Elizabeth Kirby Scholarship 2020 Announcement

Former Beverly principal Elizabeth Kirby announces this year's Elizabeth Kirby Scholarship winner!

eNews 5.21.20

Virtual Field Day 2020

Virtual Field Day 2020

Field Day was supposed to be Friday, April 24th.  So, we wanted to bring some Field Day fun to your home.  We want this to be something fun, no stress or extra pressure.

*You and your family can do as many (or as few) activities as you would like.

*Do what works for you and your family.

*Click on a video for a demonstration of what to do. 

*If you don't have what is needed, be creative with what could be used instead.  

*The entire family is invited to participate!

Field Day Items:

*Gym Attire 

*Bobcat shirt (Optional) 

*Tennis Shoes

*Sunscreen (if needed)

*Parent permission

Have fun! We hope you enjoy our videos and your Virtual Field Day!

Clap and Catch

Water Balloon Toss Up

Water Pizza Toss

Wind Bowling

Inch Worm

Water Cup Relay

eNews 5.14.20

eNews 5.5.20

School closures won’t stop us from thanking and appreciating our hardworking teachers! Our Virtual Teacher Appreciation Week is this week! The PTA has planned this as a way to support and thank our teachers. As always, participation is 100% optional, and we thank you for all you’re doing during this time.   MONDAY, MAY 4: Send a sweet card by email to your favorite teacher or staff using this link. (Using Hallmark E-card service will ask for you to sign up for subscription. If this is something you don’t want to do, please send your teacher a sweet hand written note instead.)     TUESDAY, MAY 5: Some of our teachers created Amazon Wishlists for their school needs! If your teacher isn’t listed or they didn't include a private shipping address, you can also send an e-gift card which never expires. We may not be able to see them now but we can prepare them for a great start to next year!   WEDNESDAY, MAY 6: The PTA is sending Redbox gift cards to each staff member so they can enjoy movies at home! You can email them some ideas of your favorite Movies to watch!    THURSDAY, MAY 7: Let’s spoil and pamper our teachers for all they are doing to help us end this e-learning school year strong. Send an e-gift through Giftly straight to their email!    FRIDAY, MAY 8: Show some love to your teachers by telling them your favorite things about them! Have your children record a video in this Flipgrid for their teachers to see! Click here and make sure to "login through Google" with your student's MyPISD.net email and password. You don't have to wait until Friday; you can start recording and posting NOW!        Even though our school is closed, we still want to make the book fair available for our entire community. Our Virtual Book Fair starts TODAY, April 30 - May 13. It's a fantastic way to get books in the hands of our students now to keep them reading at home. Take advantage of FREE shipping on book only orders over $25. Plus, all purchases benefit Beverly Elementary. Click here to visit our Virtual Book Fair now! (then scroll down and click the orange "SHOP NOW" button)     School Supply Packs for 2020-21 are available to purchase HERE (log into your account to access the form).  Save time AND money by buying them through the PTA.  Avoid the hassle of searching the internet or running all over town searching for supplies! We have worked closely with our vendor to provide high quality pre-packaged supplies that our teachers have chosen. All Pre-Ordered School Supplies will be tax free and delivered to your student's classroom prior to Meet the Teacher.   PLUS…This year, to assist our families with the struggle of COVID-19, we are offering our school supplies AT COST!!!     Current report on unemployment is that 1 in 6 people were laid off or given reduced hours during the COVID-19 outbreak.  If you were not impacted, consider a donation to school supplies.  All donations will be used to pay for school supplies by our teachers and students here at Beverly! If you have a current Bobcat and one entering Kindergarten, please go to "Bobcat Profile" and edit the Parent and Student Information. On the 2nd page you can add your Future Kindergartener (Grade = PreKindergarten). Once added, a school supply order form will show up for your new Bobcat. Deadline:  Friday, June 5, 2020 Want to know if you are getting the best deal?  Check out this new online tool that tells you pricing at major retailers here!  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email Bethany or Terri at schoolsupplies@beverlypta.com     Kindergarten registration for the 2020-21 school year is an online process and is now open. Students currently attending a Plano ISD pre-k program do not need to complete this enrollment process and will be contacted by the elementary school their child will attend. Enrollment packet and more information are here. Email askpisd@pisd.edu with questions about kindergarten registration.     Our last general PTA Meeting of the year will be virtual, via Zoom! • Please register here to attend the meeting. This step is required by Texas PTA for everyone's digital safety. You may register to attend even if you are not a Beverly PTA member, and we will be verifying all email addresses.  • Then, join us for our final 2019-20 Beverly PTA General Meeting on Wednesday, May 13th at 7:00 PM.  ZOOM Meeting Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74681860436?pwd=UnhDK0FrNThRLzFSOTlKRjJ3cjNIdz09 Meeting ID: 746 8186 0436 Password: 3TAPb7     Our wonderful PE coaches will make videos of Field Day activities that families can do together in their own homes and yards. We will have those posted by May 15. Look out for more details next week. Thank you, coaches!

