Congratulations to our amazing Student Hawks of the Month! They are Emma D'Angelo (6th grade), Riley Baxter (7th grade) and Sarah Eubanks (8th grade).

Your hard work, positive attitude, and commitment to excellence are truly inspiring. You embody our vision of Hawks Excellence and live out our core values of Honesty, Ambition, Willingness, and Kindness every day. Together, we soar higher! #HawksExcellence #SoaringToSuccess #HawkPride

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• November 25-29- Holiday Break

Click the title above to view the Character Ed lesson for the upcoming week.

All basketball teams won this week!! Congrats to the teams and the coaches for an awesome start to the season. We face Doerre upon our return, and the B Team Tournament will be the following weekend!

Dear Parents,

The PTO would like to extend a big thank you to all the businesses and volunteers that gave to their time and resources to Glow Party. It was a fantastic event and the kids had tons of fun.

The PTO will be hosting a two day “Spirit Night” at Kendra Scott Dec 10 -11, all day in-store and online. If you have any holiday gift shopping to do here, please order on these dates and enter GIVEBACK-HWVQT or go in store and mention Hofius.

Thanks for your support!

Purchase a Yearbook - presale for $30

Purchase an 8th grade appreciation ad.

Contact the Hofius PTO: hofiuspto@gmail.com

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6th Grade Counselor

Anne Francis

afrancis@kleinisd.net

832-375-8800

7th Grade Counselor

Josie Jimenez

jjimenez1@kleinisd.net

832-375-8800

8th Grade Counselor

Tyshkiia Lampley

tlampley1@kleinisd.net

832-375-8800

Is your child too sick for school? If they have the following symptoms, please keep them home.

• A temperature of 100.0 degrees or higher.
• A child should not return to school until they have been fever-free without the use of fever reducing medication for 24 hours.
• Throwing up or having diarrhea.
• Eyes that are pink and have drainage or crust on the eyelashes.
• When coughing will not stop and prevents your child from participating or causes difficulty breathing.
• If there is a diagnosis or suspicion of a contagious illness such as COVID, Strep, Flu, Impetigo etc.

Still unsure? Talk to your school nurse about exclusion policies for these and other illnesses.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the Hofius clinic.

Nurse: Mrs. Epps

aepps1@kleinisd.net

832-375-8764

We are excited to announce a breakfast and cafe area for 6th graders by the maker space and library beginning Monday, August 26th. This 6th grade breakfast area will offer the same menu items as the cafeteria each morning. If you have a 6th grader who eats breakfast in the mornings, please have them report to the Library/Maker Space area to purchase their food and eat.

To address concerns about lunches, we want to reiterate the following:

Each zone is called first one day a week. This means that each zone gets a chance each week to get in line first before other zones are called in the cafeteria.

We encourage students to get into the shortest line when we call their zone so they can get their food quicker.

We do not allow cutting in lines or getting into several different lines, as this creates longer wait times for students to get their food.

1) Please do not park in the parking lot or in the drop-off line.

2) Please pull all the way down to the end of the drop-off line to drop off your student. This allows the line to keep moving.

3) Please be courteous to other drivers who are also trying to get into the parking lot and drop-off line.

Reminder: Doors open for students at 8:40 am.

Parents,

We’ve received multiple reports of cars using the athletic entrance and parking lot for student pickup. Please remember to use the designated car rider line that leads to the main entrance of Hofius when picking up your student. Using the athletic lot or parking near the athletic entrance disrupts the flow and prevents our school buses from entering and exiting safely.

Additionally, please avoid parking in the reserved spots designated for families who won the parking auction.

We appreciate everyone’s teamwork and cooperation in keeping things running smoothly.

Thank you,
Hofius Admin

Cell phones will not be allowed on campus at all during the school day. Phones are to be powered off and put in backpacks once students enter the building at 8:40 am and students will not be allowed to have them out until they leave the building after school. If you need to get a message to your student during the school day, you may call the school and we will deliver the message to your student.

We will be following the Klein ISD dress code as outlined in the Student Handbook.

We appreciate your support in ensuring that all students adhere to our dress code. Please ensure that students come to campus dressed appropriately. Shirts should be long enough to cover midriffs, and skirts and shorts should be an appropriate length—at minimum knuckle-length when arms are placed by their sides—and should remain at knuckle-length or longer throughout the day. Clothing should stay within dress code without needing adjustments after moving. Additionally, please remember that holes in pants should not expose skin above mid-thigh, and no undergarments should be exposed. Leggings or shorts may be worn underneath pants to cover exposed areas. Pajama pants and slippers are not permitted, and shirts with inappropriate language or references to alcohol or drugs are not allowed. We kindly ask that you talk with your students about selecting clothing that stays in dress code throughout the day. Thank you for your cooperation!

Reinforcement Ladder for Dress Code

1st-3rd- warning, change clothes, admin conference

4+- lunch detention, change clothes

Parents, please remind your students to bring their IDs every day!

Students must wear their ID badges around their neck all day, every day, and must have them to purchase food, check out library books, get on the bus, and more. Consequences will be given to students who continuously do not wear their IDs at school.

To ensure all students wear their student ID every day, we offer full/original replacements for $5 and temporary (paper format, valid for one week) replacements. To support students in developing the habit of bringing and wearing their ID, the 1st-3rd occurrences for not doing so are warnings. However, any 4th and subsequent occurrences will result in lunch detention. This is aligned with other expectations, including all students bringing their Chromebook to school charged each day. Replacement lanyards & Plastic sleeve replacement - $1 each.

Replacement ID card - $5 - this charge will include a lanyard and plastic sleeve *IF NEEDED*

Additionally, a $5 replacement ID fee will be added to students SchoolCash account after 3 temp tags have been issued.

