NEWS FROM ELEMENTARY: We hope that you and your family had a wonderful first week of school. Students were happy and engaged. Teachers were prepared and energetic and parents were kind and helpful. The following announcements will be helpful for you and your family for the week of August 15-19.
PLAYGROUND UPDATE: We are so excited that our two elementary playgrounds are being upgraded. Thanks to your Step It Up donations–last fall, we will have new playground equipment on both of the elementary playgrounds as well as behind the middle school. The playgrounds are scheduled to be completed and ready by Monday, August 15.
VOYAGER SPIRIT NIGHT:
COVID UPDATE FROM THE SCHOOL NURSE: Each week, our school nurse will provide us with a brief Covid related update. The message for this week is listed here: Our CDC COVID-19 Community Level is: HIGH
**Masks are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED indoors, even if you are vaccinated**
The health and safety of our students, teachers, staff, and volunteers are our top priorities. Voyager Academy is following the CDC COVID-19 Community Level guidance. We sincerely appreciate your consideration.
CAR LINE UPDATE: Our morning and afternoon car line has gone incredibly smooth for the first week of school. I want everyone to remember we will be adding 100 kindergarten students to the morning and afternoon car line, beginning August 15. Please be patient as our new families learn the process. I have included the car line procedures for your review.
Voyager Car Line Procedures 2022
MONDAY’S SCHEDULE: Each and every Monday, Voyager will dismiss students at 12:45 pm. Since our staff attend meetings every Monday, it is imperative that students are picked up on time.
BIRTHDAY ROCK: The Voyager Birthday Rock is such a popular thing! We hope you and the students enjoy seeing the various birthday designs. The Birthday Rock is available on a sign up basis. The sign up was sent out late summer. If you would like to see if there is any availability left, please click on the link below.
BOG FOR 3RD GRADE: Voyager 3rd graders will be completing the Beginning of Grade State Assessment on Monday, August 15th. Teachers have already sent home information about this assessment. It is imperative that all 3rd graders are in attendance at school on this date.
AUTHOR VISIT: Voyager Academy values READING. On August 25, 2022 we will have Jonathan Miller, author and illustrator of the children’s book series The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund visit our students. He will be sharing his most recent book and will talk all about the importance of reading and writing.
CHICK-FIL-A READING CHALLENGE: We are so excited to partner with Chick-Fil-A on Roxboro Street. This store has supported Voyager for many years and we hope you will support them. They are going to be encouraging Voyager students to become life-long readers. Beginning in September, students will have an opportunity to earn a FREE Chick-Fil-A Voucher for a Kids Meal. The Chick-Fil-A Team, including the COW will be on campus on August 29 at 11:00 to kick off this fun reading program!
CURRICULUM NIGHT: Mark your calendars for August 31 and Sept 1. We will be hosting VIRTUAL CURRICULUM NIGHTS for all families. We want you to understand all the various ways Voyager covers NC standards. We want you to better understand our Project Based Learning Strategies and how we use Bridges Math and CKLA resources to teach reading and writing.
Kindergarten Curriculum Night: September 01 at 4:30 pm
First Grade Curriculum Night: September 01 at 5:30 pm
Second Grade Curriculum Night: August 31 at 5:30 pm
Third Grade Curriculum Night: August 31 at 5:30 pm
The teachers will send you a LINK to attend this virtual event.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM PTSO: We are planning on having our first PTSO meeting on August, 16, Tuesday at 7pm. This will be an IN PERSON event. Please bring your lawn chairs and meet in the elementary parking lot. The meeting will only last one hour.
Fall Festival is Friday Sept. 16, 5:30-8:00 pm and the rain date is the following day, same time. A Sign-Up Genius will be available soon to obtain parent volunteers. We need help to pull off this event–we had over 2,000 attendees at each festival last school year.
Have you joined the PTSO? We are hoping to have 100 families per grade join PTSO. We are a non-profit and all membership goes to providing support for our staff and students. Please click on the link below to join Voyager’s PTSO.