Spirit Weekend at Buffaloe Lanes

Banks Road Spirit Weekend at BUFFALOE LANES (Hwy 401)

October 11, 12, 13

Please take the Buffaloe Lanes card (coming home with students) and turn it in when you check out, and Banks Road will receive 50% of the bowling total!

REFLECTIONS ARTS PROGRAM

"Believe, Dream, Inspire"

Banks Road students are welcome to participate in the Reflections Arts Program.  They can choose from one of the following categories: (they may enter in more than one category)

*Dance Choreography

*Film Production

*Literature

*Music Composition

*Photography

*Visual Arts

Must be ORIGINAL work by one student inspired by the theme "Believe, Dream, Inspire".  All artwork must contain a title and and include an artist statement (less than 100 words).

DEADLINE for submission of entry or entries is Wednesday, December 18.   Please email the PTA at banksrdpta@gmail.com with any questions.

Fall Festival

Banks Road Fall Festival

Friday, Sept. 27th 

5:00 - 8:00

*Food - Snoballs - Popcorn

*Hayride - Games - Cake Walk - Inflatables

*Horses for Hope

*Live Band

*Basket Raffle - $1/ticket OR $10 for 11 tickets (Movie Night, Gift Card, Pet, Fun in Fuquay, Tailgating, Camping, Art/Crafts, Lottery, Summertime, Autumns Boliunty)

*Silent Auction - (Disney tickets, Tweetsie Railroad, Carowinds, Grandfather Mtn, American Girl Doll, Track Out Camps, Mudcats-Hurricanes-Railhawks-NC State Football tickets, Umstead Hotel, Golf, Big Easy-Olive Garden-The Pit-Red Lobster gift cards, and many, many more items!

*Dunk Tank - $1 for 3 balls

5:00 - 5:20  Ms. Blackmon

5:25 - 5:45  Ms. Stover

5:50 - 6:10  Ms. Chesser

6:15 - 6:35  Ms. Stephenson

6:40 - 7:00  Evan Froning (last year's Student Council President)

7:05 - 7:25  Mr. Day

7:30 - 7:50  Ms. Graf OR Ms. Livengood

Come on out for a fun evening with family and friends!

FYI
First-quarter report cards will be delayed for all year-round elementary school students.  Students in tracks 1, 2 and 3 will receive report cards on October 11. Track 4 students will receive report cards on October 25.

Report cards are delayed because of required software modifications to our new student information system, Home Base. The new system uses software called PowerSchool to track attendance, grades and assignments. The new software requires a change to accommodate the report card format. This issue affects elementary report cards only. We are currently working with the vendor to resolve the issue, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.  Teachers remain committed to keeping you informed regarding your child’s progress. If at any time you have questions regarding your child’s progress, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher.

Capital Improvement Program 2013

Q: What is Capital Improvement Program 2013 (CIP 2013)? A: CIP 2013 is the proposed new school building program for Wake County to provide 16 new schools; 6 major renovations creating an additional 1,343 seats; life cycle equipment replacement, technology, and security at most all schools; and land acquisition for new schools. The 16 new schools include 11 elementary, three middle and two high schools. Green ES, Vandora Springs ES, Lincoln Heights ES, Brooks ES, Rolesville ES and Garner HS will undergo major renovations. Here is the link to the webpage: http://www.wcpss.net/growing-forward/faqs.html.

NC Schools on UNC-TV

The  North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has partnered with UNC-TV to produce an hour-long program, North Carolina Schools and You: What Changes in Our Schools Mean for Parents and Students. This program will be broadcast twice on UNC-TV: once on Thursday, September 19, at 10 p.m., and again on Friday, September 27, at 4:30 p.m. Featured in the program are segments taped in local public and public charter schools and questions from a studio audience to State Superintendent June Atkinson, Chief Academic Officer Rebecca Garland and Deputy Academic Officer Angela Quick.

North Carolina Schools and You offers information and discussion around recent important changes in public schools and how parents can be more productively engaged in their children’s success.  Specific topics include:

-       Teaching and Learning:  What Students Are Learning and How;

-       Measuring Performance:  New Assessments and Accountability Model; and

-       Parent Engagement:  How Parents Can Support Learning.

To enrich viewer's understanding about these topics, NCDPI has prepared the attached Viewer's Guide with additional background information and helpful links to supplement the program. We hope these materials are helpful to you and your team as you work with parents and community members to support student learning. 

Common Core

KEY IDEAS FOR PARENTS
About the Common Core

Supporting The Common Core at Home
The Common Core emphasizes critical thinking. It requires students to analyze more, discuss more, evaluate more, justify more and explain their thinking & understanding deeply, especially in writing.
Take-Away:  Really thinking deeply is hard. Let it BE hard, help them talk it out.

The Common Core emphasizes proof & evidence. Long gone are the days of worksheets, fact memorizations and skill & drill. Students are not taught this way and they are not assessed this way.
Take-away: The new tests will require students to explain how they know.

The Common Core emphasizes learning across disciplines (reading with math & social studies standards combined into one task). Students spend more time working together with different settings, structures & tools. Take-Away: Problems & solutions happen everyday in the real world.

1 Ask *why* when children tell you they want something or want to do or not do something.
2 Use the word *because* after “No” or “Not tonight…”
3 Give reasons--you to them and them to you.
4 Encourage questions & explore answers (especially questions whose answers are not yes or no.)
5 Explain & discuss issues or problems in your house, neighborhood, & community. Brainstorm solutions.
6 Compare how things are alike and different-videos, movies, food.
7 Look for patterns
8 Describe & categorize stuff.
9 Tell your children what you value & why.
10 Encourage & celebrate opinions.

CC - 2013, by Jen Jones & Kate Duty
www.helloliteracy.blogpsot.com

Coin Drive Winning Class!

I am so excited to announce that our class won first place in our school for collecting the most coins! We collected over $300-WOW!!! Every student contributed regardless of the amount and I am so very proud of every student in my class! PTA will be in touch with me soon to plan a date for our pizza party. THANK YOU to every one of you for helping make this possible. The students are VERY excited! Happy Happy Friday :) Have a fabulous weekend!

Coin Drive

THANK YOU to those who have already sent in coins for our school wide coin drive. The students were so excited to hear our name announced this afternoon on the announcements. We are currently in first place for all track 4 classes in our school-WOW! This is a big accomplishment for first graders and I am very proud of my students. Please continue to send in coins throughout next week. I look forward to staying in the competition and hopefully winning a class party :) Thanks again and have a great weekend!

NC State Fair and BRES

Here's an excellent way for you to get your advance gate tickets to the NC State Fair (Oct. 17-27) and help Banks Road Elementary School raise money. For every $7.00 adult advance ticket sold, two dollars will be returned to the school. For every children's advance ticket ($3.00), one dollar will be returned to the school. Please feel free to forward this email to relatives, neighbors, and friends. The more tickets sold from Banks Road Elementary supporters, the more money is returned to the school. To be sure the money goes back to us, you will need to enter our school code number, which is 325 and is also available from the advance ticket online site: http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?performance_id=1742475&cobrand=ncstatefair13-wakecounty " Don't wait too late: Once the fair starts, the ticket price increases, and no money comes back to us.