absent.

· If your student is absent due to fever, they must be fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medication to be cleared to return to school.

· Doctor’s appointments are inevitable, but we do ask that doctor’s notes be provided for any absence resulting from one. **If your student is present on campus at any point during a school day, AND a doctor’s note is provided, the absence will be rescinded.

· Absences cannot be future coded. Anytime your student is absent, you will receive the automated attendance message (even if an email was sent before attendance was taken.) The attendance clerk will re-code absences after attendance is taken.

Lunch:

• Visitors may have lunch with students in the cafeteria, and MUST be on the student’s approved visitor list. You must stop at the front office with proper ID and receive your visitor sticker first. Report to the cafeteria to meet your child - only your child may sit with you – then check out with the front office when lunch has concluded. Classroom hallways are NOT OPEN to visitors during instructional time 7:30 – 2:55.
• The front office does not deliver. Your student will be called down from class to get any lunches, water bottles or forgotten items. Please LABEL all items with student’s name and teacher.
• We will NOT accept food from meal delivery services! Visitors may still bring restaurant food for their students.

Dismissal:

· School gets out at 3:00 pm.

· Every family must choose ONE form of dismissal: Walker, Independent Walker, Car Rider, Bus, or After-School Care. If there are any variations to your student’s dismissal, these need to be on a SET SCHEDULE for the teacher to follow.

• Transportation changes are a LAST RESORT and will only be accepted for family emergencies/unforeseen circumstances. These are to be requested through Kaci in the front office by 2:00. 512-268-8501 or nes.attendance@hayscisd.net. Teacher’s name must be included.
• The LATEST a student can be picked up early before dismissal is 2:15 pm. PLEASE PLAN DOCTOR APPOINTMENTS ACCORDINGLY. It is your responsibility to know the student’s teacher when picking them up.
• Students MUST be picked up by 3:15 at the latest. The Front Office closes at 3:30.

Birthdays:

• Please contact your student’s teacher prior to bringing treats – they will give you classroom allergy info and class count.
• Parents cannot attend birthday celebrations in the classroom. Birthday treats will be handed out to students during the last 15 minutes of the day. Hays CISD recommends individually wrapped items (ex. Little Debbie treats). Homemade items will not be accepted. Please do not bring drinks! Balloons may NOT be taken into the school beyond the reception area.
• Parents are not allowed to bring food for other children for lunch – no “birthday pizza”, etc. for the class. This is strictly prohibited due to federal guidelines.

Cell Phone Policy:

Student use guidelines during the school day (7:00 AM-3:00 PM)

• Cell phones and Apple-type watch devices must be out of sight, on airplane mode, and in your child's backpack.
• Students will not have their cell phones out during class, passing periods, recess, or in the restroom.
• Students will not be allowed to call their parent on their phone/Apple watch during the school day. Students can use classroom telephones at the teacher’s discretion. If parents need to reach their child, they can leave a message at the front desk if it's urgent.

NEGLEY AFTER-SCHOOL OPTIONS

YMCA/Extend-a-Care – On site: 512-236-9622, eacy@austinymca.org

Rocking Horse Academy: 512-405-3700

Stepping Stone Kyle: 512-268-0123

Stepping Stone Plum Creek: 512-262-7409

Kyle Bright Beginnings: 512-312-4341