Bursley Elementary

Bursley Bulletin

October 27, 2025

Thank You For Great Bursley Parent Teacher Conferences

We appreciate all of our families taking the time to come and connect with us last week. We know what a positive impact it makes on a students' success when home and school work together and have open, consistent, and clear communication. Also thank you so much for all of the donations for our staff meals during those long days, we are grateful for all of the support.

Halloween At Bursley Friday Oct. 31

#TeamBursley Halloween Celebrations are on Friday October 31, 2025 in the afternoon.

We are excited to celebrate Halloween at Bursley.  Classroom celebrations will start in the afternoon on Friday Oct. 31, your classroom teacher will have specific details.  Classroom teachers will be coordinating volunteers during the party, all volunteers have to have a volunteer form on file and approved in the office.  We will do a building wide costume parade at 3:10pm, visitors are able to come and see the parade, if weather allows we will go outside to allow for better viewing, using the path shown below. Pictures are usually better outdoors than in our hallways.  

JPS Halloween Costume Guidelines

- Absolutely no weapons, real or plastic

- No clown costumes

- No costumes that depict bloody, violent, or gory situations

- No costumes depicting language or graphics outside of school dress code

Costumes are subject to administrator discretion.  Students dressed inappropriately will be asked to change.  If a student is wearing a mask, please make sure they can see well.  Have your child bring their costume to school rather than wear it.

birds eye view of Bursely Costume parade route

No School For Students Monday Nov. 3, 2025

Family Costume Dance Friday November 7, 2025

Our Bursley Fun Squad is hosting a Family Costume Dance on Friday November 7 from 6pm to 8pm at Bursley. There will be a DJ with music and lights in the gym for dancing and also a space in the library for calm and quiet movie. There will be concession snacks available, with cash only accepted. We are excited for costume prizes for many categories and lots of fun.

We do need volunteers to make this event possible, thank you for considering and you can sign up here:

Family Costume Dance Volunteer Sign Up, Thank you

Family costume dance

Lost and Found, Please Label Belongings

Thank you for taking a few minutes to label your student's coat, sweatshirts, hats, etc. it is very helpful to be able to return lost items.

lost and found photo

Community Education

Our Jenison Community Education has upcoming programs for winter including; Jenison Youth Basketball, JAWS Swimming, Youth Wrestling, and more. You are able to register on the linked community education page above. You can also find more community activities on our Experience More page.

Community Education Web Page

New Jenison App

We have a new Jenison app that is full of helpful information. It has photos from recent events, our building calendar, and much more. If you had downloaded the app last year there is no longer information being updated. Please take a moment to download the new app, you can find information here.

Jenison App