DWE Parent Newsletter

Parents, you have two options for dropping off your student in the morning.

1. Front driveway - students walk up the sidewalk to the cafeteria.

2. Back driveway - students walk into the 5th grade hallway to the cafeteria

Right now, MANY parents are dropping in the front. Very few parents drop off kids in the back, so if you are wanting to avoid traffic, try the back driveway. A staff member is there to open the door until 7:35AM.

There are many ways that parents can help their children be successful in school! Some of the easiest ways are:

• Getting students to school on time every day
• Helping your child have good attendance
• If your child has glasses - make sure they have them for school each day
• Communicating with your child's teacher
• Participate in schoolwide events
• Having your student read 15 minutes every night
• Helping your student study their math facts (multiplication, division, addition, & subtraction)

Thank you for partnering with us to help your students be successful!

• This year we are STRIVING FOR 5 - students less than 5 days absent this year!
• Attendance is taken every day at 9:00AM. Students arriving after 9 are absent for the day.
• Parent or doctor notes can be turned in up to 5 days after the student returns to school.
• No parent or doctor note = Unexcused absence
• Students can turn in notes to their teacher or the front office.
• More students in class = more teachers we can hire - 42 students missing means two less teachers at DWE and larger classes for your student

We will have lunch visitors on TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS only. Visitors must sign in and get a tag in the front office. Any person who may have lunch with your child needs to be listed in Skyward as an emergency contact and have a photo ID with them. We will not allow persons who are not listed and approved by you to enter the cafeteria. We are limiting lunch visitors to one person per student due to a lack of seating.

Please do not send food deliveries via Door Dash, Uber Eats, etc. This is a district policy.

• If your student is tardy, please walk in and check them into the office.
• Students may not wear cross body bags or purses in school. Those need to be in backpacks.
• Lunches can be dropped off before 10:00AM only. After 10:00AM students will have to get a tray.
• Complete your Criminal History Background Check so you are able to attend school events and field trips with your student. A new background check must be completed each school year. https://www.dpisd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1561595&type=d&pREC_ID=1689770
• Update emergency contacts in Skywards, please ensure there is at least one emergency contact in addition to the student’s parents. Anyone that may have lunch with your student throughout the year, MUST be listed as an emergency contact.
• Any student who will be riding a DPISD bus to school and/or home must be registered with transportation. https://www.dpisd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1570743&type=d&pREC_ID=2053389

Students should be dropped off in the front of the building or the back driveway in the morning. Please do not drop off your child on the crosswalk to walk into the building. Please do not drop your child off on Glenmore to enter the cafeteria. The crossing guards are there to help student cross safely who are walking to school. Help us keep your students safe!

Students who arrive after 7:40AM are tardy and need to enter through the front and be signed in at the office.

You may email changes to dwetransportation@dpisd.org. If you have to make a change during the school day, please submit changes to the front office only by 1:00 pm., allowing us time to get the message delivered to the student and teacher before dismissal. Verbal changes will not be accepted.

Students need to wear tennis shoes/rubber soled shoes that won't slip off every day to be safe at recess and in the gym.

• NO CROCS at school please - they are not safe for our students in PE & recess
• Shorts, skirts must fall between the fingertip and knee.
• Spaghetti straps are not acceptable for school.
• Pants may not have holes that expose skin above the top of the knee.

Doors open at 7:00AM

Breakfast served 7:00AM - 7:40AM (FREE to all students!)

Tardy bell rings at 7:40AM

Dismissal begins at 2:50PM

Due to our dismissal schedule, we are unable to check out a student after 2:20PM.

OFFICE - 832-668-8300

NURSE - 832-668-8305

COUNSELOR - 832-668-8303 (Dodd) 832-668-8349 (Martinez)

CAFETERIA - 832-668-8306

FAX NUMBER - 832-668-8360