Thank you so much for supporting our teachers and staff during Teacher Appreciation week! A special thanks to the Rocky Mount Church of the Nazarene, St. Paul's Baptist Church, Local First Bank, and the Benvenue PTO for providing lunch, snacks and sweet treats all week! We really appreciate your thoughtfulness!

SAVE THE DATES!!!!!

The end of the school year is quickly approaching. Please mark your calendars for these important dates in May:

Invitations went home in Thursday Folders

K-2 Awards During Specials - 5/13/24 - Multi-Purpose Room

Kindergarten @ 8:45

First Grade @ 9:35

Second Grade @ 10:30

Grades 3-4 Awards During Specials - 5/14/24 - Multi-Purpose Room

Fourth Grade @ 1:15

Third Grade @ 2:05

End-of-Grade Testing - Week of May 20 - May 24 Please be at school at 7:55am if you are testing that day.

May 16th-students with small groups group accommodations will be taking the REAding EOG.

May 17th- Students will small group accommodations will be taking the Math EOG

May 20th- Students with small group accommodations will be taking the Science EOG

May 21 All class Reading EOG 3-5

May 22 All class MAth EOG 3-5

MAy 23rd All class Science grade 5

Please make sure your child gets plenty of sleep and arrives at school on by 7:55am while we are testing. All students can eat breakfast in the cafeteria prior to the start of testing. If your child arrives after the testing session has begun, they will have to test away from their class at a later time. Students will not be allowed to check out until testing is complete for that day.

End-of-the Year PBIS Celebration/EOG Make Ups - May 24

Students who have met their PBIS goals will be allowed to attend during their special time. This event is for students only.

Memorial Day Holiday - 5/27/24

No School for students & staff

Fifth Grade Moving Up Ceremony - 5/28/24 @ 9:00am - Multi-Purpose Room

Fifth grade students will receive their awards and promotion certificate to sixth grade. We ask that students dress nicely for this event. Due to fire code capacity, this is a ticket only event. Each student will be given 3 tickets for family members to attend.

Classroom Awards & Celebrations - 5/29 - 9:00am-10:00am

Parents are welcome to attend this event. Teachers will present classroom awards and there will be a classroom celebration. Classroom teachers will communicate more information closer to this date.

Early Release - 5/29 & 5/30 @ 1:00pm

Last Day of School - 5/30/24

Remediation for Retesting: students who have passed the course but have failed the EOG will be given an opportunity to retake the test they did not pass. The schedule is as follows:

May 31 Remediation 8-3:00

June 3 ELA 8-1pm

June 4 Math

June 5 Science

Please continue to reference the expectation chart above. By working together, we can ensure that your student will receive all the support needed to be successful this year. Each marking period we will notify you where your student is at in terms of promotion. At any time, you are able to schedule a time to meet with your student's teacher as well.

If a student does not pass a test, they will have an opportunity to retake upon student request. This will need to be requested no later than a week after the grade is posted. 3-5 parents please stay current on Powerschool to keep up with tests and missed work.

Our school won the district's Exact Path/Edmentum award for increasing 139% in trophies, proficiency and usage. This is a great tool for students to use at home as well to practice digital testing and standards. Please contact your student's teacher if you need help logging on at home.

In order to provide continuing support for North Carolina’s youngest readers, The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning has developed and released “Literacy at Home.” This digital resource provides literacy activities at each grade level, pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Families and communities may access this resource for activities that specifically target the literacy skills of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and oral language. When children grow in each of these foundational areas they are well on their way to becoming proficient readers. Click below to access:

Arrival

The first day of school, students will not be allowed to be walked to class by a parent. This will need to be practiced on Open House Night 8/22. Please let your teacher know which mode of transportation you would like your student to use during dismissal.

Students can be dropped off in carline from 7:20-7:55am. Breakfast will be served from 7:20-7:55am. After 7:55am, all breakfast will stop being served and cleaned up and instruction will begin promptly at 8am. Students are not to bring outside breakfast after 7:55am. At 7:55am the carline will end and students will need to be dropped off and signed in at the Main Office. The drop off in front of the school is for buses and self-contained EC students only. All car riders must be dropped off and picked up in the carline only at arrival and dismissal times.

