Campbell Newsletter - November 3, 2025
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, November 4th - No school! Election Day
Wednesday, November 5th - Safe Routes to School Day
Thursday, November 6th - Academic / Fitness Night, 6pm
Friday, November 7th - Principal’s Coffee, 8:30am
Wednesday, November 12th - PTA Meeting, 5:30pm
Monday-Friday, November 17-21 - Readathon Week
Thursday, November 20th - Movie Night / Ice Cream Social, 6pm
Monday-Friday, November 24th-28th - No school! Fall Break
Fall Festival 2025 was a blast as usual! Thank you so much to all the volunteers, dragon leaders, and donors who made the event possible. See some memories from the night here on Principal Moore’s Instagram post! 🎃
💪 Academic / Fitness Night 🎓
This Thursday, November 6th, 6-8pm, Campbell will be hosting its annual Academic / Fitness Night!
This fun evening features teacher-led stations with hands-on activities (both academic and fitness related), and strategies that parents can take away and use at home. Hear more about it from Coach G here, and we’ll see you there!
☕️ Principal’s Coffee 🍩
Principal Moore’s monthly coffee chat is happening this Friday, November 7th at 8:30am! This is a great way to hear about what’s going on at the Castle, meet other parents, and enjoy some coffee and donuts.
With the proposed school consolidation between Campbell and Maplewood (more on that below), there will probably be some Maplewood families joining us this month. If you’re able, please take the opportunity to join us and share your experiences as a blue dragon!
🏫 PTA Meeting 💙
Our next PTA meeting is Wednesday, November 12th at 5:30pm. There will be free pizza and childcare as usual! We will be discussing events for the rest of the fall semester—there is no meeting in December so this will be the last one of 2025.
We hope to see you there! Just like with Principal’s Coffee, we expect that we may have some guests from Maplewood, so please join us and help give them a warm welcome!
🏫 AISD Consolidation Community Engagement 💙
On 10/31, AISD released an updated consolidation plan. Highlights of the changes include updates to transfer policies, and adjustments to the school boundaries. In this version of the plan, Maplewood is still slated to be closed, with its student population joining us at Campbell.
AISD is seeking feedback on this plan via this comment card, accepting submissions through November 14th.
Here are some more upcoming events, and ways to learn more and lend your voice to this decision-making process:
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There will be an AISD Q&A session about the plan on Saturday, November 8th 10:30am-1:30pm at Delco Activity Center
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There are two AISD board meetings coming up. These are held at the Austin ISD Board Auditorium, 4000 South Interstate 35 Frontage Road, Austin Texas 78704. You can watch these meetings live online, and register to comment in-person or over the phone: learn more here
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Thursday, November 6th, 6pm - Information session
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Thursday, November 20th, 6pm - Regular voting meeting. This is when the consolidation plan will be voted on
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We will be here for our Campbell scholars no matter what. This plan has the potential to bring big changes to our school, and we want to make sure our parents, dragon leaders, and scholars have a voice in determining what those changes will look like. Stay dragon strong! 💙
🥨 Snack Shack 🍬
Snack Shack is in full swing, and we need more help for upcoming Fridays!
Every Friday, we need volunteers and donations to make Snack Shack run! If you’re interested in selling the snacks, you can sign up here through the rest the year (don’t forget to register as a volunteer! Details below). Volunteering involves being at the school from 2:35 until about 3:30, and selling the snacks at one of our three stations.
And if you want to donate goods to be sold, you can sign up here. Thank you in advance for your support, we can’t run Snack Shack without you!
📆 Camps for Upcoming Days Off 🏕️
Don’t get caught off guard, there are several school holidays coming up
Tuesday, November 4th is a student holiday / staff development day for Election Day
Monday - Friday, November 24th-28th is Fall Break
If you need childcare for these days, there are options!
Austin Parks and Recreation offers day camps at multiple locations, including the nearby Mendez Recreation Center and Pan Am Center. The cost is $28 a day for Austin residents. Learn more here and register here now!
And Creative Action offers day camps for most of these dates. The cost is $75 a day. You can register here now!
🏫 AISD Volunteer Process 💙
The PTA runs on help from volunteers—we couldn’t do it without our community! And AISD has a process for volunteers to register and be cleared to help out at school events.
If you want to volunteer at a PTA-organized event, or any event at Campbell, please register here first! You just need to create an account and complete the volunteer requirements, it should take 10 minutes or less.
It may take a few days to get cleared. When you get a confirmation email please forward it to us at volunteer@bluedragonpta.org! (If you’re not seeing this confirmation email, please check your spam folder.)
Campus Information
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School begins at 7:30am, and lets out at 3:10pm
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Breakfast is served at from 7am-7:30am in the cafeteria, our school lunch menu can be found HERE
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Our school uniform policy can be found HERE
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Our school supply lists can be found HERE
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Our school bus finder can be found HERE, and school drop off line reminders can be found HERE
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Our campus after-school activities can be found HERE
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Our Teachers/School Amazon WishLists can be found HERE