Griffin Elementary School - Bulldog Strong

Let's celebrate Black History with a dress up thematic week! We invite you to participate next week with the following themes:

🐾2/23 - Wear red, black, green, or yellow (or all!)
🐾2/24 - Soul Train! Wear your favorite 70s style to celebrate soul music, art, and dance!
🐾2/25 - Education is the way! Wear your favorite HBCU, fraternity, sorority, or college shirt!
🐾2/26 - Wear your favorite African cultural attire or Black History Month t-shirt.
🐾2/27 - Hero day! Dress as your favorite African American hero in science, leadership, sports, music, or the arts!

A special thanks to Ms. Shanan McEuen from Bethel Hope who coordinated a drive with her National Honor Society high school students to collect prizes and funds for our Bulldog Store! 🐾 🙏

Kona Ice will be at Griffin on Friday, February 20th! 🍧

Greetings Griffin Family! 🐾 Upcoming Important Dates & Family Events you won't want to miss! 2/16-20 - TELPAS State Testing 🗣️👂✍️📖 2/17 - Family Valentines Dance 💕 2/19 - 5th grade Parent Data Night 📈 2/26 - Black History Celebration Night! 🎉

Happy Valentine's Day from Griffin Elementary! 💙 🐾 🧡

Join us in celebrating Black History Month at Griffin! Food, Family, Fun! 🖤💛💚♥️ 🗓️ February 26 🏫 Griffin Cafe Entry 🕰️ PTA: 5:00 - 5:15 PM ⏰ BHM music program: 5:15 - 5:45 PM ⏱️ BLOCK PARTY: 5:45 - 6:30 PM

We celebrated our wonderful Griffin counselor, Ms. Strong! She does so much to support our abulldogs through guidance, check-ins, and campus-wide positive behavior and academic events! Thank you for being our friend! 💙 🐾🧡

Griffin Bulldogs in Ms. Mendoza's art class have been studying African American portrait artist, Kehinde Wiley who painted President Obama's presidential portrait. Below are some of our students' work inspired by Wiley's style! 🐾 🎨

Thank you, 4th grade families and teachers for showing up for our students! Students shared goals and growth and parents learned how to support students. 🐾 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒📈

A special thanks to our Early College High School and Tyler High student volunteers who supported our Fourth Grade Student Data Meetings! 🍕 ✍️ ⚽️

Fifth Grade Bulldogs in Ms. Mendoza's art class created pieces based on Japanese Notan Collages! 🖼️ 🇯🇵 🐾

Call 903-262-1209 to order your STAAR packet for practice. Deadline is February 13th.

Greetings, Griffin families! Our campus will be closed to visitors during this week of February 9-13 and next week, February 16-20, due to local and state testing. Thank you for helping us keep an optimal testing environment for our Bulldogs! 🐾 🙏

Griffin Valentine's Family Dance is Tuesday, February 17! ♥️ 🪩 🕺 ⏰ 5:30-6:30 PM 🏫 Griffin Cafe 🎟️ $5 ticket per person available in the front office includes pizza and social guest DJ Zimba! 📸 Photo Booth Pictures and flowers for sale from Griffin PTA Flyers went home last week.

👋 Greetings, Griffin 4th grade families! We would love for you to join us for our upcoming Griffin Parent Data Night on Thursday February 12 from 5:30-6:30 PM. The following will be provided: 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Free Childcare. 🍕 Dinner provided for all. 📈 Discuss your child's STAAR goals with their homeroom teacher and how to help them grow between now and April. 🥇 Every fourth grader whose family attends will receive 250 Bulldog points! We ask that you scan the code on the letter we sent home to register or use this link to sign up: https://forms.gle/sE6G3h6nVcUdznLq7

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Congratulations to our 2026 Griffin Teacher of the year, Ms. Moore! We are proud of her and know that she will represent our campus well! 🐾 🍎

👋 Greetings, 3rd - 5th Griffin families! We would love for you to join us for our upcoming Griffin Parent Data Nights. The following will be provided: 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Free Childcare. 🍕 Dinner provided for all. 📈 Discuss your child's STAAR goals with their homeroom teacher and how to help them grow between now and April. 🥇 Every 4th grader whose family attends will receive 250 Bulldog points! Your child's teacher will send a letter with dates/times and a QR code for you to fill out tomorrow. We look forward to seeing you there! 🐾 Principal Ladd

Kona Ice will be at Griffin on Friday, January 30th! 🍧

Throwback to last Friday's 2nd 9 Weeks Bulldog Awards Ceremony! 🐾 🎉