New Arrival Procedure Begins Tomorrow!

 Hello Brave Community! 

Happy Wednesday evening! We are off to an amazing school year!  Thanks for your patience and support as we launched this new school year!  For the first two days of the school year we were happy to offer our families the opportunity to walk students to class to meet the teacher and observe the new learning environment.

Beginning tomorrow, Thursday, 8/17, we will shift to our more permanent arrival procedures.

  • All students will continue to enter through the main entrance
  • Students opting to eat breakfast at school will go directly to the the cafeteria (except for PK; they will go to the library and be escorted to class at 7:25, and then have breakfast at 7:45 with their teachers)
  • PK-2nd Grade students not eating breakfast will go directly to the library 7:10-7:25
  • 3rd-5th Grade students not eating breakfast will go directly to the gym 7:10-7:25
  • All students will will be released to head to class at 7:25 (PK & Kinder will be escorted by staff
  • The cafeteria will remain open for breakfast until 7:35
  • Our school day will start at 7:35 and end at 2:55

School starts 5 minutes earlier:  This school year elementary will start the school day at 7:35am. That is 5 minutes earlier than in previous years.  Our doors will continue to open at 7:10 each morning so that students have plenty of time to get breakfast (if needed) and be in class ready to learn by 7:35a.  Thanks in advance for getting our BRAVE leaders to school on time each day!

Lunch Information: Food Services sets up lunch accounts for all enrolled students using their student ID. Parents, you do not need to set them up. If you are interested in applying for free or reduced lunch, please visit Free and Reduced Meals If you want to manage your student's account balance, please visit MySchoolBucks

Save the Date: Thursday, August 31st is Back to School Night! (Parent Information) We will have two sessions; the same information will be shared twice (for families that have more than one Brave). Please select one of the times and join us. 5:30 - 6:00 - Session 1; 6:10 - 6:40 - Session 2

Looking Ahead:

  • Thursday, 8/31: Back to School Night!
  • Monday, 9/4: Holiday!
  • Friday, 9/8: Coffee & Conversation with the Principals @8am!
  • Monday, 9/18: Site-Based Committee Meeting @3:15p (Parents are encouraged to attend)

 Stay Connected: Double File Trail website; RRISD Facebook and Twitter pages.

Most Grateful,

Alifia Britton, Proud Principal of Double File Trail Elementary

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