Waterville Primary Friday Flyer!
Sharing Great News with our AWesome Families!
Events for the Weeks of: October 18th- November 1st
Dates to Remember
Friday, October 18th: WPA Movie Night 6:15pm-8:30pm in Community Room
Tuesday, October 22nd: WPA Restaurant Night Out (RNO) Panera Bread 4pm-8pm (additional information below)
Thursday, October 24th: Wear RED to recognize our Day of the Deployed
Friday, October 25th: Teacher Work Day- No Students report
Monday, October 28th-Friday, November 1st: Red Ribbon Week
Monday, October 28th: Grades K-12 Evening Conferences 4:00pm-8:00pm (Sign up will be sent)
Tuesday, October 29th: Two Hour Delay: Staff PD
Thursday, October 31st: Halloween Parade- AM Kindergarten 10:30am (on back playground)
2:30pm parade and party (more information to follow)
Monday, November 4th: Grades K-12 Conferences 10:00am-6:00pm- No Students
Tuesday, November 5th: Staff PD Day- No Students
Thursday, November 7th: BOE Meeting 6pm
Monday, November 11th: Fourth Grade performs at the UT Veterans Day Breakfast and Resource Fair in the AM
Monday, November 11th: WPA Meeting at 6pm in Media Center
Friday, November 15th: WPA Movie Night
Monday, November 18th: Veterans Day Program performed by Fourth Grade Students
PM in High School Auditorium
Monday, November 18th-Friday, November 22nd: Districtwide Food Drive Week
Monday, November 25th: Staff PD Day- No students
Tuesday, November 26th- Friday, November 29th: Fall Break- District Closed
Monday, December 9th: WPA Meeting at 6pm in Media Center
Thursday, December 12th: Generals' Gift Shop
Friday, December 13th: Generals' Gift Shop
Monday, December 23rd-Wednesday, January 1st: Winter Break, No School
Thursday, January 2nd: School resumes! Happy 2025!
Waterville Parents' Association (WPA) Updates
*Please join the WPA for our monthly meeting on Monday, November 11th at 6 pm in the school Media Center. We hope to see you there!
*Our next Movie Night of the year will be held Friday, November 15th. Be on the lookout for RSVP forms to come home sometime in the next couple of weeks.
*Thank you for a wonderful Donuts at Dawn and Fall Book Fair. We hope everyone that attended had a great morning and found some fun items at the Book Fair! Sales from our Fall Book Fair were $12,467.14. These sales generate over $6,000 in Scholastic Dollars that the school can use to stock teacher classrooms, update the Media Center offerings, and provide summer reading and other rewards to students throughout the year. A huge thank you to the volunteers that helped both with Donuts at Dawn and the Book Fair – we couldn’t provide these events without your help!
*Help support Waterville Primary and enjoy a delicious meal! Join us for a Restaurant Night Out at Panera Bread in Maumee on Tuesday, October 22 between 4 – 8 PM. 25% of sales will be donated back to the school!
Halloween Fun!
We are excited for our upcoming Halloween/Fall Harvest celebration on Thursday, October 31st! Students and staff are encouraged to wear a simple, comfortable, and school friendly costume for the entire day of the celebration (please no excessive face paint or hair coloring). This way, more students and staff will be able to enjoy each other's costumes.The parade will begin at 2:30pm, followed by the classroom parties.
Kindergarten students that are here with us in the morning will be having their own costume parade through the school and also behind the school on the playground at approximately 10:30am (a separate email will go out to families of AM kindergarten students). We encourage parents to enjoy the fun of the day by watching the outdoor afternoon parade (Please see outdoor parade route.). Thank you to everyone who will help to plan our classroom parties, make donations, and/or will be here volunteering time and energy.
We are really looking forward to this event and thank everyone for their help and time!
News from our School Counselor, Mrs. Cowell!
Career Day
We held a very successful Career Day! Participating in Career Day has been a fantastic opportunity for our students and has provided them with real world exposure to many different career opportunities. On Career Day, all of our students had the opportunity to participate in mini-presentations led by special volunteers. They learned more about different career opportunities and were able to rate their interest level in each of the careers they saw throughout the day.
Just like all of our most exciting events, Career Day would not be possible without the help of our wonderful families and community members! We had approximately 25 different careers represented by our volunteers. Students had exposure to many career clusters during 6 different presentations that included a basic description of the career, the education and training necessary for the career, typical career responsibilities (especially highlighting any responsibilities specifically related to science, technology, engineering, art, and math), and related interactive student activities.
Our Career Day provided an experience that was both unique and memorable for our students!
Purple Star Generals!
