Updates for the Week
Hello Wilkesboro families!
We are excited to welcome you back to a brand new school year! We hope that you've enjoyed your summer and are ready to begin what promises to be a great year. We are calling tonight with some updates for the week of August 28 - September 1. You can find full details here on our weekly EAGLE CONNECTION page. There are updates for each week, schedules, and in the future updates from each teacher. Please make sure to check it out each week. Use the icon to translate into any language. Link to EAGLE CONNECTION #1 -
We loved meeting you at family meetings last week, and we were happy to see students become familiar again with our building and staff.
School starts tomorrow. As a reminder, parents may walk children to the front building doors, but for safety reasons, we will NOT allow parents / guardians to enter buildings and walk children to classrooms. This policy applies to all parents of K-5th grade students. We will have plenty of staff on hand to help. Pre-k parents will park in back to walk children to their rooms.
Mrs. Martin, our media specialist, will be out front to take first day pictures of children as they arrive. Please plan ahead so you can have time for this special Wilkesboro tradition.
Our carline will begin at 7:25 this year. We'd like to remind everyone that our car line is single file only every day, and everyone must wait patiently to enter or leave the back pre-k parking lot. School starts promptly at 7:50. Car line is always busy, so please plan ahead.
Our buses will run their routes for the first time tomorrow. Please note that we have a new driver on bus 172, Mr. Dylan will be driving bus 122, and Mrs. Parker will be driving bus 158. Please remember that the bus times we shared are estimates and that it will take a few days for routes and times to become consistent. Thanks in advance for your patience.
A staff member will greet your child on car line, the bus line, or at the front entrance. All children will pick up free breakfast from the breakfast cart or cafeteria and go directly to their classrooms. It is important that all children pick up breakfast. We have share tables available for children to put unwanted items.
All pre-K and kindergarten parents are reminded that students are to come on their assigned day this week either on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday as part of staggered enrollment. All pre-k and kindergarten students will begin coming daily on Thursday. Everybody else in 1st through 5th grade will begin full days tomorrow.
Your child should bring a book bag and school supplies as normal. Please dress for outdoor play, including safe shoes. We also recommend that you send a refillable water bottle labeled with your child’s name. We will be sending home lots of important papers this week, so please make sure to check your child's book bag for their green folder each night. It contains at home routines that will help your child be successful this year. You can return signed papers and forms to school on the "return to school" side.
We will dismiss at our usual time of 3:10. Please make sure to put your WES car tag up when you drive through the carline. If your child is a designated walker and you have already submitted the form, please remember to bring your car tag. With all the people, buses, and cars moving on campus at this time, we ask that you hold on to your child's hand as you make your way back to your vehicle. This year, we want to stress that children should never be unattended around the walker line. That means children should not cross the street, run in the grass, or run down sidewalks without an adult. We want to keep everyone safe.
We are ready and prepared to give your child a safe, enjoyable, and happy first day back in the school building. Thank you for working with us throughout this summer to make this day possible, and thank you for your patience as we work through the new routines that come with starting a new school year.
Please note school will be closed for everyone next Monday, September 4 for the Labor Day holiday.
This school family is the best thing about Wilkesboro Elementary, and we are so happy that our students, families, and staff are coming back to the nest. Have a great evening!
We Need Volunteers!
We welcome volunteers to help with school events. WCS uses Volunteer Tracker to help organize this process, and we use Sign Up Genius (shared via email and ClassDojo) to make signing up easy and convenient. To get signed up, follow steps below.
1. Go to www.wilkescountyschools.org
2. Go to the PARENTS tab at the top (or VOLUNTEER at the bottom).
3. Click on VOLUNTEERS.
4. Click on VOLUNTEER TRACKER.
5. Go to the green NEW REGISTRATION and follow instructions from there.
Level 1 volunteers can help in many ways. Level 1 volunteers can sign up to help with book fairs, school events, class parties and projects, Field Day, Fall Festival, and proctoring for tests.
Level 2 volunteers can do all level 1 tasks but can also help chaperone field trips and work more closely with students in small groups. Level 2 volunteers can also sign up for classroom tutoring and assistance, reading buddy program, tutoring, leading after school activities, and chaperoning school events field trips.
We ask that all parents/guardians who plan to attend field trips sign up to be Level 2 volunteers at the start of the year. It takes a few weeks to verify volunteers, and signing up early will make sure that you are approved in time for this year’s events and field trips.
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About Attendance
School starts at 7:50 each day. Students who are participating will be marked PRESENT or ABSENT. If your child is not in school, you will need to send in absence notes the next day and it will be coded as excused or unexcused. Written notes are required and can come directly from the parent/guardian or a medical office. Also note that ClassDojo messages are great for communicating an absence, but they do NOT serve as legal documentation of absences. Please send a written note. Thanks in advance for your help!
Email your jokes (or questions or concerns) to Mrs. Spears!
Email: spearsr@wilkes.k12.nc.us
Phone: 336-838-4261
Wilkesboro Elementary School
Email: spearsr@wilkes.k12.nc.us
Website: wes.wilkescountyschools.org
Location: 1248 School Street, Wilkesboro, NC, USA
Phone: (336) 838-4261
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wilkesboroelementary/
Twitter: @WilkesboroElem1
