Burtonsville Beat ( September 17, 2023)
September 17, 2023
Good evening, Burtonsville families!
Mark your calendars:
- 9/19 - BES Replacement Facility Meeting
- 9/22 - Early Release Day
- 9/23 - Burtonsville Day Parade
- 9/25 - No School
- 9/29 - Coffee & Caregivers (flyer)
School & Community News…
Friday, September 22, 2023, is an early release day. All students (K-2) will be dismissed from school at 1:20 p.m. Please let your child’s teacher know if dismissal plans will be different from usual, or call the school office at 240/740-5700, by 12:45 pm to notify us of changes.
Burtonsville Day Parade: Saturday, September 23rd. Make signs, wear your Burtonsville t-shirt, or our school colors (blue & yellow), and come out to show your school spirit and represent Burtonsville Elementary! More information to come! If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact the main office at (240) 740-5700 for additional information.
A Message from our PTA:
BES Replacement Facility Meeting will be on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at 4:15 p.m. in the All Purpose Room/Cafeteria. This is the LAST of the scheduled meetings for community input. Please attend IN PERSON to help BES have their voices heard. For more information, please visit: the BES Replacement Facility website.
Please join the BES PTA on Wednesday, September 20, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. for an informational session on Destination Imagination. DI teaches kids STEM as an extracurricular activity hosted by parent volunteers. You can find more info on DI at Destination Imagination The event will take place in the cafeteria of Benjamin Banneker Middle School located at 14800 Perrywood Dr., Burtonsville, MD, and will include a STEM challenge activity and light refresh events. Please see the attached flyer.
Please send your first day of school photos & photos from the Back to School Bash to burtonsvillepta@gmail.com or add the photos directly to a Google photo album at https://photos.app.goo.gl/oh2tZj5uo2V1oKVR9 for first day of school or https://photos.app.goo.gl/g1ussNV7ShZbdFuX9 for Back to School Bash. We’d like to add them to the yearbook!
Interested in volunteering with the PTA? Please go to the Burtonsville PTA website to sign up!
County News…
Transportation
- Bus Arrival and Departure (revised) schedules
- Daily Transportation Updates
The Pathway to College, Career, and Community Readiness (updated)
MCPS created a new guide to help families, students, and teachers work together to ensure student success.
Read about The Pathway to College, Career and Community Readiness:
English | Español | Tiếng Việt | 한국인 | Français | 中國人 | አማርኛ | Português.
You can also view a short parent-friendly video in English and Spanish to learn more.
ParentVue – Quick Guides
ParentVUE provides a way to view all school-related information and data for all your students. Register for athletics, and special programs, communicate with teachers, and verify your student information annually. The Office of Technology Innovation has one-pagers to help families with ParentVUE that are available in all the MCPS languages linked here:
English / Español / 中文 / français / Português / 한국어 / tiếng Việt / አማርኛ
Student Code of Conduct/ Student Rights & Responsibilities
In order to ensure a safe, productive, and positive learning environment, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) publishes two documents that help students, parents, and staff understand school rules and regulations; the expectations for student conduct; and the possible consequences for violating the rules.
As well Guidelines for Student Gender Identity are available which align with the Montgomery County Board of Education's core values, guidance from the Maryland State Department of Education, and the Montgomery County Board of Education Policy ACA, Nondiscrimination, Equity, and Cultural Proficiency, which prohibits discrimination, stigmatization, and bullying based on gender identity, as well as sex, gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation, among other personal characteristics.
If you have comments about any of these publications, please send them in writing to the MCPS Department of Communications at pio@mcpsmd.org.
Free and/or Reduced Meals (FARMs) Families can now apply online and avoid longer processing times in September. Online FARMs applications are available now. Please visit www.MySchoolApps.com to complete and submit the 2023-2024 online application.
The paper version of the 2023-24 Household Application for FARMS is designed to allow for electronic scanning. Due to this, only original applications can be processed. Please do not duplicate the paper applications. Again, while we will accept paper applications, online applications are strongly encouraged.
Please complete the FARMs application, even if you think you do not qualify. We have had parents think they don’t qualify so they don’t fill out the forms. Student meal eligibility from the 2022–2023 school year will carry over into the 2023–2024 school year through October 11, 2023, or until a new application is processed. After that, if a student has not newly qualified for free or reduced-price meals, meals will be charged at the regular meal price; of $2.55.
Saturday School
The Saturday School program will open in the fall with physical locations at Wheaton, Northwest, Einstein, Montgomery Blair, Paint Branch, and Clarksburg High Schools. Each of these centers will serve your students in Pre-K through 5th grade and includes breakfast and transportation over 23 Saturdays from September to May.
Saturday School serves MCPS as a strategic partner and provides mentoring and tutoring from 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. on Saturday mornings, which is what we consider the 6th Day of Learning. The elementary Saturday School curriculum is aligned with the MCPS curriculum and taught by MCPS teachers with the goal of extending and supporting the weekly grade-level learning outcomes.
Course Flyers: English | Español | Francés | Fill-in Registration Form
Yours In Service,
Kimberly Lloyd, Principal
Terry Gobourne, Assistant Principal