This page will allow you to view the happenings at Hugh Bish this school year that have been posted to our web site. Posting outdated or older information here will allow 1) you to view only the most current information on our opening page preventing that page from being pages of scrolling and 2) a place to archive events for the year so you may read the events of the year without missing a thing. The most current is at the top of the page, the oldest information at the bottom.

 

Welcome to our "Knights in shining armor" new web site for our school.  This site is new for the 2007-2008 school year and will progress all year.  We welcome your comments and suggestions.  Send us items you would like to see added to the site.  We must, however, operate under the guidelines of the Lawton Public Schools so some items may not be allowed.   Send your suggestions and ideas to our webmaster by clicking HERE.  Please put the words "Hugh Bish web site" at the beginning of the message.

Please note you should refresh your browser or set your browser to automatically check for updates as we will make frequent updates and your browser must update to find our most current information.

We have several new staff members this year and we will introduce them on this site soon.  We will also have a staff page where you may view staff members and e-mail those with LPS district mail.  We will NOT post private e-mail addresses on this site.

We want to first welcome new leadership in our outstanding building for this school year.  Mrs. Tamie Barrett is coming to Hugh Bish from MacArthur Middle School where she served on their administration staff.  She is energetic and full of wonderful ideas to keep Hugh Bish the outstanding school it is and she will lead us through continued improvements.

Our first event for this year was enrollment.  You may click on the link to the left for enrollment information provided by LPS.

 

 

Popcorn & Pickle Fridays

Our wonderful PTSA will sell popcorn and pickles on Fridays.  Popcorn is $.25 (twenty-five cents) and pickles are $.50 (fifty cents) each.  Buy as many as you like on Fridays.  Students MUST turn in their money to their homeroom teacher each Friday MORNING.  See the popcorn and pickle page for more information.

 

 

Cafeteria Procedure

Please carefully read the cafeteria procedure you received during enrollment.  We take student safety very seriously, therefore have included the information on our web site for your future reference.  Please click HERE for the cafeteria procedures.

Lunch Schedules

Lunches will be served by grade daily as follows:
(subject to change for occasional special events and circumstances.)

10:55 - 11:25  Kindergarten
11:40 - 12:10  Transitional First & First Grades
12:20 - 12:50  Second & Third Grades
  1:00 -   1:30  Fourth & Fifth Grades

 

 

Attendance is extremely important
for student maximum success.

 

It is not only the law that children attend school, but we all want the best education possible for all our children.  Children should arrive at school in a timely manner each school day morning and be picked up or appropriate arrangements made each afternoon.  Please see the attendance note at the attendance link for more information.

 

 

Parent Portal is coming!

Parent Portal is a way for the parents (and students) to see the grades that the student is currently making in their class from the comforts of their own home computer.  Click here for more information.

 

 

Welcome Back to School NIGHT

Come join us Thursday evening, August 16th for a back to school night at Hugh Bish.  The time is from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  This is a time for parents to bring their child/children to school to find their classroom, find out who their teacher will be, meet the teacher, and leave school supplies.  This helps students get over those first day jitters.  PTSA will be conducting a brief meeting and serving refreshments

 

 

DRIVERS ! ! !

Please continue to drive very cautiously around the school and neighborhood.  We as adults must watch extra carefully for the children as they from time to time forget to look and dart out between or around cars.  We want everyone, walkers and drivers, to be safe.

Driving through the parking lot. 

At the end of the day our buses will be using the inside lane of the driveway.  This is the lane closest to the front door on the south side or front of the building.  Do NOT park in this lane until after all seven bused have left the building.  Mr. McDowell and other staff members will have you move your vehicle.  The buses must have room to safely navigate.  The faster and more safely we can get the buses in and out of the parking lot, the sooner we can fully use the drive way for parent's vehicles.  Thank you for helping us with this item.  This is a major safety issue and we want all our children to be safe.  See our August 27, 2007 newsletter for a map explaining this.

 

School is in session, watch your speed

School is back in session in Lawton. Please remember that lower speed limits are now in effect around public schools during school days.

