South Vermillion Community School Corporation

It's Teacher Appreciation Week! Please join me in thanking all of our amazing teachers who support, educate, and inspire. The gifts they give enrich the students, their families and our community and make the world a better place for all. Thank you SV Teachers!

🍇 Thank you, LIFT Committee, for a great tour of your historic facilities. Hosted by Rick Giovanini and organized by Jacque Cole, students and their families learned how our community's Italian heritage is preserved and shared with younger generations. 📋 Backstory: A recent external review of our SVCS High Ability Program recommended Place-Based Education (PBE) as a best practice for serving identified students in rural communities. PBE immerses students and their families in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, and industry. This is our 2nd year to incorporate PBE in our elementary high-ability programming. Students and families visited Royer Farm Fresh last year to study how change has impacted the farming industry over time. #PlaceBasedEducation

🍽 It takes a village to feed the village, and we are thankful for this local food pantry! #SVGivesBack

🐾Thank you, Parke-Vermilion Humane Society, for being a great community partner this year! We appreciate the students, families, and staff who contributed to our monthly #SVGivesBack program.

Well, THIS was so much fun! The iReady program is what we use for our beginning, middle, and end-of-year assessments to monitor student achievement. The best part was how quickly our students recognized these characters! 🧡"Do your dance, Plory!" 💙"Oh no! Don't eat everything in our classroom, Snargg!" 🧡"How did you guys get out of my iPad?" 💙"Hey Plory, remember me? You helped me with hexagons last week!"

We are proud to announce that Central Elementary and Van Duyn Elementary have each received recognition from @PLTWorg as a 2023-24 Distinguished Launch School. This honor recognizes schools across the U.S. for their efforts to provide broad access to transformative learning experiences for students through PLTW Launch programs, an elementary STEM curriculum. #PLTW #STEM #STEMeducation

The state of Indiana recently announced a new summer food program called SUN Bucks, which helps families in need buy food during the summer when school is out. Children are eligible for the program if: ✔️The household already participates in SNAP, TANF, or income-based Medicaid, or ✔️The student has been identified as a ward of the state (foster child), homeless, migrant, or ✔️The student lives in a home where the household income meets the free or reduced-price school meals requirements. The benefits will be provided to eligible families on a separate EBT card and mailed directly to their homes. Benefits can be used at authorized retailers, like grocery stores and farmers' markets, to purchase healthy foods, such as fruits, vegetables, meats, and other protein sources, whole grains, and dairy. These benefits are available in addition to free meals that children of all ages can get at our summer meals program. Children identified as receiving free/reduced meals will automatically receive SUN Bucks cards, which will be mailed to the address we have on file for your household. To review or update your address, please log in to Harmony Family Access and verify your address. You can update your address on Harmony or contact your child’s school for assistance. Address corrections must be made before Wednesday, May 1, to guarantee that cards are sent to the correct address. If your child is not already eligible for free/reduced meals but you would like to check eligibility, you can do so on the SUN Bucks website (https://indianasunbucks.com/home). For questions, please contact our Food Service Director, Amanda Myers, at [email protected].

"The Wildcat Den" (SVCS Pre-K Program) is now accepting applications for enrollment for the 2024-25 school year! You may find all of the information by going to svcs.k12.in.us and clicking on "Explore" at the top of the page. Once you click on "Explore", "The Wildcat Den Pre-K Program" has its own folder at the bottom of this page. One of the documents is the application packet, and the other document is the handbook for the program. The handbook has all of the information regarding times, fees, etc. This program will operate on the SVCS school calendar. You may also stop by the Superintendent's Office (800 Wildcat Dr.) to turn in your application for enrollment, or to pick-up a printed packet. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

Pre-K Update: Pending approval of the Pre-K handbook, we will open enrollment for Pre-K on Tuesday, April 16th. We will be offering a three day a week program (MWF) and five day a week program. We will have 15 spots available for the three day program and 30 for the five day program. Both programs will be full-day programs. Tuition fees and handbook will be released upon approval.

Don't forget Monday, April 8, is an eLearning Day for South Vermillion due to the solar eclipse!

This is no joke! Did you know that Vermillion County has several walking trails available to the public? SV's Wellness Committee encourages you to go check them out! https://5il.co/2h9s9

Just a reminder that our Pre-K Information Night for the 2024-25 school year begins at 5:00 p.m. tonight in the SVHS Library (Enter at Door #1 of SVHS). We will share information to begin the meeting and then have some time for questions.

Congratulations to Golden Apple Award recipient Mrs. Lisa Eilbracht, our 3rd/4th grade High Ability teacher at Van Duyn Elementary School. We are very proud of you!

We appreciate Vermillion County 4-H! Our students learn so much from this organization starting at a very young age!

Good afternoon! Per the CDC and Vermillion County Health Department, testing positive for COVID will no longer require a 5-day isolation. COVID will now be treated like all other respiratory viruses and return to work and school will now be based on symptoms and/or symptom improvement, along with being fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medication. *If you are symptomatic and test positive for COVID, you can return to normal activities when, for at least 24 hours, you have started to feel better and your overall symptoms are improving. As with any virus, you should also be fever free for 24 hours without the use of medication before returning to school. Taking additional precautions for 5 days upon return, such as masking and distancing, should be considered but will not be required. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Mark your calendar! SVCS PreK Info Night coming up. Please help us spread the word!

THE QUEEN of 🍇 IS READING TONIGHT'S CHAPTER AT SVMS!

The Hidden in Plain Sight (HIPS) trailer will be parked at SVMS on Wednesday, Feb. 28th from 2:00-5:00 PM. Parents/guardians of SV students are invited to stop by for a 15-minute tour of the trailer. This is a traveling, hands-on, interactive exhibit/program designed to help adults recognize unfamiliar signs of substance misuse or risky behaviors that are often "hidden in plain sight". The HIPS Trailer is sponsored by Hamilton Center.

GREAT NEWS!! Superintendent Chapman will be reading Chapter 6 of The Story Puppy aloud in the Superintendent's Office tonight at 6PM (800 Wildcat Drive)! Help us spread the word! Bring your book, or just come along and listen! Also! Our culminating event is one week away! #OneSchoolOne Book

The 2024-2025 Academic Calendar was approved at last night's Board Meeting. It is shared below and also on the SV Website. 📆