Coming Up Soon On The Wicomico School Calendar: The 2010-11 School Year

Student assignment letters for the 2010-11 school year, with teacher or homeroom assignment and other school information, will be mailed to all Wicomico students on Wednesday, Aug. 18.

The 2010-11 school year will begin Monday, Aug. 30, for most students. Students in grades 1-6 and grade 9 will attend school on Aug. 30. (Exceptions: All grades will attend at Pittsville Elementary and Middle, and only grade 6 will attend at Mardela Middle and High.) All students in grades 1-12 will be in school Tuesday, Aug. 31. Kindergarten and prekindergarten students will report those days as scheduled by the assigned school.

Wicomico County Schools will hold open houses Aug. 24-27 in preparation for the opening of the 2010-11 school year. A complete schedule of open houses for Wicomico schools is below. For additional details, please contact the school.

Additional information to assist students and families with back-to-school planning is posted on the school system’s web site at www.wcboe.org/boe/backtoschool.php.

Open House Schedule

Beaver Run Elementary: Aug. 26 1-4 p.m. 410-677-5101
Charles H. Chipman Elementary: Aug. 26. Classroom visitation 2-3 p.m., followed by a picnic from 3-4:30 p.m. at Lake Street Park with Chipman’s partner school, Glen Avenue Elementary. Food, families and fun! 410-677-5814
Delmar Elementary: Aug. 27 1:30-3 p.m. 410-677-5178
East Salisbury Elementary: Aug. 27 1:30-3:30 p.m. 410-677-5803
Fruitland Primary: Aug. 27 1:30-2:30 p.m. 410-677-5171
Fruitland Intermediate: Aug. 27 2:30-3:30 p.m. 410-677-5805
Glen Avenue Elementary: Aug. 26 1-2 p.m., with a community picnic with partner school Charles H. Chipman Elementary from 3-4:30 p.m. at the Lake Street Park. 410-677-5806
North Salisbury Elementary: Aug. 27 from 2-4 p.m., NSS will hold an open house for all incoming students. Buster the Bus will serve as official greeter. NSS will offer free school supplies to all students who attend, and several community partners will be on hand to show their support. The PTA will be there to welcome students and families and give them the opportunity to join the PTA, and share information in events in the upcoming school year. 410-677-5807
Northwestern Elementary: Aug. 27 3-4 p.m. 410-677-5808
Pemberton Elementary: Aug. 26 3-4 p.m. 410-677-5809
Pinehurst Elementary: Aug. 27 3-4 p.m. 410-677-5810
Prince Street Elementary: Aug. 27 1:15-3:15 p.m. 410-677-5813
West Salisbury Elementary: Open house luncheon Aug. 27 12:30-2:30 p.m. Meet your teachers and have a light lunch of hot dogs, chips and a drink. 410-677-5816
Westside Primary: The staffs of Westside Primary and Westside Intermediate will visit school families in the areas of Bivalve, Tyaskin, Nanticoke, Whitehaven, and Waterview at the Westside Community Center in Bivalve on Aug. 24 from 5-6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Westside Primary will hold an open house at school Aug. 27, 1-2 p.m. 410-677-5117
Westside Intermediate: The staffs of Westside Intermediate and Westside Primary will visit school families in the areas of Bivalve, Tyaskin, Nanticoke, Whitehaven, and Waterview at the Westside Community Center in Bivalve on Aug. 24 from 5-6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Open house at Westside Intermediate will be Friday, Aug. 27, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. 410-677-5118
Willards Elementary: Back-to-School ice cream social Aug. 26 3-4:30 p.m. 410-677-5819
Wicomico Early Learning Center: Aug. 26 1-3 p.m. 410-677-5900
Pittsville Elementary and Middle: Aug. 25 for Middle School, 6-7:30 p.m. Aug. 26 for Elementary 6-7:30 p.m. 410-677-5811
Bennett Middle School: PTA Back-to-School Night/Open House Aug. 26 from 5-7 p.m. 410-677-5140
Salisbury Middle: 6th-grade Open House Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. 410-677-5149
Wicomico Middle: Aug. 26 1:30-3:30 p.m., student schedules available. 410-677-5145
Mardela Middle and High: Back-to-School BBQ Aug. 26 4:30-6:30 p.m. Families can get their student’s schedule when they bring a completed copy of the student data form to the BBQ. 410-677-5142
James M. Bennett High School: There will be an opportunity for JMB students and their parents only to visit the new JMB on Aug. 10 8:30 a.m.-noon for an informal tour. PTSA / Back-to-School Night Aug. 24 5 – 8 p.m. At this time forms should be turned in to guidance, parents can pick up Family Portal information, and students may get their schedules if all of their paperwork is turned in. 410-677-5141
Parkside High: Back-to-School Night Aug. 26. From 4:30-5:30 p.m. students can pick up their schedules. From 5:30-6 p.m. PTA business meeting. From 6-7:30 p.m. teacher visitation. 410-677-5143
Wicomico High: The Student Government Association will hold student tours for incoming freshmen Aug. 19-20 from 9 a.m.-noon. Freshmen Back-to-School Night Aug. 27, 5-7 p.m. 410-677-5146
Wicomico County Evening High School: Pending. 410-677-4537
Choices: Aug. 26 4-6 p.m. 410-677-5220

Please note: On Friday, Aug. 27, Staff Kickoff Day rallies will be held for Wicomico County Public Schools staff in the Wicomico High School Auditorium. Due to space constraints this year, Staff Kickoff Day rallies will take place at 8 a.m. (all elementary schools except Delmar and Pittsville, plus WELC and Infants & Toddlers Program), 10:30 a.m. (all of Pittsville, all middle schools except Mardela, Delmar Elementary, Student Services, Instruction and Administration), and 1 p.m. (all high schools, all of Mardela, Choices, Evening High School, Finance, Human Resources, MIS, Facilities, Food Service, Transportation). School and district offices will be closed while staff attends the designated Staff Kickoff Day event but will be open at other times that day.