Our Purple Star Generals met this week to plan our upcoming National Day of the Deployed recognition to be held here at school on Thursday, October 24th. We are encouraging everyone to wear the color red, Remember Everyone Deployed. Members of our Purple Star Generals will be sharing announcements with our school to recognize our brave military personnel who have been deployed, are sacrificing, or have sacrificed their lives to defend our country and freedoms. This day will also recognize Waterville Primary families who have been or are currently separated from loved ones during deployment and the sacrifices they make so family members can serve the United States. Please remember to wear RED on Thursday, October 24th!
* Please Complete this Purple Star Generals Membership Form if your child(ren) is military connected and you feel that he/she would like to be a part of the leadership group here at school.
School Fee
If you have not already paid school fees, you can pay online at www.PaySchoolsCentral.com or by check payable to Anthony Wayne Local Schools. Fees are $50 per student.
Free and Reduced Meal applications are available for the 2024-25 school year. Parents DO need to fill out a new application, even if they were eligible last year. Electronic application through PaySchoolsCentral.com is preferred, but paper applications are accepted. Instructions and information are available online at www.AnthonyWayneSchools.org/FoodServices
News from Food Service
News from Food Service
· We are looking for subs! Want to work where your kids have lunch? Come sub for us. Great hours, usually between 9:00am-1:30pm. Pick and choose when you want to work.
Follow us on X @awfoodservice
Lunch Menu
Ways to pay for meals in the cafeteria
1) Check made out to AWFS: you can write one check for all your students, regardless of what building they are in. Simply designate how to split the money in the NOTE section.
2) Cash
3) Online via www.payschoolscentral.com
How to Keep Track of Your Student's Meal Account - PaySchools Central
Check account balances, add money, see detailed reports of what your student is buying, set up recurring payments so you don't forget to add money, set up reminder emails when your student's account goes low, and pay your school fees. It's all in one place.
All of this is done through: www.payschoolscentral.com
* You will need your most commonly used email address and your students 6-digit ID number to create an account.
If you need help setting up the account please call PSC - 1-877-393-6628.
Thank you!
District Employment Opportunities
We have several full and part-time positions available to qualified candidates interested in serving in our schools. Need even more flexibility? Substitute employment is a great way to work on your own terms. Learn more at www.AnthonyWayneSchools.org/HumanResources.
Contact Information Updates
It is important that we have accurate contact information for parents/guardians and emergency contacts. If email addresses or phone numbers change during the school year, please update your child’s FinalForms account. This will help ensure we can reach you.
Great Wall of Grit!
The importance of helping a child learn to commit to something long term, persevering when faced with obstacles, and the willingness to keep trying- even when a task or goal is challenging, is our continued focus at Waterville Primary. Grit and growth mindset is not an “edu-fad” but dispositions we will encourage and intentionally teach all of our students, through different classroom activities, assignments, literature, role models, real world examples, and conversations about the topic.
We really need your help again this year with continuing to provide examples of our very own students and ways that they have shown commitment to an activity or goal. You all did a great job recognizing our gritty students and staff last school year and we need to continue to recognize some new students as the school year begins.
Our “Waterville’s Great Wall of Grit” bulletin board remains hanging in the hallway across from the kitchen. This display showcases our gritty students and staff that have been nominated by other individuals as examples of strivers-students who have an enduring passion and take action to achieve a goal. We will continue to spotlight our students and staff who have both determination and direction.
At the end of this Friday Flyer you will find a nomination form to complete if you would like to nominate a student or staff member here at Waterville Primary that you feel exemplifies Grit. Please turn them into the school office once completed and make sure to check out the “Great Wall of Grit” next time you are here in the school.
Reporting Absences, Notification of Appointments, Vacation Notification
Waterville Primary Attendance and Transportation Information
Please read these brief updates regarding attendance and transportation, and reach out to Amy Shiffert for clarification or concerns.
REPORTING ABSENCES
All absences can be reported by emailing WAattendance@anthonywayneschools.org and copying your student's teacher. You do not need to call AND email. In the event that you're unable to email, a phone call to 419-878-2436 can be made at any time and left with one of the secretaries, or as a voicemail for Amy Shiffert.
REPORTING TRANSPORTATION/DISMISSAL CHANGES
All end-of-day transportation changes should be reported at the start of the day by sending a note with your student or by emailing ashiffert@anthonywayneschools.org and copying your student's teacher. We understand that last-minute changes may happen later in the day due to unforeseen circumstances, but ask that you communicate in advance whenever possible! If you have an unforeseen transportation change later in the day, please call the office at 419-878-2436 to ensure the message is received and delivered.
Waterville Primary - Where Generals STEAM ahead!
Did you know that Waterville Primary is one of very few STEAM-designated elementary schools in Ohio?! We are always looking to increase opportunities for lessons centered around STEAM. We are always interested in developing professional growth opportunities with community leaders, employers, and resources to enhance student learning.
3D Printed Student Incentives
Second Grade Key Chains
3D Printing Name Plates
Fourth Grade Lego Club!
