the Sunrise Scoop
Week of March 7, 2022
Principal's Message
Next week is the final week to order a 2021-22 Sunrise Yearbook. Please be sure to order your child's yearbook by next Friday if you would like to purchase one. The deadline is Friday, March 11th, but please remember there is no school on the 11th. The information for yearbooks is below. We do not order extra yearbooks, so we will not be able to provide you with one once the yearbooks arrive.
Our annual BPS parent survey is now open! We kindly ask you to take some time before March 11th to complete the survey. We utilize the results of this survey to inform our school improvement efforts. Your feedback is valuable, and we appreciate you taking the time to share your input. The links to the surveys are provided below.
I would like to congratulate Mrs. Arner and several of our students who performed in the Brevard Public Schools Annual South and Central Elementary Music Festival at the King Center. We had students perform in Chorus, Beginning Strings, and Intermediate Strings. Mrs. Arner also led students in a percussion ensemble during the final piece. We are very proud of our students and Mrs. Arner for sharing their love of music with others.
Mrs. Snow has shared information below regarding the final deadline (March 31st) to purchase a tile with your child's artwork for our Sunrise Memory Wall. These beautiful pieces of art work are very special to our school community, and we look forward to adding more student tiles this year!
If you have not sent in your order for our PTO Sauces & Jam Spring Fundraiser, please do so by March 8th. These are delicious little jars of goodness, and they make great gifts! We especially love having our Sunrise logo on each jar...fun!
Thursday, March 10th is the end of our 3rd nine weeks. Report cards will be posted to FOCUS on March 24th. Please remember there is no school Friday, March 11th, and Spring Break is March 14th-18th (no school).
I wish everyone a beautiful week ahead!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Jost
BPS Annual Parent Survey- Opens February 28th
Sunrise parents, please take a moment to complete our annual parent survey. We do utilize the results of the survey to inform our school improvement efforts. This survey opens February 28th and closes March 11th. Parents may access the survey website from any computer or smartphone by clicking on the following link:
https://www.brevardschools.org/2022ParentSurvey
The survey is available in English and Spanish. We strongly encourage surveys to be completed digitally, but if you do not have access to an electronic device, please let our school office know. We will ensure you get a paper version of the survey to complete. Your input is valuable to us! Thank you!
Title I Literacy and Social Studies Family Engagement Event
Sunrise Science Fair Winners
We want to give a huge Shout Out to Mrs. Hoolihan for her hard work in organizing this amazing event at Sunrise!
Congratulations to our students who placed!
Microbiology
1st Place: Denver S
Physics
1st Place: Dane F
2nd Place: William W
Human Behavior
1st Place: Nicholas A
2nd Place: Leilani H
3rd Place: Drey F and Sarah A
Animal Science
1st Place: Mallory G
2nd Place: Savannah Z
3rd Place: Mason L
Plants Science
1st Place: Jacob G
2nd Place: Jacob C & Audrina O
3rd Place: Liam T
Chemical Science
1st Place: Aiden K
2nd Place: Trent O
3rd Place: Malia A
Sensational Sea Turtles
Mr. Holmes
Mrs. Drawdy
Mrs. Bigwood
Mr. Miller
Last Call for School Tile Orders
March 31st is the last day to order! If you would like to order a school tile with your child’s artwork on it for our Memory Hallway you can do it 2 ways:
1.) Go online to Square1Art.com. Access your child’s artwork. Click on school tile (4”) for $11.00. Total will be $11.77 with tax. There is no shipping if you send it to the school (not home).
2.) Send in cash (exact change) or a check made out to Sunrise Elementary for $11.77
Make sure to attach a note with your child’s name and teacher.
If you have any questions about ordering a school tile with your child's artwork, please contact Mrs. Snow, Sunrise Art Teacher.
Jump Rope Workshop
Yearbook Sale
Yearbooks will be on sale from now until March 11 th.
The cost is $20.00.
Please send in exact cash or check made out to Sunrise Elementary .
To ensure you get a yearbook, pre order now! Each child ordering a yearbook needs his/her own envelope. Extra yearbooks are not ordered so there is no guarantee that you will get a yearbook if you do not pre order. Late payments can not be accepted.
PTO and School Advisory Council (SAC)
The next PTO (5 p.m.) and SAC (5:30 p.m.) meetings will be held on Monday, March 28th. Voting SAC members are required to attend this meeting in person in the Sunrise Media Center, and we strongly encourage everyone who would like to participate to attend in-person. We have enough space in the Media Center to social distance.
However, a virtual meeting link will be provided below for any parents or community members wishing to join via Zoom who feel more comfortable attending virtually. All Sunrise staff, parents, and community members are invited to attend!
