Charging into the Future
Charging into the Future: Week of October 28
It is hard to believe we are already in the second quarter of the school year! I wanted to update you on some important activities taking place this week at Banoak.
🏕️ On Monday night the Girl Scouts will be holding a parent information meeting in the cafeteria at 5:30. If you plan to attend, please use the back parking lot and enter through the double doors.
➡️ On Thursday, we will be holding two special events:
👮♂️ Officer Hilton has worked with different government agencies to plan our Community Helper Day. K-4 students will have the opportunity to learn from Emergency Medical Services, SWAT, Lake Patrol, and more on Thursday morning.
🎃 At 1:00 on Thursday, we will be holding our Trunk-or-Treat event to celebrate the end of the first quarter. Students may dress up for this event. We asked that students adhere to the following: no masks, props, or blood/gore. We will be collecting candy donations through Wednesday. I appreciate everyone’s help with making this event successful!
🗓️ Friday, November 1st will be a mandatory teacher workday with no school for students.
See you tomorrow!
Jordan Goodson, Principal
Veterans Day Breakfast, November 8
As Veterans Day approaches, the students and staff at Banoak Elementary would like to take the time to honor the distinguished veterans from our community. We are excited to once again invite all veterans from the community, along with their families, to join us for breakfast on November 8, beginning at 9:00 AM. Banoak students will provide special entertainment for our guests beginning at 9:30 AM. To help us prepare for this event, please RSVP using the attached form by Friday, November 1. We will also be sending home paper copies of the form this week, and you can RSVP online at https://bit.ly/BanoakVeterans2024.
For the last few years, we have also created a video recognizing our Banoak family veterans and sharing some information about their military service, and we would like to continue that tradition again this year. We will share this video with our students and on all of our all of our social media sites, as well as during our Veterans Breakfast on November 8. Please fill out the information on the attached form, at the link above, or using the paper forms going home by Friday, November 1, for any veteran you would like to have recognized in our video. All veterans who were included in last year’s video will be honored again this year. If you've shared information previously, you do not need to do so again, but you can use this form to update that information if necessary.
We also ask that you send two digital photos of each veteran (one in uniform, if possible) to our media coordinator Lee Ann Perry through ParentSquare or by email at leeann_perry@catawbaschools.net. If you sent pictures last year, we still have them, and you do not have to send them again unless you have new or different ones you would like to share.
We look forward to hosting the veterans from our community along with their families for this special event. We appreciate their service, their sacrifice, and their dedication and honor them now on Veterans Day and throughout the year.
