Last Popcorn Lunch of the school year is April 17
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FORMS
💊Authorization to Dispense Medicine
🚗Unaccompanied Dismissal (High school only)
HELPFUL LINKS
📆 Official School Calendar (pdf)
🖊 2025-2026 School Supply List
ACCOUNTS
Headrush
If you do not have a login to Headrush or are having trouble accessing headrush please contact Katy@thewideschool.com
ProCare
Check your student in and out.
If you do not have a login to Procare or are having trouble accessing, please contact info@thewideschool.com
BREAKFAST TACOS
Breakfast tacos are served on Tuesday mornings. Orders placed after 5:30PM on Sundays will be ready the following week.
FARMERS MARKET
Farmer's Markets is held every Friday at 3:30
Please stop by the market table to see what delicious food options are available. Selections are made fresh by our WIDE staff.
Please remember not to pull through the fire lane
Please drive slowly - there are a lot of littles moving around in the mornings and after school.
Students should be dropped off at their classroom by 8:15
Pickup is at 3:30
No cell phones or smartwatches are allowed. There is a phone locker at the front for students to lock their phone during the day. They will be given access to it if it is needed for an assignment or if they are going off campus for lunch.
PRE-SCHOOL
🍉 MORNING SNACK: 8:30
🍽️ LUNCH: 11:30-12:00
🍞 AFTERNOON SNACK: 2:30
LOWER ELEMENTARY
🍉 MORNING SNACK: 9:30
🍽️ LUNCH: 11:30-12:00
🍞 AFTERNOON SNACK:
served in aftercare
UPPER ELEMENTARY
🍉 MORNING SNACK: 9:30
🍽️ LUNCH: 12:00-12:30
🍞 AFTERNOON SNACK:
served in aftercare
MIDDLE SCHOOL
🍉 MORNING SNACK: 9:30
🍽️ LUNCH: 12:30-1:00
🍞 AFTERNOON SNACK:
served in aftercare
HIGH SCHOOL
🍉 MORNING SNACK: 9:30
🍽️ LUNCH: 12:30-1:15
🍞 AFTERNOON SNACK:
served in aftercare
Off-Campus Lunch Form
🥜 Please Remember Our school is a nut-free facility!
✅ Check your labels
❌ Do NOT bring "May Contain Nuts"
✅ Processed in the same facility is ok
❌ Processed on the same equipment is not ok
Like so many other important decisions we make for our children, we must research. To support you on your journey, we’ve curated a collection of resources focused on project-based learning, emotional intelligence, and the development of soft skills.
Stop by our Parent Resource Center - located at the front of the school near the library - to browse our collection of parent-focused books and enjoy a cup of coffee.
Understanding Project-Based Learning, the Reggio Emilia Approach, and Innovation in Education
☞ Ted Dintersmith TED Talk: Prepare Our Kids for Life, Not Standardized Tests
☞ What Are Schools For?
☞ What Schools Could Be
☞ The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia
☞ Experience in Transformation
☞ Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget’s Theory
☞ Learner-Centered Innovation
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Mental Health & Soft Skills
☞ The Conscious Parent by Dr. Shefali Tsabary
☞ Talk to Me First by Deborah Roffman
☞ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop ☞ Talking by Susan Cain
☞ The Awakened Family by Dr. Shefali Tsabary
☞ Love and Logic
WE REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING FROM OUR PARENTS:
MEETINGS
Attend mandatory in-person meetings - Not offered via Zoom
Attend meetings as they are provided for upcoming events
If further understanding is needed, attend the offered parent support meetings
Maintain open and positive communication with the teaching team
School-Related Work
Read all communications sent
Read lengthy newsletters twice a week
Check homework
Resist temptations to “save” your child
Find new ways to stay on top of the information
Snooze emails to a time of the day you can read them
Set alarms to remind you to take actions
Create family calendar with reminders
iPhone offers location-based reminders
Participate in the WIDE annual Poetry Night
Support your student in the WIDE annual Investigation Fair
Family Growth
Resist temptations to “save” your student
Have the time and willingness to educate yourself
Read suggested books/materials
Come to meetings
Be open minded and flexible
It takes time… it usually takes a school year to acclimate
Volunteer Hours
Each family is required to donate 15 hours a year