WALKER-WINTER WEEKLY UPDATE

• Join us on Monday, 8/26 from 4:00-5:00 PM at our Back to School Open House. We hope to see everyone!
• This is a great opportunity to meet your student's teacher and visit their classroom before school starts on Tuesday.
• Come meet members of our PTO Parent Group in our lobby, too. We need your help fundraising and planning for a fun school year ahead!

• Tuesday, 8/27 1st DAY OF SCHOOL, HALF DAY 12:20 AM DISMISSAL
• Wednesday, 8/28 FULL DAY OF SCHOOL 9:10 AM-4:00 PM
• Thursday, 8/29 FULL DAY OF SCHOOL 9:10 AM-4:00 PM
• Friday, 8/30 NO SCHOOL, LABOR DAY RECESS
• Monday, 9/2 NO SCHOOL, LABOR DAY RECESS
• Tuesday, 9/3 SCHOOL RESUMES, FULL DAYS 9:10 AM-4:00 PM

• Teacher placements can be viewed in Parent Connection the week before school starts. I will share out this date with all families once we receive it.
• Suggested school supply lists will be shared out at Open House and via Class Dojo at the start of the school year.
• If you'd like to take advantage of back to school sales, classrooms always can use pencils, crayons, colored pencils, washable markers, glue sticks, dry erase markers, hand santizer, disinfectant wipes and tissues.

• If you need help providing school supplies for your child, see the Community Circle link below.
• Closer to the start of the school year a Community Circle team member will deliver a fully supplied school supply bag to our Walker office and we will make sure they receive the bag.
• 2024 School Supply Request Form

• Brooke Johnson, a Wayne-Westland graduate, started Community Circle as a high school student. We are grateful for Brooke's dedication to our students!

• If you'd like to donate to Community Circle, see this link.
  • https://ccsei.org/

• All Families MUST Update/Verify Contact Information in Parent Connection each year. *If you recently registered your Kindergarten student, you have already done this.
• Teacher placements can be viewed in Parent Connection the week before school starts (I will share out this date with all families).
• Log in to your ParentPortal using your PIN and password and click on the red “Back to School Registration” link at the top of the page.
• CLICK HERE WWCS PARENT CONNECTION
  
• Click through each link confirming or changing any information and then click "submit and save."
• If you have more than one student, you MUST repeat this process for each child so that we have accurate contact information for each student in an emergency. Register for Transportation
• There is a section in Parent Connection asking if you want transportation (you have to live more than 1 mile from the school to be eligible). If your dwelling meets these qualifications and you want your child to ride the bus, you MUST check YES or a bus route will NOT be assigned.

• 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).

• 8/26 Back to School Open House 4:00-5:00 PM
• 8/27 Half Day of School, Dismissal 12:20 PM
  
• 8/28 1st Full Day of School
• 8/30 No School
• 9/2 No School
• 12/23-1/3 Winter Break
• 2/17-2/21 Mid-Winter Break
• 3/24-3/28 Spring Break

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