Westwood Elementary Newsletter

This months' newsletter contains information on~

1. Student Goal Setting
2. 1st Wild Pride Celebration of the Year!
3. Socktober
   
4. Pictures Ready
5. Veterans' Day Invite
6. Zimmerman-Livonia Fire Department Thank You
7. Walk -a- Thon Results
   
8. Bus Matrix
9. Summer Reading Party

Thank you for supporting your child and their success in school each day!

-Principal Stowe 🐾

As you likely learned at conferences or through last few weeks of school, your child has been active in goal setting. One of our school-wide strategies to increase student achievement at Westwood is to engage students in setting child specific SMART goals, sharing these with families, and working to accomplish these goals as a team. A strong partnership between teachers, students and parents and working toward a common goal is a great strategy to help our students grow! Thank you for supporting this at home!

Westwood students reached their first goal! An important part of maintaining positive behaviors at school is recognizing students for following expectations. Being Respectful and Responsible to our self, others, property, and community is our Wild Pride mantra and the foundation for our teaching of expectations. We use tickets to recognize the expected behaviors and attitudes we want to see in our students. When students earn enough tickets, we CELEBRATE! This first celebration was a grade level dance party.

Westwood Student Council is collecting socks! That's right, all month long you can help our community by donating new socks as a part of a schoolwide drive and friendly competition!

Pictures are ready! Click here for info regarding the ordering process. If your child missed out or would like retakes, photographers will be back at Westwood on November 7th!

Attention veterans and active service members of Westwood students and staff! The Westwood Student Council invites you to our annual Veteran's Day Breakfast. See the linked flier to register and participate in our digital presentation which will be on display and shared with our Westwood community.

Our local department has been incredibly supportive of our school. These volunteers show up at our Walk-a-Thon, Fire Prevention week, Veterans' Day, Christmas caroling, first responder dodgeball, and much more! What a wonderful example of community service you have set for our students and school community. Thank you Chief Maloney and all of the wonderful department fire fighters. We appreciate you!

Please continue to speak with your child about bus expectations if they ride. In order to ensure students are safe and drivers are focused on the road, students must follow all expectations. We will continue to communicate and follow up on bus driver reports from Vision Transportation. Below is the matrix that is used as a part of the decision making for consequences.

Thank you for helping make this year’s PAC Walk-A-Thon a huge success! As a result of your generous support, Westwood Elementary students raised over $21,000!

• Attendance- Strive for 7 or few absences for the 2024-25 school year!
• The weather is changing! Linked here is our clothing guidelines!
• Our Media Center is open at 8:15 every day for students to check out books!
• Our WILD Pride Matrix is the foundation for teaching behavior expectations.

This was the biggest and best Summer Reading Party we've ever had! Thank you Mrs. Montplaisir, Ms. Linda, teachers and our parent volunteers for making this happen! Looking forward to the Next summer Reading Challenge!

Children under the age of 5 receive a book every month at no cost to the family. The only requirement is that the child resides in the following zip codes* 55330, 55371, 55398, 55377, 55309

Follow this link for more details!

• October 16th-18th - No School - MEA Break
• October 22nd - PAC Meeting at WES - 4:30PM
• October 31st - Halloween
• November 4-5 - No School - Staff Development
• November 6 - Math Incentive Day- ZHS students helping!
• November 7 - Picture Retakes
• November 11 - Veterans' Day
• November 12 - PAC Meeting
• November 13 - Geography Bowl
• November 28-29 - No School - Thanksgiving