E-Learning Materials are being sent home today with each student. Students in grades 2-12 are being sent home with a Chromebook and a Charger to help with E-learning activities.
Students and Parents: Please check your emails as more specific information will be sent daily.
All delivery orders for the Grab and Go lunch tomorrow are due by noon today. Otherwise parents/guardians will need to pick up at VJHS tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. You can still signup after the deadline (noon today) It will be available the next day (3.18.2020) for delivery.
Good morning. The Grab and Go lunch option will begin tomorrow. We will be sharing more details later today with the exact locations for the meal delivery service. Transportation and Cafeteria staff have worked hard over the weekend to make this happen!
Please complete the Grab and Go lunch form. If transportation is a barrier, we are working on delivery routes. If your school-age child attends a daycare when school is not in session, this is an option too. We are all in this together. https://forms.gle/BxFfK2aLFmiEpFzP8
Please complete the Grab and Go lunch request form by this Sunday at noon. We need to get a head count ASAP with the announcment of the mandated school closure.
https://forms.gle/BxFfK2aLFmiEpFzP8
The Governor has given the directive/mandate that all schools both public and private will be closed from March 17th to March 30th. We will have school on Monday, March 16th. More details to follow.
In the event of a school closure for COVID-19, we will be serving a Grab and Go lunch.
Please fill out this quick Google Form to sign-up for the Grab and Go Student Lunch program in the event the school is closed due to COVID-19.
https://forms.gle/BxFfK2aLFmiEpFzP8
An e-learning plan is being put in place in the event we would need to close. Please know this is planning and communicating right now. Our goal is to keep our schools open working with FCHD and the IL Department of Public Health.
Facts on COVID-19 and most importantly prevention measures.
We are coordinating and planning with the Fayette County Health Deparment and Emergency Management regarding COVID-19 (coronavirus). We want you to know a plan is in place. We can help each other by washing our hands and staying home when we are sick- fever free for 24 hours.
Help our schools with research about the technology use at your home!
Please click this link: https://bit.ly/3aEzJzX
Thank you for helping with our research!
Please fill out ONE per household.
Proud to announce we were awarded a $50,000 School Maintenance Grant today from the IL State Board of Education! This will be applied to one of our summer projects- the Okaw HVAC replacement.
Okaw Career Fair was a success!
ATTENTION ALL PAST HONOR CHORUS MEMBERS:
We are celebrating 38 years of Honor Chorus along with tribute to Carol Osborne. We would like to invite you (any past Honor Chorus member, any age) to sing the final song, "Fight Song" by Rachel Patten, of our performance with the Honor Chorus students this year.
Feel free to join us for practice Friday, May 1st at 4:30pm in the Vandalia Elementary School gym. The performance will be Saturday, May 2nd at 7:00pm in the VES gym.
If you have questions please contact Billie Worker, Nancy Childress or email Lisa Robbins at lrobbins@vandals203.org.
Vandalia Schools will be dismissing early today, Wednesday, February 5th due to the potential winter weather. VES will dismiss at 2:00pm; VJHS and VCHS will dismiss at 2:15pm.
Goal #3- PreK-12 Curriculum Alignment- teaching to mastery including basic skills and higher order thinking. We have a team of 50 staff members working on this goal. 🙌
Goal #2- Enhance our Climate and Culture from academics to athletics.
Our Resilience Team is hard at work on this goal.
Goal #1- Facilities Conducive to Student Learning. We are beginning with a space utilization study of VES.
We are pleased to announce our 3 Strategic Planning Goals with 275 voices represented to create these! Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond and participate.
Vandalia Schools will be dismissing early today due to the impending winter weather. VES will dismiss at 12:00pm. VJHS and VCHS will dismiss at 12:15pm. There will not be afternoon Pre-K classes. All students will be served lunch before dismissal.
