Welcome to West 2022/23!
Welcome back to West Elementary! We are excited to see all of you as we begin the new 2022/2023 school year. There are a few things we want you to be aware of before we start. So, please make sure to read over the following information carefully.
Registration - Make sure you have registered your child through your Parent Portal, especially if you need transportation. Most of you have already done this, but if you haven’t, please do so right away. This will help us know of any changes over the summer and to officially let us know your child is returning. This can be done on the district website.
Open House - Monday August 22 for 4-6 PM is our school open house. Here you can see your child’s teacher and classroom.
Class Lists - These will be posted on the front windows of the building on Friday Aug. 19 at 4:00 PM. You may also check your Parent Portal to see which teacher your student is assigned to.
School Begins at 8:30, but the doors open for breakfast at 8:00 if you child will be eating breakfast at school. This is free to all students!!! Once your child is done eating, they will be sent outside to line up in their appropriate areas. If your child doesn’t eat breakfast at school, we will have supervision in the line up areas starting at 8:15 every morning. The playground is not an option in the morning. The bell rings at 8:29 every day, so plan accordingly as to when you will be dropping your child off at school.
End of the day - The school day ends at 3:36. Please be patient when picking up at the end of the day, since we know it will be busy with cars pulling in and out on 24th street. The west side parking lot near Christ Memorial Church should be where our 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are picked up to help reduce the number of cars on 24th street - there is NO dropping off your student in the back(south) bus loop under any circumstances. The TK-2 students will exit the school from the doors in the front on 24th Street. There are two options for pick up - parking in the parking lot, or going through the pick up line in the front loop. Parents can park in the east parking lot and walk to the front to meet their student. Please check in with the teacher, to inform them they are being picked up. Do not park in front loop at all during pick up. When picking up in the front loop, please use one single line along the sidewalk to pick up your student. Do not exit your car - staff will be there to assist your child into the car. Please be patient until our staff is familiar with students and families - as the year progresses this line goes quite quickly. It’s about student safety , we do not want kids running across the drive, so please abide by these expectations.
Lunch forms - Please be sure to fill out the lunch form for your child either online or fill out a paper copy you can get in the office. The online version is the best way for us to keep track of, but either way you choose, we need ALL families to fill this form out. Those forms help determine funding for school lunches, whether or not you qualify for Free or Reduced lunch. Thank you for doing this.
Volunteer at HPS: We love when parents or guardians get involved. Make sure to fill out this form (once each school year).
New Staff at West, and current Staff - new positions:
- Dean - Cynthia Alvarado
- ASD teacher - Kari Zwick
- Psychologist - Shawn Teegardin
- Social Worker - Dania Dilbert
- TK teacher - JJ Poretta
- PE teacher - Shelly Blystra
- ASD IA - Patrice Greene
- ASD IA - Hillary Sutton
- ASD IA - Brittany Santellan
- ASD IA - Hannah Meade
- ECSE IA - Amy Monteith
- Braillist - Erin O'Connell
- DHH IA - Nicole Dykstra
We are excited to get back to partnering with you to support the growth and learning of your child. We will continue to encourage your child give their best effort every day, so please continue to encourage your child to come to school with a positive attitude and to give their best effort, even when it’s difficult. We will also be continuing with our POWER expectations, so feel free to discuss those with your child before we start up this fall.