Body and Personal Safety Program

The school counselor will be conducting body and personal safety lessons with students in grades K-5 starting the week of November 14.  Unfortunately, sexual abuse of children takes place more often than we would like to believe.  Through these lessons, we will provide children the opportunity to learn assertive self-protection skills, differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate touches, and identify people to whom they can go for help. Students in grades K - 3 will learn the appropriate names of male and female private body parts, and anatomically correct dolls will be shown.  All students will participate in the program.  If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Larkey or Mrs. Wise.

Parents, please check the Flyer Folder for important information regarding body safety and how to discuss this topic with your child.

 

Pam Larkey

White Lick Elementary

School Counselor

(317) 852-3126 Ext 2819

"It always seems impossible, until it is done." - Nelson Mandela

 

The White Lick PTO thanks you for a great first 9 weeks of school! From Breakfast with Dads, Step-A-Thon, Spirit Wear and Cake Roll Fundraisers, our first Box Tops Contest, Dine to Donates and ending with an amazing Scholastic Book Fair - we can't give back to our school without your support! Have a wonderful Fall Break!

 

BOWLING NIGHT - Join us tonight at Brownsburg Bowl! From 6:00-8:30pm you can bowl one game with shoe rental for $7. Flyers that were sent home earlier this week are not required but do have awesome coupons on them!

 

PTO Board Positions -Want to be involved in all the fun events and programs the WLE PTO provides to our school? We are looking for a Secretary who has good organizational skills, and who cares about our students, staff, and school enough to volunteer his or her time to serve as a PTO board member. In addition to Secretary, we are looking for a Webmaster to oversee our website ( www.whitelickpto.org). If you are interested in being considered for either position, please return the form ( Secretary and Webmaster) to the WL office or to any PTO board member.  Completed forms are due to the White Lick office no later than 3:00pm on October 31st. Voting/Appointing of the Secretary and Webmaster Position will take place at the November 8th PTO meeting at 6:30pm.  Please contact Alison Moyars ( [email protected]) with questions regarding either position.

 

BUDDY BENCH UPDATE - Your students may have told you about something new outside near our playground this week! We are happy to announce, the two benches we were collecting plastic caps for last year have arrived and are already being used!!! We worked with Green Tree Plastics LLC in Evansville and their ABC Promise Partnership! The program specifically designed by school children for school children.  It is to be a tool to teach children about caring for the earth and green living. White Lick Elementary students collected over 400 lbs of plastic caps during the 15/16 school year. 400 lbs of caps would fill 10 large 55 gallon trash bags, we had 13 bags!!!! Members of our Go Green Club helped bag many of the caps. Thanks to Mr. Bill Keller (father of our 4/5 High Ability Teacher, Ms. Keller), the caps were taken to Green Tree Plastics and we received two 4ft benches (with backs). The benches are made using 100% recycled plastic. The WLE PTO paid the cost of production and our caps were created into benches that will give our students a place to take a break, make a friend or hang with their favorite WLE teacher! For pictures of our new benches, visit  www.facebook.com/WhiteLickPTO. 

3rd GRADE MATH GROUPS - Our awesome 3rd grade team is looking for volunteers to help with Math Groups on Tue/Thur afternoons 3:00-3:30pm. If you can help, please sign up at   signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4ba8a72fa0f49-math. Please note you must have a valid BCSC Background Check on file. You may contact Mrs. Garrard ( [email protected]) with questions.

STEP-A-THON - Our largest event that covers over half our fundraising budget of the year has come to a close. Thanks to the 250 students who fundraised and our amazing sponsors, $16,000 has been raised to help support WL PTO educational efforts!!! Prizes were announced during lunch today and a final recap of the event should be in your student's folder, as well as any prizes they may have won. If you have any questions regarding Step-A-Thon, please feel free to contact Elizabeth Spice ( [email protected]) or Alison Moyars ( [email protected]).

 

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR - Our Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success this week! Thank you to all who shopped! We hope your students found some good titles to read over Fall Break! Our online sale will close today. If you have last minute shopping to do, visit   http://www.scholastic.com/bf/whitelickelementaryschool.  Our in school sales closed at over $10,000. Since we choose to take our pay out in books, we earned $5,500 in Scholastic Dollars. Classroom teachers and special area teachers will each have $100 and our library will receive $1,000. We can't thank our awesome co-chairs, Sarah Thompson and Abby Rechtin enough for all their work this week. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact them at, Sarah Thompson ( [email protected]) or Abby Rechtin ( [email protected]).