Hayes Intermediate Newsletter

November 8th, 2024

Eric Leopold, Principal

Scott Millbrook, Assistant Principal

In This Issue:

-Quick Reminders

-Parent/Teacher Conferences

-Hayes Fall Book Fair is Here! 

-Hayes Happenings!

-District News, Events, & Community Information

-Picking up a student during school hours

-Advisory on Phones Outside of School

-Volunteer Application

-Lost and Found

-Looking Ahead

Quick Reminders:

-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, etc).  Prescription and over the counter medications require a doctors order for the school to administer them, that includes creams or lotions. You will find medication documents at this link.

Parent/Teacher Conferences:

Parent/teacher conferences at Hayes Intermediate will be held on the following dates,  November 12th (in-person, 4-7pm) and November 14th (in-person, 4-7pm). To schedule your students' conferences, please click here. 

For more information on conferences, click here.

Hayes Fall Book Fair is Here!

We are excited to hold our first Hayes Intermediate Book Fair over the next two weeks! Thank you for supporting our library and your students' passion for reading!

6th graders  visited the Book Fair during their regular library times. (Nov.4-8)

5th graders will visit the following week during their regular library times.   (Nov.11-15)

During their visits, students will make a wish list and may also purchase books. 

You may Buy a Digital Gift Card Here for your student to use or you may send in cash or checks payable to GLPS. 

Please remember to add 6% Michigan Sales Tax to the total.

Flyers and this letter went home last week with more information! 

You may also shop the Hayes Book Fair Online Here

Open in the evenings on Tuesday, November 12 and Thursday, November 14 from 4:00-7:00 pm. 

Family & Friends Only Day on Friday, November 8. Get a headstart on some holiday gift shopping--without the kids.

Hayes Happenings

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. 

District News, Events, & Community Information

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

Picking up a student during school hours

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 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.

Advisory on phones outside of school 

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.

Volunteering

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

Lost and Found

All items in the lost and found will be on display during in person conferences. Due to lack of storage space we will be donating any items still here after 11/15/24.

Looking Ahead:

November 4-15 - Book Fair in the Library

November 12 & 14 - In Person Parent Conferences

November 15 - Last Day of 1st Trimester Enrichments

November 15 - HALF DAY for students

November 19 - PTO Meeting at Beagle 6:30 pm

November 26 - Last day to retrieve items from Lost and Found 

November 27 - December2 - Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL