Wickliffe Family Update

Dear Wickliffe Families,

It was a short but eventful week at school! Despite the weather interruptions, we were thrilled to welcome students back on Thursday and kick off PACK Time—ask your child about what they explored and learned!

A few quick reminders:

• Our lost and found is overflowing! Please encourage your child to check for any missing items. Unclaimed items will be donated next Friday.
• Yearbook sales start this week! Students will be bringing home order forms—keep an eye out for those.
• Golden Apple Award nominations are open until Friday, February 28. This is a great opportunity to celebrate the outstanding teachers and staff in our district by submitting a nomination.

Thank you for your continued support. Wishing you a wonderful week!

Warmly,
Angela Evans

Now - February 28: Golden Apple Award Nomination period

January 24: Progress reports available in PowerSchool

January 26: DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) meeting

January 27: Town Meeting (Mrs. Shivers, Mrs. Santilli)

January 27: Coffee and Conversation with Dr. Hunt

January 27 – February 7: Yearbook Sale

February 3: Town Meeting (Mr. Schriner)

February 11: Kindergarten Information Night (6:30 p.m)

February 12: Classroom Group Mini Paroramic Photos

February 14: Valentines Day

February 18: Community Engagement Session #3 (PM option), Burbank, 6:30 p.m.

February 19: Community Engagement Session #3 (AM option), Graf, 9:00 a.m.

Due to limited storage space, any unclaimed items will be donated on the last Friday of each month. Volunteers have organized the items on tables/racks in the office hallway allowing parents and students to easily check for missing belongings.

Please encourage your child to check for any lost items, or feel free to stop by the Lost & Found tables yourself during the week. To help us return items promptly, we highly recommend labeling your child’s belongings with their name.

Please note: any items lost during the week of January 27 - 31 will not be included in the donation.

With the cold and often wet weather conditions, we are seeing increased clinic visits for falls and changes of clothing and, as a result, have limited supplies of extra athletic pants and leggings. We encourage you to place an extra change of clothing and socks in your child's backpack in case they should happen to collide with a puddle or snow pile in the cold and wet days to come. If you find that your children have outgrown athletic pants and leggings, and you would like to send them our way, we would welcome a supply of these to have on hand for others for wetter days!

From Mrs. Zelnik: Tickets are going fast! This will be an amazing show, order your tickets soon!

You can find information about the registration process and the upcoming kindergarten information nights at our elementary schools on our website.

Wickliffe's Kindergarten Information Night is Tuesday, February 11 at 6:30 p.m.

February is Rare Disease Month. Rare disease day is observed on February 28th. To raise awareness, Katie Coplin (2/3 teacher at Wickliffe) and Elsa Bertch (Learning Center teacher at Wickliffe) are partnering with Allison Tomlin (health teacher at Hastings) to help students explore and understand rare diseases.

Mrs. Coplin's class will collaborate with an 8th-grade class to research various rare diseases. As part of this project, students will create informational flyers, stickers, and presentations to share their learning. These materials will be presented to the Wickliffe community during Town Meeting and distributed more broadly through the flyers.

This partnership provides students with an opportunity to engage in meaningful research, develop creative ways to educate others, and contribute to raising awareness about rare diseases within our community.

We want students to learn about the rare diseases that affect members of our Wickliffe community while also being mindful and respectful of everyone's privacy.

We invite any Wickliffe families currently living with a rare disease to complete this survey if you’d like to participate. Your input is valuable, and we appreciate your time in sharing your experience.

For more information about Rare Diseases check out NORD.

You should receive an email from Hastings Middle School before January 24, 2025 with more information. If you have any questions ahead of the meeting, feel free to contact Assistant Principal, Megan Lippert (mlippert@uaschools.org).

Hi All! Welcome back! Below you will find the counseling lesson themes and parent information for each grade level! I will send home more information after each lesson but I know sometimes it can get lost in backpacks! As always please let me know if you need anything as we move through second semester!

K/1 Lesson- Conflict Resolution

In k/1 I will teach a skill called “A Bug and A Wish” to handle conflict appropriately. This is an easy framework for younger students to use that empowers them to tell someone else how their actions make them feel. This is how it goes:

“It bugs me when ________________. I wish you would __________________.”

Being able to handle conflicts calmly is such an important life skill!

2nd and 3rd grade lesson- Empathy

In ⅔ we will focus on Empathy. We will talk about what it means to understand what someone else is going through and practice showing we care in different situations!

4th and 5th Grade Lesson- Problem Solving

We will focus on how we can use the problem solving wheel or the peace path when we are having a problem with another person. We will role play different scenarios where the problem wheel or peace path can be used and how each person might solve conflict differently! See the wheel and the peace path below!

Wickliffe Wolves Around the World - Thursday, March 13th! Sign Up to Participate!

The signup to participate in Wickliffe Wolves around the World is open! Please consider sharing some of your family’s traditions and history in this fun celebration of our school community! The event will be March 13 6-8 pm, open to all Wickliffe families and extended families! If you’d like to participate and are wondering how, or if cost is prohibitive, please email Laura at laura6747@gmail.com as funding is (limited) available.

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C0449A4AF2AA0F85-54185558-wickliffe

Lunch Helper Volunteer Sign-Up January - May 2025

Chef Jim and staff need two volunteers every school day to help with lunch service. This is a fun and fast-paced activity that really helps the lunch periods go smoothly. Plus, it's a great way to see your little one(s) during the day!

Sign-Up Here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FAAAF22A5F58-54121206-lunch

Golden Star Choir

Attention all 4th and 5th grade parents/caretakers: If your child is interested in joining the Golden Star Choir, please fill out the Google form here: https://forms.gle/Jf7d7iiGDuBi42eu8 There is a $10 choir fee to help with shirts & props, which can be taken care of on the Wickliffe PTO website. Please log in to your account. Under My Account > My Forms is where you can access the link to pay the fee. Thanks!

The Upper Arlington Civic Association is excited to announce that the annual Golden Apple Award nominations for 2025 are here! This prestigious award can go to ANY faculty or staff in our schools. Your votes count! The winner of the Golden Apple at each school is decided by YOU! Any parent, student, colleague or community member can make a nomination. You can also nominate more than one person!

Visit www.UACA.org to fill out a nomination form between January 6 at 7:00 a.m. and February 28 at 11:59 p.m.

Parents, teachers or students can nominate students for Visual and Performing Arts assessments. This is a multi-step process where students will first be rated on their artistic talent by a teacher with knowledge of the student. Then, if that rating meets the screening criteria, your student will be invited to bring a portfolio of art or to audition outside of the district for trained arts instructors on 3/8/25 in New Albany. All of the information on this process is available here. The deadline to submit nominations is 2/10/25, though I would encourage you to complete the nomination process as soon as possible.

Upper Arlington Schools has launched an expanded Coffee & Conversation series for the 2024-2025 school year. These coffee chats are an opportunity for the community to learn more about the Upper Arlington Schools and to ask questions.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Coffee & Conversation events in January!

• Monday, January 27 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Jones Middle School Learning Center, 2100 Arlington Avenue — This session will include general district updates. Please enter through the main entrance facing the Mallway Plaza.

Requests for testing for the purpose of qualifying students for gifted services in the 2025-2026 school year must be received by March 1, 2025.

Upper Arlington Schools will administer the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) and Iowa Assessment in March 2025 for students in grades 2-5 who are referred for gifted identification testing (gr. 3 & 5) or retesting (gr. 2 & 4).

If you would like to refer your child for the March 2025 CogAT and/or Iowa Assessment, please complete this Google Form by February 21, 2025. If you are unable to complete the form, please email Gifted Education Coordinator Shannon Gagel at sgagel@uaschools.org.

When we experience inclement weather during the school week, we have two options. The first is closing school, which is known as a calamity day. The second is using a two-hour delay schedule. We haven’t used a delay in recent years, so here are some reminders:

• As you might expect, our K-12 schools start two hours later than the normally scheduled times.

• Burbank Early Childhood School’s tuition-based program would open at 11:00 a.m. The morning intervention program, including peers, would be canceled, and the afternoon intervention program would begin as scheduled at 12:45 p.m.

• Morning sessions of School-Age Child Care (SACC) are canceled.

• Students who use school transportation can expect their bus two hours later than the normal pick-up time.

• Dismissal times remain as usually scheduled.

Please refer to the cancellations and delays information on our website for additional information.

Attendance Information - Click link for full details

• If your child will be absent from school, please email wickliffeattendance@uaschools.org. Please state a reason for your child’s absence. If you are emailing your child’s teacher regarding attendance, simply copy the attendance email - no need to send separate emails.

• There is a link to the attendance email in the Upper Arlington Schools app

• District Attendance Policy

• Please obtain a medical excuse for ANY visit to a doctor, dentist, therapist, etc that occurs during a school day.

Planned Absence Form - Forms should be completed 10 school days in advance of the first date of the planned absence whenever possible. Otherwise, the absence may be unexcused.

District Website Link

• 2024-2025 School Year Calendar

• A-E Calendar

Drop off/Pick up information

Instagram Account ~ @wickwolves

Lunch Menu

Lunchroom Helper - click here to Volunteer

Nurse Notes

Any prescription medication administered at school requires written authorization from the student’s physician as well as written parental permission. Per Ohio Revised Code, the Prescribed Medication must be received by the health office in the container in which it was dispensed by the provider or pharmacist (we cannot accept medication in baggies). Medication authorization forms and other health forms can be found on the district website at: UA Health Forms. Should you have any questions, please contact the Wickliffe Health Office at 614-487-5150.

Our health clinics track communicable illnesses and work with local public health agencies to mitigate potential outbreaks. If your student is diagnosed with or treated for a communicable illness/condition (strep, pinkeye, influenza, COVID-19, lice, etc.), please report those to the school nurse at wickliffehealthclinic@uaschools.org, or wickliffeattendance@uaschools.org. Thank you for partnering with us to ensure Wickliffe is a healthy learning environment for all of our students!

PowerSchool Parent Portal: https://ps-uar.metasolutions.net/public/home.html

If you need assistance logging into PowerSchool, you may reach out to: familytechhelp@uaschools.org

Technology Family Support

• Check out this resource for K-5 families.

• WOSU Digital Wellness

• CommonSense Media Activities

Transportation Services

Email: schoolbusquestions@uaschools.org

UA Flyer Connection

Wickliffe PTO

Links to Previous Updates:

All of our updates can be found on the Wickliffe website under “school news”.