OAK GROVE

Oak Grove Elementary

Vicki Hathaway, Principal

Chris Edwards , Assistant Principal

Ashley Venable,  Assistant Principal

September

Important Dates:

Aug. 26-Sept 6:  MAPS testing

Sept 2:  Staff/Student Holiday

Sept. 20 – End of First 6 weeks

Sept 23:  Migrant mtg at 6:00 at BMS

Sept. 24: PTO mtg at 5:30

Sept. 25:  Report Cards home

Oct. 9:  Goals Day – Student Holiday

Oct. 11 – School Pictures

Oct. 18 Staff/Student Holiday

Oct. 21-25:  Book Fair

Oct. 29:  Fall Festival

PE NEWS

We were able to add a full time PE Coach this year! 

Everyone has PE every day! 

Students needs athletic shoes for PE every day!

PRINCIPAL’S NOTE

Please ensure that your child is reading nightly for at least 20 minutes. 

This could be silent reading, reading with a partner or even being read

to – however your family chooses to do it – just READ!  You can even

turn on the closed captioning on your TV during a program that your child is watching!!

The Skyward call out system is used to remind you

of major events.  If you would like to receive text 

from this system, you have to login to Family

Access and go to the Skylert section and add a phone

number under the text message area.  Once you

add your phone number you will receive an option

in text messages that you need to reply “Y” for

“Yes” to in order to start receiving SMS messages.

To get to Family Access- go to the BISD homepage

and click on Public and then click on Skyward

Family and Student Access. If you any trouble

logging in please call the office. 

Reminder

Please ensure that you do not send anything to school for lunch or parties

 that contains peanuts.  Please remember you need your ID to: 

check out your child and to visit anywhere in the building.

If you have an address change or a phone number change

– please let the office know.

Bell Schedule

7:30 – Front Doors Open

7:45 – Students enter classrooms.

8:00 – Tardy Bell

3:30 – Dismissal Bell

Attendance

 Your child must attend at least 90% of the school year in order to receive credit for the grade level.

  If your child is absent, please phone the front office by 8:15 AM.  The number is 806-637-6455. 

If you take your child to the Doctor, please bring the Doctor note to the office in order to get the

absence excused.  Please make every attempt to have your child at school every day – on time.

  3 tardies will constitute an absence.  We do send out attendance letters after the 5^th absence

has occurred as a reminder.  If your child exceeds the 10% rule, truancy proceedings will begin. 

  Our building opens at 7:30 AM and tardy bell rings at 8:00 AM.  Instruction begins promptly at 8:00 AM.

STUDENTS LUNCH

2^nd grade 11:00-11:35

3^rd grade 11:25-12:00

4^th grade

Anderson, Nutt and Nippert 11:35-12:05

Staggs, Ware and Tarver 11:45-12:15

5^th grade 12:50-1:20