Take advantage of tax free weekend for all of your school supply needs this weekend. 🖤❤️
We look forward to seeing everyone at open house on August 10th! Please make plans to attend one of the parent meetings being held in the lunchroom. We can't wait to get a new year started with our bears! 🐻 🖤❤️
Marion County Schools today announced its policy for free and reduced-price meals for children served in schools under the National School Lunch Program and/or School Breakfast Program. For School Year 2026-2027, Marion County Schools will continue participation in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). No further action is required of you. This USDA provision allows your child(ren) to participate in the school meal programs without having to pay a fee or submit a meal application.
CEP is a key provision of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, which allows schools and school districts in low-income areas to eliminate school meal applications and serve breakfast and lunch at no charge to all enrolled students. CEP gives food service professionals more time to focus on preparing nutritious meals that their students will enjoy and gives students more time to eat those meals by cutting down on time spent in the lunch line. More importantly, by offering all students a nutritious breakfast and lunch at no cost, CEP helps ensure more students come to class well-nourished and ready to learn.
Children need healthy meals to learn. Marion County Schools offers healthy meals every school day. Breakfast and lunch meals will follow the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines for healthy school meals, so please encourage students to participate. “In the operation of child feeding programs, no child will be discriminated against because of race, sex, color, national origin, age or disability.”
Parents or guardians who need further information may contact Jennifer Roberts, Child Nutrition Program Director, at 205-921-1903 or toll-free at 1-888-448-5074.
CEP is a key provision of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, which allows schools and school districts in low-income areas to eliminate school meal applications and serve breakfast and lunch at no charge to all enrolled students. CEP gives food service professionals more time to focus on preparing nutritious meals that their students will enjoy and gives students more time to eat those meals by cutting down on time spent in the lunch line. More importantly, by offering all students a nutritious breakfast and lunch at no cost, CEP helps ensure more students come to class well-nourished and ready to learn.
Children need healthy meals to learn. Marion County Schools offers healthy meals every school day. Breakfast and lunch meals will follow the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines for healthy school meals, so please encourage students to participate. “In the operation of child feeding programs, no child will be discriminated against because of race, sex, color, national origin, age or disability.”
Parents or guardians who need further information may contact Jennifer Roberts, Child Nutrition Program Director, at 205-921-1903 or toll-free at 1-888-448-5074.
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A note from Nurse Candice ❤️
Our little "farmers" in kickstart kindergarten were able to do more gardening today! We hope they are having the best time preparing for their year ahead in kindergarten. ❤️
🌱🚜 What a wonderful first day of Kick Start Kindergarten! 🚜🌱
No tears, no dreadful mornings—just smiling faces, excited hearts, and the best of friends! It was the perfect way to kick off our week as we began exploring our farm theme.
A special thank you Mrs. Donna Hill and Mrs. Ginger Eatman for making our garden possible. Your generosity created the perfect hands-on learning experience for our little learners this week. The children loved exploring the fresh vegetables, learning where food comes from, and discovering all the amazing things growing in our garden.
To make the day even more special, each child took home a bag of fresh vegetables to share with their families! We hope these garden goodies spark conversations around the dinner table about healthy eating and all they learned today.
We can’t wait to see what the rest of this exciting week has in store! 💚🍅🥒🌽
July Early Numeracy Calendar! ☀️
Mrs. Wilson would love to see some of our mathematicians completing an activity in the comments.
Kickstart Kindergarten is just around the corner ❤️🖤 🐻
Supply lists for the 2026-2027 school year 🐻 ✏️ 📓
We are very excited to welcome Coach Dodd, Ms. Arnold, and Mrs. Gray to our Phillips Elementary School family! Join us in sending them a warm welcome. ❤️ 🐻
A big thank you to Lakeland Hospital for the popsicles for our students at summer math and literacy camp. They were a nice treat on this warm day! 😎
We'd love to welcome your child to our bear family! 🐻
If you are interested in being a substitute teacher in Marion County Schools, sign up on one of these days.
Reminder: Tomorrow kicks off summer literacy and math camp! We can't wait to see our kiddos. Students attending should have returned a blue paper before school let out.
We look forward to welcoming your children for summer literacy and math camp next week! This is for students that signed and returned the blue invitation. If you signed up to receive transportation, the bus will be there to pick up starting Monday morning. ☀️
Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony 2026 👩🎓 👨🎓 Look out, first grade, here they come!
Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony 2026 👩🎓 👨🎓 Look out, first grade, here they come!
Congratulations to these students who met their AR reading goal for their grade level for the year! They had a wonderful trip to Dave & Buster's with an all you can eat buffet. Thank you to Mrs. Hill for arranging the trip and to our teachers and parents for encouraging your children to read! 📕
