Conner Street Elementary School

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Red Ribbon Week and Spirit Week is next week. Monday – Rally in Red – Stand up to Drugs – Wear Red Tuesday – Being Drug Free Rocks – Wear your favorite band/musician shirt Wednesday – Follow your Dreams – Don’t Do Drugs – Wear your pajamas Thursday – Drugs are Scary – Wear your Halloween costume. No weapons. Masks allowed during the parade only. Costumes need to be something that students can easily put on without assistance. Friday – Team Up Against Drugs – Wear your favorite team apparel. Halloween Parties are Thursday, October 31st. Doors will open for parents at 1:15 and the parade will begin shortly thereafter, weather permitting. Parents must begin exiting at 2:00 and be completely out of the building and parking lot by 2:10. Our 5th graders will be hosting their annual Veteran’s Day performance on the morning of November 4th. The concert is early this year, due to the 5th grade STARBASE field trip. There is no school for students on Tuesday, November 5th for Election Day. Our next movie nights are November 7th and 8th. These are for grades K-1 and 2-3. More information is coming soon. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Halloween Family Fun Night is Saturday, October 19th. Admission is $5 a person. Grades PreK-2nd is 5:00 – 6:30 and grades 3-5 is 7:00 – 8:30. No weapons are allowed. Masks may be worn but must be able to be easily removed for identification purposes. School Pictures have been shipped and will arrive soon. If you are interested in seeing your student’s photos beforehand, or placing another order see our post on Facebook with directions. You will need your student’s school ID (WVEIS number) to access the photos. Red Ribbon Week and Spirit Week is the week of October 28th. Monday – Rally in Red – Stand up to Drugs – Wear Red Tuesday – Being Drug Free Rocks – Wear your favorite band/musician shirt Wednesday – Follow your Dreams – Don’t Do Drugs – Wear your pajamas Thursday – Drugs are Scary – Wear your Halloween costume. No weapons. Masks allowed during the parade only. Costumes need to be something that students can easily put on without assistance. Friday – Team Up Against Drugs – Wear your favorite team apparel. Halloween Parties are Thursday, October 31st. Doors will open for parents at 1:15 and the parade will begin shortly thereafter, weather permitting. Parents must begin exiting at 2:00 and be completely out of the building and parking lot by 2:10. Our 5th graders will be hosting their annual Veteran’s Day performance on the morning of November 4th. The concert is early this year, due to the 5th grade STARBASE field trip. There is no school for students on Tuesday, November 5th for Election Day. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Thank you to everyone who participated in our fundraiser, we were able to raise almost $4000 for our playground. We will be doing another fundraiser for the playground next month. Ms. Bird and I will be starting to work on our next grant application, but the more matching funds that we have the larger amount that we receive from the grant committee. No school for students on Friday, October 11th. It is a professional learning day for staff. The next PTB/LSIC meeting will be October 15th. We will be celebrating Unity Day on Wednesday, October 16th. Everyone wear orange. Halloween Family Fun Night is Saturday, October 19th. Admission is $5 a piece. Grades PreK-2nd is 5:00 – 6:30 and grades 3-5 is 7:00 – 8:30. If you are donating a cake, please have the cake at school Friday, October 18th. Candy is due Tuesday, October 15th. No weapons are allowed. Masks may be worn but must be able to be easily removed for identification purposes. Red Ribbon Week and Spirit Week is the week of October 28th. Monday – Rally in Red – Stand up to Drugs – Wear Red Tuesday – Being Drug Free Rocks – Wear your favorite band/musician shirt Wednesday – Follow your Dreams – Don’t Do Drugs – Wear your pajamas Thursday – Drugs are Scary – Wear your Halloween costume. No weapons. Masks allowed during the parade only. Costumes need to be something that students can easily put on without assistance. Friday – Team Up Against Drugs – Wear your favorite team apparel. Finally, some of our neighbors have requested that our parents not block their driveways when in line for pick-up. Have a great weekend!

Good afternoon. Conner Street Elementary will be joining several other local elementary schools in a Kids Helping Kids Challenge. The goal of this challenge is to collect items needed to assist the communities affected by the most recent hurricane. Please send any donations to school with your child this week, or drop off in the main office. The City of Hurricane will be picking up the items from us on Friday. Please check our Facebook post for the list of needed items, as well as a list of items that are not needed at this time.

