Negley Navigator News
March 30, 2024
Negley Elementary School
Email: melody.crowther@hayscisd.net
Website: https://www.hayscisd.net/Domain/17
Location: 5940 McNaughton, Kyle, TX, United States
Phone: (512) 268-8501
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NegleyElementarySchool/
Twitter: @NESNavigator1
Negley Mission Statement
Captain Crowther's Corner
Ahoy Navigator Families,
Thank you to everyone who attended our STREAMS Night event! We were very pleased with the turn out! Everyone seemed to be having a great time - I know we did!.
Here is wishing each of you a wonderful Easter weekend.
Mrs. Crowther
Thank you to Rachel Rangel for hanging and sorting our Lost and Found!
Parents - Please stop by and see if any of these items belong to your child!
Parents - we need your help in the mornings!
Parents, we are having some issues with student drop off. Our students are not safe in these situations and we need your help.
1. Some students are being dropped off on the front porch as early as 6:30 am. THIS IS NOT SAFE! Although there may be adults on campus, they are not officially on duty and are trying to get tasks completed before the doors open at 7:00 am. This would mean you are leaving your child unattended from 6:30 - 7:00. Please do not drop students off before 6:55 at the earliest.
2. We now have a good amount of parents who are using the road in between Negley and Rocking Horse as a student drop off at the garden gate. THIS IS NOT SAFE! This area is not a designated drop off area. Teachers are parking along the road here for both NES and Rocking Horse. The line of site is impeded and students are going in between cars as they are being dropped off. This also BLOCKS our busses from being able to stay on their very tight schedule because they cannot exit the circle drive due to parents dropping off their students. It is also causing the busses to have to drive on the grassy area to get out.(see photos below)
3. Some parents are getting to NES early and parking in the front parking lot, sitting until the doors open. If you are in a visitor spot, that is ok, as those are for our parents. However, all other spots are for teacher/staff parking. If you park in one of those spots, you are keeping a teacher from getting to their classroom to prepare for students. Again, if you are here early enough to park in the front, you have time to sit in the car rider line until it opens. ALSO, parents have been going through the front parking area too fast - and have almost hit students who are entering the crosswalk. THIS IS NOT SAFE!
Please know that Kyle PD has been made aware of these situations, as has our SRO. They will be monitoring that area from time to time. We will not be allowing parents to drop off at the garden gate area. You will be asked to go to the car rider line drop off, which will add more time to your drop off.
Thank you for your help in these areas!
Cards for Tom Green
Here are just a few of the cards Negley students sent to Tom Green Elementary, and the Hays Transportation Dept.
WEEKLY HOMEWORK - New lessons every week
Fluency Passages:
3rd-5th Students can start coming to the library lab to work on Typing Club in the morning from 7:00-7:30. Students can also do Typing Club at home.
Stemscopes Home Parent Letter with Activity
Kinder: Measurement | Data Analysis
1st Grade: Length |Compose & Decompose Numbers to 120
2nd Grade: Area | Time
3rd Grade: Weight, Capacity | Represent & Interpret Data
4th Grade: Measurement Systems | Represent & Interpret Data
5th Grade: Graphing in First Quadrant | Number Patterns
Library News!
Hello Awesome Negley Families!
Thank you to all our Negley Families for being such amazing supporters of the book fair!! We had a wonderful turnout the entire week and an amazing family night as well! The money that we raise during book fair is used in our Negley Library to buy things such as makerspace items, soft seating, prizes, new library books and series, staff trainings, and goes towards improving the library environment. Thank you again for your amazing support!
Thank you to all the parents who volunteered the entire week at book fair! We LOVE your amazing help and couldn't do it without you! Also, a super shoutout to Sharon Brady our awesome library volunteer, who helped us the entire week and worked every day of book fair! You are the best and we are SUPER lucky to have you!
If there was an item you didn't get at book fair or you have unspent eWallet funds, you can shop the online fair until end of day on March 31st at the following link. https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/negley All unspent eWallet funds, after tomorrow evening, can be transferred to our Fall Book Fair next year.
Have a happy reading weekend everyone! -Mrs. Marcionetti
Library Website - Please visit for reading incentive programs sheets for all grade levels, online audio, and eBooks, library catalog, etc.
Library Revtrak - Please visit to buy Birthday Book Club books or to pay for lost or damaged books
SOLAR ECLIPSE EVENT IS NEAR!
