We are excited to see our Kindergarteners for assessments this week. Please park in a designated parking spot (not the bus lot) and enter the front door. You need to stay for 15 minutes to complete important paperwork but can then leave and return to get your child when their scheduled time is over.
We're just FIVE days from the first day of school! Can you believe it?! Be sure to check the Johnston County Public Schools mobile app off of your school supplies list! Parents, teachers, and students will use the mobile app for our two-way communication tool this school year! Download it in the Apple or Google Play store today so you're ready for the first day!
Please go to http://www.johnston.k12.nc.us/parentdocs and complete the three beginning of year forms.
Message for Fifth Grade Parents!
Due to some necessary restructuring, we have had to change some homerooms. Students that are impacted likely received a postcard that said they would have Esteva or Shearin. We have made sure that all students are with a teacher that will help them be successful this school year. Please look for rosters outside of teacher classrooms Thursday evening to find out if any changes took place. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to helping our fifth grade students level up this year as they prepare for Middle School!
Good Evening Bulldogs!
We are so excited to welcome you back to West Clayton Elementary for the 2023-2024 school year. We hope you are ready to LEVEL UP as we nurture and engage one another in our learning so that we can achieve. Please be reminded of our Open House for Grades 1-5 on Thursday from 4:30-6:30 PM. You can check on bus information, car rider information, before and after school care and your child's classroom. As a reminder, security measures are in place to help us keep students and staff safe while they are in our buildings. When you come to a school's front doors, press the button on our buzzer system at the main entrance to allow you to be greeted by a school employee. The school employee will ask to see your ID, as this is a district protocol. Please be sure to have your ID readily available when you come to check out your child or conduct other business on campus during the school day. Once you are provided entrance to the school, please walk directly through the Weapons Detection System. Items that routinely cause the systems to false alert, due to their shape and composition, are eyeglass cases, laptops, umbrellas, and 3 ring binders. Keeping these items in your vehicles, as opposed to bringing them with you into school, will expedite the process for gaining entrance into the office area. If the detection system happens to alert as you're passing through it, please wait for direction from an employee who will assist you in gaining access to your destination. We thank you for your support as we strive to make our schools as safe as possible for students and staff. Lastly, please don't forget to download the new JCPS app. This will be how we can communicate important information with you at the district, school, and classroom level. We look forward to seeing you all soon as we start another amazing year at WCES!
We have had an amazing first week back at WCES. Teachers came together to learn, grow, and have fun as we prepared for our students to arrive so that we can LEVEL UP! We even took time to enjoy a food truck thanks to our wonderful PTA and had cake to celebrate the our achievements in 2022-2023.
All students enrolled in a qualifying Johnston County Public School (with the exception of 5 non-qualifying schools) will receive a healthy Breakfast and lunch at no cost to the household this upcoming school year through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).
Households of students that attend a qualifying CEP school will no longer need to submit a Free and Reduced Meal Benefit Application for the upcoming school year. Students that attend a non-qualifying school will still have the opportunity to submit a meal benefits application in order to qualify for free, reduced, or paid eligibility status. Applications for the 2023-2024 school year will be accepted starting July 10, 2023.
For more information, click here: https://bit.ly/3P10t3J
Our first Bulldog News (Parent Newsletter) is available for the 2023-2024 school year! You can click on the link to view or it will be available on our school website.
https://www.smore.com/rxfqn
Postcards with teacher assignments are on their way for our first through fifth grade students. We are getting so excited for the 23-24 school year!
So thankful for our Clayton Rotary Club! They provided us with a shopping spree today to get supplies to kick off a great school year.
Our families seemed to like the one-stop-shop format for Orientation Information on our website - so we thought we'd make school supply lists just as convenient! Supply lists for our elementary and middle schools for the 2023-2024 school year are available now at: www.johnston.k12.nc.us/schoolsupplies
We hope this makes you getting ready for the first day of school - August 28th - a little bit easier!
Please join us in giving a huge CONGRATULATIONS to our Principal of the Year, Mrs. Paige Barnes from West Clayton Elementary, and to our Assistant Principal of the Year, Dr. Tobias Hocutt from Four Oaks Middle School!! These two outstanding administrators received their award today in front of their peers and family members.
Mrs. Barnes and Dr. Hocutt - we are so thankful for all of the tremendous work you do for the students of Johnston County Public Schools. You all are an asset to our team - and we couldn't do this without you! 🎉🤩
Good Evening JCPS Families,
We hope you will join us at one of our Summer Information Fairs, happening this Monday and Tuesday.
