West End News

'Tis the last week before holiday break and the students, teachers, and staff are excited!

See our plans for "A December to Remember" below!

We will have our holiday parties Thursday at 1:30. If, as a parent, you plan to attend the party in your child's classroom, please remember that no siblings of any age may attend parties. Parties are a time for our students to enjoy a time of celebration with their classmates. Thank you for your help with this!

We will dismiss at 11:10 Friday. If someone else will be picking up your child, please be sure they have a car tag. Folks without car tags will be asked to go into the office to verify your child's code word.

Enjoy the week before the holiday!!!

Angie Garrison, Ed.D.

Principal

West End's Mission: Our West End Community maximizes students’ potential by providing instruction that builds our students’ knowledge, strengthens their skills, and develops in them career-ready characteristics for success in an ever-changing world.

Encourage your student to discover customs and traditions around the world with these NEW books in our school library!

Scan this QR Code to begin the application process. You may also use this link.

Congratulations to these students for being chosen by their homeroom teacher as "Distinguished Dolphins" this month! They were chosen for demonstrating the character trait of friendship in the classroom. We have been discussing friendship during our Morning Meetings this month. Way to go students!

Beat the bell continues! Here are the winners of our third gift card drawing, CONGRATULATIONS!

K4- Colt Valentine (Brayerton)

K5- Makai Brown (Setzer)

1st- Brynlee Roper (Lambroff)

2nd- Lukas Carey (Manning)

3rd- Kimber Bradley (Patterson)

4th- Olivia Tarrant (Rhome-Shannon)

5th- Korben Bales (Bruner)

Mrs. Simpson sent a $10 Ingles gift card home with your child this week! Thanks for having your child to school on time!

Save the date and be thinking....we will have a "When I Grow Up" career dress up day when we return from break on Friday, Jan. 6.

Click here to complete this short form to nominate a deserving West End teacher for the honor of "Teacher of the Month." You may complete the form as many times as you wish. The teacher with the most nominations each month will receive this honor along with a gift card from our community sponsors!

Math Kangaroo (http://mathkangaroo.org) is an international math competition that presently engages more than 6 million students in grades 1-12 around the world. In the US participation has been increasing exponentially since the early 2000s and we would like to extend this opportunity to students in Upstate SC. The contest is based on a 75 minute multiple choice test, with 24 questions for students up to grade 4 and 30 questions for grades 5 and up. This event will take place on the Clemson campus on March 16, 2023 at 6PM. Every participant receives from the organizers a small gift bag, so the registration must be done individually for each student by parents at http://mathkangaroo.org/mk/registration.html, from late September to December 15, 2022 A registration fee of $21 is required.

Please make all inquiries to Dr. Jason Brown at Clemson University (brown6@clemson.edu, 864-656-1217).

If you have not connected with your child's teacher(s) on our Schoology program, please contact them for your access code. These were sent home with all of our new students last week. Let us know if you have questions!

Please remember to turn in an excuse for each day your child misses school. Doctor’s notes, parent notes, emails, texts, and Schoology messages to the teacher all serve as excuses. Please note, doctor’s notes are required after the 10th absence. If a child accumulates 3 consecutive or 5 total unexcused absences, an Attendance Intervention Plan conference will need to be held. Continued absences could result in additional conferencing and/or referral to the district for truancy…leading to possible Court Order for attendance. This includes being at school on time each day. Students tend to perform better when they maintain a routine schedule and begin the day with their classmates.

Student devices are in use by all students. Kindergarten uses Chromebook tablets in their classrooms. Help us to encourage students to take care of and protect their devices in order to keep then working properly all school year. This includes taking care of chargers and cases as well. Remember lost or damaged items can incur a fee to replace them. If you have not already, please sign in to your My School Bucks account to pay the $25 tech fee that is required of all School District of Pickens County students.

My School Bucks Link

Please visit this link to view our Family Engagement Opportunity Calendar for the year! Volunteer training dates are listed as well. We would like to challenge each family to attend both parent conferences this year and at least two family events. There are so many to choose from! Let's "dive deep" together!

Any SDPC student who tests positive for COVID will need to enter their information on the SDPC Student COVID Reporting Form.

Students who test positive will need to quarantine for 5 days. At this time, there is no contact tracing. Siblings will not have to quarantine unless they are having symptoms or test positive.

Please let us know if you have questions. We hope everyone stays well!

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Email: angiegarrison@pickens.k12.sc.us
Website: http://wes.pickens.k12.sc.us/
Location: Easley, SC, USA
Phone: 864-397-2500
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Twitter: @westendelem