Congratulations to our wonderful Perfect Attendance students! These students have no tardies, leave early days, or absences for the entire first semester! Way to go!
Happy National Law Enforcement Day, Officer Ray! We appreciate all you do each day to keep our students, staff, and faculty safe.
Congratulations to our staff and students for their hard work! Van Wert has been removed from the GOSA Promise School List!!! @VanWert_Elem @PolkCoSchools
Congratulations to our 4th-grade students! They won the G.O.A.T. trophy before Christmas break by earning more AR points than Eastside! Next week is the 3rd-grade challenge. Let's go, 3rd-grade students! #GOAT #ARchallenge
Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrated a birthday recently!! #happybirthday
Report Cards go home today.
Save the Date: Pastries with the Principal
Save the Date: Kona Ice
Reminder: 5th Grade Ads need to be purchased and submitted by Jan. 30th.
You can purchase your yearbook and/or 5th-grade ad today.
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You can purchase your yearbook and/or 5th-grade ad today.
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2025 CCRPI
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Happy Holidays! We hope you are all having a wonderful holiday break! We can't wait to see you all on January 6, 2026.
Q1 Renaissance Awards Info - Invites will be sent to the parents of students receiving an award.
We would like to wish all our Van Wert families a happy, safe, and relaxing holiday season! We wish you all a Merry Christmas, and we look forward to seeing you all in 2026.
Ready, Set, Read! 🎉📚
Today, Northwest Georgia RESA Executive Director Brian Otott and Let’s Read, Georgia! Literacy Coach LeAnne Jones presented Polk School District schools with trophies and books in recognition of their outstanding performance in the Let’s Read, Georgia! literacy campaign this fall.
Polk School District finished 1st overall among participating districts, with several schools earning top honors among schools:
🥇 1st Place : Van Wert Elementary – 16,672 books read
🥈 2nd Place: Northside Elementary – 10,049 books read
🥉 3rd Place: Youngs Grove Elementary – 4,500 books read
The Ready, Set, Read! Campaign, held September 1 – October 10, 2025, is a statewide literacy initiative designed to inspire children, families, and educators to read together and celebrate the joy of reading across Georgia. The campaign highlighted the collective commitment of Georgia’s Regional Education Service Agencies to advance literacy through meaningful engagement with school communities.
During the campaign:
📖 More than 60,000 books were logged statewide
🏫 Participation included 167 districts and 548 schools
📚 Over 17,000 unique book titles were read
👨👩👧 Parents logged more than 24,000 read-alouds
Participation was seen across every region of the state, with Let’s Read, Georgia Literacy Coaches, districts, and school communities rising to the top of the leaderboard. Polk School District is proud to be part of this incredible statewide effort to promote literacy and a love of reading.
Be sure to keep an eye out for another Let’s Read, Georgia campaign coming this February—and get ready to read, log, and compete for the top prizes once again! 📚🏆
#letsreadgeorgia #readsetread #nwgaresa #psdproud
Today, Northwest Georgia RESA Executive Director Brian Otott and Let’s Read, Georgia! Literacy Coach LeAnne Jones presented Polk School District schools with trophies and books in recognition of their outstanding performance in the Let’s Read, Georgia! literacy campaign this fall.
Polk School District finished 1st overall among participating districts, with several schools earning top honors among schools:
🥇 1st Place : Van Wert Elementary – 16,672 books read
🥈 2nd Place: Northside Elementary – 10,049 books read
🥉 3rd Place: Youngs Grove Elementary – 4,500 books read
The Ready, Set, Read! Campaign, held September 1 – October 10, 2025, is a statewide literacy initiative designed to inspire children, families, and educators to read together and celebrate the joy of reading across Georgia. The campaign highlighted the collective commitment of Georgia’s Regional Education Service Agencies to advance literacy through meaningful engagement with school communities.
During the campaign:
📖 More than 60,000 books were logged statewide
🏫 Participation included 167 districts and 548 schools
📚 Over 17,000 unique book titles were read
👨👩👧 Parents logged more than 24,000 read-alouds
Participation was seen across every region of the state, with Let’s Read, Georgia Literacy Coaches, districts, and school communities rising to the top of the leaderboard. Polk School District is proud to be part of this incredible statewide effort to promote literacy and a love of reading.
Be sure to keep an eye out for another Let’s Read, Georgia campaign coming this February—and get ready to read, log, and compete for the top prizes once again! 📚🏆
#letsreadgeorgia #readsetread #nwgaresa #psdproud
Reminder: dismissal at 11:30 am tomorrow
Northwest Georgia RESA just presented Van Wert with the Let's Read Georgia State Champions trophy. Congratulations to our students and teachers for their outstanding hard work!
Congratulations to our November Students of the Month! If your child missed the group picture, please share a photo of him or her in the comments! Way to go!
Grinch Day was so much fun! Tomorrow is Tackiest Tuesday! Come dressed in your tackiest holiday attire.
Ella Guzman won 4 free tickets to The Creative Discovery Museum, and Julian Ashmore won a gift bag for completing our survey from Reading Night! Congratulations to both of them!
