DWE Parent Newsletter

9:00AM homerooms performing:

Cadena, Jerez, Hardin, Cortes, Armas, R. Medina, Garza (4th graders only), Salazar (4th graders only)

1:30PM homerooms performing:

Meza, S. Medina, Tarver, Rosas, Silva

All 4th grade students & 4th/5th grade choirs perform at 6:30PM

Dear Parents and Guardians,

As we move into the flu season, our priority is ensuring the health and well-being of our students. To help reduce the spread of the flu and keep everyone in our school community healthy, we’ve compiled some helpful tips:

1. Encourage Handwashing: Teach your child to wash his/her hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially before eating and after sneezing, coughing, or using the restroom.

2. Cover Coughs and Sneezes: Remind your child to use a tissue or his/her elbow to cover coughs and sneezes to prevent spreading germs.

3. Stay Home if Sick: If your child shows flu-like symptoms (fever, cough, sore throat, body aches), please keep him/her at home until he/she is fever-free for at least 24 hours without medication.

4. Promote Healthy Habits: A balanced diet, regular exercise, and plenty of sleep can boost the immune system and help ward off illnesses.

5. Get Vaccinated: The flu vaccine is one of the most effective ways to protect against the flu. Check with your healthcare provider or local clinics for availability.

6. Avoid Sharing Personal Items: Encourage students not to share items such as water bottles, utensils, or personal belongings.

7. Regularly Clean and Disinfect: Wipe down surfaces at home and ensure frequently touched items like doorknobs, electronics, and toys are clean.

Our school is committed to maintaining a clean and safe environment, including frequent disinfection of high-touch areas and encouraging healthy practices among staff and students.

Thank you for working with us to keep our school community healthy and thriving. If you have any questions or need additional resources, feel free to reach out to the school nurse or administration.

For additional Health Services information, go to www.dpisd.org/health/.

Warm regards,

Cheryl Westmoreland RN NCSN

Director of Nursing

Deer Park ISD

832-668-7167

Students need to wear tennis shoes/rubber soled shoes that won't slip off every day to be safe at recess and in the gym.

• No fake fingernails due to safety issues
• NO CROCS at school please - they are not safe for our students in PE & recess
• Shorts, skirts must fall between the fingertip and knee.
• Spaghetti straps are not acceptable for school.
• Pants may not have holes that expose skin above the top of the knee.

District policy states that we cannot accept cakes, cupcakes, party favor bags, or birthday invitations at school. This includes if you are eating with your student on their birthday, you may not pass out cupcakes, treats, or any food to other students. We have MANY students with allergies and this puts them at risk. Parents must eat in the visitor area with their student any time they come for lunch on Tuesday or Thursday.

We need to move more staff members to our front driveway in the mornings, so the back will no longer be an option for drop off. All car riders must be dropped off in the front from now on. Do not drop your child off on Glenmore or at the crosswalks.

No lunch visitors - December 10th due to benchmark testing

Campus spelling Bee - December 13th

Holiday concert - December 19th 9:00AM & 1:30PM - 4th grade & 4th/5th grade choir students performing

9:00AM homerooms performing:

Cadena, Jerez, Hardin, Cortes, Armas, R. Medina, Garza (4th graders only), Salazar (4th graders only)

1:30PM homerooms performing:

Meza, S. Medina, Tarver, Rosas, Silva

All 4th grade students & 4th/5th grade choirs perform at 6:30PM

Polar Express Day - December 19th

Classroom Christmas parties - December 20th @1:30PM

Christmas Break - December 23 - January 6

There are many ways that parents can help their children be successful in school! Some of the easiest ways are:

• Getting students to school on time every day
• Not checking your student out early - please try to make appointments after school
• Helping your child have good attendance
• If your child has glasses - make sure they have them for school each day
• Communicating with your child's teacher
• Participate in schoolwide events
• Having your student read 15 minutes every night
• Helping your student study their math facts (multiplication, division, addition, & subtraction)

Thank you for partnering with us to help your students be successful!

We will have lunch visitors on TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS only. Visitors must sign in and get a tag in the front office. Any person who may have lunch with your child needs to be listed in Skyward as an emergency contact and have a photo ID with them. We will not allow persons who are not listed and approved by you to enter the cafeteria. We are limiting lunch visitors to one person per student due to a lack of seating. Lunch visitors will be closed on testing days.

Please do not send food deliveries via Door Dash, Uber Eats, etc. This is a district policy.

• If your student is tardy, please walk in and check them into the office.
• Students may not wear cross body bags or purses in school. Those need to be in backpacks.
• Lunches can be dropped off before 10:00AM only. After 10:00AM students will have to get a tray.
• Complete your Criminal History Background Check so you are able to attend school events and field trips with your student. A new background check must be completed each school year. https://www.dpisd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1561595&type=d&pREC_ID=1689770
• Update emergency contacts in Skywards, please ensure there is at least one emergency contact in addition to the student’s parents. Anyone that may have lunch with your student throughout the year, MUST be listed as an emergency contact.
• Registration must be done by October 22: Any student who will be riding a DPISD bus to school and/or home must be registered with transportation. https://www.dpisd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1570743&type=d&pREC_ID=2053389

You may email changes to dwetransportation@dpisd.org. If you have to make a change during the school day, please submit changes to the front office only by 1:00 pm., allowing us time to get the message delivered to the student and teacher before dismissal. Verbal changes will not be accepted.

OFFICE - 832-668-8300

NURSE - 832-668-8305

COUNSELOR - 832-668-8303 (Dodd) 832-668-8349 (Martinez)

CAFETERIA - 832-668-8306

FAX NUMBER - 832-668-8360