VIDA

Hello VIDA Sharks! VIDA Registration for the 2025/2026 school year will be August 6th through August 8th. Please bring your student and have a chance to see our new campus at 2245 Foothill Drive. Students will take their school picture, pick up textbooks/chromebooks, meet some teachers and have an opportunity to tour the campus. Make up registration will be held on Monday, August 11th if you are unable to attend 8/6-8/8. We hope to see everyone there!

Summer 2025 is officially underway and the San Diego County Office of Education has compiled a list of free and low-cost activities to help youth and families thrive.

For more information, please click the link.

It’s that time of year - VUSD’s Annual Parent Survey! Please fill this survey out for at least one of your children in VUSD. Ideally, you will fill this out again for each of your children (ex. 3 kids in VUSD means filling it out 3 times). Students in the 4th, 7th, & 10th grades are also taking the student versions and it would be great to have their parents’ feedback as well (amidst ALL parent feedback.) Help us continue our best practices and improve where we can by being honest. Click the link below to fill out a survey now. (For a paper copy, please see your school’s office or Community Liaison.) Thank you! bit.ly/4jdmMB1

Congratulations to the VIDA promoting class of 2025! We had a beautiful promotion ceremony at the stadium at Vista High School! Thank you to our Sharks, VIDA families, and Staffulty for making this a wonderful event! Great work high school graduating class of 2029!!!

• Applications will be sent to families of current 6th and 7th graders attending VIDA in the 2025-2026 school year on Tuesday, May 27th, via Parent Square message.

• Incoming siblings of current 6th or 7th-grade students may be included if their current 6th or 7th-grade sibling is signed up and approved for transportation.

• The application process will occur on a first-come, first-served basis. Spots are limited, so please sign up early!

• The bus stop for drop-off and pick-up will be located at 740 Olive Avenue.

• Two buses pick up in the morning and afternoon.

• If all spots are filled, a waiting list will be created.

• Students are required to ride the bus every day. If a student misses more than three days, their spot will be given to a student on the waitlist.

For more information, please click the Link

VUSD and the City of Vista are collaborating to submit a Safe Routes to School application for the new VIDA location. The Superintendent's Office will be working closely with the City of Vista and state officials as we move forward.

NCTD+ provides shared rides within a service zone. The service is available to all riders and uses ADA accessible vans that can seat up to eight passengers. How it works is that students download the app or call the number listed and if they're within the designated zone, they'll be picked/dropped off to the pre-designated destination (within the designated zone) or to the closest city bus stop or station. It's free to all youth 18 and under and all they need is either a PRONTO Card (also available for free), or their current Student ID or Government Issued ID.

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In order to align with VUSD guidelines, middle schools have updated their cell phone policy. Please review VIDA's policy above.

Hey VIDA families, CLICK HERE for an update on the Board of Education's vote for date of VIDA's relocation.

The construction and redesign of our new VIDA location is continuing on schedule! We have new asphalt going into the field area and the gym is almost ready to go for our Sharks! The Design Hub is being prepared for our Maker Space and the Black Box Theater floor is being installed.

We are excited to move to our beautiful new home!

Please help us support the Snack Shack program through the remainder of the year! Even one hour a month makes a HUGE difference in the success of the program. It's a great way to get on campus, interact with our students, and get a peek at what lunchtime at VIDA looks like! Please sign up for a shift by visiting our Sign Up page.

What do you call a group of sharks? A SHIVER of sharks! Please join the 2024-2025 VIDA PTA "Shark Shiver" HERE to help our organization continue the beneficial programs that support the students and staffulty! Your $10 membership directly funds VIDA PTA activities! For more information or to reach out - please email president@vidapta.org.

CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO ALL CLUBS AT VIDA

• FAQS regarding Middle Schol Boys & Girls Club Athletics click the LINK.

• This will help you know when schools are closed when there are Minimum Days, and when the school year ends.

This is the Bell Schedule for different days by Grade Level and Days: CLICK HERE

• Mondays are LATE START. Students attend all classes. School begins 10:00am.
• Tuesday & Thursday are "ODD Blocks" + Lunch & Design Lab. School begins 9:00am.
• Wednesdays & Fridays are "EVEN Blocks" + Lunch & Design Lab. School begins 9:00am.
• School ends at 3:35 pm, every day unless there is an official Minimum Day.

Please have a conversation with your child that when items are forgotten they can check in the front office during passing periods or lunch to check if the items have been dropped off.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!

Through the San Diego County Office of Education, all VIDA students have the opportunity to participate in Screening to Care. This is a program that groups students with peers to learn about and practice various social-emotional skills, as well as connect with their peers.

These groups will occur during school hours once a week for 8-10 weeks. If you are interested, please click HERE. Groups will start after we return from Winter Break.

Please see the flyer for more information.

Wabi Sabi

By Beth Kempton

The definitive guide that teaches you how to use the Japanese concept of wabi sabi to reshape every area of your life and find happiness right where you are.

Fed up with the exhausting challenges of our fast-paced, consumption-driven existence, millions of people around the world are turning to timeless cultural traditions to find true meaning. In this transformative handbook, Beth Kempton introduces you to wabi sabi (”wah-bi sah-bi”), a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics that offers a whole new way of looking at the world.

With roots in Zen and the Way of Tea, wabi sabi teaches you to see beauty in imperfection, appreciate simplicity, and accept the transient nature of all things. It inspires you to simplify everything and concentrate on what truly matters. Filled with simple yet profound wisdom, Wabi Sabi will help you slow down, reconnect with nature, and be gentler on yourself.

From honoring the rhythm of the seasons to creating a welcoming home, from reframing failure to aging with grace, Wabi Sabi teaches you find more joy and inspiration throughout your perfectly imperfect life.

Email: vidasharks@gmail.com
Website: https://vida.vistausd.org/
Phone: 760.724.7115
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vida.sharks.5
Twitter: @VIDASHARKS

Vista Unified School District prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, intimidation, and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment, based on actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, national origin, nationality, immigration status, ethnicity, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender-identity, or gender expression, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. VUSD requires that school personnel take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying.

For questions, concerns or complaints, please contact District Equity and Title IX Compliance Officer: Dr Cheree McKean, Executive Director - Student Support Services; 1234 Arcadia Avenue, Vista, CA 92084; (760) 726-2170; chereemckean@vistausd.org