The Westgate Wire

• We will celebrate Halloween on Monday. All students will have lunch from 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Students whose parents have completed the form to go home for lunch should exit the front door. They should not return to school until 1:15 p.m. and enter through the front door. The parade will begin at 1:45 p.m. Please be mindful of traffic and students when driving near the building. We anticipate more vehicles and walkers during the afternoon.
  

• Please be sure that you bring your state issued ID or passport when visiting Westgate. Visitors will need to be run through our security system and wear a special lanyard when in the building during school hours; this includes attending meetings in the office, copying for teachers, or speaking with the nurse. In addition, when buzzed into the building by the office staff, please do not allow others to follow behind you. It is important that our office staff are able to identify every individual entering the building.

• Why Join? ABC/25 stands for A Better Community for District 25. The mission of the Foundation is “To foster innovation, creativity, and excellence for the children of District 25.” By joining, you support District 25 schools and teachers with funds for innovative, creative, and excellence experiences for your students. Over 50% of the Foundation's grant money comes from membership dues. Once a school reaches 25% membership (including families and staff), that school gets an additional $2500! New this year are member benefits! Learn more at www.ABC25.org
• Westgate is currently at 19.59%, needing only 32 more households to join to meet the 25% goal. If your family is not yet a member of the ABC/25 Foundation, join today by visiting abc25.org/donate. All students of participating families will be entered in a drawing to win a ride to school from the Arlington Heights Police Department! All memberships dues go directly towards grants awarded to the teachers and classrooms of District 25.

4th/5th Book Club is starting up again. Our first book for the year will be a short, but exciting story called Breaking Stalin's Nose. We will meet after school on Mondays and can't wait to get started. Please access the QR code via the flyer to get signed up. There are a limited number of openings, so please do not send money to school until you have been emailed that you will be a part of the book club.

Let your imagination run (pun intended) wild! All D25 students have the opportunity to submit a design for the ABC/25 Get Burbed Challenge official race shirt and posters! These shirts will be worn by over 500 participants at the ABC/25 Get Burbed Challenge on April 15, 2023. The design winner also gets to help select the color of the shirt! Official rules and regulations and t-shirt design forms can be found at abc25challenge.org/tshirt. Submissions are due back to your school office by December 2, 2022.

The deadline for this year’s Reflections contest is next week November 2nd! The theme for the 2022-2023 school year is “Show Your Voice!”. There are six different arts categories and two age divisions, as well as the special artist division. See the links below for all of the official rules and specific guidelines for the various categories. Also linked is the entry form that is required with your artist’s submission. Again, the deadline for artwork to be submitted is Wednesday, November 2nd at 5 pm. Entries are to be submitted to the Reflections chair, Karen Radek (karenradek@gmail.com). Please feel free to contact Karen with any questions.

Good luck Wolverines!

• No School- 11/8 (Election Day)
  
• RULER Parent Presentation-11/16 at 6:15 p.m. in the LMC
• PTA Meeting-11/16 at 7:00 p.m. in the LMC
• 4th Grade Music Program- 6:30 p.m.
• Report Cards sent home via email- 11/18
• Fall Break-11/21-11/25
• Winter Break-12/23-1/9