Vassar Public Schools

Congratulations to our 6th-8th grade 4th Marking Period Honor Roll students!

ATTN Summer School Families! The school is experiencing intermittent outages with its phone and internet. We are working with the Tuscola ISD and AirAdvantage to get this issue resolved as soon as possible. If you have an immediate concern please contact Stacy Esterline in the Superintendent's Office via email at sesterline@vassar.k12.mi.us. We will notify you when the issue has been resolved. Thank you for your understanding!

Good morning! We hope you are enjoying your SUMMER! Here are some great projects for summer reading! We have also attached a Summer Reading Bingo, remember, reading every day is SO important! https://www.weareteachers.com/coloring-reading-challenge/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Faves%7C060923%7CNewsletter&utm_term=Faves

Read the attached letter from Superintendent Dorothy Blackwell! Vassar parents, staff, community, businesses, and students we need your input "What are some things you would most like to see in our facilities to support the success of our students?". To gather your feedback, we're using a tool called ThoughtExchange. All of our voices matter, so your participation is crucial and valued. Click here to participate: https://tejoin.com/scroll/472043485 You'll be asked to respond to one open-ended question, consider and assign stars to some of the ideas shared by others (20 to 30 is ideal), and learn what's important to the group. Your thoughts and stars are confidential. You can come back as often as you'd like to participate, and, in fact, we ask that you do come back to star some of the new ideas shared since you first participated. We will send reminder information over then next few weeks. Ratings are important as they will help us understand the most important areas to focus on! Thank you in advance for your help and input.

Vassar Public Schools is proud to announce that the Meet Up and Eat Up summer feeding program is returning for children 0-18 and all special needs children 0-26! Join us on weekdays June 19 thru June 30 and July 10 thru July 28 at Central Elementary, where our food service program will provide breakfast and lunch free of charge. Breakfast will be served from 7:45-8:30, while lunch will be served from 10:45-12:45. Daycares, students, and non-district students may all participate but must eat on the premises.

The following students were nominated by teachers or staff to receive the Be A Star Award! Congratulations to the following Be A Star Winners! 6-12th grade Emily Bellamy- Emily has an amazing attitude, always willing to help and gives effort on all her assignments. Karlee Lesko- Karlee is always present, attentive, and helpful. She truly cares about her classmates and their success as well as her own. Karlee displays her Vulcan Values each and every day. Central School Marlie Sorenson- Marlie is a top notch student! She shows her Vulcan Values everyday. Marlie is kind, cooperative and always a good friend to her classmates. She works hard everyday. Joey Manick- Joey leads by example of using his Vulcan Values everyday. He is kind, respectful, honest, fair, and friendly. He completes his work, he shows leadership in the classroom on a daily basis and is always willing to help someone else out.

Thank you for another great year, Vulcans! Everyone at Vassar Public Schools wishes you a safe and fun summer! Make memories with your friends and family. Get outside, read books, and keep learning! We can't wait to hear about your adventures when you return on August 14!

The last bell is about to ring but as our school year ends we want to take a minute to recognize some faces that are well known within the district: Mr. Corey Holland, Mrs. Ann Auernhamer, Mrs. Carla Phillips, Mrs. Tessa King. These four individuals have a combined 113 years of service to the Vassar Public School District! They have touched the lives of countless students, community members, and staff . Thank you for dedicating such a large portion of your life to being Vulcans and shaping young minds - Enjoy your Retirement!

The last Vulcan View of the year! Great job to Mr. Cassidy and his Multi Media class for doing such a great job this year on keeping all of us informed and entertained! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S68N7n5SXDo Have a Wonderful Summer!

Good Evening Vulcans! Friday, June 16, will be students' last day of school. Students will have a half day with an early dismissal on Thursday and Friday.

Tell your friend and family the School of Choice window for Vassar Schools is now open! School of Choice applications are being accepted until August 11 for students in grades K-12. If you know a student outside the Vassar district who would like to attend one of our great schools, please get in touch with Stacy in the Superintendent’s office at 989-823-8535 option 1.

