Parents and Community Members,
Our school district has requested a Needs Assessment Survey conducted by the Iowa Association of School Boards (IASB). The survey is designed to help us assess our strengths and areas of needed improvement, with a focus on improved student achievement. We would like your opinions and judgments in response to the brief survey linked below. The survey takes an average of 9 minutes to complete. All responses are anonymous. Just click the link below, or paste it in your browser and follow the instructions. Thank you for your participation and helping to make improvements for our students.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=IqR8Jmu_JUu0Y_DP1aktTgS2bbSC8AhAlDJHL13b73BUQkxNTkNINThIR05EQlM1RklZNjFNV1JaNi4u
This month our school wide theme is skills for learning: listening, focusing attention, using self-talk to stay on-task, and being assertive when asking for help with a learning task. In our morning announcements, we’ll be reminding students of these skills, which help students be successful learners.
Please tell your child’s teacher if you’d like more suggestions about supporting skills for learning at home.
Yours in Education,
Mr. Sudol
Happy birthday to our 2nd grade October birthdays! #RISE #GoBulldogs
Happy birthday to our 1st grade October birthdays! #RISE #GoBulldogs
Join us for a Moonlight Movie on Saturday, October 9th.
Happy birthday to our 2nd grade September birthdays! #RISE #GoBulldogs
Happy birthday to our 1st Grade September birthdays! #RISE #GoBulldogs
Homecoming 2021! #RISE #GoBulldogs
PJ day in Mrs. Birkey’s classroom!
Bulldog Heroes enjoying lunch at the Pizza Ranch! Congratulations! #RISE #GoBulldogs
Bulldog Heroes enjoying lunch at the Pizza Ranch! Congratulations! #RISE #GoBulldogs
What do you do with a deflated ball on the playground? Use it as a hat! #RISE #GoBulldogs
This month, our school wide theme is our school as a welcoming place where every student feels like he or she belongs. In our morning announcements, we’ll be reminding students to welcome others and act and speak in safe, respectful, and responsible ways. In addition we’ll be reminding students of our school rules.
We’ll also begin teaching the Second Step program, which includes lessons that support these behaviors.
Support your child at home in welcoming others and acting and speaking in safe, respectful, and responsible ways. Please tell your child’s teacher if you have questions about specific ways you can help your child with these behaviors at home.
Yours in Education,
Mr. Sudol
Good afternoon! Tomorrow we will wear our favorite team day shirt and/or jersey.
Have a great day!
Mr. Sudol
#RISE #GoBulldogs
This week in STEAM, our 1st and 2nd graders learned about perspective and got to use microscopes to observe leaves! #RISE #GoBulldogs
Happy birthday to our August second grade birthdays! #RiSE #GoBulldogs
Happy birthday to our Bryant August birthdays! #RISE #GoBulldogs
Home Football Game Expectations
We are very excited for the home opening game this Friday night at 7:00 p.m. We hope you will come to the game to cheer the Bulldogs to a VICTORY! Below please find our expectations for all home football games this year.
If you are coming to the game, you are coming to watch the game and cheer for the Bulldogs.
Kindergarten through 4th Grade Elementary students coming to the game must be supervised and in close proximity of a parent/adult supervisor.
Please be very respectful during the National Anthem. You need to stand quietly during the playing and remember to remove your caps.
Show good sportsmanship (no booing).
Students will not be playing football or other games while attending football games.
Remember, you are there to watch the game. The Bulldogs will appreciate having all of us in the stands cheering them to victory.
Go Bulldogs!!
Bertha Godfrey & Bryant Families,
Our goal at Bertha Godfrey & Bryant Elementary is to create a school climate that is a safe and joyful learning environment. This letter will outline the restorative approach we will use to create this culture.
The aim of the restorative approach is to manage conflict by repairing harm and building relationships. For effective teaching and learning to take place, we believe that students and staff should feel both emotionally and physically safe. Building relationships and repairing harm that has been caused is at the heart of our work.
The main tool in the restorative approach is the Restorative Conversation. In school we use 5 big questions during these conversations:
1. What happened?
2. What were you thinking about at the time?
3. What were you feeling? What are you feeling now?
4. Who has been affected?
5. What needs to happen to make things fair and better?
The conversations show that actions have consequences to how people are feeling which has an influence on how they are able to learn. Discussing these will encourage people to accept responsibility and repair relationships.
There may be times when the harm that has been caused results in a student being separated from their class or learning environment. If a student intentionally causes harm to another student or staff member, that student will be separated from those people until the harm is repaired. This could be in the form of an out of school suspension, in school suspension or time out of their classroom. If a student has an out of school suspension, a parent/guardian is required to participate in a re-entry meeting before the student returns to school. During this meeting we will set up a behavior contract and have a restorative conversation.
Thank you for all your assistance in discussing this issue with your child and in helping to create a positive school environment for everyone.
Yours in Education, Brad Sudol, Principal
Ready for a great school year! #RISE #GoBulldogs
