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BE School Store Returns This Week! For the 2023-2024 school year, the 4th Grade is relaunching the monthly School Store as a fundraiser for the class. This Friday, October 6 from 8:40-9:00, all students can purchase small school supplies and fun items for $.25-$3 each. The store is cash only, so kindly provide your child coins and small […]

Please consider contributing to the BE Food Pantry. We will be stocking items to provide snacks and weekend meals for our students. Unfortunately, the Weekend Meal Program that provided food to our student in the past has ended due to funding. However, we still want to support our students! Thank you in advance for your […]

In accordance with the Bethesda Elementary School PTA’s bylaws, the PTA 2023-24 Executive Committee was voted in! We are so proud of the work this board does to support our community throughout the year.  From providing financial support to students in need to reimbursing teachers for extra classroom expenditures to organizing fun events throughout the […]

Regarding COVID-19 and other respiratory infections, joint guidance from MDH and MSDE recommended that public school systems work with their local health department on following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Operational Guidance for K-12 Schools and Early Care and Education Programs.  Montgomery County DHHS serves as our local health authority and operates our school-based health […]

Montgomery County has received a federal ECF grant to provide 40,000 computers for residents who do not have access to a computer. The County is using Eventbrite to create appointment tickets to manage computer pick-ups. Every person receiving a computer must have an individual appointment to pick-up a computer and must show photo ID to […]

Thank you to Phil Andrews, Director of Crime Prevention Initiatives with the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, who spoke the PTA General Meeting on Feb. 7, 2022. Below are additional online resources he provided to help parents/caregivers talk to their kids about internet safety. We encourage all BE families to take the time to have […]

The Montgomery County  Board of Education has adopted the superintendent’s recommendation for the Somerset, and Westbrook Elementary Schools Boundary Study. The adoption moves sections B3 and B8 from BE to Somerset Elementary, effective for the 2022-2023 school year for students entering Kindergarten through 4th grade. Students entering 5th grade during that school year will remain […]

The tragedy in Michigan was a sobering reminder of the risks that our children and school staff take every day by going to school. Our children are facing a mental health crisis while gun access is a major factor affecting whether a child commits suicide. In 2020, gun sales nationally increased by over 60 percent, about 40 percent by first time gun owners. In Montgomery […]