Our New Look!

You may notice a slightly different look if you've had a chance to visit our West Genesee School District website.  It's new and improved!  Hopefully you will be able to navigate the website easily. Click on the link below to access a guide to the new website:

Guide for Parents and Community Members

Congratulations to our students who were recognized last month at our Positivity Project assembly.  The students pictured here demonstrate the character strengths of kindness and self control.

We hope to see you at the BINGO & Ice Cream Social tonight at 6:00!  

Please remember that there is no school for students on Friday, January 26 due to a Professional Development Day for school staff.   

Onondaga Road January Update

As we continue our journey through the Positivity Project and the lessons of character strengths, our students are learning about perseverance, hope/optimism, and prudence throughout this month of January. Students are learning a lot about themselves and others.

Our end-of-day dismissal process seems to be running more smoothly so far this new year.  As you know, we have moved our dismissal of "walkers" into the cafeteria, rather than the main entrance hallway.  This has allowed us to keep the hallway clear of congestion and make a safer exit process for all students.  Thank you, again, for waiting until 3:10 to arrive for dismissal.  Your help is appreciated, and you understand that this is safer all around. Please continue to call ahead or send a note if you will be picking up your child, if this is a change to his/her regular dismissal routine.

What?! An ice-cream social in January?  You heard that right!  We are hosting our second annual BINGO-Ice Cream Social this Thursday, January 25 at 6:00.  There's something strangely funny about eating ice cream on a cold winter's night, and it's fun!  Bring the family for some fun and games... Oh, and ice cream!

Please remember that this Friday, January 26 is a Professional Development Day for our staff, and there is no school for students.

For your calendar:

• Thursday, January 25, 6:00 - BINGO & Ice Cream Social
• Friday, January 26 - No school for students (Staff Development Day)
• Friday, February 2 - School Spirit Day - Wear blue and gold!
• Saturday, February 3, 9:30-11:00 - Enrichment Day at OR

Happy New Year from Onondaga Road

 We look forward to the many exciting opportunities that 2018 has to offer!

On behalf of Onondaga Road students and staff, I would like to extend a heartfelt note of appreciation for the many gifts and meals we distributed to the greater community during the holiday season.  Thanks to all of you, we helped to make many families’ holidays a little brighter.  Your generosity and kindness are truly overwhelming.

Now that you have all had the opportunity to attend parent-teacher conferences and review your child’s first report card (progress report) of the year, your feedback will help us as we move forward.  Please take a few minutes to complete the survey found  here.

This month, as we head into a new year of resolutions and goals, our students will be studying the character strengths of perseverance, hope/optimism, and prudence through the Positivity Project.  Students are learning to identify their own strengths and to appreciate others’ strengths as well.

The elementary ADAPEP counselors at West Genesee have organized an incredible opportunity for all parents to attend called Parenting Wisely on Tuesday, January 16, 2018.  There will be three separate topic sessions: (1) Acting Out in Public, (2) Conflict with Other Children, and (3) Children and Technology. This will be held at Stonehedge Elementary School, and parents from all elementary schools are welcome.  Pizza will be served beginning at 5:45, and childcare will be provided so that parents may attend the sessions which begin at 6:15. Please register by Monday, January 8, 2018.  You can register by clicking here, or you can call us at school and we will register you!

Dates for your January Calendar:

• Wednesday, January 10 – OR PTA Meeting, 6:30 at WGHS.  This is in conjunction with the “Dialogue with the Superintendent” which takes place at 7:00, also at WGHS.
• Monday, January 15 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (all schools are closed)
• Tuesday, January 16 – Parenting Wisely, 5:45 at Stonehedge (see description above)
• Thursday, January 25 – Bingo and Ice Cream Social, 6:00 at OR
• Friday, January 26 – No school for students (Professional Development day for staff)

Stay warm!