Thank you to our Central Staff for purchasing this bench as a tribute to the late Mr. Phil Marcy who spent many years as Principal at Central and at Vassar Middle School. You will be missed by many Mr. Marcy!

How cool is this?! We have an overabundance of boys'/men's dress pants, shirts, suits, sweaters, shoes, etc., and a handful of ladies' dress clothes that have been donated to our Clothes Closet. For the rest of this week, we have all these clothes out free for our students to help themselves! These will be great for job interviews, church, weddings, etc. If you know your child is in need of dress clothes, talk to them about looking through what we have. A special thank you to Mrs. Bobbi Gamet for organizing all of the clothes so well for this giveaway and for her hard work in keeping our Clothes Closet so well organized!

Last chance for attendance makeups for grades 6-11 will be June 12-14 before and after school.  Attendance make-ups will be credited on an hourly basis, for any students with 10 absences (unexcused or excused, not including medical or professional absences). For example, if you have 10 absences in all 6 hours, for which you earn credit or a grade, you will need to attend 6 sessions. If you have 10 absences in 4 classes, you will be required to attend 4 sessions in order to earn credit. Students with 11 or more unexcused (U) or excused (E)  absences will not be allowed to make up days and will need to sign up for Summer School to begin credit recovery. Transportation will not be available for attendance make-up sessions. These will be held in Mrs. Barber's room during the following times:  6:45 AM - 7:45 AM  3:15PM - 4:15PM  If you have questions regarding your student’s attendance, feel free to call the 6-12 Office. Erin Raymond Vassar 6-12 Principal

Tons of fun activities are planned at the Bullard Sanford Memorial Library for next year's 6th-12th grade students this SUMMER! Get your calendar out and save these dates! Also, check out this fun reading game too, you could win a prize!

There is nothing better than seeing the success of our former Vulcan Students! Meet Lydia Wilder, a 2014 graduate of VHS. Lydia Wilder is the Director of Operations and Service at the Frankenmuth Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau. Wilder has diverse responsibilities, which include managing The Frankenmuth Christmas Experience, one of the most significant destination development projects to date. Wilder holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, majoring in Marketing, from Northwood University. Lydia was recently selected as an up-and-coming professional in the destinations industry! When she was named a member of Destinations International's 2023 30 under 30 class, alongside awardees from Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the United States.  Do you know a Vassar graduate with a great story we could share? Send their contact information, a short blurb, and a recent picture to Stacy Esterline at sesterline@vassar.k12.mi.us

Check out this week's Vulcan View! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jxYhEkccY

A huge THANK YOU to Frankenmuth Credit Union Foundation for our Communities for their generous donation to our Food Pantry and Clothes Closet!! The grant was used to purchase 3 cabinets for the food pantry at the 6-12 building and 1 cabinet and 3 clothing racks for Central. Our schools are so fortunate to have such wonderful community partners that help with the needs of our students!

Attendance makeups for grades 6-11 will have opportunities for attendance make-ups on June 7-9 and June 12-14 before and after school.  Attendance make-ups will be credited on an hourly basis, for any students with 10 absences (unexcused or excused, not including medical or professional absences). For example, if you have 10 absences in all 6 hours, for which you earn credit or a grade, you will need to attend 6 sessions. If you have 10 absences in 4 classes, you will be required to attend 4 sessions in order to earn credit. Students with 11 or more unexcused (U) or excused (E)  absences will not be allowed to make up days and will need to sign up for Summer School to begin credit recovery. Transportation will not be available for attendance make-up sessions. These will be held in Mrs. Barber's room during the following times:  6:45 AM - 7:45 AM  3:15PM - 4:15PM  If you have questions regarding your student’s attendance, feel free to call the 6-12 Office. Erin Raymond Vassar 6-12 Principal

Reminder! Parents of middle school students are welcome to attend their child's Awards Assembly on the following days this week: 6th grade - Wednesday, June 7 7th grade - Thursday, June 8 8th grade - Friday. June 9 The assemblies will be held in the Auditorium and will start at 11:00 AM (please check in with the office first).