Weldon Valley School District RE-20J

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment along with Governor Polis have placed Morgan County under the blue section of the COVID dial. This means that masks for students are optional during school except for instances when teachers require masks in their classroom for medical reasons. Teachers will still be required to wear masks or face shields when in the hallway and where social distancing is not possible. In addition, we will be able to increase our attendance at home athletic events. The dial will be updated every week. Thank you for cooperating and understanding. We have been fortunate to remain in-person learning for most of the school year and we feel it is important that we do what is necessary to remain that way.

For those of you wanting to watch Weldon Valley Boys play at Golden View Classical Academy at 4:00, here is the link https://youtu.be/80TElyikaso

Hello Warrior Family- Next week we will begin the 21 Days of Kindness Challenge. Each day students will be reminded of a way they can show kindness. I will be posting a Kindness Calendar that shares their kindness goal for the day. Students will also be decorating our school Kindness Tree. Students can add hearts to the kindness tree by doing random acts of kindness at school and at home. Students will write down these random acts and bring them back to Mrs. Chisum. The class with the most R.A.K. hearts will win a special prize! Students will get these hearts Monday! We are so excited to begin our Kindness Challenge! Have a great weekend Warriors! Mrs. Chisum

The boys game will be at 4 tomorrow against Golden View Classical Academy. Bus will leave at 1:30. No fans allowed. Here is the link for the live stream https://youtu.be/p56EeccwWXU

Happy National Counselors Week Mrs.Chisum!

Due to injuries and non-COVID related illness, we have had to cancel the girls basketball games for tomorrow and Saturday. The boys will still play tomorrow. We are moving the boys game to a 5:30 start time. As soon as I have more information about the games on Saturday, I will relay that to everyone. Please email me at gedson@weldonvalley.org if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you

Just a reminder, that due to current capacity limits, we are limiting access to the basketball games to families of our athletes. We are currently limited to 25 fans per side. We will continue to livestream all of our games on our athletics Facebook page. Here is the latest information for our games tomorrow vs. Fleming and Saturday at Golden View Classical Academy. Please let me know if you have any questions. gedson@weldonvalley.org https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cJ6GUrygXngfh8S41bJJ16T4xLW7CNzGgG9ktWKfqjs/edit?usp=sharing

Hello Parents! If you don't have access to Facebook, you can still watch tomorrow's awards assembly online! Please click on the following link: https://fb.me/e/JSIgpIgC Thank you, Mr. Edson, for getting this put together! Have a great day! Mrs. Chisum

HEY PARENTS! Help your kiddos make a giant heart to hang in our hallways to fill the school with love! You can use cardboard, paper, or anything you have in mind! Please be sure it can “hang” up somehow, and don’t forget to make them big and beautiful! You can add a wonderful quote of kindness or encouraging words to them, such as: “YOU ARE LOVED” – “YOU CAN DO GREAT THINGS” – “THAT SMILE LOOKS GREAT ON YOU!” If you need help with cardboard, Miss Donna has a ton and would love to share! Just let us know! Let’s fill the halls of The Valley with KINDNESS and LOVE!

Here is the info for basketball games at Prairie tomorrow. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IjzWBNCHr5-v_CpSlRxyLQ4K2Tz8bXFRBYTvR9xLaHY/edit?usp=sharing

Hello Warrior Fans, We are thankful that high school basketball is now in full swing for our high school athletes. It is important that our students have the opportunity to participate and compete. Currently, we are allowed two spectators per player at all North Central League games. Because of our gym size, the number of home spectators are limited in comparison to other NCL schools which have larger gyms. Those schools are allowed to accommodate 50 spectators for home and 25 for visitors. If you are unable to attend a game, most schools, including Weldon Valley, will offer the game on the internet. We have been streaming our games here at Weldon Valley on our Weldon Valley Facebook page with success. At all NCL basketball games, home and away, we will be following state and local health department, CHSAA and North Central League requirements. Those requirements include numbers of spectators allowed and other virus protection protocols. Masks will be required for all players and spectators. Again, we are fortunate that our athletes are able to perform during these trying times and we don’t want to put that privilege in jeopardy. Obviously, very few of us would prefer to wear a mask to a basketball game but in order to do our part in accommodating athletes and athletic events, we must follow the requirements. Please support our athletes by correctly wearing a mask at the games. If you prefer not to wear a mask, please do not enter the gym. And, as stated earlier, most of the games will be streamed on the internet. On behalf of our students, athletes, coaches and staff we appreciate your support! GO WARRIORS!! Bob Petterson

Hello February! There's a lot happening at Weldon Valley this month, including a few things you won't want to miss! Be sure you check out this months newsletter to get all the information! - Lunch Menu, a letter from Principal Bauman, Pizza sales, Heart Smart, and so much more! Just click this link to get the scoop! https://5il.co/p1un

