West Point El. Parent Update

We would like to thank our PTA volunteers for planning our fun Ribbons Week last week. Our students enjoyed the dress up days and the messages of being safe and healthy.

We hope all of you have an enjoyable Valentine's Day this week with your families. As a reminder, students can choose whether or not to bring valentines for their class parties, but if they do, they need to bring one for every student in the class.

Here are four important things to know for the coming week.

1. There will be NO SCHOOL on Monday February 17 for Presidents Day.
2. Evaluate Davis Parent Surveys are now open on your parent/guardian myDSD account. Instructions for accessing these surveys are provided below. We hope you will take a few minutes to share your feedback with us. The surveys close on Friday, February 28.
3. Kindergarten Priority Registration is open through Friday, February 28. Thank you for sharing the word with neighbors! We have passed out many registration packets, but we need them to be returned. Please see below for more information.
4. Yearbooks can be ordered on myDSD for $18 through March 31. After that date, it will be first come first served for $25 if we have any extras.

Every day is a great day to be a Wildcat!

Sincerely,

Marjorie Conrad and Christie Bouy
Principal and Administrative Intern, West Point Elementary

• Monday, February 17: Presidents Day, NO SCHOOL

• Wednesday, February 19: Grade-level spelling bees

• Wednesday, February 19: Community Council, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m., in the conference room

• Friday, February 21: 2nd Grade Patriotic Program, 10:00 a.m.

• Tuesday, February 25: 5th Grade Field Trip to Natural History Museum of Utah, Bargen and Schuh

• Tuesday, February 25: Championship Martial Arts, 3:30-4:00, for students who sign up (flyer will be sent home within the next two weeks)

• Wednesday, February 26: School Spelling Bee, 4:00 p.m.

• Thursday, February 27: 5th Grade Field Trip to Natural History Museum of Utah, Hunzeker and Rackham

• Thursday, February 27: Championship Martial Arts, 3:30-4:00, for students who signed up

• Friday, February 28: 4th grade Native American presentation

• Friday, February 28: Priority Kindergarten Registration deadline

• Friday, February 28: Evaluate Davis Parent Surveys close on myDSD

• March 3-7: Read Across America Week

• Tuesday, March 4: Championship Martial Arts, 3:30-4:00, for students who signed up

• Wednesday, March 5: Class Picture Day/Spring Personality Pictures

• Thursday, March 6: Championship Martial Arts, 3:30-4:00, for students who signed up

• Friday, March 7: PTA Meeting, 9:30 a.m., in the faculty room

• Friday, March 7: End of 3rd Term

• Monday, March 10: Teacher Professional Day, NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

• Wednesday, March 19: Community Council, 5:30-6:30 p.m., in the conference room

• Thursday, March 20 - Saturday, March 22: School Musical Performances

• Tuesday, March 25: 5th Grade Maturation, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

• Monday, March 31-Friday, April 4: Spring Break 🌺

Congratulations to our Principal Paw Award recipients this past week! We love celebrating our students at our golden ears party and sharing the many ways they go above and beyond to be safe, respectful, responsible, and caring.

Congratulations to all our students who participated in Starbase this winter. Last Wednesday they had the opportunity to design, build, and race their very own CO2 race cars for the grand finale. Our students were featured on KSL News TV last Wednesday night since they were the very last group in Utah to participate in this experience due to an end to funding. You can check out the news story and see the action on KSL News online.

This week's manner is "Don't Brag." It is fun to share cool things about our lives and to be confident enough to share something awesome. However, we want to make sure that we allow others to share about their lives and accomplishments, too, without always feeling the need to "one up" them. When we are confident, we can celebrate the successes of others and build them up without feeling threatened or "less than."

52 Modern Manners for Kids

This week's game of the week is Celebrity Dodge Ball. We hope you will encourage your students to give it a try. This is a great way for students to have fun playing, make new friends, and include everyone.

We are so excited about our new attribute for the month! This week we are beginning our focus on C, which stands for confidence. Confidence is being comfortable with who you are. You know your strengths and weaknesses, and you know you can keep getting better through practice and effort. You can celebrate the successes of others as well as your own. Being confident in themselves is something our students need!

Your students will be working on activities throughout the month that help them understand what it is to be confident and to start to build that quality within themselves. Be sure to ask them about the things they are doing in their LETTERing books!

With the new month comes a new opportunity for students to earn their attendance and reading brag tags. Please continue to encourage your students to earn their brag tags! Students can earn an attendance brag tag if they have 0-1 absences for the month. They earn their reading brag tag by reading at home at least 18 days during the month.

Please be aware of your students' attendance and help them to be at school every day. We understand that students who are sick need to be home. However, missing a day of school here and there adds up quickly and puts students behind. Thank you for your support!

Kindergarten Priority Registration for the 2025-26 school year is now underway through Feb. 28 in the Davis School District. Both full-day and half-day options are available. Please read the attached letter to incoming kindergarten parents. We would appreciate if you could let neighbors with incoming kindergarten students know that we are registering students now for next year. Registration packets are in the office and on our website. You can also click on the following link to list your student's name, and the office will contact you with registration information. https://forms.office.com/r/gaRFdZ8V6n

Thank you!

Evaluate Davis parent surveys are now open on your MyDSD account through February 28. We hope you will take a minute to fill out these surveys and let us know how we are doing. We value your feedback!

The dual-language immersion application is live for the upcoming school year. We are fortunate to have two dual-language immersion schools in our community. Syracuse Elementary offers Chinese, and Buffalo Point Elementary offers Spanish.

If your child will be a first-grader next year, you might want to consider applying for dual-language immersion. Students entering higher grades may be eligible but must pass a language test. You can access the application and information about dual-language immersion at the following link. https://www.davis.k12.ut.us/o/dsd/page/elementary-dual-language-immersion

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Location: 3788 West 300 North, West Point, UT 84015, USA
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