Asbury Thursday Folders – October 17, 2024

Posted October 17, 2024

Principal Message:

Dear Asbury Families,

I hope everyone had a wonderful fall break! It is great to have everyone back in school this week! 

As a reminder, we will have our virtual Community Circle tomorrow! Please see the details below for how to join.

10/18 Community Circle – Tomorrow (virtual!)

We will be hosting our Community Circle virtually this Friday, October 18 from 7:50-8:20. Please join us through the Google Meets link below. Community Circle is a whole school time where we come together to celebrate our staff and students. We dance, give out awards and focus on doing our B.E.S.T.! Please join us! 

In Partnership,

Jeanna Doung  

What’s top of Mind? 

Report Cards

Report cards will be available to families by November 22. You can access them through Infinite Campus or IC. 

Grandfriends Day

We are so excited to host our 3rd annual Grandfriends Day. This year, this special day will be hosted on 2/13. For more information, please check out this flier!

Celebrating Discovery Link

We love our before and after care program, Discovery Link! Please take a moment to learn more about them here!

Toys at School

As a reminder, please do not have students bring toys to school, especially if these toys are in the shape of weapons. We would hate for students to misplace or lose the toys. If there are special days or circumstances, please work with teachers on these days. 

Picture Retake Day – Wednesday October 23

Family ‘Tu Voz/Your Voice’ Survey

 The Your Voice/Tu Voz Family Survey is open now through Nov. 1. Please fill this survey out. 

Platt Park Climate Action Forum (Please use the link below to register for this if you are interested)

  • October 26 at the historic Fleming Mansion in Platt Park 
  • We are looking for additional people to join.  Click HERE for more information or you can reach out directly to Gregg Pulliam (303-396-4203) or kcmlgreg@icloud.com

HOPE Event

We are excited to have families in need invited to the HOPE. event. This is an event at Colorado Academy called HOPE (Helping Other People Eat). This is an event that they put on every year around the holidays where we invite families from around the Denver area to come to our campus and get free clothes, toys, a warm meal, optional flu vaccines, school supplies, personal care items, health resources and more! In addition, we have face painting, bouncy houses, and other fun activities to make this a fun and exciting day for families. Transportation to the event is available upon request. This is the 31st year they have done this event and this year the event will take place on December 14th from 9am – 2pm at Colorado Academy! This event is also translated in multiple languages. They wanted to send a warm invitation to any Asbury Elementary School family who may benefit from this event to attend and wanted to spread the word as best as possible. They have created a save the date flier which is below. Please pass this information along to families.  Link: HOPE Event Information

Mental Health Minute

The Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS) beginning of year parent survey window is now open. At Asbury, we use this information to align our social emotional supports and services. Please visit this link to complete the short 5 minute survey. 

What’s Still Relevant? 

Halloween Festivities at Asbury

We will be hosting our annual parade and other halloween festivities on Thursday, October 31. We will start the parade at 1:40. Parents are welcome to the afternoon parade. If you would like to take students early, please do not forget to check students out in the office. Students can wear costumes to school on Halloween, though they can not have props or masks with them during the day (we will provide time for students to change prior to the parade,if needed). Students can bring the masks and the props for later. Please do not bring scary, overly gory or bloody costumes to school and no weapons. Blow up outfits will need to be put on prior to the parade, but not worn all day.

Prospective Parent Tour Volunteers

If you are interested in volunteering in hosting these school tour walkthroughs, please reach out to Ms. D and let her know that you are interested! 

Prospective Parent Tours

If you know anyone that has an upcoming student, please let them know that we will be hosting prospective parent tours. During these tours, current parents and student ambassadors  give a tour of Asbury, we have teachers share out and then Ms. D shares out and answers questions for parents. These are hosted on Fridays from 9:30-10:30am weekly from October through January. If you know anyone that is interested in checking Asbury out, please share this school tours website!

Volunteering At Asbury

We love our volunteers at Asbury. Work with your teachers and PTSO for ways to get involved at Asbury. Every year, volunteers will have to get background checks to support inside the school building. For more information, please check out this website that provides all the information and next steps to volunteer. 

Lost and Found is already filling up again. Here is the LINK to see the items, there are  lots of water bottles. 

What’s going on with PTSO?

  • Tonight is Skate City Asbury night! Join your friends and skate the night away; Asbury receives a percentage of the ticket sales!
    • Thursday, OCTOBER 17! 6-8 pm
    • Skate City Littleton – 5801 S. Lowell Way
  • Communications! Make sure you’re “in the know” about all the great goings on:
    • Subscribe to the official Asbury Google calendar: asburyelementary.website@gmail.com
    • Parent contacts in the DPS parent portal – guardian/contact 1 and 2 should both be getting all of the school communication – update there if you are having issues.
  • Having a Halloween Party? Hosting everyone for Thanksgiving? Or maybe you’re just having a few drinks on hand for a football game?
    • Little’s Liquors at 2390 South Downing Street is partnering with Asbury for a WEEK LONG giveback!
    • 10/25 – 10/31 – visit Littles and tell them you’re with Asbury elementary. A portion of EVERY SALE will be given back to Asbury! Thank you, Littles!
  • Interested in supporting 4A (the bond on the ballot that includes funding air conditioning in DPS schools, including Asbury)?
  • Community Watch Events: DU Women’s Volleyball! 
  • Social Committee Update Join us over on our Facebook page where we’ve added a new feature: Weekend Wednesdays! If you’re anything like me, by late afternoon on a Wednesday you’re pretty much checked out on the week and ready for the weekend. Well, you’re in luck because we’ll be giving a rundown of fun events going on over the upcoming weekend. See you at Skate City tonight!

What’s going on with Enrichments?

Please visit the Asbury Website for more information and details about enrichments offered during this session:  Asbury Enrichments Schedule (update in progress)

Enrichment Flyers

Community Flyers

Upcoming Dates

  • 10/17 – Skate City Asbury Night Tonight!!!
  • 10/23 – Picture Retake Day
  • 10/25 – 10/31 – Little’s Dine Out/Stock up fundraiser
  • 10/26 – Platt Park Climate Action Forum Meeting
  • 10/29 – PTSO October meeting (in person)
  • 10/30 – South High School Trick or Treat Street – 5-7 pm (ages 2-11)
  • 11/9 – DU Women’s Volleyball Community Ticketing event
  • 11/11 (1:45-2:40) – 1st Grade Habitats Showcase – 1st grade families only
  • 11/17 – DU Men’s Basketball Community Ticketing Event
  • 11/22 – No school for students- Asbury Release Day
  • 11/25 -11/29- No School for Staff or Students- Holiday
  • 12/10 – Chipotle Dine Out Fundraiser
  • 12/20- No school for students- Asbury Release Day
  • 12/23 – 1/3 – No school for staff or students- Winter Break
  • 1/6 – No school for students- DPS Release Day
  • 1/20 – No school for staff or students- Holiday
  • 2/14 – No school for students- DPS Release Day
  • 2/17 – No school for staff and students- Holiday
  • 3/21 – No school for students- Asbury Release Day
  • 3/24 – 3/31- No school for staff and students- Holiday
  • 4/18 – No school for students- DPS Release Day
  • 4/22 – 4/23 and 4/23 – 4/24 – 5th Grade Balarat (Each 5th grade class assigned to a session soon)
  • 4/30 – Rockies Game – 5th Grade
  • 5/9 – No school for students- Asbury Release Day
  • 5/26 – No school for students and staff- Holiday
  • 6/3 – Half Day for students- last day of school