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At Westwood Elementary School, we are Respectful 🤝, Responsible 👍, and Safe 👷

This week, have a conversation with your student about how to be Respectful 🤝, Responsible 👍, and Safe 👷 in the school cafeteria.

Some examples:

• I can be respectful by using a normal talking voice while at my table
• I can be responsible by cleaning up all of my trash after eating
• I can be safe by walking at all times

These are just a couple of examples, but the conversations that you have can go so much further!

Thank you for having conversations with your student about what it means to be RESPECTFUL 🤝, RESPONSIBLE 👍, and SAFE 👷. Together, we can partner to help to develop our students to be successful citizens in the world.

😁🏫 This Week is Red Ribbon Spirit Week!

☕👪 The Parent Café Continues on Tuesday, October 29th @ 8:30am in Room 15

• Parents may attend FOR FREE
• Classes for developing parent leadership skills and support at home
• Please be sure to check in with the office and have a valid photo ID

🎃👻 Please do not send your student in a Halloween costume on October 31st (THANK YOU!)

• This is a SPIRIT Day; students may wear mismatched clothes on this day

🐝🏆 Congratulations to our Westwood 2024 Spelling Bee Champion: Talia Seng from 4th Grade!

👨🏻‍🎓✅ Student Council Elections are Almost Here!

• If your child is interested in applying for a role in the Student Council, please have them ask their teacher for an application starting Monday
• Applications are due no later than Friday, November 1st
• Students will be giving a speech on Friday, November 8th at lunch to their peers
• Elections will be held on Friday, November 8 by the end of the day

Scan the QR codes below to access important links. You can also open the attachment and click directly on each link to get to your destination.

As a safety reminder, when picking up or dropping off your student, please use our drop-off loop (the staff parking lot is not for student drop-off) and pull as far forward as possible when in line with your vehicle. This supports a smooth drop-off and pick-up process.

🚗 Parents should stay in their vehicles and pull up to the student drop-off zone during this time. Please do not leave a vehicle unattended in the drop-off loop at any time. If you need help, wave down a staff member and we will be happy to assist you. Thank you for doing your part to keep our students safe.

Additionally, please be sure that your students have the proper car seats, booster seats, or seatbelts as required by California State Law. Let us know if you need help or resources to keep your student safe. 💺✅

The following school sites will serve as polling sites on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Windwalker Security personnel will be assigned to each polling site during the voting process. At Westwood Elementary, this process has been planned so that community members will not have direct access to student spaces at any point throughout the day.

• Clairmont Elementary School
• Creekside Elementary School
• Delta Sierra Middle School
• Elkhorn School
• Ellerth E. Larson Elementary School
• George Lincoln Mosher Elementary School
• Leroy Nichols Elementary School
• Live Oak Elementary School
• Lois E. Borchardt Elementary School
• John Muir Elementary School
• Ronald E. McNair High School
• Oakwood Elementary School
• Podesta Ranch Elementary School
• Silva Elementary School
• Victor Elementary School
• Westwood Elementary School

We are excited to announce that this year, families are able to verify their child's elementary school teacher and secondary school class schedule through our online data confirmation process. Starting on July 19, 2024, at 10:00 AM, parents who have completed the online data confirmation will be able to access this information. We encourage all parents to complete the online data confirmation process by following the instructions in the flyer below.

This important step will allow you to update your child's emergency contact info while also helping to support our school site with additional funding!

Please click on the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ch7rdnbDBLdedv81w-qk7FouJ3UVhtOP/view?usp=sharing