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Parent Teacher conferences will be on October 10th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Please contact your child’s teacher if you would like a conference. We will likely NOT be able to accommodate those that show up without an appointment. There is also a flu shot clinic at Hurricane High on October 10th from 4:00 – 6:30. No school for students on Friday, October 11th. It is a professional learning day for staff. The next PTB/LSIC meeting will be October 15th. Halloween Family Fun Night is Saturday, October 19th. More information is coming soon. Red Ribbon Week and Spirit Week is the week of October 28th. Dress-up themes will be announced next week. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. The Fire Department will be October 1st doing Fire Safety with our PreK – 2nd Graders. Parent Teacher conferences will be on October 10th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Please contact your child’s teacher if you would like a conference. We will likely NOT be able to accommodate those that show up without an appointment. No school for students on Friday, October 11th. It is a professional learning day for staff. Halloween Family Fun Night is Saturday, October 19th. More information is coming soon. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Just a reminder that our fundraiser has now ended. All orders that have not been turned in, need to be dropped off Monday. Also, if you did not sell the book that was sent home you MUST return it to school. Our next PTB/LSIC meeting has been rescheduled for MONDAY, September 23rd at 7:00 pm. There is no school for students on Friday, September 20th. It is a professional learning day for staff. School picture day is Thursday, September 26th. Flyers were sent home earlier. Our PTB will be hosting two movie nights later in the month – Grades 2 and 3 will be Thursday the 26th and Grades 4 and 5 will be Friday the 27th. Grades K-1 will have a movie night later in the year. Information will be sent home the week of the event. Hurricane High School will be celebrating their Spirit Week next week; however, we do ours in conjunction with Red Ribbon week which is in October. The themes will be announced next month. The Fire Department will be October 1st doing Fire Safety with our PreK – 2nd Graders. Parent Teacher conferences will be on October 10th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Please contact your child’s teacher if you would like a conference. We will likely NOT be able to accommodate those that show up without an appointment. Finally, we are in search of a new archery coach for this season. The job is currently posted and does require applicants to complete several training courses before they are eligible to be hired. If you have questions, please give me a call. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Our fundraiser is still going on and will run through Thursday, September 19th. All money and orders will be due at that time. We plan to have the books ready to be delivered on Monday, September 23rd. Our next PTB/LSIC meeting has been rescheduled for MONDAY, September 23rd at 7:00 pm. Conner Street will be traveling into space for a Family Night on Thursday, September 19th. Information to RSVP came home last week. Today is the last day to register. Our Parent Teacher Boosters have posted a link on the Facebook page for anyone wanting to volunteer. There is no school for students on Friday, September 20th. It is a professional learning day for staff. School picture day is Thursday, September 26th. Flyers were sent home earlier this week. Our PTB will be hosting two movie nights later in the month – Grades 2 and 3 will be Thursday the 26th and Grades 4 and 5 will be Friday the 27th. Grades K-1 will have a movie night later in the year. Information will be sent home the week of the event. Finally, Class tshirt orders and money are due this coming Monday, September 16th. Have a great weekend!

Putnam County Schools and Conner Street are committed to the safety and education of all our students. Essential to this commitment is open communication with our families and school community about potential concerns when they arise. For this reason, I wanted to share some information regarding unsubstantiated or rumored threats circulating on a social media messaging platform. Please rest assured that we take all threats seriously. Upon notification of reported threats, we contact law enforcement immediately to investigate any threat and its validity. The reported messages are being investigated and appear to be similar to other threats or messages being spread throughout our region. We understand that situations like this can be concerning, and we want to assure you that we are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for all. Putnam County Schools will continue to work closely with local law enforcement, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department and Homeland Security’s School Safety Unit to monitor any situation, should it arise, to ensure our school remains a safe place for learning. Once again, we want to emphasize our unwavering commitment to the safety of our students and staff. We are grateful for the support and collaboration of our school communities and law enforcement agencies. Together, we will continue to work diligently to keep our schools safe and secure. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to get in touch with me directly at Conner Street. Thank you for your continued trust and support as we work together to keep our school community safe.

Conner Street will be holding a pink out on Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Foster who is undergoing a medical procedure. Please join us in wearing pink.

Hello, Conner Street Families, here is your weekly call out. Our fundraiser is still going on and will run through Thursday, September 19th. All money and orders will be due at that time. We plan to have the books ready to be delivered on Monday, September 23rd. Morning drop off has been much more successful this week, so thank you! Just a reminder, school does begin at 7:30. Our next PTB/LSIC meeting will be September 17th at 7:00 pm. Conner Street will be traveling into space for a Family Night on Thursday, September 19th. Information to RSVP came home earlier this week. The links for the online forms have been sent out, we still have about 50 families that have not registered. Anyone that has not registered will be sent paper forms next week. Our Parent Teacher Boosters have posted a link on the Facebook page for anyone wanting to volunteer. There is no school for students on Friday, September 20th. It is a professional learning day for staff. Finally, school picture day is Thursday, September 26th. More information will be sent home once we receive the flyers. Have a great weekend!

