The Panther Press

Enjoy your 3 day weekend!

September

3-MAP Fluency 1st

4-MAP Fluency 1st

5-MAP Fluency K

6-MAP Fluency K

9-13Book Fair

12-Watch Dog Kick Off

20-Go Gold! For Childhood Cancer

26-Early Dismissal

27-Fort Bend County Fair Day

30-CoGAT Testing- K

We are excited to start our Innovative School Day program on September 3rd. The Innovative School Day aims to share our plan for “rethinking the school days to give teachers an uninterrupted half-day every two weeks to work collaboratively with their team to plan high-quality, highly rigorous, and engaging lessons as well as administrative tasks.” On the day the teachers collaborate, students will be engaged in literacy and science enrichment, social-emotional learning, and STEM-based learning.

Teachers will communicate Innovative School Day weeks so that you are aware of schedule changes. Please note this is not an early release day, just a restructured day.

Please review the attached letter for information about access to libraries and library materials.

Please visit the Friends of Morgan spirit shop to get your 2024-2025 Theme shirt! Everyday our Panthers are “Aiming high and shooting for the stars” please help us celebrate by wearing every Monday and all school field trips!

We are refining our walker procedures to make the process smoother for you and our students. Starting Monday, August 19th. Walkers will be held at the side gate at the end of the car rider line and collected by the adults there. We will no longer be utilizing the front entrance. Please ensure you have the car tag in hand and on your student’s bag. It makes the pick-up process quicker! In addition, please form a line, and we will send students out of the gate in the order you arrive. Please be conscientious of others who arrived before you. All of these procedures ensure the safety of our students and we appreciate your understanding as we make the appropriate changes.

***During inclement weather, we will go to our Rainy Dismissal: All walkers will need to be picked up in the car rider line***

Starting the 2024-2025 school year, Lamar CISD is moving from Smart Tag to Versatrans My Stop. You can access your student’s bus route through the MyStop e-link to view:

- Route number

- Bus stops

- Estimated arrival/drop-off times

Click here to login: https://mystop.lcisd.org/elinkrp/Login.aspx

All you need is your student(s) ID number and date of birth to login. To view instructions on accessing the e-link: https://youtu.be/nmd_284gp9U.

You can also download the Versatrans My Stop App to view your student(s) active bus route’s arrival time to the designated bus stop. Guardians can register one student. If they have more students within the district, they will be added to the same account. To login, you need your student(s) ID number and date of birth.

For more information, please visit https://www.lcisd.org/transportation.

If you take your child out of school before dismissal time, you will need to report to the office to sign him/her out. Your child will stay in the classroom until you arrive. If it necessary for someone other than the parent/guardian pick up your child, that person must be signed, dated note with the child. The person picking up your child must show photo identification to the office staff. Accumulated time of early pick-ups is calculated by minutes in lost instruction time. Request to check out your child must be done prior to 1:45 p.m.

Any changes in the normal transportation of your child must be stated in writing with a parent/guardian signature. We ask for everyone's help in not making changes frequently. However, we understand that in rare cases, unexpected changes will need to happen. These can be called in to the front office by 1:45 pm. We are not able to process changes after 1:45 pm. This includes parents that come to the campus without prior notice to pick up their child. Any change in transportation arrangements for any student requires a note to the teacher. Make sure you write your child's first and last name, teacher's name and indicate the date(s) for the change and how the child is going to go home. We ask that the parents not email the change since there maybe times that a teacher is not in attendance or does not have a chance to read their email.

Please note on early release days the latest you can pick up is 11:00 am!

Students at Morgan Elementary are not required to wear uniforms. We follow the Lamar CISD dress code.

Follow our Friends of Morgan on Facebook and the website by clicking the buttons below. Friends of Morgan is our Parent Teacher Organization that will support the faculty, students and parents of Morgan Elementary.

Since we are a new school, they are currently working through the process for being able to fundraise to provide amazing opportunities for our Morgan Panther staff and students.

We love volunteers! As we work to build our volunteer base and systems, FOM will be working with the campus to coordinate volunteer activities. More information to come.

The entrance and exit onto the campus grounds are located right off of 1093, directly in front of the Weston Lakes subdivision.

Parent Drop Off

Cars will turn left to enter the “parent entry” as illustrated on the traffic flow map.

Cars will enter the path in a single file line. The path opens into two lanes, and vehicles will need to merge as they get closer to the point of student drop-off in front of the school. (Please see traffic flow map below)

Car Rider Arrival Guidelines

• Our doors open at 6:45 am. Please do not drop off your child before then as we do not want them left unattended.
• Please drive all the way up to the first drop-off point where a staff member/safety patrol student will be ready to receive cars. We ask that your child is ready when it is time to unload. This includes having their Morgan lanyard w/Smart Tag on, water bottle/lunch kit and backpack on.
• For safety reasons, we are not able to unbuckle safety restraints.

• All students will exit the car on the passenger side.
• Please stay in a single-file line and refrain from passing any vehicles.

• For safety reasons, the only place parents/guardians are permitted to drop students off is at the “parent drop off” in the front drive of the school, where staff and safety patrol will be positioned daily to help students exit safely from cars. Please help us keep our students safe by adhering to this guideline.

• The staff and visitor entrance will be coned off beginning at 6:45 am during morning arrival daily. For the safety of everyone, parents are not permitted to park in the front parking lot and walk students up to the front door. The staff and visitor entrance will be coned off at 6:45 am during morning arrival daily. A staff member will be stationed there to assist parents who might need front office assistance.

Car Rider Dismissal Guidelines

• Please remember that the school day ends at 2:40 pm. All cars should be in line by this time so that we can effectively coordinate dismissal.
• Please place your car rider tag on your rearview mirror with the number facing out. A staff member will be walking the line, recording your car rider tag number.
• You will pull up to the first available cone and the staff member will match the car rider number on your car tag to the number on the child’s transportation tag. If you are carpooling, you must have the tags of all the students you are picking up. We will not release any students without an official car rider tag.
• If you do not have the car rider tag, you will need to park and come into the building to check your child out in person, making sure you have valid identification.
• Check-out from the office will occur once the car rider line is clear.
• For safety reasons, we are not able to buckle safety restraints.
• Please do not attempt to pass another car while in the car rider line.
• Please stay in a single file line until you exit the driveway.
• If you arrive after all numbers have been inputted into the system, you will be advised to park and check your child out in the office.

Below, please find the Morgan Elementary Parent Handbook. (Updated July 2024)

This handbook has been designed to give you a quick, brief list of answers to questions, which

may arise, concerning Morgan Elementary School’s operational procedures.

Our campus wide newsletters will supplement the information herein, but if procedure or policy questions are still unanswered you may refer to the Elementary Student Handbook or contact our school to clarify these concerns.

We will update our page as often as possible to share as much as we can about Morgan and the achievements of the students and staff, as well as other relevant campus and district information.

Please click on the PDF below to access the Morgan Elementary Facebook page policy.

Messages for school staff will not be checked or responded to on Facebook. If anyone would like to reach school staff, please do so by calling the campus or emailing the appropriate staff member for assistance. Our campus phone number will be posted soon.

Jana Simoneaux, Principal jsimoneaux@lcisd.org

Sara Ballard, Asst. Principal sara.ballard@lcisd.org

Elizabeth Pena, Counselor elizabeth.pena@lcisd.org

Kelsey Marks, Counselor kelsey.marks@lcisd.org

Website: https://www.lcisd.org/campuses/morgan/home
Location: 32727 School Hill Road Fulshear, Texas
Phone: 832-223-6200
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FletcherMorganES