Blue Jay Blast

August 29th - Blue Jay Social 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

September 2nd - No School/Labor Day

September 16th - All Member PTA Meeting 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

September 26th - PTA Family Night - SEL

Calling all Blue Jays! You are invited to the first family night event of the 2024-2025 school year: the Blue Jay Social! The PTA will have FREE pizza in the cafeteria, your child's teacher will host informational sessions, and you can learn more about the opportunities Brushy Creek has to offer from 5-6:30pm on August 29!

Please help us alleviate the amount of items we have in Lost and Found by labeling your child's items such as jackets, sweatshirts, lunchboxes, and water bottles. This will help us immensely!! The Lost and Found has now been moved to the Blue Jay Cafe. Thank you for your help in this matter!

At the beginning of the school year parents must indicate to teachers how their child(ren) will get home every day. If a parent wants to make a temporary change in their child’s transportation, use this transportation change form or call the office to report the change by 2:00 p.m. daily. Otherwise, the child will go home per the original instructions from the parents. Email is not an efficient way to communicate with the teacher during the school day. Teachers predominantly check emails before and after school. In case of an emergency, parents may call the school office. (Don’t call the classroom – the teacher may have a substitute or may not get the message.) Messages received in the office after 2:00 p.m. are not guaranteed to make it to your student before dismissal.

Parents and/or guardians should make pre-arrangements regarding transportation after school. Students and parents should also make contingency plans just in case the parents/guardians are not at home when their child arrives.

If a child forgets something at home or becomes ill at school, we will not

allow the student to walk or ride their bicycle home.

We understand there are times when you must take your child out of school. We ask that you avoid taking him/her out when at all possible. Students miss valuable instructional time when they leave early and often activities cannot be reproduced for later instruction. For this reason, as well as safety of checking to make sure a caller is a guardian, we cannot call students out of class before you physically arrive at school. If you need to pick up your child early from school, you need to arrive at the front office before 2:30. Parents or guardians are required to present identification to sign students out. The office will contact the classroom and ask for the student to be sent to the office.

Parents arriving between 2:30 p.m. and 2:55 p.m. to check students out early, may be asked to wait until the grade level dismissal time.

Attendance at school is an important component in your child’s education. The school fosters intellectual development and socialization. Regular attendance enables your child to be successful.

All absences are unexcused until written documentation is received that might change the absence to excused, however, all absences count. Excessive unexcused absences may be reported to the district’s truancy officer. The easiest way to report an absence is online. Go to the front page of our website, scroll down, and click on the icon that says Report an Absence. You may also send a note to the office listing the dates your child was out and the reason for the absence. Be sure to report the absence each day your child is out. You have 48 hours to provide written documentation regarding absences.

Please refer to RRISD Student-Parent Handbook and Student Code of Conduct for additional information.

Attendance is taken at 9:00 a.m. each day .Only the following absences will be marked “excused:”

· Illness documented with a note from a doctor/parent within 48 hours,

· Death in immediate family, or

· School related event.

There are some additional reasons for an absence that would not be marked either way, including religious holidays, visiting a parent in the military, or a doctor’s note provided the day of an appointment where the child comes to school for part of the day.

Unexcused absences will be assessed for truancy measures on a case-by-case basis with consideration for the educational value, length, and frequency of trips; and, in the case of non-immediate family member deaths.

The state also mandates a process for truancy prevention, beginning when a student has three unexcused absences within four weeks.

Truancy is defined as failure to attend school on ten or more days within a six-month period in the same school year. The following steps will be taken as truancy prevention measures.

Three unexcused absences within four weeks:

· An automatically generated letter is sent to parents.

Seven unexcused absences within six months

· The Student Attendance Plan is created with the parent

10 unexcused absences within six months:

· An automatically generated letter is sent to parents,

· The Student Attendance Plan is revisited with parent,

· A home visit may be scheduled, and

· Involvement of attendance officer and/or escalation of truancy case to court, with a possibility of fines between $100 and $500.

State law mandates that students be in attendance 90% of the total school year to receive credit. Students may be retained for violating state attendance laws. Absence Corrections: An error in marked absences or tardies must be reported to Connie Swofford, records specialist, and teacher within ten days of the student’s or parent’s knowledge or within 10 days of receipt of report card.

Helping your child eat right may be easier than you think. Free and reduced-price school meals like breakfast, lunch and snacks are provided to students whose families meet certain income requirements. Apply today to ensure that your child has a healthy meal at school every day. It helps them perform better and saves you money.

Not sure of your child’s eligibility? Income eligibility guidelines are available online for each school year to help you determine eligibility based on your household size and income level. There are no restrictions based on immigration status.

Click on the link below for more information and how to fill out an application.

https://www.myschoolapps.com/Application

Register to volunteer by completing the volunteer application form. Applicants must use their legal name as it appears on their driver’s license or passport. You MUST have a Social Security Number to complete the online form.

To improve student safety, any person wishing to volunteer in Round Rock ISD is required to complete a Volunteer Application.

• Application must be renewed each school year
• Application should be completed as early as possible
• Application takes approximately five minutes to complete
• You must hit SUBMIT (not just ‘save’) for the application to be processed
• Applications take 72 hours to process
• Once completed, present your photo ID at the campus to be scanned into Raptor
• Check the status of your application by contacting the front office at your child’s campus

Click on the link below to get started!

https://partners.roundrockisd.org/volunteer/

To familiarize yourself with all things BCE, please refer to our parent handbook (see link below). Of course if you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to call the front office at 512-464-3000. We are looking forward to a great year!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Le1kmJxIddOp-yFnw25e-PJFbFp4K8GdoudppO7nlk/edit?usp=sharing

The PTA does so much for our school, students, and teachers! When you join the PTA, consider having more than one parent join as this helps benefit our school by showing a greater presence in our community and gives us an advantage in obtaining sponsorships and school discounts. Grandparents, relatives, friends, even your kids can be PTA members. Click here to join: https://bcebluejays.memberhub.com/

Brushy Creek Elementary T-shirts, Spirit Items, Yearbooks (pre-orders), Feather Our Nest Donations, And PTA Memberships Are Available Through Our Online Store. Click here to order now! https://bcebluejays.memberhub.com/

You can also follow the PTA on Twitter to stay up to date on what is happening on our campus and with PTA.

https://twitter.com/BCEPTABluejays

Website: brushycreek.roundrockisd.org
Location: 3800 Stonebridge Drive, Round Rock, TX, USA
Phone: 512-428-3000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rrisd.brushycreek
Twitter: @BCE_BlueJays