NEW! Thank you for your generous contributions to our PTO Penny Wars to benefit the Nature Center! Our students had a great time strategically donating the coins (and dollars!) for our Penny Wars! Our generous Tonawanda community raised over $600 for our Elmbrook Nature Center located at BEHS! Thank you for a fun four days! 

We hope you enjoyed The Sausage Race Chase! Please mark your calendars for Thursday, March 24th from 5:30-6:30 for our Family Math & Literacy Night.  

Come see Tonawanda's Chorus Musical: Disney's Lion King Kids on March 10th at 7 PM at SLWC! Please purchase your tickets here: https://ticketing.wilson-center.com/tonawandalionkingkids

NEW! Our March PTO Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 12th at 6:00 PM in our Tonawanda library. If you can't join us in-person, our Google meet link is meet.google.com/bzv-evwm-goa. 

NEW! Pop Tab Collection for Ronald McDonald House. Start saving your pop tabs! Our Community Outreach group of Student Leadership Club would like to announce a friendly grade level competition to collect the most pop tabs from March 23 - May 14. We will be donating all of the pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald House. The grade level that brings in the most pop-tabs will be getting a prize. If anyone has a large plastic container or two for our collections, we would love the donations of containers.

IMPORTANT! Change of Plans for After-School Dismissal. Please notify us of any change in your child(ren)'s after school dismissal plans.  Please send an email to your child's teacher and copy both our administrative assistant Mrs. Michelle Kiese at kiesem@elmbrookschools.org and our health room assistants at tonawandahealthroom@elmbrookschools.org  as early as you can in the morning, but for certain before noon.  After 12 noon, we cannot guarantee that your child's teacher will get the email as they are busy teaching and working with our students, and likely not checking email. If plans change after 12 noon, please call the MAIN SCHOOL OFFICE at 262-785-3950 to talk to Mrs. Michelle Kiese about the plans. Thank you for your assistance in keeping consistent plans for your child(ren) and for communicating with us when the plans need to change.

Box Tops for Education - It's an easy way to provide funding for our Tonawanda PTO! Please save your receipts and submit online for our PTO! See all the details in this flyer.  

 

Before school drop-off by car is an ACTIVE DROP-OFF process. If your child needs additional assistance to exit your vehicle in the morning, please pull up into the buckle zone. The LANE closest to the sidewalk is an ACTIVE DROP-OFF LANE.  Thank you for your help to keep our car drop-off safe for our students and efficient for all of our families.  Please read all the expectations for our safe AM drop off in this linked information.  

Tonawanda's Science Fair: Save the Date! We’re excited to invite families to our Tonawanda Science Fair on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 from 6:00–7:00 PM! Students will have the opportunity to share their learning, creativity, and scientific thinking with family and friends. Please take a moment to read the attached letter for important details and to complete the FORM to register your child’s participation. Families must sign up using the Google Form linked in the letter (and HERE). The registration deadline is Thursday, March 19, 2026. (No late submissions will be accepted.)

RSVP required, please! Calling all fourth grade families! PTO 4th Grade Square Dance event! Register on this direct SignUp Genius link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4CACAF2DA5FA7-61496026-4thgrade The PTO 4th Grade Square Dance event is scheduled for March 4, 2026.  All information is linked here. 

ARTSONIA- Featuring Your child(ren)'s artwork!  Check out Artsonia to purchase keepsake items and to support our Tonawanda art program, too! See this flyer for all the information.  If you have questions, please reach out to Sara Mateske, our art teacher, at mateskes@elmbrookschools.org.  

Vacation Form: Please complete this vacation form when your child(ren) will miss three or more days due to a family vacation. Thank you!

Due to large ridership on our buses, only routed students will be allowed on the buses again this school year.  We cannot have unrouted students ride home with other students on their buses for playdates. Only routed and assigned bus riders may be on our buses.  Thank you for your understanding!

Background Check Process for Volunteers!  We love  our family/parent/grandparent volunteers!  In hopes that we will be able to welcome you all back in to help out this upcoming school year, we wanted to share the process for becoming a volunteer in our schools.  Please see https://www.elmbrookschools.org/departments/human-resources/how-to-volunteer-in-elmbrook for all the information including completing our district's volunteer background check process.  You will need to renew this process every two years.  It is a great idea to get this task done over the summer as there is an approximate two week processing time before you are able to volunteer in our school. Thank you!