The Lawton Police Department is enforcing speed limits around all schools in the community. Slowing down can help you avoid a costly ticket — one that starts out at $240 and goes up the more you exceed the 20 mph speed limit around schools. Last year police wrote more than 750 tickets for excessive speed in school zones. Don’t be one of those unlucky motorists this year. Getting a ticket could be costly ... but not nearly as costly as endangering the life of a child. Please drive carefully, for all our children.

 

 

“Parent Portal”
IS up and running

Parents and guardians of students in the Lawton Public Schools will soon be able to keep a close eye on their children’s educational progress via their home computer. “Parent Portal” is a new Internet program offered by LPS that gives adults access to student grades at the click of a mouse.

In order to access “Parent Portal,” the adult must go by their child’s school, sign the appropriate releases and show proper ID. Because of security and student privacy issues, application for access must be done in person. After approval, the adult will receive log-on and access instructions, along with a password.

 

 

NO SCHOOL - Labor Day

No school on Labor Day, September 3, 2007

 

 

Book Fair

Our Fall Book Fair will be October 1st - 5th.  Click HERE for more information.

 

 

Grade Level Meetings

Grade level meetings will be held
September 11 starting at 6:00 p.m. 

We will have 20 minute meetings then a second set so parents with children in more than one classroom will have the opportunity to participate in two meetings is they desire.

Click HERE for the letter about Grade Level Meetings.

 

 

Blunk's Photos

Blunk's will be at Hugh Bish on September 13, 2007 for photo taking of our students.  Watch for more information coming home with your child.

 

 

Local Marathon

While we cannot endorse or support any commercial business adventure per LPS guidelines for hosting web pages within LPS, we do encourage our students and staff to participate in local, state and national events that demonstrate good citizenship by being involved in their community, especially if it encourages good health practices.  Our students are therefore involved in the local Spirit of Survival Marathon coming up on October 14, 2007.  We temporally have a page listing information of the event for the availability of our student's parents who may have not received the original information, please note our disclaimer at the top of that page.

 

 

PTA Membership Drive

Join us in our support of Hugh Bish Elementary School by a simple act, join PTA!  Follow this link for more information.

 

 

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week is the week of October 22-26, 2007. This is a one week period where the students have opportunities to explore the negatives of drug use. We encourage students to live a full life without the use of drugs and therefore have a better, longer and healthier life to enjoy all the wonders of our world. This week students may participate in many activities, one being the dress up days listed below on the graphic.

 

 

2007-08 Hugh Bish School Shirt

Do you have the NEW Hugh Bish School shirt? Each school year there is a new shirt to show school spirit and pride. See the image below for this year's shirt. Ordering time is short! Click HERE or on the graphic below for a printer friendly PDF copy. Get your order in by October 31st.

 

 

DRIVERS!!!
update

We are almost at 100% appropriate driving in the parking lot in front of the school. We still have three to five drivers who are inappropriately using the bus and day care lane. Day care vehicles using the bus lane should be clearly marked by decals, painted logos or windshield signs easily seen several cars away. Day care and LPS buses have multiple stops they must make each morning and afternoon. Please help them be on time by keeping the bus lane open just for LPS buses and our area day care vehicles.

The safe driving and courteous drivers at Hugh Bish has been noticed and is greatly appreciated, except for the one who refused to move out of the bus lane and tried to run over Mr. McDowell the week prior to fall break.

 

 

Basketball
sign up time ! ! ! ! ! !

 

 

Turkey Bingo
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Come to Hugh Bish Thursday, November 8, 2007, for a fun night with our PTA hosting a hot dog, chips, and drink for a low price; followed by a fundraiser bingo basket night. There will be lots of prizes, theme baskets at a silent auction, and much more. Bingo cards may be purchased inside the school this evening as well as the food. Thank you for supporting the PTA at Hugh Bish.

What a great crowd! Thank you for supporting your PTA and having a great time with us at bingo.

