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From Our Family To Yours: Happy Thanksgiving! Schools will close on Wednesday, November 24th until Monday, November 29th (Late Start). #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw #thanksgiving

Celebrating Veterans Day~ Those who live in freedom will always be grateful to those who helped preserve it. #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

For Wednesday, 11-10-21, all WCS Schools are on a 2-hour delay due to dense fog.

Our District NEEDS You! Join our team through edustaff.org or call EDUSTAFF at (877)974-6338 #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

It’s that time of year again. The Warsaw FFA is selling a variety of delicious and healthy fruit along with a variety of cheeses and sausages. The fruit is shipped straight toWCHS by means of Blue Freedom Fresh Fruit Company, so freshness and quality are always guaranteed. It does not matter what kind of fruit customers like because FFA has everything from apples, pears, oranges, pineapples, and grapefruit along with sampler and cheese/sausage gift boxes in varying quantities.  The proceeds of the fundraiser will provide opportunities for FFA members to attend trips to Indianapolis, Indiana for the National FFA Convention, and West Lafayette, Indiana for the State FFA Convention. It will also provide for such FFA career and leadership development(CDEs/ LDEs) events such as crops evaluation, forestry evaluation, and entomology evaluation, welding, livestock skill-a-thon evaluation, parliamentary procedure,demonstrations, public speaking, community service projects, along with FFA Week Activities.  Fruit sales began on Wednesday, October 6th and will continue to Wednesday, November 17th. An FFA member will deliver the fruit to your door during the week of December 6th,just in time for Christmas. For additional information or to order fruit, contact any Warsaw FFA member or Warsaw Community HS Ag Dept. at (574) 371-5099 ext. 2353.  FFA is a national youth organization for grades 7-12 that consists of 700,170 student members preparing for leadership and careers in science, business and technology of agriculture with 8,612 local chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Visitwww.ffa.org or www.inffa.org for more information. # #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

We’re Hiring. Did you know you can sign up for job posting ALERTS? Go to wcsjobs.com Now hiring part-time, full-time, year-round, and school calendar positions. #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

PSA: DOWNTOWN WARSAW SPOOKTAKULAR TONIGHT! 5:30 - 6:00 Costume Contest Registration 6:00 - 7:00 Trick-or-Treating 7:00 Costume Contest Rain or shine, we will be having Downtown Warsaw Spooktakular tonight! There are usually around 1,500 trick-or-treaters that attend the event! #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

PLTW Alumnus Spotlight: Grant Allbritten Congratulations to WCHS Class of 2013 Grant Allbritten, featured on PLTW.org. Read the full interview: https://www.pltw.org/blog/alumnus-spotlight-grant #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

The November Pool Calendar is Here. Phone Number: 574-371-5089 Swim Fees: Monday: Free, Tuesday — Thursday: $1.50/person or $15 family pass Download Calendar: https://5il.co/111ud

Community Pool News: Please note, the pool will be closed during Fall Break: (Oct 20, 21, 22) LINK: https://wchs.warsawschools.org/o/wchs/browse/159589

PSA: Student Assistance Program (SAP) - Bowen Center offers all WCS students two free sessions as well as educational resources. www.bowencenter.org FLIER : https://bit.ly/WCSOctoberSAP #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw #breathe #wcswellnesswednesday

PSA: The Lilly Center for Lakes & Streams needs your input as we prepare for a new year of community events! What topics are you and your family most interested in? We're considering rain gardens, worm composting, birding & fishing basics, and more. Scan the QR code to take the 2-minute survey, then share it with a friend. We welcome new ideas, too, so make sure to write those in. Thank you! #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

WARSAW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT Do you love all-things Disney? Do you wish you could hear live music at an in-person concert? Your wish will be granted at the Warsaw Community Schools Fall Orchestra Concert! Bring your friends and family for an evening of enchanting music! Performing groups are the Beginning Orchestra, Edgewood and Lakeview Orchestra, Obbligato String Orchestra, and Philharmonic Orchestra. Enjoy music from Beauty and the Beast, the Lion King, Coco, Aladdin, and other classics. And if you've ever wondered how an orchestra can use lightsabers while playing Star Wars music, this is your chance! Will the violas play for the Jedi? Or will they join the Dark Side? Find out at our FREE concert on October 7th, 7pm at the WCHS Performing Arts Center (masks required).