Our fourth graders have been creative and innovative during our Lego Club! They used our Lego Prime Spike kits to build and use the intuitive drag-and-drop coding language to collaboratively create quirky creatures! The students are strengthening their fine motor skills, problem solving, spatial awareness, focus, concentration, and also social skills when working with a small group to meet the design challenge each week. Thank you to everyone for supporting this after school opportunity for our students!
Collaboration with Local Artist, Dean Davis!
Our third grade students are collaborating with local mural artist, Dean Davis! Mr. Davis shared many examples of his artistry and some really interesting facts about the murals that students can see in our community and surrounding area. Our students are collaborating with Mr. Davis to help him complete a mural in progress that is located on a barn at Homer Noble Farms on Weckerly Road in Whitehouse. Our third graders have voted to decide which picture of Theodore Roosevelt will be painted on the barn to complete the mural. Mr. Davis will also include the initials of our third graders on the mural so their contribution and engagement with the artwork will be captured! We hope to bus the students over to the mural once it is completed so they can view and appreciate it in person!
Career and Professional STEAM Partnerships
Our team is always looking to extend learning standards into the professional workforce. Ensuring our students are college and career-ready is fueled by our connections and collaborations with local businesses and professionals in STEAM-related fields. If you work in a field where STEAM principles are a critical part of your team's success, we would love to hear from you and how our students can learn more!
Our Commitment...
As a STEAM-designated school, our staff is committed to putting the newest technology trends in the hands of our students. Coding and programming are also a part of modern literacy and it's important to help students understand how it can be positively used to shape their world. All STEAM lessons foster critical thinking skills and characteristics featured by our Portrait of General competencies. In addition, all students use a universal design process to help align our project-based learning with our district's core values and the steps necessary for successful problem-based navigation. Our mission is to allow students to explore STEAM-related areas while building healthy peer relationships through collaboration and teamwork.
Waterville Primary STEAM Programming Highlights:
- 3D Printers & Doodle Pens
- Tinkercad and Coding Opportunities
- Sphero Bolt Kits
- Career Exploration
- Ozobots
- Snap Circuits
- Project Prairie & Toledo Zoo Partnership
- Land Lab & Community Partnerships
- Composting / Recycling Efforts
- Air Monitoring and Data Collection with GLOBE and Purple Air
- TAB - Art Instructional Practices
- Lego Club
- Lego Spike Kits (Prime and Essential)
- Operation Chick Quest
- Equitable Access to 21st Century Technology
- Fully Equipped Makerspace Lab
Waterville Primary has more than 16, 3D printers!
Ozobots for teaching basic coding.
Spheros offer coding and software development.
Follow Waterville Primary on X/Twitter!
Waterville Primary will be continuing our presence on Twitter with the handle @AWLSWA. This medium is used for both sharing daily activities and any potential alerts for our building. If you do not have a Twitter account you can still get updates via a Fast Follow feature that sends tweets to phones via SMS text messages. Here is all it takes to sign up to receive SMS text messages from the Waterville Twitter account when a tweet is posted:
On the phone to receive the messages, simply create a new text message to phone number 40404. Next, the message to be sent should read: follow @awlswa
That’s all there is to it! Any student or parent that follows this procedure will receive any Waterville school Twitter messages to their phone as an SMS text message.
To turn off text messages, you would send a message to 40404 that reads: off @awlswa
Flyer Central:
Flyer Central
We are so fortunate to be in a vibrant and active community! Flyer Central is the space on our website where you will find events, activities and camps held by various organizations in our area.
https://www.anthonywayneschools.org/flyercentral
AWLS Parent Organizations
Get involved with our Boosters and Parent-Teacher Organizations
AWLS Fundraisers and Events
· Majorette Clinic & Halftime Performance (PreK-Grade 8)
· AWHS Fall Play: Rumors
Local Events & Activities
EVENTS
· Community Food Drive
· Blue Creek Healthcare Trick or Treat
· Transition Fair
· Youth Writing Contest (Grades K-12)
· Crafts and More at Whitehouse Library
· Waterville Library Events Calendar
· Lucas County Board of DD Calendar of Events
ACTIVITIES
· No School Day Camps
· Ohio BASS Fishing Club (Grades 9-12)
· Scouting America – Troop 9615 (Girls, Grades 5-12)
Lessons
· Learn to Swim (Parent+Child and Up)
· RiverFront Studios: Art & Music Lessons
Athletics
· Youth Basketball Leagues (K-6)
· Glass City Broomball (Girls, Grades 8-12)
· Greater Toledo Area Broomball League (Grades 6-12)
· Learn to Skate and Learn to Play Hockey (Toddler-Adult)
Student Employment
· YMCA Aquatics
Community Support
· Neighborhood Bridges
· AWLS Community Resource Guide
· AWLS Surrogate Parents Needed