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Nothing can stop a great year at VVES
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August 30, 2012 |
By Gary Pflueger
Principal
Valley View Elementary
Wasn’t that a fast summer!?! Time flies when
you’re having fun, they say! I hope the break
will allow you and your children to join us
refreshed and ready for an exciting year.
The staff of Valley View Elementary School (VVES)
has been hard at work preparing for a special
school year. We will offer great challenges,
adventure and excitement as we prepare our
students for success in the 21st Century. Many
changes are coming to the public schools system:
the advancement of technology/communication and
National Common Core Standards, to name a few.
Our school goal will remain the same as last
year — “VVES will strive to promote a SAFE,
CIVIL & PRODUCTIVE school environment!”
Safe is both physical and emotional safety.
Civil behaviors allow us to live in a polite and
cooperative society. Productive is accepting our
role and responsibility to make it all work, by
completing given tasks to the best of our
ability!
Last year we worked to provide consistent
behavioral supports; this will continue. The
goal this year is to raise our academic
expectations, particularly in the 3 Rs: reading
‘riting and ‘rithmetic.
Through an Idaho grant we hired Debbie Pauls as
an Idaho Reads-Vista Coordinator. Her challenge
is to solicit volunteers and materials to
advance the reading skills of all our children.
The written word will take an advanced position
in our academic day; all students will complete
a formal monthly writing. The staff will work
together to identify and score the students’
writing using a Direct Writing Assessment
Rubric.
Finally, VVES has adopted a new math curriculum,
"My Math," published by McGraw-Hill. This is a
mastery based program which, in my opinion, will
better meet the needs of our students.
To help us with our goals we have 11 new
employees at VVES.
I am proud to introduce the following: Amber
Weymer, fifth grade, Adrienne Warren, fifth
grade, Doug Shryock, third grade, Julie Vinton,
pre school, Patricia Burlingame, afternoon
librarian, Karen Moore, school nurse, Angela
Hittle, Americorp, Debbie Pauls, Idaho Reads,
Candy Behrens, Title 1 para, Debbie Flory, Title
1 para, and Ammie Christopherson, Life Skills
para.
I am very excited to have these good people on
our roster.
This year the VVES PTO is under new leadership.
Angela Hittle, Anne Tompkins and Jennifer
English will lead the way as this important
parent/teacher organization provides academic
and financial support for our students.
This group will organize special events, provide
additional academic support and pay the way for
field trips to advance the classroom
instruction. The first meeting of the PTO will
be held at 4 p.m. Wedesday, September 12, at
Valley View. See you there! Thank you ladies!
School will begin for the students on Tuesday,
September 4.
We will be open for business!
Doors open at 7:45 a.m.; tardy bell rings at
8:10 a.m.
Breakfast is available for no cost and lunch
will be served.
THERE WILL BE NOTHING THAT CAN STOP US
FROM HAVING A GREAT SCHOOL YEAR—PLEASE JOIN US!
I look forward to working with your children and
the Bonners Ferry community!
Mark your calendar: Back to School Night and
Open House, 6 p.m. Monday, September 10. |
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