WCS has a new notification system for 2021-2022. If a parent would like to be removed from school & district notifications, please complete the DO NOT CONTACT form. Please check that Powerschool has the correct contact info. Link: https://bit.ly/wcsoptout #wcsmission

Warsaw Girls Basketball proudly presents: Elementary/Middle School Team Camps. Get full details and REGISTRATION FORM here: https://bit.ly/WGBTeamCamps #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Warsaw Basketball Tiger Academy proudly presents: Team Camp; Holiday Hoopla; TBA Travel Team Tryouts. Get full details and REGISTRATION FORM here: https://bit.ly/TBAFALL21 #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

We are partnering with KREMC to get an important survey out. Please consider completing this survey to help bring higher internet speeds to more homes. LINK: https://bit.ly/KREMCsurvey @kosciuskoconnect @GetFiberKos #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Dear Warsaw Schools Community, We all long for normality during this continued time of COVID.  As exemplified during the 2020-21 school year, our local schools are the bedrock of the community.  During a year of abnormality, we were able to provide a stable environment.  In-person instruction is needed for student academic and social well-being along with economic and community health. Our number one priority must be a safe in-person educational environment. Within the first four weeks of the 2021-22 school year, COVID-19 numbers have spiked due to the highly contagious Delta variant.  These numbers reflect positive cases experienced during the height of the 2020-21 school year.  Our local health department has noted substantial community spread that led to the creation of new recommendations for additional mitigation strategies.  Due to this similar spread throughout Indiana, Governor Eric Holcomb issued a new Executive Order 21-24 on September 1 for all K-12 schools.  On Tuesday, September 7, our school board met to review the executive order and local health department recommendations. Beginning Friday, September 10, 2021, in an effort to maintain high-quality in-person instruction in a safe and healthy environment for our students while minimizing the disruption caused by mandatory quarantine rules, Warsaw Community Schools will require masks for all students, staff, and visitors during the school day regardless of vaccination status in all of our school buildings. What does this mean for our WCS school community? During the school day, masks will be required regardless of vaccination status for all students, staff, and visitors in all indoor WCS school buildings and on buses.  By wearing masks, WCS expects to reduce quarantines significantly, which will increase the likelihood of maintaining full-time in-person learning as well as continued opportunities for co and extra-curricular activities.  Our number one priority is to provide our students and community a safe in-person educational environment. A compelling benefit of the mask mandate (per Governor’s executive order) is that instructional and social activities may return to pre-COVID conditions; a 3-foot or 6-foot radius is required between students when masked is no longer required. Healthy students will now be able to engage in more interactive instructional strategies with their peers without the risk of being quarantined. Staff will provide students with opportunities, as allowed by state health protocols, to remove masks at appropriate times when eating, engaged in physical activity, outdoor learning, and when 6-feet of physical distance is possible. Quarantines from outside of the school settings, as well as those close contacts from non-classroom settings, extracurricular activities. and athletics may still be subject to quarantine. In accordance with the Indiana State Health Department vaccinated (asymptomatic) students and staff remain exempt from contact-traced quarantines. WCS will continue to encourage social distancing and frequent hand washing/sanitizing in addition to our other layered mitigation protocols. The masking requirement will be deployed whenever Kosciusko County is in the orange or red zone according to the Indiana State Department of Health.  When Kosciusko County is in the yellow zone for two consecutive weeks, masks will return to recommended, but optional.   Thank you for your continued support to make our number one priority a reality.  #TogetherWeAreWarsaw Reopening Plan UPDATED: https://www.warsawschools.org/browse/158668 David Hoffert, PhD Superintendent, Warsaw Community Schools

Check out the Warsaw Community Pool Calendar for September https://bit.ly/swimseptember #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw

Mark your Calendars: Secondary Picture Day is Coming Soon! WCHS/WACC: Sept. 15 & Sept. 16 Lakeview: Sept. 17 Edgewood: Sept. 24 Gateway: TBD #wcsmission #togetherwearewarsaw