Weldon Valley School District RE-20J

Hello Warrior Family! This message is for the week of September 7th. Please mark your calendar that school pictures will be on September 15th. Informational packets will be sent home with your child. If anyone is receiving this message in error, please contact the office to have your number removed. Wednesday is Wacky Wednesday! Please wear your favorite Blue and Gold and show your Warrior Pride! An important announcement! We have been notified that the USDA has approved the Summer Food Service Program to be implemented through December of this year! This allows ALL students to be served breakfast and lunch at no cost. The USDA wants to make sure that all children have access to nutritious food as our country continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. We are excited to offer this opportunity at our school. We will not be issuing reimbursements from lunch accounts at this time and there is no need to add money to your lunch account. Starting Tuesday September 7th all students will be able to have breakfast and lunch at NO COST. Please take advantage of the wonderful opportunity! Another reminder to parents, please remind your child to bring their masks to school and their laptops charged, daily We hope that everyone has a fantastic Labor Day and a great week. Go Warriors!

Recent federal law to support COVID-19 relief created the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) program as an important nutritional resource to families who lost access to free or reduced-price school meals as schools across Colorado closed in response to COVID-19. P-EBT provides households with an EBT card funded with the value of the free school breakfast and lunch reimbursement rates for the days that schools have been closed in March, April, and May, which equals $5.70 per day. Those funds can then be spent on eligible food items at many local and online retail stores. For a list of eligible items, visit the USDA Food and Nutrition Service website. https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items Families may apply for P-EBT cards online at https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdhs/p-ebt

Hello Warrior Family, this message is for the week of August 17th. With school starting Tuesday, August 18th we want everyone to be aware of a few changes. If you plan drop off your kindergarten through 12th grade student at school, you will need to use the new drop off area located in the bus lane in front of the elementary school. The student drop off area is clearly marked and two cars are allowed to drop students off at a time. Please do not let your student out of the car until you reach the drop off area. You will be greeted by a staff member who will quickly take the temperature using a touchless, infrared thermometer. The temperature must be below 100.4 degree F in order to be allowed to enter the building. You will be required to take your child home if they are running a fever. Our expectation for the first day is when students enter the building after their temperatures are taken, they must either go to the cafeteria for breakfast, to their homeroom, or 1st period class. Masks are required for all student’s 5th grade through 12th grade. Masks are recommended for all student’s, Pre-k through 4th. Please remember to bring your masks on Tuesday. Please do not bring your child early to school. We are not allowing students into the building until temperatures are taken and staff will start taking temperatures at 7:20 AM. Secondary students, please remember to bring your laptops. We know that the start of this school year is going to start a little different than normal but are extremely excited to have students back in our building. We have been working hard to provide an educational experience that will still be safe with high academic expectations. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Our expectation is always for this to be the best year ever no matter what is thrown our way! Have a great week and GO WARRIORS!

As a reminder, there will be NO open house at Weldon Valley School Monday evening.

Warrior HS Students- Please check your schedules in your Infinite Campus portal and contact me if you have questions through email at cchisum@weldonvalley.org. The deadline for changing your schedules will be Tuesday, August 25th. Thanks- Mrs. Chisum

This information was just released by CHSAA. You will find the updated sports calendar for this upcoming year. We will update with more information as soon as we can. https://chsaanow.com/2020-08-04/chsaa-announces-2020-21-athletics-and-activities-calendar/

All 9th-12th graders. Please check your Counseling Google Classroom for information about scheduling classes. If you have any questions, please let me know! Mrs. Chisum

Hello Warrior JH/HS students- Please check your Google counseling classroom (ex. 9th Grade Success) and go to Classwork. I have posted a message and a copy of the master schedule for 2020-2021. If you have any questions, please let me know!! Mrs. Chisum

Hello Warrior JH/HS students- I have run into a small glitch with opening registration through Infinite Campus. I will be working on this again tomorrow, but please be looking for a post that shows our new master schedule for 2020-2021! This will help you plan out your schedules. Stay tuned for more information! Mrs. Chisum

Weldon Valley School District 2020 Senior Graduation We wanted to update everyone with graduation finally upon us! We will be celebrating our seniors outdoors this Saturday starting at 10:00 AM. We will have our stage located North of the ag shop. We will have reserved seating for our seniors’ guests. All other guests that want to celebrate the accomplishments of our seniors are asked to bring lawn chairs and maintain a social distance of six feet from the other guests. We are requiring no contact with our seniors, no hugging, shaking hands, etc. to comply with the mandates from the health department. Masks are suggested but not mandatory due to being outside. We ask that you do not attend if you have underlying health concerns, are not feeling well, or running a fever. We will have the ceremony streamed live on our school Facebook page, Weldon Valley School District, for those unable to attend. Please share this information with those that might be interested. If you have any questions, please let us know. See you Saturday! Sincerely, Ben Bauman

The Makings' Family is proud to announce that Luke is CANCER FREE! Thank you to everyone for their love and support these past months. We are blessed with an amazing community!

Our family is excited to announce that Luke has completed his last round of chemo. He will have scans on June 26. Thank you Warrior Family for your continued support.

With summer upon us, it is a good time to schedule a sports physical for your athlete. Sports physicals are required before athletes can participate in school sport activities. We may not know exactly what sports may look like in the Fall, but it is always good to be prepared. Sports physicals are required every year and expire exactly one year from when the physical was completed. Physical forms can be found on our district web page under documents, athletics, and CHSAA forms.

I’m super proud of these 21 Kindergarten students who worked really hard and are ready for 1st grade.

Wacky Wednesday in Kindergarten

This is a fascinating creation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2BWrmNhyXU

Students-If you are having trouble with Scantron, I have posted troubleshooting directions in your counseling Google Classrooms. Please follow those steps! Thanks! Mrs. Chisum

A special thank you to all the students that made cards for the nursing homes. We delivered the cards to Valley View Villa and Bee Hive Assisted Living. Two of our own students got to deliver a special card to their Nana! Way to go Warriors!

This next week we are going to enjoy some unique instruments and songs. Today I hope you enjoy a great cello song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk. If you are too young to know the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM

Hey Warrior Family-I realized that the video I posted required me to approve it. I apologize for that. Here is a link to my YouTube channel. Please let me know if you have questions! https://youtu.be/aZ4hREa2yek