9/2-Holiday for All

9/3-PTO Meeting @3pm-Conference Room

9/5-College Day-Wear your favorite college team and/or colors

9/10-PM1 Reading Test (K-2nd)

9/11-Patriots Day-Wear red, white and blue

9/11-PM1 Math Test (K-2nd)

9/11-SAC Meeting @3pm-Conference Room

9/16-9/20-Bookfair

9/19-Parent Information Night

9/20-Parent Lunch Resumes

All students will take progress monitoring assessments 3 times a year. Fall, Spring and end of the year. This helps show how your child grows academically throughout the school year. Letters were sent home last week with information about the test. Please make sure your child gets a goodnight sleep and arrives to school on time the day of testing. Any late students will not be able to enter the classroom once testing begins. No electronic devices will be allowed in the room during testing. The teacher will gather any and all electronic devices and turn them in to administration during testing. Please see the schedule below for the year.

After progress monitoring assessment testing is complete, known as Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST), you will receive your child’s scores through FOCUS and a paper copy will be sent in your child’s backpack. If you need any help in discussing the results please reach out to your child’s teacher or the front office. Translations available upon request.

Our Annual Parent Information Night/Open House is September 19th from 5:30pm-7:20pm. We have changed it up this year and are looking forward for a fun informational night with a scavenger hunt! Join our Groovy staff at 5:30pm in the cafeteria for a quick welcome and instructions! You will visit your child's classroom, meet the teacher and get information for the year. We will have 2 sessions if you have multiple classrooms to visit. At the end you will turn in your scavenger hunt at the cafeteria for a chance to win a prize!
The bookfair will be open as well from 5:30pm-7:20pm. See you there!

The School Advisory Council is comprised of parents, employees and community members who meet monthly to discuss ways to improve the education experience for every student at Sabal. We discuss operations of the school and make the best decisions for school improvement. Our first meeting will be Wednesday , September 11th at 3:00pm in the Conference Room. All parents are welcome to attend. Your opinions are invaluable to us

If you have any questions about PTO or any items below please email sabalpto@gmail.com

Our first PTO meeting of the year will be Tuesday, September 3rd at 3pm in the Media Center. All parents are invited to attend. PTO plans many wonderful events like trunk or treat and our annual color run. We need your help to make sure they are successful. Your participation helps make for a successful year! We hope to see you there.

PTO is selling school spirit wear! We sent home order forms last week and you click the link https://sabal-spirit-wear.cheddarup.com Orders are due by September 6th.

https://www.treering.com/purchase?PassCode=101584060964205

Note: Yearbooks are printed to order and we do not order extra, so don't miss out!

Want to help Sabal earn all year long? Download the Box Tops for Education App to start scanning your receipts. Stay tuned for news on how you can win incentives for being a top contributor!

Arrival to School

• Gates will be open from 7:30-8:00 for student arrival.
• All students must be in classrooms ready to learn by 8:00 am.
• We do not have supervision on campus until 7:30. Please do not drop your child off before the gates are open. If you require before school child care, please email our Brevard After School Coordinator; Kim Klein at klein.kim@brevardschools.org.
• Tardy students must be signed in by parent/guardian at the office. Please do not drop them off without accompanying them inside.
• No student check out after 2:00pm Monday-Thursday and 12:45pm on Fridays.

Car loop:

• All vehicles are required to have a 2024-2025 car tag. If you need one please stop in the front office prior to 2:00. If you do not have a car tag you will be asked to park your car and go to the office to provide identification.
• Please keep car tags visible until your child has entered the car.
• Parents, please remain in your vehicle. Sabal staff will assist your child getting into the car.
• Students may only enter and exit the car on the passenger side of the vehicle. If your child requires assistance getting in and out of the car please pull forward to the pedestrian crossing beyond the covered carline.
• Please do not drop off or pick up children in the bus loop at anytime.
• Make sure you stay in your car and do not walk through the car loop. This is a safety concern.
• Please be patient as we teach routines and procedures. Our system does get better with time, but everyone is learning.

Visitors on Campus

• Visitors are only permitted for scheduled, supervised events.
• Reach out to your child's teacher or Title 1 coordinator to coordinate any volunteering.
• Friday Family Lunches will be returning in the fall.

Rainy Dismissal

• If there is no lightning in the area, we will dismiss students regularly. We monitor weather apps and if there is lightning in the area, we will hold students
• If you want to change transportation on a rainy day it still has to be submitted in writing. We do not take transportation changes over the phone.

Don't forget, every Friday is early release day. All students will be dismissed beginning at 1:15 p.m. Please make the necessary arrangements for your child to be picked up on time. Consider taking advantage of services offered through our School Age Child Care program.

We love having volunteers to help in classrooms, the office, etc. Per district policy, no visitors are allowed on campus unless you are a registered volunteer and on campus for a planned and purposeful reason. Volunteers will be scheduled through your child's teacher, volunteer coordinator or administration. We had an AMAZING response to our call for Sabal Volunteers this year!!! If you would like to join our school please click the link to sign up. https://forms.gle/PC1d4y6dxDgT7ysg9

Attendance is extremely important! Campus opens at 7:30 and our cafeteria offers free breakfast to all students. Instruction begins promptly at 8:00am and all students are expected to be in class ready to learn. We will be working with the district and reaching out to families that have excessive absences or tardies to see how to assist getting to school. If your child is late 3 or more times a meeting with administration will be scheduled. Your child is more likely to succeed in academics when they attend.

Help us teach our kindergarteners their colors. See the picture below and have your child wear the color on the day assigned to show school wide spirit!

The school family compact for learning is a document you may have seen at parent conference nights and in your child’s backpack. This year we would like to make some great changes to our compact to greater enhance the family student school experience. We will be giving you more information on a new addition to our school culture with the Ron Clark Academy house system. We are very excited to tell you more about this new adventure to create a positive culture and climate for students, parents, and staff at Sabal. We are building character, relationships, and school spirit. Don’t worry we will continue to use the positive behavioral interventions and supports otherwise known as PBIS to recognize individual students

We are currently working on revising our 24-25 School Improvement Plan (SIP). We are looking for feedback/input from our parents/families/community members. A short survey will be coming to you this month to get your input for our groovy 60th school plan. This will be communicated to parents through Class Dojo, Focus, paper copies, and our weekly call. We value your input!

We invite you to give us your thoughts on what engaging academic activities you would like to see at Sabal this school year. Some things we have done in years past are a visit from the Orlando Science Center, book fair nights, a night of math at Publix, and literacy night. This is a time for you to give us ideas for what fun academic events you wish to see at Sabal! We will then use this to update our parent and family engagement plan brochure to be sent home in October. This will be communicated to parents through class dojo, focus, paper copies, and our weekly call.

Families will be receiving notification of any staff member teaching out of field during the first 9 weeks of school. Distribution of these lists will come both by backpack and through focus. Copies may also be found in our front office.

Each parent of a student at Sabal Elementary has the right to request information about professional qualifications of the student’s teacher(s). This information will be provided upon request.

In collaboration with an A+rated insurance provider, Brevard Schools is recommending a LOW COST, NO DEDUCTIBLE Student Accident Insurance option that is a one-time payment, per child, per school year. See the attached flyer below for more information.