Dismissal

Early checkouts will end at 2:30pm to prepare for dismissal. Whole school dismissal will begin at 3:00-3:25pm. We will not check out students between 2:30-3:00pm. Please check your student out before 2:30pm if they have to check out early. Driver's license must be present when checking out a student.

PIKMYKID Dismissal Application

In our ongoing efforts to enhance your children’s safety, we have decided to begin using the PikMyKid Dismissal Application. Throughout the country, it has been proven to simplify dismissal, reduce traffic congestion, and most importantly, improve overall safety.

The unique features of PikMyKid allow you, as parents, to easily change pick up modes, quickly delegate to an alternate individual for pickup, change to an ‘After School’ program, and even schedule for future pickup mode, pickup individual, and after school programs. This app allows you to be in full control of your child’s dismissal and it gives us, the school, complete information regarding dismissal and the ability to acknowledge every change and to instantly check your child’s dismissal status should you have a question. We are very excited about this addition and know you will be too.

Check your emails over the next week for additional information and we will be on our way to a safer, quicker, and more efficient dismissal process. To Learn a little more on your own, please check out the following link that will show you a few of the PikMyKid features. https://www.pikmykid.com/features/forparents

Good attendance is necessary to obtain academic excellence. Students and their parents must accept responsibility for regular school attendance. State law requires all pupils under the age of sixteen to be in school each day it is in session. Students absent for a whole day must bring a note signed by the parent explaining the reason for the absence. This note should not be written in the agenda. An excused absence is illness, death in the immediate family, religious holidays, doctor or dentist appointment, trips approved in advance through the office and any other absence considered necessary or beneficial by the administration. Missing the bus and truancy are two examples of reasons for an unexcused absence. Making up missed schoolwork is the responsibility of the student. The student must see the teacher(s) for missed assignments. The teacher will work with him/her in setting up a timetable to submit the missed assignments. If not submitted, missed assignments will be reflected in his/her grades.

Early check outs and late check ins will be charted and monitored due to missing student instruction. Habitually late check ins and early check out students will be provided with an attendance contract and possible retention if this behavior continues to occur.

Breakfast

Outside side breakfast can be eaten in the cafeteria between 7:20-7:55am. If you sign in your student after 7:55am, please have do not send in breakfast. Our breakfast ends on our campus at 7:55am. Please have your student consume all food items prior to entering the building after 7:55am.

Lunch

You may bring outside food if you are eating with your student for lunch, please check in at the main office. We will not accept any Door Dash, Grub Hub, or any other food deliveries for students. Students need to bring a lunch or receive a free lunch in the cafeteria. All students eat breakfast and lunch for free on our campus.

Thank you so much for your support regarding this matter.

We have restructured our Positive Behavior Plan for this year. Please click on the link and begin to have discussions on all the ways your student will be rewarded for positive behavior this year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-eCPD1SdIrRPUl8dwiMGr3iMCnFJyOXKTETiqRdmARo/edit?usp=sharing

Each student will need to pay a yearly $20 technology fee each year. This link will allow you to pay this fee online: https://osp.osmsinc.com/NRM/, or you can pay it at BES.

Please us the link below to ask any question or share a suggestion? We will get back with you shortly

Let us know! We would love for parents or guardians who would like to help out at the school. Please just make sure you have been cleared as a current volunteer.

If you are interested in volunteering at BES or chaperoning a field trip, please sign up to be cleared through the Volunteer Portal.

Please sign up here

Sign up to serve with PTO

• Please review the information about the different board roles, teams, and ways to get plugged in to the PTO.
• The information can be found in our MEETING NOTES which are linked here and attached as a PDF to this email.
• Sign up to be a part of the PTO Board or a PTO Team to let us know how you would like to serve/get connected.
• Please complete the engagement form by Monday, October 2, 2023

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