News & Notes
CogAT / Iowa Assessments
📚 2nd Grade CogAT & IOWA Testing
Our 2nd grade students will participate in CogAT and IOWA testing in October. These assessments help us better understand each student’s academic strengths, thinking skills, and learning needs.
Testing Dates:
🧠 CogAT: October 6th & 7th
✏️ IOWA: October 8th & 9th
⭐ Attendance and arriving at school on time are extremely important during testing! Please make every effort to have your child at school each testing day and on time so they can begin testing with their class.
We also encourage students to get a good night’s sleep, eat a healthy breakfast, and come to school ready to do their best. Thank you for helping us make testing a positive and successful experience for our students!
Attendance
Regular attendance is crucial in the success of every student. Here are a few reminders to help you and your student have a successful year at Heritage Elementary:
• The building opens for students at 7:00 am.
• School starts promptly at 7:45 am.
• No early dismissals after 1:45 pm.
• School is dismissed at 2:15 pm.
• Students should be picked up from school no later than 2:30 pm.
• Students are allowed to miss 10 school days each year.
• Any absences beyond the 10th absence require a doctor's note.
• A parent must send a note within three days of any absence or it will remain unexcused.
• A student must attend at least 3 hours or 180 minutes to be counted present for the day.
Submit a note for your child's absence.
Doctor's notes or parent notes can also be faxed to 864-355-6046 or emailed to cawalker@greenville.k12.sc.us . For more information please call Chryse Walker, our attendance clerk, at 864-355-6001.
NEW School Cash/Online Payment System
All Greenville County Schools are now utilizing a new online payment system called School Cash/Online. Parents will use this web-based payment system to purchase various items pertaining to their student(s) throughout the school year with the exception of cafeteria funds. Cafeteria funds can still be added through the MySchoolBucks app. All other school related purchases such as field trips, field day shirts, yearbooks, fundraisers, etc. may be purchased through the School Cash/Online system. Parents are encouraged to create an account and add their students. As each school creates items pertaining to individual students or grades it will be visible to the parent to make the purchase. Below is the link to begin setting up your account.
Visitor and Volunteer Guidelines
Do you plan on volunteering or chaperoning on field trips? If so, Greenville County Schools has implemented additional security checks for school volunteers. All volunteers must submit an online application to the district and receive clearance from the district before volunteering or chaperoning any school field trip.
Please visit GCS School Visitor and Volunteer Guidelines page for complete details. There you will find links to apply for Level I or Level II clearance. Anyone who wishes to be considered for chaperoning on field trips MUST be approved as LEVEL II.