Bobcat Bulletin
December 4, 2023
LatinX dancers performed at an assembly. New classes start in January.
WOW! Our final Turkey Trot fundraising total. Thank you.
Congratulations Mrs. Rastok! December's Teacher of the Month.
Learning to BE Safe
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a program that promotes walking and bicycling to school through infrastructure improvements, enforcement, tools, safety education, and incentives to encourage walking and bicycling to school. Each year they come to teach pedestrian safety.
Be a good role model when you come through for drop off and pick; and follow traffic and pedestrian safety. We want to see students using the crosswalk, looking both ways, and respecting Safety Patrol guidelines.
As our students continue to learn to be safe; we are using Stop-Walk-Talk school-wide. This strategy is used:
- To teach students how to stand up to behavior that they feel is offensive or not wanted
- To empower students
- To promote self-advocacy and self-determination
- To decrease bullying and bullying related issues in school
- To promote a more self-reliant, responsible, and safe climate and atmosphere
- To remove barriers that interfere with positive peer interactions and academics
Very simple: we use our voice and stop sign hand to say STOP loudly and clearly, if the behavior continues, we WALK away, and if it still continues we TALK to an adult or Conflict Manager.
Congratulations to Mrs. Rastok, who has been selected as the district's Certificated Employee of the Month for December. We will be honoring her at the upcoming Board Meeting. Please click below and share your child's or your own experience with Mrs. Rastok to be included in her recognition. This honor is well deserved as she has been a respected teacher at Binkley for 13 years earning the respect and admiration of her current and former students, along with her colleagues. We love you Mrs. Rastok!
BE Safe. BE Responsible. BE Respectful.
BE YOUR BINKLEY BEST!
Warmly,
Harmony Harvell, Principal
Join Us to honor her at the Board Meeting on Tuesday, December 12th at 6pm
BOOSTER EVENTS
Winter Wonderland Festival - December 8, 5:30-7pm
Ready for some wintertime fun? Join us on Friday, December 8 for our Winter Wonderland Festival! We'll have games, raffles, a holiday craft sale, bake sale, and a taco stand! (Taco stand accepts cash only.) And bring a new, unwrapped item for our holiday toy drive to receive a ticket!
Families, we can't do this without your help! Click below to sign up--bring items for the craft fair, bake for the bake sale, or help take tickets and oversee the games!
Purchasing Holiday Cards this Season?
Binkley Elementary Charter School
Email: hharvell@rvusd.org
Website: https://www.rvusd.org/o/binkley
Location: 4965 Canyon Dr, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Phone: 707-539-6060
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BinkleyRV/