MVES Weekly News

Ms. Westbrook's Weekly Newsletter

September 18, 2025

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Dear Parents,

Thank you for your support of last week's Curriculum Night! Our Jr. Trojans looked great for their Fall Picture Day yesterday!

This week, our dedicated staff members adjusted our morning car rider start time to 7:00 a.m. We are experiencing significant improvements for our large number of morning car riders with this change. Thank you for having your student/s ready to exit your vehicle when you reach the sidewalk. We appreciate your support!

Our totals are in for our Rally Foundation competition! Our Jr. Trojans raised $763.03 to fight childhood cancer! Our girls donated $436.04, and our boys donated $326.99. Congrats Unicorns on earning bragging rights!

I look forward to seeing our Jr. Trojans in their school spirit colors tomorrow as we join the North Hall cluster to celebrate Homecoming 2025! Unfortunately, parents will not be able to watch the parade on the MVES campus due to space and student supervision. However, the parade (beginning at 9:30 a.m.) is open to the community on Mount Vernon and Jim Hood Roads between North Hall High School and Odum Smallwood Road. For Homecoming Friday, we will have an optional hat day for students. Hats should be appropriate for school and follow our dress code expectations in the handbook.

Please check out upcoming October dates below.

Go Trojans!

Jennifer Westbrook

Principal

Click here to view the 25-26 HCSD Calendar

Click here to view the 25-26 MVES Handbook

Wear School Spirit Colors on Fridays

MVES Parent Connection Calendar

Important Dates to Remember:

September 19 - NHHS Homecoming
September 22 - Georgia Reads Day
October 1 - Bus Safety Training
October 2
- School Custodian Day
- 6:00 Watch DOGS (Dads of Great Students) Pizza Night
October 3
- Families
- PTO Pumpkin Picnic
October 10 - Report Cards
October 13-15 - Student Fall Holidays (no school)
October 15 - Teacher Workday
October 27-November 7 - Food Drive Challenge

Click here for this month's breakfast and lunch menu

Due to increased costs, purchasing milk for lunch from home will be $.75. Students should have money available in their MyPaymentsPlus account to purchase.

Updates from our School Nutrition Department:

When eating school lunch with your student, the cost is $5.10. Unfortunately, we do not have change and will need visitors to bring correct change or take payment from your student's MyPaymentsPlus account provided there is a positive balance.
Our School Nutrition Team currently has an opening for a part-time sub position. Please reach out to Angela Sosebee or Central Office if interested.

Hall County Schools Bus App for Parents

Reminder from HCSD Transportation Dept: Nonresident students including HB251, Magnet and Tuition students, are not allowed to ride the bus to or from school unless it is a school day field trip experience. Nonresident families are required to provide transportation (car rider or MVES approved afternoon day care). Please contact the MVES front office with questions.

Car Rider Reminders

For morning drop-off, please have your student gather belongings, water bottle, etc. so he/she is prepared to exit the car quickly with all belongings READY when your car arrives at the sidewalk for drop-off.
Please remain in your car when unloading AND loading students. If you need to buckle students into car seats, please pull into the spaces next to the hill after you exit the loading area.
Please have students load/unload from the PASSENGER SIDE if possible. This saves time and is safer than having students cross between cars.
Please pull up as far as possible in the car rider line. The unloading/loading area is the entire length of the sidewalk.
A current car rider tag is required for pick up in the car rider line.
Our campus (including the car rider line) is a drug free/tobacco free campus.
It is unsafe for children to hang out of car windows or stand up through the sun roof while in line.

Save the Date for your 2025-26 Calendars:

October 2 - Watch DOGS (Dads of Great Students) Night
October 3 - PTO Pumpkin Picnic
November 10-14 - One and Done Fundraiser
November 20 - 4th & 5th Grade Museum Night
November 21 - One and Done Celebration
February 26 - K & 3rd Grade Museum Night
March 12 - 1st & 2nd Grade Museum Night
March 16 - Harlem Wizards at NHHS

Frequently Asked Questions about Birthdays:

If you would like your child's class to celebrate his/her birthday at school, please communicate in advance with the teacher. Buying the class ice cream or sending in store-bought birthday treats (ex. cupcakes, donuts) can be planned ahead with the teacher. The teacher will distribute the treats at the appropriate time. We are unable to distribute invitations at school.

VISITORS & VOLUNTEERS:

Hall County Schools and MVES encourage family involvement in our schools. Parents will be invited to participate in special school and PTO events during and after school.
School visitors must have ID and be listed on the student's Infinite Campus approved contacts.
Visitors should not take/post pictures of other students.
A schedule for lunch visits will be available after Labor Day. Visitor seating will be scheduled on a limited basis due to space.
- no outside food will be permitted in the MVES cafeteria
- only 2 guests per student (unable to bring siblings from another grade)
- must have ID and be listed on IC approved contacts
- sit with their student at visitor tables
School and field trip volunteers must complete the HCSD application with volunteer modules through Checkmate (KEYWORD: HallVolunteers). https://campus.hallco.org/campus/checkMate/volunteerSignUp.jsp?appName=hall
The application will be available online and at the front office between 8:30-1:00 and 3:00-3:30. Due to district guidelines, volunteer applications and modules will be required each school year.
Following the first day of school, students arriving by car should come through the car rider line off Odum Smallwood Road. The front and front lower parking lots should only be used by buses and staff during arrival and dismissal times.
If you need to check out your child from school (we ask that you limit check-outs as much as possible), please notify the child's teacher and the front office staff in advance from a parent/guardian email address and call 770-983-1759 to confirm:
- missy.odom@hallco.org

AND

- marisa.chester@hallco.org

LUNCH VISITOR SCHEDULE (see *visitor guidelines above) - September 2 - October 10

*Volunteer applications are not required for lunch visitors.

Please review the available slots below, and click on the button to sign up.

Here is the link to the lunch visitor schedule for September 2 - October 10.

MVES is excited to welcome our parents/guardians for lunch with your students! ALL lunch visitors will be required to have a reservation due to very limited seating. Visitors are limited to signing up for only 1 time during the dates below. A new sign-up will be shared for the next dates following Fall Break.

For the safety of students, please note the following:

· For your child’s lunch visit, 1 or 2 adults (must have ID and be on student IC contact list) may join the same reservation (no school-age siblings; younger children should be in lap or stroller to help with limited seating).

· Siblings from other grade levels cannot be combined into the same reservation, but a parent can sign up 1 time during these dates for each child.

· Outside food will not be allowed to be brought into the MVES cafeteria (HCSD guideline).

· Lunch visitors will eat in the visitor seating area located outside the office, across from the learning commons.

· Lunch visitors will meet their child in the hall as his/her class goes to lunch and sign-out in the office after the lunch period ends (student will rejoin his/her class at the end of the lunch time).

· Visitors may purchase lunch in the cafeteria for $5.10 each (cash or check).

· Lunch visitors may have lunch with your child only. Other students cannot join your lunch visit.

Exact lunch times for each homeroom class may be viewed HERE.

Please contact our front office with questions. We look forward to seeing you at MVES!

We appreciate our 2025-26 MVES Partners in Education!

1st Response Roofing

American Family Homes

Anchor Real Estate Advisors

BCI

BGW Dental Group

Big Peach Running Co - Braselton

Causey Orthodontics