The Hoot
Pine Run Elementary School Newsletter
The First Day of School 2018
THE BRAIN POWER CLASSROOM
In Brain Power Classrooms, students take charge of their personal Brain Operating System!
Brain Operating System mantras include:
1. Wake up and pay attention!
2. Good news creates a good brain!
3. If you choose, it will happen!
4. Become the master of time and space!
5. Design all circumstances!
By teaching Brain Power techniques , we seek to empower students to optimize their energies and truly love learning!
Brain Power: Change Your Words and Change Your Mindset
Each year, the Central Bucks School District requires our families to fill out a Student Emergency & Information Form.
This year, we are asking that you complete your family’s Student Emergency & Information Form online by September 14, 2018.
The online form will ask you to confirm and/or update the following:
Demographic Information
Emergency Contacts
Health Information, including permission for emergency care and analgesic administration
Media Release Preferences
Click here to be directed to your Parent Portal account to complete the Census Verification form. Thank you for taking the time to update this important information.
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For detailed information about this process, including a User Guide, please click here.
If you do not have a Parent Portal account, please follow this link to request one.
If you need help filling out the online form, email or call Lori Rebstock.
lrebstock@cbsd.org
267.893.5714
If you need technical support, please email parentportal@cbsd.org.
CBSD Attendance Policies and Procedures
“Every child of compulsory school age having a legal residence in this Commonwealth… is required to attend a day school in which the subjects and activities prescribed by the standards of the State Board of Education are taught.”
PARENTS AND ATTENDANCE
Please send a note, or an e-mail, to your child's teacher or mlofaso@cbsd.org within three days of their return from an absence.
Request for Approved Absence for Family Travel
To see your student's attendance record, go to the Parent Portal!
REMINDER: STUDENT ARRIVAL
For supervision and safety reasons, students may not be dropped off at school before 8:15 a.m. If you are driving your student to school and arrive before 8:15 am, please remain in your car with your student until that time.
Free & Reduced Lunch/Breakfast Application
The Boomerang Youth Recognition Award is a monthly program which recognizes and honors youth in our community for exemplifying and living by one of 9 chosen Developmental Assets. The 40 Developmental Assets (www.search-institute.org) are positive experiences, behaviors, and personal qualities that all youth need to possess, in order to be responsible, caring, and strong in the face of peer pressures and other life challenges.
Parents can click below to fill out an online form. Youth can be nominated for the award by any member of the community. In fact, students can nominate themselves or their friends.
Additional Boomerang information from CB Cares Educational Foundation
40 Assets 2018-2019
October: #22 - SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT. Young person is actively engaged in learning.
November: #2 - POSITIVE FAMILY COMMUNICATION. Young person and parents/guardians communicate positively and young person is willing to seek council from them.
December: #17 - CREATIVE ACTIVITIES. Young person spends 3 or more hours per week in lessons or practicing in music, theater or other arts.
January: #34 - CULTURAL COMPETENCE. Young person has knowledge of and comforts people of different cultural, racial, ethnic backgrounds.
February: #26 - CARING. Young person cares about others. They place a high value on helping other people. He or she thinks about ways of helping others and is motivated to initiate kind and thoughtful acts.
March: #32 - PLANNING & DECISION MAKING. Young person knows how to plan ahead and make choices.
April: #25 READING FOR PLEASURE. Young person reads for pleasure most days of the week, either alone, with family members or with friends.
MAY: #40 - POSITIVE VIEW OF PERSONAL FUTURE. Young person is optimistic about his or her future.
TO NOMINATE A STUDENT CLICK HERE!