Lisa Leatham, Principal
Everyone is invited to attend a free Thanksgiving dinner sponsored by the Kiwanis of Fern Ridge and Food for Lane County. It will be here at Veneta Elementary School on Wednesday, November 26th starting at 1:00 PM. Everyone in the community is welcome.
Veneta Elementary School will be part of the Fern Ridge Holiday Bazaar this Friday and Saturday, November 21st and November 22nd. The gym will be full of vendors selling one of a kind holiday items ranging from art work to jewelry to handcrafted one of a kind items. Our PALS volunteers will be selling Smencils, new holiday SMENS, T-Shirts, and Water Bottles. Many of the classes have also made handcrafted ornaments and other items to sell at the Holiday Bazaar.
Our Scholastic Book Fair will also be open during the Holiday Bazaar. The Book Fair will be in the library. The Book Fair is a fundraiser for our school and 40% of what we sell comes back to the school in the form of books and other items for the school library. Scholastic is sending us the biggest Book Fair we have ever had which means more items to choose from including holiday gifts and cookbooks.
Both the Holiday Bazaar and the Book Fair will be open on Friday and Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The Book Fair will also be open during Parent Conferences.
The biggest and best Scholastic Book Fair that Veneta Elementary has ever seen is right around the corner! The Scholastic Book Fair will be open on Thursday, November 20th from 7:30 to 8:00 PM. It will also be open on Friday, November 21st from 7:30 to 5:00 PM, Saturday the 22nd from 9:00 to 5:00 PM, Monday the 24th from 8:00 AM to 7:30 PM and Tuesday the 25th from 8:00 AM to 11:30 PM. The Book Fair will feature books for students of all ages and interests including cookbooks and gift books for adults. There will also be gift items and toys for sale. The Book Fair is an important fundraiser for the school. 40% of what is sold comes back to the school. This means that if you spend $10 at the Book Fair Veneta Elementary receives $4. Continue reading
As medical costs grow and insurance becomes more difficult to obtain, families may find themselves not able to afford medical care or worse putting off seeing a doctor because they can’t afford it. For those in need of free medical services, Veneta has two options families can turn to. Continue reading
We have been working on planning for the renovations and additions to Veneta Elementary School as a result from the community passing the bond measure last spring. VES will build six new classrooms, a new cafeteria, a new full size kitchen, remodel the library, and redesign the parking lot to separate the parents and the buses.
There is an opportunity for parents to get updated about the design process and the bond plans at a Community Share Meeting on November 10th from 6:30 to 7:30 at the District Office.
Once again thank you for supporting the bond measure! We are very excited about the upcoming changes and improvements to our school.
There are several notices and other items going home on Monday, November 3rd (Tuesday, November 4th for Kindergarten) that we want to give you a heads up on. Please make sure you check your child’s backpack for the following: Continue reading
This week we will be donating all of the items in our lost and found to charity. That includes a lot of really nice jackets, sweaters, etc. Please consider putting your child’s name on their jacket or sweater. Names can be written on the tag with a permanent marker. If there is a name on the item, we can make sure it gets back to the owner. Even if you don’t want to put your child’s full name on their clothing for security purposes, putting just their initials on the clothing is helpful. It is very common for students to take their jackets or sweaters off at lunch and then leave them on the playground. If staff don’t have a way of identifying who the owner is, the item goes in our lost and found. At the end of every quarter, items left in lost and found are donated to Lilies of the Field. Lilies of the Field provides free clothing to Fern Ridge residents.
We want to apologize to parents who received phone calls stating that their elementary students needed to attend Thursday school at the Elmira High School. There was a glitch in the automated phone system that the high school uses to remind parents and the call went out to all parents, instead of just the few it should have. We hope it didn’t cause too much confusion and will work to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Thanks for understanding!
The 2014-15 Oregon Battle of the Books is about to begin. Participants will form teams of four and read 16 books from well known and well respected authors including Judy Blune, Gordon Korman, Kate DiCamillo, and Roland Smith. They will then participate in “Battles” where they must answers about the content of each book. Continue reading
Great News! Parents can now access their child’s lunch account online through a program called My School Bucks. This is an online payment service that allows parents to pay for school meals online using a credit or debit card. Parents can sign up to access meal account balances, schedule automatic payments, and even create low-balance alerts. There is a fixed $1.95 fee per transaction. There is even a mobile app available that parents can put on their tablet or smart phone. Parents will need to know their child’s student ID number. This is the number your child uses to access their lunch account at school. For more information, go to the Food Services page at http://www.fernridge.k12.or.us/food-services/