Day of Caring The Waverly Shell Rock Area United Way held their Day of Caring in September. The United Way has established this day as a way that teams can help local nonprofit organizations, families, individuals, and communities by providing the human power needed to fix, repair, organize and create. We are blessed to be […]
COVID-19 Update We have received some questions about why parents were not notified of COVID cases in our school. In our 2021-22 COVID Mitigation Plan, we outlined that as we become aware of positive COVID cases within the school community, an email would be sent to the classroom(s)/group(s) affected. During the past couple of weeks all […]
Center for Relational Wellness Last year to support our staff and students we contracted with The Center for Foundational & Relational Wellness to help implement the Social-Emotional Learning Competencies. On Tuesdays licensed counselor, Steffany Kroeger visited our classrooms providing the students with mindfulness and emotional regulation strategies. The program engaged our staff in embedding relationship […]
Fun Walk Just a quick reminder that one of our big School Fund fundraiser opportunities is next Wednesday, Oct. 6. Please help your child collect donations. The purpose of the St. Paul’s Lutheran School Fund is to raise funds to ensure the school’s mission is fulfilled. Your gift to the School Fund provides tuition assistance, technology, textbooks and all […]
Pastor Arthur It is with deep sadness to have announced Pastor Arthur’s resignation last week. He has received a call up in Northern Wisconsin where he and Jennifer have dreamed of retiring to some day. Pastor has spent the past 5 years at St. Paul’s and he is the reason that there is such a […]
Buddy Bench-Conflict Resolution Corner As adults we often take the responsibility to solve conflicts for our children and students, instead of giving them the responsibility in working through their disagreements with each other. This fall, we began implementing a strategic method to enable our students to be more responsible for working through their conflicts with […]
Capstone 2020 The 6th Grade Capstone Class of 2020 will be leaving soon on their long-awaited trip to Washington, DC. They will be visiting the Library of Congress, with the help of Senator Ernst’s Office, the National Archives, and the International Spy Museum. They will also be able to choose to tour one of the […]
A few Announcements: We will be taking field trips and utilizing Waverly-Shell Rock school buses to go on many of these trips, to group music lessons as well as trips to the public library. All passengers riding in Waverly-Shell Rock’s transportation are required to wear face-coverings. Please ensure your child has a mask at school […]
Optional Masking Thank you for all the support and understanding that was extended to the board and myself as we made the tough decision about masking. Who would have known that a day later our Governor would put a stop to mandatory masking? On Tuesday, I talked to the kids about the importance of respecting […]
Buckets of Water On Wednesday, May 12, our 5th and 6th grade students had the opportunity to meet up with Wartburg and 7th grade WSR students to walk for “Water to Thrive”. All the students started out from the Middle School and walked to the Cedar River and filled jugs of water and returned to […]
