WALKER-WINTER WEEKLY UPDATE

• All 5th Grade students will be taking the M-STEP Social Studies & Science tests this week on Tuesday & Thursday.
• Help your child do their best by ensuring they get a good night's sleep, remind me them to do their best and remember to be on time for school.

• This week is our Buy One, Get One Free! Scholastic Book Fair week!
• Your child's teacher will update you via Class Dojo when their shopping day is occurring.

• WWCS offers many FREE Summer Programs for our students!

• See the link below for program information and links to register you child.

• Link to 2024 Summer Program Registration Information

• In order to qualify for the Summer EBT Program , this form must be completed as soon as possible to qualify.
• Aramark, our food service provider, is running its Student ViewPOINT survey. They invite parents and students to take this survey together. Your feedback will help enhance our food service program and better meet student needs and expectations. The survey is open until May 13, 2024. Go to www.StudentVP.com and enter passcode 2024.

• Our AKA Sports spiritwear store is open!
• You can order and pay directly via this link https://walkerwinterspiritwear.itemorder.com/shop/sale/ .
• All items can be shipped directly to you or you can choose to pick up at AKA Sports down the road at 34932 Michigan Ave (Michigan Ave & Wayne Rd).

• Wayne-Westland Community Schools has a partnership with Lawrence Tech University and their Girls in Enginerring Summer Academy! This is a wonderful opportunity for 5th grade girls that are interested in Enginerring.
• Connect with Mr. Hall, Mr. Hinjosa, Ms. Moutgalias or Mrs. Brickey @ brickeyk@wwcsd.net if your 5th grade girl is interested!

• CLICK HERE WWCS CALENDAR

• 5/1 NO SCHOOL

• 5/24 HALF-DAY OF SCHOOL, DISMISSAL 12:20 PM

• 5/27 NO SCHOOL, MEMORIAL DAY

• 6/6 HALF-DAY OF SCHOOL, DISMISSAL 12:20 PM

• 6/7 HALF & LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, DISMISSAL 12:20 PM

39932 Michigan Ave., Canton, MI 48188

wwcsd.net

Main Office 734-419-2780

Attendance Line 734-419-2787

Office Hours 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Kristen Brickey, Principal brickeyk@wwcsd.net

Nickie Honke, Secretary honken@wwcsd.net

• All students are welcome to bring a home lunch but FREE breakfast and lunch are provided for all students.

• Please wait until 3:55 PM to gather by the Kindergarten & 1st grade dismissal doors. This allows all classes to re-enter the school from their playground recess safely.
• We love pets, especially dogs, but they cannot be on school grounds during arrival or pickup. Thank you for understanding!

• Below are links to important forms that must be filled out yearly. Paper copies will be sent home with students, also.
• If you do print and fill out, please return to our school office or your child's teacher.
• Each volunteer MUST fill out our district ICHAT volunteer form in order to volunteer either at our school or to chaperone on field trips. ICHAT forms MUST be done each school year.
• CLICK HERE ICHAT VOLUNTEER FORM
• We need our families to fill out the Educational Benefit Food Services Form in order for our entire school district to recieve FREE breakfast and lunch.
• CLICK HERE EDUCATIONAL BENEFIT FORM/FOOD SERVICES

• For the Educational Benefit Form, if you have students at multiple schools within the district they only need to fill out one form.

• If you'd like to send in a treat for your child's birthday, we do allow indiviudally portioned treats like cookies, cupcakes or individually wrapped candy. We cannot do pizza, birthday cakes or candles though.
• We do have students with food allergies throughout our school and non-food treats are great and allow for everyone to celebrate. Fun pencils or stickers are easy non-food treats that kids love!

• Automated district-wide attendance calls for absent students have started.
• Help your child be successful at school by getting them to school on time each day.
• When students are late or unneccessarily miss days of school, it negatively impacts their learning and they miss out on socializing with friends and fall out of their daily rountine.
• We do understand that students get sick sometimes and need to stay home from school to rest and family emergencies do occur but if your child is healthy, we appreciate you sending your child to school on-time each and every day.
• Thank you for supporting your child's education!

• It's important to be on time every day for school. When students are late, they miss out on important learning time. Students who are late and arrive after the school day are marked absent.

• If your child is going to be absent, please call our attendance line OR enter your child's atbsence using your Parent Connection account. When calling the attendance line, please leave the date, your name, your child’s name, teacher and reason for absence on the line. We review these calls at the beginning of the school day by 9:30 AM.

• We cannot accommodate daily early pick ups after 3:30 PM unless you have an emergency or an appointment.

• Please drive carefully, cautiously and slow in our school parking lot.

• Students may enter our school from either the main entrance or the back parking lot entrance doors at 8:50 AM and families say goodbye outside of our school.

• THERE ARE 2 OPTIONS FOR AM DROP OFF...

• OPTION 1: You can use the front parking lot drop off lane for a quick, 30 second vehicle drop off. Please DO NOT park and walk your child to the main entrance from the front parking lot as there is a lot of traffic.

• OPTION 2: If you'd like to park and walk your child to the doors, please park in the back parking lot of our school. If you do park, please walk your child up to either the back or main entrance doors and say goodbye outside the school.

• The drop off loop in front of the school is for 30 second drop off's only and all vehicles MUST pull all the way up to the end of the drop off lane. We should not have large gaps between vehicles.
• Use the drop off lane closest to the school either in front of or behind the bus zone. *You'll know its the bus zone because it will be blocked off by cones or you will see buses there.
• Students MUST exit from the right side of your vehicle ALWAYS.
• Please do not drop off your child in the second, outside lane of our drop off loop. We don't want students crossing between moving vehicles or buses.
• Adults should stay in their vehicle to keep the drop off lane moving. If your child still needs help unbuckling their seatbelt or getting out of your vehicle, please park in a parking spot and walk them to the main entrance doors.
• Once your child is out of your vehicle, stay in the drop off lane. The first car exits to Michigan Ave and the the car behind follows and so on. We should not have cars cutting out of the drop off lane in front of other vehicles.
• DO NOT PARK IN THE BUS ZONE OR CROSS BETWEEN BUSES.
• Allow for extra time so you aren't rushing.
• Thank you for keeping our students safe!

• Contact Champions for information or to enroll your child in before or after school care at 734-326-0980 or click the link below to start the enrollment process.

• http://www.discoverchampions.com/
  

• If you qualify for DHS, fees can be as low as $10 a week or FREE

• Help earn money for our school by registering your Kroger Rewards card simply by visiting https://www.kroger.com/i/community/community-rewards

• Once logged into your Kroger account, you can search for Walker-Winter Elementary by name and then click enroll.

• At Wayne-Westland Community Schools, we utilize an electronic flyer communication tool called Peachjar.

• Our flyer distribution process posts flyers from schools, the district and community partners on Peachjar. There is a Peachjar button on all school’s websites, and the platform will send emails to families with flyer notifications based on their child's school.

• CLICK HERE PEACHJAR