We’re hosting a Summer Information Fair at eight of our schools on July 31 and August 1st. We invite families to attend the information fair in their student’s feeder pattern.
The Information Fair will provide parents an opportunity to request, verify, and ensure your student has bus transportation and receive meal service information prior to the opening of school. While students won’t receive their bus number at the Information Fair, attending and signing up for transportation guarantees that the student will have transportation on the first day of school. Bus information is expected to be shared at Orientation. If your student does not ride a bus, back to school information will be provided at Orientation.
We’ll also have staff on hand for families who need assistance with enrolling their student for the upcoming school year.
The Summer Information Fair will be held from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM on Monday, July 31st at North Johnston Middle, Cleveland High, Corinth Holders High, and South Johnston High.
We will hold Information Fairs the following day, Tuesday, August 1st from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Clayton Middle, Smithfield-Selma High, Princeton High, and West Johnston High schools.
You can find more information by visiting the home page of our website. We hope to see you there!
The 2023-2024 school year is just one month away! Orientation information is available now! Find your school's orientation information by visiting: www.johnston.k12.nc.us/orientation
Bulldogs - Please see the information below. It is EXTREMELY important that you download the new JCPS App. We will NOT be using Class Dojo this school year but still want to maintain excellent two-way communication and will still be tracking House Points for students. We also have a new improved School Website. Along with a new look, all information has been updated.
We're so excited to introduce our new and improved mobile app to our JCPS community! We've been hard at work to overhaul our mobile app and offer our users an even better experience. We're offering a NEW app in the Apple and Google Play store - that our parents and students alike will want to download before the start of the school year! We'll use our mobile app to send you important information about your school, share athletic schedules, and post our lunch menus every day! The most important feature: our mobile app is going to house our new two-way communication tool for students, teachers, and parents. It's called Rooms - and you're going to love it! Download the JCPS mobile app today so you're ahead of the game!
Now is the time to start joining our PTA for the 2023-2024 school year!
Why Join the PTA?
-Be Involved in your child’s school
- Help build a community around the West Clayton Elementary School
-Have a vote in issues posed in our meetings. Only members can vote (THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON)
Here are some AMAZING things that we did last year:
-Fully funded 5th grade field trip and gift.
-Provided summer reading books for those students who parents opted in.
- Hosted a Glow Dance and Movie night
-Hispanic Outreach Nights
-Held a well deserved Teacher Appreciation Week.
Join us this year! All members get a special prize!
Link - https://wcespta.memberhub.com/store?limit=21&live=true
We're so excited to introduce our new and improved mobile app to our JCPS community! We've been hard at work to overhaul our mobile app and offer our users an even better experience. We're offering a NEW app in the Apple and Google Play store - that our parents and students alike will want to download before the start of the school year!
We'll use our mobile app to send you important information about your school, share athletic schedules, and post our lunch menus every day!
The most important feature: our mobile app is going to house our new two-way communication tool for students, teachers, and parents. It's called Rooms - and you're going to love it! Download the JCPS mobile app today so you're ahead of the game!
We are still looking for excellent candidates to work with our students this coming school year.
Save the date for our orientation for Grades 1-5. August 24 from 4:30-6:30 PM.
Johnston County Public Schools (JCPS) will hold its second annual Summer Information Fair for families on Monday, July 31 and Tuesday, Aug. 1.
In preparation for the 2023-2024 school year, JCPS Transportation Services, School Nutrition, Communication, and Student Information will host a Summer Information Fair at schools throughout the Johnston County community. The information fair will provide parents an opportunity to enroll their student, and request, verify, and ensure your child has bus transportation and receive pertinent back to school information from school nutrition and communication services.
The summer information fairs will be held on July 31 and Aug. 1 from 1:00 - 7:00 PM. Please see below for dates and locations.
Monday, July 31st
North Johnston Middle (Cafeteria)
Cleveland High (Cafeteria)
Corinth Holders High (Cafeteria)
South Johnston High (Cafeteria)
Tuesday, August 1st
Clayton Middle (Cafeteria)
Smithfield-Selma High (Cafeteria)
Princeton Middle/High (Cafeteria)
West Johnston High (Cafeteria)
Families are invited to attend the Summer Information Fair at the school and date that is most convenient for their schedule, and are not required to attend the fair in their student’s feeder pattern.