2024 WVGSA Student Assessment Results Available in Online Family Portal Student assessment results for the 2024 West Virginia General Summative Assessment are now available in the online Family Portal. Putnam County Schools will provide a unique access code for each student who took the WVGSA in grades 3-8. This code will allow students and their parents/guardians to access student test results by logging into the online Family Portal. We are sending this information through the student email address and the parent/guardian email address(es) on file for the student. The Family Portal will provide better access to student test results for parents/guardians. It will include detailed information about student performance in math, English language arts, and science, as well as access to Lexile and Quantile measures and the Lexile/Quantile Growth Plan. Additional resources to help explain student performance and to help parents and guardians provide support to their students will be included. To further assist parents/guardians in understanding their student’s performance on the WVGSA, in addition to the results provided in the Family Portal, an individual video score report also is available. Putnam County Schools will also provide a unique link to each student’s video report in that same email. Please look for this important email today, August 29, 2004, at 4:00pm. If parents and guardians need help in accessing the family portal or the video score report, they may contact their child’s school administrator(s). Thank you!

Hello, Conner Street Families, we have survived the first two days of school. Just a few items on today’s call. Thank you to those of you that are continuously following our drop-off procedures. For those of you using Washington Avenue, please use Shank or Seymour. The traffic on Washington, as well as parents blocking the DO NOT BLOCK area is causing our buses to be late to their next stops or schools. There is no school on September 2nd, in honor of Labor Day. Our PreK starts on Tuesday, September 3rd. Getting your student to school on time is vital for a successful day, please do your best to help your child be on time for school. The links for the online forms have been sent out, but if you need paper copies just let your child’s homeroom teacher know. Have a great weekend!

Good afternoon, Conner Street Families. Just a reminder that Open House starts tonight at 4:00 pm. All of you, except for newly enrolled students, should have received a call last week with the name of your child’s teacher. I will also have a list at the front door, for those of you that did not receive the call. The link for completing forms online will be sent out on the first day of school, so we will not be able to have those stations set up this evening. If you are going to need paper copies, please let your child’s homeroom teacher know. Also, make sure to take your pictures this evening, because all parents will need to stay in their cars on the first day of school. See you in a bit!

Hello, Conner Street Families, as promised we have a ton of information on tonight‘s callout. Yes, I do realize it is a day earlier than normal, but most of you are excited to get all of this information. Please bear with me. • Just a reminder open house is August 20 from 4-6 PM. We’re also hosting a fundraiser in conjunction with Pizza Hut. Simply place an order, mention Conner Street and we will get a percentage of the profits. • The first day of school for students grades K through five is August 22. Students may be dropped off at school starting at 7:10 AM and the school day does start at 7:30 AM. Anyone arriving after 7:30 must be brought into the building by their parent and anyone arriving after 7:40 is tardy. • County policies have been updated, any student who is chronically tardy or absent and is attending out of zone will be required to return to their homeschool. • Some state policies have been updated regarding attendance. Parents now have three days after an absence to turn in a student excuse. I’m sure most of you will appreciate that. Also, if a student reaches three unexcused absences you will receive a call from the school to discuss absences. Continued unexcused absences will result in more steps being taken to address those absences. • Putnam County will be rolling out two different technology upgrades. The first will allow parents and guardians to fill out most of the beginning of the year forms online. You should be receiving a link, if you haven’t already, via text or email that will allow you to complete these forms completely online. For those of you who are unable to do so, you may request a paper copy from the school. We will also attempt to have several laptops set up at open house for those of you who unable to complete the forms on their own devices. The second is a new feature on buses that will eventually allow parents to track the location of the bus. This will definitely help out on those cold mornings when you don’t want your child waiting at the bus stop too long. It will also be great when we have a bus that pulls out late or is stuck in traffic. • We are very fortunate that we will have free breakfast and lunch for all students again this year. Students will still need to pay $.35 if they want an extra milk. Since all students are eligible for free breakfast and lunch, you will not need to fill out the free and reduced lunch form. We will be doing a boxed lunch option again this year, they will only be one day a week. Once we have that day chosen and the menu set, that will be added to the callouts. • Drop off will be very chaotic the first few days of school. Parents will need to stay in their vehicles. Anyone wanting a picture in front of the school will need to do so at open house. Also, please make sure to follow our traffic pattern. Last year we had several issues with parents not following directions and causing traffic backups that prevented our buses from exiting the circle. • At dismissal, which is 2:30 pm, please follow our Pickup procedures. We load buses, then cars, and then dismiss walkers. Drop off and pick up maps will be posted outside of the school at open house. Also, just a reminder to those parents who have students in grades three and below, they are unable to walk home or get off the bus by themselves. An adult must be there to get them, or they may be with an older sibling. • You will receive a second call this evening, with the name of your child’s teacher for the school year. Just a reminder students in grades 3-5 rotate through all grade level teachers. I am sure I have forgotten something, so I will be doing another call early next week just to do final reminders before the first day of school. Have a great weekend.

