November 15th, 2024

Eric Leopold, Principal

Scott Millbrook, Assistant Principal

-Quick Reminders

- Family Game Night!

- Hayes Archery Champions

- Drive Thru Mobile Food Distributions

-Parent/Teacher Conferences

-Parent Teacher Organization (PTO)

-Hayes Happenings!

-District News, Events, & Community Information

-Volunteer Application

-Advisory of phones outside of school

-Reminders from the office

 

 

 

November 15: Last Day of 1st Trimester Enrichments

November 15: HALF DAY for students

November 18: Trimester 2 begins

November 19: PTO Meeting at Beagle 6:30 pm 

November 21: Family Game Night! 4:30pm-6:30pm

November 27 - 29: Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL 

December 2: NO SCHOOL

December 3: Classes Resume

December 23 - January 3: Winter Break - NO SCHOOL

January 6: NO SCHOOL

January 7: Classes Resume

-We have had a lot of illnesses lately. To ensure that we are mitigating the spread of germs, students may not return to school until they are 24 hours free of fever, vomiting and diarrhea without the use medication.  

 

-Reporting absences: you may use our attendance email address: HAAttendance@glcomets.net or call the attendance line at (517) 925-5333. 

 

- All medication needs to be brought to school by a parent/guardian.  This includes all over the counter medication (cough drops, Tylenol, Motrin, etc).  Prescription and over the counter medications require a doctors order for the school to administer them, that includes creams, lotions. and cough drops. You will find medication authorization documents at this link.

-Lisa Bentley, Medical TA: bentleyl@glcomets.net

Join us on Thursday night, November 21st, between 4:30-6:30 for a Family Game Night! All of our Hayes families are invited to attend this free event that will have games available for all ages. Kona Kocoa Truck will also be available for purchase. 

Congratulations to the archery team for taking 1st place! This beautiful trophy is on display at Hayes across from the gym. 

 

Below is a flyer from the Greater Lansing Food Bank. For more information, visit Greater Lansing Food Banks website. 

Thank you to the families that attended the parent/teacher conferences this week and last. Whether you attended in person or virtually; your continued support is vital to the continuing education of your student(s). We always encourge our families to reach out to their students teachers throughout the school year with questions or concerns. 

We also would like to thank our wonderful PTO volunteers for feeding our staff during P/T conferences. Your dedication to the staff at Hayes is so appreciated!

We have an outstanding joint PTO with Beagle Middle School. They have provided several incredible opportunities for our students and staff over the past few years. To stay current on updates and meetings, click here.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 19th at 6:30 pm at the Beagle Media Center. Families may also attend this meeting virtually. Click on the link above for more information. 

The school news is a completely student-led operation. They work hard creating and putting together content each week! They analyze and critique each episode as a class on Mondays and aim to improve each week. Thank you for supporting and encouraging our students. Here is a link for this week's episode. 

View flyers and more of what the school district shares in newsletters about events, news, and information by visiting: GLcomets.net/Upcoming

If you plan to volunteer or need to enter the building for an extended period of time, please fill out this application. This is REQUIRED when coming to volunteer in our building. It takes a couple of days for the background check to be completed, so please plan accordingly based on your volunteering schedule

We have started getting reports of questionable activities that students are doing with their phones outside of school hours. Of course, we don’t monitor student phone usage as phones are not allowed during the school day at Hayes. That said, students often tell us about TikTok and YouTube videos that they watch after school that most parents would not find appropriate for 10 and 11 year olds. Once students see alarming things, they cannot unsee them. We also are occasionally asked to intervene in inappropriate SnapChat or Instagram conversations that happen outside of school. Most social media sites require members to be 13 years old before even creating an account, but kids often bypass that by simply saying they are old enough. For the safety of all, if you allow your child to have a cell phone, please consider setting parental controls and carefully monitor their use.

To ensure the safety of all students, our staff will not call students to the office to leave early for the day until the person picking them up has presented a valid photo ID and completed the sign-out process. Please plan accordingly for appointments, allowing extra time for this procedure. Additionally, it's important to keep your student's contact information current. If someone not listed on your student's emergency contact list arrives to pick them up, we will not be able to release your student to them.

Home transportation changes:

2pm is the cut-off time if you need to change the means of transportation which your student normally takes (i.e. normally takes the bus, but will be parent pick up instead). 

School Arrival: 

Classes start at 7:40 am

 

School dismissal: 2:25 pm

 

Half day dismissal: 10:45 am

 

COVID Reporting:

to report a positive covid case, please complete the COVID-19 Reporting Form

 

 Office Hours:

7:00 am - 3:15 pm