Whitefield Elementary School

Reminder: There will be a meeting about the community ice rink tomorrow, November 23rd at 5pm in the conference room. Please plan on attending if you’d like to help out! Thank you! -- Jamie Simpson Physical Education Teacher Whitefield Elementary School (207) 549-7691

If you are planning to have your student vaccinated at the school Covid 19 vaccine clinic this Thursday, 11/18, please have the consent forms filled out and returned by Wednesday. This clinic is open to students ages 5 and up as well as anyone in the community. For more information or consent forms please reach out to Kendra Anderson, keanderson@svrsu.org or 549 - 5251.

Help needed! We are in need of 2 yards of sand, without salt, at Whitefield School to make anchor bags for our gardening program. It would need to be delivered. Can anyone help out? Please contact Karen McCormick (kmccormick@svrus.org) or Tim Davis ( tdavis@svrsu.org)

Picture retakes will be on December 8th. Orders can be placed online. If you need an order form please contact the school offie and we will send one home with your student.

FYI: We will be changing our menu next Monday and Tuesday. We are just swapping the days. Monday will be Taco Tuesday Monday! And Tuesday will be Fish. The fish will be as a sandwich.

The RSU 12 Board of Directors meeting is Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 6:30pm at Chelsea Elementary School. You can find the agenda here, https://www.svrsu.org/browse/271884

FYI: There will be no Camp Chelsea on 11/1 and 11/2.

THANK YOU to the Second Grade Authors who brought their books into the Learning Commons this past week and put them on display so that others could read them. Many students were amazed at the illustrations and stories that were written. Great Job!!

Don't forget to sign up for the Whitefield Athletic Association's youth basketball program. It is open to children in grades prek-6. You can sign up online. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SLkjrEF0oWaShBq38rE6cVoPLoemlLZq6_RiXbAsBWA/edit They are accepting registrations until 11/7/21

It's that time again! Whitefield Staff Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest is here. If you are dropping off/ picking up your child stop in and place your vote. There is some pretty strong competition this year!

RSU 12 is initiating a voluntary pooled testing program for students and staff. Information and consent forms will be sent home with students today or tomorrow. For those that want their students to participate, please submit the signed consent form to your student's school by November 1st in order to participate in the first round of pooled testing. Information about pooled testing and the consent forms are being sent home with students, but you can also find information and consent forms here, https://www.svrsu.org/browse/268071

The flu clinic at Whitefield Elementary School will be held today, Friday October 22nd, from 12:00pm - 2:15pm (times are estimated).

Sorry for the inconvenience but the flu clinic at WHES needs to be postponed until Friday, the 22nd. There has been a supply and shipment issue. Thank you for understanding.

Picture Day is Monday, October 18th. Order forms will be coming home with students tonight. If your student was no in school today you can place orders online either before or after picture day by going to lifetouch.com

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Whitefield School will be having a 3 bus run tomorrow, Friday the 15th, for both morning and afternoon runs. Please be advised that pick up and drop off times will vary from the norm. If you do not have a flexible schedule we encourage you to self transport. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

The RSU 12 Board of Directors meeting is this Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 6:30pm at Chelsea Elementary School. You can find the agenda here, https://www.svrsu.org/browse/264422

FYI: This is not an RSU 12 sponsored event.

Good Afternoon: On Thursday, October 7th, the school will be conducting a Grounds Evacuation at 10:00 a.m. During the drill the school holds a standard fire drill followed by a command to exit the school campus. As a school, we walk down Rt.126 to the neighboring Baptist Church next door. Once inside, we take attendance again and then provide instructions for the staff and students. We are there for a very short period of time and then, again as a group, walk back up 126 to the school. This specific drill is practiced once or twice a school year in case of an emergency that requires us to leave the campus. The Baptist Church has always been very gracious in offering their facility should such an emergency ever present a need to get everyone off the school grounds. We utilize the road, rather than crossing the school playground onto the church property, because we must practice a pathway to the church that would be available to us year round. Generally, our emergency drills are conducted without warning to better replicate a real emergency scenario. However, in the case of the Grounds Evacuation, I wouldn't want to create undue alarm for anyone passing by who might see the entire school population walking down the road and wonder what in the world was going on. I also wouldn't want to create a Facebook furor! Please feel free to alert your student(s) of this upcoming drill and talk about its need. Thanks! Mark Mark Deblois, Principal Whitefield Elementary School 164 Grand Army Road Whitefield, ME 04353-3503 (207) 549-5251 Email: mdeblois@svrsu.org "At Whitefield Elementary School We Have PRIDE INSIDE"

FYI: The class with the most participation will win donuts from Dunkin Donuts!

What better way to kick off October then with Whitefield Schools 1st annual Sunshine Club Staff Fall Bake-Off! 11 staff competed to see who makes the best apple or pumpkin treat. One student from each class came and taste tested and placed their vote. It was a stiff competition right to the end. Mr. Davis had to come in and place a deciding vote. The winner is Miss Andrea our social worker with her now Famous Apple Addiction Dip! Apple Addiction Dip 1 (8oz) pkg cream cheese 2T vanilla 1/4 c sugar 1/2 c brown sugar 1 pkg toffee bits ( Skor or Heath brands) 3-4 apples ( any variety) Whip cream cheese and vanilla together and blend in the sugars. Add toffee bits and mix together well. Let the dip sit overnight in the fridge. Cut the apples into wedges just before serving. Best served with local apples ! And congratulations to Miss Kendra, our school nurse, for taking second place with her equally famous Pumpkin Chip Cookies!