Hello, Conner Street Families: It is that time of year again. We do have several staffing changes this upcoming year, some will not be final until after Monday’s board meeting, but we thought we would go ahead and let you know what those changes are. Kindergarten - Crookshanks, and New Hire First - Dixon, Foster Second - Bledsoe, Noel Third - Farmer (Math), Rios (ELA), White (Science/Social Studies) Fourth - Clutters (Math/Science), Miller (ELA/Social Studies) Fifth - Kirby (Math/Science), Robie (ELA/Social Studies) Title One - Fields All specials and special education teachers remain the same. We do have a few important dates coming up soon: 8/9 - New Student Registration 8/15 - Teachers Return 8/16 - Class Lists Announced 8/20 - Open House 8/22 - First Day K-5 Suggested School Supply Lists are posted in a previous post and pinned to the top of our Facebook page. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families. Report Cards will be distributed on the last day of school, which is June 4th. If you would like for us to mail your child’s report card home, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope in before June 4th. Also, we have updated information about the last day of school. The last day of school is now a 3-hour early dismissal. Conner Street will dismiss at 11:30 am. Fifth graders going on the field trip need to be at Conner Street at 6:00 am on Monday. Parents that are riding the bus, please park at Forrest Burdette. DO NOT block the bus loop. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families. Your update is coming early this week, due to information about Field Day tomorrow. Field Day WEATHER Information – We do plan to attempt to have field day tomorrow. Right now, we are looking at cloudy weather and possible storms in the afternoon. If thunderstorms or lightning occur, we will have to adjust. If we can get in the morning session, and not the afternoon, we will make every attempt to notify parents before lunch. Please make sure to send a rain jacket, or a change of clothes for your student, just in case. Our gate will be open to allow parents to drop off tents and coolers until 8:00 am. Anyone arriving after 8:00 am, MUST enter through the front door. We will reopen the gates at lunch. An administrator will be stationed at the gate while it is open. Kindergarten - 2nd grade will have activities from approximately 8:15-11:00 while 3rd-5th will go during the same morning hours and again from approximately 12:30-2:00. Your child will need to wear their class T-shirt on this day and should bring a water bottle that they can take outside. If you plan to sign your child out for lunch, you must do so with the classroom teacher. If you plan to sign out a child that is not yours, WE MUST have permission IN WRITING from that child’s guardian. Report Cards will be distributed on the last day of school, which is June 4th. If you would like for us to mail your child’s report card home, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope in before June 4th. Also, we have updated information about the last day of school. The last day of school was originally scheduled to be a 2-Hour early dismissal; however, it is now a 3-hour early dismissal. Conner Street will dismiss at 11:30 am. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. The last day for Pre-K is Thursday, May 23. Report Cards will be distributed on the last day of school, which is June 4th. If you would like for us to mail your child’s report card home, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope in before June 4th. Field Day is Friday, May 24th. Our gate will be open to allow parents to drop off tents and coolers until 8:00 am. Anyone arriving after 8:00 am, MUST enter through the front door. We will reopen the gates at lunch. An administrator will be stationed at the gate while it is open. Kindergarten - 2nd grade will have activities from approximately 8:15-11:00 while 3rd-5th will go during the same morning hours and again from approximately 12:30-2:00. Your child will need to wear their class T-shirt on this day and should bring a water bottle that they can take outside. If you plan to sign your child out for lunch, you must do so with the classroom teacher. If you plan to sign out a child that is not yours, WE MUST have permission IN WRITING from that child’s guardian. Letters went home this week concerning our 5th grade celebration, and our 5th grade trip. If you did not receive these, please contact your child’s homeroom teacher. Have a great weekend!

Hello, Conner Street Families. Here is your weekly call out. We will be celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week the week of May 13th. Please see our Facebook page for information about signing up to provide items. There is no school for students or staff on Tuesday, May 14th due to Election Day. The last day for Pre-K is Thursday, May 23. Field Day is Friday, May 24th. Our gate will be open to allow parents to drop off tents and coolers until 8:00 am. Anyone arriving after 8:00 am, MUST enter through the front door. We will reopen the gates at lunch. An administrator will be stationed at the gate while it is open. Kindergarten - 2nd grade will have activities from approximately 8:15-11:00 while 3rd-5th will go during the same morning hours and again from approximately 12:30-2:00. Your child will need to wear their class T-shirt on this day and should bring a water bottle that they can take outside. If you plan to sign your child out for lunch, you must do so with the classroom teacher. If you plan to sign out a child that is not yours, WE MUST have permission IN WRITING from that child’s guardian. Have a great weekend!