South Vermillion Community School Corporation

School immunizations available this Saturday at the Vermillion County Health Department! https://5il.co/i801

Please see attached image or this link for Back to School Registration Information! https://bit.ly/svb2s24

WE ARE GROWING! This week, we added a second 5-day Pre-K classroom in The Wildcat Den! Parents who have completed their registration paperwork are invited to attend our Meet-the-Teacher Night on July 9th! STILL PLANNING TO ENROLL YOUR CHILD? Submit all required paperwork by Tuesday so you don't miss out on our very first Meet the Teacher Night! NEED MORE TIME? We will have another Family Night for all registered families at the end of July, including a tour of the brand-new classrooms in The Wildcat Den. Stay tuned!

🐾We are ready to welcome even more little learners at The Wildcat Den! We are accepting On My Way PreK and CCDF.

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🎓Learn more about how Indiana is leading the nation to significantly redesign high school diplomas at www.in.gov/doe/diplomas/. Your input is needed during the summer feedback collection period!

Go visit the Ernie Pyle Museum in Dana this summer to see why we support this great organization: The Friends of Ernie Pyle. https://erniepyle.org/

Please see the attached info for the SV Summer Lunch Program

Van Duyn is currently offline. Joink is working on repairing this issue in a timely manner. All phone calls will be re-routed to the Superintendent's Office. Thank you for your patience.

Just a reminder: We will have our corporation garage sale this Saturday. The time of the sale will be from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. We will have items at Ernie Pyle Elementary and also at the northwest corner of the bus garages (behind the softball field on the campus of SVHS). At Ernie Pyle: refrigerators, snow blower, deep freezer, older technology/equipment, and a lot of miscellaneous furniture. At the bus garages: miscellaneous furniture, technology/equipment, books, etc. We have had some questions on welding supplies and other machine shop equipment. This equipment will not be in the sale this Saturday. We will update you on the specifics when/if these items are listed as surplus.

🍇 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!"

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!

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!