The VMS ESL Department partnered with Stonebriar Church to provide EB families with some Thanksgiving items.  For some of our families, this will be their first Thanksgiving in the United States! 

Our campus is beginning to see signs of illness. With that being said, please do not send your student to school if they have a fever. Doing so, puts your student as well as other students and faculty at risk. A fever, per our district policy is defined as a temperature of 100 degrees or above. In order to return to school, a student must be fever free without the use of fever-reducing medications for 24 hours before they can return.  Protect yourself and your loved ones by doing the following:

• Taking a flu shot

• Washing your hands frequently or using hand sanitizer

• Stay home when you are sick

• Covering your cough

Let’s keep flu and other illnesses out of school!

Nurse Teeling

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes seizures, which is a change in the normal brain activity. It is important to remember that these are seizures NOT caused by something like a high fever, however you should always communicate with your primary care provider when one occurs even if it is a first-time occurrence.

• 1 in 26 people in the United States will have epilepsy at some point in their life

• 1 in 10 Americans will have a seizure

• 5.1 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with epilepsy or a seizure disorder and of this amount, 3.4 million American adults and children live with epilepsy

• 60% of epilepsy cases have no known cause

• 30-40% will live with active seizures because available treatments do not work

I’d like to take a moment to share some wonderful successes from last Saturday. We had nine students make the all-region bands.

Aryan Roy (4th chair in the region)   Percussion ensemble (8th Grade)

Arnav Rachakonda  Percussion- Wind Ensemble(7th grade)

Vaishnavi Talla Flute- Honors Band (7th grade)

Matthew Ng  Trumpet- Honors Band (8th Grade)

Sean Nakamura  French Horn Honors Band (8th Grade)

Emma George  Flute Concert Band (8th Grade)

Aarush Sehgal  Alto Sax Concert Band (8th Grade)

Neo Longoria Tuba Concert Band (8th Grade)

Ryo Amemiya Percussion Concert Band (7th grade)

Congratulations! Mr. Guzman and Mrs. Jadvani

Congratulations to Coach Shiller for being names Athletic Trainer of the Month! Way to go!