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Welcome to
Benjamin Franklin
Elementary School
5400 Florida Avenue
Bethel Park, PA 15102
Phone: (412) 854-8741
Fax: (412) 833-5016
District Voice Mail: (412) 833-5005
AM Kindergarten:
9:20 AM to 12:05 PM
PM Kindergarten:
12:55 PM to 3:40 PM
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 School Contact |
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Dr. Shirley Dickinson, Principal
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About Our School |
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Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is one of five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school in the Bethel Park School District. There are currently 480 students enrolled at Ben Franklin and the school has a staff of over 50 adults led by Principal Shirley Dickinson, Ed.D.
At Ben Franklin, we are proud of the safe and enjoyable environment that we provide for our students. Staff and parents work together through the PTO to provide classroom resources, arrange educational assemblies, and plan many special events throughout the year. There is always something new and exciting happening at our school!
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Latest News |
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Would You Like to be a
Noontime Aide? We are looking for two people to serve
as Noontime Aides beginning with the 2009-2010 school year. If you
enjoy working with children, this is a great opportunity to make some
extra money! To learn more about what the job entails, please feel
free to call Principal Dr. Shirley Dickinson at 412-854-8741. |
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Edline Now Available for Parents of 2nd, 3rd and 4th Graders--Parents
of 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders will receive information in their child's
report card envelope on January 27 about how they can set up an Edline
account to gain electronic access to their child's academic progress.
The letter will provide parents with an Edline Activation Code and
parents are encouraged to go to
www.edline.net to activate their child's account.
The website will guide you through the process. Once an account is
activated, parents can see their child's interim grades posted for Math,
Language Arts and Spelling for all three grades, as well as Social
Studies for third and fourth graders. Parents who have difficulty
accessing Edline can contact the school secretary for assistance.
We encourage all parents to stay up to date with their child's progress
via Edline. Parents who do not have access to the Internet can do
so at the Bethel Park Library. Librarians are available to assist. |
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• Parents Can Monitor
Their Child's Cafeteria Purchases via PayForIt.net--Beginning
February 16, all Bethel Park cafeterias will be using the QSP point of
sale system, replacing the previous SNAP system. With this new
system, parents will able to log on to
www.payforit.net
to see what your child is eating, how much money is in your account
and to set up email reminders to let you know when your account is
running low. For more information, please go to the
BPSD Food Services
web page. |
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FREE/REDUCED BREAKFAST AND LUNCH UPDATE--The
Bethel Park School District participates in the National School Lunch
Program. Please be aware that Free/Reduced Meals are available to
those who qualify. Applications for the 2009-2010 school year are
available by clicking
here. Please be advised that even if
your student(s) qualified for Free/Reduced meals in 2008-2009, you MUST
reapply for the 2009-2010 school year. If you have questions,
please call Dana Walker at 412-854-8426. |
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• District to
use ALERTNOW Notification Service as an additional communication tool
between the school district and parents--Keeping
parents informed is a top priority of the Bethel Park School District,
and we will be using the ALERTNOW Notification Service to send telephone
and/or email messages to parents and/or employees to notify them of
things such as school delays or cancellations due to inclement weather.
With ALERTNOW, you won't have to watch television to wait for Bethel
Park's status to scroll onto the screen. Parents will be notified
by phone when the district makes the decision to close or delay.
ALERTNOW can also be used to remind parents of upcoming events at
school. But most importantly, in an emergency, ALERTNOW has the
capability to launch 12,000 phone calls a minute, so parents don't have
to rely on Phone Chains to get emergency information. In an
emergency, ALERTNOW has the capability to call up to three phone numbers
per student. ALERTNOW also has the capability to send out email
messages to one email
address per student.
Please click
here
to learn more about ALERTNOW. We hope you will agree that ALERTNOW is
another way the district can keep parents up to date. |
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Franklin Earns Keystone Achievement Award! For the fourth consecutive
year, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School has been awarded the Keystone
Achievement Award by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for making
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the PSSA Exams for two consecutive years.
This year's award is for PSSA Scores in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.
Congratulations to our third and fourth graders and their teachers for their
outstanding work on these tests and keep up the good work! To see the
district's PSSA scores for 2007-2008, please click
here. |
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Visitor Sign-In Procedures Revised for ALL Bethel Park Schools. The following sign-in procedures
have been adopted for ALL visitors to Bethel Park schools. We appreciate your cooperation as we continue to provide a safe environment for our students and staff.
- ALL visitors to Bethel Park schools will report directly to the main office upon entry into the building.
- Visitors will log-in their name, date, time and reason for visit on a standardized log-in sheet in each school office.
- The building secretary will verify the information is complete and will obtain photo identification from the visitor, which will be held in the office for the duration of the visitor’s time in the building.
- Visitors will be issued visitor’s tag that must be worn visibly during the time of the visit.
- At the conclusion of the visit, the visitor will return the visitor’s tag to the office, log out and their photo identification will be returned to the visitor.
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On days when a two hour delay is called, the
district will operate a Modified Kindergarten Schedule as follows:
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Morning Kindergarten will attend from 11:20 AM to 1 PM
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Afternoon Kindergarten will attend from 2 to 3:40 PM
Modified Kindergarten equalizes both sessions to 1
hour, 40 minutes of instruction. Please take note of this change to the
schedule. Please click
here
for more information. |
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• The Bethel Park School District has purchased subscriptions to the Online Edition of your child's textbooks for
several subjects. You can access these books from your computer.
Please click on the links below and enter your child's user name and
password that was given to them by your child's teacher. If you have
questions, please contact your child's teacher for more information.
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