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Information for high school basketball games at Wiggins on Saturday, January 30th. The Girls game begins at 2 pm, with the boys to follow at approximately 3:45. Fans can enter the game 10 minutes before the game, not earlier. You MUST be on the gate list to enter the gym. Please wear masks while inside the school. We are allowed 50 fans per team for the game. If you are not on the list, you will not be allowed in the gym. We are limiting this to family of the athletes at this time. We will be livestreaming the games on our athletics Facebook page as well. All fans must leave the gym between games so that they can sanitize. You will be allowed back in 10 minutes before the boys game. Visiting fans will sit in the same bleachers, opposite of the score table and benches. I have included a document that Wiggins shared with us. Please read through the document so you know what to expect on Saturday. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g9F3XaXRn9Kap-BXnIj0v6g9ArYHi-uCGXitoJRFWSo/edit?usp=sharing Please email me at gedson@weldonvalley.org if you have any questions or concerns. GO WARRIORS!!

Hello Warrior Family! We are excited to announce that our First Semester Awards Assembly will take place Wednesday, February 3rd, 20201 starting at 8:00 am. Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions, we will not be allowing spectators for the ceremony. We will be live streaming the ceremony on the Weldon Valley School District Facebook page, so please make sure you have gone and like that page to watch the the ceremony. The schedule will be as follows: K-Grade 3-8:00 am-8:30 am Grades 4-6-8:45 am-9:15 am Grades 7 and 8-9:30 am-9:50 am Grades 9-12-10:00 am-10:30 am Please make sure to tune in to Facebook to see all of our amazing students and their hard work recognized!

The bus will leave at 2:15 tomorrow afternoon for our games at Peetz. Each player is allowed 2 fans for the game. The B boys and girls play at 4:30 and the A boys and girls will play at 5:30. We will be back in Weldona at approximately 8 pm. The boys games will be live streamed on our athletics facebook page. The girls games will be streamed on Peetz youtube page. Here is the link to their page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6gjJnXFz7mdabKi8aL5zSA/featured Please email me at gedson@weldonvalley.org if you have any questions.

Update for Junior High Basketball at Wiggins: All games will be played in one gym. Game times are as follows: Girls B-4:00 Girls A-5:00 Boys B-6:00 Boys A- 7:00 All games will be livestreamed on out athletics Facebook page. For parents: Anyone is welcome to attend the game, you can now have more than 2 people per athlete. It will cost $5 to get into the game. The bus will return to Weldona at the conclusion of the boys games. If players would like to ride home early with their parents, they can, but MUST sign off with the Lucinda Filter, she will be the bus driver tomorrow. Please email me at gedson@weldonvalley.org if you have any questions. Thanks and GO WARRIORS!

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Here is the Junior High Basketball schedule for the week.  We play at Wiggins on Wednesday beginning at 4 PM.  We will be playing in both gyms at Wiggins.  The boys and girls B teams will play at 4 and the A teams to follow.  Each athlete is allowed 2 fans each and masks must be worn at all times in the school.  We will leave school at 3 that day.  We will be live streaming the games on our facebook pages. We also play at Peetz on Friday beginning at 4:30 PM.  Again, they will be using 2 gyms.  We will leave the school at 2:15 on Friday.  The boys and girls B games will be at 4:30 and we will play a 10 minute running clock for a C team game as well.  The boys games will be livestreamed on our athletics facebook page.  The girls games will be on Peetz page.  I will send out links as it gets closer.  Each player will be allowed 2 fans as well and masks need to be worn.  Please email me at gedson@weldonvalley.org if you have any questions or concerns.  

Here is the information for the Junior High basketball games at Fleming on Saturday.  B Girls will play at 10 am, A Girls at 11:00 am.  B Boys will play at 12pm and A Boys at 1pm.  The girls will leave from Weldona at 8:00 am on Saturday morning and return at approximately 1:30.  The boys will depart from Weldona at 10 and return at approximately 3:30. Please make sure that your student is here on time to ride the bus.  Each player can have 2 fans attend the games, you will sign in under your players name as you enter the gym.  Masks must be worn at all times while inside the school, again, please help us to make this a good event for the kids. The game will be live streamed on the Fleming Wildcats facebook page, here is the link to that page.  https://www.facebook.com/Fleming-Wildcats-Home-Page-10150139086330562Please read through the following document that Fleming sent for additional information.https://docs.google.com/document/d/11V7VOiP3RGysain6ioj7ZvvBJKrGuChoTH-VvCpdcZ4/edit?usp=sharing If you have any questions, please email me at gedson@weldonvalley.org