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Weekly updates from
Heroes Elementary School
Week of December 8
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What's Happening This Week?
What's Happening This Week?
Monday, December 8th
Monday folders come home today!
PTO Holiday Shop!
Tuesday, December 9th
5:00 HES Chorus Performance.
PTO Holiday Shop!
Wednesday, December 10th
School Store open. Kindness grams on sale for $1!
5th Grade CHAMPS
PTO Holiday Shop!
Thursday, December 11th
School Store open. Kindness grams on sale for $1!
5th Grade CHAMPS
PTO Holiday Shop!
Friday, December 12th
School Store open. Kindness grams on sale for $1!
Grinch Day! Wear Grinch clothes or wear green!
PTO Holiday Shop!
School News and Important Information
Attendance
Dear Parents, We want to celebrate that our school attendance data has already improved over last year! Thank you for helping us to achieve the goal of increasing student achievement by improving our attendance at school! When our students are in class every day at 7:40, our instruction time is maximized and our students thrive! Thank you so much for your partnership with attendance!
Classroom Deliveries
If your child forgets something at home or if you are brining a special treat for the class, please plan to drop items off at school prior to 10:30 a.m. This will help us to ensure we have time to deliver everything to classrooms. Thank you!
Transportation Update
Our bus routes have grown as our community has grown! In order to ensure the safe transport of every HES student, we are not able to accommodate additional students on bus routes that they don't normally ride. Thank you for understanding that we cannot accept notes for students to ride different bus routes home in the afternoons. Students may only ride the bus that serves their home address. Again, thank you for understanding. Your child's safety is our priority!
Heroes Salutes
At Heroes Elementary, we love celebrating the positive choices that make our school a safe, respectful, and responsible community!
We’re excited to share Student and Staff Salutes — special shout-outs for those who go above and beyond to live our school values every day.
Congrats to our November Heroes Salutes students and to our November teacher honoree, Ms. Stevens, for always having a Pawsitive Attitude about work. November's Student and Staff salute focus is work!
Registration for the 2026-27 Pre-Kindergarten Lottery is now OPEN! Families can visit www.jacksonschoolsga.org/prek to learn more about eligibility requirements. Pre-K programs are available at all seven JCSS elementary schools. The lottery drawing will take place in March, and families will be notified of their enrollment status.
Heroes Elementary is planning a Multicultural Night for March 19, 2026!
We would love for our families to be part of this special event. Please complete the form to let us know if your family would like to participate.
Some ways you can help include:
• Participating in a multicultural fashion show
• Hosting a cultural booth or table
• Bringing a traditional dish to share
We can’t wait to celebrate the rich diversity of our HES community!
🌟 We Need You! 🌟
Our PTO is looking for volunteers for several upcoming events, and we’d love your help! Your time and support make a big difference for our students.
Sign up here to get involved: Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
HES students can earn a FREE ticket to the Athens Rock Lobsters hockey game—just by reading! Log 1,000 minutes before December 17, 2025 to receive a ticket.
Reading logs are available in the media center or can be downloaded HERE.
Reminder: The Jackson County School System will be closed for Winter Break beginning Thursday, Dec. 18 through Thursday, Jan. 1. A staff work day will be held on Friday, Jan. 2, and students will return on Monday, Jan. 5.
WOW! Thank you so much for your incredible generosity toward our Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta toy drive. Just look at all these amazing toys that will help brighten the holidays for children at CHOA this season. Our HES families continue to show what kindness and community truly look like. We are so grateful for your support!
Make your student's day extra special! 🎉 Get a personalized birthday shoutout on our outdoor digital sign for just $6! Your child's birthday shoutout will stay on the digital sign for the entire week of their birthday.
Proceeds will be used for media center resources and teacher celebrations.
Step 1: Pay on School Window
Step 2: Submit your Student's Information
✨ Yearbooks are now on sale! ✨
Visit TreeRing and enter our school code: 1017538231403910 to order today.
Prices:
Soft Cover: $30.03 (before tax)
Hard Cover: $37.67 (before tax)
Each yearbook comes with 2 FREE custom pages—personalized by you and printed in your book only!
Order by March 4th, 2026 to guarantee your copy! Proceeds from yearbook sales will be helping our students and staff.
Heroes Elementary is proud to partner with our community! Check out our 2025–2026 Partners in Education packages and learn how your business can support our students while gaining great visibility.
Mark your calendars! The Athens Rock Lobsters are hosting four JCSS Foundation nights! A portion of every ticket sold will be donated back to the Foundation to support staff grants and student scholarships! Tickets are on sale now! Visit www.jcssfoundation.org/upcomingevents.
Our school is a literacy rich environment, which means that we work on reading and writing in many different ways. One of these ways is our Spelling Bee in third, fourth and fifth grades. This week, our classroom winners competed in the school-wide Spelling Bee. We were so proud of them! It was great to have their family members come to support! Congratulations to Evander Ng, who is our school winner and will represent us at the District Spelling Bee!
Thank you to our Partners in Education!
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