West Taylor Elementary School

Our outstanding teachers and staff were recognized during Tuesday’s board meeting. Their hard work and dedication to supporting our students are seen and appreciated by so many.

Congratulations to the 2026 Taylor County Schools Staff of the Year: Britney Sheme, Renee Salom, and Angie Moore!

Post 4️⃣: We are overwhelmed with the amount of support for our students! Thank you to all of these sponsors.

📢 Announcement Due to raffle ticket counting and the need to account for and record unreturned tickets, there will be NO popcorn tomorrow (4/15). Thank you for your understanding!

Raffle Tickets sold and unsold were due back today! If you did not send them in please make sure they ARE IN BY tomorrow before we make our list of unreturned tickets.

Don't forget about our fundraiser tomorrow!

Post 3️⃣: Thank you to more of our purse sponsors. Your support of our students is very much appreciated!

Don’t have any plans Saturday, April 18th? Come play bingo to support West Taylor Elementary’s PTO! Message WTES PTO or anyone with a child or works at West Taylor! Or fill out this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16Q8n1uvvUoqEul9TFrYDMh39HlFaUPnmfa1P5Pv0W_M/edit?usp=drivesdk There are limited number of tickets - if you preorder before the 18th, tickets are $25 each. They will be $30 at the door if we have any left. Michael Kors, Coach, Kate Spade, Verano Hill, Wrangler, so many different brands! 👜 ⭐️ $10 for 3 Early Bird games ⭐️ $5 for 21st game ticket - FILLED PURSES with at least $45 value!! - Trade Table (see pic below for details) - Raffle Baskets - 50/50 - Concessions - Tips & MORE!

We are having a LSIC meeting tomorrow!

Post 2️⃣: Thank you to some more of our purse sponsors for your support! 👛

Fundraiser for a West Taylor family who lost their house to a fire

Reminder: We are having a LSIC meeting this Wednesday, April 15, at 3:00. Everyone is invited to attend!

Post 1️⃣: We would like to thank some of our purse sponsors for our first Designer Purse Bingo. 👜 We appreciate your support!

Don’t have any plans Saturday, April 18th? Come play bingo to support West Taylor Elementary’s PTO! You can message the WTES PTO or anyone with a child or works at West Taylor! Or fill out this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16Q8n1uvvUoqEul9TFrYDMh39HlFaUPnmfa1P5Pv0W_M/edit?usp=drivesdk There are limited number of tickets - if you preorder before the 18th, tickets are $25 each. They will be $30 at the door if we have any left. ⭐️ $10 for 3 Early Bird games ⭐️ $5 for 21st game ticket - FILLED PURSES with at least $45 value!! - Trade Table (see pic below for details) - Raffle Baskets - 50/50 - Concessions - Tips & MORE!

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!