Voyager Academy High School News: From the Voyager Academy Managing Director, Dec. 17, 2021

Dear Voyager Community,

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and a healthy and happy new year!! Enjoy the special time with your family and friends relaxing and connecting with one another. Have fun reading and playing board games, eating fun holiday treats, and spending quality time together. Our family loves baking and cooking together over the holidays. Children remember all the traditions and memories of the special time we share together. It’s wonderful to see how traditions continue to carry on through the generations to keep our loved ones alive in our hearts too! I am looking forward to being together with our family and enjoying special time together.

I am also so grateful to my Voyager family. It’s an honor to partner with such incredible educators and have the privilege of supporting our students and families. Thank you for being such an important part of our school community. I had the joy of attending the elementary chorus and middle school band concert this week and enjoyed the beautiful music and seeing how much they have grown since the start of the school year. Enjoy watching the show linked below for a special holiday treat.

Holiday Concert ES/MS

I look forward to all the new adventures that lie ahead for 2022. We look forward to seeing our students return on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Have a wonderful winter break!!

Upcoming Events:

01/03/22 – Teacher Work Day – No school for students

01/04/22 - 3rd Quarter Begins

01/04/22 - mClass MOY Assessments Begin (K-3)

01/07/22 - 2nd Quarter Report Cards Issued

1/24/22 - Parent Data Night MS/HS - ECS classes zoom

1/26/22- EC 8th grade Parent night-zoom-High school Transition

Nurses Corner

STUDENT SUPPORT

1. There is still time to join Dr. Link's Social Skills groups for 6-8th graders and 9th-12th graders!! This will be a fun, informative, reflective, and safe way for your student(s) to learn, build, and hone these important skills. WHY are social skills important?!? Great question! Because relationships are an integral part of our daily lives. Starting, developing, maintaining, and repairing meaningful and healthy relationships with others is possibly one of the most important yet underappreciated set of skills that we can develop and utilize over the course of our lives. Such important skills include, but are not limited to, active listening, conflict resolution, effective communication, non-verbal communication, assertiveness, perspective-taking, and reflective apologizing. Further development and/or honing of these skills, widely known as social skills, is most likely one of the best ways to improve our relationships with others.

Beginning in January, Voyager Academy is excited to be able to offer 6th-8th grade and 9-12th grade students an opportunity to participate in a Social Skills group after school! If you are interested in having your child participate, please contact Dr. Monique Link, School Social Worker, to enroll or for more information. The respective flyers are provided below.

2. The Student Support Services Team would like to extend a very big THANK YOU to everyone who has donated and contributed to our Food Pantry! Students are receiving the much needed resources and they are VERY appreciative! "THANK YOU!"

If anyone would still like to donate grocery store gift cards and/or non-perishable food items, Dr. Link is continuing to accept donations throughout the school year, in an effort to sustain the Food Pantry for our students. Please feel free to contact Dr. Link at 919-433-3301 X 146 or mlink@voyageracademy.net for questions or more information. Contributions of all sizes are greatly appreciated and continue to be needed!

LET'S STAY CONNECTED

Let’s stay connected! Scroll on over to our Voyager Academy website to see all the updates and additions. Be sure to follow, friend, like and subscribe to all our Social Media accounts! #GoVikingsGo #VoyagerVikings

Amazon Smile

It’s the most wonderful way to support all of the great things we are doing at Voyager and to help us expand our program offerings in academics, extracurricular activities, professional development, athletics, the arts and more!

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What is AmazonSmile?

AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones. When you shop with AmazonSmile, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to Voyager Academy Inc.

Lunch Program

The Linq system is updated each Friday with your Titan account balance. Accounts with a negative balance on their Titan Family Portal account will not be permitted to order lunch online in the LINQ system. Meals ordered will be canceled, if payment or arrangements have not been made. If you need assistance with paying off your account balance, please contact the Finance Departm at ext. 107 to make arrangements. Please be sure to send your student(s) to school with lunch, if no meal was ordered. You can pay on your balance using either form of payment below:

Online at https://family.titank12.com There is a $2.80 flat fee charged by the bank per deposit online. (Example: $100 deposit + $2.80 fee = $102.80)
A check/ money order made payable to Voyager Academy. Please include your child's name and id# on the memo line. You can also use this pre-printed form.

Lunch menus are published for the month of December. Be sure to select your milk preference. Milk is included with each meal at no additional cost. The lunch ordering rule is a week in advance. If you need assistance email foodnutritionservices@voyageracademy.net.

LINQ ONLINE ORDERING - View and order student/staff meals. Website: https://family.onlineordering.linq.com
TITAN FAMILY PORTAL -Pay your school fees, manage your students accounts and apply for free and reduced meals. Website: https://family.titank12.com

Before and After School Programs

Program will reopen on January 4th when the students return.

Before and after care payments should be made using the Titan School Store on the family portal dashboard or by check. Do not use Charter Pay for any future payments.
There are currently no openings in after care and the waitlist is full. We will make an announcement via email, if the program opens for new enrollments.
The payment system on the Titan school store is only for currently enrolled students. If a family not enrolled makes a payment on Titan, the funds will be refunded minus the service fees charged by the processor.

Updated Covid Safety Protocols and Procedures

Voyager Mask Policy

Voyager Covid Guidelines FAQ

Voyager Sick Child Policy & Guidelines

NCDHHS Toolkit

K-12 Public Health Guidance 7/21

INTERESTED IN PART TIME WORK AT VOYAGER – SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS

PART TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOR BEFORE AND AFTER CARE