| Upcoming Events | | | 9/12 | Home on the Range: Back to School Picnic | 12:30-3:30 PM | | 9/14 | Boys Soccer @ New Life | 4:00 PM | | 9/16 | Lower School Back to School Night | 7:00 PM | | 9/17 | Girls Soccer vs. Sandy Spring Friends | 4:00 PM | | 9/17 | Cross Country @ Banner | 4:00 PM |
***Looking for your paper calendar to hang on your wall? We're putting the final touches on our Annual Calendar and Honor Roll of Donors, so keep your eye out for it coming soon. In the meantime, you can find all upcomings events on our website by clicking here!*** |  |
| From the BPC | | Timely Topics OCTOBER 5th, 7:30 - 9:30 PM If you missed her last spring, mark you calendars now for an enlightening evening with Debbie Kovalsky, a computer consultant in the field of online child safety. Debbie will come back to Barnesville on October 6th to discuss Cyber Safety (with a focus on Cyber Bullying) with our middle school students. Plan to join us on the evening of October 5th to hear first-hand what she'll be talking about with the students and learn what steps you can take to help protect your kids. Debbie works with parents, kids and schools preparing children for a safe experience online. More information attached here. Volunteering! Have you had a chance to fill out your volunteer form? Please take a moment to send it in. We need immediate volunteers for this Sunday's Back to School Picnic and for our Hot Lunch Program. If you want to help out, please fill in this form and return it as soon as possible to Nicole Campbell. School Store Open! This year, the School Store will be open from 2:45pm-3:15pm on Tuesdays throughout the year. The School Store is now in the basement of the Museum Building next to the Kids Club room. | |
| Admissions | | The year proved to be extremely busy in the Admissions Office! I want to personally WELCOME our 38 new students to the Barnesville family! It is wonderful to see all the smiling faces across campus! Please stop by the new Admissions Office (formerly the conference room) to say hello! Be sure to welcome our new families at the Back-To-School Picnic on Sunday! See you there! | |
| A Note From Ms. Nave | | Carpool Names
Please leave your name card on your sun visor until you child/children have been placed in your vehicle.
Door Pass
Please remember sign in at the reception office and get a door pass when visiting or volunteering at the school.
Directory
Please check the directory for any updates on your address, phone numbers, email, etc. that we did not have before the directory was printed. An update will be forthcoming in the near future.
New Student
Please welcome and add our new kindergarten student, Leo Gray, to your class list.
Family information will be in the directory update.
Tooth box report- just for fun!
My tooth chart is up and ready to go. No teeth lost at school this week. | |
| Library News | | Dear Library Volunteers and Wanna Be's, Here we are ready to begin a new year at The Barnesville School Library! I am looking forward to working with you during this school year and appreciate so much your generous gift of time and all your talents. Speaking of gifts of time, I am pleased to announce that Kelly Greenawalt will continue on in her position as library volunteer coordinator. She will be contacting you in the near future to schedule you for library duty or you can reach her at the phone number below. Together, we strive to make the students’ library visits an enjoyable and successful experience. With that as our goal, I ask that all volunteers attend a library training session on Friday, September 17 from 8:00 to 10 AM. The focus of the training will be on best practices, book processing, brief review of the new library software and an overview of Grandparents' Day. Thanks in advance for saying yes to library!
Cindy Barr
School Librarian 301-972-0341 ext. 239 Kelly Greenawalt Library Volunteer Coordinator 301-977-4599
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| | From Our Head of School | | Welcome back to Barnesville! We begin Barnesville’s 42nd year of operation on a very strong note. The campus looks wonderful, the teachers are ready to teach, and the whole place is humming with positive energy. There are many familiar faces on our faculty and staff this year, as well as some new members to the Barnesville community. And we are making steady progress on our outdoor classroom project. In the very near future the old bike shed will be torn down, opening up the play area immensely. Keep watching for further updates on the construction! As we begin our new school year, I want to share a story with you, a true story from a few years back. Our Facilities Director Bernie Weintraub had to replace a toilet handle in the boys’ bathroom. As it happened, the one he used to replace it with was golden in color, which didn’t particularly match the original, but it worked just fine. Not long after he replaced the handle, I heard two young boys leaving the bathroom, and the one said to the other, “Really! There’s a new toilet handle, and it’s made out of real gold!” What are the lessons here? Check your assumptions, get the facts, and when in doubt, go to the source. Of course the toilet handle wasn’t made out of gold - we’re not Trump Towers, and we have better things to do with our budget! But had these students thought to ask, they would have quickly learned the truth. It’s our goal, after all, to raise our students to be critical thinkers and truth seekers. So how can you as parents model critical thinking for your children? First, please take the time to read through our newly revised Student Handbook / Faculty Directory. Each summer we review this document to ensure that it clearly explains our practices and policies. And if it’s not in the handbook, please let us know! Second, I urge you to talk directly with the people most involved with your child’s education, your teachers. This communication is so essential to a positive school year, and we rely upon this direct and honest connection to reach each student’s needs. Finally, there are many staff members and administrators who can provide you with help. In the front office, Karol Nave is happy to answer your questions or pass them along to the right people, such as Assistant Head of School Vickie Roos or Division Director Emeritus Ann Kupferberg. May your school year be joyful, John Huber PS – I’ll be making a return appearance in the dunk tank for our Back to School Picnic this Sunday the 12th. Let’s hope this time that the water is a little warmer than it was last year! I look forward to seeing everyone this Sunday. | |
