West Taylor Elementary School

Congratulations to the 2026 National Cemetery Essay Contest winners, who were recognized during yesterday’s board meeting. Your meaningful work and commitment to honoring the brave men and women who gave their lives in service to our nation are truly inspiring.

We hope everyone has been enjoying their spring break and is completing their Spring Break Reading Challenge! Before break, we had a kick-off event to the Spring Reading Challenge titled "Reading will take you anywhere”. This was organized by our Parent Volunteer Coordinator, Valarie Leach. She asked Ed Waske, FAA, Certificated Airframe & Powerplant Technician who started the Carl Hopkins Aviation Expo at The Bridge and Justin Prickett, helicopter pilot with KAR Aviation, to come speak to the kids for the kick-off event. Mrs. Leach said, “For me this started back in November during the National Education Week. My goal was to get as many different community members as I could to tell the kids about their various careers. That process encouraged me to help broaden the scope of possibilities to our kids at West Taylor. The world of Aviation is bigger than most people, and especially kids, can imagine. Both of these gentleman started their love of aviation as grade school kids. For them, RC model airplanes, books and seeing the planes/helicopters up close started a long and successful carrier in aviation. Our kids are fortunate that they have so many opportunities to pursue aviation at Pierpont and CKB airport at their our own back door! Our kids will have no idea the opportunities available to them unless we show/tell them.”

Thank you to our amazing PTO for the dip bar! It’s time to DIP OUT for Spring Break. Our staff was treated to a dip bar made by PTO members.

Important Chess Club Announcement

As we end the month of March, we would like to thank our parents and community members for coming in to read to our students during Read Across America Week at the beginning of March. Thank you for reading incredible stories to our kids!

Check out our April Newsletter!

There is a lunch menu change for tomorrow, March 31.

April’s PTO meeting will be held TOMORROW - Tuesday, March 31st at 5:30 - due to spring break! We hope you join us as we finalize plans for our purse bingo & look at the end of the year events! All families who attend receive a homework pass!

This year’s WTES PTO Raffle Baskets! Drawing will be held April 18th.

Wynne Proudfoot read the book "Be Kind" to Mrs. Nobles class today.

Anyone is welcome to attend!

From our PTO: Here is a sneak peek at this year’s raffle baskets. There are more to come! Students and staff will be selling tickets soon.

Today, Kindergarteners learned about the life cycle of an apple tree. FFA students from Grafton High School presented a PowerPoint, read students a book, and helped them complete a craft.

We are still in need of volunteers to help make our craft show successful Saturday! We are looking for a few volunteers to help with set up/tear down, raffle ticket sales, and admission sales! If you're interested in helping for an hour or two Saturday, please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050A4BA8AE29A6FA7-62726963-wtes#/ We appreciate any and all help to make this event happen!

We are SO EXCITED to welcome in Spring this weekend with our 4th Annual Craft & Vendor Show! We have an amazing line up of vendors, as well as Summer's Sweets & Mama's Country Kitchen on deck! Swing by, do some shopping & grab something good to eat while you're at it! Plus - you'll have the opportunity to check out our raffle baskets for the first time and grab tickets for those and our first designer purse bingo happening in April! Trust us - you want to be at West Taylor on Saturday! ☺️ We hope to see you there!!

There will be NO POPCORN today due to raffle basket assembly.