Collegeville Elementary School

Report cards for our second quarter will be sent home TODAY with our onsite students, and will be emailed to Virtual Parents. Please make sure you sign and return your child's report card tomorrow if it has been sent home as a hard copy. Virtual parents will confirm receipt of the report card via email. As always, please reach out to your child's teacher with any questions or concerns!

January is School Board Recognition Month. In a year full of the unknown, these seven servant leaders have continued their commitment to creating opportunities for success. On behalf of all Bryant Hornets, thank you for your service! #SchoolBoardMonth

District and school offices will be closed December 21 - January 1 for Christmas break. Students return to school on Monday, January 4. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Parents, did you receive the new "Success Happens Here" eNewsletter in your inbox today? If not, please contact your student's school to make certain we have your correct email address. Here's a link to the document: English: bit.ly/3gUlXgZ Spanish: bit.ly/2Wlh2w9

REMINDER: A Remote Learning Day is scheduled for Friday, December 18. ALL students (K-12) will work from home. Only PreK students will attend school on this day. The Food Service Department is preparing shelf stable meals (one breakfast, one lunch) for students to take home on Thursday. Meals will be distributed in classrooms for elementary students. Secondary students may pick up meals in the cafeteria during lunch or at the bus stop at the end of the day. Virtual students will pick up meals on Thursday during lunch.

REMINDER: A Remote Learning Day is scheduled for Friday, December 18. ALL students (K-12) will work from home. Only PreK students will attend school on this day.

Join us in celebrating Arkansas Computer Science Education Week with coding activities for all ages. Take some pics and post using #Hornets_Hr_Of_Code. #ARKidsCanCode

With our Hornets headed to the 2020 State Championship game on Saturday, what better time to #Paintthetownblue? The Greater Bryant Chamber of Commerce has organized #Paintthetownblue to engage community members and local businesses in school spirit. Anyone can purchase a sign to place in front of their home or business for $25. Four designs are available. Collect all four to show your Hornet spirit! Order your sign at bit.ly/PaintTownBlue. Take a photo of your sign and post on social media with the hashtag #Paintthetownblue. For more information, contact the Bryant Chamber at 501-847-4702. All proceeds go to the scholarship fund for our Bryant High School seniors.

The district Point of Contact phone line (501-414-6647) will resume normal hours this week. Parents may reach the POC by email any time at bryantpointofcontact@bryantschools.org. Our POC will respond as soon as possible to all email messages. Parents, please contact the POC to report a positive COVID-19 case with your student or within your family. Call or email if your child has been identified as a close contact with a positive case outside of school (church, family members, gyms, etc.). It is important that if a parent tests positive, the children who live in the home with them are quarantined. We continue to rely on cooperation from families in reporting positive cases and identifying close contacts. The better we are with our prevention strategies, the longer we will be able to keep schools open and have children attend school in-person. Thank you all for your diligence in keeping our Hornets healthy!

The district POC phone line will remain open until 8pm tonight (Sunday) for those who have had a positive COVID-19 test or have been designated as a close contact over the break. These individuals will not be able to attend school until their isolation or quarantine period is over. The number is 501-414-6647. Parents may also email bryantpointofcontact@bryantschools.org if the phone line is busy or unavailable.

With COVID-19 still a real threat, we need to remain diligent in reporting positive cases to our district Point of Contact (POC), even when school is closed. Our POC phone line will reopen on Sunday, November 29, from 2-8pm for those who have had a positive COVID-19 test or have been designated as a close contact over the break. These individuals will not be able to attend school until their isolation or quarantine period is over. The number is 501-414-6647. We continue to rely on cooperation from families in reporting positive cases and identifying close contacts. The better we are with our prevention strategies, the longer we will be able to keep schools open and have children attend school in-person.

Food Box Distribution: Tuesday, November 24, 10:00-11:00am, behind Bryant Elementary. Due to the overwhelming response for food boxes, we may run out of boxes with chicken. If so, the chicken and dressing will be replaced with chili and cornbread.

With the BHS and BJHS campuses closed, bus riders in grades K-7 may be home up to 10-15 minutes earlier than normal on FRIDAY afternoon.

Bryant Public Schools is partnering with Arkansas Foodbank’s Emergency School Pantry Program to provide food boxes to low-income families with children in the Bryant School District. Families must have a student currently approved for free or reduced meals in the Bryant School District to qualify to receive food boxes. The first distribution day will be Thursday, November 19 from 4:30-5:30pm behind Bryant Elementary. Signs will be posted to direct families to the drive through location. The next food distribution date is Tuesday, November 24, 10:00-11:00am at the same location.

