Health Screening Reminder
Please remember to keep students home when they experience ANY Covid symptoms listed on the Health Screening Form below, and follow up with Nurse Britton to make a plan for returning to school. Remember to check over the Health Screening Questions each day.
If you have a child who has tested positive for COVID, please complete this form and our school health team will follow up with you.
Please continue to call the office to report reasons for all absences!
Go Nuts for Reading with the Flying Squirrels
Students should submit completed Go Nuts for Reading bookmarks by Friday, March 25th, for a free ticket to the Flying Squirrels baseball game on Wednesday, April 13th (the Flying Squirrels only had Wednesday dates for school events). Families can purchase additional tickets for $10 to the game using the link below. Each ticket purchased earns $4 for our school! Purchase additional tickets for the GCPS Game Night at the Diamond!
Read Across America Week
We are celebrating reading at Byrd all week long with spirit days, a special nighttime event, guest readers, and other exciting reading related activities! We hope to see you Thursday night for our Family Literacy Night. Come any time between 5-7 for activities, prizes, and free dinner. We hope to see you there!
Gifted Education
The spring gifted referral window is now open! Any parent wishing to have their child considered for possible gifted identification in math, English, or general intellectual ability can learn about the Goochland program and access the parent referral online at https://www.goochlandschools.o... . Completed referrals should be returned to the BES front office no later than March 11, 2022.
Pre-School Application for 2022-23 School Year
GCPS is now accepting applications for its preschool programs for the 2022-23 school year. Families can apply through an online form available at https://tinyurl.com/GCPSPreschool To learn more about GCPS preschool visit https://goochlandschools.org/page/preschool
Byrd Parent Group News
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, March 8th, at 6:30 to join us for our next virtual meeting with the Byrd Parent Group. Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/zkr-mupb-krd Join by phone: +1 650-758-7820 (PIN: 960431310)
Saturday, March 12th, we will have a community courtyard clean up event. We will have all materials at school, but we need anyone who is available to assist in rebuilding raised beds and hauling away old materials. No experience is necessary, and students are welcome and will be given kid friendly jobs!