Curriculum Orientation
Click here to view the links from your child's teacher regarding Curriculum Orientation. If you have any specific questions for your child's teacher, please feel free to reach out to them. We hope you find these helpful and informative with classroom information and how you can help your child at home.
Parent University Video Recordings
Thank you for your feedback on Parent University topics that you are interested to learn more about! Below are the video recordings of the Parent Universities. Click on the links below to learn more!
How you encourage students to be more outgoing in order to make friends
How to keep our kids engaged at home and how to balance distance learning with multiple children at different ages
COVID Updates - Thank you for your help in keeping safety of all students as our top priority! If your child shows any symptoms or you are waiting on COVID test results, please keep your child at home and monitor their symptoms.
Serving English Language Learners and Their Families
Virtual Tour and Information
Click here to learn more about Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles.
Click here for a virtual tour of our school!
Click here to access the 2021 - 2022 Student Handbook.
Click here for information on how to create an Infinite Campus Parent Portal Account.
STEAM
Check out our STEAM website here
Supply Lists
Click here to view the supply lists for next year. Families are welcome drop off supplies on Monday, August 10th from 11 AM- 1 PM, or you can bring them on the first day of school. We will have volunteers with wagons to help.
Click on the faculty and staff links below for a short video introduction. ENJOY! We are SO excited to see our students soon!
WJES Administrators
Principal - Dr. Amity Hardegree ahardegree@jcss.us
Assistant Principal - John Canupp jcanupp@jcss.us
Assistant Principal - Lori King lking@jcss.us
Front Office Staff
Secretary - Amanda Banks abanks@jcss.us
Registrar - Julie Bade jbade@jcss.us
Bookkeeper - Lori Beth Williamson lwilliamson@jcss.us
Clinic Aide - Kelley Harris kharris@jcss.us
Counselors
Isa Martinez (Pre K,1st Grade, 3rd Grade, and 5th Grade) imartinez@jcss.us
Mary Kayla Brooks (Pre K, Kindergarten, 2nd Grade, and 4th Grade) mbrooks@jcss.us
Counselor Blog: http://wjesschoolcounseling.weebly.com/
Support Teachers
EIP Teachers:
Aimee Castleman acastleman@jcss.us
Sheri Jackson sjackson@jcss.us
Tina Johnston tjohnston@jcss.us
Carla Lawrence clawrence@jcss.us
Nicole Matthews ematthews@jcss.us
Debbie Mayfield dmayfield@jcss.us
ESOL Teachers:
Jill Schwindt jschwindt@jcss.us
Gifted Education Teachers:
Karen Mangino kmangino@jcss.us
Special Education Teachers:
Brianna Collier bcollier@jcss.us
Stacey Johnson sjohnson@jcss.us
Jennifer Jacobs Long jjacobslong@jcss.us
Amanda Miller akmiller@jcss.us
Ty Norwood tnorwood@jcss.us
Darla Paiter dpaiter@jcss.us
Lori Reinhardt lreinhardt@jcss.us
Paige Sellards esellards@jcss.us
Sarah Sloat ssloat@jcss.us
Speech and Language Pathologists:
Karen Gildemeyer kgildemeyer@jcss.us
Katie Leigh kleigh@jcss.us
Pre-Kindergarten
Andrea Clinkscales and Amy Elrod aclinkscales@jcss.us and aelrod@jcss.us
Melissa Minore and Lisa McNeal mminore@jcss.us and lmcneal@jcss.us
Teresa Swaim and Debbie Chambers tswaim@jcss.us and dchambers@jcss.us
Kindergarten
Crystal Cowen and Mandy Williams ccowen@jcss.us and mwilliams@jcss.us
Erin Kilpatrick and Robin Fiore ekilpatrick@jcss.us and rfiore@jcss.us
Michelle Kubiak and Michelle Graham mkubiak@jcss.us and mgraham@jcss.us
Diane Mergele and Breannah Matthews dmergele@jcss.us and bmatthews@jcss.us
