Hello Families! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and welcome to all of our new families to Borman. If you're leaving soon for another PCS, we wish you the best of luck and prosperity. We are thankful you choose Borman as your partner in education.

I want to thank you all for your ongoing support and hard work that your kids put in at school each day. First semester is quickly coming to an end, which brings more assessments, benchmarks, DIBELS tests, fine arts and holiday performances, and class parties. It's one of our favorite times of the year to see our students participate in fun activities, but it also takes a lot of work from teachers and school staff to organize and plan everything. Hats off to our teachers and staff as well!

PTO needs your help! Borman PTO works really hard to raise money for student centered and schoolwide events. One of our biggest events of the year is the End of Year Field Day and celebration, which planning and preparation starts during the third quarter. We also turn to them to help fund classroom events, and school and admin incentives and awards given to students. They can always use more volunteers and help including being a chair on the board of directors. Please see the section below on contacting them.

I also want to thank all the classes and students that helped with making Thanksgiving and Christmas cards for our service men and women around the globe. We know those will bring some holiday cheer to them!

Please remind your student to be: Responsible, Respectful, Safe, and Kind!

Thank you,

Mr. Huss - Principal

*This is a live document and may change as additional information and dates are added.

December

2nd - 19th - Quarterly benchmarks

2nd - National Special Education Day

4th - 7th Grade Field Trip to Theater at Park Place Mall - Opera

6th - Fire Drill - approx 1:45

6th - Kwanzaa starts

8th - Blue Collar and Classified Appreciation Day. (observed 9th)

9th - 13th - Holiday Shoppe (Volunteers needed!)

11th - MS (6-8) Concert in Cafeteria 8:45 AM

12th - 5th grade concert in Cafeteria 8:45 AM

13th - Last day for DIBELS testing K-3

13th - Dominoes Pizza for lunch

13th - Candy Cane Grams

13th - Middle school Field Day (Reward for no D's or F's and good behavior!)

13th - Middle School Dance 4:30-6:30

18th - First Grade Performance in the cafeteria 12:45

19th - K-2 Performance 8:45 AM

19th - 3-4 Performance 9:15 AM

20th - Grading Day (NO SCHOOL)

25th - Christmas Day

25th - Hanukkah Starts

12/23/24 - 1/03/25 - WINTER BREAK

01/06/25 - Third Quarter starts

January registration now open!!! (See picture for information)

(Current Class) Early Learner Drawing - Tuesdays (K-2nd)

Start & End Date: 10/22/2024 - 12/10/2024, 8 weeks

Registration Link

(Current Classes) Elementary Drawing & Cartoon - Thursdays (2nd-5th)

Start & End Date: 10/24/2024 - 12/12/2024, 7 weeks

Skip Date: 11/28/2024

Registration Link

Scholarship Application link

We greatly appreciate your support and are looking forward to another fantastic session with your students!

Please be on the lookout for communication about school and TUSD events!

MFLC-Military Family Life Counselor -Vanessa Aldecoa Work cell #520-310-0060

• Issues addressed by MFLC: School adjustment, deployment & separation, reunion adjustment, sibling & parent-child communication, behavioral concerns, grief & loss

• Weekly PEACE/Deployment Groups with each grade level

• Focus is on how I feel my feelings and how does this affect our behavior and emotions

• 1st Thursday of each month, DM MFLC Mtg

We teach safe technology practices with our middle school students in technology class(since students take their school laptops home and typically have more access to personal technology), we also want to offer some resources for families with students of any age. For now, I will just share a link to Common Sense Media parent resources. In the future I may share more specific ideas.

Looking for a part time job? We have a couple of positions open:

• EXED TA (upcoming)
• Track Coaches for 4th quarter.

The Health Office would like to thank PTO for the generous donation of feminine hygiene products for our students.

Please make sure all health records are up to date. If your child requires medication on site, please come to the health office and drop it off. Children are not allowed to be in possession of medicines or self-administer.

PTO governing board:

Brittney Thomas - President

Stephanie Lugo - VP

Devyn Watkins - Treasurer

Sarah Morales - Secretary

Celia Giles - Parent Representative

PTO is still looking for more board members and volunteers. Please email our PTO for questions or interest!

Please remember, school starts at 8:20. Please do not drop your students off before 7:45 as we have no campus monitors on site until that time. Students that are dropped off before this are unsupervised and we cannot be responsible for something that might happen.

On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, school ends at 2:30 for K-5 and 3:15 for 6-8. On Wednesday, school ends one hour earlier for teacher PD and planning. Please pick your students up promptly as our monitors leave soon after school ends each day.

Please be patient when dropping off or picking up your student/s in the round-about. Pull forward as far as you can and have your child exit or enter the vehicle as quickly as possible. If you are stuck in traffic along Lightning Drive, please do not drive down the opposite lane to go around. The jam usually moves along in a few minutes. Also, please do not park in the staff parking lot unless you have business in the front office. There is plenty of parking in the dirt outside of the staff lot and across the street.

Would you like to volunteer on campus or help a teacher? You can help with student supervision, work in classrooms, and help with events. Please let us know if you're interested, fill out the volunteer form and we will let you know how you can help!

What can volunteers help do?

• Supporting teachers and staff with non-instructional tasks
• Providing more time for teachers to work with students
• Enriching the curriculum and learning opportunities for students
• Providing one-on-one attention to students who need extra help
• Promoting a school-home-community partnership

Email Principal Huss
Borman School Website
Location: 6630 East Lightning Drive, Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone: 520.584.4600