District Solar Eclipse Flyer:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m_SBPHYzTmeumFGingforu1KeyAq8ZdE8lGoi2t6LyU/edit?usp=sharing
AND
the Link with read alouds/activities:
https://sites.google.com/g.hayscisd.net/eclipse-resources/home
PTA store is THIS Friday, April 5th
Volunteers needed! Sign up here:
https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090F4FACAD2DA57-ptastore
Pre-purchase ahead of time for cash free shopping.
https://www.negleyelementarypta.com/store
We will have our 2024/2025 officer election meeting Tuesday, April 9th. If you are interested in running for a position, please email negleypta@gmail.com for more information on each position.
WIMBERLY BUTTERFLY FESTIVAL
K-4th graders have been creating our Butterfly and Caterpillar art for the Butterfly Art Show and Competition!!
These winning art pieces will go compete in the Wimberly Butterfly Art Competition Apr. 20th!
All of our Honorable mentions will join their class Butterfly and Caterpillar Art for the Art Display at the Wimberly Butterfly Art Show Apr. 20th.
Yep, all 750 butterflies will be displayed in Wimberly!!
Find More information here: https://www.emilyann.org/butterfly.html
If you come to the Wimberly Butterfly Festival, you can help us release our Living Butterflies
at 2 times, 9:00AM or 1:30PM.
The letter is the spot on the poster it is in, followed by place won by online voting:
Here are our Grade Level Winners
Blake Baros Kinder C3-K Olvera C 1st
Brant Oldenburger Kinder C6-K Garza F 2nd
Eleanor Sanford Kinder C5-K Escalante E 3rd
Zaya Benavides Kinder C6-K Garza F 1st
Lucy Butler Kinder C5-K Escalante E 2nd
Stevie Levels Kinder C2-K Williams B 3rd
Stella Burns First C1-1st Barnett A 1st
Rudransh Khadanga First C3-1st McDaid C 2nd
Lucas Miller First C2-1st Shuler B 3rd
Maya Hetzer First C7-1st Buttner G 3rd
Ava Neeley First C8-1st Birnbaum H 3rd
Zoe Kibodeaux First C2-1st Shuler B 1st
Annabelle Combs First C5-1st Zamora E 2nd
Alice Gonzales First C4-1st Wilder D 3rd
Taylor Candelas Second C7-2nd Stautz G 1st
Hazel Gaytan Second C6-2nd Harcey F 2nd
Harper Briscoe Second C3-2nd Ward C 3rd
Emme Forney Second C1-2nd Chaparro A 1st
Riley Himes Second C5-2nd O'Dowd E 2nd
Angelique Martinez Second C3-2nd Ward C 3rd
Cooper Lacey Third C5-3rd Doerr E 1st
Autumn Escobar Third C2-3rd Amel B 2nd
Eddie Bustamante Third C3-3rd Johnson C 3rd
Quinn Dixon Third C5-3rd Doerr E 1st
Georgia Nowick Third C8-3rd O'Banan H 2nd
Austin Beveridge Third C9-3rd Brauchle I 3rd
Julie Carroll Fourth C5-4th White E 1st
Tylar Martaindale Fourth C8-4th Andrade H 2nd
Jaxon Lancaster Fourth C1-4th Bell A 3rd
Syed Ali Fourth C3-4th Beveridge C 1st
Stella Benedicto Mayberry Fourth C4-4th Segovia D 1st
Avah Hawkins Fourth C1-4th Bell A 2nd
Stephen Honeycutt Fourth C8-4th Andrade H 3rd
Ananya Singla Fifth C5-5th Finley C 1st
Jon Issac Falls Fifth C2-5th Higgins A 2nd
Samuel Sellers Fifth C7-5th Royal B 3rd
Jameson Garcia Fifth C7-5th Royal D 1st
Ameli Lopez Fifth C4-5th Wagoner I 2nd
Katherine Bond Fifth C7-5th Royal A 2nd
Genevieve Campbell Fifth C7-5th Royal E 3rd
Kat DeSantis Fifth C5-5th Finley C 3rd
Thank you to all that Voted!
Important Upcoming Dates to Remember -updated weekly!
Please check the calendar often as it will be updated on a weekly basis.
APRIL
1: Student Holiday/ Staff Workday
5: Wear your House Shirt!
