Principal's Message

Viking Families,

The 2024-2025 school year is off to a stellar start! In classrooms, teachers have been engaging children in activities to help them connect with one another to build strong classroom communities - the foundation for learning and teamwork. Each day, we've practiced the routines and procedures that will help our Vikings be successful through the school year. Students are really enjoying our new brightly-colored playground (shout out to Gabe in the maintenance department!) and demonstrating respect for our hallways and common spaces.

Last year, we worked to develop a vision that will guide the work we do here at Betz. It is important for you, as families, to be a part of this process, as each and every one of you are a part of our Viking community!

The Betz community strives to ensure that all members:

• feel safe, secure, and supported,
• belong,
• have the tools necessary for academic growth, and
• are connected with each other and the larger community.

One area of focus for us this year is developing a sense of belonging - for students, families, staff, and the community as a whole. We may be reaching out to you throughout the year to ask you some questions about your experience as a Betz parent. Rather than sending a bulk survey, we want to take a more personal approach, so we're picking up the phone and calling. We hope you'll take a few minutes to share with us the ways you feel a sense of belonging here at your child's school, and what we can do to keep improving.

I am so honored to partner with you as we continue strengthening our community together!

At Betz we care, we grow, and we learn ~ every day, the Viking Way!

~Mary Stoyko, Principal