Reminder No School tomorrow Friday March 29, 2024.
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Check out how our staff is engaging in continuous improvement! #440PROUD #LEARN2GROW
The English Language Arts review team has been hard at work examining new reading PreK-12 curriculum resources. The team recommended Amplify CKLA & Amplify ELA for our PreK-5th grade levels and McGraw-Hill StudySync for 9th-12th grades to the Board of Education at Monday's meeting. *6th-8th grades currently have Amplify ELA.
If you are interested in viewing any of these materials, please contact our Director of Student Learning, Marcie Carr. She is available by email at mcarr@usd440.com or by phone at 316-835-2641 via the district office extension.
Resources will be available through April 7th, 2024.
The 6th graders had a special chance to visit the preschool and read stories with the younger children. We always enjoy seeing our older students interact with the little ones. It is a wonderful collaboration.
Driver's Ed enrollment forms can be picked up from both the HMS and HHS offices.
Preschool Screening will be held on
April 24, 4-8pm
April 25, 8am-4pm
April 26, 8am-12pm
May 17, 8am-12pm
Please call to schedule your appointment at Halstead Middle School 316-835-2694
(PREK is housed in the middle school)
Child MUST be completely potty trained and 3-4 years old by August 31, 2024.
We ask that you bring all documents required to the screening or have them uploaded to the New Student Enrollment (if you have a student currently in prek you do not have to fill out the new student enrollment you will fill out registration once it opens in July)
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We invite our community members to attend any of the three events mentioned below. Your valuable feedback will help the steering committee and the Board of Education. These events will also give you a chance to learn more about the progress made so far on the potential bond initiative at Halstead-Bentley USD 440 School District. We eagerly anticipate your presence at one of these events. #440Proud
Due to the inclement weather, Unified School District 440 will be closed on Tuesday January 16th.
Even with the use of additives, the district had challenges operating part of its bus fleet on Friday due to the frigid temperatures. We know that the temperatures tomorrow are going to be colder and the fleet has been sitting all weekend in extremely low temperatures. Out of concern for the ability to operate our busses as well as the safety of both our bus riders and those who have to walk to school, we have made the determination that we will not be in session.
We understand that this winter has already presented a number of days off from school, which in return poses challenges for many of our parents to find safe supervision for their students. We hope that providing this information earlier will allow those parents additional time to make the appropriate arrangements.
We also wanted to inform you that we have a number of days built in for inclement weather. We often get the question, will our snow and inclement weather days impact the calendar or require us to make up days? At this point we do not have concerns and if that were to change we would make sure that we communicate with families well in advance.
Please stay safe and warm. We are looking forward to the warmer days ahead!
Due to road conditions for our bus routes and young drivers, Halstead-Bentley Schools will be closed January 10th. Stay safe and warm.
All school and non school related meetings, activities, games, and practices are cancelled for the evening of January 9th. Games will be made up at a later date and information will be provided when confirmed with the opposing team.
Reminder school will be back in session on Thursday, January 4th. We are excited to see everyone back in our buildings. We hope you all had a great break.
Wishing all of our staff, students, and families a very happy holiday season! Be safe and have a wonderful break! We will see you in 2024!
-Mrs. Jones
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iTeam had the opportunity to co-teach with 4th grade last week. Students used Keynote’s Line Draw animation and Live Video to show what they have learned about tape diagrams and decomposing fractions! iTeam is made up of Amy Hiebert, Marcia Mueller, Courtney Santoya, Misty Faudel, Braden Brown, Kyle Regier, and Ms Vlamis. iTeam's mission is to INSPIRE creativity and IMAGINE with technology to make an IMPACT across the district. They do this through leading professional development, individual coaching and co-teaching with teachers, and providing opportunities for students to create.
We want your feedback!
The district is working in collaboration with a steering committee made up of parents, community members, business owners, and staff from Bentley and Halstead as well as an architect firm to develop a facility plan that can address needs of the district for years to come. We would appreciate getting this first round of feedback from our community members that reside in the USD 440 school district boundaries. To ensure that we get accurate feedback from our community members, we are providing the survey though the following opportunities:
1. Click this link and complete online https://forms.gle/7Cefud59RANowzKB8
2. Call the district office at 316-835-2641 and share an email address where we can send the link.
3. No email, no social media, no problem. Come by the following locations to complete a paper copy of the survey and submit it in the envelope provided at the site.
a. Halstead Library
i. MWF 10:00 -5:00
ii. Tu/TH 10:00-7:00
iii. Sat 10:00-1:00
b. Halstead Senior Center
i. M-F 9:00-12:30
c. Bentley Senior Center
i. M-Sat 7:00-11:00
ii. Sun 8:00-11:00
d. Pribbenow Variety Store
i. 9am-9pm
The survey should take less than 5 minutes. We will be collecting feedback through Friday December 8th. Please share this information with those who do not have social media or do not follow USD 440 but live within our school district boundaries.
We appreciate your help providing feedback and look forward to providing additional opportunities for feedback and information in the near future.
As November comes to an end we want to say Happy Birthday to all of our staff. We hope you all had an amazing birthday.
Happy Birthday to: Mrs. Ehresman
Ms.Amy Boyd
Mrs. Kraus
Mrs.Faudel
Ms.Susan Adams
Ms.Vlamis
Ms. Linda Strader
Ms. Kris Cherry
Ms. Jess Euwer
Mr. Mitchell Boese
Ms.Charlotte Bouma
Mr. Randolph
Mr. Charlie Robinson
Mrs.Sattler
Mrs.Linnebur
Mr.Bill McCary
Mr.Seirer
Mrs. Maryann Meyers
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