Our sincere thanks to WMS families for observing our traffic circle rules during student drop-off and pick-up. We are so grateful for the spirit of cooperation and concern for safety shown by drivers, walkers, and bikers as 673 students and over 100 employees and visitors enter and exit our school building each morning and afternoon.

• Increase the lines of communication between the Wellness Department and our students and their families. 
• Keep families abreast of what their child is learning in class. 
• Serve as an interactive resource for wellness information where questions can be asked and answered online. 
• Replace our old & dated website.

By subscribing to the blog you will get an email only when new content is posted. Check out our first post called "Who cares about fitness assessments?" and be sure to subscribe and share it with your children. 

The Wellness Staff:

Pam Riddle, Thomas Cavanaugh, & Natalia Araszkiewicz

Welcome and welcome back to (y)our library! It was great to have so many of you start off the year retrieving your student's ChromeBook in the library. We're looking forward to helping students put the 1:1 initiative to work leveraging our electronic library resources and further building their information literacy skills. 

Almost all 6th grade Study and Org Skills classes have visited our library for a basic overview of what materials are available and how to access them. ELA classes will soon visit for a longer Library Orientation. 

We're also excited to share the new interface and URL for our library catalog. Navigate to https://www.gofollett.com and type our school's name to search our collection -- and access our streaming ebooks and audiobooks directly from the catalog. More information will soon be available on our library website. Students in 7th and 8th grade will also be learning more about this interface in the coming weeks.

All students are invited to join the WMS-WHS-WPL Teen Library Advisory Board. The group is a collaboration of WPS students in grades 6-12 who meet monthly to discuss library-related topics and give feedback on library programs. Meetings rotate between WMS, WHS and the WPL. To encompass a range of students, we try to offer a variety of activities offer events and to meet on different days of the week, as possible. Students interested in attending our first meeting of the year, tomorrow at WHS, should complete the online RSVP and permission forms today and see Ms. Ravid by break on Tuesday.

We invite you to join the WMS Library volunteer team! Parents/community members and students are all valued members of our library volunteer team. Please see the WMS library website for more information and a sign up form. 

We're looking forward to a great year!

Sara Ravid

Library/Media Specialist