Dear Delevan Families,

Welcome back everyone for 2025! I hope that everyone had an awesome break and we are looking forward here at Delevan to having a great second part of the school year.

Our character trait of the month for December was kind and for this upcoming month is optimistic. We had sixteen students recognized this past month for exhibiting great behaviors here at school and I cannot wait to see what this next month has in store for us.

December was filled with a number of fun activities for our students. The fan favorite was definitely the Arcade & Attica Railroad. I would like to thank our HSA for sponsoring the event for our entire school. We also celebrated with our Christmas Spectacular. Students had the opportunity for a tractor ride, letters to Santa, reindeer food, games, and many other fun activities. We also had a performance by our 3rd and 4th grade chorus students. They did a wonderful job singing songs based on the movies. My personal favorite was You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch.

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Holiday break and we are looking forward to another great month.

Wishing you and your families the best!

Mr. Jansma

Upcoming Dates:

• January 2nd: Return to school
• January 20th: NO SCHOOL, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• January 29th: NO SCHOOL, Chinese Lunar New Year

During the month of November we were very busy working on our school pledge: RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE & SAFE. These students were nominated by teachers and staff for going above and beyond our school pledge! Congratulations to our Students of the Month for November:

Kindergarten- Waylen Harhigh, Keira Wente & Avery Osborne

1st Grade- Emma Haggerty, Lexus Labuszewski, Chelsea Ricketson & Gabriel Wagner

2nd Grade- Ronan Bennett, Gabriella Cole & Emmie Striegel

3rd Grade- Grant LeRoy, Jon Sharrett & Max Stampone

4th Grade- Adalynn Barber, Jason Maltby & Carmen Sherwood

Thank you to our families for coming to our breakfast to celebrate these students!

Mrs. Bartz and Mrs. Skoczylas’s 4th grade classes earned their November AR reward! With all this snow, what better way to celebrate than to play outside! Mr. Jansma even got in on the fun!

Pioneer Central School District is participating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program this school year. CEP is a federal program that allows eligible schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. Every Pioneer student receives one free breakfast and one free lunch every school day. Nothing about the meals themselves has changed, and they all still meet the same nutritional standards they always have.

We will continue to collect the Education Benefits Form (formally meal application form) from families because this data is used to qualify the district for many forms of funding our schools. These funds help the district provide specialized services and school supplies directly to students that support ALL children in our schools. Forms can be filled out online at the link below or paper copy (available at the greeters desk). Information for families is included in the return to learn student folders.

Please contact Heidi Miles at hmiles@pioneerschools.org with any questions.