Westlake Weekly – November 17, 2017

Olympic Triathlon Volunteers: We need your help to make this day fun and successful for our school and students. Please Click HERE to sign up to volunteer on November 30th. Click HERE to set up your online donation website with Pledgestar.com. WAVE is still collecting checks and cash at the Maybrook entrance on Tuesday mornings from 8-8:40am. Fundraising Deadline: November 30, 2017

After School LIVE: The first session of LIVE, Westlake’s after-school club program, was a huge success! Our next session will run from January 22–March 9. Please Click HERE to sign-up to lead a club and provide our Explorers with joyful learning experiences! Click HERE for the volunteer flier that contains more information about what it means to lead a club. If you have any questions, please email Allison Chavez at [email protected].

Gates: Our front gates will be closed at 8:30am each morning after the K-5 bell rings. Students arriving after 8:30am will need to check in through the front office. Our back gates will be closed at 8:45am to allow parents to participate in morning line up. Gates will reopen 5 minutes before dismissal.

Parent Survey: We will close the Parent Survey this Sunday, November 19th at 9pm. If you have not yet completed the parent survey, Click HERE to answer six questions to rate your family’s experience at Westlake Charter School during the 2017-18 school year. The Parent Survey will be taken at the end of each trimester this year so we can measure growth throughout the year.

Parents Go To School Night: Save the date for Parents Go To School Night on Jan. 31st from 5:30-8pm. This is an evening where Westlake teachers and staff present workshop sessions just for you! Click HERE by November 30th to give feedback on what sessions you would be interested in seeing.

Amazon Smile: Will you be purchasing on Amazon in the next few months?? Please Click HERE and consider using AmazonSmile for any Amazon.com purchases, using the link above, Amazon.com will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to Westlake Charter School. Thank you for your consideration!

Olympic Triathlon Fundraising: The Olympic Triathlon has raised over $20,000 so far! Way to go, Explorers! Additionally, students have been extremely excited to hear about which class receives the Olympic torch for the highest donations that week. It has also been very exciting to award a donut party to two students each week to share with their entire class. Students receive a raffle entry for every $20 collected with no maximum. Two donut parties (one Elementary and one Middle) will be awarded every week with the final drawing taking place on November 29th! There will be prizes for students meeting their personal goal, classes with 100% participation and top earners.

It has been wonderful to see all of the creative ways families have been fundraising. The Thanksgiving holiday is the perfect time to collect donations from family and friends and work towards the goal of $180 per student. That is just $1 per school day! Our school wide goal of 100% participation is what’s most important though. We hope every student can raise at least $5 to get us there and help your class win a party for reaching 100% participation!

Have you created your family online donation site? You are able to personalize a family donation site to email or text to friends and family, post on social media or show to coworkers. Please visit http://pledgestar.com/westlakecharter to set up your family donation page. You can customize it with student name(s), a photo and donation goal. You then quickly set it up to send an email explaining why WCS is amazing and how they can help us meet our goal this year. You can even send a reminder email to those who haven’t had a chance to donate yet! Families have been seeing wonderful results with this new system. We apologize for the glitch with the donation request letter last week but PledgeStar addressed the issue and it is now resolved.

Our final in person collection is Tuesday, November 28th at Maybrook entrance from 8-8:40am. You can also drop checks or cash into the lockbox located in the front office. Receipts are available at both collection sites.

Olympic Triathlon Event Day: On Thursday, November 30th our students will participate in a special day of learning on the Olympic Triathlon Event Day. This day is completely staffed and planned by our parent volunteers alongside some fabulous WCS staff members. We need your help to make this day fun and successful for our school and students. Please Click HERE to sign up to volunteer on November 30th. Thank you!