Jag News
November 4, 2022
Blue Valley Schools
Heartland Elementary School
Email: HeartlandElementary@bluevalleyk12.org
Website: www.bluevalleyk12.org/HRT
Location: 12775 Goodman Street, Overland Park, KS, United States
Phone: (913) 239-6300
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heartland-Elementary/1560823470802598
Twitter: @HRTJaguars
Important Upcoming Events
11/7: 4th grade (Gafney & Komatz) field trip to Wilderness Science Center
11/8: 4th grade (Smith) field trip to Wilderness Science Center
11/8-11/10: Literati Book Fair
11/8: Family Book Fair Night, 5-7pm in the gymnasium
11/8: First Grade Musical, 6pm in the gymnasium
11/11: Spirit Day! Wear Camouflage
11/15: School Picture Re-takes & Make-ups
11/15: PTO Dine-out @ Culver's
11/17: 5th grade field trip to the KC Symphony
11/21-11/25: No School, Thanksgiving Break
Book Fair
Our Literati Book Fair is November 8-10. Family Night will be November 8 from 5:00-7:00pm.
We are still in need of a few volunteers to help with Family Night at the Book Fair on November 8. If you're available to help for a short shift between 5-7, please
click here to sign up.Please contact Sara Brown sabrown92@gmail.com if you're able to help out with Family Night.
Food trucks for dinner will be onsite the whole time as well.
🖤💛Spirit Wear is HERE💛🖤
Heartland PTO Spirit Wear has been delivered and put in your child's backpack! Please look for it. Thank you for spreading your school spirit! Wear it with pride!
Our PTO Needs You!
Learn more about Bond 2023
All registered Blue Valley voters will have an opportunity to vote in a no tax rate increase bond election in January 2023. Bond projects include investments in facilities, safety and technology that will benefit staff and students for years to come.
Here are a few ways to learn more about the bond and how it will impact our school.
School-specific projects: Learn more about the projects that will impact our school and other schools in our attendance area. School-specific project lists are available on the left-hand side of the Bond 2023 website.
Bond 2023 Informational Video: Watch an informational video that highlights the opportunity to invest in facilities, safety and technology projects through Bond 2023.
What is a bond?: Want to learn a little more about what a bond is? Watch a short video that breaks it down in an easy to understand format.
Website: Review the Bond 2023 website for information about voting, answers to frequently asked questions and more.
Register to Vote: All registered Blue Valley voters will automatically receive a mail ballot around January 11. Not a registered voter? Register online.
Heartland Ranked #9 Best Public Elementary School in Kansas
The results are in and Blue Valley Schools continues to be the best in Kansas. Niche’s 2023 Best Schools in America ranks Blue Valley as the best school district and district with the best teachers in the state, Kansas City area and Johnson County. The district ranked 69 on the best school districts in America list.
Heartland Elementary ranked #9 (although it is #1 in our hearts).
Blue Valley and Heartland wouldn’t be at the top if it wasn’t for our exceptional students, teachers, families and supportive community. Together we’ve continued to create extraordinary opportunities for our students ensuring they lead successful lives.
Niche’s grades and ranking are calculated using dozens of public data sets and millions of reviews. View all Niche’s 2023 rankings online.
📸 Yearbook📸
Our Heartland yearbook chairs are collecting photos for the 22-23 school year. You can upload your Heartland memories right here all year long. The yearbook chairs are also looking for a photo enthusiast (or 2) that would like to take over as yearbook committee leaders next year. Chairs for the 23-24 school year would shadow with our chairs this year to learn the ropes. If you're interested, please contact hrt.pto@gmail.com
PTO CHAIRS NEEDED
The PTO is still searching for a few people to help plan our Heartland events this year. The complete list of available positions is viewable here. If you'd like to join our group of committee chairs, we'd LOVE to have you! Our most urgent position to fill is:
👉Yearbook Shadows (for this year, will takeover next year)
Birthday Book Club News
Thank you to all families who donated to Heartland Library’s Birthday Book Club. Your donation helps to library to purchase new library books for all students to read and enjoy. Not familiar with our program? Read below for more information.
Students at Heartland have a wonderful way to have their special day recognized for years to come. Our library’s Birthday Book Club is available to students in all grades. By donating $15 to the Library Media Center, your child will be able to choose a special book to be placed in our library collection and be the first student to read the new book.
Here’s how it works. Prior to your child’s birthday, he/she can come to the library and select a Birthday Book from our cart of brand new books in all different genres. A nameplate will be placed in the front of the book and your child’s picture will be taken and displayed with the book in the library. This program is optional but it does provide our library with exciting new titles throughout the school year. The average cost of a library bound book is $17.30!
You can make your donation anytime during the year by paying through this Heartland link: https://bvpo.bluevalleyk12.org or send in a check made payable to Heartland Elementary to the front office.
Nut-Safer Snacks at Heartland
Daily Snacks: Thank you for your support of our nut-safer snack plan at HRT. As a reminder: we ask that ALL daily snacks (i.e. snack time) for ALL students must come from the nut-safer food list as we have a significant number of students with life-threatening nut allergies. (click below for the link) If a student’s snack is not from this approved list, it will be sent home (and an alternate snack will be provided the first time) so we can help increase the safety for our students as a whole. Our continued focus this year, as an entire school, is to remain consistent on the daily snacks for student snack time in the classrooms—following the nut-safer list.
Please click HERE to access the Nut-Safer food list.
Birthday Treats at Heartland
Heartland Elementary’s policy for birthday treats prohibits students and parents from bringing birthdays treats from home—edible or non-edible. This is due to several factors including health, safety, and the preservation of instructional time. Birthdays are a special time for each child and as such, the school will provide recognition throughout the day and throughout the school through announcements, birthday book club from the library, classroom celebration routines, and more. If birthday treats are sent to school during the 2022-23 school year, they will not be distributed and will be sent home. Also, if you send it invitations to birthday parties, please include all students in the class, or they will not be distributed. Thank you for understanding and complying to this policy.
Volunteer Hours - Keep Track on PTO Website
Thank you for volunteering and taking the time to record your volunteer hours. Please don't enter hours volunteered in WHRT, Safety Patrol, or Heartland Helpers. Those hours will be entered by the school. In addition, though we appreciate all hours parents volunteer, only students are eligible for awards and therefore, their hours are the only ones needed to be entered here.
Once again, thank you. The time that you have given is appreciated. Click here to record student hours. Students will be recognized in May 2023.
Questions?
- Call the HRT office at 913-239-6300
- Email HeartlandElementary@bluevalleyk12.org