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/
Twitter: @NESNavigator1

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.

Registration for the 2024-2025 school year is now open!

EVERY STUDENT MUST REGISTER EACH YEAR!

Registered students are:

• Assigned teachers
• Given district devices
• Given google/internet access at school
• Allowed nurse access
• Contacts confirmed/added/deleted
• Allowed to be in yearbook

To insure we have enough teachers/we don’t have too many students in a classroom, we NEED you to register ASAP, so we can give the most accurate numbers to the District.

To register, go to: https://www.hayscisd.net/REGISTRATION

If you have forgotten your parent portal username/password, please email: NES.Attendance@hayscisd.net

If you will NOT be returning to Negley, please let your teacher know ASAP.

Registration questions can be emailed to Aubrey Cline: Aubrey.Cline@hayscisd.net

Ahoy Parents!

Well- we did it! We made it through another awesome school year! I'm so proud of the hard work our students and staff did this year. We absolutely had LOTS of learning happening. We are already planning for next year!

To our Cullen Families - Thank you for being awesome Navigators! Our lives have been changed because you have been a part of our family. And just because you are joining a new family, please remember that you will ALWAYS be a part of the NAVIGATOR family! We will be watching your successes as you become a school family of your own.

To our Returning Navigators - PLEASE, PLEASE register your child for school next year! I need the most accurate numbers possible to work on having enough teachers for our students. Our enrollment will be less next year, with a little breathing room, but we will still be a very large school! We are a "destination campus" after all! 😀

Take care and we will see you in August!

Have a fantastic, restful, summer!

Mrs. Crowther

Hello Awesome Navigator Families,

We still have close to 100 books out! Please continue to either pay for lost books over the summer of it you locate a lost book please bring it up to the school over the summer Monday - Friday. There will be instructions posted on how to contact the school secretary left on the front desk or front door. She will take those found books and get them to us. It is important for your child to have a clear library account in the fall so they can continue to check out great books next school year. Here is the link to pay for a missing book.

Also, the library is wanting to build a raised reading platform in the shape of the bow of a boat for our students to enjoy in the library. If you know of anyone with any carpentry skills who may be able to help us with this, please let us know! We have the money to pay for both the supplies and for someone's time and efforts to build this project. Please email me at Jennifer.Marcionetti@hayscisd.net if you have any leads.

Have a happy reading weekend everyone! -Mrs. Marcionetti

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

We have 12 yearbook copies still available. Email Rachel.ham@hayscisd.net in order to get a payment link. The books cost $45 – limit 1 per family at this time. Delivery will be sometime in July, and I will let you know pickup details when I have them. *If you have already received a payment link, it is important to pay quickly or I will need to move on to the next person on the list.

The yearbook company has stated undeniable that there will be no more yearbooks to be ordered for this year.

✏️🖍️✂️📓 School Supply Fundraiser has begun! FOR 2024-2025 NEGLEY STUDENTS - ENDS JUNE 9!

https://schooltoolbox.com/school-supplies/school/list-boxes/?schoolId=94036

CULLEN PTA NEWS

To keep up with the latest on Cullen PTA:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558667063739&mibextid=LQQJ4d

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

AUGUST

8: MEET YOUR TEACHER EVENT - PK, 1,2,3,4,5 (no kindergarten this evening)

9: MEET YOUR TEACHER EVENT - KINDERGARTEN ONLY - Info will be forthcoming in August!

13: First Day of School!!

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 3:15, 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.

Hays CISD Dress Code Clarification

Upon further discussion, we have decided to send out clarification regarding our district’s dress code expectations for the 2023-2024 school year. Below you will find our dress code expectations:

1. All pants/shorts/skirts/skorts should be worn at the waist to avoid “sagging/bagging.”
2. Tight fitting pants, such as (tights, spandex, bicycle pants, leggings) should be worn with a shirt that covers the stomach.
3. Fashionable pants featuring minimal holes and frays can be worn if it does not reveal the undergarment or skin above mid-thigh.
4. Shorts, skirts and/or skorts are appropriate to wear if they do not reveal the buttocks area.
5. Shirts should not be see-through or transparent, reveal excessive cleavage, or show the stomach/back area.
6. Hats may be worn outside the building to prevent facial sun exposure. Wearing a hat inside the building may be considered based on individual circumstances that may include medical and/or other factors. Documentation will be required to support exceptions.
7. Sweatshirts and/or shirts with hoodies may be worn if the hoodie is not worn over the head inside the building.
8. SmartTags/Student IDs are part of the dress code. Students are expected to wear their ID every day around their neck.

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 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 Shipyard in the gym or to the cafeteria for breakfast.
• 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 can 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 2:55 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-2:55 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