Congrats to Sari Wilde and Katie Iversen for a successful first Whale Mart! Laurel Keating and Anne Reid deserve a round of applause for all their behind the scenes work with our Enrichment Program. Many thanks to Lauren Murphy for stepping up to help us out with on-site coordination with enrichment. Shout out to the Birthday Bash committee for another successful celebration this month.

October 24 – Teacher Professional Day (No School)

October 27 – Bradley Cup Bingo (6:30-7:30 PM (Virtual))

October 28 – Halloween Parties and Parade (2 pm start)

October 31 – Scholastic Book Fair

November 7 – End of Quarter (No School)

November 8 – Election Day (No School)

BRADLEY CUP BINGO – THURS 10/27, 6:30-7:30 PM (Virtual)

Don't miss out on this year's Bradley Cup Bingo! The fun, professionally run, virtual evening is Thursday, October 27th, 6:30pm-7:30pm! Students please wear your favorite soccer jersey or Team USA colors! 

Purchase your registration (includes 2 bingo cards) as well as any extra cards and a Bingo Fun Bag thru Membership Toolkit/A-Z.  Each Bingo Fun Bag contains enough fun for 2 children, and will include snacks, prizes, and TWO random lucky bags will have GOLDEN TICKETS redeemable for a special prize. 

Enjoy carryout from Potomac Pizza (Chevy Chase) from 4-8pm. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to BHES. Place your orders by calling 301-951-1127 or https://chevychase.potomacpizza.com/ordering/home

Bingo registration deadline is Tuesday, 10/25 at 12 midnight! See you there for lots of fun and amazing prizes! 20% of proceeds will be donated to BHES!

HELP US EXCEED FOOD DRIVE GOALS!

We surpassed our goal of raising $1000 for Manna Food Center's Kids Helping Kids (KHK) campaign! Can we make it to $2000? Please visit our school page to make online donations until October 31st: https://secure.qgiv.com/event/khk22/team/907818/  

Thank you for your generous support! 

PTA Community Service

MCPS ANITIRACIST AUDIT RELEASE & UPCOMING COMING COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

Last week, MCPS released the results of its antiracist audit, which identifies a series of recommendations related to each of the six domains evaluated in the report as well as overarching recommendations. The six domains are: School Culture; Workforce Diversity; Work Conditions; PreK-12 Curriculum; Community Relations and Engagement; and Equity of Access. The media release for the report may be found here, and the full audit and executive summary may be found here. The NAACP is sponsoring a community conversation for families with Black students the evening of November 3rd to get feedback on priorities to address the MCPS antiracist audit, one of a series of MCPS engagements to inform the development of an action plan to address the audit's findings. You may register for this NAACP-sponsored conversation here, and a full list of planned community-wide sessions may be found here.

GET READY FOR THE BHES BOOK FAIR

The BHES PTA Book Fair is happening from Oct 31 - Nov 4. This fair's theme is "Bolder Stronger Prouder Reader". We have contests and fun activities planned to celebrate!  This year, we are allowing shopping to be done in-person by students and by parents daily from 9:15AM - 2:30PM.  

Parents can come shop outside of school hours on Tuesday Nov 1 from 6-8 PM.

Want to help out with the fair? 

• Volunteer: We're seeking volunteer parents to help staff the fair for set-up, class visits, and pack-up.  Volunteers must complete the child abuse and neglect training and show proof of vaccination. Click here to volunteer: 2022 SIGN UP! 

• Purchase Books: The easiest way to help is to purchase books during the classroom book fair visits.  Scholastic rewards a generous percentage of our sales back to us as Scholastic Dollars, which are used to purchase books for our media center and classrooms.  More than one of our recent in-person fairs provided over $5000 worth of books, each, to our school, purchased with our rewards! 

• Purchase books for Teachers: Another way to help is to purchase books for classroom libraries. Books chosen by our teachers will be available for purchase at the fair!  

Set up an eWallet: eWallet is an easy way to send your child to the fair with money in an online account, where it can't be lost.  Please visit our fair homepage to set up an eWallet for your child before their class visits, or to check or reload the balance on an existing eWallet.  Please note that funds added to an eWallet that aren't used will be available for use at Scholastic.com and/or at a later BHES PTA Book Fair, but will not be refunded.

*A note on online purchases: You can also support the school by shopping online from https://www.scholastic.com/bf/bhessbf.

JOIN OR RENEW YOUR PTA MEMBERSHIP & WIN ICE CREAM FOR YOUR CLASS!

LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCED FAMILIES TO SERVE AS "BUDDIES" 

We are looking for a few more experienced families to join as Buddies for our Newcomer Families in the BHES PTA Informal Buddy System.

Please send an email to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee email address at dei.bhes@gmail.com or text 301-661-5432 if you are interested!

What is the Informal Buddy System? Each interested newcomer family will be paired with an experienced buddy family who can provide answers to newcomer questions, and offer helpful tips about how to navigate in the BHES environment. We want all newcomers to feel welcome and included! Also, we will soon expand the definition of "Newcomer" to include any family that joined Bradley Hills during the pandemic. We know it's been a strange time.

Principal's Monthly Newsletter
Click here to read Mrs. Caroscio's October newsletter. 

Questions, comments, suggestions for the PTA? Contact PTA President Jenni Weinstein at bradleyhillsptaprez@gmail.com

Have PTA news to share or Community Event Information? Contact Communications Chair Lesley Freiman at bhescommunications@gmail.com

Want to volunteer? Please sign up here. 

Visit our website at www.bhespta.com

MCPS Quarterly Parent Newsletters (for examples of the material children are learning): https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/2.0/parent-newsletters.aspx

Bradley Hills Elementary School Websitehttps://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/bradleyhillses/?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atoz-app

Bradley Hills PTA Websitehttp://www.bhespta.com

Bradley Hills Education Foundation Websitehttps://www.bradleyhillseducationfoundation.org/?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atoz-app

A to Z Connect (for school directory & to join or donate to PTA)  https://bhespta.membershiptoolkit.com/home

MCPS COVID 19 Info: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/

CDC Travel Guidance: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/travel-during-covid19.html

Join or Donate to the PTA: Fill out the PTA membership and donation form found HERE or login A to Z Directory (https://bhespta.membershiptoolkit.com), select “Membership” on the left side menu then "Join" and/or "donate" .

Scan Receipts for Box Tops and Register Your Grocery Store Cards: Download the box tops app and scan grocery store receipts to redeem box tops earnings for BHES. Register your grocery store cards at www.escrip.com (school ID: 6477724) and www.giantfood.com/aplus (school ID: 00665).

Amazon Smile when Amazon Shopping: There are three easy ways to earn money for BHES while shopping on Amazon. 1. Click through to Amazon at www.bhespta.com. 2. Type Smile.Amazon.com into your browser when you shop or 3. Open the Amazon app on your phone, find "settings" in the main menu, then tap AmazonSmile and follow on-screen instructions. A portion of your purchases will be sent to BHES.