It Takes a Village!
Good attendance is essential to academic success. That’s why school officials are committed to raising awareness about the value of regular school attendance and focus on reducing chronic absenteeism each school year through their Attendance Matters campaign.
Chronic absence is described as missing 10 percent of the school year—or about 18 days—for any reason, excused or unexcused. That’s the point at which absenteeism begins to affect student performance. Starting as early as kindergarten or even preschool, chronic absence predicts lower third-grade reading scores. By middle school, it’s a warning sign that students will fail key classes and drop out of high school. Chronic absence disproportionately affects children from low-income families and communities, creating attendance gaps that directly impact achievement gaps in local schools. Many reasons that children miss too much school, especially in early grades, is because of chronic health problems, unreliable transportation or housing moves, which are all barriers that city agencies and community partners can help families address. According to Attendance Works, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving school attendance, research shows that students who miss two to four days in the first months of school are more likely to become chronically absent during the school year. By paying attention to absences early in the school year and early in a child’s academic career, we can turn around attendance and achievement.
Please send all absence or tardy excuse notes to this email address: VGE.office@stlucieschools.org
Are you looking for a good book? Then you should visit Destiny, our online card catalog of the materials you may check out from the media center. Besides looking for a good book to read, visit our recommended websites for reading and research.
Click here to visit Destiny at Village Green Environmental Studies School.
Instructions on how to conduct a search in Destiny: How to Search for Library Resources
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Click here to visit Village Green Environmental Studies School Classroom Libraries
Instructions on how to conduct a search in Classroom Libraries: Classroom Libraries- Instruction on how to search for Classroom Library Resource
Mrs. Sievers, Media Specialist
The 2023-2024 Sunshine State Young Reader’s Book titles are out and ready for reading. All students third through fifth grade are invited to read the books from the Sunshine state list.
Students can earn a brag tag for each book they read and test on.
Below is the list of books. Happy Reading 💚
