July 27 - July 31

Underwood Families,  

Happy Monday! I hope that your week is off to a great start! 

Weekly Video Message - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vtbjr_D_oY 

Plan B Transition 

The WCPSS School Board has approved all schools to start in remote learning with the goal of transitioning to in person as early as September 8th dependent on the health metrics for DHS. More information to come in the next few weeks. Here is the data sites that the district is using - https://covid19.wakegov.com/ and https://covid19.wakegov.com/about-the-data/ 

Wind Down Wednesday August 5th --- Underwood Updates on 2020-2021 School Year 

 

New Application Period of WCPSS Virtual Academy

All students will have a second opportunity to apply for the WCPSS Virtual Academy on July 27 - July 29. The application will close on July 29 at 5 p.m.  If you have applied to the WCPSS Virtual Academy and would like to withdraw or change your application, please contact your student’s school directly. 

Reminder: Complete Technology Need Survey by July 29

We need all families with a student in K-12 to complete this survey for each student, regardless of your school, whether you have applied to the Virtual Academy, whether you have a device or whether you need a device. (Pre-K students’ technology will be addressed separately by the Office of Early Learning.) This short survey will help us better understand the needs of our students and make sure that we are able to meet those needs. The survey will not be available from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Sunday due to network maintenance. 

 Updates Regarding Remote Learning for Students with IEPs

We have posted additional information for students with IEPs about Remote Learning under Plan B Transition.

Wishing you well! 

Travis Shillings, Principal

Wind Down Wednesday July 22

Underwood Families,  

Plan B Transition 

The WCPSS School Board has approved all schools to start in remote learning with the goal of transitioning to in person as early as September 8th dependent on the health metrics for DHS. More information to come in the next few weeks. Here is the data sites that the district is using - https://covid19.wakegov.com/ and https://covid19.wakegov.com/about-the-data/ 

 

Wind Down Wednesday --- Here is the recording of last night’s meeting - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OITVSfKw1O-G1wK0KG_KuY1gn8AQ8HXN/view?usp=sharing. Here are the Q&As in written form - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OITVSfKw1O-G1wK0KG_KuY1gn8AQ8HXN/view?usp=sharing 

 

New Application Period of WCPSS Virtual Academy

All students will have a second opportunity to apply for the WCPSS Virtual Academy on July 27 - July 29. The application will close on July 29 at 5 p.m.  If you have applied to the WCPSS Virtual Academy and would like to withdraw or change your application, please contact your student’s school directly. 

 

Wishing you well! 

Travis Shillings, Principal

Plan B Transition and Virtual Academy

Underwood Families,  

Plan B Transition 

The WCPSS School Board has approved all schools to start in remote learning with the goal of transitioning to in person as early as September 8th dependent on the health metrics for DHS. More information to come in the next few weeks. 

Wind Down Wednesday --- I will be sharing the updates from the board meeting in a brief presentation and will open up the conversation for questions. Chat will be from 8:30-9:30. Families can join via Google Meet -- https://meet.google.com/jop-hwhd-eog. 

New Application Period of WCPSS Virtual Academy

All students will have a second opportunity to apply for the WCPSS Virtual Academy on July 27 - July 29. The application will close on July 29 at 5 p.m.  If you have applied to the WCPSS Virtual Academy and would like to withdraw or change your application, please contact your student’s school directly. 

To help understand all the differences between WCPSS Virtual Academy and Plan A/B/C, view this comparison chart. - The chart is not mobile-friendly. Please view on a desktop computer. 

Watch the Virtual Academy Open House

Want to learn more about the WCPSS Virtual Academy? Please watch the Virtual Academy Open House on Youtube. Closed captioning is available in English and Spanish.

 

Wishing you well! 

Travis Shillings, Principal

Virtual Academy / Plan B Info

Underwood Families,  

Virtual Academy information can be found at https://www.wcpss.net/Page/43730. Applications will close on Monday July 20. Reminder if you chose to have your child attend the virtual online academy, they would continue to be assigned to Underwood Elementary. Expectations and guidelines on level of engagement should be coming out this week, so families can decide if Virtual Academy is a good fit for your child(ren). 

Virtual Academy Open House - beginning at 5:30 p.m.: http://youtube.com/user/WakeCountySchools…. It will also be archived on @wcpss YouTube channel.

Principal Chat on Friday July 17th at 1:00 to answer additional questions about Virtual Academy. 

Parent Summer Connection Survey -- please consider completing this survey. 

I will not receive district information about transportation and sibling assignments until August 3rd so student/family groupings will be sent out by the second week of August.
 
Wishing you well,  


Travis Shillings, Principal 

July 13 - 17th

Underwood Families,  

Weekly Announcements - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wECfGnWAINA 

Virtual Academy information can be found at https://www.wcpss.net/Page/43730. Applications will open up on Friday July 10 - 20th. Reminder if you chose to have your child attend the virtual online academy, they would continue to be assigned to Underwood Elementary. Expectations and guidelines on level of engagement should be coming out this week, so families can decide if Virtual Academy is a good fit for your child(ren). 

Underwood's new eBook collection is now available! A HUGE thank you to our PTA for funding our start up collection! To get started using our eBooks, please watch this short tutorial - UGTM eBook Intro. This is new to all of us, so please feel free to atrowell@wcpss.net  reach out if you have questions or suggestions.

We will have our Wind Down Wednesday session on July 22nd to discuss updates on the 2020-2021 school year. More information to come in the next week. 

Make it a GREAT week! 
 
Wishing you well,  



Mr. Shillings

July 9, 2020

Underwood Families,  

Thank you to those families who participated in our Wind Down Wednesday evening session. Here is the presentation that was shared with families. This is an abridged version of the presentation that was shared by WCPSS with the Wake County School Board. The full version is available at https://www.wcpss.net/schoolboard. 

If you have questions, please complete the form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckjychzQRv5LH6gH3WDo4JebGGkDlwU0KGK0N_7m77Lp6xpw/viewform?usp=sf_link. If you have requests for having families in the same grouping that would support remote learning, please feel free to email me the names of the students and I will do my best to meet the request. 

Virtual Academy information can be found at https://www.wcpss.net/Page/43730. Applications will open up on Monday July 13th. Reminder if you chose to have your child attend the virtual online academy, they would continue to be assigned to Underwood Elementary. 

We will have our Wind Down Wednesday session on July 22nd to discuss updates on the 2020-2021 school year. More information to come in the next week. 

Wishing you well, 

Mr. Shillings