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August Breakfast and Lunch Menus
Attention Seniors: Senior parking drawing will be tonight (Aug. 18) at 7:15 PM. Meet in the West parking lot for the drawing. Please bring your paint to mark your reserved parking for Thursday!
Middle School Students & Parents: Class Schedules & Locker numbers for middle school students will be given to the students as they arrive on Thursday morning. They will be allowed a time to visit their locker & take care of arranging their books, etc.
Elementary/MS Student Hallway Use
• Students using the hallways will come out of their classrooms and always turn right. The circles of the elementary and middle school become roundabouts with all hallway traffic going in the same direction.
High School Start of School Procedures:
Start of the school day:
1) HS doors will be unlocked at 7:45 for students to enter the building. All students will be parking in the west parking lot and must enter via the Commons Area. (Bus students will be allowed to enter upon arrival)
2) Students not eating breakfast will go into the upper gym to wait for the dismissal bell. There will be teachers supervising the students and making sure we have social distancing. Students are not to hang out in large groups.
3) Only those eating breakfast will be allowed to stay in the cafeteria.
4)Students with large sports equipment bags will store them in the upper east locker room.
NO LOCKERS WILL BE ASSIGNED! All students will need a book bag to carry their computer and other items.
Hallway flow:
1) There will no longer be 2 way traffic during passing periods. Students will exit the classroom and go to their right. Students are to please follow the directional arrows in the hallways.
2) The West stairs will be UP staircase and the East stairs will be Down staircase only.
Lunch Procedures:
1) Lunch period will be split into two groups. Splits will be Frosh/Soph and Jr/Sr groupings. While one group is at lunch the other group will be in CATS time. NO ADVISORY TIME FIRST SEMESTER.
2) After eating students will wipe down their eating area and then be dismissed.
3) Students will need to take their book bags with them to lunch. Charging stations will be available for students to charge computers and chrome books.
End of the school day:
1) Bus students will be dismissed at 3:25 and will exit via the east doors in the North Addition.
2) All other students will be dismissed at 3:30 and will exit via the Commons Area.
Note: At the current reopening phase masks are not required. Students may where masks if they chose to do so.
Elementary/MS Building Visitors
• The building is not accepting visitors. If you need to come to the building for school business, please call the office for a time to come to the office. If you need to pick up your student, please call the school office, and we will attempt to have them ready for you. During the school day circle drive pickup is acceptable. There is one exception to the no visiting rule, and this deals with kindergarten and first-grade students. The first seven days, the end of the first full week, parents may walk their students to the classrooms. The wearing of masks of those walking students to class or entering the building would be much appreciated.
Elementary/MS Breakfast/Lunch - Through student arrival communication, breakfast has been addressed. Breakfast will be a grab and go meal, which is taken to the classroom of the student. Lunch will be a combination of grab and go and in the gym dinning. We have limited the capacity of the gym to approximately 66 students per lunch period. Grade levels have been paired by using K-1, 2-3, 4-5, and 6-8. Grade levels will alternate on a two-week cycle of eating in the gym or the classroom unless an agreement to change is made by the grade-level groups. In middle school, the smallest class, 7th grade, will dine in Mr. McVey’s classroom under Mr. McVey’s guidance.
Elementary Student Arrival - Just in case the elementary/MS back to school letter doesn’t arrive before Thursday, we will be posting parts of the changes occurring this year at the elementary school to get this information out to as many of you as we can. There will be several postings of this information, so we apologize in advance if it seems we’re over sending this information out.
Student Arrival - Main Entrance - The doors of the elementary school will open at 7:30 am. Students who arrive early will be asked to wait outside until that time. Students will also be asked to keep distancing the best they can while waiting. K-5 students who are not eating breakfast will go to the left and proceed to their classrooms. Those eating breakfast will turn right and proceed to the gym to pick up a grab-and-go breakfast and then go to the classroom.
Middle school students entering the building through the main entrance will turn right and either go to their first-hour classroom or go through the gym and pick up a grab and go breakfast and head to their first-hour classroom.
Bus/Westside - The entrance to the gym has changed. Students entering through the west entrance, north of the gym door, will proceed to the gym. These students will either get in the breakfast line or take the north gym route and then head for their first-hour classrooms.
Elementary Student Departures – A letter has been sent to all households of elementary students on some of the procedures for the upcoming school year. With the status of the mail delivery, I thought I would post the biggest change taking place not to surprise as many people as possible. Student Departures will be one of the biggest changes to take place. We will stagger the student dismissal by dismissing community walking students at 3:05, followed by bus students at 3:10, and those being picked up by parents at 3:15. The biggest change will come with not using the circle drive for student pick up and not having staff open doors for students. Parents picking up students are asked to pull in, lights facing the fence, on State street. Students will be dismissed and walk down the sidewalk to meet their rides. Parents are welcome to wait outside for their students to be dismissed from school, but we would ask that you practice social distancing. Please help make this process smooth. The dismissal of students being transported is an area we would like to see flow much better this year and with your help, we can accomplish this change.
SEK Multi-County Health reports that as of Thursday, August 13, 2020, Woodson County has one active case of COVID-19. Woodson 366 will begin the school year in our green phase on August 20, 2020. The reopening document can be found on the district website (https://www.usd366.net/) by clicking the menu, documents, and the plan should be at the top of the list.
Athletic Practices start Monday, August 17. Any student wishing to participate must have a KSHSAA Physical Form on file at their school. Athletes may not practice until the school has a completed physcial form. High School Practice Schedule: (Monday) Football - 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Volleyball - 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM Cross Country - 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Class of 2020: Your yearbooks have arrived! If you prepaid for a 2019-2020 yearbook, it is in the HS office. Office is open 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM daily.
If you did not prepay, but you still want a yearbook, we have plenty. See message below.
USD 366 Community: You still have an opportunity to purchase a 2019-2020 yearbook. The price is $45, and you may contact amarsh@usd366.net to get your purchase completed.
Community Members who Prepaid: Your books will be delivered/sent to you upon the students' return to school.
Alumni Volleyball
Middle School Football will have a meeting Thursday 6:00pm at the Football Stadium
The district has revised its reopening plan to reflect some building changes and to match county health active COVID cases used to determine specific phases the district might need to move to. To view the plan go to the website or the app and open documents and the revised plan should be at the top of the list.
Attention High School Volleyball Players!! There will be a parent/athlete meeting on Wednesday, August 12th in the High School Commons at 6pm with Coach King. Practice starts August 17th at 7:30am!!
If you were unable to come in to the school for during the enrollment period & you have not completed the online enrollment, please call your student’s school to confirm their attendance. Classes need to be set ASAP! High School 620-625-8820 & Elem. 620-625-8860. Thank you!
Open House for the Elementary School has been CANCELLED!!
From Coach Fountain- Middle School Volleyball sign up/parent meeting is Tuesday, August 11th. It will take place at 6:30 pm in my classroom at the elementary. Feel free to share this with any middle school students at YCMS that might be interested! Your student athlete will be needing a physical if they haven’t already got one for this year! Can’t wait to see you there! 💙🤍