Eagle Family Connection #1

Hello Wilkesboro families! We are excited to welcome you back to a brand new school year! This page has weekly updates, schedules, and links to each teacher’s newsletter. Please make sure to check it out each week. Use the icon to translate into any language.

We loved meeting you at family meetings last week, and we were happy to see students become familiar again with our building and staff. School starts tomorrow at 7:50. As a reminder, parents may walk children to the front building doors, but for safety reasons, we will NOT allow parents / guardians to enter buildings and walk children to classrooms. This policy applies to all parents of K-5th grade students. Our staff will be on hand to help. Pre-k parents please remember to park in the back to walk children in to classrooms.

Our carline will begin at 7:25. We'd like to remind everyone that our car line is single file only every day, and everyone must wait patiently to enter or leave the back pre-k parking lot. It is a single file line throughout, so please do not pass at any point once you turn into our parking lot.

Our buses will run their routes for the first time tomorrow. Mr. Chad will drive bus 172, Mrs. Parker will be driving bus 122, and Mrs. Linda will be driving bus 158. Please remember that bus times shared are estimates and that it will take a few days for routes and times to become consistent. Thanks in advance for your patience.

A staff member will greet your child on car line, the bus line, or at the front entrance. All children will pick up free breakfast from the breakfast cart or cafeteria and go directly to their classrooms. It is important that all children pick up breakfast. We have share tables available for children to put unwanted items.

All pre-K and kindergarten parents are reminded that students are to come on their assigned day this week either on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday as part of staggered enrollment. All pre-k and kindergarten students will begin coming daily on Thursday. Everybody else in 1st through 5th grade will begin full days tomorrow.

Your child should bring a book bag and school supplies as normal. Please dress for outdoor play, including safe shoes. We also recommend that you send a refillable water bottle labeled with your child’s name. We will be sending home lots of important papers this week, so please make sure to check your child's book bag for their green folder each night. It contains at home routines that will help your child be successful this year. You can return signed papers and forms to school on the "return to school" side.

We will dismiss at our usual time of 3:10. Please make sure to put your WES car tag up when you drive through the carline. If your child is a designated walker and you have already submitted the form, please remember to bring your car tag. With all the people, buses, and cars moving on campus at this time, we ask that you hold on to your child's hand as you make your way back to your vehicle. This year, we want to stress that children should never be unattended around the walker line. That means children should not cross the street, run in the grass, or run down sidewalks without an adult. We want to keep everyone safe.

We are ready and prepared to give your child a safe, enjoyable, and happy first day back in the school building. Thank you for working to get your child ready, and thank you for your patience as we work through the new routines that come with starting a new school year.

Please note school will be closed for everyone next Monday, September 2 for the Labor Day holiday.

This school family is the best thing about Wilkesboro Elementary, and we are so happy that our students, families, and staff are coming back to the nest. Have a great evening!