Back to School Night

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Back to School night is Tuesday, August 18 from 5:30-7:00. This is a great night to go meet your child's teacher before school starts. The PTO will have a table set up to sell our new T-Shirts for this year. We are doing a new design commemorating our last year in the school. We will also be there to help you sign up for fluoride for the school year. We can't wait to see you there!

Box Tops Collection for May

Box Tops

collection days will be

May 7th and 8th during lunch!

Please check the expiration dates 

Our box top people have to make sure all dates are valid, so any work you do with your submissions saves them time. Thank you!

Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher appreciation week is May 4-8. The theme is "How Sweet it is to be Taught by You!"

Wellsville Elementary Name Change

Click here to sign the petition.

The school board has decided to change the name of Wellsville Elementary to Willow Valley Elementary when we transfer to the new building. We are against changing the name of Wellsville Elementary to Willow Valley Elementary when the transfer happens in the fall of 2016. We see value in community and tradition. We already have an identity as Wellsville Elementary, and we want to maintain our identity.

We understand that the school district prefers to avoid naming schools after the community when creating a new elementary school. They prefer this so they can be more inclusive of students who attend the school, but may not live in that town. On the contrary, we think that it's simply noting where the school is, and doesn't comment on who attends the school. Just as Utah State University hosts students from a world population and not just a Utah population, Wellsville Elementary can host students from more than one town. We are also aware that there is at least one elementary school in the district that will be allowed to maintain their town name as their school name when they change buildings. We would like to do the same. We are not a new school that is being created; we are simply moving buildings. Our name already exists. In essence, our name is “grandfathered” in.

Wellsville citizens overwhelmingly opposed the school bond in 2013 primarily over concerns about moving an elementary school into a retrofitted middle school. However, the decision was made and the move is imminent. Although unhappy, we realize that a school is about so much more than a building, it’s about the students, the educators, the parents, the traditions, and the community at large that supports it. We are moving buildings, but we are still Wellsville Elementary. We want to maintain our name, along with all that comes with it, to maintain some consistency when we move schools. Keeping our name will allow us to keep our traditions alive.

There has been an elementary in Wellsville since 1857---the longest in the valley---and we should honor that history by maintaining a school with the community name. We have a school song, school traditions (most notably the Wellsville Mile), and our beloved mascot the Wellsville Wolf Cub, which each represent the community and would have to be changed if our school name is changed. We love our school and show it through t-shirts, pennants, cups, backpacks, water bottles, and more; that would all become obsolete with a name change.

In many ways, we feel like we are already losing our school since the school district decided to relegate us out to a middle school (without air conditioning) instead of building us a new elementary as was promised years ago. We'd hate to lose the name, too.

The name Willow Valley has been used for many years. It has been used for a middle school. Despite the fact that we are moving to that building, we are not a middle school. We are still an elementary school. We are not the identity of Willow Valley Middle School. We are the identity of Wellsville Elementary.

So, we are petitioning for your support of our effort to request that the Cache County School District allow Wellsville Elementary to remain Wellsville Elementary. Please sign our petition if you agree. We will take this to the school board and request we keep our name. Thank you!

Click here to sign the petition.

Wellsville Elementary Wolf Cubs

Donate Shoes

Miss Cache Valley is collecting shoes. The shoes will be sold and proceeds will be used to build a well in Laye, Burkina, Faso, Africa. Over 10,000 people there do not have access to clean water.

There is a large collection box outside of the office. If you have some shoes to get rid of, come put them in the box!

For more information, contact misscachevalley@hotmail.com.

Want to Help Next Year?

If you are interested in being on the PTO board, please contact Beth Sluder or Valerie Plowman. There are jobs with a small time commitment and jobs with a larger commitment.

If you would like to help, you can come to the next meeting on March 23 to find out what is available and the details of those jobs. We would love to see you there!