Our school day will be extended by a few minutes beginning next Monday, April 12.
The new schedule will look like this:
| Current Dismissal: | Starting April 12th: | |
| A-L 2:30 | New Time: | 2:45 |
| M-Z 2:40 | New Time: | 2:50 |
| Bus/Van 2:50 | New Time: | 3:00 |
Even though our survey support for this change was overwhelmingly in favor, we know that there are a few families that will struggle with the adjustment. If this is you, please contact your teacher or me directly. We have options within this schedule that can help.
A quick note about schedules:
Several of you have asked about adding time to our morning rather than the afternoon dismissal. If this were possible we would certainly be looking to do so. Our morning drop-off is integrated into other district systems. Afternoons are more independent and make it possible for us to make Beitel-only changes.
Registration Now Open
All children who will be five (5) years old on or before August 1, 2021 may enroll in kindergarten. Click HERE for important information from Albany County School District #1 regarding a change in the age requirement for kindergarten registration.
Registration will be online this year -- Kindergarten Pre-Registration Form.
You must register your child at the school in your home boundary area.
Please complete the online registration. Upon completion you will be required to bring your child’s state birth certificate and current immunization records to Beitel for us to make copies.
Please call Bodwin Denison at 307-721-4436 with any questions.
New Student Registration
New Student Registration
NEW TO THE DISTRICT:
Please use this link to start the registration process for your student. The boundary map can assist you in finding your home school.
PowerSchool Mobile Device App for Parents & Guardians School Code: DLML
For questions call- Bodwin Denison- 721-4436
ACSD1 and Beitel Remain Safe and Open
News from Albany County and around the nation is not good on the Covid-19 front. What does this mean for our school and school district?
Right now, school buildings are the safest places for students and staff in the county. It is true that the school district has experienced positive cases and numerous exposures leading to quarantine among staff and students. To date, however, none of these has been linked to spread in a school building. Each has been linked to community spread in one form or another. Given this, we believe that keeping schools open as much and as long as possible is the safest and best course moving forward.
ACSD1 employs a regimen of hand washing, sanitizing, masks, and social distancing that exceeds CDC and Wyoming Department of Health guidelines. This has greatly reduced risk and allowed us to remain in session since August.
Bottom line: ACSD1 and Beitel Elementary remain safe and open!
White Cane Awareness Day Governor's Proclamation Video
Governor Mark Gordon has proclaimed October 15th White Cane Awareness Day in Wyoming! He joined Beitel students at a socially-distanced assembly at Washington Park to sign the official proclamation. Governor Gordon then joined our Bulldogs in a white cane walk around the park.
Many thanks go to the Beitel staff and volunteers for the planning, preparation, and on-site support of this event!
Lunch Schedules
Kindergarten Classes: 11:00 - 11:40
First Grade Classes: 11:00 - 11:40
Second Grade Classes: 11:50 - 12:30
Third Grade Classes: 11:50 - 12:30
Fourth Grade Classes: 12:40 - 1:20
Fifth Grade Classes: 12:40 - 1:20
School Schedule
Morning soft start drop off time is the following:
8:00 -8:25 am. Please drop off your student at their classroom door. No earlier than 8:00.
Afternoon soft pick up schedule is the following:
Last names: A-L at 2:30 pm. (half days 11:00 am) please pick up your student at their classroom door.
Last names: M-Z at 2:40 pm. (half days 11:10 am) Please pick up your student at their classroom door.
Bus Riders: at 2:50 pm. (half days 11:20 am)
Re-Opening Plan Communications
We've been sharing a lot of both the "What" and the "Why" of our re-opening plans over the past weeks. Pasted below are links to all of these messages listed by topic:
ACSD 1 COVID Decision Guide Revised 120720
Class Lists and Staffing Changes
Dog House After School Program
Did You Get a Text Message About School Closures? If Not - Sign Up Here!
Parents and Guardians
You can take advantage of our Text Messaging Service
Our school utilizes the School Messenger system to deliver text messages, straight to your mobile phone with important information about events, school closing, safety alerts and more.
You can participate in this free service* just by sending a text message of "Y" or "Yes" to our school's short code number, 68453.
You can also opt out of these messages at any time by simply replying to one of our messages with "Stop".
SchoolMessenger is compliant with the Student Privacy PledgeTM, so you can rest assured that your information is safe and will never be given or sold to anyone.
Opt-In from your mobile phone now!
Just send "Y" or "Yes" to 68453
Information on SMS text messaging and Short Codes:
SMS stands for Short Message Service and is commonly referred to as a "text message". Most cell phones support this type of text messaging. Our notification provider, SchoolMessenger, uses a true SMS protocol developed by the telecommunications industry specifically for mass text massaging, referred to as "short code" texting. The method is fast secure and highly reliable because it is strictly regulated by the wireless carriers and only allows access to approved providers. If you've ever sent s text vote for a TV show to a number like 46999, you have used short code texting.
*normal text messaging rates may apply
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Why We Come To Work Each Day
Beitel’s Mission:
All Beitel students will reach high standards and leave prepared with knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed at the next level.
What is a mission? For the adults at Beitel Elementary School, it's the reason why we come to work each day. It's why we exist. It's why you see cars in our "parking lot" late in the evening and throughout the weekend. We work hard to make this statement true for all of our young Bulldogs year after year. Our mission helps us to define what we should do and, often, what we choose not to do. Thank you for helping to make our mission possible.
DLI
Dual Language Immersion Lottery Information
Albany County School District #1 is continuing to offer a Spanish and English Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program for students who will be in 1st – 5th grades this fall. Grades 1st and 2nd are at Slade Elementary and grades 3rd-5th are at Indian Paintbrush Elementary and Spring Creek Elementary. Please click HERE for the DLI Informational Flyer in English. For the Spanish version, please click here.
There are two requirements to successfully apply for the 1st grade DLI lottery at Slade:
* Attend the Dual Language Immersion informational session on Thursday, April 1st at 6:00 pm via Zoom OR complete the equivalent online DLI informational component linked HERE. Please make sure you log into the online informational component with your full name and complete the entire presentation.
* Complete the online application, linked here, by April 6th.
A 1st grade lottery for 2021-2022 will be held on Wednesday, April 7th.
Virtual Transition Planning
Since early August the Albany County School District has been planning how to serve kids totally digitally. Should our school or our entire system need to make this switch we want families to be ready as well. We've created several presentations to share many of the big details about Classroom Based Virtual Instruction (CBVI) in Albany County. Please note that there are no current plans to go totally virtual. However, we are ready to do so if needed.
Listed below are presentations shared in November and December about our virtual plans and ways to support you and your student(s) should that ever happen. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or thoughts about what you see.
Click Here for Albany County CBVI- Beitel December
Click Here for Albany County CBVI- Beitel October/November
