Today is an exciting day for our students! It is HOUSE reveal day! ALL students who have not been assigned a house, will come home with their new house. Ask them about their house and the many details they represent. If student already had a house from last school year, it remains the same.

We are gearing up for our first HOUSE RALLY on Friday, October 18th. Get your house shirts so you can have them in time!

Please click on the link below to volunteer for a Watch D.O.G.S. day at YES. On scheduled day, dads should plan to arrive with ID between 7:15 and 7:25 to check in at the front office. Watch D.O.G.S. can bring their lunch or purchase lunch in the café.

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Reminder, all dads will need to complete the Katy ISD Volunteer Registration through Raptor and purchase a Watch D.O.G.S. shirt prior to your scheduled day.

• Register as a volunteer through Raptor (District Volunteer Application)
• Order Watch D.O.G.S shirt WATCHDOGS (dadsofgreatstudents.com)

Looking forward to having our Watch D.O.G.S. on campus.

Please only sign up for one day.

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Parents and Community Members,

Do you know of someone who would be a phenomenal mentor at our campus? We are actively recruiting mentors for our KEYS program, which is available at every campus and grade level. The KEYS Mentor Program is focused on building relationships and supporting students, and we're looking for individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and age groups who have a heart for students and a willingness to volunteer.

Mentors must commit to one school year, complete an application, pass the same criminal background check as Katy ISD employees, and attend an orientation. Mentors are paired with a student by our KEYS campus liaison and meet weekly on campus in a monitored environment, such as the library.

If you know of a community member or business interested in supporting our program, please share this opportunity! Mentor applications can be completed at this link: https://www.katyisd.org/Page/8132 Be sure to choose Youngblood as your campus of choice 🙂

** Mentors are not typically placed at their personal children's home campus.***

Thank you for your support!

In Katy ISD, ALL students and staff are required to wear their picture ID on a breakaway lanyard during the school day. Please ensure that if you are providing a lanyard for your student, it MUST be a breakaway closure. This type of lanyard ensures that if a student gets caught on something that the lanyard would quickly release. The campus provided lanyard is the safest for our students.

We are in the process of ensuring that all our students have been issued a picture ID and lanyard. We will also ensure that each student gets an ID that is placed on their backpack with a ziptie for Katy ISD transportation purposes. Please make sure the backpack ID stays in place.

We are here if you have any questions regarding students IDs, lanyards, and backpack IDs.

If a student loses their ID, the staff will reach out to you to purchase a replacement.

• Doors open at 7:25 am
• Be in the car rider line no later than 7:45 am in the morning. We will close the line at 7:45 to ensure that our staff has time to make it to their teaching assignments and ready for students. After 7:45, parents will need to PARK and walk the student inside to the front office. Please refrain from dropping students in the parking lot and letting them walk in. This practice is not safe.
  
• Refrain from using your cell phone in the car rider line
• Afternoon car rider line will close for cars to enter at 3:10 pm. Remember, the end of our school day is 3:00 pm.

• Please STAY INSIDE the car. The staff will unload and load the student from the passenger side
• Please pull into the parking lot if you need to help your child buckle up, so that you do not hold up the carline.
• Wait for the staff to move all 12 cars forward. Please do not go around cars in the car rider line.

IMPORTANT: Please remember, there is no picking up of students in the front office after 2:30 pm. If a parent is not in the car rider line by the designated time, they can enter the office, but will need to wait until those who are in the car rider line are served. We will release car riders from the front office desk after the car rider line is finished. Please understand that this is us respecting the many families who are following campus procedures. With 1100+ students there is no immediate pick up system for students.

The YES 2024-2025 Campus Procedures can be reviewed in the document below.

All students at YES in grades K-5 are eligible for Katy ISD transportation. We have many of our students taking transportation to/from school each day. In order to help with our traffic in the area, you may want to consider bus services.

Katy ISD will continue with the bus rider tracking system, SMART tag on all of our buses. Parents will be able to monitor their child's ridership and bus route through the SMART Tag Parent Web Portal. The system will enable parents, bus drivers, and school administrators, to review in real-time when and where a student is picked up or dropped off by a school bus. Student identification (ID) cards for eligible riders will include the SMART Tag ID information. Buses will be equipped with a tablet that will read each student’s ID every time they enter and exit their bus.

If your student is a bus rider, look for the white route number on the side of the bus when tracking their bus this school year! And make sure to download the Smart tag™ app from your mobile Google Play Store or Apple App Store! The Smart Tag app allows parents to set their preferred notifications, including when their child’s bus is expected to arrive. You can also see when and where your student boards and exits the bus.

Our PTA is always looking for parents to support our children and staff. Support could be from near or far. Please consider supporting our campus by becoming a member of our PTA.

There will be several opportunities this year to get involved.

Memberships are so vital for helping the PTA work in partnership with the school to make great things happen for our learning community.

Friday, September 13th

• House Reveal Day Pre-k, Kindergarten and new students
• Purchase HOUSE spirit wear to wear each Friday

Tuesday, September 17th

• Curriculum Night--2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th grades
• choose 1 session--5:00pm- 5:45 pm or 6:00 pm-6:45 pm

Thursday, September 19th

• Picture Day--Bring your smile!
• Don't forget to purchase your pictures

Friday, September 20th

• No school for students
• Campus Professional Development Day for staff
• 3rd - 6th Grade Family STEAM Night at Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM
  

Monday, September 23rd

• Power of Purpose Fundraiser Kick-Off for students

Tuesday, September 24th

• PTA General Meeting @ 4:00 pm @ YES in the LGI

Thursday, September 26th

• WATCH D.O.G. Dads on campus

Monday, September 30th

• Campus Advisory Team (CAT) Meeting @ 4:00 pm

Tuesday, October 1st

• Campus Volunteer Training 8:15 am-9:15 am YES LGI
• Mandatory Parent Meeting for Read, Deed, Run (RDR) @ 5:30 pm

Website: https://www.katyisd.org/YES
Location: 25600 Longenbaugh Road, Katy, TX, USA
Phone: (281)234-6200
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094119368508