Make your Mark

Thank you for a wonderful start to the school year. This seems to have been our smoothest start and that is a largely in part to what you do to support both your child and our staff.

If your child completed their summer reading challenge, please send their book list with them to school by next Friday so they can receive their prize!

We will begin enforcing car placards be displayed throughout the car line - we want to have a "two factor authentication" in making sure the right child goes with the correct person after school and we keep all our children safe and secure. This means it needs to be displayed to both the first staff member you see and through the line until the next staff member puts your child in the car. Please pick up from the office by 1:30 today if you did not receive yours.

We are in our final days of our school shirt sales - all orders are due by Monday at 11:59 p.m. https://gogandy.com/stanton-elemspirit24

Learning about our families outside of school is fun for our staff, but let's your student know we care about them as individuals too. We will be doing that in a few weeks by celebrating National Dog Day - if you are interested, please complete the form below.

Hair must be of natural color - no tinsel or colored braids, no ponytail/man-buns for boys, bangs must be out of your eyes, no designs may be cut into hair

Shirts - no tank tops for boys, girls must be 3 adult finger-width at shoulder, no bare mid-riffs

Shorts/Skirts - shorts and skirts need to be no shorter than 3" above the knee

Pants - no rips, tears or frays 3" or more above the knee

Earrings - boys are not allowed earrings of any kind

Please remember that daily attendance is a critical piece of academic success. All students should arrive on campus between 7:35 and 7:55. Students have no more than 3 days to bring a note back in the event of an absence for it to be counted as excused. Parents are limited to writing 3 notes per semester. Any consecutive absences of more than 3 days requires a doctor's note. Excessive absences can result in Saturday School assignment and/or court fines for truancy. Every 3 tardy or leaving early will result in an unexcused absence.

Students may not be picked up from school between 2:30 and dismissal on Monday - Thursday or after 1:30 on Friday. This begins a very active and moving campus, so we do not do pick-ups. Please arrive prior to then or wait until after school.

August 26 - Dog Appreciation Day

September 2 - Labor Day holiday

September 6 - National Read a Book Day and Grandparent's Day Parade

September 10 - School picture day

September 16 - Dot Day

September 20 - Homecoming (we will attend the pep rally)

September 23 - No School for students/Teacher in-service

October 4 - No School

October 7 - No school

October 14-18 - Book Fair

October 16 - Early release for students - parent conferences/book fair open 1-5

October 21 - No School

October 31 - Mad Scientist Day

November 4 - No School for students/teacher In-service

November 25-November 29 - Thanksgiving Break

December 13 - host UIL meet

December 20 - early out

December 23-January 3 - no school

All students will receive both a free breakfast and lunch this year at Stanton Elementary! We are very excited about this opportunity. If you decide to bring your child lunch, please let them know that morning, we will not deliver lunches. We will continue our attendance incentives for lunch with your child.

Students will be participating in Social & Emotional Learning through a program called Move This World. This program also offers a parent portal to help families continue the learning at home.

You can access the Platform Guide here. I will highlight various topics from Move This World here on our Parent Smores.

URL: sel.movethisworld.com

Username: stanton.family

Password: movethisworld

There are four different grade-banded courses in the family account are broken out over the five competencies (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making):

1. Early Elementary (PK-2nd)

2. Late Elementary (3rd-5th)

3. Middle School (6th-8th)

4. High School (9th-12th)