Spring update

Our Baby Bengal Bash is coming up on April 24, and there is lots to do to prepare! Please help us make this a lot of fun by donating one item for our monstrous raffle baskets. You can send in one item to coordinate with your child’s grade level theme or send in a gift card and we can find an appropriate basket for it. This raffle is so much fun and gets lots of attention, please consider sending something in to your child’s teacher this week. Also, please consider volunteering for one 20 minute time slot so we can keep all of the games open all night. We are having some trouble getting volunteers this year, and could really use your help – we just need ya for 20 minutes. Please let your child’s teacher know if you are available. If you haven’t already, please take a look at our website to get some great information on our focus this year, Developing a Growth mindset. We have an entire section of our website dedicated to explaining the growth mindset to our parents, its’ importance, and lots of ideas for parents to also cultivate this for their children. We hope you will find it helpful!

Updates for our week: We will have Early Release tomorrow, Friday, March 27. We will dismiss at 1:15. Please remember to have an adult at the bus stop for your K-2 child. Given the confusion with the make-up days, I wanted to remind you that all students will be out next Friday, April 3 – school will be closed. Today in the Friday folders you will be getting some information about our spring festival, the Baby Bengal Bash, which is our big, annual, family event. We have lots of fun activities planned for our families on the evening of April 24, and hope you will plan to attend. Please take a look at the flyers on different ways you can help out – cake walk, raffle ticket sales, and basket contributions are all different ways we could use your support. Please make sure that you are following us on Twitter for school live updates at #willowspringses, and always see our school website for the latest info: willowspringses.wcpss.net.

March message

Thank you so much for your patience throughout our crazy February weather – the safety of our students is of course, the county’s top priority. We will keep you abreast of make-up information, when it is all sorted out, but to clarify: We will not have an Early Release on Friday, March 6 as part of our make-up hours of instruction – school will be in session as a full day for tracks 1,3 and 4. We will not have school on Saturday, March 7; however. Willow Springs’ contributions to the Wake Up and Read Book Drive are coming along nicely. The county is trying to collect 150,000 books for children in our area. Please consider donating new or gently used books appropriate for children K-3 to our collection site through March 13. Our collection box is in the lobby. As a reminder, track one will track out after school tomorrow, March 6 and track 2 comes back on Monday, March 9.

February Updates

This Friday we have Early Release. Students will be dismissed at 1:15, so please remember to be ready to receive your students earlier on Friday. As a reminder, on Early Release days we have lunch 30 minutes earlier. We have posted the NC Report Card link and the Wake County School progress reports on our website, so take a look at how Willow Springs scored on multiple areas of measure. We are proud of our entire school community, and continue to strive for excellence. We will be reviewing the reports at our PTA meeting on Monday night at 6:30, so come out if you have any questions.

January Reminders

Just a reminder that track 3 is tracking out today and track 4 will return on Wednesday this week. Track change requests are due by Friday - just send in a note with your child’s teacher or give us a call at the office. If you have a rising kindergartner and did not register him or her last week, please do so before Friday. Remember that this is the season for requesting a different school for next year. The magnet application period is open now – you will need your child’s student id number to complete this application online at wcpss.net. If you want your child to attend a different school that is not magnet, the transfer application will be February 20-26. Please give us a call if you have any questions about that process. We look forward to welcoming back our track 4 friends tomorrow.

Assignment Information

January 12, 2015 Student assignment strips have gone home, which identify the school your child is assigned to for the 2015-16 school year. I wanted to take a moment and make sure you know the application dates for any changes you may want to make to your child’s school assignment. All applications are completed online at www.wcpss.net and you will need your child’s id number, which is also their lunch number. -If you are currently at Willow Springs as a transfer student, and you wish to return to your base, then you will need to declare your decision this week by Friday. -If you want to choose a magnet school, the application window is Jan. 26-30 and if you want to request a transfer to any other school, the application window is Feb. 20-26. If you are happy with your assignment, then you do not need to do anything, and your assignment will stay the same. Remember Kindergarten Registration is this Thursday. If you have a child that will be 5 by August 31, please take some time to come out and register them on Jan. 15. You will need their birth certificate and a current proof of residence, as well as your drivers’ license. As always, please call us if you have any questions. Have a great week.