Gayman Gazette

• Tuesday, March 18th @ 2:30PM: 2nd Trimester "Mustang of the Day" Celebration - Invite Only
• Wednesday, March 19th: CB Rock Band Show for 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade
• Friday, March 21st: Wear mismatched Socks for World Down Syndrome Day
• Monday, March 24th @ 7:45AM: Chorus Rehearsal
• Monday, March 24th @ 1:00PM: 2nd Trimester Grades post in Parent Portal
• Tuesday, March 25th: AM Kindergarten Attends in AM - No PM Kindergarten - Parent/Teacher Conferences in PM
• Wednesday, March 26th: PM Kindergarten Attends in PM - No AM Kindergarten - Parent/Teacher Conferences in the AM
• Thursday, March 27th: Phillies Spirit Day
• Thursday, March 27th & Friday, March 28th @ 11:55AM: Eary Dismissal for 1st-6th Grade ONLY- No Kindergarten classes - Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Monday, March 31st @ 7:45AM: Chorus Rehearsal

• Wednesday, April 2nd: "Light up Blue" for Autism Awareness Day 💙
• Wednesday, April 2nd @ 8:00AM: Student Council Meeting
• Thursday, April 3rd @ 3:30PM: Yoga Club
• Friday, April 4th: First Friday Mustang Spirit Day
• Saturday April 5th: Dine & Donate at Borough Bagels
• Monday, April 7th @ 7:45AM: Chorus Rehearsal
• Thursday, April 10th: 6th GR Clean Streams Field Trip
• Thursday, April 10th @ 3:30PM: Yoga Club
• Thursday, April 10th @ 5:45PM: 5th & 6th GR Reading Olympics Competition @ Cold Spring Elementary
• Monday, April 14th @ 7:45AM: Chorus Rehearsal
• Thursday, April 17th: No School for Students (Teacher In-service)
• Friday, April 18th: CBSD Closed (Good Friday)
• Monday, April 21st: No School for Students (Teacher In-service)
• Thursday, April 24th @ 3:30PM: Yoga Club

* Click here for the 2024-2025 District Calendar.

** Click here for access the 2024-2025 Gayman School Calendar.

* Click Here for the 2025-2026 District Calendar.

🟣🔵 SAVE THE DATE - Field Day is Thursday, May 22nd 🔵🟣

Your child is either on the Blue Team or the Purple Team. Their teacher advised them of their team color yesterday. Please call the Gayman office if you do not know what team your child is on.

Join us this Friday in showing support and building awareness for World Down Syndrome Day by rocking your brightly colored, silly, or mismatched socks! We wear our mismatched socks to celebrate the unique differences that make our world brighter. Just as socks may be different colors or patterns, they can happily be worn together if we accept and welcome the differences.

We thank you for participating in this worldwide celebration and for "Rocking Your Socks" with us!

CBSD has launched a new Volunteer Tracking System through RAPTOR. We are encouraging everyone to open up an account as soon as possible. If you have a current account with App Garden you can download all your clearance documents from that account and upload them into RAPTOR.

• Click Here to create your RAPTOR Account

• Clearance retrieval from App Garden/Volunteer Tracker: Please Click Here for instructions on how to retrieve your current clearances.

Please make sure you have ALL the clearance documents ready to be uploaded when creating your RAPTOR account.

Please call the Gayman front office if you have any questions.

It is time to order your GAYMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL yearbook!

School Passcode: 10157566069198

Yearbook costs $21.60 and includes 2 CUSTOM PAGES for FREE.

These pages are printed only in your yearbook. You can add more custom pages, each additional 2 pages is $.99.

All orders must be placed by April 21st.

Our second trimester conferences will take place on Thursday, March 27th and Friday, March 28th for 1st-6th grades. Kindergarten parent teacher conferences will take place on March 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th.

Second trimester report card grades will be posted in the Parent Portal on Monday, March 24th @ 1:00PM.

NOTE: Report cards can be found in documents, as opposed to backpack, to view the current year’s report card.

