Windy Ridge Families-

My first week at Windy Ridge with students was better than I could have imagined. I was able to stop into several classrooms and see our students learning already. We were able to cut back on our dismissal time significantly by Friday, and we are still evaluating. Thank you to all of our families for your patience. Just a reminder, our students will not be out at car rider until 2:55 for our K-1 kiddos and 3:00-3:05 for grades 2-5.

There is a lot going on at the Ridge this week, please take a look through our entire newsletter.

Our first SAC meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 1st at 5:30 in our Media Center. Thank you to the following parents who have applied for membership. We will vote on membership and positions at this meeting.

Susan Hollis

Carlos Vasquez

Gabriela Cerda

Turhan Hidalgo

Jessica Dagit

Middle School Families- We are reviewing all requests for schedule changes. At this time, we are not taking more requests. If your request was entered, and we are able to complete the request, it will be done this week.

Elementary School Families- Windy Ridge has seen an increase in enrollment, which we are excited about. For this reason, we may be hiring additional teachers at certain grade levels. If this happens, we will be sending out our procedures for balancing classrooms. We know that transitions can be difficult, but we are very confident in our grade-level teams ability to collaborate and support each other. While each teacher has their own personal style, the curriculum is identical.

Welcome to a fantastic school year! One of our top priorities is maintaining a safe, respectful, and focused learning environment where every student can succeed.

To help our campus run smoothly, we follow the Orange County Public Schools Code of Student Conduct. The link to the Code of Student Conduct is on the front page of the OCPS website at ocps.net. We ask for your partnership in reinforcing a few key expectations at home:

Thank you for your partnership in making our school community a great place to grow and learn!

We will be updating this with our concerts and performances throughout the year.

Congratulations to the following Middle School students who will be representing Windy Ridge as student-athletes on our boys' soccer teams. The girls' soccer team is still being finalized, and we will be sharing that list in our next Hawks Herald.

⚽ Soccer Season Is Here, Silverhawks!

Our first soccer game of the season kicks off August 24th at Horizon West at 5:00 PM! Come out, show your Silverhawk spirit, and cheer on our Boys & Girls Soccer Teams! 📣⚽

Go Silverhawks!

Over the summer, many of our Silverhawks found their reading joy and participated in the Beanstack Summer Reading Challenge! 📖✨ Please join us in congratulating our July Top 10 Readers! 🏆🎉

I am so proud of our Silverhawks for continuing to read, explore new books, and make reading part of their summer! Way to go, readers! 🌟

It’s a busy week in the Media Center! We’re wrapping up laptop checkout with 2nd grade, which means all students will have a digital device to use on campus! 🎉 Our K–1 students have iPads, and 2nd–8th grade students have laptops. Soon, classrooms in grades 2–8 will also receive class sets of iPads.

📖 Beginning Wednesday, our middle school library orientations kick off, and students will get to check out books for the first time this school year! I’m so excited to welcome our Silverhawks back to the library! Elementary book checkout will begin soon, too. Until then, students can enjoy Sora eBooks and their classroom libraries. 📚✨

This year, the library is in need of additional copies of the Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books (SSYRA). If you would like to donate a gently used copy that your student read over the summer or purchase one from our Amazon Wish List, the book will be well-read by our Silverhawks.

Here’s to another great week of technology, books, and learning!

Picture day information will be going home with students this week. You can also order online by scanning the above QR code. If you have any picture day questions, please email: jessica.scurry@ocps.net.

Believe it or not, we will be conducting our base-line data assessments very soon. They are scheduled for:

Tuesday, August 25: ELA for Grades 6-8

Thursday, August 27: ELA for Grades 3-5

Tuesday, September 1: Math for Grades 6-8

Thursday, September 3: Math for Grades 3-5

Tuesday, September 8: ELA for Grades 1-2

Thursday, September 10: Math Grades 1-2

Tuesday, September 15: ELA Kindergarten

Thursday, September 17: Math Kindergarten

More information will come later, but these testing dates are very important to establish where your child stands in regards to the standards they will learn this year.

Look here for your student doing amazing things.