State Street Scoop
Issue 14 - December 22nd
Principal's Corner
Thank you Wonderful Families,
Thank you for sharing your children with us each and every day! This fulfills all of our wishes. Hope you and your family have a fun-filled yet relaxing vacation. Hope your celebrations are merry and time is spent with friends and family. I will be spending the Holidays in Westerly alongside my family and I am looking forward to cooking up some traditional Italian cuisine. I’ll be sure to get in a walk on a Westerly Land Trust property and hope you do too! Looking forward to the New Year and all that your children will share with us in 2024!
In Peace,
Audrey Faubert
Principal
PBIS Assembly
Spanish Talk
PBIS Assembly
Singing with Mrs. Wagner
PBIS Assembly
Dancing to Music
From the Desk of the Parent Liaison Mary-Kay Patten
FAMILY LENDING LIBRARY
Resources Parents Can Borrow About Feelings That
Relate To Our Zones Instruction:
DEPRESSION, ANGER, GRIEF
1. Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child
2. First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts - Tiddlers and Toddlers
3. Growing up Sad Childhood Depression and Its Treatment
4. 62 Ways to Create Change in the Lives of Troubled Children
5. How to go on Living When Someone You Love Dies
6. The Mourning Handbook
7. Good Grief
8. Beyond Bullying
STRESS/ANXIETY:
1. Freeing Your Child From Anxiety (2 Copies)
2. Freeing Your Child From Anxiety (2 Copies)
3. Happiness is a Choice
4. What to Do When You Worry Too Much (Child's Activity Bk)
5. Don't Feed the Worry Bug
6. Don't Feed the Monkey Mind (2)
7. Anxiety Relief for Kids (2)
8. Helping Your Anxious Child (2)
9. Wilma Jean the Worry Machine (3)
10. I Can Handle It (2)
11. My Day is Ruined (2)
12. When I feel Worried (3)
13. When My Worries Get too Big (2)
14. The Way I feel
PARENTING:
1. The Highly Sensitive Child
2. You are What You Think
State Street School Calendar - January 24
Westerly Public Schools Calendar 2024
Background Check Paperwork 2024
Family Engagement News
Cultural News
Nurse's Corner
Winter 2023
Dear Westerly Public School families,
Cold weather is a fun time of the year for kids of all ages who eagerly anticipate the holidays and time off from school and all the other kid-friendly perks that come with this season. Beginning with Halloween and trying on costumes, kids also use scarves, hats, gloves and mittens and other cold-weather accessories, unfortunately this can sometimes maximize the risk of potentially transmitting lice.
One way to minimize transmission of lice is to avoid piling clothing. You’ll often find piles of warm clothes (hats, scarves and jackets) because kids love throwing things to the side- it’s their specialty. We all need to teach children to hang their items on a coat rack, doorknob or hanger or even the back of a chair, rather than toss it to the side on top of other children’s clothing. Kids also enjoy sleepovers, but they can pose a risk of lice transmission. Encourage kids to bring their own pillow, sleeping bags and/or blankets to sleepovers- it can be fun!
As school nurses, we encourage you to check your child’s head for lice. In fact, a weekly check is a good idea, especially once they return to school after the holidays. It only takes a couple of minutes to check a child’s head for lice. Finding lice/nits early on prevents many problems, including infestation in the home. Check your child’s head for lice in the bathroom or another well-lit area in the home. Take immediate action if there is a lice or nits (egg sack) presence.
Please teach your kids that sharing their personal hygiene items, including hair brushes and combs, hair barrettes, and other similar items with friends comes with a risk. This is one of the biggest ways that lice is transmitted from one child to another.
In the event your child is found to have head lice, don’t panic! It is important that head lice removal take place and that you check (contact) all other close contacts over the past month. Over-the-counter treatments usually work for most kids, however you may need to contact their pediatrician for prescription shampoo in rare cases.
Along with using lice treatments to remove lice from your child’s hair, you also need to remove all the lice from your home and shared homes. Preventive measures significantly help to minimize the chance of an infestation. Make sure to read all of the information in the Lice Shampoo box and consult the school nurse for school attendance information.
We hope this is helpful information. One thing to keep in mind; lice don’t jump, they walk. They spread from person to person through direct contact with another person or their personal belongings that have been infected with lice. This is why it is important to understand that we can all help to keep our kids lice free!
Please reach out at any time, to any of the Westerly school nurses. We are all here to help keep our kids healthy and ready to learn and in school.
Warmest regards,
Westerly School Nurse Teachers