Shamrock Springs News

Good afternoon Shamrock Springs! We've had a busy but fun week at SSES! Tonight is our Fall Festival/Trunk or Treat event. We will have food trucks, inflatables, music, games and plenty of trunks for treating! We'll also get to showcase our first choir performance. Food trucks will open at 5:30 PM and the festival runs from 6 PM to 8 PM. We hope to see you there!

Don't forget that registration has opened for Session 2 of After School Enrichment! It closes on October 15th, so go to the Membership Toolkit on the PTO website for registration if you are interested!

Fall break is October 20th through October 24th, and if you are planning to leave for fall break a little early, please make sure to call the attendance line (317-867-7400, ext. 20001) or email Mrs. Stephens (stephenst@wws.k12.in.us) to let us know when you're leaving. We can take your attendance ahead of time, too, to make things easier for everyone.

I hope that all of you have a wonderful weekend!

Robb Hedges

Principal

hedgesr@wws.k12.in.us

Having good vision is very important to the success of a child's education. Indiana code IC 20-34-3-12 requires all public schools conduct a near and far vision acuity screening for all students in grades Kindergarten, third, fifth and eighth grade as well as students suspected of having difficulty seeing.

If your child already has glasses or contact lenses to help them see near or far, please help them remember to bring these to school. They will be screened with their corrective lenses. If your student needs additional vision testing, a note will be sent home.

This school year, KG and 3rd grade will be doing vision screenings during the month of October with the assistance of the Lion's Club and Norman & Miller of Westfield.

Lisa Morgan, BSN-RN

SSES Nurse

morganl@wws.k12.in.us

317-867-7400 (ext. 20005)

The safety of the children is always our top priority and we am always looking for ways to improve our processes to make sure that everyone is safe. One of the areas that we have been reviewing is our pick-up and dismissal procedures, and this is where we need your help. Every time your child has a change in dismissal, we (the office) must be notified. You may do this by:

Calling the office directly up until 1:30 PM each day. Please do not leave dismissal changes on the attendance line. If your child attends BAC, don't forget to notify them, too.
Using Talking Points to text the office and your child's teacher.
Sending a note to your child’s teacher and to the office with the dismissal changes.
Emailing the office staff at:

stephenst@wws.k12.in.us

grayc@wws.k12.in.us

We understand that during the day, schedules may change and life happens. In the event of a dismissal change after 9:00 AM, please call (317-867-7400) or email the office directly. Please DO NOT email or call your child’s teacher during the day with dismissal changes. The teachers are very busy and may not have the opportunity during the day to check voicemail or emails. Also, if there is a substitute teacher in the classroom, they WILL NOT have access to the teacher’s voicemail or email. We also ask that you DO NOT call after 1:30 PM with dismissal changes. We appreciate all of your help making sure that all of the children are safe.

Please check out the new Specials Website! Click on the graphic below.

Stock the Teacher's Lounge

We love to spoil the teachers at SSES and would love to have your help! If you could donate snacks for the Teacher's Lounge, they would be so greatful! To donate, just click here! You may drop off snacks in the front office. Thank you!

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We are happy to announce that we will continue to offer food support again this year for families who can benefit from this assistance with the Back Sacks Program! Through this program, our goal is to help feed our kiddos on the weekends when school breakfast and lunch is not available. We are so thankful to Open Doors of Westfield and Merciful HELP in Carmel for helping make this happen.

At the end of each week, your child will receive a small sack of food in his or her backpack. The sack will have two small breakfast meals, two small lunch meals, as well as a couple of snacks and drinks. All foods are shelf-stable, which means they do not need to be refrigerated. Examples of items are cereal, granola bars, macaroni and cheese, spaghettios, dried fruit and crackers. The food is collected and distributed by Merciful HELP and Open Doors.

If you would like your child(ren) to participate in the Back Sacks program, please fill out this GOOGLE FORM.

If you have any questions please contact me at millerj@wws.k12.in.us

Thank you,

Justin Miller

Student Mentor

Westfield High School now has an apparel shop! It's called the WHS Rock Shop and offers many wonderful items for sale. You can click here to visit the web site and order!

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Want to help Westfield families with the click of a button? The Purposity app allows you to anonymously purchase clothing and home essentials for students that were identified by our school counselors.

Click here to help a Westfield family

The Rock Strong Award presented by the Westfield Education Foundation is a quarterly award, given out at each school and operations to recognize teachers, instructional assistants, instructional coaches, building secretaries, bus drivers, substitute teachers, food service staff and operations staff for the great work they do for our children and our community!

Each quarter, all schools and operations will review nominations from staff, students, families and the community and select someone who represents its values and culture to receive the Rock Strong Award and a special gift.

Click here to nominate someone now. It only takes a minute!