eNews 4.30.20

Even though our school is closed, we still want to make the book fair available for our entire community. Our Virtual Book Fair starts TODAY, April 30 - May 13. It's a fantastic way to get books in the hands of our students now to keep them reading at home. Take advantage of FREE shipping on book only orders over $25. Plus, all purchases benefit Beverly Elementary. Click here to visit our Virtual Book Fair now!   School closure won't stop us to thank and appreciate our hardworking teachers! The PTA has planned a Virtual Teacher Appreciation Week to support and thank our teachers in the following ways below May 4th-8th. As always participation is 100% optional and we thank you for all your doing during this time.   MONDAY, MAY 4: Send a sweet card by email to your favorite teacher or staff using this link.     TUESDAY, MAY 5: Some of our teachers created Amazon Wishlists for their school needs! If your teacher isn’t listed, you can send an Amazon gift card which never expires. We may not be able to see them now but we can prepare them for a great start to next year!   WEDNESDAY, MAY 6: The PTA is sending Redbox gift cards to each staff member so they can enjoy movies at home! You can email them your favorite Movies to watch!    THURSDAY, MAY 7: Let’s spoil and pamper our teachers for all they are doing to help us end this e-learning school year strong. Send an e-gift through Giftly straight to their email!    FRIDAY, MAY 8: Show some love to your teachers by telling them your favorite things about them! Record a video in this Flipgrid for them to see! Click here and login through Google with your student's MyPISD.net email and password.

Do you want to set up a Zoom call with your child’s classmate, but don’t know their number? The Beverly PTA website has an online directory that may have that information! Regularly, this feature is for PTA member only, but the we want to encourage everyone to stay in touch and support each other during this time, so we are opening this directory access to all Beverly families whether you are a PTA member or not, through July 31.  What this means for you: By entering your information in, your child's classmates' parents have a way to contact you! Virtual playdates, anyone? All you need to do is to create an account in our Beverly PTA website and input your info. Click here for detailed instruction. If you already have an account, click here to access the directory. (must login first)

ATTENTION: Please try to periodically check our Beverly PTA Facebook page for updates and refer your other Beverly family friends to it. Information goes out there more quickly than in our enews. Thank you!   ALL PTA EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED OR ALTERED FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING THROUGH THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.  We are working hard to see if any events can be replaced digitally, and will inform parents of any updates. If you would like to be involved in helping put together a digital replacement event for one of the spring events your child was looking forward to, please email volunteers@beverlypta.com to express your interest.    We are aware that parents have paid for Field Day t-shirts, Online Auction teacher experiences, yearbooks, etc., and want to address that:   • Field Day t-shirts were ordered and delivered to the school before school closures were announced. We will distribute those to the students when district and government policies make it possible.   • Yearbooks sales ended before Spring Break and the printing order was placed before Governor Abbott closed schools for the remainder of the school year. We will distribute yearbooks to the students when district and government policies make it possible. We will have extra yearbooks for sale if you forgot to order yours. If you are interested in one of those extra yearbooks, please get your name on the list by emailing yearbook@beverlypta.com.   • Online Auction teacher experiences usually occur in the Spring before the school year is out. The staff members whose experiences you bid on and won will be in contact with you in the next few weeks to discuss what will work best for your family under social distancing (postponement until next school year, alter the experience for social distancing, etc.). You may also reach out to them by email at your convenience if you would like to work it out sooner rather than later. Contact us at auction@beverlypta.com if you have any question.   Thank you so much for your understanding and support!

