RAVEN REPORTER Summer Edition

Amessagefromthe PTCPresident,MichaelBrescione

We are at the end of the 23-24 school year and it seems like it went too fast!Ourstudentsarenowon their way to advancing to the next grade level. Our 6th graders who have spent the last 7 years at Bud Rank will now begin a new chapter in their life as junior high students. Parents ofourgraduating6th graders, my heart goes out to you as your young children now begin their ascent into their teenage years. I can't imagine the emotions you could be feeling as you look back to the kindergarten years, and now stop and think how did this happen so quickly. Most parents I have talked to have said to me, 'Where did the time go as it happened so fast". This bringsmetoathought/questionofwhatabout our teachers? In the midst of talking about our children's advance to the next grade level and the emotional time for parents, do we think about what our teachers are going through emotionally? They have spent thelast9monthswithourchildren for 7 hours a dayandnowtheyhavetosaygoodbye to their students. They have watched our children grow, develop, and make academic progress over this time and now have to stop that relationship.If we put this into perspective, it is no different than having to say goodbye to students they will no longer see and now have to start relationshipswith a new group of children 2 months later. Do we as parents stop and think about howchallengingthat can be? We discuss what agreatjobourteachersdo daily. We highlight how great they are at helping, supporting, teaching, and assisting our students to do the best they can academically. We talk about their total commitmentinandoutoftheclassroom and dedication that goesfarbeyondtheclassroom. We don't stop and think about one more task and challenge for them and that is the emotions they are feeling when having to say "goodbye". Iforone

sympathize with them as it isn't just our emotional challenge asparentswatchingourchildrengoonto their next grade level, but also our teachers. At the end of the day I like to think we are one big family here at Bud Rank and we all have to share in these experiences. I'm sure that Mr. Gettman, Mrs. Sanchez, and all of our administrative staff share these feelings and quite possibly even more. They have watched our students each and every year grow, get older, become more educated, advance socially, get to know their personalities, and have gotten to know them on all levels for 7 years. As I write this summary, it's emotional just thinking about all of these changes for our school staff and parents.	The	good	news	is	our	teachers, administrative staff, and parents have now started theprocessofhelpingourchildrenpreparefortheir futureendeavors!

We have had tremendous success all school yearfor our students, parents, and administrative staff for 2023-2024. All ofourextracurricularactivitieshave been successful and enjoyable, our sportsprograms have been successful, and last but certainly not least our academics have been successful. What a greatenjoymentatouracademicawardceremonies towatcheachchildgouptoaccepttheirawardsfor all of their hard workandeffort.Ihaveenjoyedthe musical performances, the oral interpretation performances,	our	band	performances,	our sporting event performances, our dances, and our field trips to name a few as I am sure all of our parents and staff have. Thank you to all of the teachers and administrative staff for volunteering your time to be coaches for all of our programs. Thank you to our plant maintenance staff for making our school grounds lookniceandbeautiful. Our school looks brand new likeitdidwhenwefirst opened in 2007. Thank you for help, support and extra work for all of our activities in settingupand breaking down for all events. In addition to all of

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those duties Mr. Moss also dedicates timeasacoach for a few of our sports teams also. It has been a successful year for our PTC group as well. The fundraisers have been successful and helped our teachers and students havethebestexperiencesfor this school year and beyond. Thank you to our PTC Board for a very nice teacher's appreciation week this year! Thank you for all of the effort, time, and commitment	to	show	our	teachers	and administrative staffhowmuchweappreciatethem! I don't know if we can thank our teachers enough for all oftheireffortsanddedication.Ihavespoken to many of our teachers to thank them and how much theyareappreciated!So,onbehalfofallofus parents, students, and PTC I want to say a big THANKYOU!

I would like to conclude by thanking Mr. Gettman for another great school year! Your leadership, commitment, participation, and guidance has helped students, teachers, administrativestaff,and our school as awholebethebestelementaryschool in CUSD! I want to thank all of our PTC board, members, and parents for all of your help,support, time, and perseverance for all of our classrooms, activities, and fundraisers this year. A special thank you to all of our room parents for supporting our teachers and students in the classrooms. Thankyou toalloftheparentswhovolunteeredtheirtimeand energy to all of our activities and snack shack events. Thank youtoouryardteachersandstafffor monitoring all of our recess andlunches.Thankyou to our cafeteria staff andhelpersforensuringallof our deliciousmealsareenjoyableforourchildren.It has been an honor to serve asyourPTCPresident!It has been a privilege to work with our whole PTC staff, administrative staff, teachers, and for Bud Rank ElementarySchool.Thisisthebestelementary school experience for me as a PTC board member, parent, and volunteer. I could not ask for a better school experience as a parent than here at Bud Rank.Thankyoueveryone!

-MichaelBrescione,PTCPresident

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Bummer in the Summer!

	School's almost out for the
	
	summer, and A.J. is
		
	dreaming about all the fun
		
things he's going to do on vacation

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