Lovett Owl News
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It's Been A While
It's been a while since I've sent one of these. Usually you hear me on the phone with quick messages or with a quick email message with update. The truth is I love face to face communication so I sometimes put sending out a newsletter on the back burner. Especially when I know we send so much paper home with communication in our Wednesday folder. I wanted to take some time however to connect with our families. Share some great things happening at Lovett.
After six years at Lovett, I can still truly say, I love it at Lovett! When I arrived at Lovett six years ago, I was new to the school, city, state and had an almost three year old. The night before my first day at Lovett, my husband and I could not get him to sleep. I was up until 4 am and then up again at 5:30 am to get ready for work. I was exhausted and all it was all I could do to muster up the energy to get out the door, drop him off at pre-school and get to school super early to greet the multitude of people waiting for me. I can tell you that from that very fist day I could feel the overwhelming love and pride that people had in this school. The energy of our parents, students and staff fueled me and motivated me. I knew I was in place where I wanted to call home. As we continue on this journey together of preparing our children for the world, I hope that Lovett also feels like home for you and your family!
Schools helping Schools
Lovett would like to thank the following schools for lending a helping hand to our community. The schools below reached out to us and have sent donations to our school totaling over $400.00. PLEASE take a few minutes to send a card or have your child write a kind note and let them know how much we appreciate their help.
Little River Elementary
Principal: Kevin Murphy
43464 Hyland Hills St.
South Riding, VA 20152
Davis Elementary School
Principal: Angela M. Long
310 Davis
Irving, TX 75061
Procedure Update: Items dropped off during the school day
Beginning January 22, 2018, we will no longer interrupt classes for students to pick up items that parents have dropped off. This has become highly disruptive to our learning environment as we are calling into classrooms multiple times during the day for students to pick up homework, lunch, instruments, folders, etc. The easiest solve for this is to help your child organize all of their materials for the school day. We know from time to time things happen and we will do our best to assist in those situations.
Beginning Monday, we will notify students of items in the office at lunch or recess time; we will not interrupt classrooms for students to come to the office to pick up items. If homework, books, etc. are dropped off we will place the item in the teacher's mailbox. Teachers usually check their mailboxes at the start of the day, during their enrichment time and at the end of the school day. For lunches that are dropped off, we utilize a lunch cart and will ensure that the child gets their lunch at the designated time. Thanks in advance for your assistance with this.
New Start Time for 2018-19
General Updates
Below are a few updates and things that I need your assistance with:
- We are still having difficulty with parking in the visitors lot. In particular we have a lot of cars using the striped area next to the handicapped parking space. This is not a separate parking space and should not be used for parking or for pulling into to wait. When we note vehicles parked in this area, we will take your tag and have HISD police address the concern.
- A reminder to make sure you have your car tags hanging from your vehicles when picking up students.
- We are having a problem with tardy student in the morning. Remember at 8:00 we need students sitting in their desk and ready to start the day.
- A reminder that when coming into the building during the day, you must wear your visitors badge provided to you in the main office and you must go where your badge indicates you should be going.
E.O. Lovett Elementary Fine Arts Magnet 2016 National Blue Ribbon School
Website: www.houstonisd.org/LovettES
Location: 8814 S Rice Ave, Houston, TX, United States
Phone: 713-295-5258