WSFCS Multilingual Learners

06/02/2026

📚🚌 Back-to-School Health Checklist / Lista de Salud Escolar
Be ready for school: / Prepárese para la escuela:
✅ Health assessment (new to NC & Kindergarten) / Evaluación de salud (nuevo en NC y kínder)
✅ Sports physical (middle & high) / Examen físico deportivo
✅ Up-to-date immunizations / Vacunas al día
📌 Reminder / Recordatorio:
• Physical within 365 days / Físico en los últimos 365 días
• Vaccines required to start school / Vacunas requeridas para iniciar
• Sports need current form / Deportes requieren formulario actual
🏥 Need help? / ¿Necesita ayuda?
Call: / Llame:
• Novant: (888) 976-4937
• Atrium WFBH: (336) 716-9253
📅 Summer clinics available / Clínicas disponibles en verano

06/01/2026

🌞 FREE Summer Meals for Kids! / ¡Comidas Gratis para Niños este Verano! 🌞

WS/FCS is offering FREE Meals To Go for children ages 18 and under from June 1 – July 30, 2026.

🍎 Breakfast & Lunch
🚗 Convenient Drive-Thru Pickup
📍 Clemmons Middle School & Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church

📲 Scan the QR code for details and registration.

WS/FCS ofrece Comidas Para Llevar GRATIS para niños y jóvenes de 18 años o menos del 1 de junio al 30 de julio de 2026.

🍎 Desayuno y Almuerzo
🚗 Recogida Conveniente Desde Su Vehículo
📍 Clemmons Middle School y Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church

📲 Escanee el código QR para más información e inscripción.

🍽️☀️

05/28/2026

🚩 : 🎉 ¡Festival de seguridad de verano GRATIS! 🌞🛟

¡Acompáñanos en un día divertido y familiar enfocado en mantener a tus hijos seguros durante todo el verano!

📍Organizado en colaboración con la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Wake Forest, NC S.A.F.E. (Secure All Fi****ms Effectively) y el Hospital Infantil Brenner de Atrium Health Levine, este evento está repleto de aprendizaje práctico, recursos útiles y consejos de expertos.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Lo que aprenderás:

✅ Seguridad con cascos
✅ Seguridad en el agua
✅ Conceptos básicos de primeros auxilios
✅ Consejos de hidratación
✅ Recursos de seguridad alimentaria
✅ Seguridad con candados para armas

📅 Sábado, 6 de junio
🕙 10 a. m. – 1 p. m.
📍 Happy Hill Park: 1201 Alder St., Winston-Salem, NC 27127

✨Este evento es GRATIS y está abierto a todas las familias. ¡Ven a conocer a expertos locales, llévate valiosos recursos de seguridad y prepara a tu familia para un verano seguro y feliz!
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🎉 FREE Summer Safety Fest! 🌞🛟

Join us for a fun, family-friendly day focused on keeping your kids safe all summer long!

Hosted in partnership with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, NC S.A.F.E. (Secure All Fi****ms Effectively) and Atrium Health Levine Children’s Brenner Children’s Hospital, this event is packed with hands-on learning, helpful resources and expert advice.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 What you’ll learn:
✅ Helmet safety
✅ Water safety
✅ First aid basics
✅ Hydration tips
✅ Food security resources
✅ Gun lock safety

📅 Saturday, June 6
🕙 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
📍 Happy Hill Park: 1201 Alder St., Winston-Salem, NC 27127

This event is FREE and open to all families. Come connect with local experts, grab valuable safety resources and get your family ready for a safe, happy summer!

05/28/2026

☀️ Happy Summer Break from our ML Team! 🌎📚

Wishing all of our students, families, teachers, and staff a safe, relaxing, and joy-filled summer! Thank you for all of your hard work, growth, and dedication this school year. 💙

Now it’s time to recharge, make memories, sleep in, explore, laugh, and enjoy time with family and friends. You all earned it! 😎🍉🏖️

We can’t wait to see everyone again next school year for more learning, growth, and success together!

