Greetings Advocacy Families,

Welcome to September! This month our Advocacy theme is Self-Awareness. For this theme we have two learning goals that we want students to work towards.

Goal 1: Students will practice identifying their emotions and leveraging their strengths to overcome challenges.

Goal 2: Students will be able to name the things that make them unique, and how those character traits help them succeed in their personal and academic endeavors.

As we are over halfway through the first quarter, I would like to invite you all to regularly check Infinite Campus to check on your student's grades and identify any incomplete or missing assignments that may need to be finished. Click on the following link to create your Infinite Campus account if you do not already have one. https://4.files.edl.io/8b72/09/15/22/164611-24e1a24a-402c-49de-9a50-97e1e60c66bd.pdf

The following link will help you set up the Infinite Campus App, which is nice to have as you can set it to notify you whenever a grade is entered for your student. https://1.cdn.edl.io/X3X3DBQ7iIoHx1h6P5aI99A0RyC52XnQd9k5SnwDVIODKHgl.pdf

Important Dates

• Sept. 5^th is Picture Day!  
• Sept. 8^th – 12^th is Spirit Week
• Monday: Rainbow day
• Tuesday: Crazy Hat/Hair Day
• Wednesday: Westgate Wednesday
• Thursday: Throwback Thursday
• Friday: Pajama Day
• Sept 19^th: Half Day
• Sept. 24^th : Student Count Day
• Sept. 26 & 27^th are Conferences Sept. 26^th is a Half Day- dismissal is at 11:30 am. 
• Sept. 30- Oct. 13: Fall Break! 
• Oct. 2^nd: Half Day/Conferences
• Oct. 3^rd: No School/Conferences

Hello Advocacy Families!

I am Nicole St. Clair and I am your child’s Advocacy Teacher/ Advocate. Advocacy is more than a Homeroom. Advocacy classes are first and foremost a time for students to build supportive relationships with their peers and with an adult they can trust. It is a time for everyone to feel recognized and welcomed into the school community. As your child’s Advocate, I will be your primary point of communication, and I am committed to advocating for your child this year.

I have subscribed you to my Advocacy page and my classroom pages, so you will receive updates to your email automatically. You can use the link below to access my page.

On my pages, I will be posting academic information on my Edlio every week for you to review. Monthly, I will post Advocacy specific information.

We have sent home two documents that we would like you to read over with your student, sign, and send back.

This month, our August Advocacy theme is RISE!

At Westgate, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a part of our Whole Child Education program. PBIS is a system in which students, staff and community create a set of school-wide behavioral expectations/ core values, we teach those expectations in all our various environments, and then we CELEBRATE when we see students doing those things! At Westgate, we RISE (Respect, Integrity, Safety, Empathy).

We will be teaching students what these 4 words mean—focusing on a different part of RISE each week—and what it looks like to live these values out during school and at home. We will use RISE all year to celebrate positive behaviors.

I am excited for the new school year and getting to know you and your student!