Sunrise PTO Sauce, Salsa, and Dip Fundraiser: This is a new and exciting fundraiser for Sunrise Elementary! Our PTO will be selling a small variety of condiments with our Sunrise sea turtle logo on the bottles. We've had the opportunity to sample these items, and they are delicious! This fundraiser will run from February 18th through March 8th. Each item will sell for $10 per bottle or you can purchase 3 for $25. Please see the flyers below for more information. Paper order forms were provided to classroom teachers to send home with students. Thank you for supporting Sunrise!
Sunrise PTO Magnet Fundraiser: Our PTO has Sunrise auto magnets for sale for $5. This fundraiser will continue through the end of the year or until our magnet supply runs out. Please ask your child to get an order form from school if you would like to purchase one or more! These magnets are SO cute and can be used for anything, not just on your automobile. Thank you for supporting Sunrise!
Each Item is Customized with a Sunrise Logo on the Bottle!
Upcoming Sunrise Spirit Days & Events
Jeremiah’s Italian Ice Spirit Nights for the 21-22 School Year
Our business partners at Jeremiah’s Italian Ice want to help support Sunrise! Drop by Jeremiah’s Ice of West Melbourne (225 Palm Bay Road in Hammocks Landing Shopping Plaza) anytime from 12 noon to 10 p.m. on the dates below and mention Sunrise Elementary. We will receive 20% of supporter sales donated back to Sunrise! Enjoy a sweet treat while helping our school! Thank you!
April 5th
May 3rd
Texas Roadhouse Sunrise Spirit Nights for the 21-22 School Year
Our business partners at Texas Roadhouse on Malabar Road want to help support Sunrise! They have offered to donate a percentage of their earnings from our families who dine with them on the following dates this school year. Any purchases made between 4-8 p.m. on the following dates will count toward supporting our school, but you must mention Sunrise Elementary. They do honor take out dining purchases as part of our spirit night as an option for our families who do not wish to dine indoors. Enjoy dinner together while helping our school! Thank you!
March 29th
April 26th
May 24th
Sunrise is a Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) Model School
We center our actions on core standards of Be Safe! Work Hard! Be Nice! Students earn tokens and positive office referrals for going above and beyond to demonstrate these three Sunrise Standards and our PBIS expectations which fall under these standards. Students use their earned tokens to spend in our quarterly PBIS store. Please continue to encourage your sea turtles to follow our Sunrise Standards: Be Safe! Work Hard! Be Kind!
Positive Office Referrals: Students also enjoy receiving Positive Office Referrals for going above and beyond to demonstrate these Sunrise Standards. When students receive a Positive Office Referral, they receive a phone call from Mrs. Jost and Mrs. Isaacs into their classroom. The teacher places the call on “speaker phone” and the entire class gets to celebrate and congratulate their classmate on the referral. The student also receives a free kid’s meal from our business partners at Texas Roadhouse, along with administration’s specialty charms (Mrs. Jost’s is a dolphin and Mrs. Isaac’s is a lightning bolt) and a pencil. These charms are worth 2 at our quarterly PBIS thumb store. Students are also recognized and congratulated on WSUN, our morning news network. Student’s names are also written each quarter on the PBIS bulletin board outside of the front office. Parents, please be on the lookout for these referrals in your child’s backpack. We do send a copy home.
PBIS Standards Posters: Being a gold model PBIS school requires us to fulfill specific PBIS guidelines and expectations. One of these requirements is to ensure we have our standards posted around the school expectations are visible and clear to students and staff. We have expectations for the hallway, recess, cafeteria, and classroom. Mrs. Woodward and our PBIS committee identified the need to add bus and car loop to our expectation posters. In addition, our committee decided to amend our Be Nice standard to the language of Be Kind, as being kind is promoted more significantly in society. We are in the process of purchasing updated posters for our campus. Our new posters will reflect the amended standard of Be Kind (Be Nice will be changed to Be Kind in the left column). We would like to thank our Sunrise PTO for supporting the purchase of updated PBIS Standard posters.
Arrival & Dismissal Procedures
Morning Arrival Reminders
We thank you for adhering to our campus safety guidelines of not dropping off your child earlier than 7:30 a.m. as there is no supervision on campus until 7:30 a.m.
If your child will be eating breakfast at school, please drop off your child no later than 7:40 a.m. so there is time to eat before instruction begins at 8 a.m. Late student arrivals (after 8 a.m.) must be escorted to the front office by a parent for check-in. The morning car loop begins wrapping up around 7:55 a.m.
