Doors open at 7:40am

School starts at 8am

The school day ends at 2:25pm

Breakfast is served to all students every morning.

Students are encouraged to keep a change of clothes in their locker. Accidents happen (in the cafeteria, at recess, in the bathroom).

Calendar Cues

Join us for Transforming Tuesdays at Park Elementary School! 🧡🐯 Families are invited to enjoy fun, learning, wellness, and community activities every Tuesday in October from 5:30–7:30 PM. Each week will feature something special, including Line Dancing, Family Wellness and Engagement night , Paint night, and More... Come connect, learn, and have fun with our Park Elementary families!

Join us for Tiger Cub Fridays! 🧡
Park Elementary’s Birth to Five Program invites young children and their families to join us every Friday at the Brooklyn Park Library starting this September. Families will enjoy My Gym, Creativity to Play, and Tigers In Training—a fun opportunity to learn, play, connect, and build early school-readiness skills together!

The library is an incredible place with so much to offer!  Check out what's happening by visiting this link.

OCTOBER 7

How perfect that National Walk, Bike & Roll to School Day is a Wednesday!  We will celebrate Park style by following ALL three of our Walk to School Wednesday routes!  Join our Tigers, Administrators, staff and more to make Park's mark on National Walk to School Day!

Tiger Paws & PBIS News

Dear Park Elementary Families,

Our Tigers are off to a great start, and we are excited to share some updates about our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program!

At Park Elementary, we believe that creating a positive school environment begins with teaching, modeling, practicing, and celebrating positive behaviors. We focus on three schoolwide expectations that help every Tiger feel safe, supported, and successful!

🐯 Positive Actions

🐯 Positive Words

🐯 Safe Choices

Throughout the school day, students are learning what these expectations look and sound like in classrooms, hallways, the cafeteria, and other areas of our school.

🐾 Let's Talk About Tiger Paws!

One way we recognize students for demonstrating our schoolwide expectations is through Tiger Paws! Staff members award Tiger Paws when they notice students making positive choices, showing kindness, following expectations, or demonstrating responsibility.

Students can save and spend their Tiger Paws on special rewards and privileges. More importantly, Tiger Paws give us an opportunity to recognize students' efforts and reinforce the behaviors that help our entire school community thrive.

🏡 How Can Families Help?

You can support our PBIS efforts by talking with your child about our three schoolwide expectations. Try asking:

How did you show positive actions today?

Did you use positive words to help someone?

What safe choices did you make?

Did you earn a Tiger Paw? What did you do to earn it?

Remember, positive behavior is a skill that we teach, practice, and celebrate together!

Thank you for your continued partnership in helping us create a school community where every Tiger feels safe, supported, and successful.

With gratitude,

The Park Elementary PBIS Team

The October edition of  AACPS Family Link is coming soon!  each month, there is a great deal of information about events and resources throughout the District and county.  Check back, as we will include the link as soon as it is available from the AACPS Office of Communications & Family Engagement.

We are excited to get clubs started!  We are grateful for the many teachers and staff who are sharing their time and talents to lead the many after school clubs we are able to offer this fall.

While we wish we could offer clubs to all students, we thank our Park families for your understanding and support.  

Thank you for completing the Community Schools survey that we sent home with students.  Your feedback is instrumental in helping us develop the programs you want so we can best engage and support  students and families. We thank you!

Puede contactar nuestra Especialista Bilingue Amanda Polanco si tiene alguna pregunta.

apolancoguerra@aacps.org

Cell: 443-962-3540

Click here to fill out counseling referral form

Use this form to request assistance for your student related to such things as friendship/peer relationships, managing feelings/coping skills, stress/anxiety/worries, family changes/divorce, and more such matters that may be impacting your student.  Our counselors are here to work with students to help them navigate these matters.

Here is everything you need to know, including the application for school meals support (free and reduced meals). Visit this page to access the application. Families must re-apply each year to continue to receive the benefit of free and reduced school meals.  If you have not yet done that for this school year, please do so as soon as possible so that your student does not lose this benefit.  

Complete the application for school meals support, even if you do not need or think you may not qualify, and this application could be a help with even more things than just school lunch?  Find out more: (English video) Spanish video)  Additionally, the information from the application is a great help to us at Park so that our school team can best support our wonderful students and families!  Thank you for taking the time to complete the application.

Here's all the info you need to know about school food & nutrition. 

You're invited to join the PTA! Membership for the year is $10 and goes a long way to helping our school! Forms were sent home with students.  It's never too late to join.  Let us know if you need another form.  Stay tuned for news about a Park Elementary Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night. Our School Store Fundraiser will start October 5th. Spirit Wear apparel can be ordered all year via this website: Spirit Wear.

Thank you for your support!  Fostering a strong school and family partnership makes a big difference in the educational experience of our students.  We thank you for being a part of it!

We are excited to continue Walk to School Wednesdays! Every Wednesday, Mrs. Pannebaker, Mr. Kruger, and Park staff will walk to school with our community, and we invite you to join us!

Be on the look out for each week's route and meeting space. Students and families are invited to walk the full route or join us anywhere along the way!  We will share a new route map every Monday so different neighborhoods can participate throughout the year. Keep an eye out—you might even spot a Park Tiger walking with us! We can't wait to walk with you!

Community Project Update

The Existing Conditions Report is now available for review. We invite you to take a look and share your feedback!

📍 Upcoming Community Event:
Join us at Trunk or Treat at Brooklyn Park Middle School on October 28 at 4:30 PM to learn about our draft ideas and share your input.

Thank you for helping us improve our community and corridor!

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