Werner Weekly

Stay up-to-date with the Werner School Calendar

• Oct. 17- Werner Dines Out, Canes, 5-9 pm
• Oct. 17-18- No School, Parent/Teacher Conference Exchange Days
• Oct. 23- Picture Retake Day
• Oct. 31-Halloween Parade, 3:15

• No School, Oct. 17-18- This is a friendly reminder that there is no school on Oct. 17-18 for Parent/Teacher Conference Exchange Days.

• Werner Dines Out- Looking for a dinner option that is easy and great? Come out to Canes on Thursday, Oct. 17 from 5-9 pm. Mention the fundraiser and we get 15% back! More details are in the flyer below.

• Picture Retake Day-Picture retake day is on Oct. 23. This is for students that missed the first picture day or need a retake. See the flyer below for more information.

• 2024 Mill Levy Info Session- We encourage our community to attend one of the upcoming Mill levy Info sessions to learn more about this ballot initiative. Look for more details in the note from PSD (down below is News from PSD).

• Odyssey of the Mind Info Mtg.- If your student would like to participate in Odyssey of the Mind, please see the Info flyer and Problem synopses overview for more details.

  Please go to this link and fill out the following information to indicate your student's desire to participate in Odyssey of the Mind at Werner during the 2024-2025 school year. Registration closes on October 23rd. After 10/23, we will review everyone's preferences and create teams. Please consider how your family can volunteer to support our OM teams and review the Student and Parent Agreement. Our goal is for teams to practice once a week, starting in late November. The initial cost will be $50, which can be paid on School Pay or by exact cash or check at the office. If you have questions, please contact Butterscotch Culhane bculhane@psdschools.org.

• Halloween Parade and Parties- Our annual Halloween Parade will begin around 3:15 p.m. on Thursday, October 31. Parents are invited to view the parade outside classrooms on the playground. Parties will be held in each room before the parade sometime during the day. Room Parents and/or teachers will be communicating out to families on needs. Here is our Werner Guidance for Classroom Parties.

• Guidance on Halloween Costumes- Halloween is a great opportunity for dressing up in costumes that are creative and fun. We ask that you help your students plan for costumes that are not scary (e.g. zombies, vampires, etc.) and that do not use pretend weapons of any kind. Guns, knives, nun-chucks, bows/arrows, etc. will not be permitted. Students are okay with wearing facemasks. Adults, please do not wear facemasks. Please be mindful to choose costumes that convey stereotypes or demean cultural groups. Please check the weather forecast before coming to school with their costume. The parade is outside, depending on the weather, and will last about 20 minutes. Thanks for your help and we look forward to seeing the creative costumes!

• Veteran's Day Breakfast, Nov. 8- Please see the flyer below about a special opportunity to honor our veterans or active military.

• Read-A-Thon- We are off to a great start with the Read-A-Thon and are looking to increase our goal so that we can get everything we are looking for on our wish list! Thanks for all your support and keep reading! Our Challenge for the long weekend is to increase our participation to at least 50%. If we reach that marker, the whole school will get extra recess!

Throughout the year, we ask our community for photos that could be used for our yearbook and/or social media. This relates to school events only (e.g. classroom parties, field trips, school events, spirit days and enrichment opportunities). You can upload pictures to our 2024-2025 Werner Photo Album throughout the year. Please be mindful to not include photos of students that may not have permission.

Save the Date:

October 17th- Werner Dines Out @ Raising Cane's 5-9pm

October 30th- Masked Reader Closing Assembly for Read a Thon

Our Read A Thon is half way through and as of Wednesday our Wildcats have raised over $22,554! Keep those reading minutes going!

Battle of the Books is Back! Be on the lookout for sign ups going home in folders today and flyers for a list of books teams will be reading this year.

The Werner Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) plays a crucial role in supporting our school, teachers, and most importantly, our students. We are dedicated to fostering a positive and enriching environment where every child can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

JOIN THE WERNER PTA

From our annual Fall Festival to this year's Read A Thon, we have some memorable events planned and would love your help. Although membership doesn’t obligate you to volunteer hours or attend meetings, we always love to meet more of our Werner community and have your support in any way you can give it.

