Greetings From The Grove

Wednesday, Oct 9th- PTA Meeting 6:00 in HGE Library

Thursday, Oct 10th- Student Council Spirit Day ~Crazy Hair Day!

Friday, Oct 11th- End of First Quarter

Saturday, Oct 12th- Race for the Future @ LSW

Wednesday, Oct 16th- Student Council Fundraiser ~ HAT DAY ~ Bring $1.00 to wear a hat

Thursday, Oct 17th- PTA Haunt the Halls and Trunk or Treat (See Below)

Friday, Oct 18th- No School for Students- Staff Professional Development Day

Tuesday, Oct 22nd- PTA Chipotle Night (5-9pm @ 1716 NW Chipman Rd Store)

Wednesday, Oct 23rd- No School for Students- Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thursday, Oct. 24th- No School for Students- Parent/Teacher Conferences

Friday, Oct. 25th- No School

Thursday, Oct 31st- Fall Parties

*Complete HGE and District calendars are linked near the end of the newsletter.

Teacher conferences will be held on October 23rd and October 24th. Teachers will have a wide variety of times available to accommodate most needs. Scheduling begins on Tuesday, October 1st and closes Wednesday, October 16th. Guardians will access the appointment calendar through PowerSchool. Please see the instructions below for completing the process. We can't wait to see you!

REMINDER—The Health Room will be conducting vision screens from 10/08 to 10/10/2024 for students in grades K-3 and 5th who have not opted out of the vision screening. The results of the vision screens will be sent home with students within 2 weeks of the testing. Feel free to reach out with any questions to Tracy Kipper, RN, at 816-986-3312.

Trunk or Treat and Haunt the Halls are coming and we need your help!

To make the event as successful as possible, we need you to decorate trunks and hand out candy. Our goal is 20, but we would love more!

Click the link to sign up.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805094BA9AF2BAA8-51542662-trunk

And just as important as the trunk decorating, we need candy! This is one of our most popular events for our families, and it takes a lot of candy for all our trick or treaters. You can bring bags of individually wrapped candy to the office anytime.

If you would like to help decorate the halls, and have not signed up yet, please email us at hazelgroveelementarypta@gmail.com.

Thank you for all your help!

We ask that you notify the office prior to 3:00 with any transportation changes for students that day. It is important that the front office is notified and not just the classroom teacher. If we do not hear from a parent about transportation changes, the student will go home by their normal mode of transportation (documented in PowerSchool and given to the teacher during Back to School Night).

Front office staff:

Email: mandy.trotter@lsr7.net and debraa.jenkins@lsr7.net

Phone: (816) 986-3310

Calling before 3:00 allows us to communicate these changes to the teacher, while also supporting the daily routines and processes that occur during this busy part of the day.

Student End of Day Checkout:

If there is a need to check students out early for an appointment, please call the school and arrive by 3:45 to call them out of class. If you arrive after 3:45 you will need to join the car rider line.

Thank you for partnering with us to ensure the safety for all HGE Hawks during dismissal.

First day for lunch visitors this year is Tuesday, September 3rd. If you want to have lunch with your child please make sure to bring a state issued photo ID with you. No siblings are allowed to join and all lunches will be enjoyed in the hallway by the office. Parents have the option to purchase a school lunch in the cafeteria, if they wish. Please remember we do not accept any type of deliveries for students.

The USDA requires that we notify all parents of our meal charging policy which you can view by clicking on the link at the end of this section.

You may add money to your child's lunch account by sending cash/check to school or depositing money on line through My School Bucks app.

If it would be a benefit to your family, you're welcome to fill out a free and reduced lunch form by clicking HERE.

Students are also allowed to buy extras, which can drain a child's account VERY quickly!! You are welcome to put restrictions on you child's account such as "Only allowed one snack" or "Extras only on Fridays" or however often you allow. You may do this by contacting our cafeteria manager, Beth Kuiper via email @ beth.kuiper@lsr7.net. Please also include your child's teacher in this communication. *Students with a negative lunch account balance will not be allowed to charge snacks*

If your child runs out of lunch money you will receive an automated call from the district with a reminder. If the balance continues to grow Mrs. Kuiper will reach out, as will Mrs. Westacott or Mr. Prickett.

If you want to know your child's balance or what they are purchasing, you can view that on the My School Bucks app. I encourage you to register and keep track of purchases and balances.

HERE is the LSR7 Nutrition Services website.

HERE is the LSR7 Charging Policy

Office Phone: (816) 986-3310

Attendance Phone: (816) 986-3313

Principal: Mrs. Amy Westacott
Assistant Principal: Mr. Jed Prickett

Email: amy.westacott@lsr7.net
Website: hge.lsr7.org
Location: 2001 Northwest Blue Parkway, Lee's Summit, MO, USA
Phone: 816 986 3310