Longbranch Weekly Family Newsletter
SENT: April 22nd
please note: The staff will not have access to email April 26-May 1. Please call 384-4500 to connect with us during that time.
Spring Carnival Info!
The 2nd annual Longbranch Spring Carnival is coming up soon on Saturday April 28th from 3:00pm – 8:00pm (with a Special Needs Families Hour from 2:00 – 3:00pm).
Help make the Carnival a Success by volunteering to work OR just donate items!
We promise you will have so much fun helping at this event!!!
Volunteer for as little as an hour and you can still have plenty of time to enjoy the Carnival with your family!
Check out all the available volunteer spots at these links:
Volunteer Sign Up:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c49aeaf2da3f49-Longbranch
To sign up to sit in the Dunk Tank:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c49aeaf2da3f49-dunk
Donations Needed Link:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c49aeaf2da3f49-donations
There will be a hospitality area with food and drinks for all volunteers and if you sign up for 3 or more hours you get a $10 inflatable wristband for FREE!
(One free wristband per family please.)
There are 20 Carnival games, interactive inflatables, Bumper Cars, Trackless Train Ride, the Prize Booth, Dunk Tank and More!
Come hungry!
All the food vendors have graciously agreed to donate back to Longbranch PTO!
Snappy, Kona Ice, Marty’s Waffles, Sweet Crunch Kettle Corn, Harley Dogs and a Lemonade stand!
Also, our AMAZING teachers and staff have offered some fun “experiences” for our silent auction!
You could win donut breakfast with your teacher, pizza party lunch, take over the cafeteria mic, PIE A TEACHER! Many more! Just look for the Silent Auction sign and bid on your favorite!
To order game tickets and/or wristbands, please send money and the bottom of the form that came home with your child last week in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and homeroom teacher by 4/27, marked “Carnival Pre-Sale Tickets.”
(This form can also be found on our PTO website at www.longbranchpto.org)
Questions? Contact amanda.scroggin24@gmail.com.
End of Year Events
8-14: State testing for grades 3, 4, 5
15-17: Field Days (grade level days TBD)
18: WIG Celebration Day and Staff vs. Student BBall Game
18-19: 5th Grade Lockin
21: Kindergarten Celebration of Learning at 6pm (this is a date change due to the scheduling of 8th grade promotion at Camp Ernst)
24: 5th grade promotion at 6pm
25: Last Day for students
29-31: PD Days for staff
JUNE
1-4: PD Days for staff
4: Last day for classified staff (non-12 month)
5: Closing Day for certified staff
5th Grade Lock In Volunteers and Donations
Please see this link to sign up to help with your time or with donations: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/409054CAAAE22A64-fifth
Layups for Lauren Event (3rd, 4th, 5th graders)
Our Grade 5 Habit 8 team in collaboration with Marley, Lyla, and McKenna have organized a fun evening event for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade boys and girls. This event is limited to 100 participants. From 6-8pm on April 26th, we'll have fun playing basketball games such as knockout, a free-throw competition, a dribbling obstacle course, and a dribbling relay race around the school.
Sign up for your child to participate and/or sign up to help here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/longbranch-layups-for-lauren-tickets-43852360591
LLS Fundraiser for Sophia #shineforsophia
Longbranch is raising money in honor of Sophia Kappen, our friend. Sophia fought a hard battle with cancer last school year and although Sophia is no longer with us, cancer never wins. Students have organized several fundraisers in honor of Sophia that will be occurring during the next two months.
1. April 27th will be Purple and Orange Day in honor of Sophia. We will sell Kona Ice on this day and 50% of the profits will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
2. Olivia and Kendall, two of Sophia's friends, will be collecting monetary donations the week of May 2nd and will donate all profits in Sophia's name to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Every student who donates will fill out a paper blood drop that will hang in our school.
3. You can kick us off now by donating online in Sophia's name here: http://pages.mwoy.org/soh/cincy18/shineforsophia
THIS WEEK AT LONGBRANCH
MONDAY
BEFORE SCHOOL
Staff Email Conversion PD at 8am
ESS
Singalong Monday before school--because Mrs. Bowles missed it on Friday.
DURING SCHOOL
Florence Elementary visiting to see The Leader in Me in action
AFTER SCHOOL
Gray Middle's 4H Club--Meet in lobby
LB Chorale
GOTR Practice
Staff Email Conversion PD at 3:45pm
TUESDAY
Rockin Talents 8:25-8:30am
LB Chorale
DURING SCHOOL
4th Grade to Environmental Camp--Harvey, Heinze, Michels
Staff book study
6:30pm: PTO General Meeting including elections for 18.19 board and elections for 18.19 SBDM
6:30pm: LB Chorale Spring Concert at First Church
WEDNESDAY
ESS at 7:45am
Mozart Strings at 7:30
DURING SCHOOL
4th Grade to Environmental Camp--Bremer, Duell, Leatherman
Special SBDM Meeting--Reschedule of the Cancelled April 17 meeting. 6pm
THURSDAY
Beethoven Strings at 7:30
DURING SCHOOL
- PLT Lunch
AFTER SCHOOL
Girls on the Run
Lighthouse Meeting for Staff
Layups for Lauren from 6-8
FRIDAY
BEFORE SCHOOL
none
DURING SCHOOL
- MAKE A WISH DAY in honor of Sophia. Wear purple and orange.