Tracie Penn and Shonna Duffy tpenn@jcss.us and sduffy@jcss.us
Holly Porter and Breannah Matthews hporter@jcss.us and bmatthews@jcss.us
Bronwyn Sheffield and Kaye Elrod bsheffield@jcss.us and kelrod@jcss.us
Lanie Van Wie and Jackie Root lvanwie@jcss.us and jroot@jcss.us
Cynthia Williams and Crystal Pursley cwilliams@jcss.us and cpursley@jcss.us
First Grade
Rebecca Cribbs rcribbs@jcss.us
Kendall Lawrence - Meet the Teacher Powerpoint - klawrence@jcss.us
Cindy Thompson cthompson@jcss.us
Mallory Weese mweese@jcss.us
Stephanie Westhafer swesthafer@jcss.us
Second Grade
Jennifer Duncan jduncan@jcss.us
Natalie Hammond nhammond@jcss.us
Rebecca Norris rnorris@jcss.us
Third Grade
Dee Bowen debowen@jcss.us
Amanda Fondren - Meet the Teacher presentation afondren@jcss.us
Natalie Jackson njackson@jcss.us
Rebecca Nemecek rnemecek@jcss.us
Alicia Simpson asimpson@jcss.us
Sara Hope Williams swilliams@jcss.us
Fourth Grade
Jennifer Burel jburel@jcss.us
Ruthie Carlyle rcarlyle@jcss.us
Lindsey Fidanza lfidanza@jcss.us
Jessica Frazer jfrazer@jcss.us
Cailey Loudermilk cloudermilk@jcss.us
Shannon Halstead shalstead@jcss.us
Fifth Grade
Courtney Benton cwbenton@jcss.us
Russ Johnston rjohnston@jcss.us
Tammy Latty tlatty@jcss.us
Carly Ledbetter cpledbetter@jcss.us
Jackson Lewis jlewis@jcss.us
Courtney Philips cphilips@jcss.us
Specials Team
Music Teacher - Stephanie Cleveland scleveland@jcss.us
Art Teacher - Carla Mitchell cmitchell@jcss.us
Physical Education Teacher - Debbie Hayes and Taylor Nix dhayes@jcss.us and tnix@jcss.us
STEAM K - 2 - Kathy Venable kvenable@jcss.us
STEAM 3 - 5 - Joe Leach jleach@jcss.us
Spanish K - 2 - Monica Eaton meaton@jcss.us
Technology - Andrea Waldrip awaldrip@jcss.us
Media Specialist - Aimee Vickers avickers@jcss.us
Multi-Age Classroom Teachers
Elena Vanderkoi evanderkoi@jcss.us
Claire Benson jbenson@jcss.us
Emily Morris emorris@jcss.us
Cammy Blevins cblevins@jcss.us
Dawn Dickson jdickson@jcss.us
Cafeteria
Cafeteria Manager - Juanisha Stockton jstockton@jcss.us
Click here for the elementary breakfast and lunch menu. Breakfast and lunch will be offered at no cost to all students, as long as three qualifying items are selected.
PTO Leaders
PTO Welcomes our new WJES Families! If you are interested in helping with PTO, feel free to contact PTO at wjespto@gmail.com.
Jessica Jones- President
Barbara Langston- Vice President
Christy Scott- Treasurer
Courtney Philips- Secretary
Follow us on Facebook at WJES PTO and on Instagram at wjes_pto for ways you can volunteer this school year and to check out what we do for our students and amazing staff!
New spirit wear will be coming soon!
Transportation
Bus - Click here to access your child's bus driver (organized by road), as well as pick up and drop off times. Face coverings are encouraged on the bus. Due to variability of ridership, please allow 10-15 minutes flexibility in pick up and drop off times the first week of school.
Car - if your child will be car rider, you will receive your car-rider tags at open house or the first day of school. Click here to view the new car rider traffic plan for this year (also described in the admin video above).
After School Program Information
Click here to access the After School Program pre-registration form. The After School Program will start back on August 31st.
Club Information
We look forward to returning to club offerings. Be on the lookout for club information for Science Olympiad, Garden Club, Chorus, Student Leadership and more! Also, if you are interested in Good News Club, you can access a video here.