NOV 24, 2025 - VOLUME 10, Issue 16
A Newsletter for Families of Solar Preparatory School for Girls
A message from
Principal Santos...
This month of November has flown by and we are gearing up for a week to pause and reflect on all that we are grateful for in 2025. At Solar, this was a year of building strong connections, creating spaces for all students to feel successful and consistently working to ask for feedback and improve our practices. Our teachers and staff members were each able to fill out a gratitude page from our Solar Gratitude Journal to highlight just a few things they are thankful for this season. Check out what they said! 🐝
🍪💚 It's Cookie Time! Did you know that EVERY student at Solar is a Girl Scout? We are the first school in the US to do this. And ALL of our students are already registered to be GIRL SCOUTS. So parents do NOT need to go in and register, all you have to do is fill out TWO FORMS:
THE COOKIE PERMISSION FORM
THE COOKIE ORDER FORM
The first Girl Scout Cookie Order is due this Friday, November 28th. Cookies are a huge part of our fundraising efforts that pay for our Girl Scout field trips, lemonade day. The money raised by each grade level troop (each grade level is its own troop), will accumulate over time to help pay for the capstone field trips such as the 5th grade overnight at the Girl Scouts camp. This field trip would normally cost over 500 per student, but we were able to take 5th grade for $60 per student because of the cookie money that had been raised over the years for this class. The remainder of the raised funds goes to the 8th grade capstone field trip and 8th grade end of year activities. See the section below titled GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALES to sign up. Thank you in advance!
We will send another Bright Times on Saturday will more info for December. We are so grateful for our Solar Staff and our entire Solar Community! Have a wonderful holiday!
We have shared our testing schedule for the month of December. Please plan accordingly. Students should arrive at school by 8:00 a.m. on testing days. Each student will have only one attempt to complete the assessment. Our fifth graders will also participate in the Science ACP on December 16, 2025.
We Want Your Past Volunteer Hours Counted!
➡️ Have you volunteered this year? We would like to get your hours recorded. Please complete this form so that we can record the hours. VOLUNTEER LINK
➡️ Have you donated any items this year? We would like to get your donations recorded. Please complete this donation form. DONATION LINK
See Family & Community Engagement Site LINK
Suggestion Box!
Please share questions, comments or concerns.
SUGGESTION BOX LINK
You probably noticed that you received a LOT more permission and consent forms than every before this year. I first want to apologize that all the forms have come home without explanation. I will work to ensure that in the future with each form that comes home is well explained.
New legislation from the 89th Texas Legislative Session requires parents and guardians to provide annual consent for certain school-based services and activities. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) distinguishes between services that require opt-in consent (consent must be provided before service can be delivered) and services where parents may opt out (consent is assumed unless declined). Some services are always provided in emergencies or as general caretaking.
If you do not complete the form:Your child will not receive services that require opt-in. They will continue to receive opt-out services (unless you decline in writing) and services that are always provided.
These are the forms that have gone home so far:
Health Services Opt-in form. (this includes consent for mental health/counseling)
Clubs Permission forms (if we do not get these this week, your child will not be allowed to stay for clubs)
Girl Scouts Permission form (Because GS is an outside entity that provides us with curriculum to deliver during the school day, and students become GS members through our partnership, a separate form is required.) We were originally given the wrong from by the Girl Scout team which asked for a social security number. This was not correct. We will be sending home the revised form and shredding the previous forms that were returned.
Socio-economic form. This form impacts our funding and state accountability. We have to have a form to document each family's income. In order to retain our 50/50 status, we need to have forms to prove socio-economic status. You can check on the form that you prefer not to share your total income and it will automatically assume that you make over the amount listed here. In the future this form will be sent in an envelope so that you are able to return the form directly to the front office.
As part of FERPA and DISD laws, all information shared with our staff is confidential and will not be shared with any other person or entity. We appreciate your support Please reach out to your child's teacher if you need to upate information on a form or if you need a new form. Please reach out to me directly if you have any feedback or need any more information.
⚕️👩🏻⚕️ NURSE VISITS & IMMUNIZATIONS: If you have not submitted your immunization documentation or filled out your student's permission form, please do so.
NOTE 1:
A 30-day provisional enrollment is available only to the following student groups:
• Students transferring from one Texas school to '
another Texas school.
• Students who are defined as homeless according to
the federal McKinney-Vento Act 42 U. S. C. Section
111434a.
• Foster children enrolling in a new school.
• Active-duty military dependents enrolling in a new
school.
NOTE 2:
A student may be enrolled provisionally if the student has an immunization record that indicates the student has received at least one dose of each specified age-appropriate vaccine required by this rule. To remain enrolled, the student must complete the required subsequent doses in each vaccine series on schedule and as rapidly as is medically feasible and provide acceptable evidence of vaccination to the school. A school nurse or school administrator shall review the immunization status of a provisionally enrolled student every 30 days to ensure continued compliance in completing the required doses of vaccination. If, at the end of the 30-day period, a student has not received a subsequent dose of vaccine, the student is not in compliance and the school shall exclude the student from attendance until required dose is administered.
NOTE 3:
Exemptions from immunization requirements may be granted on a medical basis or for reasons of conscience. A medical exemption, signed by a physician, is required annually if not otherwise stated by the physician. Exemption for reasons of conscience must be submitted on an affidavit provided by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Exemption for reason of conscience is granted for two years.
Exemptions are not recognized in time of epidemics. Students will need to be immunized or not attend school if an epidemic is declared by
the Commissioner of Health.
NOTE 4:
To ensure the health and safety of all students, we ask that parents and guardians submit updated immunization records as soon as possible. Administration will be reaching out to families whose records are not up to date. Thank you for helping us maintain a safe and healthy learning environment for everyone.
👚👖 UNIFORMS/ATTIRE: Click the uniforms button below to purchase house shirts, girl scout shirts, spirit shirts, and uniforms.
We would LOVE your help appreciating and celebrating our staff! Any staff member who you see making a difference (big or small) in our school community would love to hear your words of affirmation. This link is always made available on BrightTimes to give shoutouts throughout the school year. We especially want to put it front and center this week! Staff members receive these shoutouts through our staff newsletter, and they brighten their days. Thank you for taking time to shout them out!
All of our weekly staff shoutouts will now be linked on this Quick Links button for you to view!
Do you know someone interested in attending Solar next school year? Our parent tours have begun! These tours are a chance for prospective families to see what makes SOLAR so special. We will host tours every Tuesday morning at 8:00am. If you know of anyone interested in joining the Solar family for the 2026–2027 school year, please share this link to our SignUpGenius.
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SISTERHOOD CIRCLE FIERCE FEMALES
If you know any fierce females who you would like to see featured at our Sisterhood Circle in the fall, let us know by filling out THIS FORM!
REGION 6 LEADERSHIP
OFFICE HOURS
7:30am - 4:30pm
ARRIVAL
7:30-8:00 am
BREAKFAST
7:30-7:55 am
SISTERHOOD CIRCLE
8:00-8:15 am
EARLY DISMISSAL ENDS
2:15 pm
PIKMYKID DISMISSAL CHANGES CUT-OFF
2:45 pm
PRE-K/K DISMISSAL
(Henderson Doors)
3:10 pm
DISMISSAL
3:20 pm