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VIDA
Weekly Newsletter 9/08/24
- FAQS regarding Middle Schol Boys & Girls Club Athletics click the LINK.
VIDA's PTA Islands Dine Out!
We're SO EXCITED for our first dine out of the year on Tuesday, Sept. 10th from 11am - close! Islands Vista is a wonderful community partner with VIDA and has supported VIDA consistently over the years! They donate 20% of all applicable sales back to VIDA! So skip the dishes and come for lunch, for happy hour, or for dinner! Eat in or take out, just make sure you either present this flyer, or let your server know you're with VIDA!
If your child rides a bike, e-bike, scooter, e-scooter, skateboard, or electric skateboard to school, they are now required to attend a safety training and get a permit. VIDA is hosting a session of the Bike/Rider safety at VIDA during the school day to make it easier for our students and families. This session is FREE and will take place on Thursday, September 26th.
If your child currently rides a bike/scooter/skateboard to school or they plan to do so during this school year, please RSVP HERE so we can invite them to attend during the school day.
This session will be roughly an hour long and students will receive their permit once they have completed the training. It will be from 9:05 to 10 and will be held in the VIDA library.
If your child is unable to attend or you do not want them to miss class time, VUSD will be hosting more training sessions and you can find more information about upcoming sessions HERE.
8th Grade DC/NY Trip
8th Grade Parents-
If you were unable to attend the 8th Grade DC/NYC Information Meeting on 8/29, here is the slide deck from the meeting. This LINK includes the cost, itinerary, and travel information. As a reminder, this is NOT a school-sponsored event.
If you are interested in sending your student, make sure to click on this LINK. The trip fills up quickly, so we want to make sure you receive enrollment information. Enrollment opens on Tuesday, 7am.
Please reach out to Alyssa Brumbaugh alyssabrumbaugh@vistausd.org if you have any additional questions.
Mon. Sept 9th Deadline to Order - September Farm Box
Islands Vista Dine Out September 10!
We're SO EXCITED for our first dine out of the year on Tuesday, Sept. 10th from 11am - close! Islands Vista is a wonderful community partner with VIDA and has supported VIDA consistently over the years! They donate 20% of all applicable sales back to VIDA! So skip the dishes and come for lunch, for happy hour, or for dinner! Eat in or take out, just make sure you either present this flyer, or let your server know you're with VIDA!
PTA Farm Stand and Farm Box pick up, Tues, Sept 17th
Come by the PTA Farm Stand on Tues, Sept 17th from 3:00 - 5:30pm to grab a bag of fresh Yasukochi Farms produce for a great price! This is also when and where you will collect your Sept. Farm Box if you ordered one - just drive by and we will load you up! You can find us (you won't miss us) along the regular student pick up line until 5:30pm. So, if you missed the deadline for the Farm Box, don't worry, we will have plenty of fresh produce you can take home and enjoy. See you at the Farm Stand!
We Need You! Volunteer Interest Form
VIDA PTA relies solely on association members & volunteers to help execute all the programs and events in support of our students and staffulty! AND WE NEED YOU! Please consider signing up to volunteer on a committee - there are so many different ways to help, and there is no amount of donated time that is too small! Reminder - you don't need to be on the PTA board to sign up to help! Link to Committee Interest Form HERE or see QR code below:
Join the PTA Shark Shiver!
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.
VUSD Calendar & VIDA Bell Schedule
- 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.
New Cell Phone and Technology Policy
In order to align with new VUSD guidelines, middle schools have updated their cell phone policy. Please see VIDA's new policy above.
Parents are welcomed to drop off forgotten items to the front office
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!
TIME TO ORDER YOUR SCHOOL PHOTOS!
School pictures are now available for parents to view and order online.
- View and order at https://shop.jostenspix.com/login
- VISTA INNOVATION & DESIGN ACAD
- Event Code: FE51724
2025 VIDA Yearbook Information
Order your 2025 Yearbook today at the lowest price of $30!
Visit JostensYearbooks.com to order online or see Ms. Z in the front office to pay with cash or check.
What is Damon reading?
The Anxious Generation
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most importantly, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.
AP(P)EX Award
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How Do We Make Beautiful Work?
FLO
Exciting Opportunities to do More! Including On-Line Foreign Language Learning
Connect With Us
Email: vidasharks@gmail.com
Website: www.VIDASHARKS.com
Phone: 760.724.7115
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Twitter: @VIDASHARKS
Assurance of Nondiscrimination
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