the Sunrise Scoop
Week of April 18th
Principal's Message
The end of this school year is quickly approaching; however, we still have many days of quality learning time remaining. Please continue to encourage your children to Work Hard (Sunrise Standard) and praise them for the awesome effort they give each and every day.
Fourth, 5th, and 6th grade state assessments for ELA and Math (including 3rd grade) will be administered the first week of May. Fifth grade Science will be the week of May 16th. We are so proud of all Sea Turtles for demonstrating their very best work and effort all the time!
A few announcements about morning drop off: If you drop your child off at school via vehicle, we kindly ask you to either use the car loop to drop off safely at the curb or park and escort your child to the cross walk to cross with Mr. Grugan. Please do not allow your child to get out of the vehicle in the middle of the parking lot or allow them to walk themselves. Many concerned parents and staff members have contacted us about unescorted students walking/running through the parking lot in the morning. Elementary students must be carefully supervised around moving vehicles. Please help us keep all of our students safe!
Another quick note about morning drop off...please park and escort your child to the front office if you are arriving to school later than 8 a.m. Elementary students must have a parent sign them into school if tardy. The instructional day begins at 8 a.m. Please arrive to school no later than 7:55 a.m. so your child has time to walk to class. If your child is eating breakfast at school, please have them to school between 7:30 a.m. and 7:40 a.m. There is no supervision on campus prior to 7:30 a.m. Please do not leave your child unattended before 7:30 a.m. Again, thank you for your help and support with following our school procedures.
Please mark your calendars for Thursday, April 28th. Mrs. Arner will host the Annual Spring Music Concert beginning at 6:30 p.m. in our Sunrise cafeteria. Our strings, chorus, and handchime groups will be performing! All are welcome to come out to enjoy their performance.
Have a great week ahead everyone!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Jost
Sunrise Memory Wall
Congratulations Mrs. Snow!
Congratulations Brevard School Board Virtual Art Show Winners!
1st Place- Lillian N.
Merit Award- Layla M.
Best of Show- Dane F.
Way to go Sea Turtles! Congratulations!
Join Us in Wearing Purple on April 20th!
Please join us on April 20th for Purple Up Day by wearing purple! You will show your support to Military Kids who constantly need to adapt to change, be brave, and make sacrifices. All Sunrise Sea Turtles and families are welcome to participate!
Upcoming VPK and Kindergarten Students
ESE Family Survey
The Florida Department of Education is working with school districts to gather information on how well parents think their child's school is partnering with parents of students with disabilities, and would like to include your input. Your responses will help guide efforts to improve services and results for children and families. This survey is for parents of students with individual educational plans (IEP) receiving special education services during the 2021-22 school year. All information provided will remain confidential.
You may submit one online survey for each child receiving services. To access the survey, please refer to the Survey ID on your invite cover letter or the box on the bottom left-hand corner of your paper survey.
Paper surveys just arrived, so we will send these home as soon as possible so you can complete the survey. Your child's Survey ID will be in their packet.
Summer Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Program.
Incoming Kindergarten Registration
Incoming Pre-K Registration
Returning Student Registration
Summer Opportunities
BAS Summer Camp
PTO and School Advisory Council (SAC)
The next PTO (5 p.m.) and SAC (5:30 p.m.) meetings will be held on Monday, April 25th. Voting SAC members are required to attend this meeting in person in the Sunrise Media Center. We will no longer be providing a virtual link, as we have not noted a use for this past the month of February.
Annual Review of Student and Sunrise Achievement: All are invited to attend each PTO and SAC meeting. We host one meeting each month, and you do not need to be a voting member to participate. We encourage and welcome all staff, teachers, parents, and community members to attend to share in school improvement efforts. Our final SAC meeting in May will be focused on reviewing our annual student and school achievements. Our May meeting is being moved up to May 9th (originally scheduled May 23rd). Please make this change on your calendars.
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!
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!
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!
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. Our new posters 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.
Please do not drop your child off in the parking lot unattended. If you are not using the car loop, please park your vehicle and escort your child to the cross walk to cross with Mr. Grugan, our P.E. coach. Elementary students must be carefully supervised around moving vehicles. Thank you for keeping our students safe!
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.
Inclement Weather Dismissal Procedures
If lightning is in the area, the release of students will be delayed until severe weather passes.
If weather is too severe for PreK and Kinder car rider students to release at the west end of the building, they will be moved to the front area of the building, which is covered. The car loop will run more slowly on these days. We will send a text message to notify parents if this decision is made.
Bikers and walkers will be held at school until heavy rain and/or lightning passes. Students may be checked out in the front office by someone on their approved pick up list. Please ensure pick-ups have a photo ID.
Weather in Florida can be unpredictable and changes can occur quickly. We will always do our best to communicate with parents via text message regarding dismissal changes. Thank you for your patience and support during these times.
Please always have your car tag or photo ID visible when picking up students! Thank you!
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.
Important: We love volunteers, and we welcome the help! There are important guidelines volunteers must follow while serving on our campus. All volunteering must be pre-arranged and scheduled ahead of time with a Sunrise teacher or staff member. Volunteers must be serving a specific purpose while on campus and remain in designated volunteer areas. Volunteers are not permitted to help in the clinic and front/administrative office areas. All volunteers must complete a Sunrise Orientation Training each year prior to volunteering at Sunrise.
Mrs. Reynolds is our volunteer coordinator. Her email is Reynolds.dani@brevardschools.org
If you are interested in becoming a Sunrise volunteer, please contact Mrs. Reynolds. She will work with you on the process and arrange a time for you to attend our Volunteer Orientation Training.
Mark Your Calendars
-4th Interim Ends- April 22nd
-Sunrise Spring Music Concert- April 28th beginning at 6:30 p.m.
-Sunrise Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week- May 2nd-6th
-Sunrise Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast- May 11th 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (Invitations will be sent to our honorees) This is a date change due to many student activities occurring the last week of school.
-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.