Well Wishes from your Collegeville Principal, Mrs. Edwards! We are looking forward to the week ahead as we prepare for Thanksgiving Break, which will be November 23-27. I hope you all will have a chance to enjoy some time away from school, spend time with family, and stay safe. I know many of us will be choosing to postpone large family gatherings due to the Pandemic and my heart is heavy about that. I miss having our school open to visitors, but especially this week when we normally have many guests for our Thanksgiving feast. You are missed in our building! That said, teachers will be sending out an RSVP for Thanksgiving Feast here at school, which will be Thursday, November 19th. The menu is: Baked chicken, dressing, green beans, mashed potatoes, homemade roll, and brownie. To help our cafeteria staff know how much to prepare for our students, please let your teacher know by Tuesday if your child will be getting a school tray on Thursday. Progress Reports will be sent home tomorrow for Blended students. Please be watching for these and contact your child’s teacher if you have any questions. You will sign and return your child’s progress report. Remember that Progress Reports are simply a snapshot of your child’s current academic status for reporting purposes to keep you informed. A note to our Virtual Parents: Tomorrow (Monday, November 16) from 8:30-9:30, we will have a drive through pick up day for Progress Reports and other instructional packets the virtual teachers need your virtual student to have. We will follow safety precautions with masks and social distancing by bringing items to your car as you pull through the car drop off lane. Onsite, we are still having lots of items like jackets, sweaters, etc. that students are taking off at recess when it gets warm, but leaving them outside. Without a student’s name labeled in those items, we can’t locate the owner. In addition, we are not having a “lost and found” this year due to Covid precautions. Can you please take a moment this weekend to label your child’s outerwear, as well as their reusable water bottles, lunchboxes and backpacks? Thank you for your help with this. Thank you for all you do to support us and your child’s education! I hope this week brings you sunshine, smiles, and happy moments!

As part of a coordinated response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in partnership with the Office for Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas has developed a Parent/Guardian Survey for soliciting family input on what is working now and what may be considered for the future. We have been encouraged to share this survey link with our families and ask them to complete the survey before November 20th. https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X7aRF3ErNNXFel A Spanish version of the survey is available here: https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3yIElMqjgYCNCLz The survey seeks to involve families in an organized, ongoing and timely way in planning, review, and improvement. The survey will provide feedback regarding: * family concerns * how families are making decisions * family awareness of options and resources available * family considerations for the future The intention of this survey is not to identify individual school or district responses, but rather to establish an understanding of the state as a whole. The information will be aggregated by region only; therefore, families will be asked to identify the region of the state in which they live in order to understand the distribution of the survey without specifically identifying any district or school by name. OEP will be sharing results at the December State Board meeting. Copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser to complete this survey: https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X7aRF3ErNNXFel?Q_CHL=email

Thank you to all our military personnel—past and present—for the sacrifices you have made for our freedom.

The lockdown at Collegeville Elementary has been lifted and the school given the all clear. Parents who need to check out students may now come to the school. Students and staff were not in danger during the lockdown period. With safety our first priority, the lockdown was a precautionary measure only due to police activity in the area.

Collegeville Elementary is currently on lockdown due to an armed robbery at a nearby business. Students and staff will remain locked inside the building until they receive the all clear. There is a precautionary measure only. Students are not in danger. Do not come to the school. Visitors will not be permitted inside the building and parents may not check out students at this time. An update will be sent as soon as we have additional information.

November 2-6 Happy Sunday from Mrs. Edwards, your Principal at Collegeville! I am both thrilled and astonished that I am sharing announcements for the first week in November! Thrilled because we have been able to have face to face school for over 2 months, and astonished that November is already here! We are ever diligent to make sure we can keep our students safe and happy at school and appreciate your ongoing support. With that in mind, my first reminders are just to make sure your child has a clean mask and water bottle every day. We have purchased extra water and masks, as has our fabulous PTO, but if you will kindly remember these two items as part of your daily come-to-school routine, it helps tremendously. I also want to remind you that the district has established a policy for not accepting any items dropped off at school. This includes lunch boxes, coats, backpacks, or water bottles. If students forget their lunchbox, I promise they won’t go hungry! We will get them a lunch tray and rock on. The fewer folks we have in and out of our building, and the less handling of items, the safer our school will be. Since it is turning colder, I’d also like to ask you to please send a coat with your child every day. We are adamant about trying to go outside as often as we can, especially in these days of Covid so students have opportunities to remove their masks. Even in extremely cold temperatures, research indicates that fresh air for short periods of time with proper warm attire is actually BETTER at eliminating common germs. Germs incubate in warmer temperatures, not cold. As always, help us keep items with their owner by labeling your child’s coat, hats, gloves, etc. with his or her NAME. I hope you remembered to set your clocks back one hour last night so you won’t be sitting here an hour early tomorrow morning! Be sure you check out the Video from our Book Character Parade on Friday! We had SO much fun! Have a great week!