8: Total Solar Eclipse Day! STUDENT AND STAFF HOLIDAY
9: Kinder graduation pictures
9: PTA - Elections Meeting - 6:00 pm - Library
12: Buddy Huddle - Wear your House Shirt
16: STAAR Test - Reading - grades 3,4,5
19: Wear your House Shirt
20: EmilyAnn Butterfly Festival - Wimberly
23: STAAR Test - Science - grade 5
26: Grade Level Huddle - Wear your House Shirt
30: STAAR Test - Math - grades 3,4,5
MAY
6-10: TEACHER/STAFF APPRECIATION WEEK!
6: 3rd grade Market Day
10: House Assembly - Wear your House Shirt!
11: Hays CISD Choral Festival
14: PTA meeting - ZOOM 6:00 pm
16: House Party
17: House Cup Carnival - Wear the Winning House's Colors
22: 4th grade TEXAS Play at the PAC - 5:30 pm
23: Last Day of School for Students - Class parties
23: 5th grade Advancement Ceremonies
STREAMS NIGHT PHOTOS!
Your child lost their badge? BADGES ARE REQUIRED FOR EACH STUDENT!
Parents must purchase a new one for $5.00. Preferably on Revtrak on the Negley website, or $5.00 cash. This is for House Lanyard Badges AND Bus SmartTags. Teachers will be contacting you if your child needs a new badge.
Here is the link if needed:
INFORMATION BELOW THIS TITLE IS OLDER, BUT IMPORTANT TO KEEP FOR REFERENCE!
Car rider line - now closes at 3:15!
Remember to bring your picture ID - always!
This does not apply to evening activities - just the school day.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Updated - District Dress Code for Students
Hays CISD Dress Code Clarification
Upon further discussion, we have decided to send out clarification regarding our district’s dress code expectations for the 2023-2024 school year. Below you will find our dress code expectations:
- All pants/shorts/skirts/skorts should be worn at the waist to avoid “sagging/bagging.”
- Tight fitting pants, such as (tights, spandex, bicycle pants, leggings) should be worn with a shirt that covers the stomach.
- Fashionable pants featuring minimal holes and frays can be worn if it does not reveal the undergarment or skin above mid-thigh.
- Shorts, skirts and/or skorts are appropriate to wear if they do not reveal the buttocks area.
- Shirts should not be see-through or transparent, reveal excessive cleavage, or show the stomach/back area.
- Hats may be worn outside the building to prevent facial sun exposure. Wearing a hat inside the building may be considered based on individual circumstances that may include medical and/or other factors. Documentation will be required to support exceptions.
- Sweatshirts and/or shirts with hoodies may be worn if the hoodie is not worn over the head inside the building.
- SmartTags/Student IDs are part of the dress code. Students are expected to wear their ID every day around their neck.
District Guidelines - Toy Weapons
From our Student Services Director, Brian Dawson:
We are seeing students bring their toy weapons to school. Specifically, toy guns and lasers. They have not used them as a threat toward anyone. However, these items can cause fear with the current time we are living in.
A replica of a weapon, such as a toy gun, is not a weapon. However, a student can receive both campus consequences for bringing the item(s) to campus, on a bus, or a school-sponsored event. If the item is thought to be or represented as a real weapon, a student could go to our District Alternative Education Program.
In our student code of conduct, it states:
Possession of Prohibited Items
Students shall not possess or use:
- Fireworks of any kind, smoke or stink bombs, or any other pyrotechnic device;
- A razor, box cutter, chain, or any other object used in a way that threatens or inflicts bodily injury to another person;
- A “look-alike” weapon that is intended to be used as a weapon or could reasonably be perceived as a weapon;
- An air gun or BB gun;
- Ammunition;
- A hand instrument designed to cut or stab another by being thrown;
- A firearm silencer or suppressor;
- A location-restricted knife;
- A club;
- A firearm;
- A firearm silencer or suppressor;
- A stun gun;
- Knuckles;
- A pocket knife or any other small knife;
- Mace or pepper spray;
- Pornographic material;
- Tobacco products, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and any component, part, or accessory for an e-cigarette device (HB 114 requires mandatory placement in a DAEP for any offenses related to e-cigarettes);
- Matches or a lighter;
- A laser pointer, unless it is for an approved use; or
- Any articles not generally considered to be weapons, including school supplies, when the principal or designee determines that a danger exists.
