Lisa Leatham, Principal
The school board has added June 16, 17th, 18th, and 19th to the school calendar. They have also changed May 23rd from a student contact day back to a teacher work day. Veneta will move our fifth grade promotion to June 19th at 8:30 AM. Field Day will be moved to June 18th. Continue reading
Friday, January 31st will be a busy day at Veneta Elementary School. In the morning we will be having our Oregon Battle of the Books semi-finals featuring the four teams that made it to the finals: The Gummi Bears, The Book Chompers, The Books, and the Fantastic Four.
In the afternoon we will have our Second Quarter Awards assemblies followed by Cougar Recess. The Kindergarten through 2nd grade classes will have their assembly at 12:15 followed by 3rd through 5th at 1:00. Then at 1:30, all students who earned it will participate in a schoolwide Cougar Recess.
Last week the school board added May 23rd to the previously announced February 17th as make up days due to the snow in December. This means that there will be school on both of these days. Thanks.
Everyone is invited to join us for an evening of fun and fundraising at Chuck E. Cheese’s on Thursday, January 23rd from 3:00 to 9:00. Continue reading
Veneta Elementary students will once again be able to benefit from free dental care when the Tooth Taxi returns January 13th. The Tooth Taxi dentist and staff will be providing follow up care to students already seen in November and they are also open to new patients.
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Our annual Holiday Luncheon will be this Thursday, December 19th. The menu includes our world famous Turkey Gravy, whipped potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin cake. Adult lunches are $3.25. Continue reading
Thank you to all of our volunteers and to everyone who stopped by to purchase something from our Book Fair. With your support, we recorded over $3,600 in sales and raised $1800 in books for the school. It was our most successful Book Fair ever- over $1200 better than last year’s total. Thank you again for your continued support of our school.
The Tooth Taxi’s visit this week was a tremendous success and many of our families benefited from this unique program. The Tooth Taxi saw 44 students and provided over $26,000 worth of free dental care to those students including tooth extractions, filling cavities, etc. In addition, they made presentations in many of our classrooms. Dental health care is a real need in our school community and we are deeply grateful to everyone who made the Tooth Taxi’s visit possible.
Check out the article in The Register Guard about the visit.
This week, November 18th through the 22nd, will be a busy one at VES with the Tooth Taxi mobile dental office here all week and the Book Fair/Holiday Bazaar on Friday and Saturday. We need volunteers to help with the Tooth Taxi program and the Book Fair/Bazaar. If you can help, even for just a few hours, we need you. Please call the office for more info and we will sign you up. Thanks!
Tooth Taxi Update: Great News! We’ve just been informed that we will have two dentists available during the Tooth Taxi visit November 18th through November 22nd. This means that we can serve more students and provide dental care at no cost to more children. Continue reading