Are you ready? We are!

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I'm still having a hard time believing summer vacation is almost over for our students.

I hope everyone found a way to beat the heat the past two months!

Here at the school district, we've been very active as we prepare for another school year for your children. We have our maintenance crews scrubbing, painting, waxing and washing to make sure we have clean, well maintained classrooms for your children. Our outstanding gardeners are greening up every site and our cafeteria is gearing up for some exciting changes. School secretaries have returned and are enrolling new students every day. Books, materials and other supplies are being delivered by the pallet every week.

We are so ready to get back to our only purpose - educating YOUR children.

Here some of the things we've been up to and are working to improve in your school district:

We've demolished the old sports field house located adjacent to the football field. In it's place we are working to make new multiple use sports courts for students and community members to use. We are currently seeking new funding sources for this job.

Our cafeteria staff is working on a new program called "Breakfast in the Classroom." This program, when implemented, will allow students to have a nutritious breakfast in their classroom the first ten to fifteen minutes of the school day. Many reports link proper nutrition to academic achievement. We are hoping to have this program begin first with the high school sometime during the first two months of school. After the high school, we will work at each of our other schools to get this off the ground. Other schools that are involved in this program have very high participation rates and extremely positive feedback from students and parents.

In addition, the cafeteria staff is preparing a survey to see what kids like about the cafeteria and what foods are their favorites. We will use the survey results to create menus of foods students most like to eat. We are aware that many students don't eat in the cafeteria and we are hoping to tap into their brains to see what we can do to get them to eat.

Our goal at the District is to continue improving in all areas to make sure we are the best choice for your child.

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DID YOU KNOW?
1.You can choose which school in our District your child attends. If your child is in Grades K-8, you can choose to send them to Pine or HMS (gr. 6-8) or Finley (K-5). If you would like to transfer your child to these schools, just let your school office staff know. We will verify there is room at your school of choice and get right back to you.

2. We are on facebook. You can find us and "like" us under the username: Holtville Unified School District. On Twitter you can follow us at HoltvilleUSD.

3. Check our our brand new, interactive website at www.holtville.k12.ca.us You will find calendars, menus, parent forms, employment opportunities, policies and a whole lot more! You will also find links to this page, community news and links to each of our school websites. Mr. Drye, our technology and projects director has been working hard to make the site better each day.

Now that we are back in full operation, you will see this blog updated regularly. You might want to bookmark it to make it easy to find.