
The Shenandoah Valley Office on Youth. are hosting a special outdoor screening of The Wild Robot this Friday!
📅 Date: Friday, August 22nd
🕓 Vendors: 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
🎬 Movie Screening: 8:45 PM (or earlier, once the sun sets)
This will be a fun and family-friendly evening, with local vendors and a chance to connect with the community before enjoying the film together under the stars.
📅 Date: Friday, August 22nd
🕓 Vendors: 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
🎬 Movie Screening: 8:45 PM (or earlier, once the sun sets)
This will be a fun and family-friendly evening, with local vendors and a chance to connect with the community before enjoying the film together under the stars.


NEWS LEADER: Area teachers honored by Valley Alliance for Education at grants presentation ceremony. Click link to read the full article: http://bit.ly/4mUpFYP
Congratulations to Waynesboro recipients:
Katie Ditchen, Wayne Hills Preschool Center
Tracy Goodson, Kate Collins Middle School
Elena Guy, Westwood Hills Elementary School
Adreana Sprouse, Wayne Hills Preschool Center
Congratulations to Waynesboro recipients:
Katie Ditchen, Wayne Hills Preschool Center
Tracy Goodson, Kate Collins Middle School
Elena Guy, Westwood Hills Elementary School
Adreana Sprouse, Wayne Hills Preschool Center

ICYMI 🌽🥕
At our Back to School Bash, School Nutrition Supervisor Kelly Shomo and School Nutrition Secretary Laura Cash were serving up fresh, local veggies and giving a sneak peek of what’s to come this school year! 🥗✨
Students can look forward to more farm-to-table foods on their trays in 2025-2026, bringing fresh flavors and healthy choices straight from our community to our cafeterias.
At our Back to School Bash, School Nutrition Supervisor Kelly Shomo and School Nutrition Secretary Laura Cash were serving up fresh, local veggies and giving a sneak peek of what’s to come this school year! 🥗✨
Students can look forward to more farm-to-table foods on their trays in 2025-2026, bringing fresh flavors and healthy choices straight from our community to our cafeterias.






The Waynesboro Public Schools app has lots of new updates for Rooms and Messaging and includes a total overhaul of the apps looks! Please visit our Rooms Support Page available from all of our school's homepages to view the video featuring the updates and new functionality including a new option to sign in with your phone number. Apple users should auto update from the old version while Android users will have to manually update. If you currently have the app and are receiving messages from the staff , but having issues relying to those messages, you need to update the app by deleting it and redownloading it. Visit our support page if you need assistance!


Put a vote in for the WPS Education Farm to take the story of the unique and special thing that is happening here in Waynesboro Public Schools to share with the rest of the country. Voting goes until 8/24, so show us some love y’all!. Click the link to access voting: http://bit.ly/4mOYmPC

Good evening, Please see this Sunday's edition of KCMS Badger News, 08/17/25, https://tinyurl.com/2hunxnuk. See you tomorrow!

🍎 Meet the WPS School Nutrition Team! 🥗
From preparing healthy breakfasts to serving up delicious lunches, our School Nutrition Team works hard every day to keep students fueled for learning.
📸 This year, we’re excited to introduce our new School Nutrition Supervisor, spotlight our amazing School Nutrition Secretary, and highlight the incredible cafeteria managers and assistant managers at each school plus the entire team that makes it all happen.
Here’s to a year of great meals, smiling faces, and full stomachs! 💚
From preparing healthy breakfasts to serving up delicious lunches, our School Nutrition Team works hard every day to keep students fueled for learning.
📸 This year, we’re excited to introduce our new School Nutrition Supervisor, spotlight our amazing School Nutrition Secretary, and highlight the incredible cafeteria managers and assistant managers at each school plus the entire team that makes it all happen.
Here’s to a year of great meals, smiling faces, and full stomachs! 💚





