A Message from your Admin. Team

Dear Parents and Caretakers,

As we step into the new 2024 school year, I am filled with gratitude for the incredible community we have here at Union Pleasant.  With the ringing in of the New Year, there is also a sense of renewal and a fresh start. 

Firstly, I want to commend our dedicated staff for their unwavering commitment to creating a nurturing environment where every student and family matters to us. Our students continue to place smiles on our faces with their zest for life, daily curiosity, and enthusiasm for learning. Additionally, we prioritize the importance of great communication between home and school. Please know that if you ever have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to our wonderful teachers, our office or your admin team.  Working together and supporting each other is one of our priorities that improves joy, value and connection.

In the coming months, we will continue to implement our new reading series which aims to enhance literacy skills, and foster a love for reading and knowledge. As I walk through classrooms, it is impressive to see the skills that our students are working on, the high levels of reading and comprehension, along with inquisitive minds over the facts and stories included in the series.  Also, our teachers work with their students daily on our math curriculum. This year they are also carving out small pockets of time for additional math practice to increase number sense and math fact fluency. We are confident that this building wide initiative will increase the math skills of all our UPES learners. 

As parents and caregivers, the more you can read with your children, whether it be in bed at night, or while waiting in line at the grocery store and reading labels, the more you will be supporting the work done in school, and fostering the importance and love of learning with your children.  One of my favorite times to both discuss school, or work on math facts, was in the car.  I often turned off the stereo and devices and we just talked.  Whether asking about the best moment of their day, or something funny that happened, or asking basic math equations, it is a great way to interact with your child/children and foster home-school relationships.

PS- Pro-tip: Turning off the devices when friends are in the car and simply listening can provide a lot of laughs as well as a lot of intel about the relationship between your children and their friends.

With Warm Regards,

Mrs. Molly Dehlinger

Attendance Reminder

• Anytime your child is absent from school, a paper note must be sent to school with your child upon their return, stating the reason for the absence.  If you do not turn in the note, the absence will become an unexcused absence.  Parents, please check your child's report card for any unexcused absences and send in a note for those date(s).  If you are uncertain of the date(s), please contact  Margaret Duszynski in the Attendance Office in the morning at (716) 646-3288.

• Please call the Attendance Office each day that your child is absent.  Our phone number is (716) 646-3288.   A message can be left at anytime school is not open.   Please do not call the main office or email the teacher to report an absence.   

• If your child(ren) will be absent because of a vacation, please fill out a vacation form two weeks prior to your departure.  These forms are available in the main office, on our district website or click on this link: Family Vacation Form .

Staff News:

Welcome to our new Physical Therapist, Ms. Eileen McKenna!

Union Pleasant Elementary School

150 Pleasant Avenue  Hamburg, NY 14075

Main Office Phone:   (716) 646-3280 option 1

Fax: (716) 646-3237

Attendance Office:  (716) 646-3288

Nurse's Office:  (716) 646-3287

To email the main office, contact Mary Beth Murray at mmurrayhcsdk12.org or Jenny Carrig at jcarrig@hcsdk12.org.