Ben Milam Elementary
Week of October 1, 2018 (October 3 Edition)
Weekly Update for Ben Milam Families
The Milam Way
First Six Weeks Attendance
The first six weeks came to a close on Friday, September 28, 2018. We had 29 instructional days for our students. How many days of school did your child miss? I hope you can say zero. My goal is for every parent, grandparent or guardian to be able to say zero during the second grading period. There are only 23 instructional days for the second grading period. Two of our weeks will have only four instructional days due to our Fair Day and a teacher professional development day. Each learning day is a day that will help your child be successful.
Our first campus attendance report for this year came in lower than our report for last year. For 2017-18 our school attendance rate for the first period was 97.8% and for this year it was 97.3%. To some of you that may not seem like much but a half percentage point is a significant difference for this report.
We will continue our efforts to improve our overall attendance rate. Our daily attendance tickets and our perfect attendance pep rallies motivate our students to come to school on time every day. We will also have a drawing for the two bikes on October 31, 2018. Please help your children have the opportunity to participate in these fun activities.
Listed below are the attendance rates by grade level. As you will see, some grade levels are doing better than others. We will be contacting individual families this grading period to reinforce the need for children to be at school every day. We will also be reviewing transfer applications for families that may need to attend the school closer to home if it is too difficult to get to Milam everyday.
PK - 95.41%, Kinder - 96.77%, First - 96.69%, Second - 97.94%, Third - 97.96%, Fourth 97.40%, Fifth - 97.79% for an overall rate of 97.30%
Kudos to second and third grade!
I will continue to keep you updated regarding grade level attendance rates.
Thank you,
Principal Galvan
Announcing - the fall modern home tour
***Cancelled due to storm damage***
Cancelled due to storm damage
Help Milam Become the Champion School in Trustee Marshall's District
THE DRAWING WILL BE HELD TODAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018.
BEN MILAM = CHAMPION SCHOOL IN DISTRICT 2!!!
Bikes for Attendance
PTO NEWS
Box Tops
Thank you Mrs. Morgan!! We love the mailbox.
St. Simon's After School Program
Program Schedule:
Monday through Thursday
3:00 to 5:30 PM
After School Program Coordinator - Andrea Ross
REMINDER - There is no after school program on Fridays.
Anna Galvan, Principal
Ben Milam Elementary
4200 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75205
Email: annagalvan@dallasisd.org
Website: dallasisd.org/milam
Phone: (972) 749-5600