 

 

Celebrating Oklahoma's
100th birthday

November 16th Hugh Bish will celebrate Oklahoma's 100th birthday!

Hugh Bish students have been hard at work with an artist of dance preparing a special program honoring our Great Sate's 100th birthday!

The program will be presented at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Third grade is featured but one fifth grade class is included. Guest are welcome to attend either presentation. No reservation required.

 

 

Lawton Area Reading Council
Movie Night

 

 

Dear Santa
Letters and songs to the North Pole.
A merry mini-musical.

You are cordially invited to a special performance for parents.

Curtain time is 7:00 p.m., December 11, 2007.

It is about a group of kids who are writing letters to Santa Claus expressing their feelings about his coming arrival.

You will be assured a delightful evening of entertainment.

 

 

Christmas
(Winter) Break

will complete the first semester of the 2007-08 school year. The break will begin at 3:45 p.m. on Friday, December 21, 2007. School will resume for the second semester at 8:45 a.m. on January 7, 2007.

 

 

URGENT REQUEST
FROM PTA

Poppers Needed ! ! !

(click on the graphic for a printer friendly copy)

 

 

NO SCHOOL

Monday, January 21, 2007
in recognition of
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

 

 

No School

February 18, 2007

Lawton Public Schools will celebrate President's Day by not having school for students while staff members are attending in service to improve their skills.

 

 

Thank You!

Ft. Sill Federal Credit Union has donated books to the Hugh Bish Library for all students to enjoy. The titles they have purchased for our library are:

The Dog Who Thought He Was Santa by Bill Wallace

My Closet Threw A Party by Robyn Parnell

Farmer Dale's Red Pickup Truck by Lisa Wheeler

Pig Enough by Janie Bynum

Hunter's Best Friend at School by Laura Malone Elliott

Hunter's Big Sister by Laura Malone Elliott

 

 

Hugh Bish has AGAIN
been chosen as a
MODEL SCHOOL
for
GREAT
EXPECTATIONS!

Once again, Hugh Bish Elementary School has been selected as a model school for the implementations of the Great Expectations program. A special assembly to celebrate this outstanding recognition for the hard work everyone in the school has put forth has been planned. The celebration assembly is Friday, March 14 at 9:15 a.m.

Come celebrate with the
Hugh Bish Knights!

 

 

NO SCHOOL

March 17 - 21, 2008

SPRING BREAK ! ! !

Enjoy your Spring Break, come back refreshed and ready to conquer the last grading period like a true Knight!

 

 

Lunch Money

Parents - please note if your child has a $ stamp on their hand when they arrive home from school, there should be a letter from our cafeteria manager that you will want to read that evening.

 

 

CRT Week ! ! !

Criterion Reference Testing week is here again. The annual visit of the testing mandated by the Oklahoma State Legislature will occur during the week of March 14 - 17, 2008. Important factors for everyone to remember: all students should attend school is possible, be at school on time, get a good nights rest every night, have a healthy and good breakfast each morning, do your best, choose the best answer and move on. Life goes on after the CRTs. We still have a good deal of school and important skills to master before school turns out at the end of May.

 

 

El Chico Night

Come help Hugh Bish raise money by eating at the El Chico in the mall and be sure to tell them before ordering you are with Hugh Bish. See the handout below for more details or click HERE for a printer friendly version.

 

 

 

General PTA meeting, introduction of new officers and Mr. Cooper's Magic Show.

 

 

 

Cookie Dough
Fundraiser

Cookie Dough will arrive April 29, it MUST be picked up that day. Make arrangements NOW to be here. See details below.

 

 

 

 

Spring Medieval Carnival

 

 

 

April 21-25th is Turn Off TV week.
What to do without television?
Here are some ideas.
NOTICE Friday night especially!

(click HERE for a printer version)

 

 

 

NO SCHOOL

We have two inclement weather days built into the annual school schulde This year we did not need to use them. Therefore the days set aside will be "Out of School" days for all. The dates for these days are May 9 and 16, both are Fridays.

 

 

 

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