• Sign up for the PTA HERE to receive a free Werner yard sign & notifications of upcoming events.
• *****New this year***** Wildcat Spirit Wear is launching with new shirts, hoodies, and stickers! Visit our Givebacks website HERE for a one stop shop for everything your PTA has to offer.
• For any questions please email the PTA at ptawernerelementary@gmail.com

FREE MONEY FOR YOUR SCHOOL! Did you know there are ways to donate money to the school by doing things you already do? - If you shop at King Soopers with a loyalty card they will donate to Werner when you sign up here.

- If you like to eat out, the PTA hosts Werner Dines Out once a month and the restaurants we partner with will donate back to the school anywhere from 10-15%!

- American Warehouse is now offering rewards back to Werner for any purchase you make throughout the whole year. Just mention Werner at checkout!

Your Werner PTA

Follow us on FACEBOOK to stay engaged with school events, Werner families, and see what the PTA is up to!

Your 2024/2025 PTA Board

PTA President | Gladys Kanode

PTA Vice President | Caitlin Papp

PTA Treasurer | Patti Haswell

PTA Secretary | Juliana Potts

PTA VP of Community Programs | Marissa McNulty

PTA Past-President | Nicole Kidd Connect with us at PTAWernerElementary@gmail.com

There Is No Wrong Way to PTA. How Do You PTA?

Thank you for supporting the Werner Elementary PTA!

At their Aug. 27, 2024, meeting, the Poudre School District Board of Education voted unanimously to refer a mill levy question to the Nov. 5, 2024, ballot. This mill levy, if approved by voters, will provide $49 million per year to improve and extend the useful life of the district’s school buildings and will allow the district to reprioritize more of its general fund for the recruitment and retention of teachers and staff, classroom resources, career and technical education, and neighborhood schools.

To ensure that our community has factual information about this mill levy, the district will host a series of community information sessions in September and October. These are open to the public and anyone who wishes to come learn more about the ballot measure and how it would impact the PSD system and our community are welcome. Each session will share the same information.

Information sessions will take place:

• Monday, Sept. 23, at 6 p.m., Poudre High School Theater, 201 S. Impala Dr., Fort Collins
• Thursday, Sept. 26, at 5:30 p.m., Fossil Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, 5400 Ziegler Road, Fort Collins
• Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 6 p.m., Timnath Middle-High School Auditorium, 4700 Prospect Road, Timnath
• Thursday, Oct. 3, at 5:30 p.m., Wellington Middle-High School Auditorium, 2856 Cleveland Ave., Wellington
• Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., Rocky Mountain High School Theater, 1300 W. Swallow Road, Fort Collins
• Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 5:30 p.m., Fort Collins High School Theater, 3400 Lambkin Way, Fort Collins
• Thursday, Oct. 17, at 5:30 p.m. at the Future Ready Center inside Foothills Mall

The information sessions are being offered for transparency purposes only; these are not campaign events.

Simultaneous interpretation and translation via the district’s Instant Language Assistant (ILA) devices will be available at all sessions. If you would like oral interpretation, please bring wireless headphones that connect to your device to listen to the presentation.

To learn more, visit the 2024 Mill Levy Question web section.

• PSD sends frequent emails to currently registered volunteers, but those are getting lost in some recipients' junk mail folders. If you are registered as a volunteer with PSD, please check your junk mail & mark those sent by "Volunteer Coordinator" as safe to receive.

• For those who are not yet registered to volunteer but want to help in our schools please visit - Volunteer Registration

One of many ways information is shared is through the PSD Now community newsletter, which features timely information about the latest happenings in the district. This is emailed to families and interested community members about every other Thursday.

Here is the most recent newsletter of PSD Now. For archived newsletters and information about how to sign up, go to: https://www.psdschools.org/department/communications.

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