CHORUS REHEARSAL - DAY 2

STRINGS LESSONS - DAY 4

BAND LESSONS - DAY 5

• Gayman Elementary Website
• Gayman Facebook Group
• March Breakfast Menu
• March Lunch Menu

Join Us for "Screenagers: Elementary School Age Edition" on March 25 at Lenape. Are you watching kids become too accustomed to using technology at too young an age? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw this happening with her kids and wondered about the impact and the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time. The result is "Screenagers: Elementary School Age Edition."

On Tuesday, March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Lenape Middle School auditorium, parents, guardians, and caregivers are invited to a screening of the film, which will kick off a CBSD series on digital wellness. "Screenagers: Elementary School Age Edition" is a version of the original "Screenagers" movie and addresses issues that elementary school aged kids, parents and educators are facing, such as smartwatches in class, unhooking from and monitoring video gaming, social media pressures, exposure too young, and what research shows is a healthy amount of screen time. Solutions are also offered.

No pre-registration is required. This event is for parents, guardians and caregivers only. There will be no child care available.

Learn the latest about options for the capital needs at Doyle, Kutz and Linden Elementary schools and share your feedback with district leadership at the third town hall meeting on the subject on Thursday, March 27th at 7 p.m. at CB South. No pre-registration is required. Learn more and submit comments or questions.

CBSD's "Making Practices Public” webpage provides families one-stop access to important resources concerning operational processes; major projects; family supports; and more. Recent information added to the page includes: Artificial Intelligence in CBSD and the Kindergarten Early Entry Application Process. Visit webpage

Congrats to Barclay 5th grader David Martinez-Cortes for winning the March round of CBSD's lock screen contest! His original artwork inspired by the "Thoughtful Collaborators" attribute of CBSD's Portrait of a Graduate is featured on district devices throughout March. Students can now try their hand at winning the next round of the contest, inspired the "Adaptable Innovators" attribute. Submissions are due April 20. More details

Did you know there's a webpage on CBSD.org where you can get information on various community events and activities happening around Central Bucks? Recent additions include flyers about Bucks County Youth Symphony Orchestra tryout, CB East swim clinic, Doylestown Athletic Association baseball and co-ed volleyball, Warrington spring soccer, and YMCA summer camp flyers. Check it out now!

Lunch costs have increased by $.10 for the 24-25 school year.

The district is continuing to offer free breakfast!

Lunch Cost: $2.85

CBSD utilizes the online platform MySchoolBucks for school meal payments, making it easy to oversee a child's meal choices and maintain their account balance. It is important that an account is created for every student, regardless of whether they take part in school meals or not.

You can access MySchoolBucks to view and/or set up an account for your student(s) here.

To set up an account, you will need your child(ren)'s student identification number(s), which can be found in the Parent Portal.

The application for free and reduced meal pricing for the 2024-25 school year is open. You can access the online application for Free & Reduced Meals by clicking here. The application must be submitted each year AND for each child. If your child received free or reduced lunch last year, you must re-apply for the 24-25 school year.

Learn more by visiting the full informational webpage here.

Check out our new Gayman spirit wear, Field Day t-shirts and accessories via this link: Gayman Elementary - Spring Wear 2025

The online store is open for shopping Now through March 31st and orders will be delivered to Gayman the week of April 18th.

Each student has been assigned their field day team color; please reach out to the teacher or the Gayman front office if you are unsure of your child's team.

If you have any questions or concerns about the sale please reach out to Home and School via GHSAinquiries@gmail.com

It’s hard to believe, but the end of the year and our 6th graders' time at Gayman is upon us.

Each 6th grader will be given a Tohickon T-Shirt! Please click the following link and fill out the form no later than APRIL 11th for your child's shirt. T-SHIRTs & YARD SIGN FORM If your child is not attending Tohickon, but will be attending another Central Bucks Middle School, please indicate the school name at the bottom of the form.

