Your Middle School Interact Club is in its final week of the Al-Van Humane Society Adoption & Community Education Center service project. To date, the club has collected 341 pounds of food, litter, and toys that will be donated to the animals at Center on March 1st. The team is making one final push in the last week of February to get additional items donated. The winning advisory will earn an ice cream and soda party. Right now, Mrs. Overacker's class is in the lead, with Mrs. Henderson's class in second place and Mrs. Brush's class in third place. Please send any donations with your middle school student this week! The animals at the Al-Van Humane Society Adoption & Community Education Center need our help! THANK YOU !
MARK YOUR CALENDAR TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT WPS!
Over 60% of WHS Seniors have completed a FAFSA this week! Can we make it 70% by next Friday?
WHS students participated in a trip to Stryker in Kalamazoo today to learn more about the medical manufacturing business. Two other manufacturing field trips are schedule for this month to SMC and the Cook Power Plant in Bridgman. Thank you to Mrs. Hunt for supervising!
The Watervliet Middle School Interact Club is showing the LOVE to the animals at the Al-Van Humane Society in South Haven for their February Service Project. If you have a middle school student, please consider making a donation and sending it in with your child. All other family and community members are also invited to make a donation of food, litter, toys, or treats. Those can be brought anytime to the high school office. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION! We are down to 15 days and counting for this service project!
North School January Students of the Month -- These students were selected by their teachers as being great examples of Mighty Panthers - Respectful, Responsible, and Safe! Great Job Mighty Panthers!
THANK YOU to Freshmen parents and class advisers--Teresa Collins and Kelli Lomoro--who put together the benefit and fundraiser for the Ryan family a couple of weeks ago. Becky Ryan is the mom of a current freshman, Cayden Ryan.
She was recently diagnosed with a form of leukemia.
Kelli and Theresa were honored at the Board of Education meeting last night for their efforts in supporting Becky and her family. Over $11,000 was raised for the family.
Half of our Seniors have completed and submitted their FAFSA! They earned a $50- VISA gift cards today!
Recently InterCare school-based counselors spoke to students in Watervliet about the importance of using healthy coping skills to deal with stress and how to find counseling. Over 70 students from 3rd through 12th grade heard from Keesha McKee of the EauClaire E3 Program and Roberto Overton of the Benton Harbor Student Health Center.
CONGRATULATIONS to our 8 January 2024 Students of the Month! They were celebrated at a special breakfast with their families this morning. Read more about each one of them in this week's Parent Panther Newsletter.
On Friday, February 9th South School will be celebrating our 100th day of school. Please help us celebrate by having your little Panther dress like they are 100 years old OR wear some type of 100th-day shirt! There are so many fun ideas out there. (If you need ideas you can check Google!) There will be a lot of fun little things happening throughout the day as well. We are so excited about our little Panthers being 100 days smarter!
The Watervliet Middle School Interact Club is showing the LOVE to the animals at the Al-Van Humane Society in South Haven for their February Service Project. If you have a middle school student, please consider making a donation and sending it in with your child. All other family and community members are also invited to make a donation of food, litter, toys, or treats. Those can be brought anytime to the high school office. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION!
Due to icy road conditions, all Watervliet Public Schools will be closed today, January 23, 2024. A decision will be made regarding evening activities by noon today.
Back roads are very dangerous at this time and will be for the next few hours. Please be VERY CAREFUL.
The Sexual Education Advisory Board Meeting which was scheduled for 6:00 PM today has been canceled due to unfavorable road conditions. It will be rescheduled at a later date.
Panther Families:
Due to adverse road conditions, WPS is canceling all PM activities tonight, January 22nd. It is predicted that the ice will let up around 6 PM, but come back in the early morning tomorrow. We await an update from the National Weather Service late afternoon before making a call regarding school attendance tomorrow.
Please consider having a backup plan for kiddos for tomorrow as we will not know until late this evening what our plans for tomorrow will be. Please be on the alert for an all-call or text with additional information.
Go Panthers,
Ric Seager
All Watervliet Public Schools athletic contests, practices, and all other activities scheduled for after school hours today, Monday, January 22nd have been canceled due to icy road conditions which are expected to worsen.
All WPS schools will be open tomorrow, JANUARY 18, 2024. Sorry for the typo...
All Watervliet Public Schools will be open tomorrow, December 18th, at their normal times. We look forward to welcoming you back!
Due to forecasted extreme wind chills for tomorrow morning and unplowed roads, all Watervliet Public Schools will be closed on Wednesday, January 17, 2024. A decision regarding evening events will be made by noon tomorrow. Stay warm!!
ALL evening activities have been canceled for today, Tuesday, January 16. This includes the girls' high school basketball games which were to have been played at Martin.