The World of Westwood Wolves
Unleashing the Power of Our Pack- #PackPower!
August 21, 2022
From the principal's office...
What a great 1st week full of #PackPower! Kids were getting to know each other and our staff, learning about how things work at Westwood, and having fun!
We appreciate your patience with the car rider line this week as we have worked through kinks with dismissal. We found out we have a lot more car riders than usual on Wednesdays with early release, so that will be a bit of a challenge, but we are working on it.
Speaking of the car rider line...here's how it works. All cars should pull forward as much as possible; we unload 8 cars at a time (2 rows of 4 cars) in front of the crosswalk. As soon as all students have safely exited the first 8 vehicles, we pull the next 8 up and unload those.
It really helps if students are ready to unbuckle their own seat belts/car seat buckles and exit cars quickly with backpacks. It holds up the line when parents have to get out of cars.
Dismissal is at 3:10 for car riders on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Every Wednesday, car riders will dismiss at 1:50. The walker bell is always five minutes before the car rider line starts. Please do not wave your kids over to come to your car in the line- we will send them to you once all cars are safely stopped.
Next week, we will start sending the kids who are not picked up from the back hall to the front at 3:25 (2:05 on Wednesdays). If your student is a 3rd, 4th, or 5th grader, please make every effort to pick him/her up on the side by 3:25. All students should be picked up by 3:30 at the absolute latest.
Also, you should have received a letter over the summer as a reminder to update your child's information in registration gateway. The instructions for logging in were in the letter. If you have not done that, your student does not have an updated AUA (Acceptable Usage Agreement) form that we must have to assign a device (iPad or Chromebook) to your child. You'll need to update that ASAP. Here is the link if you need it. You can also come to the office to use one of our iPads if that would help.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Crumby
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PHONE CALLS: We also send out phone calls through an automated system; you will receive these calls if your phone number is correct in Registration Gateway. If your number changes, you can update the information in Registration Gateway, or call the office to update.
SOCIAL MEDIA/WEBSITE: The weekly parent update and other announcements/stories are also posted on our school's Facebook page and website. We are working on activating our school's Instagram account also- we'll let you know when that's up and running.
PAPER NOTES: We also send out paper notes at times; most of these will be sent in folders that come home every Tuesday. Every now and then, we need to send information on other days, so it's a great practice to check the backpacks each afternoon/evening.
We don't want you to miss any information, so we put things out in lots of ways!
Upcoming Dates/Events:
Sept. 5- Labor Day (no school)
Sept. 14- Back to school rally at Arvest Ballpark (all students invited)
Sept. 26-30- Conference and book fair week
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Assistant Principal- Martha Tompkins, mtompkins@sdale.org
Email: westwoodinfo@sdale.org
Website: https://westwood.sdale.org/o/westwood-elementary
Location: 1850 McRay Avenue, Springdale, AR, USA
Phone: (479)750-8871
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WestwoodWolves