Dear MBFS Families,

We are better together! And we welcome you and your students back on Wednesday, August 11 at 7:45AM for what will be our lucky 13^th year. Please be reminded the earliest student drop off in the morning is 7:15AM. The school day ends at 1:55PM for K-5 and 2:15PM for middle grades. The latest student pick-up times are 2:25PM for K-5 and 2:45PM for middle grades.

You will receive an email soon with information about preschool orientations, meet the teacher events, drop off and pick up procedures including a car line video for navigation purposes, and learn about activities that will earn general membership meeting credit during the months of August and September.

If you are not receiving our emails, we can help.  Please call us at (727)547-7697 so that we can add your email to our list.  Additionally, today’s message will be found on our school webspace at www.pcsb.org/mb-ms.

We look forward to being “Better Together” with you during the 2021-22 school year.  Take care and have a happy day.

Mr. Chris Ateek,
Principal

PRINCIPAL'S POSTS...

ORIENTATION/ SCHEDULE PICK UP/ K5 MEET THE TEACHER ***For general membership meeting credit
Information related to your child’s classroom teacher(s) will be available online by August 5.  Save yourselves a trip to our school campus by logging into your child’s FOCUS account to retrieve information on teachers/schedules.  However, visiting the school campus for schedule pickup will earn families August general membership meeting credit for attending.  

Please be mindful for the 2021-2022 school year, our school reserves the right to change a student’s schedule based on class size requirements, scheduling needs, loss or gains of school units, course availability, or the lack of interest in a course especially within the first ten days of school.  We are sorry in advance for any inconvenience this may present.

AUGUST 5
We will host grade level middle grades orientations and schedule pick-up in our school gymnasium on August 5:

6th grade @ 8:30 AM- 9:30 AM or 10:00AM- 11:00AM
7^th and 8th grades @ 11:30AM- 12:30PM or 1:00PM- 2:00PM

AUGUST 6
K-5 Meet the Teacher takes place from 10:00AM- 11:00AM.

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS ARE BACK
As a requirement of the fundamental program, every parent/guardian must attend either a Parent Teacher Student Association sponsored event (PTSA), School Advisory Committee (SAC), Parent University meeting, or other general membership opportunities monthly, attending a total of six of eight general membership meetings over the school year (August-April) May meeting opportunities will be available to those families still needing general membership meeting credit.

**GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS/ CREDITED ACTIVITIES FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER

AUGUST

5 Middle grades schedule pick up (6th grade 8:30 AM- 9:30 AM or 10:00AM- 11:00AM, and 7th and 8^th grade 11:30AM- 12:30PM or 1:00PM- 2PM)

6 K5 Meet the teacher (10A- 11A) *For general membership meeting credit

17 SAC Meeting (5:30) *For general membership meeting credit

23 PTSA Meeting (5:30P or 7:00P) *For general membership meeting credit

SEPTEMBER

1 K-5 Open House (5:30 PM- 5:55 PM and 6:00 PM- 6:25 PM, sibling second session), 6th grade 6:45 PM- 8:00 PM (eight-minute periods, three minutes for passing, and three minutes for announcements starting at 6:45 PM and ending at 6:48 PM) *For general membership meeting credit

2 7th grade Open House 5:15 PM- 6:33 PM (eight minute periods, three minutes for passing, and three minutes for announcements starting at 5:15 PM and ending at 5:18 PM) and 8th grade Open House 7:15 PM- 8:33 PM (eight minute periods, three minutes for passing, and three minutes for announcements beginning at 7:15 PM and ending at 7:18  PM) *For general membership meeting credit

15 All Pro Dad, 6:45A Middle grade cafeteria *For general membership meeting credit

17 SAC/ Parent University, 5:30P *For general membership meeting credit

DROP OFF AND PICK UP PROTOCALS

Please be mindful there is no parking and walking up for drop off and pick up of students.

Please review the following video that can help you navigate our car line:

https://tinyurl.com/htrhhfwx

TDAP BOOSTER
This is an important message regarding the first day of school for 2021-2022 for current 6th graders
By law, incoming 7th grade students (2021-2022) will not be permitted to attend class on the first day of seventh grade without proof of the required immunizations or valid documented exemption.  Students will need to have received one T-D-A-P booster and two chickenpox vaccines.  Pinellas County Schools are required to enforce these immunization requirements and strongly encourage you to get this completed as soon as possible.
After your child has received these vaccines, please turn in a completed certificate of immunization or exemption to the school.
You can contact your child’s healthcare provider to request these vaccines.  If your child does not have a healthcare provider, immunizations are available at no cost at your local Department of Health location, no appointment is needed.
If you have any questions about these vaccine requirements, you are welcome to call the School Health Services department at 588-6320 for assistance.
We hope that all students are prepared for seventh grade!  Thank you for your attention to this matter.