MYES Family Newsletter
Week of 8.14.23
Myersville Elementary School
Email: dana.austin@fcps.org
Website: https://education.fcps.org/myes/
Location: 429 Main Street, Myersville, MD, USA
Phone: 240-236-1900
Important Dates
August 21: PTA Back to School Bash from 6:00-8:00 pm
August 23: First Day for Students
August 23-25: Staggered Start for K Students (See Teacher Assignment Letter for Details)
September 4: Schools Closed for Labor Day
September 22: Dismiss at Noon for Fair Day
September 25: Schools Closed for Yom Kippur
FCPS Code of Conduct
Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) strives to create safe, positive, healthy, and inviting school climates that foster respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring, and good citizenship. The FCPS Student Code of Conduct provides a framework to foster positive behavior in alignment with the school system’s core mission of demonstrating excellence.
Parents serve as their child’s first and most important teacher, and this responsibility continues throughout the rest of their life. As students grow and mature, parents/guardians should continue to talk with their children about appropriate conduct at school and help their children be active participants in creating and promoting a positive, supportive, safe, and welcoming school environment that is conducive to teaching and learning. For detailed information, please refer to the Parent/Guardian Responsibilities section (pg 2) of the Code of Conduct.
FCPS uses a continuum of instructional strategies and behavior intervention responses to support the teaching and learning process. These supports are generally organized in three tiers (Tier 1- Universal Support, Tier 2- Targeted Intervention, Tier 3-Intensive, Individualized Interventions). For detailed information, please refer to the FCPS Behavioral and Academic MTSS Framework and the MTSS section (pg 3) of the Code of Conduct.
Discipline is intended to teach and motivate students to demonstrate appropriate behavior. FCPS utilizes progressive discipline (escalating consequences for patterns of inappropriate behavior which have persisted despite less intensive consequences) whenever appropriate. Progressive discipline should promote positive student behavior, state unacceptable behavior, and establish clear and fair discipline responses for unacceptable behavior. Disciplinary responses are administered in proportion to the severity of the unacceptable behavior, its impact on the school environment, the student’s age and grade level, the student’s previous discipline history, and other relevant factors. For detailed information, please refer to the Application of the Student Code of Conduct and Levels of Response section (pg 4) of the Code of Conduct.
Questions or comments about the handbook should be directed to your school's principal or to the FCPS Student Services Department at (301) 644-5238.
Back to School Open House
You may bring your child's school supplies with you that evening.
Monday, Aug 21, 2023, 04:30 PM
Myersville Elementary School, Main Street, Myersville, MD, USA
School Attendance for 2023-2024
The last three years have been unprecedented given the global pandemic surrounding COVID-19. Last school year we were still experiencing the residual effects as students were impacted by new exposure to other illnesses. During that time, county attendance expectations were very flexible in order to meet the needs of all students and families.
Beginning in August, FCPS attendance policies will be fully implemented and parent notification will be sent for any student who is on track to becoming or is already deemed chronically absent or tardy. Notification will begin at 5 days and when a student accumulates 10 or more absences within the school year. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing 10 percent or more of school days due to absence for any reason- both lawful and unlawful. This amounts to 18 absences total in a single school year.
Maryland Law requires that a written excuse be provided each time that your child is absent. The excuse should include the date of the absence, your child’s first and last name, and the reason for the absence. Please either send in a handwritten note or you can email MYES.Attendance@fcps.org.
Absences considered lawful and therefore excused, as described in the Public School Laws and Code of Bylaws of the Maryland State Board of Education, are:
Illness of the student
Death in the immediate family
Court summons
Hazardous weather condition
Work or activity accepted by the school authorities
Observance of religious holiday up to 3 days
State emergency
Suspension
Lack of authorized transportation
Health exclusion
Other emergency (judgment of Superintendent or designee)
Students who take trips with parent/guardian approval may be excused a maximum of five days per school year.
Food and Nutrition Services
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEAL PRICES
Breakfast $1.60
Lunch $2.65
Breakfast & lunch are free to students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
Milk purchased a la carte (not as part of a meal) is $0.60.
2023-2024 NEW PARENT PORTAL for SCHOOL MEALS
FCPS Is Pleased To Announce A New Online Parent Portal
Go to the parent portal at http://linqconnect.com/ where you can:
- Apply for meal benefits (FARM)
- View menus, meal prices (NO meal price increases from last year!) and a la carte prices
- Add money to student accounts (NO FEES SY'24!)
- Transfer funds between students
- View student meal transactions
- Set low-balance notifications
Meal Benefit Applications:
- If your family participates in an assistance program, please verify your student(s) meal benefit status with the FNS Office prior to completing an application.
- Click HERE for the online application in the LINQ Connect Parent Portal.
- Click on District and enter "Frederick" to see district list.
- Select Frederick County Public Schools (MD) to begin the application.
Student Meal Accounts: FCPS is no longer using MySchoolBucks
- Meal account balances from last school year are now on LINQ Connect.
- REGISTER for a LINQ Connect account to see your student(s) balance that will be available to use when school starts on Wednesday, August 23.
- You will then be able to add money, set notifications, view students purchases and more.
PTA Corner
PTA School Supply Kits
PTA SPIRITWEAR
Transportation
If you have ANY changes to your child's transportation for the upcoming school year -
PLEASE notify the front office ASAP at 240-236-1900.
Arrival and Dismissal
Arrival- Students can begin to arrive between 8:30 and 9:00 am. For the safety of our students, students cannot be permitted in the building prior to 8:30 am. Instruction begins promptly at 9:00 am.
Walkers are asked to enter the building at the Kindergarten doors. Car riders should be dropped off in the back lot in the car rider loop between 8:30-9:00 am. Please remain in a single file line.
Dismissal- Walkers and car riders will be dismissed at 3:30 pm. Walkers exit from the main entrance while car riders are dismissed in the back of the school. Students will wait inside the school in the gym. Please remain in your vehicle while waiting in the car rider loop.
Car rider pick up will be in two waves in order to minimize traffic on Main Street. Please do not block the crosswalk on Main Street if you are waiting. If you have multiple children at MYES, please arrive at 3:30. If you have only one child, please arrive at 3:40. Your adherence to these times will greatly support our school dismissal- thank you in advance.
MYES will continue to use the hang tag system and every family will receive a set. We will be issuing new numbers. Former families, please discard the tags issued to you previously.
MYES Vision Statement
Myersville Elementary is a place where students and staff are engaged learners. They feel safe to take risks and all contributions are valued. Here we have fun while we learn in our school community.