Negley Procedures
****NEW THIS YEAR!****
· Lost Student ID Badges must be replaced as soon as possible. The cost is $5.00 through Revtrak on the Negley website.
· No parent escort of students to their classrooms will occur. Visitors coming in for lunch or special events must sign in at the front desk with proper ID to receive their visitor sticker.
Bell Schedule:
- Doors open at 7:00 am.
- Breakfast is served until 7:25.
- School starts and the tardy bell rings at 7:30. The car rider line doors will close at 7:30 - You will need to drop your child off at the front of the school if you arrive after that.
- From 7:00 – 7:15 students may go to Shipyard in the gym or to the cafeteria for breakfast.
- Students may walk to class starting at 7:15.
Attendance:
· Attendance is taken at 10:00 am each morning. If your student is not in the school at this time, they will be counted absent for the day.
· Anytime your student is absent, please send an email/doctor’s note to the attendance clerk, Deborah Wilson, at nes.attendance@hayscisd.net. The note should include student’s name, student id#, date(s) of absence and reason for absence. Please note that we need an excuse anytime and for any reason your student is absent.
· If your student is absent due to fever, they must be fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medication to be cleared to return to school.
· Doctor’s appointments are inevitable, but we do ask that doctor’s notes be provided for any absence resulting from one. **If your student is present on campus at any point during a school day, AND a doctor’s note is provided, the absence will be rescinded.
· Absences cannot be future coded. Anytime your student is absent, you will receive the automated attendance message (even if an email was sent before attendance was taken.) The attendance clerk will re-code absences after attendance is taken.
Lunch:
- Visitors can have lunch with students in the cafeteria, and MUST be on the student’s approved visitor list. You must stop at the front office with proper ID and receive your visitor sticker first. Report to the cafeteria to meet your child - only your child may sit with you – then check out with the front office when lunch has concluded. Classroom hallways are NOT OPEN to visitors during instructional time 7:30 – 2:55.
- The front office does not deliver. Your student will be called down from class to get any lunches, water bottles or forgotten items. Please LABEL all items with student’s name and teacher.
- We will NOT accept food from meal delivery services! Visitors may still bring restaurant food for their students.
Dismissal:
· School gets out at 2:55 pm.
· Every family must choose ONE form of dismissal: Walker, Independent Walker, Car Rider, Bus, or After-School Care. If there are any variations to your student’s dismissal, these need to be on a SET SCHEDULE for the teacher to follow.
- Transportation changes are a LAST RESORT and will only be accepted for family emergencies/unforeseen circumstances. These are to be requested through Kaci in the front office by 2:00. 512-268-8501 or nes.attendance@hayscisd.net. Teacher’s name must be included.
- The LATEST a student can be picked up early before dismissal is 2:15 pm. PLEASE PLAN DOCTOR APPOINTMENTS ACCORDINGLY. It is your responsibility to know the student’s teacher when picking them up.
- Students MUST be picked up by 3:15 at the latest. The Front Office closes at 3:30.
Birthdays:
- Please contact your student’s teacher prior to bringing treats – they will give you classroom allergy info and class count.
- Parents cannot attend birthday celebrations in the classroom. Birthday treats will be handed out to students during the last 15 minutes of the day. Hays CISD recommends individually wrapped items (ex. Little Debbie treats). Homemade items will not be accepted. Please do not bring drinks! Balloons may NOT be taken into the school beyond the reception area.
- Parents are not allowed to bring food for other children for lunch – no “birthday pizza”, etc. for the class. This is strictly prohibited due to federal guidelines.
Cell Phone Policy:
Student use guidelines during the school day (7:00 AM-2:55 PM)
- Cell phones and Apple-type watch devices must be out of sight, on airplane mode, and in your child's backpack.
- Students will not have their cell phones out during class, passing periods, recess, or in the restroom.
- Students will not be allowed to call their parent on their phone/Apple watch during the school day. Students can use classroom telephones at the teacher’s discretion. If parents need to reach their child, they can leave a message at the front desk if it's urgent.
NEGLEY AFTER-SCHOOL OPTIONS
YMCA/Extend-a-Care – On site: 512-236-9622, eacy@austinymca.org
Rocking Horse Academy: 512-405-3700
Stepping Stone Kyle: 512-268-0123
Stepping Stone Plum Creek: 512-262-7409
Kyle Bright Beginnings: 512-312-4341