Student IDs - please review the Student ID expectations with your student. We appreciate your help and support to ensure the safety of our students while they are in our care.

We are grateful to be able to partner with our families to ensure the safety of our students while they are in our care. Thank, you in advance for your support.

Parents may drop off lunch for their child ONLY. Sharing of outside food is not allowed. Parents please make sure that you are aware of when your students lunch period is in order for your student to be able to pick up their lunch from the front office, and have enough time to eat during the lunch period. UberEats DoorDash, or any other food delivery service is not allowed.

A Lunch 11:29 - 11:56

B Lunch 12:00 - 12:27

C Lunch 12:31 - 12:59

Check-In/ Check-Out

Anytime a student arrives late to school, they must sign in at the attendance office and receive a pass before going to class. If a student needs early dismissal, we ask that the parent notifies the attendance secretary no later than 2:00 pm. Student and parent must sign out at the attendance office prior to leaving school.

Please submit any transportation changes to the Grade Level AP Secretary by 2:00 pm.

Attendance Secretary Information

Ms. Rachel Twardowski

rtwardowski1@kleinisd.net

832-375-8811

Parents! Please remind your student of the expectations for Home Games. Students will not be allowed to enter if they are not following the expectations communicated. We appreciate your attention and support! Expectations are communicated daily during school announcements, in our newsletters, as well as posted at the entry of any home games.

In order to enter a game, students MUST go home and later return to be a spectator in a game. No students will be allowed to stay on campus to wait for a game to start. Additionally, to enter a game, students must remain in dress code, including wearing their own school-issued ID badge. No backpacks are allowed at the games. Students must sit within the student section within the bleachers, unless accompanied by an adult. No foul language will be used, and all students will follow the HAWK Core Values at all times. No re-entry is allowed, once students exit the game/ school, they will not be allowed to re-enter. Students may not attend due to excessive tardies (5 or more) and other violation of the student code of conduct. We appreciate your attention to this.

Students are required to use their ID badge for every cafeteria transaction. By using their student badge, our system will capture all the account’s activity, allowing parents to view the items purchased. It also will help with making the lunch line flow go a lot faster when students are scanning their IDs.

Intermediate Breakfast: $1.60

Intermediate Lunch: $2.75

Add money to your student's lunch account HERE

Check out the school menu HERE

Bus Riders

All bus riders will be dropped off in the bus parking lot with the opportunity to eat breakfast. Please do not use the bus parking lot to drop off or pick up students. Bus parking lot is a reserved area for our buses only.

Do you know what bus your student will ride? Check HERE for bus information.

Car Riders

To maximize student safety, student car rider drop off in the morning will take place in the front of the school. No cars will be allowed to drop off in any other areas, other than the coned area in the front of the building. Students will only be allowed to exit the vehicle next to the curb. The outside lane in the front of the building will be for drivers to pull out into the left hand lane to go around and exit. All students who are car riders will enter the building using the designated front doors beginning at 8:40 am. Students who are dropped off at school prior to 8:40 will be unsupervised as staff duty begins at 8:40 am.

Once students enter the building at 8:40 am, they may either eat breakfast in the cafeteria or go to their designated area and wait until the bell rings. No student will go to a classroom unless they have a tutorials pass. The designated areas are as follows: 6th graders in the small gym, 7th graders to the main gym and 8th graders to the cafeteria.

Safety remains our priority in Klein ISD. The state of Texas has passed a law that any student caught vaping or in possession of a vaping device at school could be sent to alternative school (DAEP). Parents please take note that the consequences for students have increased greatly. Please see the safety letter that was sent to families for more information.

Thank you for your partnership and for working with us to help every student achieve success and find their purpose.

ATTENDANCE UPDATE: Within five days of returning to school, a student who is absent because of a personal illness must bring a statement from a parent , doctor, or health clinic verifying the illness or condition that caused the student’s absence from school.

The academic success of EVERY student at Hofius Intermediate is extremely important to us. Daily school attendance and arriving to each class on time are critical for your student's success. We ask that you be diligent in monitoring your student for regular school attendance. Arriving to school late or leaving early may count as an absence for that class period. You can help in the following ways:

• Speak to your child about the importance of attendance and arriving to school on time everyday.
• Post the school calendar, and plan your vacations and appointments outside of school time.
• Regularly monitor your child's attendance through Klein ISD's Family Access (Skyward).
• Report absences to the school in a timely manner.
• Communicate with the campus regarding any attendance concern.
• Review with your child the Hofius Tardy Policy.

TARDIES

Our expectations is for our Hofius students to be in class on time and prepared and ready to learn! Students are tardy to class if they arrive to class after the tardy bell. Students are subject to disciplinary action for tardiness. If student arrives to class after 15 minutes, then the student is marked ABSENT and is subject to additional disciplinary action.

Disciplinary Consequences for Tardies (tardies reset every 3 weeks)

1st Tardy - Warning

2nd Tardy - Warning

3rd Tardy- Warning and parent phone call home.

4th Tardy - Before School Detention or 2 days lunch detention

5th Tardy- In School Suspension

Tardies will begin to count the week of August 19th.

"At Hofius Intermediate, we are dedicated to creating a positive and empowering learning community where students and staff continuously improve and grow towards excellence. We cultivate a culture of HONESTY, AMBITION, WILLINGNESS, KINDNESS, and SOARING towards excellence."

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Principal: Mr. Jason Anderson

Email: janderson3@kleinisd.net

Website: https://hofius.kleinisd.net/

Location: Hofius Intermediate School, West Rayford Road, Klein, TX, USA

Phone: 832-375-8800

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