We are excited to announce new features for our Bear Cave Newsletter!

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Hello Bloomingdale Bear Families!

Quarter 2 & Literacy: The second quarter has started, and our focus remains on literacy! We want to highly encourage all of our families to read at least 20 minutes every night with your child. Simple rhyming games, songs, and word games can have a major, positive impact on a child's ability to read!

Report Cards: Please remember to review your child's report card and send a signed copy back to your teacher.

Parent Center: We have tons of resources available for all families (PK - 5) in our parent center. We would love to see more families take advantage of these resources. Please stop between 9am - 3pm each day to see Ms. Dubarie and check out the Parent Center!

On and ever upward,

Principal Lam

Students who are present at least 90% of the time from Oct. 2 - 27th will receive a treat following lunch later this month!

Parents/Guardians,

The Transportation Department has completed distribution of barcoded student cards for initiation of the Synovia/Here Comes The Bus Student Pass Program. Parents/Guardians can download the Here Comes the Bus (HCTB) app to track their child's bus. We highly encourage families to take advantage of this resource. You may find the code and more information here: Here Comes the Bus FAQs.pdf (sccpss.com)

Each SCCPSS bus is equipped with a tablet to validate students when loading and unloading. Parents are able to monitor their child’s scans using the HCTB parent app. For parents already utilizing the HCTB app to monitor the bus, student scans will automatically populate in the app. Students should be reminded to keep their card with them for morning and afternoon transportation.

Routing updates are occurring on a continuous basis as transportation information is received through exports. As students are added to routes, Transportation will generate barcoded cards for these students.

Families who reside in Bloomingdale’s attendance zone, if you are interested in your child riding the bus, please complete this form. A member of our team will review your information and contact you with route information and a start date. (Does NOT apply to students currently riding the bus & students on administrative placement).

1. Remain in the same lane—do not switch over after number is recorded.
2. Cell-Phone FREE zone
3. School Zone - Watch your speed
4. After 4:00 PM—late pick up.

Morning drop-off has improved dramatically since the beginning of the year! We appreciate your willingness to be flexible and patient while we work on the safest way to start the day with our kids.

We have a few updates and reminders....

Students may enter the building at 8:15 AM. School staff begin assisting students out of vehicles and into the building earlier.

The school day officially begins at 8:40 AM. All students and staff should be in their classrooms by 8:40 AM, which includes staff on car rider duty.

At 8:40 AM there will only be 1 drop off lane open, the outside lane will be blocked off, and duty staff will no longer be assisting students in getting out of the vehicle. Two staff members will remain to control traffic and direct parents to drive all the way down to the crosswalk and assist their children in getting out of the vehicle.

If parents arrive at 8:45 AM or later, they must park their vehicles and walk their children into the building to sign them in for the day.

Thank you for your attention to this matter and making the car rider line great!

It is not too late to fill out a free/reduced lunch application. If you have not filled one out this year, please do so!

Georgia law requires each school to have an advisory group known as the School Council. This group is created to offer advice to the school board, superintendent and principal on matters pertaining to student achievement and school improvement. Membership on the School Council consists of parents, teachers, business/community partners and the principal.

The school council meets approximately four times during the school year.

Parents exercise an important role on the School Council and are key to its success. For a parent to serve, there is an election held among the parent population of the school. In this connection, we are seeking parents/guardians of a student currently enrolled at Bloomingdale Elementary School who would be interested in being a part of this important group and participating in the election process. If you are interested, please contact Mr. Lam at benjamin.lam@sccpss.com.

Email: benjamin.lam@sccpss.com
Website: https://www.sccpss.com/schools/bes/Pages/default.aspx
Location: New Hampstead K-8 School, Highgate Boulevard, Bloomingdale, GA, USA
Phone: 912-3953680
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloomingdaleElementary2/
Twitter: @bdale_bears