Instagram Account: Walker_Elementary_School

Email: lryan@sdale.org
Website: http://walker.sdale.org/
Location: 1701 S 40th St, Springdale, AR 72762, USA
Phone: (479)750-8874
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Walker-Elementary-School-153949846329/?fb_dtsg_ag=AdwRYGYALRWaOM_WFS6amN-KET7MLpVyEIsHP67NBtqKpw%3AAdzbMII6M5eTTkPHoihXX-c_sZfj8FhoBtbfGpEfoEMIPA
Twitter: @WalkerWildcats1

Dear Walker Families,

We are ready for the sixth week of school! This week brings us to the month of October.

Our Virtual Parent-teacher conferences were a huge success for our families. We hope you enjoyed this time to connect to your child's teacher and their classroom. Hopefully, this time enabled you to learn more about things happening at school and how you can partner with us to best meet your child's needs.

We would like to encourage every family to join the Walker PTA. Our PTA does so much to support our school and we would like to connect all of our families through the PTA. To join, use the QR code shown below. PTA is offering a prize for the classroom with the most PTA memberships. You can sign up all your family members, even grandparents.

In order to keep our morning drop off line as short as possible, we ask that you have your child get out of the vehicle when you pull up and traffic stops next to the sidewalk. Please check out the map below showing the unloading zone next to the sidewalk that runs along the front of the gym and school.

Thank you for partnering with us for your child's education. We are here for your child each and every day. If there is a question, concern, or even an idea to share, please reach out to your child's teacher or to either one of us. Please read the newsletter below for important updates and changes happening at Walker and in the Springdale School District. We look forward to a great 2020-2021 school year.

Thank you,

Mrs. Lynn Ryan, Principal, lryan@sdale.org

Mrs. Carrie Farris, Assistant Principal, cfarris@sdale.org

All students in kindergarten through fifth grade will have a supply fee of $30.00 for school supplies. You can pay this fee online using this link:(https://osp.osmsinc.com/SpringdaleAR/) or the QR code below. If you have not yet paid for supply fees, your child will be bringing home an envelope with a supply fee note attached on Monday.

All students will be served school meals at no cost from now until December 31, 2020. For more information please reach out to Mrs. Gena Smith, Child Nutrition Director, By phone, (479) 750-8707 ext. 1, By email, gsmith2@sdale.org

Please see the link below for information from the USDA about free meals for your child.

Due to COVID-19, visitors to school buildings will be limited to only those with essential school business. We hope to relax this restriction as the pandemic subsides.

• While COVID-19 is prevalent in our community, guests will not be allowed to eat lunch with students. We hope to be able to relax this restriction as the pandemic subsides.
• Parents are encouraged to meet with teachers via phone or video conferences when they have any questions or concerns. Currently, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) recommend limiting any nonessential visitors to schools.

The Springdale School District has a new COVID information page. Please see the link below for the latest information on COVID from the Springdale School District.

COVID-19 Webpage: go.sdale.org/covid

In an effort to be timely and transparent, the Springdale School system created a webpage for COVID-19. Please click below to visit the webpage: go.sdale.org/covid

The webpage will have features including:

Daily numbers update and other important Links related to COVID-19

-COVID-19

-Leave form for Faculty

-Process of Notification for potential COVID-19 exposure

-Wear because we care and #SHIELDUP- face covering in Springdale Schools

-Custodial, Food, Transportation Logistics

-COVID-19 Safety Measures

-And.....Much more

Go.sdale.org/covid will remain the primary location for up to date COVID-19 information.

Thank you for your support of the Springdale School District and Walker Elementary as we navigate back to school.

Please click on the link to the newsletter below from our superintendent, Dr. Jared Cleveland, for information about how the district will respond to positive cased of COVID-19 during school.

Walker Elementary has a Facebook page for the school, EAST, KKids, and PTA. Like all these pages to keep up with the latest school information. Click on the links below to get to each page. Then click on the like button to follow our pages. Once you like our pages, you will see our posts in your Facebook newsfeed.