Westgate Elementary School

Hey Westgate Families. Let's get ready for Kindergarten. Check out these fun videos on activities you can do with your child this summer to help them transition to school-- practice walking in a line, listening to adult directions, how to be a line leader or a door holder. It's going to be exciting!
https://www.pcsb.org/100days

Visit your local public library this summer and pick up a reading log for Reading With the Rays. You'll get 2 free tickets to a home baseball game!

Reading with the Rays | PPLC Reading with the Rays Get “Reading with the Rays” and win 2 free tickets to a game! The Tampa Bay Times has partnered with Suncoast Credit Union and your local library to bring fun and excitement to your Summer Reading Program! The rules of the game are simple. Pick up a game card at any Pinella...

Summer Bridge Dates & Times:
Dates: June 3 - 27
Days: Monday - Thursday
Hours: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m
Students can begin arriving 7:35 and 7:55am

Camping Day was so exciting for our 1st graders today!

1st graders enjoyed their end of the year field trip to Dell Holmes Park. Thank you to all of our chaperones. We really appreciated all of your help.

Mr. Mosher's class enjoys a little friendly competition showcasing their excellent library skills in our First Annual Literacy Olympics.

A special thanks to Coach Romagna. She brought a friend to PE last Friday and helped students learn about animal habitats, diet, and other characteristics that make animals special.

We are so excited to have two winners from Westgate in the St. Petersburg Public Library Children's Bookmark Contest.

Today we extended our appreciation to teachers with a special delivery! Each and every one of our teachers are dedicated to our students and put many hours into making our school a very special community. Thank you for ALL that you do! Happy Teacher Appreciation Week ❤️💙

Our 1st graders enjoyed STEM night!

These are some crazy hardworking teachers we are lucky to have at Westgate Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Don't forget STEM Night is this Thursday!

The band from Tyrone Middle stopped by this week for a special performance and to talk about how students can get involved. We saw some familiar faces!

Our Volunteer Coordinator, Randi Martin, does a great job organizing parent volunteers and helping them get registered in the system and signed up for events and field trips. She held a year end celebration for all our volunteers this week. We thank her and everyone who takes time out to come and help at our school in the classroom, on field trips, at our events, or even those who take projects home. Thanks for all your hard work!

What a fun field trip for our ELL students. Lots of great friendships made this year!

Kindergarten had a BLAST at our Field Day 2024!! Thank you to all of our amazing P.E. Coaches for putting this together for our kiddos and thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers for helping make it happen. Westgate has the best village around!!! We hope you can spot your little one in some of these - great fun was had by all!

Westgate Families,
We had some Super Sports a couple of weeks ago during our soccer unit.
Congrats to our Westgate Wildcats👏🏾

Thank you to all the families that supported our Chick-fil-A spirit night. We appreciate YOU!!

Westgate has the best PE coaches EVER!! First grade had so much fun at Field Day today! Thank you for organizing this amazing event! We appreciate everything you do for our school!

What an amazing Spring Concert tonight!
Thank you to Ms. Mcnaughton and our 4th and 5th grade students for a wonderful evening!

STEM is coming to a close for this year. And you know us, we can do just about anything with LEGO.

It was a great night celebrating our 5th Grade PRIDE Award winners in Writing, Social Studies, Science, and Math!

Fifth grade has been learning about the Holocaust and reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Today they went on a field trip to the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. This was such an awesome experience because students were making connections between what they have been learning and the museum.

The PE Department hosted the Tampa Bay Lightning Street Team on Friday for grades 1-5.

The kids who participated went home with a stick, ball, an autographed Pic of Jassen Cullimore who played for the Stanley cup team in 2004. He is now retired and goes out to schools to help promote hockey to our kiddos. They also received a voucher for discounts for future games and merchandise.

The students got to play a real game, and learn some skills.

They also donated sticks, balls, hockey goals and jerseys to our school.

We hope your kids had a great time and we look forward to having them back in the future.

More carnival fun…

Woo Hoo 🎉 The Westgate carnival was a huge success! Thank you to all our volunteers and sponsors. We loved seeing all of our students and so many past students & families this weekend.

Our basket winners are:
VPK - Susan Altman
KG - Dan
1st grade Games - Ava Weaver
1st Grade Gift Cards - Linda Bice
2nd Grade - James Museum - Kitzmet Bennett
2nd Grade Dog - Anna Brown
2nd Grade Target - Tina Bolt
3rd Grade Water #1 Mary Steele
3rd Grade Water #2 - Robyn Smith
4th Grade Gift Cards - Randi Martin
5th Grade Pet - Anna Brown
Ruth Eckerd - Ammerman
Nothing Bundt Cakes - Trevor McClintick
Garcia - Jamie Motes
The Lure - Matt Siekbert
MOSI - Ryan Goodwin
Clearwater Marine Aquarium- Reilly
Jay Luigi - Dr C
3 Daughters - Jen Knauss
Cat Basket - Anna Brown
Little Italy - Ammerman
Chill Restaurant- Sherry Mathews
Codys - Lisa D
Caddy’s on the Beach - Jake Rairer
Sirata - Jake Thacker

Congratulations to our wonderful 5th grader from Ms. Smith's Class who was honored at the Maria Edmonds Hispanic Awards celebration this week for high academic achievement. He will be going places!

Westgate Carnival is Saturday, April 13th from 10:00-2:00. Look at all the amazing baskets that you can WIN🎉

Our students sure had a great time learning about the solar eclipse. Thanks to all the teachers and staff that helped make it happen. Maybe some of these students will be teachers at Westgate in 2044 for the next one!

3rd grade went on a field trip to George C. Mcgough Nature Park in Largo! They were able to learn about many different animals from all over the world. We had a blast!