Good Evening Explorer Families,

I am so excited to start the 2015-2016 school year with you. Our team has been working hard over the past few weeks to ensure that the campus is ready for the first day of school on August 12th!   We have many upcoming Westlake Events, to kick the year off!  Please be sure to mark your calendar and attend all of the events, which pertain to you and your family.

August 5th   6:00PM – 7:15PM
Del Paso Campus New Families Orientation with Reception to follow

This event is for all new families attending our Del Paso Campus K-4th grade. During this short orientation your family will meet educators and leaders from our campus and receive materials and information that will help ensure a successful year. BASE staff will also be present at this event to answer questions you might have regarding our Before and After School Program.  After the orientation, please stay for a reception organized by our amazing WAVE parent team.

There will also be an additional brief information session for kindergarten families. Which will highlight the start of the kindergarten year as well as answer any questions our kindergarten families might have.

August 8th – 12:00PM – 3:00PM
All School Event: WAVE FAMILY BBQ

Our WAVE Parent team is pulling out all the stops for this whole school family BBQ. Click Here to RSVP and sign up to bring a dish for the pot luck, or just show up and enjoy the event. We’ll have music, bounce houses, families and food – a perfect way to end the summer. The picnic will be held at the Valley Oaks Park, adjacent to the future Westlake Campus.

August 11th- 3:00PM – 4:00 PM
Meet the Teacher at Del Paso Campus 3:00PM to 4:00PM
Meet the Teacher at Pebblewood Campus 2:30PM-3:30PM

Class lists will be posted at this event.  Stop by anytime between 3:00-4:00PM  and meet your teacher the day before school starts. This is an opportunity to walk the classroom and see the amazing environment that your student will enter on the first day of school.

August 12th- 8:20 AM
First Day of School
Morning line up begins at 8:15 AM on the blacktop
Class begins at 8:20 AM
Dismissal times for the first day of school, August 12th are as follows:

Kindergarten- 11: 20  
Dismissal time for kindergarten conferences the first week of school
Grades 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-  1:15pm
This is the regular Weds dismissal time for  1st- 4th Grades.

Kindergarten Families

Please sign up for Kindergarten Conferences, the link can be found on our Website.

Be sure to bookmark the academic calendar
15-16 Academic Calendar Dismissal Times

Parent Google in Education Learning Nights
August 4th 6PM & September 8th 6PM

As your principal I am very excited to announce that this year Westlake Charter has invested in enough Chromebook computers to ensure that each of our classroom teachers will have a full set of computers for their classroom from 2nd Grade through 8th Grade. Our amazing teachers will use this technology to help personalize education for each of our students. Westlake has designed a program that meets the technology demands of the Common Core, however our school is committed to exceeding these standards by implementing an amazing set of resources to teach our students about Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety. We would like to invite all our parents out to learn about Google Chromebooks at our Parent Google in Education Learning Night. At each of these learning nights, we will help parents navigate the Google platform and learn how to best assist their student.

We hope you attend one of our Parent Google in Education Learning Nights:
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 6PM on our Del Paso Campus
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 6PM on our Del Paso Campus
CLICK HERE to RSVP!

Coming to a Mailbox Near You
Back to School Packet are being mailed home.  Please complete the packet and bring it with you to give to your students teacher at the Meet the Teacher Event on August 11th. Packets that are not returned at Meet the Teacher must be returned on the first day of school.

Please also note that the first day of school will be a Walking Wednesday!Our walking school bus will meet at Walgreens at 8:00am and walk to the Del Paso campus, Walking Wednesdays and Footloose Fridays are  great community events as well as an easy way to avoid the parking lot traffic.

 

Sincerely,

Emily Battin
(916) 567-5765
[email protected]