Boyertown Elementary

The new playground is coming along!! Students are already enjoying it!

Free/Reduced Meal Program Grace Period Set to Expire

Was your child eligible for free or reduced-price meals during the 2023-2024 school year? The Federal Government provides a 30-day grace period at the beginning of every school year for participating families to submit their required annual renewal application. The grace period ends on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. Families that have not completed their application for 2024-2025 will be charged for lunches beginning on Wednesday, October 9th. If you’re still in need of this program and have not submitted your annual application, please visit www.schoolcafe.com as soon as possible.

Full details regarding the program, including Federal Income Guidelines and the 2024-2025 Homebound Letter, are included in the Food Services Information Packet for 2024-2025. https://secure.smore.com/n/ztpme

The Boyertown Area School District recognizes that attendance is an important factor in educational success. Our district attendance policy complies with state and federal mandates. Details regarding attendance policies and procedures can be found on the BASD website under school board policies and the student handbook.

Parents/guardians are required to provide written notification (handwritten note, email, or electronic excuse blank) to the school for each day their child is not in attendance. Absences shall be treated as unlawful until the district receives a written excuse explaining the absence, to be submitted within three (3) days of the absence. The district will not change the attendance code for written notifications received after (3) three days.

Procedures for reporting and documenting absences have become more stringent due to the federal government’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Parents are required to do one of the procedures written below. Please read them carefully:

Handwritten Note
Parents/guardians may call the attendance line by dialing the school's main number and choosing option 2 any day their child will be absent or tardy. Please note that a call in to the attendance line does NOT constitute documentation for an excused absence. After calling in an absence, you must follow up with a handwritten parent's or doctor’s note within three days of the student’s return to school. Failure to submit the appropriate note within three days will result in the absence being coded as unlawful, and this coding cannot be reversed even if a note is handed in after the three-day window. Once a student has received three unlawful absences, a truancy elimination plan will be enacted. This plan could lead to a citation from the District Magistrate.

Electronic Note
Parents/guardians may use the district website/app and fill out the absence note any day their child will be absent or tardy. This form of communication will not need a phone call or follow-up handwritten note.

Please choose your student's school to submit an electronic excuse blank:

• Colebrookdale Elementary School

Email Note
Parents/guardians may send an email to the email address (listed below) from the parent/guardian email address on file with the district any day their child will be absent or tardy. This form of communication will not need a phone call or follow-up handwritten note.

• Colebrookdale Elementary: attendanceCES@boyertownasd.org

Written notifications for verification of absence are acceptable for the first ten days of absence per school year. Any further absences require a doctor’s note. Handwritten notes may be sent to school with your child. However, it is your child’s responsibility to present the note to their teacher or school secretary to be handed into the office. Other acceptable ways to turn in a note are for a parent to drop it off personally to the school office between the hours of 7:45am-4:30 pm or to scan the handwritten note and email it as an attachment to the school attendance secretary.

A regular typed email without a handwritten parent/guardian signature will NOT be accepted.

In the past, there have been occasional situations in which families have forgotten to submit an educational trip form for approval prior to their trip. Failure to submit a trip form prior to departure will result in trip days being counted as an unlawful absence. Trip forms continue to be available in the school office as well as on the BASD website.

Please send in a note or call the office when you are picking up your student early from school.

This alleviates disruptions in the classrooms.

Thank you to Wendy's Flowers for sponsoring our mums fundraiser! Thank you to everyone who participated! We surpassed our goal! The total earned will be announced in the HSA October newsletter.

Reminders:

• Please make sure all families, teachers, and staff sign up on our 2024-2025 contact list! https://forms.gle/Hc9aUauDNYUufgBx8

• Sign up for HSA volunteer opportunities: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4DAEA92DA7FDC25-50455335-ceshsa

• STAY CONNECTED:

• HSA Website: https://ceshsa.godaddysites.com/

• HSA Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/645426574030395

9/20 Mum Pick Up 4-6pm

9/30 Sicilian Delite Fundraiser

10/2 Picture Day

*Please Note Early Dismissal Times

Kindergarten AM hours are 8:25-10:35am

Kindergarten PM hours are 10:35am-12:25pm

Grades 1-5 dismissal is 12:25pm

BASD hosts an online Community Bulletin Board. The electronic bulletin board features district and community activities, events, clubs, resources, and more. The board is updated regularly and is an excellent source of information regarding things happening throughout our community and beyond. Be sure to check it out regularly!

Canva is also used in the creation of this newsletter.

Any additional applicable copyright information for items used throughout the newsletter will be provided on a use-by-use basis.

Colebrookdale Elementary
1001 Montgomery Avenue
Boyertown, PA 19512
(610) 369-7427