Have a wonderful and safe summer break! ☀️

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

🎉 It’s Celebration Season! 🎉

Our amazing partner, Imagine Learning, is celebrating students who won the Spring Learning Contest by completing the highest number of lessons and practicing their English language skills all spring long! 🌟

There were three grade bands, with three winners in each band:
🥇 1st Place – Amazon Fire Tablet
🥈🥉 2nd & 3rd Place – Gift Cards

And the celebration didn’t stop there! ESL teachers and classroom teachers (at the elementary level) of the winning students also received gift cards as a special recognition for their support and encouragement. 💙

We are so proud of our multilingual learners for their hard work, dedication, and growth this year!

Thank you, Imagine Learning, for providing extra encouragement and motivation for our students to continue building their English language skills in fun and meaningful ways! 👏

Hall-Woodward Elementary School
South Fork Elementary
Meadowlark Elementary Explorers
Ashley Elementary School
Northwest Middle School
Clemmons Middle School PTSA
Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy

05/21/2026

Yesterday we had our End-of-the-Year Celebration with our amazing ESL/ELD teachers!

We recognized the teachers who are retiring at the end of this school year (pictured with flowers), teachers who will be moving into different positions, districts, or even states next year (also celebrated with flowers, although not pictured), and all of our wonderful ESL/ELD colleagues who will continue another year of teaching and learning with us.

We didn’t take many pictures because we were too busy socializing, laughing, celebrating, and enjoying time together. 😊

A HUGE thank you to our incredible community partners for helping make this celebration special:
🌸 Imagine Learning for providing refreshments and sweet treats
🥐 Trader Joe's-Winston Salem,NC for donating pastries
💐 Florist at Adolfos creation LLC; The florist at Harris Teeter; The florist at Harris Teeter Thank you all for generously providing flowers for our teachers.
We truly appreciate your kindness and partnership!

05/18/2026

✨ Spotlight on Great Instruction at Old Richmond ES! ✨

In Ericka Hunt’s ESL classroom at Old Richmond Elementary, you can truly see all the components of a powerful, student-centered lesson in action!

In just a 40-minute lesson, students experienced:
✅ Clearly posted and referenced objectives
✅ Strong visual supports to build comprehension
✅ Clear understanding of their learning goal
✅ Active engagement and participation
✅ Practice across all four language domains — listening, speaking, reading, and writing
✅ Opportunities to present their work to classmates

It’s always inspiring to walk into a classroom where students know what they’re learning, why they’re learning it, and can confidently share their thinking. That level of intentional planning and student ownership doesn’t happen by accident!

We are so proud of the meaningful language development happening at Old Richmond ES. Way to go, Ericka!

Old Richmond Elementary PTA
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

05/15/2026

I recently read/watched a powerful article/story from Edutopia titled Telling the Story of Learning in Displays of Student Work ( https://www.edutopia.org/video/telling-story-learning-displays-student-work/ ) , and it really resonated with me. The article reminds us that student work on the walls should do more than decorate a space — it should document the learning journey.

It made me think immediately of our incredible ESL teacher, Amy Talley Jefferson Elementary School. If you’ve walked down her hallway or stepped into her classroom, you know it looks absolutely spectacular. But what makes it truly special isn’t just how beautiful it is — it’s how intentionally it tells the story of student growth.

You can see the progression. You can see language development over time. You can see scaffolds, revisions, drafts, and final products. The displays highlight the process, not just the polished product. They celebrate effort, strategy, and growth — especially for our multilingual learners who are building both content knowledge and academic language.

This is what it means to document learning rather than just decorate walls. It’s purposeful. It’s empowering. And it honors the hard work of students and teachers alike.

So proud of the work happening at Jefferson ES and grateful for teachers like Amy who make learning visible every single day.

05/07/2026

Our ESL students in Heather Pereda’s ESL class at Piney Grove Elementary School had an absolute blast designing and testing their own launchers! 🚀

After building their launchers, students conducted test flights and then made scientific predictions about what would cause their launchers to fly or jump higher. Was it more force? A tighter twist? A different angle? They analyzed, adjusted, and tested again!

The best part? They were using rich scientific vocabulary in a playful, hands-on setting — naturally discussing force, height, prediction, results, and cause and effect while laughing and cheering each other on.

Learning was active. Learning was loud. Learning was FUN.

So proud of these young scientists and the intentional language development happening in our ESL classrooms every day!

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools