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Parents are welcome to join their child for lunch at school. To ensure a smooth experience, please note the following guidelines:

Pre-arrangement: Lunch visits must be scheduled in advance with your child’s teacher.

Location: Due to limited space in the cafeteria, parents and their child will need to enjoy lunch at the picnic tables in the courtyard or in the reading garden.

No Friends: Lunch visits are just for you and your child, so friends won't be able to join.

Procedure: Parents will meet their child at the front office and return them to the front office after lunch. Don't forget to check out at the office before leaving.

If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to reach out to the school administration.

Tennis Time is returning to HSES! Classes will be on Thursdays from 4:00 - 5:00 PM beginning on Sept.5th and running through Nov. 7th. Students in grades K-5 are welcome. The class cost is $275 and parents can enroll their children at www.tennistimehollysprings.com

All Health Assessments and Immunization Records are due on the first day of school.

If your child is on track 1, 2 or 3 and you have not already turned theirs in, your 30-day grace period ends on 8/6/2024.

If your child is on track 4 and you have not already turned theirs in, your 30-day grace period ends on 8/27/2024.

After those dates, your child will be excluded from school until we receive both health documents.

You can either drop it off at the front office or send it to school with your child's purple folder.

We would love for you to come and volunteer this school year at HSES and/or as part of PTA!

Register to volunteer HERE

Breakfast is $1.75 and lunch is $3.50. In order to receive free or reduced-price meals for next school year, families need to submit a meal benefits application. All families must complete an application for the 2024-2025 school year in order to receive benefits. Please allow 10 business days for processing.

Apply for free and reduced-price school meals starting July 1

To receive free or reduced-price meals for the 2024-2025 school year, families must submit a meal benefits application online at MySchoolApps.com. Paper copies will be available at the office. For families who completed the 2023-2024 meal benefits application, the benefit continues for their student's first 30 school days of the 2024-2025 school year.

Check out school menus in Mealviewer

Menus will now be available on our interactive website, MealViewer. Monthly school meal menu PDFs will no longer be posted on the district website. In Mealviewer, families will be able to:

• View 5 weeks of menus in PDF and print if desired

• Set up multiple profiles at the schools of your choice

• See any menu changes posted by the manager at each site

• Choose menu items based on allergens

• View nutrients and carbohydrate count for each menu item

• Print menus with carb counts per item and items with allergens designated

Click the link to access bus routes. https://webarchive.wcpss.net/school-directory/bus-routes/447.html

Please sign up for the district bus tracking app, Here Comes the Bus: https://herecomesthebus.com/getting-started/ More information pertaining to Her Comes the Bus is HERE along with the WCPSS code, etc. We also post bus departure times on our school website daily. You will be notified by the district via school messenger when buses are delayed or if routes are canceled.

Wake County Schools Transportation continually updates bus information for the Holly Springs area HERE.

If you have any questions about bussing, please contact Mr. Yanick.

In order to be a walker, students must live within walking distance and actually walk to and from school. We received a district file to notify us which families live in our walk zone. If you are not in our walk zone but would like to be considered for walker status please contact administration.

Save the Date and look out for more information regarding curriculum events for Tracks 1 and 2 on August 8, 2024 and Tracks 3 and 4 on August 29, 2024. There will be two sessions from 4:45-5:45 pm. More information will come from your child’s teacher at a later date.

Please note that we are always looking for ways to advance security within WCPSS. We have been in collaboration with WCPSS Security/Holly Springs Police Department. Each school will use a QR code outside of the building. This will be a little tweak to our process for check in/out and visitors on campus. Please see below for the new directions and make sure you bring your cell phone and ID with you each time! This should also help with not creating a line inside the office. If you have issues, please use the buzzer to the left of the building.

Security Procedures

The purpose of this section is to provide updated information to families about the use of personal devices which aligns with district policy - smartwatches, cell phones, etc. on school grounds. Board Policy 3225 Technology Responsible Use states:

Students are expected to comply with the Code of Conduct and the applicable “Rules for Use of Technology Resources” set forth in this policy when students use a personal device on school property, at school-sponsored events, on school-based transportation, or anytime a personal device is connected to school system technology resources. As an example, students using a personal device on school property, at school-sponsored events, on school-based transportation, or when the device is connected to school system technology resources, shall not engage in creating, intentionally viewing, accessing, downloading, storing, printing or transmitting images, graphics (including still or moving pictures), sound files, text files, documents, messages or other material that is obscene, defamatory, profane, pornographic, harassing, or abusive.

Recently, more and more students are wearing Smartwatches or similar items to school. Smartwatches are allowed only if put on Airplane mode in order to disable text messages and phone calls from being received by the watch/device. The watch is considered a cell phone UNLESS airplane mode is activated. Cell Phones should also be in Airplane mode and in student backpacks. If a student's cell-phone is out after the teacher has asked for it to be put away, the cell phone will be placed in the school office for a parent to pick up. The school system assumes no responsibility for personal technology devices brought to school.

Even if you were approved as a volunteer last school year you must be approved again this year. Many field trips are coming up and we do not want you to wait or miss out as it takes a while for volunteers to be approved. Follow the steps below carefully:

Register as a WCPSS Volunteer

All WCPSS parent and community volunteers are required to register through the new MyVolunteer system. Please complete your registration on a computer at home or school. It is very difficult to complete using a mobile phone. It can take several weeks for your registration to be approved so don’t wait until field trips to try and register. Register now so you are ready and able to volunteer in the classroom, volunteer for school events, or chaperone at any time this school year!

1. Click the link below to start your volunteer registration: https://myvolunteer.com/wcpss/volunteer/login

2. Click create new account.

3. Complete the online form and select all the schools that you are requesting to volunteer or chaperone for the 2023-2024 school year.

4. It will then say pending.

5. Soon after you will receive an email with a customized link for you to complete next steps for your background check. This link expires 10 days from the day you receive the email. Follow the instructions in that email. You will fill out all items in red boxes and then you will review and digitally sign four documents (Summary of Rights Under the FCRA, Disc & Auth, NC Security Freeze Notice, and WCPSS Volunteer Agreement).

6. If you leave the CRC background site before completing your contact information, you will have to begin the process again.

7. You must include your social security number to register to volunteer. If you do not have a social security number, please contact volunteers@wcpss.net or call 919-694-8233.

8. Great news is that this year you will be notified by the MyVolunteer system if you are approved to volunteer!

Please Note: If you are a WCPSS Employee seeking to volunteer/chaperone in the schools, you do not have to complete a criminal background check. However, employees will still need to register in the MyVolunteer system (https://myvolunteer.com/wcpss/volunteer/login) and complete the Wake County Volunteer Agreement and other required forms. Employees must select the “Current Staff of WCPSS” link on MyVolunteer to complete the volunteer registration process and must use their WCPSS email address to complete the registration.

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Click the letter below to learn more about the Positivity Project and to view the yearly calendar:

P2 Family Information Letter

Tracks 1 & 2 - Other People Mindset - Being Present

Track 4 - Curiosity

BECOME A PTA MEMBER!

Ever wonder what treats to get the wonderful staff of HSES? Well wonder no more!

Click on Teacher Favorites to see, well, the teachers' favorites!

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Kim’s Yong In Martial Arts, would like to offer Taekwondo classes to Holly Springs Elementary School students! Please take a look at this FLYER if you are interested!