Bob and Lola Sanford Elementary Newsletter
Bob and Lola Sanford Elementary Newsletter
Passionate about Learning, Preparing for Tomorrow!
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Upcoming Dates
10/1 - Picture Day
10/2 -PTO Spirit Night @ El Patio
10/4 - Fall Festival 3-7 @ VAJH Parking Lot
10/13 - No School- Columbus Day
10/14 - No School Parent/Teacher Conferences
11/3 - No School! Staff Work Day!
11/11 - Fall Picture Retakes Day
11/13 - 3rd Grade Music Program
11/24- 28 - Thanksgiving Break!
12/18- Early Release @ 1:05PM
Picture Day is coming on Wednesday, October 1st!
You can place your order on mylifetouch.com using your Picture Day ID: EVTSRVZ6N.
Order before midnight on Picture Day to get FREE shipping!
Your child can also bring their completed flyer with cash or check on Picture Day.
Orders after Picture Day must be placed online only on mylifetouch.com .
Parent Helpers Wanted:
Help us make the Picture Day smooth and effortless. Contact the office if you'd like to volunteer at Picture Day.
Handle with Care
Handle with Care
Parents, If your student is having a hard time coping with something, or just an off week that may carry over into the classroom or school day, do not hesitate to let me know! Feel free to email me Angela Lemons with the subject line Handle With Care. You do not need to share details about what they are struggling with, however, just letting me know, might aid in helping your student have the best day, week, or even year possible!
Ms. Lemons 903-712-1900
IMPORTANT DISMISSAL INFO
It is important for students to go home the same way each and every day to ensure consistency in routines for our students.Changes in Transportation must be made through the office before 2:00 PM and will only be accepted VIA EMAIL sanfordes@vanalstyneisd.org. We recognize the need for an occasional emergency change, but habitual changes may not be honored. Please do not contact your child’s teacher for dismissal transportation changes, as they must go through the office. ALSO: If you need to pick up early, please arrive by 2:30 to limit inference with our PRE-K dismissal at 2:40PM
Dress Code Updates
Effective Monday, September 29, 2025, the Board of Trustees has updated the dress code policy as follows:
Skirts and dresses must be fingertip length or longer.
Leggings must not be transparent or see-through. Additionally, a shirt that is at least mid-thigh in length must be worn over leggings.
Shorts must be at least mid-thigh in length.
Set Up Your Meal Account
Set Up Your Meal Account
Panther Nation,
We have a new way of taking care of your students' food service needs. Everything will now be in one spot! . You can now download the School Cafe Family Hub app. This app will let you see menus, put money on account, complete free and reduced lunch applications, as well as many other custom functions that you can choose to set up. You can also log in on a computer at https://family.schoolcafe.com/. We will no longer be using My School Bucks. All My School Bucks balances have been transferred to the new system(School Cafe).
Just a reminder, you can fill out the free and reduced lunch application online.
To complete free and reduced lunch applications, please go to the following link. https://family.schoolcafe.com/VAISD
If you have any questions, please contact bpylant@vanalstyneisd.org.
No Charging Button in School Cafe
Many parents have set up their accounts to block charging, believing they are protecting their students from charging into a deficit. However, when they block charging on accounts, it prohibits children from using the money that is on their accounts for any type of extra. So this would also prohibit them from getting milk, or even an extra freight, or a vegetable, or an entrée. It is important that parents understand that by checking the no charging button, their student is only allowed to get a meal. There is no way for our cafeteria to override that block that the parent has set up in the system.
Election Information
Election Information
Here are some key deadlines for the upcoming election.
Here are some key deadlines for the upcoming election.
Community Presentations
Community Presentations
Mark your calendar! See below for a list of upcoming opportunities to learn about the 2025 Van Alstyne ISD Bond Election. See you there, Panthers!
Mark your calendar! See below for a list of upcoming opportunities to learn about the 2025 Van Alstyne ISD Bond Election. See you there, Panthers!
Medical/Dental/Counseling
Medical/Dental/Counseling
If your student is out for a medical appt, they need to turn in the medical note upon returning to school.
NURSE INFO: Students must be fever free/symptom free (without fever reducing medication) for 24 hrs before returning to school.
Parent notes
Parent notes
Students are only allowed 7 parent notes per school year. Those notes are to be turned in within 3 days upon returning to school. (Ex. if they are absent 2 days, that is 2 absences). We need all documentation- ATTENDANCE MATTERS!
Notes can be brought in by your student or emailed to: sanfordes@vanalstyneisd.org
PTO Information
PTO Spirit Wear
Varsity Football Games
We love seeing our students attend games to support our high school students. Please see the information below about football game expectations.
Elementary students should be sitting with their parents.
No footballs or other balls are allowed to be brought to the game.
No one is allowed on the football field after the game.
Students will be escorted back to their parents if there are violations of the expectations at the game.
VA Athletic Booster Club
Click the link below for spirit wear in the Sanford Paw Shop, as well as membership options
https://van-alstyne-athletic-booster-club.square.site/
Home team prints is our new spirit-wear for the 2025-2026 school year! -
https://www.hometeamprints.net/store#!/Paw-Shop/c/183820295
Drama Kids
ABCs of Sanford Elementary
Here are a few things we would like to note from the ABCs that we have seen already this year. If you have questions, please let us know!
We do not accept student deliveries, ie, balloons and flowers. It is too difficult for students to get them home. If things are dropped off, parents will have to come in and get them at the end of the day!
When visitors come for lunch, we do not allow students to invite a friend to sit with them, and we are not allowed to share food brought in with any of the students' friends.
Cupcakes can be brought in for a student's birthday in all grades, PK-4th grade, but they cannot be homemade. They must be packaged with nutritional information included.
2025-2026 Sanford ABCs.docx
Attention East Side Drop-off Parents (including Pre-K and STC)
Attention East Side Drop-off Parents (including Pre-K and STC)
Just a reminder that the east side drop-off (by the cafeteria) in the mornings is not available until 7:35. The buses occupy that lane between 7:20 and 7:30, so we do not allow drop-off for anyone on that side of the building until 7:35. Thank you for understanding.
Arrival Procedures
Arrival Procedures
Please take a look at the graphic below to see our drop-off procedures:
Drop-off in car line - please do not get out of your car to help your student get out:
Front of school from 7:25 to 8:00.
Side of the school by the cafeteria from 7:35-8:00.
***Cub's Corner Parents: Please park in the parking lot if you arrive later than 7:15 to drop off your students***
Students go to breakfast, the playground, or the classroom.
Tardy bell rings at 8:00
Dismissal Procedures
Dismissal Procedures
All students will dismiss from their classrooms in the following order:
Bus Students – all grades by bus number
Daycare buses
Car Riders – By car number. K-2 in the front, stopping at the line in the front lot to allow our Pre-K to dismiss at 2:45. 3-4 in the bus line after the buses are gone. Please stage on Evans drive until busses leave. Older siblings will join their younger siblings in the K-2 line. Children will wait on the sidewalk and staff will help load them. Parents must have a car tag visible or they will have to park and walk in to show their ID.
Walkers - Out the back gym doors and across William’s Way - please wait for them on the sidewalk and do not come to the gym doors.
Cub's Corner - Students to the cafeteria
***Consistency is key for dismissal, please limit changes to your child’s dismissal routine.***
Kristi Odom, Principal
Haley Murch, Assistant Principal
Angela Lemons, Counselor
300 Williams Way Van Alstyne, TX. 75495
Phone: 903-712-1900
Fax: 903-712-4199
Email: sanfordes@vanalstyneisd.org
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