Thank you to the Upper Arlington Education Foundations (UAEF) for their support of our new mascot. Go Wolves!

Our Spring flower sale is underway! This flyer and catalogs came home with in-school students last week, if you haven't received yours please email martaroberson@hotmail.com. Online Academy parents can pick up a physical catalog too, by stopping in to the school office.

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Please follow these steps to place your order:

* Please place your order under one code per household, to make pick up easier * all rewards go directly to benefit the school (there are no individual prizes for meeting sales goals) *

There are still many items in Lost and Found. Please see the pictures below. The school will donate any uncollected items on Friday, April 23rd.

We want to show the teachers and staff at Wickliffe how much we appreciate all of their hard work and support during the school year! We invite you to sign up and adopt a teacher or staff member for either a month or for the rest of the school year. Up to 3 families can sign up to adopt the same teacher/staff member. 

During the time you have adopted the teacher/staff member let them know that you are thinking about them! Send them encouraging e-mails, mail them a card, drop off a small treat at the Front Office, etc. 

You do not need to spend a lot of money adopting the teacher/staff member just let them know you and your family are thinking about them and are thankful for all of the hard work!

Sign up to adopt a teacher or staff member The teachers/staff members completed a survey about their likes, favorite candy, etc. Click here to find out more about your teacher/staff member.

Thank you to all who have donated snacks and drinks for the teachers and staff members. The teachers and staff real enjoy and appreciate the treats and drinks! We need your help to keep it going!

If you would like to contribute individual prepackaged food and drinks, our amazing teachers would really appreciate it. Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/teacher_appreciation

• Please drop your items off at Kelley Swiney's porch at 3942 Newhall Rd (or order online and have the snacks delivered to Kelley's address).
• Requested items include: candy, chips, cookies, nuts, trailmix, soda, San Pellegrino flavored water, La Croix, cold brew coffee.

If you have any questions please contact Jennifer Waddell at jenniferawaddell@yahoo.com. Thank you for your support! 

Dr. Imhoff shared this message from our school nurses, on the symptoms to watch for before sending our students to school each day:

• Daily symptom checks: Please continue to conduct a daily symptom check at home for any symptoms related to COVID-19 —  fever of 100.4ºF or higher, chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore threat, new or worsened nasal congestion, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea. If your student is experiencing any of these symptoms, please keep them home, and you may call your school nurse, Janice Walsh, for advice. 

For more information, the UA school district's responsible restart webpage is here.

There is currently no charge for elementary students to buy school lunch through the end of the school year due to a USDA National Waiver.

• IN-SCHOOL: Students let their teacher know their lunch choice on the day (no ordering ahead). To view the full lunch menu, with meal descriptions and nutrition information click here. Below is this week's lunch menu:

• ONLINE ACADEMY: the meal pickup services will continue. Updated information and details will come from Ms. Evans, and on the UA Nutritional Services webpage here. 

If you have any questions, please contact our Nutritional Services department at (614) 487-5244, or by emailing ihunt@uaschools.org.

Please help me in congratulating Rebecca Meeks, one of my interns, on being hired as the school counselor at Ridgewood Elementary School in Hilliard. She has been so inspired by her experience at Wickliffe that I know she will take a piece of the “Wickliffe Way” with her to her first job! Congratulations, Rebecca! Wishing you all the best. :)

In other news, IDEA Mentors will be creating a *wish tree* for the Wickliffe community to focus on our individual and collective hopes and dreams to make our school, neighborhood, and world a better place. We encourage you to brainstorm ideas with your children that they might want to add to our tree.

This activity will be done in school, so no need to do anything at home other than engage your children in conversations about what matters to them.

Please be on the lookout for this tree to emerge early in May in the front of the school.

As we are heading into the homestretch of this year, coupled with the beautiful weather this past weekend, I couldn’t help starting to think about this summer. Although this summer will look a bit better than last, each family still is faced with making decisions for activities based on their need for COVID-safety. 

So here is one resource for summer activities. When you open this link, please scroll down and click on Franklin county. I will be sharing different ones over the next few weeks. Please note that I have not vetted them for COVID protocols. Therefore, I encourage you to do so. On a personal note, much to the disappointment of my 9 year old granddaughter, her mother and I have had to cancel a summer camp that she has been eagerly anticipating attending. However, after reviewing the camp’s family handbook (which wasn’t available at the time she was registering) the decision has been made that she will not be able to attend. My granddaughter is feeling let down, but her safety comes first. I share this to let you know that I, too, understand that there are difficult decisions that will confront you as you plan for the summer.

As always, please reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

https://www.escco.org/SummerStudentEnrichmentOpportunities.aspx

From our team’s last week together,

Felice, Rebecca, Megan, Jihyeon, and Syd