Robert Hunter Report
Dec. 5, 2020
Robert Hunter Elementary School
Mrs. Jessica Braynor, Vice Principal
Website: https://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/Domain/381
Location: 8 Dayton Road Flemington, NJ 08822
Phone: (908) 284-7620
Twitter: @RobertHunterES
Dec 5. 2020
Dear Robert Hunter families,
We can’t believe it’s already December! One day at a time, working together, we are making it through this challenging year.
Continue to practice safety precautions, including mask wearing, hand washing, and social distancing. Remember to complete the daily health screener, and do not send children to school if they are showing any possible COVID symptoms. We need to work together to ensure the safety of our community.
Our hybrid students are doing an amazing job learning in the classroom while wearing masks and staying distanced, and our virtual students are rising to the challenge of learning in a completely different way this year. We are so proud of our students, as they continue to grow as learners - not only learning academic skills but learning how to cope with challenges, build resiliency, and they are certainly becoming quite the experts with technology!
It is important that we continue to celebrate milestones and memories this year. This is where we need your help! Our wonderful PTO yearbook committee will be putting together a yearbook with pictures from this year - this is not an easy task! Please send any pictures of your children to homeroom parents or you can contact the yearbook committee at roberthunteryb@gmail.com. Right now, the committee is looking for Back to School, Halloween, Walkathon, Pajama Day, or any other beginning of the school year photos! Let’s work together to create a special yearbook for our children!
We hope you are enjoying the weekend!
Mrs. Glaab and Mrs. Braynor
This week's calendar:
Cohort A Blue Week, Cohort B White Week
Dec. 7 - Helping Hands donations due
Dec 8
Dec 9
Dec 10
Dec 11 - Meal Pick up 1:30-3:00, Supply Pick-up 9:00-4:00
Quarantine
If you have a concern about your child coming to school, please reach out to our school nurse, Mrs. Cunniff, to determine if there is medical need to quarantine or just for guidance. You may reach Mrs. Cunniff at scunniff@frsd.k12.nj.us.
Please understand, without a confirmed medical need, we are not able to accommodate short term requests from hybrid into virtual. Only students who have a medical need to quarantine will receive a short-term instructional plan to access instruction remotely.
Class Celebrations
We want to thank all of our homeroom parents who have helped to coordinate class celebrations and have been creative in working through the challenges of this year to help provide special experiences for our students. We encourage homeroom parents to reach out to classroom teachers regarding upcoming winter celebrations. If you would like to plan activities involving materials, they may be dropped off at school at least two days prior to the activity. Please alert the office if they need to be included for virtual pick-up.
Service Corp
We are very excited that our new 4th grade service corp program has begun! Thank you to our school counselor, Mrs. Fontanez, for facilitating this leadership program for our 4th grade students. We have various student committees who share the goal of promoting a positive and connected community. Our service corp students will be planning morning announcements, assemblies, spirit days, and service projects!
One of the student committees is planning socialization activities for Kindergarten students on Friday afternoons. Kindergarten families - please be on the lookout for more information, and we hope you encourage your children to participate!!
4th grade families - please remind your children who are participating in the service corp program to attend their weekly 3:00 Zoom meetings with Mrs. Fontanez. We want to teach our students that school leaders model responsibility - including attending assigned meetings and staying on top of their jobs. Thank you for your support in teaching this message! If you have questions about Service Corp, please reach out to Mrs. Fontanez at sfontane@frsd.k12.nj.us
Educator of the Year
Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate our amazing educators for this recognition!
We are so excited to announce Robert Hunter’s Educators of the Year!
Jennifer Smits, 3rd Grade Teacher, is our Teacher of the Year!
Zoey Blampey, RTI Coordinator, is our Educational Services Professional of the Year!
Congratulations Mrs. Smits and Mr. Blampey! We thank you for your leadership and dedication to the Robert Hunter community!
Check out the districtwide Virtual Run!
PTO - Highlights and Reminders!
Holiday Hands-Deadline extended to December 7th!
The RH PTO Holiday Hands program hopes you will join us in supporting our neediest RH families this holiday season. Our goal is that your generous donations from $5 to $500 will be used to provide gift cards to every Robert Hunter family that qualifies for assistance due to financial hardship.
Help us to spread the joy of the season and support your Robert Hunter family. Thank you!
Venmo: @RobertHunterPTO2020 or
contact Kristen Boyce directly atkristenboyce1994@gmail.com to donate via check/cash.
View our Holiday Hands Flyer Here!
5 Below PTO Fundraiser
When: December 14-20th
Where: Five Below, 100 Reaville Ave
**10% of the total dollars spent will be donated back to the PTO**
You must bring the flyer foundHEREwith you printed out for the PTO to receive credit.
Contact Allison atatdpelletier@gmail.com with questions.
DeFazio's Pizza Fundraiser
Thursday December 17th, 11am – 9pm
Location:40 State Route 31
Phone: (908) 824-7336
Bring our flyer foundHERE or mention Robert Hunter and 20% of your sale will be donated to the PTO.
Any questions please contact Kristen Boyce at kristenboyce1994@gmail.com.
Gertrude Hawk Chocolates Fundraising
Virtual Online Sale- Now Through December 13th
It’s easy to participate!
Simply set up an account and share a link so friends and family can shop our Holiday Catalog virtually. All online orders are shipped directly to the customer,
no need to collect money.
Visit the Gertrude Hawk Site HERE to create an account to start Fundraising!
Our Organization ID# is 118019
Click HERE to view the Gertrude Hawk Flyer with more instructions on how to get started!