Important News

Throughout the year, and especially in the winter months, common illnesses can result in students missing school. While excused, these absences break the routine of daily attendance that contributes to students feeling connected and engaged in learning, and can be detrimental to student achievement as valuable instruction may be missed. Tips on keeping students healthy are available online.

We Need Your Help, Arrive on Time! Necesitamos tu ayuda, ¡llega a tiempo! We have seen an increasing number of students coming to school late each day. The instructional day at SFES starts at 8:45am. That means children need to enter the building, unpack, get ready and eat breakfast by 8:45am (the time instruction begins). Please note: 8:20 am: Staff…

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and the Howard County Public School System are celebrating the establishment of an innovative healthy foods partnership between the County’s Roving Radish program and HCPSS. This new effort will reduce food insecurity by connecting more children and families in need with fresh, locally-sourced produce and ready-to-cook meals. Through this partnership, HCPSS provides opportunities for students…

Instructional Seminars are open to all students in grades 2-5. These interest-based seminars run anywhere from 6 - 8 weeks. Seminars take place during the grade level recess time. Seminars will begin the week of January 6th and end the week of February 26th. Students who are interested in participating need to fill out an interest form on the Google…

Please support our SFES Bridges students with their Community Service Learning. Students are sponsoring a Food Drive to support the Oakland Mills Food Pantry. Kinely drop off items at the SFES front lobby between December 9 - 16th. Thank you for supporting our cOMmunity! See all details at this link .

We Need Your Input Comentarios sobre la Conferencia de Padres y Maestros Please provide us with anonymous feedback on your Parent/Teacher Conference experience at this link. We strive to know where we met with success and where we can improve. Our goals for Parent/Teacher Conferences were to share how your child is performing academically in ELA and to provide you…

As we are fully moving into cold weather season, we wanted to remind you that students will still be going outside for recess. Please make sure you send your child to school with warm clothes. All clothing needs to be labeled with your child's name to prevent it from being lost. Below you will find HCPSS criteria we consider when…

We want all of our Bobcats to meet with success and attendance matters! If children don’t show up for school regularly, they miss out on fundamental reading and math skills and the chance to build a habit of good attendance that will carry them into college and careers. This is also a time to develop friendships and social/emotional skills. We…

Coming home to you soon is your child's custom catalog for the Square 1 Art fundraiser catalog - featuring their own name and art on the cover, WITH FREE STICKERS OF THEIR ART! Get a head start, and start ordering keepsakes and gifts featuring your child's art online NOW, if you like! Simply search for your child's art using Art…

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