As the 2020-21 school year draws to a close, I want to thank all parents, students, and staff for their combined efforts to make it as normal a school year as possible. Despite the unique challenges, we were able to have a successful school year.

For the last few months, our COVID-related numbers have been improving drastically. Currently we have no positive cases and as of today we have only three students in quarantine due to symptoms or close contact.

Because of our greatly improved situation, I am happy to say that the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2021 is scheduled to be held as usual in the high school gymnasium at 6:00 PM on Saturday, May 22. Masks are recommended.

At this time, we are planning to return to “normal” for the 2021-22 school year. We will no longer offer our virtual one option, which involves live classroom instruction with an SV teacher. We will still offer the SV Academy for high school students as we did prior to COVID-19. Our custodians will continue to provide thorough cleaning as they always do. Surfaces, buses, etc. will be routinely sanitized. We will have some changes to our elementary student pick-up procedure as well. More information on this will be presented later. Keep in mind that things could change if we see a spike in cases over the summer, but as of now we plan to be back to business as usual in August.

Reaching Higher

Congratulations to our students who competed in the 2021 Future Problem Solving Affiliate Bowl! We are very proud of all of these students for the hard work they put into this program. They have been outstanding representatives of Springs Valley Community Schools. The two state finalist teams will participate in the International Bowl on Wednesday, June 2nd. This will be a virtual event.

TEAM ONE

Henry Goldman

Kyah Snider

Pryce Emmons

TEAM TWO (State Runner-Up)

Abby Allen

Riley McGuire

Quinn Vernon

Karli Warner

TEAM THREE (State Third Place)

Eli Moffatt

Aubrey Corn

Alan Gentry

Brody McClaine

TEAM FOUR

Dylan Wolford

Brody Hill

Lucas Holland

* Summer school will be held June 7- June 25. A free lunch will be provided daily.

* Commencement for the Class of 2021 will be May 22 at 6:00 PM in the high school gym. Masks are recommended.

*Kindergarten graduation will be held at 11 AM on Thursday, May 20 in the PE Complex gymnasium.

* Reminder that our monthly board meetings are streamed live on our Springs Valley Media YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP4LYRNW9L125xomVq1V_xw/featured

* While the pandemic is ongoing we will post weekly COVID-19 statistics to the school website. Click on the COVID-19 Info tab on the main page. I also have the current statistics below.

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As of Monday, May 3, 2021:

Elementary:

0 positive students

0 positive teacher

0 positive staff

2 quarantined students

1 quarantined staff

Junior High/ High School:

0 positive students

0 positive teachers

0 positive staff

1 quarantined students

0 quarantined staff

We have 0 positives due to school contact at this time.

We have 2 quarantined due to school contact at this time.

Please contact me if you have questions or concerns!

Email: apple@svalley.k12.in.us
Website: www.svalley.k12.in.us
Phone: 812-936-4474