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Career Awareness & Exploration Student Showcase March 30th & 31st

Please join us in celebrating your student exploring, picking, and researching their dream career! School counselors will facilitate a career lesson throughout the month of March that allows students to explore, pick, and research their dream career. On the day of your student's showcase, students will dress as the career they chose and present their findings through the form of an “Interview” that parents/guardians/volunteers will help to facilitate. Teachers will provide a certificate congratulating each student on successfully applying, interviewing, and getting their dream job! Please plan on joining us on March 30th or March 31st.

Current Renovation Project: Starting in March the district will begin a roof renovation at WHES. This work will be scheduled with student learning in mind, however most work will be completed throughout the school day. If your child, mentions some work happening at school - this will be the project they are referencing.

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Important School Dates:

• March 1st - 5th Grade Level Up Day

• March 3rd - Kindergarten Letterland Parade 8:20am

• March 16th - 3rd-5th Benchmark Testing Reading

• March 17th - 3rd-5th Benchmark Testing Math

• March 20th - 5th Benchmark Testing Science

• March 16th - Global Night 5-7pm Drop In

• March 24th - Spirit Day & Cat Connections -- This is a change, please update!

• March 24th - End of the 3rd Quarter

• March 27th - Optional Workday for Teachers; No School for Students

• March 28th - Career Awareness Spirit Week

• March 28th - Boosterthon Kickoff

• March 30th - K-2 Student Showcase

• March 31st - 3-5 Student Showcase

Student Check Out :

Please remember that student check out must occur before 2:30. Thank you for helping us to ensure the safety of your student.

Transportation Changes:

We are unable to take transportation changes over the phone or by email. All changes in transportation must be done in writing to the teacher. We must have proof of identity before taking requests therefore we can not make changes via phone. In addition, teachers do not always have access to their emails and we can not guarantee that emails will be checked before dismissal.

Car Rider Line Update:

8:13 is considered TARDY - Please arrive before 8:13 each day to avoid receiving a tardy.

Thank you for your punctuality when arriving at school for morning drop off and evening pick up of your students. We appreciate your efforts in ensure that arrival and dismissal goes smoothly each day. For morning arrival, please continue to pull up to the furthest drop off and have your students exit ready.

Beginning on January 4th we will be closing the entrance to parent drive at 8:13am and you will need to park in the visitor lot and walk your child in for tardies. Thank you again for all you do to make our school a great place to work and learn. It is really important to be on time for school each day. Please try to arrive at 8am to ensure that your child is not tardy.

Breakfast:

Students should pick up breakfast on their way to the classrooms. They pass directly by the breakfast cart and should stop at the cart first before coming to the classroom. Please encourage your children to stop at the cart before arriving to the classroom. Once they arrive to the classroom they should not be allowed to travel back to the cart for breakfast.

School Visitors:

Please remember when entering our campus, you must have a photo identification.

• Lunch Visitors: If you are joining your child for lunch, please remember to meet your child in the lunchroom and sit at one of the parent tables. Your child will join you there. After lunch is finished your child will rejoin their class and you will exit the building using the front entrance. Please do not accompany your child back to class or to recess.

• Item Drop Off: This is a reminder that we will only accept items for students (lunch, water bottle, etc) from persons who are listed as contacts in PowerSchool.

• IMPORTANT: All drop off items need to be on campus before the first lunch - 10:45. In order to ensure we have time for delivery of items, we can not accept items after lunch begins. Please bring items by 10:45AM each day.

~Mrs. Dolan, Principal

What is P2 for Families?

P2 for Families is an easy and effective way for families to discuss the importance of character strengths and positive relationships. It is differentiated for grades Pre-K – 2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Each character strength follows a 1-1-3 model: 1 quote, 1 video, and 3 questions to drive conversations around character at home.

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To practice and encourage March's character strengths with your child, please visit the Positivity Project’s P2 for Families (password: P2), where together you will watch a video, read a quote, and talk about the answers to three questions.

Look out for a Positivity Project spirit week the week of March 13th-17th. Plan for your wildcats to participate in a bingo choice board (below) to encourage reflection of the Character Strengths reviewed during morning meetings! If students are able to complete their board, they will receive 10 live school points!

Please also plan to have your wildcats wear Green on Friday, March 17th to celebrate the end of the spirit week as green is the P2 color!

To go along with the Career Awareness and Exploration Student Showcase, WHES will have a career awareness spirit week the week of March 27th-31st.

• Item Drop Off: This is a reminder that we will only accept items for students (lunch, water bottle, etc) from persons who are listed as contacts in PowerSchool.

• IMPORTANT: All drop off items need to be on campus before the first lunch - 10:45. In order to ensure we have time for delivery of items, we can not accept items after lunch begins. Please bring items by 10:45AM each day.

The Lost and Found is getting very full at WHES. Please remind your child to check the Lost and Found this week for any items that they may have misplaced. We will be taking the items to donation the first Friday of each month. Please remind your child to keep a close eye for any items that are lost.

We are excited to have our food pantry at WHES stocked and ready to serve. If you are interested in receiving food assistance from the Weddington Hills Food Pantry, please fill out the information linked HERE or call Mrs. Allen or Ms. Jefferson at 704-260-6350.

Chasity Dolan, Principal

Casey Campbell, Assistant Principal

Billy Davis, Assistant Principal

Email: chasity.dolan@cabarrus.k12.nc.us
Website: https://www.cabarrus.k12.nc.us/Domain/22
Phone: 704 260 6350
Twitter: @WHE_Whiskers