Tardy Students
Any student arriving after 8:00 a.m. must be escorted to the front office and signed in by a parent/guardian. The student must be present in the office with you to receive a tardy slip by one of our staff members. Please do not send your child to class prior to them receiving their tardy slip by a Sunrise employee. Thank you!
Dismissal Reminders
Dismissal is 2:30 p.m. daily and 1:15 p.m. EVERY Friday
Please note, our dismissal will be delayed if there is rainy or inclement weather during this time. Your patience is appreciated.
Approved Methods for Student Dismissal
Registered Bus Rider, Sunrise BAS program, Private Daycare Van Rider, Biker/Walker* (no vehicle drive ups*), or Car Loop
Dismissal via parent walk-up is not permitted. If you have a one-time specific circumstance, please go to the front office. Our staff will be happy to assist you. *Parents are welcome to walk-up to our biker/walker gate to meet their child to walk home. Parents entering the front gates via vehicle for student pick-up must use the car loop please.
We kindly ask you do not check out your students to avoid the car loop. Beginning at 2:15 p.m., our office staff begins working to help ensure our entire campus of students get home correctly and safely.
Car Loop Procedures
Please use both lanes of traffic once you pass the Welcome to Sunrise sign at the front entrance past the gates. If both lanes are not used, traffic will back up onto Mara Loma Blvd. and Babcock Street. Please do not block the lane of traffic used for vehicles exiting the parking lot. Form the second lane once you pass the welcome sign please. Once you approach the front of the school, a Sunrise staff member will help you merge to the correct lane for the pick-up of your student(s). If you are only picking up PreK or Kinder students, you will merge into the left lane and bypass the pick-up line in front of the school. You will get into line at the west end of the building near the bike rack for PreK/Kinder pick-up. If you are picking up 1st through 6th grade students, you will merge into the right lane and proceed to the pick-up line directly in front of the school. If you are picking up both, you will merge into the right lane to pick up your 1st through 6th grader(s) first, and then you will proceed down to the PreK/Kindergarten line. Our car loop will be slow during inclement weather. We thank you in advance for your patience. For your planning, our car loop has been running from 2:30 p.m. to about 2:45/2:50 p.m. Our goal is always student safety first. Please keep your car tag visible for our staff to see while in the car loop.
Volunteering at Sunrise
We are happy to be able to work with volunteers this year! If you would like to work in any capacity with children, you must be a Registered Volunteer. In order to apply to volunteer, please visit the BPS website at www.brevardschools.org. Click on Parents & Students, then click on Volunteers, then click Volunteer Application. The cost is $35.00 for the initial application and there is an annual renewal fee of $8.00. All volunteering must be pre-arranged and scheduled ahead of time with a Sunrise teacher or staff member. Mrs. Reynolds is our volunteer coordinator. Her email is Reynolds.dani@brevardschools.org
Mark Your Calendars
-“Be There!” ELA/SS Family Engagement Night (Multicultural/Around the World event)- March 31st from 5-7 p.m.
-Spring Forward 1 hour (Daylight Saving Time Begins): March 13th
-Student Holiday- March 11th (No School)
-Spring Break- March 14th-18th (No School)
-3rd Quarter Report Cards Posted to FOCUS- March 24th
-PTO Sponsored Spring Fling Fundraiser has been cancelled.
-Teacher/Student Holiday- April 15th
-Sunrise Career Day- April 21st
-4th Interim Ends- April 22nd
-Sunrise Spring Music Concert- April 28th (6:30 p.m. Strings, 7:00 p.m. Hand Chimes, 7:30 p.m. Chorus)
-Sunrise Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week- May 2nd-6th
-2022-23 Incoming Pre-K and Kindergarten Orientation- May 12th (4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Pre-K & 5:30 p.m. to 6;30 p.m. Kindergarten)
-Sunrise Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast- May 23rd 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (Invitations will be sent to our honorees)
-End of Year Early Dismissal Days: 5/24, 5/25, and 5/26 (Dismissal at 1:15 p.m.)
-Last Day of School for Students- May 26th
-Final Report Cards posted to FOCUS- May 27th
Sunrise Elementary School
Email: jost.janene@brevardschools.org
Website: https://www.brevardschools.org/SunriseES
Location: 1651 Mara Loma Boulevard, Palm Bay, FL, USA
Phone: (321)674-6145
Administrative Contact Information
Tina Isaacs, Assistant Principal
Email: Isaacs.tina@brevardschools.org
Phone: 321-674-6145 extension 53215
Cell: 321-917-3137
Janene Jost, Principal
Email: jost.janene@brevardschools.org
Phone: 321-674-6145 extension 53202
Cell: 321-917-0259
Please leave a message, and we will be happy to return your call. Please call the front office for time sensitive information. You may also leave a message for us with the office clerk.