Good afternoon, KCMS Families,
We will be conducting our yearly literacy screener VALLSS beginning on Monday August 18th. This screener is given each year to help determine what reading skills, interventions, and extensions students may need in the upcoming year. More about the VALLSS screener can be found online at https://literacy.virginia.edu/families.
We're looking forward to your student's progress this year as we all work together!
Thank you!
Mrs. Nester
We will be conducting our yearly literacy screener VALLSS beginning on Monday August 18th. This screener is given each year to help determine what reading skills, interventions, and extensions students may need in the upcoming year. More about the VALLSS screener can be found online at https://literacy.virginia.edu/families.
We're looking forward to your student's progress this year as we all work together!
Thank you!
Mrs. Nester

🍎 Meet Our New Teachers! ✨
We’re excited to welcome amazing new faces to Waynesboro Public Schools this year. 🏫💛 Get to know them,: their passions, fun facts, and what they’re most excited about for the school year. . . right here!
🔗 Check it out: http://bit.ly/47pUqAb
We’re excited to welcome amazing new faces to Waynesboro Public Schools this year. 🏫💛 Get to know them,: their passions, fun facts, and what they’re most excited about for the school year. . . right here!
🔗 Check it out: http://bit.ly/47pUqAb

Good afternoon, KCMS Families, The following is the link to KCMS Badger News, 08/10/25.,https://tinyurl.com/4s9u76du. We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

Thank you, KC Badgers, for a great first day! Car riders, please pull forward in the loop to keep traffic off the street. Remember Grab and Go breakfast is available each morning. Students can enter at 8:05 and the tardy bell is 8:20. Dismissal starts at 3:15. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

The next regular meeting of the Waynesboro School Board will be Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at 7pm at Central Office 301 Pine Ave.

👏 Convocation Highlight #3:
HUGE thanks to our incredible sponsors and vendors
for their support! Your generosity helped make this
event a success!
💙 Partners like you = a stronger WPS community.
Swipe to see who helped us kick off the year!
HUGE thanks to our incredible sponsors and vendors
for their support! Your generosity helped make this
event a success!
💙 Partners like you = a stronger WPS community.
Swipe to see who helped us kick off the year!









✨ Convocation Highlight #2:
Big smiles + big inspiration!
Kim Bearden from Ron Clark Academy brought so
much energy and wisdom to our kickoff. Our staff left
fired up for a phenomenal year!
Big smiles + big inspiration!
Kim Bearden from Ron Clark Academy brought so
much energy and wisdom to our kickoff. Our staff left
fired up for a phenomenal year!

✨ Convocation Highlight #1:
Serving looks, WPS style! 💙 Our staff kicked off the
year with smiles and school spirit. Here’s to a fantastic
2025-26!
Serving looks, WPS style! 💙 Our staff kicked off the
year with smiles and school spirit. Here’s to a fantastic
2025-26!









Good afternoon, KCMS Families, We are looking forward to seeing you at our Back to School Open House this evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Student schedules will be available in the cafeteria and families are welcome to visit their classrooms.
We hope to see you there!
We hope to see you there!


💙 Community in Action!
As part of our Back-to-School Bash, WPS employees teamed up with Embrace to help families pick up clothing, receive vaccines and other essentials for a great start to the school year. Thank you to our incredible staff and partners for going above and beyond to support our students and families!
As part of our Back-to-School Bash, WPS employees teamed up with Embrace to help families pick up clothing, receive vaccines and other essentials for a great start to the school year. Thank you to our incredible staff and partners for going above and beyond to support our students and families!

What an amazing day at the Back-to-School Bash on July 27!
Thank you to our families, volunteers, and community partners for making this event a huge success. 💙 From school sign-ups to haircuts, immunizations, and resources—together we helped students start the year strong!
Click the link:
https://youtube.com/shorts/LYD2bug-Fjc?feature=share
Thank you to our families, volunteers, and community partners for making this event a huge success. 💙 From school sign-ups to haircuts, immunizations, and resources—together we helped students start the year strong!
Click the link:
https://youtube.com/shorts/LYD2bug-Fjc?feature=share

Waynesboro Schools to host Back to School Bash Sunday at Kate Collins Middle. Click the link to read the full article: http://bit.ly/40vEuIB

So many smiles, so much support, and so much fun! 💙 Check out all the highlights from our 5th Annual Back-to-School Bash. Thank you to everyone who made this day unforgettable! Stay Tune - we are doing it all again on Sunday July 27th!! Check it out: http://bit.ly/3GUwpqj