Partee General News

Partee Elementary Parent Newsletter - January 2025

January Events

1/20 - MLK Holiday (Staff/Student Holiday- no school)

1/24 - Award's Ceremony for 1st Semester

Principal's Message

Happy New Year!

Welcome Back! I hope your winter break included lots of fun and great times with your family. It always amazes me how much our students mature when they return to school in January. Our students have come back focused, engaged, and ready to learn.

We are looking forward to the second semester. We experienced great success the first half of the year and are ready to finish the year strong. Please make sure to mark your calendars for the events we have each month. You can find this information in the newsletter and on the calendar that's on the Partee ES website.

Generals Salute,

Mrs. Clowers

Partee's Administrative Team Updates

Ms. Barnes has now transitioned into her new role as Title I Coordinator for GCPS. Please help me welcome Ms. Raina Brown to Partee. Ms. Brown has joined our administrative team and will be with us to end of the school year. Ms. Brown retired from GCPS as an Assistant Principal, and will be at Partee three days a week. We have made a few adjustments to the grade levels that we support. Please see those updates below.

Jennifer Clowers - Principal

Aquanda Barber, Assistant Principal - K, 2, 5 and Special Education

Branddon Benson, Assistant Principal - 1, 3, 4 and Special Areas

Raina Brown, Part-Time Assistant Principal

Welcome Ms. Raina Brown

Good Day Partee Community,

My name is Raina Brown. I am excited to join the Partee Elementary staff as an Assistant Principal for the remainder of the school year. I retired from GCPS after twenty-five years serving students as a teacher and administrator. I have been in education for thirty-three years in elementary and middle school levels. Throughout my career, I have been engaged with the curriculum, instruction, and assessment of students at various levels and languages.

As I work with the Partee Elementary staff, I look forward to continuing Partee’s mission of pursuing academic rigor through excellence in education. I enjoy the challenge of the rigor of instruction and providing strategies to students and teachers with goals for measurable results.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve in the Partee Community. However I can support, I will do my best.

Respectfully,

Raina Brown

Parent Surveys

We need our parents to take the Georgia Parent Survey. The link for the survey is below.

Georgia Parent Survey

https://survey.gadoe.org/FM?sid=A419E9B0

Clinic

Welcome Ms. Hutto

Partee has a new Clinic Worker. Ms. Hutto is no stranger to Partee as she used to work in our clinic a few years ago. We are happy to have Ms. Hutto back with us.

Hello,

I am Leslie Hutto and I am the new Clinic Worker at Partee. I've been working in the Georgia Public School system since 2017, and I am happy to be back serving the amazing Partee Generals. I'll see you around the clinic!

Leslie Hutto

Clinic Worker

678-344-4406

Counselor's Corner

Attendance

As a reminder, please send in attendance/doctors notes when your child is absent or tardy.
Students who are on time to school and actively engaged in instructional activities greatly increase their knowledge, skills, and learning in general.
It is my belief that students who are consistently tardy or absent miss out on teacher directions for morning activities, school wide morning announcements, and overall, lose valuable instructional time. Instructional time is needed to acquire skills in reading, math, spelling, writing, social studies, or science.

Child Lure Lesson

Parents, our counselors will deliver to the students the child lures lesson: "Think First & Stay Safe™ in the months of January and February. Please review the child lure parent letter that was sent home before the December break.

Ms. Kitchen

Bolaji Orokunle

School Counselor

770-982-6920

kerronn.kitchen@gcpsk12.org

bolaji.orokunle@gcpsk12.org

Welcome back, Generals!

We are ready to begin 2025 with some great reads but there are still many outstanding overdue library books. We need your help to recover them!

Here are some helpful tips for school library books:

Ask your child's teacher or Mrs. Espinoza when their scheduled library day is.
Keep a designated spot for library books or always return them to your child's book bag.
View what books your student has borrowed via Parent Vue.

If books are completely and utterly lost, the replacement fee is $5. If a book is found after payment, a refund will be issued. We appreciate your efforts to keep books in circulation and in the hands of our students!

DeAnna Espinoza

Media Specialist

Partee Elementary School

(678) 344 4404

Family Engagement Center

Happy New Year to our Generals and welcome back. As we start this new year, we would like to thank all our families for staying in touch and keeping up with what is happening in school. We have a lot of resources for our students and parents. Please email or call me to get information.

Thank you to our ALL PRO DADS for helping during our Holiday Staff Luncheon!

Please feel free to reach out to me with any concerns or questions.

Ms. Deborah Bridges

Family and Community Engagement Coordinator

Parent Outreach Liaison

Deborah.Bridges@gcpsk12.org

678-344-4410

1st Semester Award's Day

We will celebrate our students for their hard work on Friday, January 24th. The 1st semester Award's Day will be held in the classrooms. Parents can attend either virtually or in-person. Due to limited space within the classroom, we ask that only 1-2 parents attend. If your child will be recognized for their achievements, their teacher will send you an invitation with the Zoom link.

Below are the Awards Day times for each grade level:

9:20 SPED

9:30 KK

10:00 2nd

10:30 4th

11:15 5th

12:00 3rd

12:30 1st

English Classes

Learn basic English in a friendly environment. Join us every other Thursday at 10:00 am at Partee Elementary School:

January 9th, 23rd

February 6th, 20th

March 6th, 20th

April 3rd, 17th

May 1st, 15th

Cafeteria

If your student eats lunch in the cafeteria, there is a fee.
If the student did not qualify for free and reduced lunch, then we have to charge the students MyPaymentsPlus account.
A student is only able to charge up to $11.25. If the student reaches that amount, and does not have any money on their account, then the student receives another lunch until their account is paid.
Please make sure your student has money in their account in order to get the lunch they desire.

Important Reminders

Early Check Out

For the safety and security of our students, early check out will not be allowed after 2:30 pm.
When checking students out, you must show ID and be listed as one who is approved to check the student out.

Lunch visitors and Birthday's

Food from outside the cafeteria is not permitted. The only time we allow outside food is during our Lunch on the Lawn event.
Birthday's can only be celebrated during lunch. Please do not bring balloons, stuffed animals, gift bags, etc. please. You are more than welcome to bring store bought cupcakes, cookies, donuts, etc.

Transportation Changes

For the safety and security of all students, please try to keep afternoon transportation consistent. In the event that changes are needed, please do the following:
One-day change: Write a note and attach a copy of your driver' license. Request can be delivered by the student or emailed to partee.transportation@gcpsk12.org. Please call the school by 2:30 to verify that the request was received.
Temporary/Permanent Changes (minimum of 5 days): The parent or guardian must come in and complete a "change of transportation" form in the front office.