Our school supplies team has been working hard to make prices for teacher-selected school supplies as low as possible. We will be finalizing these lists and opening up school supply orders in the next couple of weeks. In the past, PTA markup and profit on school supply packs has been very low compared to many PTAs. In an effort to serve our families even better and  in response to the financial and emotional stress on our families from COVID-19, for this year only PTA will not make any profit on school supply kits. This means we will sell them to you at the price the vendor sells them to us. We hope you will use the savings to select a donation on the school supply order page so that PTA may provide extra school kits to teachers to distribute to students in need next year.

How to Access the Beverly Online Directory

The Beverly PTA website has an online directory! By accessing this directory, you can contact other parents and set up virtual playdates! Regularly, this feature is only for PTA member only, but the we want to encourage everyone to stay in touch and support each other during this time, so we are opening this directory access to all Beverly families whether you are a PTA member or not, through July 31. If you wish to be able to see the contact information for your child’s friends, please follow these steps:

Here is how to access the directory:
- Log in to your account on www.beverlypta.com,
- In the top Menu under the Bobcat header picture, go to “Resources”, then in the drop down menu under that, click “Directory".
- From there you can search for a name by entering it into the search fields, or you can scroll through all the entries alphabetically.

If you have never registered for an account on our PTA website:

1. Go to www.beverlypta.com.
2. Click “Login/Register” on the left navigation menu on the top yellow button.
3. On the next page, click the green “Create Account” button.
4. You will fill in the form on the following page with basic information to create your account.
5. The website will send you an email with instructions to complete the process of registration.
6. When you log in to the website after completing your registration, click on “My Account” on the top navigation menu (look at the white words on the dark background under the bobcat picture). 
7. Click on “Parent and Student Information” to fill in your family’s name and contact information. This info will only be shown on the directory if you choose it in the next step.
8. Click on “Student Online Directory Preferences.” Here you will be asked if you want to have your information published in the directory, and then you can choose specifically which information you want included in the directory for other parents to view. We suggest at least including one parent’s name, the child’s name and grade, and a phone number and/or email address that you will regularly check so that your child’s friends’ parents can get in touch with you to set up online playdates, etc. Many students have different last names than their one of their parents, so this is why it’s good to also include the child’s name and grade.
9. Begin searching the directory for your child’s friends and set up some virtual playdates! Get to know the other parents in your class!

If you already have a PTA website account but are not a member of the PTA:

1. Make sure you have updated your information and opted in to the directory. (See steps below.)
2. When you log in to the website after completing your registration, click on “My Account” on the top navigation menu (look at the white words on the dark background under the bobcat picture). 
3. Click on “Parent and Student Information” to fill in your family’s name and contact information. This info will only be shown on the directory if you choose it in the next step.
4. Click on “Student Online Directory Preferences.” Here you will be asked if you want to have your information published in the directory, and then you can choose specifically which information you want included in the directory for other parents to view. We suggest at least including one parent’s name, the child’s name and grade, and a phone number and/or email address that you will regularly check so that your child’s friends’ parents can get in touch with you to set up online playdates, etc. Many students have different last names than one of their parents, so this is why it’s good to also include the child’s name and grade.
5. Begin searching the directory for your child’s friends and set up some virtual playdates! Get to know the other parents in your class!

If you are a PTA member and have registered on our website and updated your directory preferences, proceed as usual!