Wayne Hills

🧡Tomorrow we will celebrate Unity Day and wear orange during Bullying Prevention Awareness Month! If you're able to participate, wear orange to unite for kindness, inclusion, and acceptance in our community. See you all tomorrow, let's fill our school with kindness! 🧡

Attention families!

Picture Day is coming up on Tuesday, October 21! You can place your order on mylifetouch.com using your Picture Day ID: EVTWGPRW6. Order before midnight on Picture Day to get FREE shipping! Your child can also bring their completed flyer with cash only on Picture Day. If you order after Picture Day, your order will need to be placed online mylifetouch.com . Additionally, after picture day, the ID code will no longer be the same as it was before picture day. Have a wonderful day!

📚 #ThrowbackThursday | Waynesboro History Spotlight

Found this gem: “School honors man who devoted life to students.” It highlights William Perry’s role in integrating Waynesboro Public Schools.

A few lines that stood out:

“I could see growth with those students because of taking the time and guidance.”
“Money and prestige isn’t everything.”

Check out the full article and glimpse into our local history—and feel free to share if you find it meaningful.

🎉🌱 Waynesboro Cafeteria Managers Take Farm to School to the Next Level!

This week, our amazing WPS cafeteria managers rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty—literally! 🧄✨ The day started at the Waynesboro Education Farm at Berkley Glenn Elementary, where they learned about local farm operations and even planted fresh garlic.

Later, they headed to the kitchen to master THREE scratch-made recipes that are hitting this week’s National School Lunch Week menus:
🍅 Homemade Salsa
🍜 Chicken & Vegetable Ramen (featuring that fresh garlic!)
🍢 Chicken Souvlaki (also starring fresh garlic!)

Our team is fired up to serve these delicious, globally-inspired dishes to our students. 🌍🍴 Because at WPS, we’re all about fresh, local, and made-with-love meals. 💚

WPS Gifted Education Coordinator, Danny Lee and Farm Educator, Ryan Blosser recently wrote an article about the Waynesboro Education Farm — and it’s been published in TEACH Magazine! 🎉

“Life Lessons from an Educational Farm,” is now featured and shared with educators across the country. 🌾

📖 Read the article here: https://teachmag.com/life-lessons-from-an-educational-farm/

Happy Wednesday and welcome back! This week will be Career Day on FRIDAY, October 17th, for Community Helper Day!

Please complete our survey on family needs and experiences! This is an opportunity for Ready Region Blue Ridge in partnership with Waynesboro Public Schools to hear directly from families about your experiences with preschool. Your participation will help with purchasing classroom materials for Wayne Hills Preschool. Your responses will remain completely anonymous and will only be used for informational purposes. Your help is greatly appreciated in our work engaging families and building relationships towards family success in early education. You can learn more about Ready Regions here: https://readyregionblueridge.org/

SURVEY LINK: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/4ephJ19EvE

As a reminder, there is no school for students this Monday or Tuesday for conferences. Have a fabulous weekend and we can't wait to see you all back on Wednesday!

🍎 🍏 Crunch, crunch, hooray! 🍎 🍏 Our PreK students joined in Virginia's Apple Crunch Day with big smiles and big bites during VA Farm to School Week! We love celebrating local, healthy foods and enjoyed our visit and getting to taste pink lady apples fresh from the farm. Thank you!

Ahoy, mateys! Our PreK pirates set sail for Pirate Day! We CONQUERED any challenges that came our way! We love seeing all the fun learning and growing together. More photos on Facebook.❤️

This week's Theme Thursday is Pirate Day on Thursday, October 9th. The vocabulary word is conquer.

🌱 WPS Education Farm Featured on VPM’s Life in the Heart Land! 🎥

We’re thrilled to share that the Waynesboro Education Farm will be featured in the upcoming Life in the Heart Land series on VPM! Tune in to the “Aquaponics” episode airing Thursday, October 16 at 8:30 PM, to see how our students and staff are growing learning opportunities right here in the Valley.

Episodes also stream on the PBS app — don’t miss this inspiring look at hands-on teaching and learning in action!

🔗 Watch here: https://video.vpm.org/show/life-heart-land/

#WPSStrong #WaynesboroVA #EducationFarm #LifeInTheHeartLand #Aquaponics #CommunityofChampions

Waynesboro Education Farm provides hands-on project-based learning for Valley educators. Click the link to read the full article: http://bit.ly/42OGxZB

Happy Monday! We hope you had a good weekend. Please check out some of these great, local community opportunities, if interested! Have an amazing week!

✨ Happy Custodian Appreciation Day! ✨ This week, we celebrated our amazing custodians who help keep our Pre-K clean, safe, and full of smiles! 💖 Your hard work does not go unnoticed and we appreciate you all!

Today was so much fun learning more about families and relatives! Thanks for participating! You will find more photos on Facebook.

This week, our Theme Thursday on Thursday, October 2nd, will be Dress Like a Family Member Day. The vocabulary word is RELATIVE.

📣 Your School. Your Safety. Your Voice.

StopIt empowers students, parents, and staff to take action. Together, we can create safer schools for everyone.

📲 Download the app today!

🎶 🎉 Join us with a huge thank you to Shenandoah Latin Dance for teaching our students, staff and guardians lively dance moves like merengue, bachata, and how to join a conga line. We had a fantastic time and look forward to Shenandoah Latin Dance return next year! 🎉 🎶