The Wildcat Word

Spring is in full swing, and we're gearing up for an exciting and productive season of learning! As we head into the final stretch of the school year, there are several important assessments and events to keep on your radar.

📚 Progress Reports will go home on April 17th, giving you an update on your child’s academic progress.
🧠 The End-of-Year iReady Diagnostic runs from April 14 – May 1, and the EOY Amplify Assessments will follow from April 14 – May 12. These assessments help us measure student growth from middle to end of the year.

🗓️ Our Last Club Day is scheduled for April 25th at 2:00 PM—thank you to all our students, staff and parents who made clubs such a fun experience this year!

Looking ahead to May, please note the upcoming 3rd-5th EOG (End-of-Grade) Testing dates:
📘 Reading – May 8
➗ Math – May 9
🔬 Science (5th) – May 13

Thank you for your continued support—we’re so proud of all the hard work our students are doing as we wrap up the school year strong!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xu1_Bbiul8leG8Hmo6TdHnPmr-qtLLSr/view?usp=sharing

Enjoy the video from our Spanish teacher Sr. Delgado.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lhS5B1m2ME

Now Recruiting!!! Mentors needed for the IB Exhibition, also known as the PYP X Event. CLICK HERE to Learn More

• April 1-7: Boosterthon Daily Events
• April 7: Spring Pictures
• April 7-17: NNAT3 Testing for 2nd grade
• April 8th: Boosterthon Fun Run
• April 10th: Special Olympics
• April 11th: Book - A - Palooza
• April 11: Book-a-palooza
• April 17: Progress Reports
• April 18: NO SCHOOL
• April 21: Uncapped Work Day
• April 23: PYP X
• April 25: Club Day

Currently, Weddington is over $3,200 in cafeteria meal debt. If these balances are not paid off, the school must use school funds to pay the balance at the end of the school year. If you or your business would be interested in donating to this cause please send in a check payable to Weddington Hills Cafeteria, attention Annessia Lee. We appreciate your support. Much appreciation for your partnership.

It's that time again!! PTO will be hosting a staff lunch on May 7th. We will provide a duty free lunch for classroom teachers. Please sign up on the sign-up genius if you are able to assist.

SIGN UP GENIUS: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409084BAFAE23A5FE3-55846175-duty#/

🐾 PTO Membership! 🐾

Join our PTO today! Receive a membership card with local discounts and help support our school at the same time! Your involvement is impactful! Join Us! $10 Wildcat Family & $5 Weddington Teacher / Staff Member.

https://www.weddingtonhills-pto.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5ee551c227fc162ae10904c2

The spirit rock allows you to recognize a student, share your school spirit, thank a staff member, or any other celebratory event. This is a great way to spread positivity at our school. Click HERE to sign up and reserve the rock!

ParentSquare is the official platform for school-to-home communications in Cabarrus County Schools. Our district, schools and teachers use ParentSquare to communicate directly with families on a daily basis and in case of emergency. We strongly encourage you to download the ParentSquare app and register your account today.

Please visit our ParentSquare for Parents information page to learn more about the free Mobile App, where you can customize notification preferences to fit your needs and schedule, set your preferred language for automatic two-way translation and so much more.

Class Dojo is a digital platform and app that is apart of WHES Core Behavior System. It is a way for our teachers to manage and provide feedback to students' classroom behavior. Students earn points for showing the Wildcat Way by being Safe, Respectful, Responsible, & Kind. Students are able to use their points in their classroom store, our Whiskers Whereabouts After several redirection strategies, if students do not demonstrate the Wildcat Way then students will receive a Needs Work to help redirect their behavior. If you are not connected to your child's classroom class dojo, please get connected. Reach out to your child's teacher for more information.

As you begin to prepare for the upcoming school year, please take a moment to download our 2024-25 academic calendars.

For more information, please visit the 2024-25 district calendars webpage.

On June 10, 2024, the Board of Education updated Policy 4318 Student Use of Electronic Devices. Policy 4318 is attached to this post. Please note the following important updates for the 2024-25 school year:

• Elementary School: Students are not allowed to utilize electronic devices from arrival on campus through departure from campus. Students are required to power off and securely store their cell phones away from their person throughout the school day.
• Middle School: Students are not allowed to utilize electronic devices from arrival on campus through afternoon dismissal. Students are required to power off and securely store their cell phones away from their person throughout the school day. Students engaged in after-school activities will have access to their electronic devices for communicating with parents/guardians.
• High School: Students are not allowed to utilize electronic devices during instructional time. Students may use electronic devices during non-instructional times which may include arrival/dismissal, breakfast/lunch, and class change. During instructional time, students are required to power off and securely store their electronic devices away from their person.

Arrival: Please follow our new car rider line route that we put in place at the beginning of the school year. Linked is the route map and the video as a reminder.

Dismissal: Enter at Weddington Road. Snake through the staff parking lot. Loop around car rider line and exit.

If you have not already requested bus transportation, please complete the google form ASAP. If a bus is requested, on or after open house, it an take up to 2 weeks to be assigned a bus route.

CLICK HERE FOR BUS FORM

CCS is continuing to use this school bus tracking app. Parents can track their student's bus location on this app. Currently the messaging portion is not active yet, so if a sub bus is running it won’t show the sub bus number or info. But otherwise should be working to track regular buses.

Here are some links to get started using this app:

Edulog English

Edulog Spanish

Edulog Info Graphic English

Edulog Info Graphic Spanish

If you are showing as pending, you do not have the correct student ID number for your child, please contact the school and we will be happy to assist you!

Please leave feedback for our administrators: https://forms.gle/TDiQMpi19Eih6hpJ7

Principal: Annessia Lee, annessia.lee@cabarrus.k12.nc.us

Assistant Principal: Cathryn Morse, cathryn.morse@cabarrus.k12.nc.us

Assistant Principal: Kaylee Price, kaylee.price@cabarrus.k12.nc.us

Assistant Principal: Casey Campbell, casey.campbell@cabarrus.k12.nc.us

This is the address of our school website https://whes.cabarrus.k12.nc.us