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Posted Date: 2/08/25 (4:00 PM)



   




MCE PTO

Spirit Wear- sale is open year round 

The MCE PTO will receive a percentage of all sales to help our school.

Mt. Comfort Spirit Wear 

Mt. Vernon Spirit Wear

Fun Cart Fridays are usually the first Friday of every month and our kids LOVE IT! The PTO provides fun fidgets, stickers, pokemon cards, etc to the kids each month for purchase during lunch time. Fun Cart Friday will never be more than $1. They can bring a buck or bring 5. Each month we will offer different items to keep the surprise there for them. At the end of the year, we will do grab bags that will include items that we still have from throughout the year. If you'd like to take a shift doing the fun cart and give your kiddo a hug at the same time, sign up here.

Fun Cart Fridays

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B44A4A72EABFEC70-50320475-funcart

We sure do love our staff at MCE! There are lots of things we do for them throughout the year but I think the appreciation carts are the most fun! You have the opportunity to choose a theme, decorate if you like and go door to door surprising our staff with all the goodies you have brought in for them to say THANK YOU! If you're lucky, you'll catch a glimpse or two of your little one. Participating in the Teacher Appreciation Cart is a great way to meet all of our staff and put their names with faces. The signup for the cart is always on a Friday BUT if you prefer to do it on a different day of the week, its fine as long as we have approval from Mr. Turner. We try our best to not interfere with testing or other important dates at the school. Grab your spot today if you'd like to be a part of this! If you aren't able to come in and would like to donate snacks and/or drinks of any kind for the cart, you can drop them off in the office for the PTO. We will make sure we get them to the person who is doing the cart that month.

Teacher Appreciation Carts

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B44A4A72EABFEC70-50320655-teacher

PTO Interest Form (click here) 

If you haven't joined us on Facebook or Instagram yet, please do and tell your friends! You can find current information about school along with activities and volunteer opportunities.

https://www.facebook.com/mtcomfortpto

https://www.instagram.com/mtcomfortpto?igsh=MXJicGhwa2h3dW56NA==

🍬Candy Gram Sales are underway and we can’t wait for your kiddos to send fun treats to their friends and/or classes!  Now you can send the link to family members who aren’t near so they can love on your kiddos that they don’t see often!

💰Single Candy Grams are 💲1️⃣ or 💲2️⃣5️⃣ for the whole class. All sales will be online this year as we continue to digitalize things in order to lessen our work load, handle less money and have better records.

🍭Candy Grams are an assortment of different flavored Airheads (child cannot choose the flavor they send)

🗓️ All sales will end on 2/12/25.

💖 Delivery will be on Valentines Day.

You can order with the link below or any of the other options in the graphic. 


Upcoming Dates to Remember 
February 12- Early Release
February 17- No School Presidents Day
February 18- No School Teacher PD Day


School Hours

7:20 AM-Car riders and bus riders allowed in the building

7:45 AM- Car rider line closed-must enter main entrance and will be marked tardy

2:10 PM- Car riders and day care riders start dismissal

2:15 PM- Bus riders start dismissal

Morning of Late Drop-Off Reminder

If you are dropping your student off after 7:45 am, you will need to drop them off at the front door.  Also, adults need to come in and sign the child in as tardy.  Please do not just send your child into the school.

Student Council

Riley Fundraiser  

We want to bring back the Riley Children's Hospital fundraiser that Mr. Davis (former MCE Principal) set so many years ago.  Our goal this year as a school is to raise $2,500 which is almost $4 per student.  I believe we can EASILY achieve that! This is going to be an EVERY YEAR GOAL and we hope to increase that amount raised each and every year.  Let's bring back Mt. Comfort Elementary being a TOP RILEY fundraiser school! 

  

In the past, MCE has donated over $167,000 to Riley Children's Hospital.  From the records that we can find, we have been a Miracle School, or a Red Wagon School from at least 2005-2018.  we would love to continue to this amazing generosity from our MCE community.  Thank you for all of your support!


🔴❤LOVE Spirit Week. The week of February 10th-14th will be filled with LOVE and FUN!  We'll have spirit days AND be smelling NEW smencils - Sweetheart scents!



BUCS

Mt. Comfort B-U-C-S Expectations

We are:

Bright

Understanding

Courteous 

Successful

Students of the Week/Month

Students of the Week February 3-7
January Students of the Month

BUCS Class of the Week
Week of Jan. 27-31- Worrel
Week of Jan. 21-24- Mrs. Novinger
Week of Jan. 13-17- Mrs. Higgins

Spell Bowl
Congratulations to our Spell Bowl Champion Nixon Childress (Back to Back Champion)
Congratulations to our Spell Bowl Runner-Up Hunter Dixon
Illness

Mt. Comfort Elementary Car Riders

In efforts to maintain safety, we need children to be ready to exit the car in the morning.  If your student is not ready, then the line can be delayed.  In order to prevent delays, you may be asked to circle back around if your student is not ready when it is their turn.  Please do not get out of the car to assist your student as this delays the line and is a safety hazard.  If you need to get out of your car to help, you may be asked to park or circle back around so that the line can continue moving.  

 Also, vehicles should not pass or go around other cars unless school personnel is present and waves you around.  

 Please work with your students on getting in the car and fastening seat belts quickly.  Again, adults getting out of the car presents a safety issue.

Car Rider Line: Many MCE families have chosen to use our car line.  Efficiency in our line improved greatly over the past year. A few things that you can do to help include:

  • moving car seats to side of the car where your student enters and exits

  • helping your child learn how to manage the buckle independently (the goal is for all adults to stay in the vehicle)

  • and making sure the book bag and other supplies are close to your child so he or she can grab them quickly

  • pull all the way up (to the cone or nearest car in front of you)

  • we do not dismiss students one at a time in front of the main entrance (even if its raining, snowing, or cold)

We really enjoy seeing our families at arrival and dismissal!

Thank you for your help in making our car rider line safer.




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