Dates to Remember:

Nov. 6th: Parent-Teacher Conferences (in-person)

Nov. 7th: NO SCHOOL (Election day). Parent-Teacher Conferences (virtual)

VVMS in Focus

VVMS Food Drive

The VVMS Service Squad SLT will be sponsoring a food drive in November. If you are able, we ask that your student(s) bring food items to their advisory classes the week of October 30-November 10.

Service Squad members will box up and deliver the items on November 13 to the VEAP food shelf. For the most needed items, please check this link on VEAP’s website.

Thank you!

Reminder: Parent Teacher Conferences Next Week

Conferences are November 6th and 7th. The 6th will be in-person, after school, from 4:30-7:30pm. The 7th is a chance for families to conference with us, virtually.

We’d love to see you!

Bookmark Monsters!

The VVMS 6th graders did a wonderful job making these great Bookmark Monsters.

STRIVE and Unified Dance

Our STRIVE program combined with Edina High School for a Unified Dance! There was popcorn, crafts, and good tunes! Great collaboration between the two of us and more of our effort to unify our students. Super proud and happy for the staff and students that helped support the event and make this fun for everyone!

students with the Unified group standing together

Students and staff member sitting together in a group

Play Day

“Play” Day! The Valley View Staff enjoyed standing in harmony with our theater program for opening night! Staff, students, and community members dressed up and wore costumes! SO much fun and we saw some REALLY cool things around campus today.

We hope to make this an annual theme for opening night of performances.

Ms. Groener and Ms. Thomas dressed up for Play Day

Volunteer Opportunities

Lunch and Hall Monitors Needed

Looking for Somali speaking, Spanish speaking, and English speaking parent volunteers, to help with supervision.

Help is needed during high traffic busy times in the hallways and during lunch time.

**Working with middle school requires the right temperament. We mostly just need you to be smiley, and cheerful. We avoid practices that involve screaming or yelling. We prefer softer approaches that are kind but firm. Individuals volunteering are able to suspend bias and judgment and can offer support for all students. If you think this is you? Please help us in adding a greater eco-system like approach to how we guide and shepherd our young Hornets.

Organize STRIVE Classrooms

Looking for parents with great organizational skills to help organize in our STRIVE Classrooms! !

Week of November 13-17: Monday/Wednesday
Possible Time frames: 10:30 am-12:30 pm and 1:30 pm-3:30 pm

Currently, we would love if there’s someone out there that would be willing to organize our art, sensory and game cabinets.

You can check in with the teacher you are working with first to show you more specifics (Ms. Jodie or Ms. Kirsten). We have a label maker and you can label various items. We are so excited to have you at our school!

To volunteer please contact Sue.Cucchiarella@edinaschools.org

PTO News

Support the PTO!

We are getting closer but we are still around $3,000 short of reaching our budgeted goal.

The VVMS PTO does not hold any other fundraisers throughout the year, this is your chance to support our school!

Can you help us get there with a dues payment or consider an additional donation?

THANK YOU!!

Pay your Dues Here

Make an Additional Donation Here

VVMS Updates

This weekend!!! Get your tickets!

Tickets are now on sale for the 7^th & 8^th grade fall play, Moriarty's Daughters!

Performance times and dates:

Fri., Nov. 3^rd 7:00 pm

Sat., Nov. 4^th 2:00 pm

Sat., Nov. 4^th 7:00 pm

Purchase your tickets HERE (select 'Purchase tickets here' at the top of the screen)

A little bit about the play:

A Midwest Premiere! In 1897 New York City, Lucy and Louise Bullard are trying their best to live a quiet life, untouched by the legacy of their father Adam Worth, an internationally infamous conman and art thief whose exploits inspired the character of Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, upon discovering that their father has a third daughter, kept in the care of their aunt, and that the aunt in question has just been falsely accused of an elaborate crime, the girls cannot help but be drawn into the mystery. Add in their nosy landlady, her snarky, sneaky daughter, and the local chapter of the Sherlock Holmes Appreciation Society, and it’s a recipe for problems, plots, and escapades more convoluted than anything Arthur Conan Doyle could conjure!

8th Grade Hot Air Ballons

Look at these hot air balloons made by VVMS 8th graders; way to go!

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