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Weekly updates from West Jackson Elementary School
Week of September 1st
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What's Happening This Week?
What's Happening This Week?
Monday, September 1st
Labor Day Holiday-NO school staff/students
Tuesday, September 2nd
Wednesday, September 3rd
Kick off Rock Lobster Reading Challenge
Thursday, September 4th
Curriculum Night (5:30-7:00)
Friday, September 5th
Wear your favorite NFL game day gear
A message from our Admin
Curriculum night is Thursday! Doors open at 5:15. Families, you will receive a BINGO card when you arrive.
Earn a stamp for:
visiting your child’s class
visiting our special's teachers (STEAM, art, music, PE, robotics, media arts)
visiting our counselors
being enrolled in Parent Square
Families, drop off your completed BINGO card before you leave curriculum night at the front or side door. Friday morning, Ms. King will pull 2 BINGO cards from each grade level drop box and those two grade level students will win a gold coin for our book vending machine!
Families can get a snapshot of their child's day and learning experience by visiting their child's homeroom teacher from 5:30-6:00 OR from 6:10-6:40. We are offering two sessions to accommodate families with multiple students. Teachers will be sharing ways that parents can help at home and will send home math games and reading ideas.
We look forward to seeing all our families at curriculum night. Please pre-register for this event to expedite the check in process. Even if you pre-register, ALL parents MUST bring their ID. Parents can park in the bus lanes or front parking lot.
Coming Events
WJES students can earn a FREE ticket to the Athens Rock Lobsters hockey game—just by reading!
Log 1,000 minutes before December 17, 2025 to receive a ticket.
Reading logs are available in the media center or they can be downloaded,
we have two different logs you can choose from.
Let's get READING!
Check out our Literacy Month Calendar for some fun ideas to promote reading at home!
SEPTEMBER 2025 Literacy Month - Google Docs.pdfBeginning of the year Reminders
Attendance
Attendance
Regular and punctual attendance is essential if students are to receive the maximum benefits from our instructional program. We love seeing your children at school, so please make an effort to be here ALL DAY, EVERY DAY! Our instructional day begins at 7:40 A.M. Any students who arrive after that time need to be accompanied to the office and signed in by a parent or guardian. School dismisses at 2:35 P.M.
JCSS Student Handbook
JCSS Student Handbook
Click HERE to view the JCSS Student Handbook.
Birthdays
Parents can bring a purchased sealed treat for your child's birthday. No balloons or flowers as these are not allowed on the bus. You can drop the special treat off at the front office, the teacher will distribute it at a time that works in the class schedule.
Meal Service
Meal Service
Visit Linq Connect to add money to your child's meal accounts or to complete the online application to for free or reduced-price meals.
At full price for the 2025-26 School Year:
Breakfast costs $1.50 in the elementary schools and $1.75 in the middle and high schools.
Lunch costs $2.25 in the elementary schools and $2.75 in the middle and high schools.
Transportation Reminders
Bus Rider Info 🚍
Bus Rider Info 🚍
Questions about morning or afternoon transportation, visit our county transportation website HERE.
Morning Car Riders All Students
Morning car rider starts at 7:00 on the side of the building. Have your student ready to exit the car, please stay in your car and put your car in park. Students that are not in the car by 7:40 are marked tardy. Allow plenty of time for your child to enter the building, get breakfast, and get to class-arrive before 7:25 to avoid traffic.
Afternoon Car Riders All Students
Please follow the red arrow making only a right turn into the school from E. Jefferson.
As a reminder, please stay in your car. If you need additional time to get children buckled properly, pull over to the Fire Lane out of the flow of traffic.
Infinite Campus and Parent Square
It is VERY IMPORTANT for all families to set up an Infinite Campus Parent Portal Account. Click HERE to set up your child's account. This account allows you to receive important school messages through the Parent Square app, see student grades and attendance. If you have trouble with this process, email Mrs. West (rebecca.west@jcss.us). After a parent portal account has been activated, please allow 24 hours for the information to sync with the Parent Square app to be able to message teachers. If you are unable to use Parent Square at any time, please send your child's teacher an email.
Infinite Campus New Families - ENGLISH.pdfInfinite Campus New Families - SPANISH.pdf
PBIS
Parents, as a PBIS school, we strive to create a positive learning environment for all our students and staff. We utilize a schoolwide approach to teach, model, and reinforce positive behaviors, actions, and words. Here at WJES, we use the PAWS framework: Pride, Attitude, Work, and Safety. Through classroom lessons, videos, and activities, we explain what Pride, Attitude, Work, and Safety should look and sound like throughout our school building. Our PAWS matrix is displayed around the school and in classrooms. Why PBIS? Why PAWS? They help provide clear expectations for our students, establish a common language for everyone, and foster a positive school culture.
Every day, our students are recognized for demonstrating PAWS in the hallways, classrooms, lunchroom, playground, and even on the bus! Student recognition can be verbal, visual, or tangible. Students may be recognized through verbal praise, a high five, DOJO/PBIS points or tickets, student of the month awards, Mindset student of the month awards, or even with a gold coin for the book vending machine.
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