- Kona Ice Day to benefit Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
- 1st grade to the zoo!!
- LB Chorale Field Trip to Oak Hills Rehab
AFTER SCHOOL
none
WEEKEND
No events this weekend
PTO LIGHTHOUSE TEAM
PTO General Meeting with Board Elections
The next General PTO meeting will be held on Tuesday April 24th at 6:30 p.m.
This meeting will include voting for next year’s PTO Executive Board positions.
These are traditional PTO Executive Board positions that will transition/transform during the course of the next year through a rewrite of the By-Laws to be more in line with The Leader in Me.
Anyone can join the PTO Board!
The positions available for the 2018-2019 school year are:
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Volunteers Coordinator
Fundraising Coordinator
Communications Coordinator
If you are interested in nominating yourself or someone else to run for an Executive Board position, or have any questions, we encourage you to email the current President, Amanda Scroggin at amanda.scroggin24@gmail.com.
SBDM Elections
Our School-Based Decision Making Council Elections are coming up soon!
The School-Based Decision Making Council is a collaborative team of teachers, parents, and the principal who focus on the academic achievement of the students at Longbranch through policy review, consolidated school improvement planning, and the review of curriculum and instruction.
If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else for SBDM, please go here to print the nomination form. http://longbranch.my-pta.org/Content/291_8/Files//SBDMNominationForm.pdf
Nomination forms are due to the school office no later than 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday April 24th.
Any questions? Please contact Amanda Scroggin at amanda.scroggin24@gmail.com
School Supply Kits for 2018-19
We are using a new company for our School Supply Kits for the 2018-2019 school year, School-Pak, Inc.
School-Pak is a one-stop shopping service for all your school supply needs! Based on our teachers’ school supply lists, School-Pak will pre-package all the supplies your child needs for the school year so you don’t have to go shopping around to find everything! The supplies will be delivered directly to Longbranch Elementary later this Summer and will be waiting for your child in their classrooms at Meet the Teacher Night in August.
To take advantage of this offer, simply go online to https://www.schoolpak.com/catalog/longbranch-elementary to place your order!
Orders are due online by May 30th!
Any questions? Please reach out to our coordinator, Juliann Bowles @ Juliann.bowles@yahoo.com.
We need your Photos!
We still need a lot of photos for our 2017-18 Longbranch Yearbook! Any events/activities/day to day school photos that you have from this school year would be greatly appreciated!
If you have trouble with the online upload site, please feel free to email photos instead to longbranchyearbook@gmail.com.
Our yearbook coordinator cannot be at all the awesome events that go on with our students throughout the year and needs your help in making sure we get a large variety of kids and activities included in the book!
You can upload your photos for consideration in the yearbook at community.lifetouch.com and entering our school’s access code: XJFDJE.
Please submit photos that are at least 300 dpi to ensure acceptable print quality for the yearbook.
Note: Photos from social media websites may not be acceptable quality. Please consider this when uploading images.
Order forms for the 2017-18 yearbook will also be coming home soon!
Any questions, contact Rachel Pearson at communications.longbranchpto@gmail.com.
Coke Rewards
Did you know you could donate the codes from your Coca-Cola drinks to LBES and they would send our school/PTO a check?
Longbranch PTO just received their first check from Coke and would love to keep the checks coming!!!
Visit https://us.coca-cola.com/give/, Click on ‘Donate to School’, type in Longbranch, or 41091, select our school, and donate today!
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organization, and .5% of your purchase goes back to the school!
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Kroger Cards Help Generate BIG MONEY for Our School
Kroger donates 4% of all money you spend after you scan your Kroger Plus card as long as you connect the Plus card to our Longbranch PTA account.
If 400 families connected their cards and spent $100 a week at Kroger, each family would make $4 per week. That's $1600 a week. That's $19,000 a quarter. That's unreal. That's plain and simple easy money.
We encourage you to visit Kroger.com and create an account. Click Community Rewards. Search for Longbranch and connect your plus card with Longbranch PTA. It's the EASIEST fundraiser you'll ever participate in, period.
Longbranch Elementary School
Website: http://www.longbranch.boone.kyschools.us
Location: 2805 Longbranch Road, Union, KY, United States
Phone: 859-384-4500
Facebook: facebook.com/longbranchelem
Twitter: @LongbranchElem