If you are interested in ordering a yard sign indicated in the form linked above. We have arranged a discounted price if we order 30 or more signs. Once we have an idea of the number of signs that will be ordered, we will request payment via VENMO or you can send CASH into school on Friday, 5/2.

Payment will be between $20-25.

Please direct any questions to Jennifer Davis (jenmdavis03@gmail.com).

The Mustang Muse is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2025 issue! ALL students are invited to submit artwork, poetry, stories or essays. Due to space limitations, only ONE PIECE PER STUDENT may be printed. Work may be submitted to your teacher OR via email: gaymanmustangmuse@gmail.com.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, April 4, 2025.

Gayman Home and School is excited to offer another 4-week session of the Mindful Movement Club (YOGA) after its previous success! Space is limited, so be sure to sign up early.

The club will be held on Thursdays from 3:30pm - 4:30 pm, starting on April 3rd and running through May 1st. No class on April 17th!

The cost is $80 per child for all 4 weeks.

Jess Winn, a dedicated yoga teacher with over a decade of experience, brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the practice. She holds a prestigious 500 E-RYT certification and, best of all, she is a Gayman parent!

To sign up, enter your child's name and teacher in the comment section here: MINDFUL MOVEMENT CLUB SIGN-UP, and then submit payment via Venmo @Gayman-HomeandSchool or send a check payable to GHSA to the Gayman office. Please memo the payment ‘yoga club’.

Due to high interest, we hope to continue offering the Mindful Movement Club in the future!

Namaste!

Learn more about the organization in this video: https://www.waituntil8th.org/our-story

School reminders that will remain in all issues of the Gazette.

All absences must be entered through the Parent Portal.

Click here for more information, including directions on how to upload a student absence: Managing Student Attendance.

CBSD wishes to remind families of important information regarding attendance. Pennsylvania's school laws, like Act 138 of 2016 and the updated Act 16, outline what is required for mandatory school attendance and procedures to follow when students are absent or late. Learn more.

Student dismissal begins promptly at 3:15PM.

If you need to pick your child up early for an appointment, please pick them up no later then 2:45PM. After 2:45PM, your child can be dismissed with the other walkers, bus riders, and car riders in his/her classroom to ensure a safe and efficient dismissal for everyone. Thank you!

To volunteer at a class party or chaperone a field trip, your clearances must be up-to-date & on file with Central Bucks School District.

If your clearances are current, upload them into the RAPTOR Volunteer. If your clearances have expired, or you need to begin the clearance process, click on the Required Documents for the directions. For more information, consult the Human Resources Volunteer Required Paperwork webpage.

Families of students who will be eligible for kindergarten in CBSD in 2025-26 are now able to register online. Families of students in any grade who will be new to CBSD in the 2025-26 school year are also able to register. Learn more about registration here and start a new registration application here.

At Gayman, the use of student cell phones/SMART Watches/personal devices in school is prohibited. As a reminder, these devices are to be silenced and remain in backpacks during the school day. If communication is needed, it will take place with the support of the school office during the school day.

Please be sure to share these expectations with your child as this policy will be enforced by teachers/staff in coordination with District Board policies and our student handbook.

The Patriot Players of Central Bucks East are thrilled to invite the entire CB Community to the spring Production of Anastasia: The Musical. Held this April 3-5 at 7pm and April 6 at 2pm, this year's musical will feature over 140 students working together on and off stage, and in the Pit Orchestra. To ensure the best seating, purchase tickets early today on www.purplepass.com/cbeastanastasia

The Anastasia... her past is a mystery. Her future is an adventure. This dazzling musical, based on the beloved animated movie from 20th Century Fox, transports its audience from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past. Pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the aid of a dashing con man and a lovable ex-aristocrat. Together, they embark on an epic adventure to help her find home, love and family.

Gayman Elementary School

Shawn Ortman, Principal

Jennifer Snyder, Assistant Principal

Jennifer Costello, Office Administrative Assistant

Website: https://www.cbsd.org/gayman
Location: 4440 Point Pleasant Pike, Doylestown, PA, United States
Phone: 2678934350
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