| Middle School | | Our middle school students are off to a great start and have a couple of busy days already! Our eighth grade students began the first day of school by leading their first "Morning Meeting" for the entire student body and they will continue this job through the month of September. Their lockers are all organized and ready to go and they have all had the opportunity to run through a normal daily schedule. We have had two middle school meetings already to talk about a variety of topics such as: Student Council Elections, Back to School Dance on Friday, October 8th from 7:00-10:00 PM for 6th through 8th grade students, middle school ski trip which will take place on Friday, February 4th, the Fall Play production, middle school athletics, and the students all signed up for a Club. We are excited about the upcoming year which will not only be filled with great learning opportunities, but also many team building and social activities which are so important to our middle school students! I hope to see many of you this Sunday at the Back to School Picnic! | |
| Lower School | | What a wonderful start to the year lower school has had. Each morning we have greeted happy faces entering both buildings and the students have been so excited to see their teachers and friends. The students have settled in quickly to the daily routines. I am looking forward to seeing each of you this Sunday at the Back to School Picnic, as well as Back to School Night next Thursday, September 16th which will begin promptly at 7:00 PM in the gym. This promises to be an exciting year full of many memorable moments. Thank you for helping your children have a wonderful start! | |
| Advancement | | Turn your grocery bill…into cash for Barnesville! Have you linked your grocery cards to The Barnesville School yet? Giant Foods, Safeway(Escrip), Harris Teeter and Target give a percentage of your purchases back to the school! Giant and Harris Teeter require you to re-register your card each year. So, don’t wait! Register your card today. There are two ways in which to register: 1. Click the following links and register your own cards OR 2. Let us register your cards for you! Email Georganna Glen, Director of Advancement, with: - Type of card (Giant/Safeway etc)
- Cardholder name
- Card number OR phone number affiliated with your card
Thank you for supporting Barnesville! | |
| Auxiliary Programs | | We had a very successful summer camp experience this summer. We cooked, experimented, went on safari, and played in the water. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this summer a success! After school activities get underway next week. If you have not sent in your registration form, please do so as soon as possible or take advantage of online registration. We have a wide variety of activities to choose from. If you have any questions or need more information, please call Lynda Forman (ext. 258) | |
| Communications and Marketing | | Poolesville Day Once again, Barnesville will be participating in Poolesville Day on Sat., September 25th! If you and your family want to be part of our parade float, we'd love to have you!!!! Send Nicole an email and meet at the Poolesville Elementary School on Saturday at 9:00 AM to get lined up. For more information about the event, check out www.poolesvilleday.com. Facebook and Linked In Click here to visit our Barnesville Facebook Page and become a fan! Also, we've set up a Barnesville School Group on Linked In with special subgroups for parents, faculty, alumni and trustees. Click here to become a part of our network. Campaign For Barnesville Have you seen all the campaign signs in yards this election season? Now you can campaign for Barnesville. Stop by the Communicatons Office to pick up a sign to put in your yard or garden. Now's the season to Campagin for Barnesville! | |
| Facilities and Transportation | | In October 1986, Congress enacted the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). This law required all schools to develop regulations to respond to any asbestos that might be in their facilities. In the process, schools were to develop management plans to address any potential hazards in their buildings, implement responses in a timely manner, and inform constituencies on a regular basis. At Barnesville’s initial inspection, it was discovered that some of the floor tiles in the Museum building contained a small amount of asbestos, so we established an asbestos management plan. Since then, we have removed or encapsulated most of the material in question, and the remaining is regularly monitored. During our last AHERA inspection, The Barnesville School has been found to be in full compliance. This note is our annual reminder to parents and staff of the status of our asbestos plan. As Facilities Manager, I maintain our records and work with AHERA representatives during routine periodic surveillance. If you have any questions about our plan, please feel free to contact me, and I will be happy to answer any questions. | Please follow the posted traffic pattern for the AM drop off and PM pick up of your children. Also remember that during AM drop off, your children must always exit your car on the curb side, and never on the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver’s side is a thru lane for traffic. |
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| Technology | | Click Here to read about our Technology Director, Jim Snider, speaking on the subject of cyberbullying. | |
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