Winfield City Schools

Winfield City School Parents: We have additional food boxes to give away. If you would like your student to receive a food box you may sign up at www.paypams.com and click on OrderNow or you may email Sandy McCaleb at smccaleb@winfield.k12.al.us or call 1-205-487-0228. Deadline to order is Sunday night at 11:50 p.m. Food boxes will be picked up at your child’s school on Tuesday, December 15th from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. These boxes will be first come first serve until all the boxes are distributed.

Making Christmas Treats

Tyler was so happy to get his class ring today. Look at that smile. This really made our day.

Lisa Geist completes her masters in Differentiated Instruction. Lisa Ballinger Geist is a Special Education Teacher at Winfield City Schools. She has taught for 14 years at WCS and is currently the resource teacher at Winfield City High School. She's been married to her husband, Mike for 25 years, but her claim to fame is singing on the 2004 Oscars with Alison Krauss and Elvis Costello. Lisa received her Bachelors degree from U.N.A. in Elementary Education and Masters degree from Auburn University in Special Education. Now she adds Teacher for Visually Impaired to her accomplishments with a Master of Education in Differentiated Instruction, with an emphasis in Visual Impairments, from U.A.H. With this degree, she will focus on how to plan, instruct, conduct assessments and collaborate to maximize learning opportunities for students with visual impairments, blindness, and deafblindness. Lisa hopes to be able to fill a need in our area and to be an advocate for young people that are blind or have visual impairments.

Today's Basketball Schedules: B-Team boys and Varsity Boys @ Hamilton Varsity Girls @ Home vs. Phil Campbell Middle School plays Fayette Co. @ Home

Come out and enjoy the Winfield Christmas Parade tonight at 6:30 p.m. sponsored by the Winfield Chamber of Commerce.

Third grade coding with Ozobots in the library!

Winfield Elementary School Students will receive a 5 breakfast and 5 lunch meal kit today before they leave school. All the foods are frozen. If your child is not in school on Monday, please contact cchannell@winfield.k12.al.us or call 1-205-487-2304 to arrange to pick up your child’s food box. If your child rides a bus, please meet the bus to help with the box. Winfield High School Students will receive 5 breakfast and 5 lunch meal kit tomorrow, Tuesday, December 8th. All the foods are frozen. If you child is not in school on Tuesday, please contact tmcdonald@winfield.k12.al.us or call 1-205-487-3251 to arrange to pick up your child’s food box. Winfield Middle School Students will receive 5 breakfast and 5 lunch meal kit on Wednesday, December 9th. All the foods are frozen. If you child is not in school on Wednesday, please contact cweeks@winfield.k12.al.us or call 1-205-487-8809 to arrange to pick up your child’s food box. The food box can be used to supplement meals during the holidays while school is closed. If your child has afterschool activities and does not received a food box, please contact your school lunchroom. An additional meal will be given out at all three schools this week for the virtual day on Friday, December 11th.

Link to watch the SSEP Experiment Launch LIVE! on Saturday December 5th at 10:39.... http://ssep.ncesse.org/2020/12/watch-live-flight-of-ssep-mission-14-apollo-launching-on-spacex-crs-21-saturday-december-5-2020-1139-am-et/

Varsity Basketball update: Varsity Boys only will play Tharptown tonight at 6 pm. at Winfield High School. Go Pirates!

Miss Oliver is doing a great job teaching rhyming words with her kindergarten class.

Winfield City Schools will be handing out food boxes to Winfield City School Students. The boxes will contain 5 breakfasts and 5 lunches and they are FREE to all Winfield City School Students. Food Boxes will be given to each student at school on dates below. If your child rides a bus, please meet the bus on the day that your student will be bringing home the food box. The food boxes will contain all frozen foods. If your child is not at school on the following days or has afterschool activities please contact your lunchroom manager to schedule a pickup day and time. The following are the Food Box distribution dates: Winfield Elementary School Monday, December 7, 2020 Winfield High School Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Winfield Middle Wednesday, December 9, 2020 If you have any questions please contact your child’s lunchroom manager. Below is their email address and phone number. Office hours are 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Winfield Elementary School, email cchannell@winfield.k12.al.us or call 1-205-487-2304 Winfield Middle School, email cweeks@winfield.k12.al.us or call 1-205-487-8809 Winfield High School, email tmcdonald@winfield.k12.al.us or call 1-205-487-3251

Festive Fun at WMS

Thursday, December 3: Varsity and Middle School Basketball teams both play at Home. Come support your Pirates!

Varsity Basketball Tickets to Home Games: In accordance with COVID guidelines, we track attendance to varsity basketball games by selling all tickets on GoFan. No cash tickets will be sold at the gate. Please download the GoFan app and purchase tickets before arriving to game. Thanks and Go Pirates!

Thank you to Mr. Chris Carothers, Citizens Bank and Cardinal Drive Inn for sponsoring our students of the month!!

Last chance to fill out our survey. The survey will close later this week. Thank you to those who have already taken the time to fill it out. Please take a moment to fill out our Climate/Culture survey for parents and guardians. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WCS-Families

WMS Guidance lesson...Be the light you wish to see in others!!

Students of the month at WMS!!

The Winfield City Community Christmas Angel Tree is officially up at Walmart. Please consider taking an angel off of the tree and buying gifts for a child or two for Christmas. We feel there is going to be a greater need this year for gifts. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your continued support. Merry Christmas to all!