Wilkerson Families,

This is a busy week at Wilkerson! We hope you can join us for the Fall Festival on Thursday evening!

This edition of the Wildcat Weekly contains the following Important information

• Tuesday: Wear Pink for Cancer Awareness
• Thursday: Solid Gold Celebration - Wear 70s attire!
• October 10: 50th Celebration and Fall Festival:
• Ticket online NOW through 10/8
• Students and Staff wear 1970s attire to school for the 50th Celebration.
• Haunted Woods, Hayride, Glow Room, Candy Land, Festival Games, Costume Contest, Concessions
• Students must be accompanied by a parent
• Candy Contest: Ends on Tuesday, 10/8
• Gifted and Talented Testing
• Important Assessment Dates
• Free and Reduced Lunch Application
  
• More than just meals
• May help reduce other fees
• School Funding
• Family Needs Assessment
• Links to Title 1 Compact.
• Links to Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy
  
• Information from CISD

Safety is always our first priority.

• Please do not ask your child to walk through traffic to get into your vehicle.
• Please use the crosswalk between Knox and Wilkerson to cross over to the neighborhood across the street. Crossing at Wilkerson's carline entrance is not safe.
• Please do not park across the street and walk over to get your child.

This is a fun event for our Wilkerson families and our community. The festival will start at 6:30 PM with Candy Land (Trick-or-Treat), Hayride, Glow Room, Carnival Games, a Costume Contest (K-2, 3-6), and Concessions. The Haunted Woods will start at 7:00 PM, and the Festival will close at 9:00 PM.

Participants in the Hayride and Haunted Woods must complete a parent permission/waiver form. Forms were delivered to homeroom classes on Friday. If they did not come home on Friday, they will come home on Monday. The forms are also linked below.

Waiver in Spanish

Waiver in English

Ticket can be purchased online now. The link and QR code to the ticket sale website below. There is a service charge for online sales. Therefore, when you purchase $20 of tickets online, you will get five additional tickets free. This is for online sales only.

Tickets will also be sold at the door. Cash only at the door.

We are asking students and staff to wear 1970s attire for this special day. We will have a celebration with former students and staff in the morning. The celebration will end with our current students lining the halls for a clap-out. We think it will special for the celebration participants and fun for our students.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Wilkerson Family Fun Night! We had a blast!

We will have another Wilkerson Family Night in the spring. We hope you will join us again and invite another Wilkerson family to join in the fun.

Referral Requests for Gifted and Talented Testing

Referral requests are now open for the Conroe Independent School District Gifted and Talented program. Although the testing will not take place until late January, referral requests are accepted at this time. Referral requests can be made by the parents and/or campus staff. If you are interested in referring your child, you may want to discuss this with your child’s teacher. Referrals will be accepted October 1- December 19, 2024. You may request a referral form from the front office or the Assistant Principal. You can also find the referral form and other GT information on the CISD GT homepage.

Interim STAAR assessments will take place on campus in November. These are not taken for a grade; they are used for data purposes so teachers can analyze and alter their instruction. The dates are listed below. The grade level testing each day will shut down and test in the morning. We will create a secure testing environment like STAAR. The grade level not testing will run a regular schedule. We will be a closed campus those days, so parents will not be allowed to eat lunch with students.

November 7th - 5th math

November 8th - 6th math

November 11th - math makeups (no altered schedule)

November 13th - 6th ELA

November 14th - 5th ELA

November 15th - ELA makeups (no altered schedule)

In order to have lunch with your child, you must complete the form linked in the button below.

Lunch Visitor Information

• You will be seated at a table at the entrance of the Fine Arts hallway to eat lunch with your child.
• Only your child will be allowed to eat with you at the table.
• Only those who are listed as parents/guardians or emergency contacts can visit during lunch.
• If there is a friend, relative, or mentor who is not on the contact list wants have lunch with your child, you will need to contact the school to give permission. Our front office number is 832-592-8900.

Please complete the Family Needs Assessment Form found in the link below. This will help us better understand what assistance you might need throughout the year.

Safe gun storage is critical to preventing unintentional shootings, suicide, and other tragedies. Learn more about the Keep ‘Em Safe Texas initiative and view resources at the provided link. Gun locks are also available through the Conroe ISD Police Department.

English letter: http://tiny.conroeisd.net/ezGFN

Spanish letter: http://tiny.conroeisd.net/xpSwo

Anonymous or Secret Apps:

- Whisper: An app where users share secrets anonymously.

- YOLO: Allows users to receive anonymous questions on Snapchat.

- Sarahah: An app for anonymous feedback.

The Wilkerson Student Dress Code is shown below. Please review the dress code so that you are aware of the guidelines.

• Pictures, emblems, or writings on clothing that include any of the following are prohibited:

• Depict lewd, violent, suggestive, offensive, vulgar or obscene graphics or words

• Advertise or depict tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, drugs, weapons, or any other prohibited items

• Halter tops, racer back shirts, muscle shirts, and spaghetti-strap tops are not permitted unless covered by another shirt at all times. Shirts must fit under the arm so as not to expose undergarments or torso.

• Midriff shirts, or shirts exposing the midsection of the body are not permitted.

• Pants/shorts may not be worn lower than undergarments.

• Shorts, dresses, and skirts must reach fingertip length when the student rests their arms at their side (mid thigh). This is expected even when leggings/tights are worn underneath.

• Shorts/tights should be worn under dresses.

• Pajamas/sleepwear of any kind is not permitted.

• Hats/Hoods are not to be worn inside the school.

• Closed-toed shoes with backs must be worn in PE. Tennis shoes are recommended. Flip flops may not be worn during PE.

• Hair and Hairstyles that pose a distraction to the learning environment are not permitted.

• Heavy make-up/cosmetics that pose a distraction to the learning environment are not permitted.

• Marking on skin with markers, pens, highlighters etc… is not permitted.

• Additionally, any clothing or grooming that in the principal’s judgment may reasonably be expected to cause disruption of or interfere with normal school operations will be prohibited.